The phrase "a late scene" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a scene in a play, movie, or book that occurs towards the end of the narrative.
Example: "In the late scene of the play, the protagonist finally confronts their greatest fear."
Alternatives: "a final scene" or "an ending scene".
-- to inexplicable sirens and lights flashing outside in a late scene, many dramaturgical questions should have been cleared up.
And a late scene in which the everyman becomes involved in a long conversation with an affable black gravedigger at the cemetery, was like a recapitulation.
In a late scene of Mozart's "Zauberflöte," the hardy bird catcher Papageno, despairing that he may never have a mate, berates the world and decides to end it all.
Kidman brings a reassuring warmth and certainty to the role, particularly in a late scene in which Sue reveals to the grown Saroo the vision that inspired her to adopt.
Steven Skybell is among the more distinguished classicists; as the smartly politicking Ulysses he is most impressive, although it is hard to believe Shakespeare's character would participate in a boast-a-thon to win the armor of slain Achilles, as he does in a late scene from Heywood.
From here on, Malik is protected and schooled by Luciani, perhaps too efficiently; in a heartbreaking late scene, the pupil spurns his mentor, like a vicious Prince Hal disdaining Falstaff.
A telling late scene in "Perfect American" opens with Walt riding a model train at his Holmby Hills home — accompanied by an exuberant "choo choo" chorus that recalls the revolutionary train music of "Einstein" — Walt is interrupted by an embittered former employee who accuses Walt of union busting, taking credit for the work of an army of animators.
And a special mention goes to the cute send-up of Taymor's Lion King's mask in a crucial late scene.
It is also a gloomier work; one late scene, an encounter between Lee Chandler and his ex-wife, played by Michelle Williams, provides a shattering emotional apex.
Before Mr. Shanley overdoes the spectral engagement with the earthbound characters in a misguidedly slapstick late scene, the effective intimation is that past lovers and other agents of psychic interference haunt people palpably and unavoidably.
On reflection, Robert's choice to keep mum doubtless has to do with his larger complicity: we discover in an early (that is, late) scene that he, too, is a philanderer.
