Halo Season 2 Episode 8 Ending Explained & Recap: What Happened in the Finale?

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Here’s the and recap featuring spoilers about what happened in the finale. Dive into our breakdown and find out how the season ends, who dies, and what’s next.

Makee managed to make it to the Halo along with the Arbiter. They were followed by John-117 and Cortana, who crashed on the Ring’s surface following John’s rescue of Cortana. Upon arriving on the Ring (built by the Forerunners), Cortana revealed that it was far too advanced for the humans. It was alive, being the perfect fusion of AI and organic matter. Cortana further described it as a living network.

While John moved towards Makee, things on Onyx got really out of hand. The artifact that Miranda Keyes and Dr. Halsey retrieved from the dead Forerunner scientist didn’t contain her work. Instead, it was a sample container that carried inert spores, which were later revealed to be a parasite.

When the parasite sample came in contact with the UNSC scientist Janine, it was stimulated by sensing a habitable host after lying dormant for thousands of years. Coming in contact with living tissue, it began to take over its host’s neural network and expand due to its self-replicating nature.

As a result, the inert spores became neuro-reactive and kept on spreading from Janine to other humans on Onyx. Very steadily, they infected every guard, scientist, and official, turning them into undead zombies.

This infestation continued while the human fleets and Spartans were battling the Covenant forces, and Soren and Kwan were rescuing Laera and Kessler. During the rescue, Soren also united with Ackerson and fought through the infected human zombies.  

But as the zombies reached closer to Kwan Ha, she was able to control them through the power granted by her ancestor (The Mother), who had been guiding her until this moment. The Mother mentioned that all of her future descendants and Kwan’s ancestors lived within her. She called Kwan the “Protector” and revealed her special connection with parasitic aliens, whom she called ‘The