‘Ghosted’ Recap & Ending Explained: Are Cole and Sadie Going on a Second Date?

There can never be enough romantic action comedies; they’re like the episodes of police procedural shows; you can use the same case over and over again, and someone will always be there to watch it. In a whole sea of romantic action comedies we have already watched, today we finally got a chance to see Ghosted, Dexter Fletcher’s romantic action comedy starring everyone’s favorite stars, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas.

The plot of Ghosted begins with something that probably happened to every one of us before; when you think you’ve met the right person, they stop responding to your messages. And in our case, that would be the end of the story; we’d eventually forget it and proceed with our lives. But we’re not Cole, a farmer from Washington who is played here by Chris Evans. Refusing to let his newest love ship sink, Cole decides to find the love of his life. And, oh boy, he’s in for a ride.

The following paragraphs contain spoilers for Ghosted, so keep reading at your own risk.

What is the story of Ghosted?

Chris Evans’ Cole Turner and Ana de Armas’ Sadie Rhodes are the main heroes of this story. We meet Sadie while she’s driving her car and talking to her boss about her deceased coworker. Meanwhile, Cole is a farmer who’s selling the products of his family business at the market. Sadie arrives to buy herself a plant, and she enters into an argument with Cole over how to care for a plant. Of course, in all that verbal argument, the chemistry between them starts to spark.

Cole stops Sadie just as she is about the leave with her car, and they arrange the first date. They walk across multiple tourist-popular locations in Washington while talking about each other; Sadie says she’s an art curator. After spending the whole day and night together, Cole believes he has found the one he has been waiting for all his life. Cole returns home to his family and tells them about Sadie with a huge ear-to-ear smile.

But the problem arises when Cole tries to get in contact with Sadie, and she does not respond. After a whole series of messages without one single reply, he finds out that Sadie is in London thanks to a tracker inside his inhaler, which he always loses. How fortunate he must be to lose it this time in her bag. Although he was never out of the country, Cole decides to fly to London to surprise Sadie, citing it as a romantic gesture instead of some paranoid stalking.

Cole arrives in London, and things could’ve started worse for him. In front of The Vault, beneath the Tower Bridge, Cole is knocked out and kidnapped by a group of thugs. After waking up, Cole finds himself strapped to a chair in some cave. The bad guys claim he’s someone known by the name Taxman, and they decide to torture him with poisonous insects to find out where is some certain passcode that they’re looking forward to.

When things start getting worse for Cole, a masked figure breaks into the cave, kills all the bad guys, and sets Cole free. You probably already guessed that it was Sadie who saved him. After breaching out of the cave, Cole realizes they’re halfway around the world, in Pakistan. Sadie admits that she’s, in fact, a CIA agent, and what’s even better, she’s also the Taxman.

While Sadie is figuring out how to send Cole back to the USA and continue her mission, the bad guys’ leader, Leveque, arrives at the cave. Still believing that Cole is the Taxman, he sets a bounty for Cole, saying he needs him alive to give him the passcode. We won’t tell you which actors appeared in special cameo roles as bounty hunters, but we bet you’ll be surprised once you see them.

After escaping from the bounty hunters, Sadie comes up with a new plan; she will go undercover as a bounty hunter and take Cole to the bad guys to retrieve the biochemical weapon known as Aztec, which is hidden inside the briefcase for which the passcodes are needed to open. Leveque’s henchmen take them to a plane, but due to their selfie on Cole’s phone, their cover is blown. Cole quickly grabs the parachute, Sadie, and the briefcase and jumps out of the plane.

While stranded on Socotra island in Yemen, Sadie contacts the CIA to send the extraction team, but the bad guys also find them. Sadie is forced to pick between saving Cole and retrieving the briefcase that the bad guys stole again, and even though she said “mission before man,” she saves Cole and lets the bad guys escape with the briefcase right when the US Marines arrive to save Sadie and Cole.

Sadie and Cole are taken to the CIA headquarters in Virginia, where they are put on the polygraph. Sadie is suspended from her job, but Cole finds out that the passcode is inside the plant that belonged to Sadie’s deceased coworker. CIA decides to send Cole undercover to lure Leveque out in the open, but Sadie is sent home. Cole isn’t happy, but he realizes he’s got no choice.

Cole arrives at the revolving restaurant to meet with Leveque and his buyer. Unfortunately for him, Leveque’s men discovered CIA agents monitoring everything in the van, and they killed them. Cole wants to leave before Leveque arrives but decides to stay, believing that Sadie will show up. Leveque, his buyer, and his men arrive, asking Cole about the passcode. Cole manages to steal enough time until Sadie shows up.

Sadie uses the passcode and opens the briefcase with a biochemical weapon. Leveque wants to kill her and Cole, but she uncovers that she put a bounty on Leveque’s head. Everything escalates into a final showdown against the bad guys at that moment. Cole manages to kill Leveque’s main henchman, and Sadie kills Leveque while managing to retrieve the vial from the briefcase.

Next thing we know, Cole brings Sadie to his home for a family dinner. Cole’s family doesn’t know anything that happened, and Cole and Sadie tell them that Sadie is still an art curator. Cole and Sadie decide to go travel around the world; Cole will finish writing his book, while Sadie will “hunt” down new “clients.” Three months later, Cole meets with Sadie in front of the Kennedy Center. Sadie arrives in a supercar with an arms dealer tied up in a trunk. The couple decided to go on a date at the Center, leaving the arms dealer in a trunk.

Ghosted Ending Explained

The screenplay that Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote with Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers ended in the happiest and most expected way possible. Despite all the arguments and second thoughts Cole and Sadie had during the movie, they both realize they were made for each other. And what’s a better way to realize that you love someone than saving the world with them? Every single villain in this movie didn’t survive to see the end, so in case of a sequel, the screenwriters would need to think of someone new.

What’s interesting is that thing with an arms dealer at the end. Sadie and Cole left the guy tied up in the trunk and went on a date before they could deal with him. There’s an option that that scene was there only to show how Sadie and Cole are now working together, or it might’ve been some teaser for the potential sequel. It’s impossible not to think about it, considering that even movies like Red Notice and The Gray Man are set to get sequels, but we don’t know if Apple TV+ shares the same sequel policy as Netflix.

Movies like these are generally reusing the same formula repeatedly, so we wouldn’t be surprised if Apple would call Chris Evans and Ana de Armas for another paycheck. But even without the sequel, this movie concluded the story the way it was supposed to. Cole and Sadie lived happily ever after. Not that we doubted it even for a moment while watching the movie, but their happy ending is all that matters at the end of the day.

Directed by Dexter Fletcher, Ghosted is now streaming exclusively on Apple TV+.