India, Aug. 29 -- this article discusses major plot points and the ending of The Whisper Man, now streaming on Netflix.

Netflix's new crime thriller The Whisper Man has viewers searching for answers after its Friday release, with the film's climactic reveal of a copycat killer and a haunting final scene prompting a wave of "ending explained" discussion across entertainment outlets.

The film, based on Alex North's bestselling novel of the same name, stars Robert De Niro, Adam Scott and Michelle Monaghan, and follows widowed crime writer Tom Kennedy as he turns to his estranged father, retired detective Pete Willis, after his eight-year-old son Jake is abducted from their New Jersey town. The disappearance echoes a decades-old case in whi...