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The first we see of Glenn Close<\/a> in Wake Up Dead Man<\/a>, Rian Johnson<\/a>\u2019s acclaimed third Knives Out mystery film, she comes out of nowhere. It\u2019s a comic bit, as Josh O\u2019Connor<\/a>\u2019s Father Jud<\/a>, new to the small-town parish where a series of grisly murders will soon occur, suddenly realizes that Close<\/a>\u2019s devout secretary Martha Delacroix \u2014 who\u2019s been a loyal member of the church since childhood \u2014 has been standing within a few feet of him without making a peep.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a nice setup for the film\u2019s grand twist, which reveals Martha as the tortured mastermind behind the killings of her church\u2019s domineering priest, Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin<\/a>), and later one of its congregants, the town doctor Nat (Jeremy Renner<\/a>). Martha was hoping to preserve the fortune left by the church\u2019s founder, which had been distilled to a valuable diamond, but after…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Warning: This article features spoilers for the ending of Wake Up: Dead Man] The first we see of Glenn Close in Wake Up Dead Man, Rian Johnson\u2019s acclaimed third Knives Out mystery film, she comes out of nowhere. It\u2019s a comic bit, as Josh O\u2019Connor\u2019s Father Jud, new to the small-town parish where a series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2202998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2202997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Glenn-Close-Felt-That-Tragic-\u2018Wake-Up-Dead-Man-Ending.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202999,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202997\/revisions\/2202999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}