The final scene shows Deakins in a minimum-security prison, working in a vegetable garden. He looks up at a clear blue sky. There are no helicopters, no screams, no smoke. Only the weight of a truth finally spoken.
But Deakins’s son, home from college, looks at him with cold, new eyes. "Dad, is it true?" word of honor -2003 film-
He clears his throat. "No, sir," he says. "I did not give that order." The final scene shows Deakins in a minimum-security
"I know."