----Javert, feeling that he owes Valjean for sparing his life earlier, permits the prisoner to drop Marius' almost corpse at the grandfather's house. He also detours to his own house, to say goodbye and pack his things. Then, while he's inside, Javert slips away and stands alone in the night beside the river. The stars are multiplied in the troubled water.
----What to do? Letting Valjean go is a crime against the law; he is a convict breaching parole, after all. But to take him back to jail, that's a crime against his conscience. This man has saved his life on numerous occasions now. Does Valjean's constant goodness cancel out whatever crimes he may have performed in a past life?
----The law or the human? Which is more often right? Which is right... right now?
----Javert the pure, Javert the good, Javert the model citizen, is terrified of breaking the law. Any law, no matter who ordains it. He can't sin against the law he worships and he can't sin against his own conscience which has always been right before. There is no way he can go on.
----Javert was a star, bright, pure, and idolized by many. This star joins the rest in the water but soon slips beneath the black surface. Javert is dead.
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