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| Les Miserables Act II |
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| Paris The students prepare to build the barricade. Marius, noticing that Eponine had joined the insurrection, sends her with a letter to Cosette, which is intercepted at the Rue Plumet by Valjean. Eponine decides, despite what he had said to her, to rejoin Marius at the barricade. |
| The Barricades The barricade is built and the revolutionaries defy an army of warning that they must give up or die. Gavroche exposes Javert as a police spy. In trying to return to the barricade, Eponine is shot and killed, dying in Marius' arms. Valjean arrives at the barricades in search of Marius. He is given the chance to kill Javert, but instead lets him go. |
| The Battle The students settle down for the night on the barricade and, in the quiet of the night, Valjean prays to God to save Marius from the onslaught which is to come. The next day, with ammunition running low, Gavroche runs out to collect more and is shot. The rebels are all killed, including their leader, Enjorlas. |
| Valjean escapes into the sewers with the unconscious Marius. After meeting Thernardier, who is robbing the corpses of the rebels, he emerges into the light only to meet Javert once more. He pleads for time to deliver the young man to a hospital. Javert decides to let him go and, his unbending principles of justice having been shattered by Valjean's own mercy, he kills himself by throwing himself into the swollen River Seine. A number of Parisan women come to terms with the failed insurrection and its victims. Unaware of the identity of his rescuer, Marius covers under Cosette's care. |
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