Upon returning home, Vic finds Melinda sitting on the stairs after a quick switch with her character – the last time she was seen, their daughter Trixie had thrown her packed suitcase into the pool. Deep Water then sees Vic chase Don down on his mountain bike, riding into the middle of the road so that Don swerves off the side of a cliff to his death. When Don arrives, he sees Vic tampering with Tony’s body, so he immediately drives away in his car in an attempt to expose the truth. Melinda finds Tony’s licenses in a box of Vic’s snails, then seemingly contacts Deep Water character Don Wilson, a new neighbor suspicious of Vic, to follow him. Hulu’s Deep Water ending occurs after Vic has murdered Tony, Melinda’s latest lover, and gone to the gorge to better hide his body. Here’s a breakdown of how Deep Water’s book and movie endings differ, and why director Adrian Lyne decided to make such a substantial change. The major change has a significant impact on the overall motivations of Melinda and Vic Van Allen’s characters, as well as a completely new take on what the future holds for the couple.
While the underlying story leading to the Deep Water ending remains the same, including Vic’s strange obsession with snails, the 2022 movie notably diverges from the Deep Water book in the last act. Related: Why Deep Water's Reviews Are So Negative While Vic puts on a public mask of indifference to his wife’s affairs, he finally snaps and begins to kill Melinda’s (Ana de Armas) lovers as the stakes for the couple’s twisted mind-games grow higher. Like the film, the Deep Water novel depicted the strange agreement in which Melinda is allowed to take lovers as long as she doesn’t break up their family.
This time around, Lyne brings to life Patricia Highsmith’s 1957 novel, Deep Water, which was remarkable at the time for breaking gender stereotypes. Deep Water isn’t Adrian Lyne’s first book adaptation, with some of his best-known erotic dramas like Indecent Proposal and 9½ Weeks also being inspired by notable literature.
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