Passengers ending explained (spoilers)

[violet]

Jim and Aurora discover the reason for the ship's malfunctions is that something slipped past the shields and struck the ship, damaging the main computer. Jim repairs the computer but it cannot vent plasma from the main drive due to a stuck external door. Jim goes outside and is forced to hold the door open while Aurora vents the plasma. Jim is knocked back and his tether snaps, forcing Aurora to go out into space and retrieve him. He is clinically dead but she revives him with the AutoDoc. In an epilogue, the rest of the crew awakens 88 years later to find that the inside of the ship is rife with plant and animal life, and Aurora has left them her completed book.

[Rodneyarife]

Dr. Claire Summers (Anne Hathaway) is a therapist who is assigned by her mentor to council the five survivors of a plane crash. Each of the survivors have differing views as to what happened, but most of them believe that there was an explosion on the plane. The airline claimed that the cause of the crash was pilot error, not an explosion. One of the survivors, Eric (Patrick Wilson), beings showing symptoms that make Claire believe he is not telling the truth concerning his true feelings. As she delves deeper into Erics feelings, they eventually begin a romantic relationship, even though she knows thats against the rules of her profession. At this time, some of the survivors begin disappearing, while the others and Claire begin to notice that they are being followed. Claire begins to suspect that the airline is responsible for the disappearance of the survivors. The airline has a history of mechanical problems, and another incident would be the end of the company. Claire then begins her own investigation of the crash.

One night, Eric suggests to Claire that she make peace with her estranged sister Emma. Reluctantly, she agrees, and goes to her sisters house. She is not there, but the man who has been following Claire and the other survivors is there. He tells her to stop investigating the crash because it really was pilot error and there were no survivors. He leaves her his briefcase, which includes a passenger manifest. Claire then discovers her name on the manifest, and suddenly remembers everything. She was a passenger on the doomed flight, and she was killed in the crash. Everyone who she has come into contact with since the crash, including Eric, were dead. They were friends and family from her life (and were not recognized by Claire until she remembered everything) who have passed on and are trying to help her come to grips with the fact she is dead and to make a transition to the other side. All of the survivors who had disappeared had come to grips with their situation and went to the other side, and the man who was following them was the pilot of the plane.

The final scene of the movie shows Emma and her husband at Claires apartment. There, she sees the letter that Claire had meant to give to Emma once they met. Belatedly, Claire and Emma had made their peace.

[PatrickPurry]

Jim (Chris Pratt) is one of 5000 passengers on a cruise-ship like vessel carring them to a new civilization. The trip takes 120 years, so they are all in hibernation pods.

Jims pod malfunctions and he is awoken after only 30 years, with no way of going back to hibernation. His only companion is Arthur (Michael Sheen), a robotic bartender.

After a year, and due to lonelyness, Jim wakes up another passenger, Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), telling her that her pod must have malfuncioned as well. The two become close and live as a couple.

Another year passes and Arthur lets it slip that Jim actually woke Aurora up...she freaks and wont speak to him any longer. The tension is enormous.

Meanwhile, the ship is having minor issues that are slowly becoming larger. Another pod malfunctions and awakens one of the ships officers (Laurence Fishburne). He is sick but discovers what is wrong with the ship and lets Jim know what he needs to do. The officer dies and Jim, together with Aurora save the ship in a dramatic space-walk rescue. The two of them become close again. Jim discovers that he can use the ships medi-pod to go back to hibernation, but only one person can do it. He wants Aurora to go back to sleep.

Time passes and we see Jim back at the bar talking to Arthur. Aurora enters and we discover that she never did it.

Cut to about 90 years later and the crew and passengers are waking from their 120 year journey. The main lobby is now a forest that began with a tree that Jim planted. We hear through Auroras voice-over, a reading of a letter to the crew, explaining everything that went on while the rest of the ship slept.

It appears that Jim and Aurora lived out the remainder of their lives in paradise.