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Carrie and Tommy are elected prom king and queen after Chris's henchwoman, Tina Blake, exchanges fake ballots for the real ones.

Once on stage, Chris drenches Carrie and Tommy with the pig blood.

Everyone begins pointing and laughing.

One of the buckets falls on Tommy's head, mortally wounding him.

Carrie runs off the stage.

She is tripped, gets back up, and rushes outside.

Contemplating her life in solitary confinement, she remembers her power and goes back to exact revenge on everyone who tormented her.

She locks the doors and turns on the sprinkler system.

But after viewing two kids die of electrocution, her mind finally snaps ; she decides to set fire to the gym.

She leaves the prom-goers and chaperones to die in the fire, including Tommy.

Miss Desjardin and a few other students manage to survive the destruction by fleeing through the fire escape.

Carrie decides to take out her pent-up anger on Chamberlain.

She blows up a gas station and sets her entire neighborhood on fire.

She also destroys the town's fire hydrants, preventing any attempt at putting out the fires.

Notably, Carrie goes to a church and prays, all the while manipulating a series of power lines outside, killing several civilians surveying the event.

Sue rushes to the school and watches it explode, which destroys a portion of the town.