Quick recap
Lyra and Will meet in Cittàgazze, an empty city where Spectres feed on adults. The alethiometer tells Lyra to help Will find his father. In our world's Oxford, Lyra meets physicist Mary Malone, who studies Dust, and loses the alethiometer to Boreal. At the Tower of the Angels, Will loses two fingers and wins the subtle knife, which cuts windows between worlds. Mrs. Coulter crosses over, learns to command the Spectres and poisons Boreal. Up North, Lee Scoresby finds the shaman Jopari, who turns out to be John Parry, Will's father. Lee dies fighting Magisterium soldiers. John reunites with Will and is shot dead. Mrs. Coulter takes Lyra.
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