The Final Ripple!

Falling in the wake of his duel with Jonathan, Dio saves himself by tearing off his own head before the Ripple can reach it, and his zombie servant Wang Chan carries the head away. Narration then covers the toll of the clash at Windknight's Lot, where dozens are reported missing and men are seen destroying a Stone Mask and burning clothing. Speedwagon, who smashed the mask himself, calls it a victory.

Months on, Jonathan weds Erina, and the couple boards an Atlantic cruise bound for America. Everyone they met on their journey gathers to see them off, and a strangely long, ornate chest is loaded aboard alongside them.

During the voyage Jonathan discovers Wang Chan has stowed away and suspects Dio still lives. Down in the hold he confronts the vampire's disembodied head, which praises his worth and declares his body the only one fit to become its new host. Erina reaches them just as Jonathan takes a near-fatal wound to the neck that chokes off his breath. Meanwhile the ship descends into chaos as Wang Chan spreads the vampire plague among the passengers. Drawing on the last of his Ripple, Jonathan beheads the overconfident servant, whose body jams a piece of the ship's machinery and dooms the vessel to explode.

Erina prepares to die at his side, but Jonathan begs her to live on and shield a baby whose mother has been killed. As the explosion nears, Dio makes one last grab for his body and is stopped. Jonathan dies cradling Dio's head while Erina and the infant shelter inside Dio's blast-proof coffin. A day later she is rescued near the Canary Islands and vows to carry the truth forward, beginning with the child she and Jonathan conceived. In a final shot, a humanoid figure sealed in stone breathes faintly within a Mexican jungle ruin.

The adaptation drops Father Styx's flashback about his mission to Mexico in favor of his superiors giving the orders before boarding, and adds scenes of the shipboard infection spreading and of the dying mother guarding her baby. A closing glimpse of the stone-encased man in Mexico was inserted to foreshadow the second part of the series.

A piece of trivia surrounds the newspaper shown during the aftermath narration. One article credibly reports the story's events in English, while a second is a genuine real-world piece titled On Blackwall Pier, lifted from the East London Observer. Commentary singled out the moving farewell between Jonathan and Erina, noting that his voice actor shed a tear while recording it.