Rachel is left with an impossible choice: marry Nicky and survive if he’s her soulmate, marry him and risk death if he isn’t, or refuse altogether and pass the curse on to his family instead.
None of the options are exactly reassuring.
Does Rachel get married?
As the wedding approaches, Rachel begins to unravel. In a last-ditch attempt to escape the curse, she tracks down a great-aunt who once survived it, guided there unknowingly by Portia. The advice is clear: perform a ritual.
Rachel gathers the required ingredients: a strand of her mother-in-law’s hair, Nicky’s sperm, one of her own bones, and blood from an enemy (the Witness). But at the final moment, she hesitates. Instead of drinking it, she chooses to trust that Nicky is her soulmate. She puts her faith in love, what a metaphor.
Meanwhile, Nicky’s faith in marriage is faltering. After confronting the reality of his parents’ unhappy relationship, he reaches the altar only to declare they shouldn’t go through with it. The two argue, until his mother intervenes and persuades him to continue. By then, Rachel is done. He didn’t trust her and so she’s not risking her life for him.
As the sun begins to set, the curse activates. It passes into Nicky’s bloodline, and those already trapped in loveless marriages begin to haemorrhage, echoing the fate of Rachel’s mother. In a desperate attempt to save his family, Nicky forces the ring onto Rachel’s finger and says, “I do.”
But it’s too late. Rachel no longer believes they are soulmates. She collapses, bleeding into the snow. Those already afflicted die, while others appear to be spared.
At the same moment, the Witness is finally claimed by death… and Rachel awakens.
Disoriented but alive, she searches for her lighter, startling Nicky with her sudden return. Nearby, she finds a note beside the Witness’s body: “Your turn.”
If someone backs out of a marriage before sundown, the curse transfers to their partner’s bloodline, but the original cursed individual becomes immortal, forced to “bear witness” to its consequences. That’s what happened when the Witness abandoned Marianne, allowing him to live for centuries. Now that the curse has shifted again, his time is up, and Rachel takes his place.
She is now bound to watch the fallout of the curse within Nicky’s family, potentially for generations. It’s why, before leaving, she quietly warns Jules and Nell’s young son, Jude, to be careful when choosing a partner.
Rachel drives away alone; she is no longer a victim of the curse, but its newest keeper.
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Who died in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen?
As the curse plays out, its consequences become brutally clear. Victoria dies — likely as a result of her affair with Beau — while Portia meets a similar fate after her impulsive Las Vegas marriage to a stranger. Around them, other unhappy unions unravel with equally fatal consequences.