With Lee uncontained, Paulson has the justification he needs to go to the Attorney General. He seems a bit too happy with the situation. Over 50 years later, Poet continues his journal. He reports that Lee went on the run with his parents and later by himself. He did not use his ability again for 20 years, but when he did, it changed everything for the Specials again.
Poet writes about how the specials grew into their powers.
Some, like Matthew Bright embraced them while others denied them. Regardless of the road each Special's life took, Poet does not blame the power. It only accentuated what they always would be. Because he is the last Special left alive. When the disaster the Specials had always expected came, it did not come from the outside, from the world that feared them.