What happens at the end of The Nine Lives of Chloe King?

The Nine Lives of Chloe King was cancelled in September following a less-than-successful season of 10 episodes. Like many ongoing serials that end prematurely, Chloe King left viewers with lots of unanswered questions. In the final episode, Chloe (Skyler Samuels) lost another of her lives and was kissed by Brian (Grey Damon) — who then died (?) from the contact. Alek (Benjamin Stone) walked in on his brother Zane (Daniel Sharman) as he stood over Jasmine (Alyssa Diaz) and Valentina (Alicia Coppola) as they are dying from poison.

Interestingly, Riley prefers not to talk about the cable channel’s decisions to cancel certain shows and that includes Chloe King. He said, “We never talk about cancelling shows at ABC Family. We always make sure we air all of our productions because for us, it’s very much a long-term view. Honestly, we love all of our shows, and Chloe King is such a great example of just an amazing show. We loved the cast, we loved the writing in that show. For us, it was about making some decisions. We had to choose between what we thought was resonating stronger with the audience.”

Riley continued, “We are actually on the verge of putting a movie into development. For us, we are always looking at the intellectual property that we’re capitalizing on and making sure there is opportunity.” He emphasized that the projects not a done deal yet however, saying, “We are just looking at it in development right now. The idea is very much to capitalize on the storytelling that’s already been in place.”

What do you think? Would you like to see a Chloe King movie? What other “cancelled” ABC Family shows should be given a second look?

The Nine Lives of Chloe King is a three-book series by Celia Thomson that was adapted in 2011 as a 10-episode mini-series by ABC Family. The book series features Chloe (Skyler Samuels), a young girl who seems to fall to her death at the beginning of the first book. After a mysterious recovery, she finds that she's changing and may not actually be human, but rather a member of a catlike race, the Mai, who can never truly co-exist with humanity. Moreover, she may be the reincarnation of the race's destined leader with nine lives and new powers, and the existing power base is not happy with that fact.

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The television show was cancelled as of August 16, 2011, although for time it was reported to get a Made-for-TV movie. However that never happened, but the script was leaked online to give fans closure.

The show provided examples of:

• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the books, Chloe was a brunette.
• Anyone Can Die: The season finale alone had Brian die as well as leave Jasmine and Valentina's fate ambiguous as they lay dying.
  • Brian ended up surviving, according the creator and the released screenplay
    
• Asian and Nerdy: Paul
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Chloe makes a birthday wish that things would be different. Cue her developing cat-like powers, prompting an assassin to try and kill her.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Chloe and Alek (with Alek on the sexual side and Chloe on the belligerent).
• Beta Couple: Paul and Amy.
• Betty and Veronica: Chloe between Brian and Alek. Although by the end of the series the situation appears to have reversed.

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• Blessed with Suck: Chloe.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Alek describing the effects of the Mai's venom:

  "Paralysis, death, paralysis and death.

• Catchphrase: Whenever Chloe's mom says "I love you" to Chloe, Chloe responds with "Implied."
• The Chosen One: Chloe is the Uniter of the Mai and is blessed with nine lives because of that.
• Dangerous 16th Birthday: Chloe discovers her heritage on her sixteenth birthday.
• Demoted to Extra: Brian. In the books Brian knew that Chloe was a Mai, and was a member of the order trying to kill her. He also didn't die in the books.
• Disappeared Dad: Chloe's dad, although he does communicate with her by e-mail.
• The Empath: Chloe. ("You, my child, are an empath.")
• First Kiss: Chloe claims the one with Paul years ago didn't count so the one with Xavier officially marks the first one.

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• Genre Savvy: Paul
• Has Two Mommies: Amy has two fathers.
• I Just Want to Be Special: And boy did that wish come true!
• I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Chloe does this a few times in the pilot, not realizing that balancing on the back of a sofa or hearing an un-plugged-in iPod are things that ordinary humans aren't capable of.
• In the Hood: In the beginning of the first episode, the visible diversion operatives are wearing sinister black hoodies over their heads.
• Killed Off for Real: Brian, due to the Kiss of Death mentioned below.
• Kiss of Death: Chloe and the Mai.
• Living Lie-Detector: Chloe can use her empath ability to tell if a person is feeling something that's different from what they're saying, as demonstrated in "Responsible".
• Long Lost Sibling: Zane is revealed to be Alek's brother. However that was left ambiguous even by the follow up movie script. However Whitney is the confirmed case for Long Lost Unknown Half Brother for Alek.

  Who does Chloe end up with in the 9 lives of Chloe King?

  Chloe has two love interests, Brian Rezza and Alek Petrov. Ultimately Chloe chose Alek Petrov, as we see in the Screenplay on Alloy entertainment's website.

  Do Alec and Chloe end up together?

  The relationship between characters Alek Petrov and Chloe King is one of the series' central relationships. Some fans refer to them as Aloe, but mainly as Chalek. According to the screenplay, they are currently together.

  What happened to Chloe's dad in The Nine Lives of Chloe King?

  He left his family for unknown reasons, however, despite having disappeared for 10 years, he recently started sending Chloe e-mails telling her to "trust no one".

  Why is there no season 2 of The Nine Lives of Chloe King?

  “We didn't cut it short — we never talk about canceling shows at ABC Family,” he said, referring to the fact that Chloe King completed its first-season run before the network opted not to go forward with Season 2. “We loved the cast; we loved the writing on that show.