Contains spoilers for "The Curse of Bly Manor" If you're like me, you probably slogged through the final episode of Netflix's "The Curse of Bly Manor" (open in new tab), the sequel to 2018's hit "The Haunting of Hill House" and tried to piece the pieces together. The ending of Bry Manor is both terrifying and heartbreaking, but ultimately revealing: who haunts Bry Manor (opens in new tab), and this season's mainstays, from Hannah Grose and Dani Clayton to Flora, Miles, and Owen The ultimate fate of all the characters is revealed. And some fates are happier than others.

If you haven't recovered from the ending yet (and are probably sobbing as well), I get it. Here's everything we learned in the last installment of "Bry Manor".

The Lady of the Lake, for example, the faceless, sparkling woman who regularly comes out of the lake to patrol the house, is Viola, also known as Kate Siegel.

Viola was choked in a previous episode by her own sister, Perdita, who married Viola's husband and bore Viola children. Viola, a woman strong-willed enough to keep herself alive through years of terminal illness, then took up residence in a locked chest filled with precious objects she had saved for her daughter. When the greedy Perdita eventually opens the chest, Viola strangles her.

Viola's husband and daughter flee the house and throw the chest and everything it represents into the lake, thus making a very hurt and angry Viola the Lady of the Lake. Says the narrator. 'The gravitational pull of the hereafter is ignored, and she has created her own gravity-the gravity of her will.'

Each night, Viola emerges from the lake and travels around the mansion and its grounds, killing those she comes across. Over time, her face becomes indistinguishably worn and she loses all memory. In addition to losing her face and memories, the "gravity" of her presence also applies to the people she kills, including Perdita, the pastor, the children, and Quint. (Anyone who dies on the grounds of Bly's mansion, even if they were not killed by Viola, eventually becomes a faceless, memoryless entity.)

That is, until Viola tries to take Flora away. So it comes to this.

At the beginning of the final episode, Viola tries to carry Flora to the lake and take her to the underworld. Dani, who loves Flora, chases after them and shouts a line that Viola once spoke with love." It's you, me, us."

This act changes everything, not only for Dani, Viola, and Flora, but for everyone in the underworld (not clearly called the underworld, but more like the gravity plane, for clarity). Dani "invited Viola into herself, and her invitation was also accepted. The spell that Viola had cast on Bly was broken."

A happy ending for Flora, Miles, and the still-living residents of the Bly mansion, but not for Dani herself. Dani absorbs the weight of the Lady of the Lake and sees her everywhere. Dani absorbs the weight of the Lady of the Lake and sees her everywhere. She and Jamie, the groundskeeper she is now dating, try to break it off with Bry, but it doesn't work; they get married and move far away, and Jamie tries to convince himself that they will always live happily ever after, but it doesn't happen. Eventually, Dani disappears from their lives and returns to Bly to become the new lake woman.

"No one will ever be kidnapped again," the narrator says. 'And to this day, no one has ever been kidnapped. "

Like I said, it's a pretty happy ending for everyone else (well, except for Jamie, who is clearly in shock over Dani's death). Narrating this story is Jamie himself, played by Carla Gugino, whom we all know from season 1.

Flora and Miles lead normal lives and forget all about Bly's drama. Owen opens his own restaurant in honor of Hannah, whom he has always loved. Henry gives up drinking and becomes Flora and Miles' guardian. The first and last scene is Flora's wedding. Owen is there, as well as Henry and Miles.

But Jamie always leaves the door open at night in case the day comes when Dani can return to her.