Ben Richards, a poor man competing in a deadly TV game show where he must survive while hunters chase him, hijacks a plane.

Captain Frederick Wentworth, overhearing Anne Elliot tell Captain Harville that women love longest “when existence or when hope is gone,” writes her a passionate letter declaring he still loves her.

Wendy and her brothers return home from Neverland with the Lost Boys, who are adopted by the Darlings, but Peter refuses to grow up and stays in Neverland.

Lucy Honeychurch breaks off her engagement to the snobbish Cecil Vyse and, after a frank talk with old Mr.

Philip Carey, freed at last from his painful obsession with the waitress Mildred, qualifies as a doctor and gives up his dreams of travelling the world.

Gregor Samsa, who woke up transformed into a giant insect, dies alone in his room after being wounded by an apple his father threw and rejected by his family.

Tom Sawyer reveals that Jim was already free, because his owner Miss Watson died and freed him in her will, so the elaborate “escape” Tom staged was a game.

Bill Masen, his partner Josella and their small group escape their Sussex farm, which is besieged by triffids and threatened by a military-style government.

Pip, now humbled after losing his fortune and his benefactor, meets Estella years later in the ruins of Satis House.

Franklin Blake learns he took the Moonstone from Rachel Verinder’s room while sleepwalking under the influence of opium secretly given to him.