Another ending would have been Clyde detonating the bomb before returning to his cell. But he doesn't see city hall explode but hears it.
Confused he sees the prison on fire and then says to himself, "well played. Well played" Clyde then disappears into the darkness.
The mayor explodes at Rice and strips every single reward and rating from him. Nick then explodes at the mayor (I hated the mayor really btw) and resigns and adds that this ISN'T HER CITY IT IS THE PEOPLE'S. The mayor screams back defending herself but with harsh language. People hear this and she's not re elected. Rice after a week of soul and thought searching realizes he's beep up and got off easy. He starts spending as much time with his wife and daughter and after a month he mutters, "well done Clyde. Well done," finally realizing how much family means now that he's spent more time in a single month his family then he did in the last TEN YEARS COMBINED.
Dunnington or Jonas or whoever was gunning for Nick's job gets it. But starts getting stressed and paranoid about it and obsessing they'll find Clyde.
The final scene shows Clyde as some monk now fishing and living in the middle of nowhere with some other monks. As he goes into his hut, he takes off his clothes and it is revealed he has two tattoos. One is a picture of the wife/daughter that Darby saw and the other is a resketching of the DADDY bracelet.
Clyde sort of has the look he too got off easy but is now over the whole killing spree but of course realizes he can never go back.
Maybe a final shot of the two like TEN YEARS later shows them just passing each other somewhere shows. They then spin around and look at each other only now from afar and just ponder and then just continue walking with a look of "let bygones be bygones but if he comes back I'm going to destroy him"
End credits roll as Mr. Tambourine Man plays an ultra extended version (like twice as long).
Sorry I know this ending is crap but I just wanted a happy closure ending for both sides.

Works better than the film's version, that's for sure.
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in." Will Rogers

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That would have been a Brilliant ending.
Libera te tu temet ex inferis.
pro ego sum diabolus, pro ego sum nex.

That would be a good ending, but I don't know if I'd like it better then the movie one. I don't like the idea that Clyde can't be outstmarted. That was one thing that kind of bugged me. All of Clyde's plans kept working too perfectly. Boring invincible heroes are a problem in movies, but sometimes boring invincible villains can be the same way.
I actually liked Clyde getting a taste of his own medicine at the end.

Great ending!!

An alternative ending could have been when Foxx brought Gerald in the first time, if he'd said "okay, I was wrong to cut a deal 10 years ago, I admit I didn't feel good about it at the time, but you've had your fun and now it stops off you go and don't do it again!" then they go for a beer, shake hands,

That would have been a totally EXCELLENT ending! The screenwriter should have thought this one through!

I like it