Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Peel and Steed are playing chess, some pieces are on the wrong squares.
The Avengers (1998)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, Patrick Macnee
Sir August DeWinter (Sean Connery) is killed by his own weather machines after a fight with John Steed (Ralph Fieenes) by being struck by lightning. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) destroys the circuits of the weather machine but accidentally sets off the self-destruct mode. They run into what they believe is an escape pod. The Lair explodes and a destroyed London is magnified in the morning sunlight. M.O.T.H.E.R (Jim Broadbent) sobs over the death of John steed and Mrs.Peel but sends out a search party for them. an escape pod rises out of the water and they all go up to a maze on top of a high building and drink shampane. John Steed and Mrs.Peel give each other a loving look and M.O.T.H.E.R offers them a macaroon. They both decline.
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Trivia: The moves in the chess match between Emma Peel and John Steed are the same in the match between Roy Batty and Tyrell in the 1982 film "Blade Runner".
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