"28 Years Later" Ending Explained: Who Is Jimmy? Christopher RudolphSeptember 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM 0 Miya Mizuno '28 Years Later' 28 Years Later recently hit Netflix after being released in theaters this past summer The third film in the franchise stars Aaron TaylorJohnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fien...
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Christopher RudolphSeptember 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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28 Years Later recently hit Netflix after being released in theaters this past summer
The third film in the franchise stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes
The story will continue in the upcoming sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Warning: 28 Years Later spoilers ahead!
It's been over two decades since the Rage Virus ravaged the U.K. in the 2003 zombie film 28 Days Later — and the story is far from over.
The bloody breakout hit from director Danny Boyle set a new standard for horror and spawned a sequel, 2007's 28 Weeks Later. The latest addition to the franchise, 28 Years Later, premiered in June 2025, featuring details reminiscent of the title that began it all.
In the latest movie, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), lives with his wife, Isla (Jodie Comer) and their son Spike (Alfie Williams) in a quarantined community of survivors on Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, off the coast of England.
During a ceremonial hunting trip, Jamie and Spike venture onto the mainland and confront the infected victims of the zombie plague. The father and son survive and make it back to the island, but Spike later returns to the mainland with his sick mother, as he attempts to find the mythical Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes).
Along the way, Isla and Spike encounter Infected monsters, including Samson the Alpha Zombie, and even rescue a baby born from an infected woman.
So how does it conclude? Here's everything to know about the 28 Years Later ending, explained.
What happens at the end of 28 Years Later?
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After the hunting trip with his dad, Spike takes his mother, Isla, back to the mainland to find Dr. Kelson, who he thinks can cure her.
They arrive at the Bone Temple, a monument made up of bones from the dead, and meet Dr. Kelson, who built it. He explains to them that Isla has an aggressive form of cancer that has spread across her brain and body.
Isla accepts her fate, and Dr. Kelson shoots her with a morphine dart and burns her body in his furnace. He brings Spike the skull of his mom and instructs him to "find a place for her" among the piles of bones. Spike takes the skull of his mother and climbs to the top of the pile, and places hers on top as he watches the sun rise with her one last time.
Spike then leaves the Bone Temple with the baby and takes the child back to Lindisfarne before continuing on his journey.
Who survives in 28 Years Later?
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Spike, his dad Jamie, Dr. Kelson and baby Isla — named in honor of Spike's mother — all survive 28 Years Later.
Who is Jimmy?
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28 Years Later ends with Spike being saved from a group of Infected by Jimmy (Jack O'Connell) and his gang. According to the film's end credits, Jimmy's full name is Sir Jimmy Crystal, and all of his gang members are also named Jimmy.
Jimmy Crystal and his Jimmies wear blond wigs and colorful tracksuits, a look inspired by Jimmy Savile, a popular British TV and radio presenter and DJ.
Savile was a staple on screens in the U.K. from the 1970s to the early 2000s. He was a beloved figure, but after his death in 2011, it came to light that he was a prolific sex abuser and pedophile.
In 2013, NBC News reported that more than 450 people had "come forward to police with allegations of abuse involving Savile."
The movie does not explain why Jimmy Crystal is dressed like Savile, but one of his accessories is significant. O'Connell's character wears an upside-down gold cross, revealing him to be Jimmy, the little boy from the beginning of the movie, whose dad gives him a gold cross necklace before the infected kill his family.
Is Samson the Alpha Zombie killed?
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No, the Alpha Zombie called Samson is not killed, he is still alive at the end of 28 Years Later.
Hearing Samson approaching the Bone Temple, Spike and Dr. Kelson take refuge in an underground hideout. Samson finds them, and punches through the ground, grabbing onto Dr. Kelson. Spike takes one of Kelson's tranquilizer darts filled with morphine and stabs Samson in the arm with it.
Samson is sedated by the dart and lets go of Kelson.
In June 2025, Boyle told The Hollywood Reporter that Samson would return as a "major character" in the upcoming sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Why does Spike return to the mainland?
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After their encounter with Samson, Kelson tells Spike he thinks it is time for him to go home. Spike takes baby Isla and brings her to Lindisfarne, but his stay is brief.
Spike drops her off with a note to his dad, explaining how he wants "to keep walking until I can't see the sea."
Spike returns to the mainland to continue his solo journey, one that will continue in the next film, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
"I don't really consider this a zombie film. I consider it an emotional drama in a harsh landscape," Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter while discussing 28 Years Later. "The next one is much more about man's inhumanity to man."
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