Chapter 41-50 Summarie
Holes
Chapter 41-50 Summaries
Chapter 41
The two boys continue to live on the mountaintop, resting and eating onions. Not the tastiest diet, but hey, they're doing their best. Zero is still weak, but he's getting better every day.
Now Zero tells Stanley the story of how he came to steal Clyde Livingston's shoes. Get cozy because a story is coming at you:
The poor guy was living on the street by himself, and he would sometimes stay at the homeless shelter. It's a super sad tale, especially the details he recounts about pretending to be a Cub ScoutLinks to an external site. when he was sleeping outside.
When Zero's mom was around, he says, they used to steal things they needed to get by. But they would take only what they needed, never more.
So when Zero saw the old shoes in the display case at the shelter, he just took them. But when people realized they were missing, there was such a big fuss that Zero got scared. He left the shelter, took the shoes off, and left them on top of a parked car.
He was arrested the next day while trying to steal some sneakers from a shoe store.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 41 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 42
Zero is back up to one hundred percent. The boys have eaten a lot of onions since climbing up the mountain, and they no longer notice the terrible odor of the place.
While Zero sleeps, Stanley thinks about how he and Zero came to be here. He's happy, and he realizes that – for the first time that he can remember – he likes himself. That's definitely a good feeling.
In the end, he's glad that the shoes fell from the overpass and hit him on the head because it's what brought him here. It was his destiny, he thinks.
Stanley knows that he and Zero will have to eventually return to Camp Green Lake. But he wonders if they might be able to steal food and water and live as fugitives for the rest of their lives.
But as he thinks about this, "an even crazier idea" pops into his head (42.34). He remembers the lipstick tube he found and then thinks about Kate Barlow's missing treasure.
We see a treasure hunt on the horizon, dear readers.
He wakes Zero up and asks him if he wants to dig one more hole.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 42 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 43
The boys prepare to walk back to Camp Green Lake. They gather as many onions as they can carry in the sack and fill their glass jars with water. They're ready for anything. Or they're ready for a trek down a giant mountain at least.
While they spend their last night in the onion patch, Zero and Stanley share some pillow talk. Zero tells Stanley that when he was very little, he and his mother lived in a house: he even remembers a yellow room with a crib where he slept. He's not even sure why they became homeless.
The next morning, the boys start walking down the mountain. Onward!
Zero is amazed at how far Stanley carried him on the way up.
In a quick scare, Stanley slips on a patch of weeds and falls a little way down the mountain. They lose some onions, but their water jars are okay. Oh, and Stanley's fine, too.
As they walk, they playfully compete to see which of them can go longest before drinking any of the water.
When they reach the Mary Lou, they take a break to eat some onions. Zero continues talking about his past and tells Stanley about the last time he saw his mother.
She used to have to leave him places, he says, and tell him to wait there until she came back. Once, she left him in a park and never came back, although Zero waited there for over a month.
Finally, the boys reach the outskirts of the camp (thanks to some great navigation from little Zero) and hide in some holes until dark.
Once it's safe, they plan to dig for the treasure as long as they can and then head up the road away from camp before it gets light.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 43 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 44
The boys rest in their hiding holes until the camp is asleep. Then they make their way to the hole where Stanley found the lipstick. Stanley begins to dig while Zero goes to refill the water jars at the spigot in the shower: they only have the one shovel, after all.
Zero returns with fresh water and some boxes of cereal. Then he takes a turn digging.
When they switch places again, Stanley wonders how much more time they have. They still haven't found anything.
Finally…Stanley uncovers something that feels like the side of a metal box (!). He has to dig very carefully so the hole doesn't cave in, and as he uncovers more of it, he thinks it might be some kind of metal suitcase.
Finally, he's able to pry it loose and hand it up to Zero, who's waiting just above the hole.
But before Stanley is able to pull himself out of the hole to join Zero, a bright light shines in his face.
"Thank you," he hears the Warden say. "You boys have been a big help" (44.51).
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 44 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 45
The Warden, Mr. Pendanski, and Mr. Sir are all gathered around the hole, each with a flashlight. Zero is sitting at the edge of the hole with the suitcase on his knees.
Suddenly, everyone notices that there's a yellow-spotted lizard on top of the suitcase. A second lizard crawls over the suitcase and up Zero's arm.
Mr. Pendanski shines his flashlight onto Stanley, revealing a nest of lizards in the hole: there are several on the ground, a few on Stanley's leg, and one crawling up the back of his neck.
The Warden says that now, they just need to wait. It won't be long.
"At least we'll have a body to give that woman," Mr. Pendanski says (45.20).
As readers, we don't know who "that woman" is, but Mr. Sir says that next time she comes she'll have a lot of questions – and she'll have the Attorney General with her.
The Warden says that she doesn't care about the questions, as long as she has the treasure. Turns out our not-so-beloved Warden has been digging holes ever since she was a little girl.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 45 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 46
Zero and Stanley hold perfectly still while the lizards crawl over and around them. Mr. Pendanski, on the other hand, isn't quite as stoic. He screams as a lizard leaps at him, but lucky for him, Mr. Sir shoots the lizard in midair.
The counselors continue to joke about the kids dying. And yes, Stanley and Zero can hear everything they're saying.
The Warden says that they all need to get their story straight. Here's the plan: they'll tell "that woman" and the Attorney General that Stanley tried to run away, fell in a hole, and was bitten by a lizard. Zero, on the other hand, they'll just bury and forget about – no one is looking for him anyway.
The counselors and the Warden talk some more and reveal that Stanley was supposed to be released the day before.
Turns out they covered up the fact that he was missing by saying that he was delirious and couldn't be released. They also start talking about his lawyer, which is super confusing because Stanley knows his family is too poor to afford that kind of support.
Stanley refuses to die while looking at the Warden and the counselors, so he chooses to think about his mother instead: he conjures up a memory of a time the two of them played in the snow together. Sound pretty nice to us.
It's getting close to wake-up times, so the Warden sends the counselors back to their tents with instructions to keep the kids inside and tell them not to talk to anyone. Warden McScary and Mr. Sir stay behind with the boys.
The lizards are still crawling all over the boys, but Zero manages to give Stanley a thumbs-up.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 46 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 47
Suddenly Zero, still squatting with the suitcase on his lap, unexpectedly says the word "Satan." Then: "Sa-tan lee" (47.3, 10).
A tarantula crawls by, and one of the lizards leaps onto it and eats it. (Hey, at least it's not eating the boys.)
As the sun comes up, the yellow-spotted lizards slowly move down into the shade. Stanley figures this would be a good time to climb out of the hole, but he stops when he feels a lizard digging its claw into his ankle.
In the midst of all this, Zero asks Stanley if his last name is the same as his first name, just spelled backward. Stanley is amazed by the question: how could Zero have known that?
Suddenly, they hear the sound of approaching cars: a tall man and a short woman approach.
This is where things get good: the woman threatens the Warden with legal charges if anything happens to the boys.
The Warden responds with lies (surprise, surprise): she tells the two newcomers that Stanley snuck into her cabin and stole her suitcase the previous night, then ran away and fell into the lizard's nest.
Stanley denies the Warden's story, but the woman – who says she's his lawyer – tells him not to say anything more.
The lawyer, apparently, came with a court order to have Stanley released the previous day, but the Warden refused.
Stanley very slowly manages to climb out of the hole, as the lizards climb downward into the shade. He helps Zero to his feet, and the last of the lizards scurry away.
The Warden hugs Zero, faking happiness that he's still alive. Really, she's trying to take the suitcase away from him. But Zero holds onto it, saying that it belongs to Stanley.
Sure enough, on the side of the suitcase, in big black letters, it says "Stanley Yelnats."
The Warden is speechless.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 47 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 48
They walk back to camp. Stanley learns that the man is the Texas Attorney General, and the woman is his lawyer, Ms. Morengo.
Stanley has the suitcase.
The Warden desperately tries to change her story, saying that although the suitcase is Stanley's, the things inside it are hers. She tells Stanley to open the suitcase, but Ms. Morengo tells him not to. You tell her, Ms. M.
Finally, Stanley is free. But wait – there's no way he's leaving without Zero. The Attorney General tells him not to worry: Zero will be safe. But Stanley still refuses to leave, so Ms. Morengo asks to look at Zero's file.
Mr. Pendanski pretends to look for the file, but if you remember, he kind of destroyed it after Zero ran away. So yeah, he claims he can't find it.
The Attorney General places a phone call to his office and then goes inside to talk to the Warden.
The boys from D Tent come out of the wreck room; they're excited to see Stanley and Zero, and Zigzag even apologizes to Stanley for their fight. The only one who doesn't come talk to the runaways is X-Ray.
Squid writes down a phone number and asks Stanley to call his mother for him.
Since there's no record of Zero to be found anywhere – even in the files at the Attorney General's office – Ms. Morengo insists that they have no authority to hold him at Camp Green Lake. She takes his hand and says he's coming with her and Stanley.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 48 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 49
One last time, we're back in Green Lake in the time of Sam the onion man.
There were no yellow-spotted lizards in the town then, the narrator tells us, but they did live in the hills beyond the town.
One afternoon, three men come to Sam and ask for some of his "lizard juice" – they're going rattlesnake hunting in the morning, and they know that Sam's juice will keep the lizards away.
The lizard juice, it turns out, is made from pure onion juice – if the men drink it, they'll be protected from lizard bites. Lizards, Sam tells them, "don't like onion blood" (49.13).
Aha! Now it makes sense.
Back to Stanley's story: as they drive away from Camp Green Lake, Ms. Morengo explains that she's a patent attorney (a lawyer who works with inventors). She's helping Stanley's father patent a new product he's invented, and when she heard about Stanley's arrest, she started looking into it.
Her investigation uncovered evidence that proved that Stanley couldn't have stolen the sneakers.
That's when Zero tells Ms. Morengo that <em>he</em> was the one who stole the sneakers. Earmuffs, Ms. Morengo: she tells him not to mention it to her again.
Looks like everyone's off the hook.
We finally find out what Stanley's father's invention is: a spray that eliminates foot odor. And guess what? It smells of peaches.
The exhausted boys fall asleep in Ms. Morengo's backseat. As the car speeds away, rain falls – for the first time in over a hundred years – into the dried-out lakebed behind them.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 49 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 50
The final chapter is also the only chapter of Part 3: "Filling in the Holes."
It opens with a few thoughts about the curse. Stanley's mother thinks there was never a curse to begin with.
But think about it: Stanley's father invented his foot odor spray the day after "the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain" (50.1).
Yep, that's right, when Stanley carried Zero up the mountain, it looks like he broke that stubborn curse.
Tying up some loose ends: the Attorney General closed Camp Green Lake. The Warden, desperate for money, had to sell the land, and word on the street is it's going to become a Girl ScoutLinks to an external site. camp.
When Stanley and Zero opened the suitcase, they hit the jackpot: inside were lots of jewels and some very valuable stocks. In the end, they each received about a million dollars from the sale of the stocks. Stanley bought his family a new home (with a laboratory for his father, naturally), and Zero (now going by Hector) hired a team of private investigators.
We've got one last scene for you: we're at a party at Stanley's house. Everyone has gathered to watch the premiere of a TV commercial for Stanley's father's foot-odor spray, which is called none other than Sploosh. Sploosh!
Clyde Livingston, who stars in the commercial, is also at the party.
Zero's there, too, and the woman with him has a huge smile: he's found his mom. She softly sings a song to him, a song her grandmother used to sing her when she was little.
In fact, it sounds a lot like the one Stanley's father used to sing to him.
Chapter 41
The two boys continue to live on the mountaintop, resting and eating onions. Not the tastiest diet, but hey, they're doing their best. Zero is still weak, but he's getting better every day.
Now Zero tells Stanley the story of how he came to steal Clyde Livingston's shoes. Get cozy because a story is coming at you:
The poor guy was living on the street by himself, and he would sometimes stay at the homeless shelter. It's a super sad tale, especially the details he recounts about pretending to be a Cub ScoutLinks to an external site. when he was sleeping outside.
When Zero's mom was around, he says, they used to steal things they needed to get by. But they would take only what they needed, never more.
So when Zero saw the old shoes in the display case at the shelter, he just took them. But when people realized they were missing, there was such a big fuss that Zero got scared. He left the shelter, took the shoes off, and left them on top of a parked car.
He was arrested the next day while trying to steal some sneakers from a shoe store.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 41 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 42
Zero is back up to one hundred percent. The boys have eaten a lot of onions since climbing up the mountain, and they no longer notice the terrible odor of the place.
While Zero sleeps, Stanley thinks about how he and Zero came to be here. He's happy, and he realizes that – for the first time that he can remember – he likes himself. That's definitely a good feeling.
In the end, he's glad that the shoes fell from the overpass and hit him on the head because it's what brought him here. It was his destiny, he thinks.
Stanley knows that he and Zero will have to eventually return to Camp Green Lake. But he wonders if they might be able to steal food and water and live as fugitives for the rest of their lives.
But as he thinks about this, "an even crazier idea" pops into his head (42.34). He remembers the lipstick tube he found and then thinks about Kate Barlow's missing treasure.
We see a treasure hunt on the horizon, dear readers.
He wakes Zero up and asks him if he wants to dig one more hole.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 42 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 43
The boys prepare to walk back to Camp Green Lake. They gather as many onions as they can carry in the sack and fill their glass jars with water. They're ready for anything. Or they're ready for a trek down a giant mountain at least.
While they spend their last night in the onion patch, Zero and Stanley share some pillow talk. Zero tells Stanley that when he was very little, he and his mother lived in a house: he even remembers a yellow room with a crib where he slept. He's not even sure why they became homeless.
The next morning, the boys start walking down the mountain. Onward!
Zero is amazed at how far Stanley carried him on the way up.
In a quick scare, Stanley slips on a patch of weeds and falls a little way down the mountain. They lose some onions, but their water jars are okay. Oh, and Stanley's fine, too.
As they walk, they playfully compete to see which of them can go longest before drinking any of the water.
When they reach the Mary Lou, they take a break to eat some onions. Zero continues talking about his past and tells Stanley about the last time he saw his mother.
She used to have to leave him places, he says, and tell him to wait there until she came back. Once, she left him in a park and never came back, although Zero waited there for over a month.
Finally, the boys reach the outskirts of the camp (thanks to some great navigation from little Zero) and hide in some holes until dark.
Once it's safe, they plan to dig for the treasure as long as they can and then head up the road away from camp before it gets light.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 43 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 44
The boys rest in their hiding holes until the camp is asleep. Then they make their way to the hole where Stanley found the lipstick. Stanley begins to dig while Zero goes to refill the water jars at the spigot in the shower: they only have the one shovel, after all.
Zero returns with fresh water and some boxes of cereal. Then he takes a turn digging.
When they switch places again, Stanley wonders how much more time they have. They still haven't found anything.
Finally…Stanley uncovers something that feels like the side of a metal box (!). He has to dig very carefully so the hole doesn't cave in, and as he uncovers more of it, he thinks it might be some kind of metal suitcase.
Finally, he's able to pry it loose and hand it up to Zero, who's waiting just above the hole.
But before Stanley is able to pull himself out of the hole to join Zero, a bright light shines in his face.
"Thank you," he hears the Warden say. "You boys have been a big help" (44.51).
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 44 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 45
The Warden, Mr. Pendanski, and Mr. Sir are all gathered around the hole, each with a flashlight. Zero is sitting at the edge of the hole with the suitcase on his knees.
Suddenly, everyone notices that there's a yellow-spotted lizard on top of the suitcase. A second lizard crawls over the suitcase and up Zero's arm.
Mr. Pendanski shines his flashlight onto Stanley, revealing a nest of lizards in the hole: there are several on the ground, a few on Stanley's leg, and one crawling up the back of his neck.
The Warden says that now, they just need to wait. It won't be long.
"At least we'll have a body to give that woman," Mr. Pendanski says (45.20).
As readers, we don't know who "that woman" is, but Mr. Sir says that next time she comes she'll have a lot of questions – and she'll have the Attorney General with her.
The Warden says that she doesn't care about the questions, as long as she has the treasure. Turns out our not-so-beloved Warden has been digging holes ever since she was a little girl.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 45 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 46
Zero and Stanley hold perfectly still while the lizards crawl over and around them. Mr. Pendanski, on the other hand, isn't quite as stoic. He screams as a lizard leaps at him, but lucky for him, Mr. Sir shoots the lizard in midair.
The counselors continue to joke about the kids dying. And yes, Stanley and Zero can hear everything they're saying.
The Warden says that they all need to get their story straight. Here's the plan: they'll tell "that woman" and the Attorney General that Stanley tried to run away, fell in a hole, and was bitten by a lizard. Zero, on the other hand, they'll just bury and forget about – no one is looking for him anyway.
The counselors and the Warden talk some more and reveal that Stanley was supposed to be released the day before.
Turns out they covered up the fact that he was missing by saying that he was delirious and couldn't be released. They also start talking about his lawyer, which is super confusing because Stanley knows his family is too poor to afford that kind of support.
Stanley refuses to die while looking at the Warden and the counselors, so he chooses to think about his mother instead: he conjures up a memory of a time the two of them played in the snow together. Sound pretty nice to us.
It's getting close to wake-up times, so the Warden sends the counselors back to their tents with instructions to keep the kids inside and tell them not to talk to anyone. Warden McScary and Mr. Sir stay behind with the boys.
The lizards are still crawling all over the boys, but Zero manages to give Stanley a thumbs-up.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 46 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 47
Suddenly Zero, still squatting with the suitcase on his lap, unexpectedly says the word "Satan." Then: "Sa-tan lee" (47.3, 10).
A tarantula crawls by, and one of the lizards leaps onto it and eats it. (Hey, at least it's not eating the boys.)
As the sun comes up, the yellow-spotted lizards slowly move down into the shade. Stanley figures this would be a good time to climb out of the hole, but he stops when he feels a lizard digging its claw into his ankle.
In the midst of all this, Zero asks Stanley if his last name is the same as his first name, just spelled backward. Stanley is amazed by the question: how could Zero have known that?
Suddenly, they hear the sound of approaching cars: a tall man and a short woman approach.
This is where things get good: the woman threatens the Warden with legal charges if anything happens to the boys.
The Warden responds with lies (surprise, surprise): she tells the two newcomers that Stanley snuck into her cabin and stole her suitcase the previous night, then ran away and fell into the lizard's nest.
Stanley denies the Warden's story, but the woman – who says she's his lawyer – tells him not to say anything more.
The lawyer, apparently, came with a court order to have Stanley released the previous day, but the Warden refused.
Stanley very slowly manages to climb out of the hole, as the lizards climb downward into the shade. He helps Zero to his feet, and the last of the lizards scurry away.
The Warden hugs Zero, faking happiness that he's still alive. Really, she's trying to take the suitcase away from him. But Zero holds onto it, saying that it belongs to Stanley.
Sure enough, on the side of the suitcase, in big black letters, it says "Stanley Yelnats."
The Warden is speechless.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 47 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 48
They walk back to camp. Stanley learns that the man is the Texas Attorney General, and the woman is his lawyer, Ms. Morengo.
Stanley has the suitcase.
The Warden desperately tries to change her story, saying that although the suitcase is Stanley's, the things inside it are hers. She tells Stanley to open the suitcase, but Ms. Morengo tells him not to. You tell her, Ms. M.
Finally, Stanley is free. But wait – there's no way he's leaving without Zero. The Attorney General tells him not to worry: Zero will be safe. But Stanley still refuses to leave, so Ms. Morengo asks to look at Zero's file.
Mr. Pendanski pretends to look for the file, but if you remember, he kind of destroyed it after Zero ran away. So yeah, he claims he can't find it.
The Attorney General places a phone call to his office and then goes inside to talk to the Warden.
The boys from D Tent come out of the wreck room; they're excited to see Stanley and Zero, and Zigzag even apologizes to Stanley for their fight. The only one who doesn't come talk to the runaways is X-Ray.
Squid writes down a phone number and asks Stanley to call his mother for him.
Since there's no record of Zero to be found anywhere – even in the files at the Attorney General's office – Ms. Morengo insists that they have no authority to hold him at Camp Green Lake. She takes his hand and says he's coming with her and Stanley.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 48 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 49
One last time, we're back in Green Lake in the time of Sam the onion man.
There were no yellow-spotted lizards in the town then, the narrator tells us, but they did live in the hills beyond the town.
One afternoon, three men come to Sam and ask for some of his "lizard juice" – they're going rattlesnake hunting in the morning, and they know that Sam's juice will keep the lizards away.
The lizard juice, it turns out, is made from pure onion juice – if the men drink it, they'll be protected from lizard bites. Lizards, Sam tells them, "don't like onion blood" (49.13).
Aha! Now it makes sense.
Back to Stanley's story: as they drive away from Camp Green Lake, Ms. Morengo explains that she's a patent attorney (a lawyer who works with inventors). She's helping Stanley's father patent a new product he's invented, and when she heard about Stanley's arrest, she started looking into it.
Her investigation uncovered evidence that proved that Stanley couldn't have stolen the sneakers.
That's when Zero tells Ms. Morengo that <em>he</em> was the one who stole the sneakers. Earmuffs, Ms. Morengo: she tells him not to mention it to her again.
Looks like everyone's off the hook.
We finally find out what Stanley's father's invention is: a spray that eliminates foot odor. And guess what? It smells of peaches.
The exhausted boys fall asleep in Ms. Morengo's backseat. As the car speeds away, rain falls – for the first time in over a hundred years – into the dried-out lakebed behind them.
Shmoop Editorial Team. "Holes Chapter 49 Summary." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 30 Sep. 2020.
Chapter 50
The final chapter is also the only chapter of Part 3: "Filling in the Holes."
It opens with a few thoughts about the curse. Stanley's mother thinks there was never a curse to begin with.
But think about it: Stanley's father invented his foot odor spray the day after "the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain" (50.1).
Yep, that's right, when Stanley carried Zero up the mountain, it looks like he broke that stubborn curse.
Tying up some loose ends: the Attorney General closed Camp Green Lake. The Warden, desperate for money, had to sell the land, and word on the street is it's going to become a Girl ScoutLinks to an external site. camp.
When Stanley and Zero opened the suitcase, they hit the jackpot: inside were lots of jewels and some very valuable stocks. In the end, they each received about a million dollars from the sale of the stocks. Stanley bought his family a new home (with a laboratory for his father, naturally), and Zero (now going by Hector) hired a team of private investigators.
We've got one last scene for you: we're at a party at Stanley's house. Everyone has gathered to watch the premiere of a TV commercial for Stanley's father's foot-odor spray, which is called none other than Sploosh. Sploosh!
Clyde Livingston, who stars in the commercial, is also at the party.
Zero's there, too, and the woman with him has a huge smile: he's found his mom. She softly sings a song to him, a song her grandmother used to sing her when she was little.
In fact, it sounds a lot like the one Stanley's father used to sing to him.