Frodo and Sam reach Mount Doom, but Frodo cannot destroy the One Ring, so Gollum bites it off his finger and falls into the fire with it.

Mia, in a coma, chooses to wake up and stay with the life she has.

June Hayward, who stole her dead friend Athena Liu’s manuscript and published it as her own, is exposed after a public confrontation staged by Athena’s former classmate Candice Lee.

After the dragon Smaug is killed by Bard, the dwarves, men and elves nearly go to war over the treasure, until an army of goblins and wargs attacks and they unite in the Battle of Five Armies.

Daniel Sempere learns that the mysterious author Julián Carax is alive, horribly burned and hiding as Laín Coubert, the man who was burning all his books.

Piranesi learns that he is really Matthew Rose Sorensen, a researcher trapped in an endless House of halls and tides by the scholar Valentine Ketterley, whom he calls the Other.

Circe chooses to become mortal, using a potion, and sails away with Penelope and Telemachus.

Maddy learns that her mother falsely told her that she has SCID, a severe immune disorder, and she is free to go outside.

Perry Smith and Richard Hickock are hanged for murdering the Clutter family.

V dies after being shot by Finch, and Evey takes his mask and place.