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"The End's Not Near, It's Here" is the 92nd episode and series finale of the FOX television series, The O.C.. It originally aired on Thursday, February 22, 2007.

Guest starring

Plot

Six months have passed since the earthquake hit Newport and everything has changed. The Cohens have taken temporary residence at the Coopers' while waiting for a claims adjuster to inspect their home. Taylor and Ryan have broken up, with Taylor returning to France, while Seth and Summer have fallen into a rut. After the inspection, the Cohens learn that repairs would cost more than the house itself, and the house is lost. Sandy and Kirsten reluctantly begin house-hunting. After hearing their parents reminisce about Berkeley again, Seth and Ryan fly out to the old Cohen house to see if the current owner would be willing to sell. At the airport they bump into Summer and Taylor, and Ryan and Taylor realize they still love each other. Julie is revealed to be pregnant and engaged to Bullit, but Kaitlin learns Julie's unborn child is really Frank's. Julie explains how the news of her pregnancy scared Frank off, but Bullit's support convinced her to marry him. Kaitlin confronts Frank with this knowledge, leaving with, "I thought Atwoods were fighters."

The current owners of the Berkeley house are unwilling to sell, so Seth and Ryan bring in reinforcements and fly Kirsten and Sandy out to the house with the help of Bullit. The Berkeley house occupants open their doors a second time to find the entire Cohen family standing on their doorstep. After allowing Kirsten in to go to bathroom, they discover her water broke and the baby is coming. One of the current owners of the house delivers Kirsten's daughter, Sohpie Rose Cohen. Meanwhile, in Newport, Julie begins having bridal jitters. Summer talks to her and gives her a locket with Marissa's picture inside. The two share tears and Bullit interrupts the moment with the news of Sophie's birth and by asking Julie if she is ready. Julie says she "can't get married without Kiki." With a private jet waiting, Bullit decides to fly everybody out to Berkeley to have the wedding. When everyone meets up in Berkeley, Seth tells Summer to follow her passion and join GEORGE, a touring environmental group. Reunited, Ryan and Taylor can't keep their hands off each other and rip off each others' clothes, land in bed, only to shock one of the current owners, who opens the door at an inopportune time. The wedding is finally underway, but back in Newport, Frank finds the church empty. In Berkeley, Kaitlin's cell phone rings and Frank spills all to the wedding guests on the speaker phone. Ultimately, Julie decides not to marry either Frank or Bullit, but rather to devote herself to bringing up her son. All of the recent events to occur at the Berkeley house convince the current owners to sell their home to the Cohens.

The Cohens soon begin to pack their things as they prepare to go their separate ways. Seth sends Summer off on a bus as she joins GEORGE, she tells him "This isn't goodbye. You're my destiny Cohen." Ryan and Taylor are also forced to say goodbye, as she leaves to return to France. Sandy and Kirsten depart from their Newport home, leaving Seth and Ryan to themselves. After Seth rides off in a taxi, Ryan walks through the empty house, reminiscing of how the Cohens took him into their home. He has various flashbacks to series 1. As he backs out of the driveway, Ryan has a flashback to seeing Marissa standing on the corner.

The series concludes with a look into the future of all of the series' main characters. Ryan is at the University of California, Berkeley, looking around the campus. Summer is at a protest and Seth clips her picture out of a newspaper. Sandy Cohen is now a professor at Berkeley, where he is teaching law. A reformed Kaitlin is excelling as a Williams College student, and Julie has enrolled and graduated from college, with the support of Bullit, Kaitlin, Frank Atwood, and her son. Seth and Summer ultimately marry, with Ryan as the Best Man, Taylor the Maid of Honor. Ryan and Taylor exchange shy glances.

The final scene of the series shows Ryan, as an architect, walking away from a building site. He takes notice of a kid who resembles his former self and appears to be down on his luck. Reminded of how Sandy reached out to him in his youth, Ryan calls out, "Hey kid. Need any help?"

