Marie makes an armed attempt to free Azkook from Baz's facility and start new lives. Marie sends Azkook out of the lab ahead as she is held back fighting Baz. Marie blinds Baz in both eyes with her pistol, but is engulfed in flames by the sudden explosion of an untraceable cause of the lab just as she is moments out the door, rendering her comatose, as Death's ties to the god realm sever moments before the explosion would've killed her. Azkook presumes her dead.