The Weeknd's New Music Video Basically Proves This Insane Fan Theory

"False Alarm": And so, we get here. His latest video in what looks to be a sequence of events spanned over years. The graphic video feels like you jumped into a video game to help execute an elaborate bank robbery. With a first-person view, you don't know who you are, but you know you're part of the robbery, because you're shooting up the place. A young girl is taken hostage as you try to escape the police, and you try to keep her safe, while also killing whatever cops come your way.

At one point, the getaway car catches up and the robbers are transporting the money, the hostage and themselves into the moving van as they try to escape. One robber is pissed that some of the money didn't make it across and threatens to shoot whoever this view of the video is coming from. Luckily, the hostage manages to grab a gun and shoot the robber to save "you." But the driver ended up getting shot, too, so the van crashes.

The video picks back up with the first-person view waking up to a shard of glass in their stomach. The hostage is fine, so "you" throw her the key to her handcuffs, so that she can help. She uncuffs herself and approaches "you," but false alarm—she takes the money and jets. The robber had the perfect opportunity to shoot her, but didn't. Instead, this mystery person grabs at the cross around his neck, and looks to the mirror next to him. We see the Weeknd's face in the reflection, wearing the same cross he was wearing in "Starboy."

He puts the gun up to his throat and we hear a bang, but we don't see him die. Is this another false alarm? Will we see that girl again? Did we just experience a man's descent into darkness over the past year?

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