Trivia

• Seth and Summer are seen watching "Briefcase or No Briefcase." This is actually The O.C.'s version of Deal or No Deal.
• The Cohen house in the series is based on a real house, which was seen in the first-ever episode of The O.C.. While Sandy and Ryan are looking for houses with Kirsten, we see Sandy and Ryan talking in a backyard of a house. That backyard is the actual backyard of the house the Cohen house in the series is based on. Also, in some shots, you can see the actual roof of the house that the Cooper house in the first season is based on.
• While Summer and Taylor are talking at the airport, a man is holding up a sign with the name "Schwartz" on it. This is made as a joke as the creators name is Josh Schwartz.
• Summer says, "Real-life Jake broke up with real-life April." This is a joke referring to the real-life breakup of Adam Brody (Seth) and Rachel Bilson (Summer).
• Summer says, "It just got picked up for five more seasons. You know, these teen-dramas, they just run forever." This is making fun of The O.C., as it only lasted for four seasons.
• Donkey Kong was asked to make a cameo, but he declined saying he was currently working on Donkey Kong 17: Bowser's Revenge. Then he suggested "How about my wife? All she does is sleep and lie on the couch".
• Tate Donovan (Jimmy), Chris Carmack (Luke), Samaire Armstrong (Anna) and Amanda Righetti (Hailey) were asked to reprise their roles for the finale, but they all declined because they all hated Autumn Reeser because they thought she was the reason the show got cancelled and refused to appear on screen with her, mean bastards. However, Chris Carmack said he would appear only if he got a sex scene with Melinda Clarke. The producer's refused and Carmack punched them out and said "I'm glad The O.C.'s cancelled, bitch!" referring to his infamous line from the first episode.
• According to Josh, he said the son Julie gave birth to at the end, his name was Ryarissethummer, referring to Ryan, Marissa, Seth and Summer.
• Vanna White was suppose to appear playing herself, but Merv Griffin told her she would be fired from Wheel of Fortune if she appeared on The O.C. Vanna obayed Merv, but was steaming mad at him.
• Tom Welling was asked to play the female version of Clark Kent Clarkzena Kent and appear in a scene at Julie and Bullit's, but Tom didn't feel like putting women's clothes on after Tom's co-star Kristen Kreuk (Lana Lang) teased Tom about being a tranny on the Smallville set and the scene was scraped.
• Michael Jackson impersonator Edward Moss was asked to appear impersonanting Wacko Jacko where he tries to molest Ryarissethummer and Frank shoots him, but Edward declined... he says he only protrays Michael Jackson in comedy, not drama.
• Former Power Rangers actress Amy Jo Johnson wanted to make a cameo in the finale in the hopes of making a big comeback to television, but Adam Brody told her The O.C. didn't want former Pink Power Rangers and Amy stormed off the set in anger and to this day, Amy is still a d-list actress.
• Josh rumoured the boy at the end that Ryan asked if he needed any help was really not a boy, it was a ugly girl that looked like a boy. However, it turned out to be false, the boy was indeed a boy.
• Josh said in an interview the reason Dr. Neil Roberts didn't walk his daughter Summer down the asile at her and Seth's wedding was because Michael Nouri iss currently working on Flashdance 2 with Jennifer Beals despite the actor's being old now. Flashbdance 2 will be released in 2008, 25 years after the orignal was released.

Allusions to past episodes

• The cartoon of Sandy that Seth pins the picture of Summer next to previously appeared in The Avengers - It appeared in the Atomic County presentation Seth made to Ryan.
• The church that Julie and The Bullit were supposed to get married in was the same church that Julie got married to Caleb in The Ties that Bind. Coincidentally, when Seth and Summer get married, the wedding takes place in the backyard of the Cohen's house in Berkeley, which is the same place Julie and Bullit's (ultimately aborted) wedding would end up taking place.
• Summer tells Ryan that Flapjacks' (one of Pancakes' babies) cage isn't to be used for cage fighting, referring to The Avengers.
• The musical score from the pilot was used throughout this episode.
• Seth and Summer land in a rut, which Kirsten thought was what her and Sandy's marriage was after Hailey talks to her in The Countdown.
• The actor who plays the blond-haired homeowner of the Cohen's former house in Berkeley also appeared in the pilot episode as a waiter at the fashion show. They are the same character.

Deleted Scenes

• There is a scene where Taylor actully gets on the boat that she takes to France, but the boat has been invaded by Mrs. Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong's wife and she is played by Rosie O'Donnell. Luckily, Taylor makes it... sadly, the other passegner's die due to Mrs. Donkey Kong's crazyness on the boat.
• In the flash forward squence at Seth and Summer's wedding, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn showed up trying to crash the wedding, but Marissa's Ghost also showed up at the wedding and scared them away by pulling Owen's pants down and tickling Vince in the pits and they run away screaming like three year old girls. Everyone thanks Marissa's ghost and she goes back to Heaven, but not before she shares one big last sloppy kiss with Ryan.
• There is a flashback of Pancakes (Summer's rabbit) getting knocked up by a male rabbit after the scene where Summer said she didn't know Pancakes was a girl. Pancakes also slaps Summer in the face for mistaking her as a boy for most of the 4th season.
• There is a scene where Kirsten actully gives birth to the baby, but it was cut because their was a revealing mistake: People actully saw the cusion the actress had underneath coming out from under her shirt and not an actual baby.

These scenes will be included on the The Complete Series set.

Music

External links

• Recap from the official website
• View the trailer

• The O.C. episodes
• Television series finales