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denouement |ˌdānoōˈmä n |
noun
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
• the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear : I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement.
ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: French dénouement, from dénouer ‘unknot.’

hence |hens|
adverb
1 as a consequence; for this reason : a stiff breeze and hence a high windchill.
2 in the future (used after a period of time) : two years hence they might say something quite different.
3 (also from hence) archaic from here : hence, be gone.