Ending? What will Stephen do?

On the airplane he tells Morris that he doesn't say things to get ahead, he says things because he believes them to be right.

He blackmailed Morris to get Paul fired so Paul's career wouldn't be hurt when he did the right thing and exposed Morris. In both cases, he said something because he believed them to be right. The first was right, because he saved Paul's career. The second because Morris didn't live up to the morals he spewed and was just as deceitful as any other politician.



"Are you okay?" "No. I'm pretty *beep* far from being okay"

I don't believe the ending is grey. It was obvious that Meyer's career was his life (he even said that) and the minute he found out Molly had slept with Morris he was done with her on a personal level. His career came before everything so I think the ending was suppose to show Meyers trying his best to shut out his conscience (the background speech on integrity). It was a beautiful final shot of Meyers in the end hiding his internal struggle and getting ready to speak.

Stefan: You... Alaric's alter ego: Me...<3

No, the whole movie was about how you have to sacrifice some of your values to succeed in politics.

I believe the title of the movie refers to what Stephan is to reveal at the very last shot of the movie. He is about to stab Morris in the back and assassinate his character on national TV.

Well, for starters, he has to find a new girlfriend. Ohhh! Too soon?

Stephen's only goal is to ride the career path as far and wide as possible. He took the ruthless warrior mode, threw Molly to the dogs of war (even though he cared about her) and played every trump card in his pack. Stephen has won and is now ready to take Morris (and himself) to the White House.
The IRONY that lurks beneath all this is terrific since he will be in a position to hold Morris to all the idealism Morris so heartfelt-fully spouted during the campaign. Politicians (especially the smart ones) know they can say whatever is necessary to get elected and then abandon most of those promises and write them off to partisan politics and gridlock in Washington. Stephen will be able to hold Morris' "feet" to the idealistic "fires" of his campaign and say to Washington "law-makers" (really patsies to the lobbyists), "Hey, guys, kiss my ass!"
As a winner, Stephen is now allowed to get even by taking the high and mighty road for at least four years of making things better. Let's have a round of applause for the "God of Irony." Bravo!

It's quite amazing that people actually think that the ending is ambiguous. There's no doubt that Steven would never risk revealing all, especially after the way he very confidently, assuredly blackmailed his way back into the campaign, "taking" his boss's job in the process, no less. He's no saint. Perhaps, there's a glimmer of sadness in his eyes... a sinking realization of how naive he had been. But he's not going to turn back. And that's the point.

And even if the title is referring to Morris' character (which it might not be)... maybe it helps not to take such a literal interpretation of everything.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

It took me until the second time I watched this to see that he might tell all at the end (sorry not as quick as you guys) IMDb sees the shaving scene and then where he is sitting on the chair with a days growth as an error what I see it as is............."no matter how hard you try to be clean you are now and always will be dirty" awesome symbolism. Then in the background is Governor Morris' comments on integrity so what will he do?????? Get Clean or Stay Dirty........? and our individual decision is a statement on are we Stephen Meyers from the beginning of the movie that was a believer in the Character of the man in doing whats right to help others or are we the Dirtied Stephen Meyers............