Pan's Labyrinth ending / spoiler
Ofeliea completes her second task (getting the dagger from the Pale Man), but because she ate two grapes in the Pale Man's feast, and thereby breaking the rules, Pan tells her that she has failed, and can never return to the Labyrinth. Capitán Vidal then catches Ofelia putting the Mandrake root under her mother's bed and burns it. As a result, Ofelia's mother enters a painful childbirth, and the Captain lets her die. But Pan returns to Ofelia and tells her that she can have a second chance, and if she takes her baby brother to the labyrinth, she can become the princess. Ofelia poisons Vidal with her mother's morphine and takes her half-brother back to the labyrinth, but once there, Pan tells Ofelia that he needs the blood of an innocent to open the portal. He prepares to sacrifice Ofelia's brother, but Ofelia says no, and prepares to leave, but Vidal catches up to her and shoots her in the gut. He escapes with the baby, but is ambushed outside by Mercedes, her brother, and the remaining guerrilas. Vidal sets himself up for a noble death, preparing to smash his watch as his father did, but Mercedes's brother shoots him, and tells him that the child will never know his name. Mercedes then finds Ofelia dying in the labyrinth and sings her to sleep with her lullaby...but Ofelia's blood drips down the pit into the portal and opens it up. She imagines that she leaves her mortal body and rejoins her father and mother - now the king and queen - and Pan, who tells her that she completed the final task: choosing to sacrifice herself instead of her brother. Ofelia, living in her fairy tale world, dies believing that she has completed her three tasks.
