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Also known as cliffhanger ending, to be continued

thumb|The 1914 film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|Perils of Pauline was shown in bi-weekly installments and ended with a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious situation, facing a difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction or before a commercial break in a television programme. A cliffhanger is intended to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma, or to provide a mysterious or thought provoking

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thumb|The 1914 film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|Perils of Pauline was shown in bi-weekly installments and ended with a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious situation, facing a difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction or before a commercial break in a television programme. A cliffhanger is intended to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma, or to provide a mysterious or thought provoking ending.

Some serials end with the caveat, "To Be Continued" or "The End?" In serial films and television series, the following episode sometimes begins with a recap sequence.

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