Run Rabbit Run Ending Explained: Sarah’s Guilt, Alice’s Disappearance, and Mia’s Mysterious Behaviour

This psychological thriller kept many people curious with its mysterious events right until the final scene. Featuring Sarah Snook, well-known from Succession, Run Rabbit Run stood out as one of Netflix’s more talked-about titles in 2023.

Even though it didn’t quite reach the same level as Netflix’s best films, it managed to hold attention by twisting expectations and concluding in a way that left many things unresolved. Viewers are left to piece everything together themselves, but here is a breakdown that can help make better sense of what happened.

A few questions stand out: Was it all just happening in Sarah’s imagination, or did those strange things truly happen? Is it possible that Mia got possessed by Alice, Sarah’s younger sister, who disappeared years ago? And what exactly does the rabbit mean in the story?

While there might not be one definite answer, there’s enough information to suggest a likely explanation. To understand things better, we need to examine the disturbing ending of Run Rabbit Run, and that means some major spoilers are ahead.

Run Rabbit Run Explained: What Happened to Alice?

Mia’s strange behaviour increased after they reached Sarah’s childhood home, and she insisted on sleeping in Alice’s room, claiming, “It’s my room.” After Sarah explained who Alice was, Mia replied by saying, “I’m back, I’m your sister.”

Sarah mentioned that she used to quarrel a lot with Alice, who loved animals and would often bring home strays. The appearance of a rabbit at their house marked the beginning of Mia’s odd actions, and she insisted on keeping it, which raised the idea that Alice’s spirit might be in her.

Sarah also recalled that Alice loved playing hide-and-seek. When she brought this up, Mia responded in a tone that showed pain: “I don’t like hide-and-seek. You never come looking for me. You don’t like me. You always make me hide. All day. You never want to find me. You lock me up. I hate you.”

One night, Sarah thought she saw Mia’s head bleeding again, like earlier in the story, and she tried cutting her hair to check for the wound. Mia resisted, and during the struggle, Sarah ended up cutting Mia’s arms. But when she looked again at Mia’s head, the wound was gone.

Sarah started seeing things more frequently. While she was at the barn behind the house, she heard a noise from behind a locked door. Suddenly, Alice appeared and started attacking her. In a panic, Sarah used an old rabbit trap to hit Alice on the head, and then Alice disappeared.

Mia, who witnessed everything, ran back into the house with Sarah going after her. In her attempt to enter Alice’s room, Sarah knocked herself out. A flashback then revealed the actual event from the past involving Alice.

It turned out Sarah had used the rabbit trap to hit Alice on the head, which matched the bleeding she had earlier imagined on Mia’s head. After hitting her, Sarah chased Alice and pushed her off a cliff, leading to her death.

When morning came, Sarah woke up to find Mia missing. Her ex-husband, Pete, arrived looking worried. As they searched, the movie hinted that Sarah might have harmed Mia the same way she did Alice, especially when she saw a body floating in the lake.

But then the movie made it clear that those thoughts were only in Sarah’s mind, and Mia was safe under a bush nearby. That night, Sarah held Mia in bed and spoke to her as if she were Alice. She confessed that she told their mother Alice ran away.

Alice’s voice called her a monster, and Sarah didn’t deny it. “I’m a monster,” she said.

Run Rabbit Run Ending: Are Mia and Pete Dead?

The following events began with Sarah asleep and Mia spotting the rabbit again. She quietly left the room and followed it. When Sarah woke up and found Mia gone, she stepped out of the room. But first, she looked at the spare bed, where Pete seemed to be lying with a pillow over his head.

Unless he had an unusual sleeping habit—perhaps trying to block out Sarah’s conversations—it hinted that Pete might be dead, possibly killed by Sarah. Sarah did not react strongly. She then checked Alice’s room, but it was empty.

From the window, she saw something chilling: Alice and Mia walking hand-in-hand towards the cliff where Sarah had once pushed Alice. Sarah tried to stop Mia by banging on the window, but the screen cut to black before anything else happened, leaving what happened to Mia unclear.

It’s then left for the viewer to decide what was real and what came from Sarah’s guilty mind and unresolved sorrow about what she did to her sister, including whether Alice was leading Mia to her death.

Some people might interpret the rabbit as Alice’s spirit returning in animal form to take revenge. Based on this idea, the final part of the movie shows Alice punishing Sarah. Apart from the rabbit, Alice’s spirit might have entered Mia, especially during the moments she claimed to be Alice.

But others could also believe that everything was Sarah’s imagination. Earlier in the story, Mia said her grandfather mentioned coming back as a pelican to watch over Sarah. Combined with her heavy guilt, Sarah might have created this idea that Alice returned to torment her.

Under this explanation, it’s likely the final scenes played out in Sarah’s mind after she confessed everything to ‘Alice’. Though it doesn’t explain how Mia also saw the rabbit, maybe Sarah’s dream was so deep that even that part felt real.

Looking at it differently, if one assumes Sarah killed Pete, too, then even finding Mia under the bush might have been part of her imagination. She might have done the same thing to Mia that she did to Alice, and Pete, thinking it was an accident, ended up becoming another victim later that night.

This story ends based on what the viewer believes. The most hopeful way to look at it is that all the bad events only happened in Sarah’s thoughts, and that both Mia and Pete are still alive.

But for those who believe they are no longer alive, one must then decide if Sarah’s actions came from her broken mind or if Alice’s spirit truly returned to take vengeance.