Papillon died an innocent man.
In the film, Papillon retells La Taupe’s story in how he explored the one tunnel that many of the cataphiles feared. He never emerged, just like the others who were daring enough to step through. Papillon waited and ultimately closed up the tunnel to prevent another death, taking his place as a leader.
La Taupe, as he is found once more, explains that no one looked for him, and he pitifully looks over his friends who assumed he lost his life. Papillon regards him with skepticism questioning his survival. It’s not him...
In the screenplay, Papillon and La Taupe’s roles are reversed. However, Papillon retains his character for the most part. (the parts that are already in the film. The scenes are the very same from the club to his leading the group inside). Strangely, his brother is still in the script, suggesting Papillon to Scarlett, Benji, and George. Suggesting that Papillon was initially intended to follow his role in the film.
Setting this subject aside, we’re going to focus on what happens to Papillon. He merely vanishes and returns as the dead, dying after they trigger a collapse in the tunnels as they find the stone. He was an innocent man, spat from the pits of hell to kill before he can be rightly dragged back. He grows irritable as time passes and the deeper they go, closely following the scene in the film where La Taupe takes a life.
When La Taupe (following the remainder of Papillon’s story) finds the burning car with (strangely.. Pap’s sibling) he reacts in the very same way as Papillon does in the film, and even quotes the very same thing Papillon screams before his untimely, violent death. It translates to “No! It was not my fault! It was not my fault!”
And, Papillon, in the film, follows the very same actions. There was an unfinished cut and extra scenes, and I imagine he was inclined to rush for his brother.
Regardless another thing to note is, his brother was the driver in the screenplay, and Papillon’s burns are on the left side of his body. His brother was the driver, and he couldn’t be saved.
The fact that he runs to what was destined to kill him to save what is already dead, much to Scarlett & George’s deepest fears.
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unnecessary note: I’m going to go ahead and tell you that Papillon didn’t die instantly. He was pulled underground, and he suffocated, and he burned as shown in his legs that began to blacken and char
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