Seriously, stop double posting! If you really need to say something just edit your other post. Please take this into consideration, I'd hate to see another poor soul banished from this forum.
As for the thread in question: I think the the Rookie dies at the end. One of those red herring maneuvers where everything is okay and he's walking off into the sunset, when a speeding meteor that's strangely Spartan shaped falls on him.
~Hunter
[Edited on 06.17.2009 8:23 AM PDT]