- The final chapter is also the only chapter of Part 3: "Filling in the Holes."
- It opens with a few thoughts about the curse. Stanley's mother thinks there was never a curse to begin with.
- But think about it: Stanley's father invented his foot odor spray the day after "the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain" (50.1).
- Yep, that's right, Shmoopers: when Stanley carried Zero up the mountain, it looks like he broke that stubborn curse.
- Tying up some loose ends: the Attorney General closed Camp Green Lake. The Warden, desperate for money, had to sell the land, and word on the street is it's going to become a Girl Scout camp.
- When Stanley and Zero opened the suitcase, they hit the jackpot: inside were lots of jewels and some very valuable stocks. In the end, they each received about a million dollars from the sale of the stocks. Stanley bought his family a new home (with a laboratory for his father, naturally), and Zero (now going by Hector) hired a team of private investigators.
- We've got one last scene for you: we're at a party at Stanley's house. Everyone has gathered to watch the premiere of a TV commercial for Stanley's father's foot-odor spray, which is called none other than Sploosh. Sploosh!
- Clyde Livingston, who stars in the commercial, is also at the party.
- Zero's there, too, and the woman with him has a huge smile: he's found his mom. She softly sings a song to him, a song her grandmother used to sing her when she was little.
- In fact, it sounds a lot like the one Stanley's father used to sing to him.
- And that, Shmoopers, is the sappy, lovely, and tear-jerking end.