After arriving at the barricade, Enjolras announces that they are nearly out of cartridges. Gavroche goes to collect ammunition from the bodies, and is shot dead. Valjean volunteers to execute Javert, but releases him instead. Marius thinks that he has killed him. As the barricades falter and the students one by One tragically die, he carries off the injured Marius and escapes through the sewers. Thinking him a murderer, Thénardier takes a piece of his coat so he can find his identity. Exiting the sewers, he encounters Javert and requests time to return Marius and go say goodbye to Cosette. He leaves Marius at his grandfather’s home, and then visits his own home. Javert releases him. Being caught between law and humane mercy, he commits suicide. After the wedding of Marius and Cosette, Valjean confesses that he is an ex convict. Marius limits his time with Cosette, and not being able to see her, he becomes weaker and weaker. Thénardier goes to blackmail him, but instead reveals all the good he has done, and that he saved Marius’s life. Marius frantically takes Cosette to go see him, but he is dying. Cosette and Marius weep as he dies.
