The narrator reveals that this story ends with a teenager putting a gun to another teenager's head and pulling the trigger.

Sune watches Amat skate alone on the rink ice and recognizes it as one of the great blessings of his life.

David pulls Amat aside at practice and tells him he will be playing with the junior team in fifteen minutes.

Amat survives a brutal one-on-one drill against Bobo and scores on the goalie, earning his place on the team.

Amat assists Kevin's decisive goal and Beartown wins the junior hockey semifinal.

Kevin accepts a bet from Lyt and rapes the intoxicated Maya in his bedroom at the victory party.

Amat rushes into Kevin's room; Maya knees Kevin off her, escapes, and tells Amat no one will believe her.

Maya comes downstairs and tells her parents what Kevin did to her while Peter is packing the car.

Police intercept the Beartown team bus and remove Kevin before the junior hockey final game.

Beartown loses the final in overtime, even though the team plays the best hockey of their lives.

Amat stands before the community meeting and announces that he witnessed the rape and is going to the police.

The police investigation into Kevin's rape of Maya is closed due to insufficient evidence.

Maya steps onto Kevin's jogging track alone at night and points a double-barreled shotgun at his head.

Maya pulls the trigger on an empty chamber, spares Kevin's life, and tells him he will be scared of the dark forever.

Ten years later, Maya performs a sold-out concert; Kevin breaks down in a parking lot and confesses everything to his wife.

Beartown's junior hockey team is on the verge of a historic semifinal win, and the town's hopes rest entirely on star player Kevin Erdahl and the surprise addition of a young boy named Amat. After the win, a victory party ends in Kevin raping the general manager's fifteen-year-old daughter, Maya, and Amat witnesses enough to know the truth but fears speaking up. When Maya tells her parents and the police act, Kevin is pulled from the bus before the final, and the town turns on Maya rather than on him. The investigation collapses for lack of evidence, but Amat finds his courage and publicly declares what he saw at a community meeting. Maya ultimately takes justice into her own hands, confronting Kevin alone in the dark with a shotgun and pulling the trigger on an empty chamber, choosing to scar rather than kill him.

The rape case that tore Beartown apart, from semifinal glory to a reckoning in the dark.

Sune leaves a handwritten note on David's computer that reads 'Amat. Boys' team. Fast!!!'

Peter brings Fatima to his office window to show her Amat skating with the junior team; she cries with pride.

Kevin asks Amat during junior practice whether Maya has a boyfriend.

Kevin's parents drop him off at the rink on the day of the semifinal and drive away to Madrid without staying.

Benji walks out of the victory party early, refusing to celebrate alongside intoxicated fifteen-year-olds.

Benji rides to The Barn in Hed, meets a bass player, and is told the man would like to know him better.

Kevin's mother finds Kevin's bloody clothes and a button from a girl's blouse in the washing machine but says nothing.

Benji stands on the team bus and speaks to every player individually, turning the mood to defiant determination before the final.

David distributes pucks inscribed with 'Thank you' to each player after the team loses the final in overtime.

Maya returns to school and is publicly humiliated; an older girl throws milk at her and Leo sits down beside her.

Kevin's father visits Amat in the Hollow, offers money and a better job for his mother, and asks him to stay quiet.

Zacharias breaks into the school overnight and scrubs the offensive word off Maya's locker.

Kevin's mother visits the Andersson home, kneels before Maya, and sobs an apology for what her son did.

Amat is attacked by pipe-wielding boys at night; Bobo fights them off and is beaten alongside him.

Benji finds Peter in the rink hallway and tells him he is not leaving Beartown and will always play for the team.

While the rape case dominates Beartown's headlines, the lives of secondary characters reveal the full texture of the town's rot and its hidden decency. Sune quietly identifies Amat's talent before anyone else does, and Peter and Fatima share a proud moment watching Amat skate with the juniors. Benji separates himself from Kevin long before anyone else does, walking out of the party and later refusing to follow him to Hed. In the aftermath of the rape, Kevin's family tries to bury the truth while others step forward: Zacharias scrubs Maya's locker in the night, Bobo defends Amat against the mob, and Kevin's own mother eventually kneels before Maya in apology. These quieter acts of courage and cowardice ultimately determine which version of Beartown survives.

The overlooked moments and supporting characters whose choices shaped the town's fate.

The club president privately tells Peter that he must persuade Sune to resign voluntarily after the semifinal win.

Kira notices Maya has a fever before the game and will later wish she had forced her daughter to stay home.

Benji visits his father's grave on the anniversary of his suicide and smokes a joint alone until he begins to cry.

Benji confronts Kevin the morning after the party and asks what happened to Maya; Kevin calls him a virus and Benji walks away.

Ana knocks on Maya's door and asks her directly what Kevin did; Maya hugs her and begins to sob.

Maya sees three little girls playing in the snow outside and decides to tell the truth in order to protect them from Kevin.

Maya goes to the police station and then to the hospital with her parents to formally report the rape.

Kevin tells David the sex with Maya was consensual; David hugs him and Kevin asks if he can return to practice that day.

Benji destroys the school bathroom, ripping out the sink and smashing a toilet, so Maya will not be blamed for the broken mirror.

A stone is thrown through Maya's window; Kira chases the vandals in the car and Maya stops her; they hold each other and cry.

Ramona enters the hockey rink for the first time in over a decade and shouts at the sponsors that they should be ashamed.

The club's sponsors withdraw their financial backing and the best players follow David to Hed Hockey Club.

Maya tells her parents she refuses to leave because Beartown is her town too, then leaves gift-wrapped parcels on the table for them.

Benji meets Kevin at their secret island and tells him he will not follow him to Hed; Kevin begs and Benji leaves.

Tails decides to stay as a Beartown sponsor, sell one of his stores, and join the board to rebuild the club.

Beneath the town's obsession with hockey lies a series of private turning points that push each character toward or away from the truth. A backroom ultimatum forces Peter to choose between loyalty to Sune and loyalty to the club, and Kira's small moment of noticing Maya's fever before the game will haunt her for years. After the rape, key decisions cascade rapidly: Maya chooses to speak; Kevin lies to his coach; Benji chooses Maya's side over Kevin's; and Ana finally learns the truth. The community then fractures at a public meeting where Ramona's fury and Amat's testimony collide with the cowardice of the sponsors. As the club loses its players and its funding, individuals must decide whether to stay or leave, fight or surrender, and it is those small private choices that ultimately determine whether Beartown can rebuild itself into something worth saving.

The decisions, confrontations, and quiet revelations that cracked Beartown open.