in her room, kim tells tam that he should be happy because he now has a father. she tells him that she cannot go with him but will be watching over him ("this is the hour [reprise]", referred to as "little god of my heart" on the 2014 london revival recording, though those words are not contained in the lyrics). chris, ellen, john, and the engineer arrive just outside her room. the engineer comes in to take tam outside to introduce tam to his father. while this is happening, kim steps behind a curtain and shoots herself. as she falls to the floor, everyone rushes into the room at the sound of the gunshot and find kim mortally wounded. chris picks up kim and asks what she has done. she asks him to hold her once more and repeats something that he said to her on the first night they met: "how in one night have we come so far?" and dies in his arms as he cries her name ("finale").