Lyra had lost her ability to read the Dust-driven device after she chose experience over innocence when she and Will expressed their love for each other. We learned that Will became a medical student and then a surgeon and Lyra became a scholar at St Sophia’s College in Oxford, where she learned to read the alethiometer again. The finale showed a montage of these meetings as Lyra and Will grew from teenagers into their early twenties. They agreed to ‘meet’ for an hour on the same bench in their Oxford’s Botanical Gardens every year at midday on midsummer’s day, each in their respective world, and remember one another. Angel Xaphania explained that a single window could remain open, as long as people remained conscious and creative and sought out experiences, to counter the lost Dust. The flow of Dust had to be stopped by closing every window but one. Some was escaping in the form of Spectres, and the loss of Dust was destroying the worlds (as seen with the Mulefas’ dying seedpod tree). Instead, they faced a stark reality: stay together and be complicit in the death of the multiverse, or save it and separate forever.ĭust was leaking out of the worlds into nothingness through the many windows cut between the multiverse by previous knife bearers. After freeing the ghosts from the Land of the Dead and returning healing Dust to the ailing multiverse, the teenagers weren’t granted a happy ever after. In the closing moments of Bad Wolf’s majestic adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, a caption on screen tells us what lies ahead for Lyra and Will. Warning: contains finale spoilers for His Dark Materials season 3.
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