Clarice Starling tracks down the serial killer Jame Gumb, known as Buffalo Bill, and shoots him in his dark basement, rescuing Catherine Martin.

Jason Dessen finally gets back to his own world, but dozens of other versions of himself have also arrived to claim his wife and son.

The woman known as Adele is really Rob, a friend from rehab who used astral projection to switch bodies with her and then killed Adele’s soul inside Rob’s body.

In The End, the thirteenth book, the Baudelaire orphans are shipwrecked on an island with Count Olaf.

Count Alexander Rostov helps his adopted daughter Sofia defect to the West during an orchestra tour in Paris, then escapes the Metropol Hotel after more than thirty years of house arrest.

In A Memory of Light, the final book, Rand al’Thor defeats the Dark One and seals him away, choosing not to destroy him so humanity keeps free will.

Humbert Humbert finds Dolores Haze, now seventeen, married and pregnant, and fails to persuade her to leave with him.

Izzy Richardson sets fire to her family’s house and runs away, and Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl quietly leave Shaker Heights.

After months in a psychiatric hospital and electroconvulsive therapy, Esther Greenwood recovers enough to appear before a board of doctors who will decide if she can leave.

Marcellus the octopus leads Tova Sullivan to the truth: her son Erik, who vanished at sea, had a son, and that son is Cameron, the young man working with her at the aquarium.