Episode 64 (2009 Anime)

Dr. Knox brings a hidden visitor to Mustang's hospital room, where the colonel's team coaches him on his plan to restore Ishval despite his lost sight. Mustang means to repay the Ishvalans by returning their holy land, and the guest turns out to be Marcoh, who offers a Philosopher's Stone forged from their people to help mend Mustang's eyes for that very cause. Mustang accepts, but insists Havoc be healed first. At the Armstrong estate, Olivier and Miles tend the recovering Scar, and Miles, now leading the reconstruction, asks him to help rebuild the Ishvalan faith. Scar agrees, and when Olivier presses for his true name, he answers that a man who has died twice has none and will answer to whatever she chooses.

Traveling toward Resembool, Ed refuses to leave the weakened Al behind, insisting they finish the journey together as they began it. They recall the warriors of Xing departing for home, Ling vowing to shield the Chang clan and bury Fu. When the brothers reach the Rockbell house, Winry runs out, sees them whole at last, and pulls them both into a tearful welcome.

Two years on, Ed patches a roof by hand and admits he misses alchemy while Al calls him in for Winry's apple pie. At the executive estate, the new Führer Grumman marvels that Mustang's work in the east and Armstrong's in the north ease his job, then watches young Selim, still marked as a homunculus, gently tend an injured bird, and wonders aloud whether homunculi and humans might truly coexist. Visiting Gracia and Elicia, Alphonse shares a new philosophy the brothers now hold: rather than repaying ten for ten, one takes ten and gives back eleven, adding something of oneself for the next person. He then sets off with Jerso and Zampano to study alkahestry under May in Xing, while Ed heads west to learn that region's alchemy, both really going to see the world.

At the station Winry sends Ed off with a scolding about his automail. He proposes an Equivalent Exchange of half their lives, and she counters that she will give far more than half before he laughs, embraces her, and boards. Riding away, he reflects that pain is the price of gaining anything, and those who endure it grow a strong, Fullmetal Heart. A pan across framed photos shows where everyone lands: Hohenheim's grave beside Trisha's, Scar and Miles rebuilding Ishval, Ling crowned emperor, Mustang restored and moustached beside a short-haired Riza, and a final family portrait with Alphonse back in Amestris alongside May and Edward married to Winry with two children, closing on Ed grinning aboard a train.

Adapting the manga's "Journey's End," this is the last episode of Brotherhood, followed later by the original film The Sacred Star of Milos set earlier in the timeline. Its title card uniquely shows a map of Amestris rather than an alchemical symbol. The opening Mustang scenes differ from the manga's field-hospital setting, and here reforming Ishval is his own idea already underway. The episode adds Ed teasing Al about May, omits the manga's reveal that Jerso and Zampano took up alchemy, and expands the closing portrait to include Garfiel and Paninya. Edward's Fullmetal Heart monologue originated as Hiromu Arakawa's message to fans in the manga epilogue. The English dub also calls Den male, though the manga and subtitles treat the dog as female, and the finale plays without an opening theme, using "Ray of Light" and "Hologram" as insert songs.