He quickly scurries away, jumping into a basket on the edge of a cliff.(The basket is part of an elevator/pulley apparatus affixed to the mountainside, attached to ropes on a winch.He then revealed: "I saw who shot me.I saw the mole.It was Kittridge." Claiming to accept Phelps"" account, Ethan pieced it all together in his head: how Kittridge was at the Embassy that night, first took out Jack in the elevator shaft, and then shot Phelps on the bridge -- in reality (seen in flashback while he narrated), Ethan suspected that Phelps was the mole who had caused Jack""s death, and then faked his own shooting on the bridge (he used a gun with blanks and then a soaked sponge to rub a blood-like substance on his hands)." The film ended with he robotic alien visitor""s resurrection and a dire proclamation o Earthlings - a warning that received no proactive response from the ruling authorities." Claire backed up Owen: "Hoskins, you wanted this to happen, you son of a bitch!" Hoskins claimed he had taken command o save lives, to employ cruise ships to evacuate everyone the next morning, and use the Raptors to "save lives.A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass.It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection.I felt as if I were he only human being left in New York.For Laura""s horrible death, I was alone.I, Waldo Lydecker, was the only one who really knew her.And I had just begun to write Laura""s story when - another of those detectives came to see me.I had him wait.I could watch him through the half-open door.(The chiming of the antique clock on the half-hour attracts the detective""s attention, and he walks over to it.