‘The Nun 2’ Ending Explained: What That Post-Credits Scene Could Mean For ‘The Conjuring 4’ (2024)

If you’re looking for a horror movie to watch this spooky season, you should know that The Nun 2 is now available to buy and rent on digital platforms like Amazon Prime. It’s perfect for supernatural gothic vibes.

This religious supernatural horror flick is technically the ninth movie in The Conjuring franchise, and a sequel to the 2018 Conjuring spin-off film,The Nun. This sequel was directed by Michael Chaves; with a screenplay written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and Akela Cooper; with the story by Cooper. Set four years after the events of the first Nun movie, sister Irene must once again face off with that pesky demonic force known as Valek. You just can’t get rid of that guy!

Like most of the Conjuring movies, The Nun II comes with its own set of “just go with it” rules of supernatural demonic forces. If you got confused, never fear, because Decider is here to help. Read on for our breakdown of The Nun 2 plot summary, The Nun 2 ending explained, and what The Nun 2 post-credits scene means for the next Conjuring movie.

What year is The Nun 2 set in?

The Nun 2 is set in 1956, four years after the events of The Nun.

The Nun 2 plot summary:

Four years after the events of The Nun, Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) is now living in a convent in Italy. No one there knows what she’s been through. She befriends a fellow rebellious nun named Sister Debra (Storm Reid, who’s all grown up now!).

Meanwhile, Maurice (Jonas Bloquet), aka Frenchie from the first movie, now works as a groundskeeper at a Catholic boarding school in France. He becomes friendly with a teacher named Kate (Anna Popplewell) and her daughter Sophie (Katelyn Rose Downey). Sophie gets picked on by the older girls at school. One day, the girls lure Sophie to the strictly off-limits, deconsecrated, sealed-off chapel. The girls instruct Sophie to stare into the eyes of a goat painted on the stained glass, and tell her that when the sun shines through the goats eyes, turning them red, the devil will appear. Just girls being girls!

Back at the Italian monastery, Irene has a vision of Maurice begging her to help him. The local Cardinal informs Irene that the demon Valak is probably back, and probably at this Catholic boarding school in France. Irene realizes that when Maurice came back to save her in the first movie, the demon must have possessed Maurice.

Irene and her friend Debra travel to the boarding school. A young boy named Jacque—who witnessed Valak attack a priest in the opening scene of the movie—gives Debra the dead priest’s rosary, with the emblem of St. Lucy on it. Irene explains to Debra that St. Lucy was burned at the stake by nasty Protestants. Though she miraculously didn’t die, she did get her eyes gouged out. But legend has it that St. Lucy’s family’s recovered those eyes, and kept them.

Irene and Debra hit up the library, where a helpful librarian gives them all the answers they need. Hey, it’s a classic trope of the supernatural horror genre! The librarian tells them that Valek is a fallen angel seeking out a powerful relic: St. Lucy’s eyes. That’s why all of the victims have been descendants of St. Lucy! (A fact we’re just now learning, but sure.) But if Irene can find the relic, aka the eyes, first, she can use it as a weapon to defeat Valak. And where was the relic last seen? Why, at the boarding school, of course! With me so far?

The Nun 2 ending explained:

Irene and Debra head off to search for the relic but are intercepted by a demon-possessed Maurice. They manage to subdue him, for now. The young girl, Sophie, shows Irene and Debra the trick with the stained-glass-goat-eyes. They realize that when the goat’s eyes turn red, the ray of light points to the spot on the floor where the relic is hidden. And they’re right! They find the relic! Too bad the goat/devil comes out of the stained glass and starts attacking the students. Also, Maurice/Valak has escaped. Oops!

After a big climactic showdown between Debra and the devil and Irene and Valak, Irene manages to use the eyes to almost defeat Valak… but then Valak destroys the relic. Oh no! Without the relic, how will these nuns defeat this demon? With their faith, of course! The women pray, using powerful memories from their childhoods. Sharp-eyed viewers may also notice a split-second of Lorraine Warren’s eyes from The Conjuring 2. It’s implied that the women, including Lorraine, are all descendants of St. Lucy. Through the power of their faith alone, they manage to defeat Valak. For now.

At the end of the movie, it appears that Valak has left Maurice/Frenchie’s body and that he’s back to normal. However, don’t forget that this movie takes place in 1956, and the events of The Conjuring—in which Maurice is exorcised by the Warrens—take place in 1968. Maurice clearly still has a little devil left in him. But for now, he gets a happy ending. In the last scene of the movie, Maurice tends to his tomato plants and lives happily ever after with Kate and Sophie. Irene watches him go, with a look on her face that says she knows—just as the audience knows—that this isn’t over.

Is there a The Nun 2 post-credits scene?

Yes, The Nun 2 has a mid-credits scene. A phone rings in the Warren household. A young girl picks up and calls for “Mr. Warren. It’s Father Gordon. He says it’s an emergency.”

Ed Warren (played by Patrick Wilson) answers the phone, while his wife Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) looks on. “Yes, Father,” Ed says into the phone. “How can we help?”

And the scene ends. It’s clearly a little tease for the next Conjuring movie, The Conjuring: Last Rite. It’s basically Nick Fury showing up at the end of Iron Man. The next Conjuring movie was on pause during the writers’ strike but is once again being written now that the WGA has come to an agreement, according to The Nun 2 director Michael Chaves. So stay tuned!