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This first rule isn’t technically introduced in “John Wick: Chapter 4.” The end of the second movie sees John Wick breaking the sacred rule against conducting business on the Continental grounds, leading him to be declared excommunicado. He then spends all of “John Wick: Chapter 3” paying for the indiscretion. But he wasn’t the only person in the same bind, as Winston (Ian McShane), Charon (Lance Reddick), and The Director (Angelica Houston) all also received reprisals for not turning him into the Adjudicator (Asia Kate Dillon).
“John Wick: Chapter 4” sees even more profound repercussions for assisting the excommunicado. When the movie begins, we see Winston and Charon summoned to the office of the Marquis (Bill Skarsgard) while a giant hourglass drops to dust, measuring the time as it counts down. Once the sand has fallen, The Continental Hotel is destroyed, and Charon is executed.
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Even though Winston seemed to have regained control over his hotel when he shot John Wick off of a roof at the end of “John Wick: Chapter 3,” the beginning of “Chapter 4” shows that breaking this rule will follow you forever. If audiences hadn’t learned their lesson at the end of the last movie, the beginning of this one is a stark reminder: don’t help the excommunicado.
