Quasimodo's kill Frollo in self-defense and help Esmeralda and Gringrire escape, but she recognizes Quasimodo's kindness toward her and kisses him goodbye. The soldiers pursue him and he fall to his death from the paraped of Notre Dame, with the word "Why?". It's implied that Esmerald learns of his death. In Hugo's version, Esmeralda is hanged. Quasimodo blaming Frollo of her death and throws Frollo off the heights of the cathedral to his death. Quasimod crawls off to Esmeralds's tomb to die with his arms around her body. Years later, an excavation groups finds both their skeleton intertwined.