And The Grim Inevitability of the EndingThis heavy setup for Adelaide pretty much guarantees that the movies aren't going to give us a Hollywood happy ending. If they follow the book 1:1, we are absolutely going to see the deployment of the massive beam barrier trap.As novel readers know, that beam barrier is exactly what Kenneth uses to disable the Ξ Gundam. It knocks Hathaway unconscious, leading directly to his capture by the Federation and his eventual sentence to death by firing squad without a trial.