Get Out is surely one of the biggest success stories of the last few years, and the fact that it was wholly unexpected makes it all the more exciting. This is a Blumhouse horror movie with no “movie stars,” marking the directorial debut of comedian Jordan Peele. Not only did it receive rave reviews and gross over $255 million worldwide, it made the long trek to the awards race following a February release date and came away with four Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Original Screenplay. That’s kind of stunning.

While Peele’s social thriller leaves the audience on a relatively high note, the film’s original ending was far darker. It’s here where if you haven’t yet seen Get Out, you should stop reading. Spoilers ahead.

At the end of Get Out, a cop car pulls up just as Chris is strangling Rose with a house full of dead white people behind him. But we see that this isn’t just any ordinary cop, it’s Rod (Lil Rey Howery), who has come to Chris’s rescue. The audience breathes a sigh of relief, and all’s well that ends well (again, relatively).

This ending, however, was part of a reshoot. The original ending was far more realistic, as the actual cops showed up and Chris went to jail. As part of Vulture’s fantastic oral history of how Get Out got made (via The Playlist), Peele, stars Daniel Kaluuya, Bradley Whitford, Marcus Henderson, and producer Sean McKittrick broke down how and why the ending changed: