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"End of the Beginning" is the sixth episode in the fourth season and the finale of The Umbrella Academy. It's thirty-sixth episode overall.

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With Ben and Jennifer in peril and the Cleanse underway, the family unites for one last fight to save the world — and end the infinite devastation.

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Keepers from all over the country are mobilized to gather outside Ben and Jennifer's location. Viktor and Reginald arrive and attempt to negotiate with Jean and Gene (who is currently Abigail in disguise). Jean becomes suspicious of Gene's changes in behavior, and Gene silences her. Viktor infiltrates the building and informs Ben that Reginald will kill him and Jennifer if Viktor fails to remove his Durango from Ben.

The family sans Ben and Viktor reconvenes at Diego and Lila's house. Five's frustration at not being able to have a life with Lila comes to a head, and she is forced to tell everyone about their experiences in the subway system. Everyone heads to Ben and Jennifer's location, and Viktor attempts to remove Ben's Durango, only for Reginald to give the kill order. Ben pushes Viktor out of the way of the bullet and is killed. Jennifer merges with Ben's corpse, amalgamating both into an ever-growing behemoth and initiating the Cleanse despite the family's best efforts to stop it.

Abigail removes her disguise, telling Reginald that destroying the Earth is her atonement for creating the particles that doomed their home planet. In his grief after losing Abigail in the original timeline, Reginald unleashed the Marigold upon the Earth, an act that Abigail needed to undo in this timeline by starting the Cleanse.

Five trades blows with Diego over Lila and leaves, depressed, for another timeline. He ends up in a diner staffed and patronized by other versions of himself who grew tired of preventing apocalypses and learns that the timeline was split into countless branching paths as a result of the Marigold that caused his and his siblings' births. In any timeline they find themselves, they are always the cause of the world ending.

He returns to his family to tell them that by giving up their Marigold to the Durango in the Cleanse, the alternate timelines will disappear and leave behind the original, at the cost of them and everyone they care about being wiped from existence. Lila decides to go with her family and Claire to the subway system, hoping to live on in another timeline, but Five persuades her to stay and solve the apocalypse problem for good.

The family makes peace with one another before the Cleanse consumes them, and the alternate timelines disappear. In the original timeline, people from the now-nonexistent Umbrella Academy's previous adventures are shown living peaceful lives. At the base of a tree, eight marigold flowers spontaneously bloom.

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