After the group of classics students kill their friend Bunny, guilt and paranoia tear them apart, and Henry Winter shoots himself in a hotel room.

The town of Chester’s Mill learns that the dome was created by alien children, called “leatherheads,” who are treating the townspeople as a game.

Sybylla Melvyn refuses to marry the wealthy and kind Harry Beecham, even though she loves him, because she wants independence and fears losing herself in marriage.

Theo Decker, who has secretly kept the famous painting The Goldfinch since his mother died in a museum bombing, finally helps return it after a violent confrontation in Amsterdam.

Leni Allbright’s mother Cora shoots and kills Ernt, Leni’s abusive father, to save Leni, then takes the blame.

It is revealed that Elwood Curtis died trying to escape the Nickel Academy and that his friend Turner has lived for decades under Elwood’s name.

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John the Savage, unable to live in the World State, hangs himself in a lighthouse after a crowd turns his self-punishment into entertainment.

Alice wakes on the riverbank and realizes that Wonderland was a dream.

Citra Terranova wins the contest to become a Scythe and takes the name Scythe Anastasia, and she secretly spares Rowan Damisch.