What happens at the end of the 2nd hunger games

But once she gets there, Snow apologizes for the death of her sister and says that he was not the one who had dropped the bombs on the Capitol. Snow explains he was about to surrender to the rebellion when the parachutes dropped, divulging how it's not in his character to wastefully execute Capitol children without purpose. He points the incident to President Coin, who he believes called for the massacre in order to turn the Capitol on Snow and take the presidency herself while Snow and Katniss were distracted by each other.

Katniss believes Snow once she is part of a meeting with other past victors, where Coin decides to assume the presidency and takes a symbolic Hunger Games with Capitol children to a vote. Realizing that Coin is no different than Snow was, Katniss agrees to the Hunger Games as long as she gets to execute Snow at the ceremony. During the public execution Coin makes a speech, announcing:. The ending shows that the abuse of power is not contained to one person, but often the systems that give them unfair power.

During their face-off against some mutated lizard-humans, he gives them a clearing to escape, but is not able to make it out himself. Boggs also dies on the way to Snow when he accidentally triggers a mine pod and the squad must leave him. And of course both President Snow and Coin die, leaving the position to President Paylor, the rebel leader of District 8.

Annie returns to District 4 and gives birth to their son and keeps in touch with Katniss. District 7 hothead, Johanna Mason also survives and presumably returns home along with other surviving rebels such as Beetee. Plutarch Heavensbee is appointed as the Secretary of Communications and Effie and Haymitch thankfully remain alive as well and promise to keep in touch, with Haymitch returning to District 12 with Katniss and Peeta to raise geese.

Katniss returns to reunite with Peeta, who is starting to recover from his Capitol torture. When Johanna and Katniss are suddenly ambushed, Johanna knocks Katniss out from behind. Johanna cuts open Katniss arm to remove her tracker. Then, Johanna runs away to draw the other tributes away. Katniss gets up and returns to the tree, where she finds Beetee knocked out. When Finnick returns, Katniss initially points her arrow at him. Katniss doesn't know if she can trust Finnick, and she's confused as to where Peeta is.

It was Coin, not Snow, who ordered the strike that killed Prim, as she wants to let him take the blame and then take over after he's killed. So basically, it's one oppressive regime planning on taking over another. Later, Gale visits Katniss and he admits that he may or may not have had a part in the aforementioned bombing that killed Prim. So that removes him from her dance card.

And then, during a meeting with the surviving Tributes, Coin announces that she will be interim President after Snow is executed. No surprise here. So, things don't look so hot for Katniss right now. On the brighter side, she does gets to execute Snow in a huge arena in front of all of Panem.

Or at least, she's supposed to. Once she regained consciousness, the Resistance had completed their mission to infiltrate the mansion. President Snow was a prisoner of war, and Coin was finally running the place.

But Snow wasn't quite done having his way. Katniss was granted permission to speak with Snow in his rose garden, and he informed her then that those bombs weren't the Capitol's creation and that, further, Coin was merely going to be another version of himself. Sure enough, Coin's first act as interim President was to assemble the victors for a vote on whether to submit the Capitol leader's children to their own version of a Hunger Games for vengeance's sake.

Katniss voted yes to the referendum but asked that she be allowed to execute Snow in trade for affirmative vote, a contingency that Coin was agreeable to. Coin was fooled by Katniss' falsely positive vote in part because she'd been blinded by her own thirst for vengeance and probably figured that Katniss, who'd been thrust into the Games twice herself, would be more than happy to see Capitol children made to pay for that.

The other reason Katniss' pledge of support for the new Games was accepted by Coin was that she underestimated Katniss' sense of character and refusal to, as Peeta once put it, "become another piece in their Games.

Because Coin was evidently one for sinister pageantry, she decided to make Snow's execution public. So, Katniss, armed with her bow, was all set to carry out Snow's death sentence in front of the whole of Panem. But with Snow's words about Coin in mind, and the knowledge that the incoming president planned to be just as cruel as the last, she assassinated Coin instead, with the intention to take her nightlock suicide pill soon after.

Katniss knew her reasons for killing Coin would be unknown to most of the public and that she'd be tried as a traitor, but she was willing to trade her own life to ensure the vicious Hunger Games never happened again. Her self-demise attempt was thwarted by Peeta, who'd started to decipher "real" from "not real" when it came to their shared history, and she was instead jailed for the murder of Coin.

In the book, she was later acquitted on account of insanity. In the movie, new President Paylor, formerly a central commander of the Resistance, quietly pardoned her for the crime.

Meanwhile, Snow was killed in the riotous melee that ensued after Katniss' assassination of Coin. Did Snow play Katniss one last time?