diff --git a/runtime/stutter_map.c b/runtime/stutter_map.c
index a7cb2493..8ad3709d 100644
--- a/runtime/stutter_map.c
+++ b/runtime/stutter_map.c
@@ -382,6 +382,41 @@ static int pipe_cmp(const void *x, const void *y) {
     return ka < kb ? 1 : ka > kb ? -1 : 0;
 }
 
+// At the exit: the hitches in the run's last frames, which cand_decide and episode_close would have counted had the
+// run gone on: the open episode, and the candidates still waiting for their next frames (the last two frames, three
+// in a run of long ones). A waiting candidate counts as one that did not stand out unless it is over SM_HITCH_SURE_NS
+// (a hitch whatever follows), and joins the episode of the frame before it as cand_decide joins it. Added to the
+// exit's printed totals only, and only read: the exit's report runs on another thread (perf.c perf_summary_flush, from
+// the window's close or the game's exit) while the presenting thread, which owns this state, may still be in
+// stutter_frame; a race there miscounts these last frames at worst. Other reports leave them to the next one.
+static void exit_tail(uint64_t *hitch, uint64_t *load, uint64_t *cause) {
+    int n = ep.open ? ep.n : 0, hit = ep.hitch, paced = pace_run, at_load = ep.first.load, why = ep.first.cause;
+    int nc = n_cand < SM_AFTER + 1 ? n_cand : SM_AFTER + 1;
+    uint64_t last = ep.open ? ep.last : pace_last;
+    for (int i = 0; i <= nc; i++) {
+        const Cand *c = i < nc ? &cand[i] : NULL;
+        int sure = c && c->d > SM_HITCH_SURE_NS;
+        if (c && c->frame == last + 1) {
+            last = c->frame;
+            if (n) {   // it joins the episode
+                n++, hit |= sure;
+                if (!hit && n > SM_EPISODE_MAX) n = 0, paced = 1;   // a change of pace
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (paced && !sure) continue;   // the change of pace goes on
+        }
+        if (n && (hit || n >= 2)) {
+            if (at_load) ++*load;
+            else {
+                ++*hitch;
+                if (why >= 0 && why < SM_CAUSES) cause[why]++;
+            }
+        }
+        n = 0, paced = 0;
+        if (c) n = 1, hit = sure, at_load = c->load, why = c->cause, last = c->frame;
+    }
+}
+
 // The map as a report reads it: copied under sm_lock, then sorted and logged without it. The replay thread
 // (stutter_miss) and the pipeline workers (stutter_ready, inside vk_pipeline.c's P.lock, which the draw path takes too)
 // wait for sm_lock, and a report sorts up to SM_PIPES entries and logs about 85 lines.
@@ -413,6 +448,7 @@ void stutter_report(const char *tag) {
         hitch += m->areas[i].hitch, load += m->areas[i].load_hitch, ns += m->areas[i].ns;
         for (int c = 0; c < SM_CAUSES; c++) cause[c] += m->areas[i].by_cause[c];
     }
+    if (!strcmp(tag, "exit")) exit_tail(&hitch, &load, cause);
     char line[1400];
     int o = snprintf(line, sizeof line, "stutter map (%s): %.1f min of play in %d areas; %llu hitches in play and %llu "
                      "after area loads; %llu long frames were a change of pace (the frames after them as long), not "
diff --git a/tests/stutter_hitch_check.c b/tests/stutter_hitch_check.c
index b41d6d36..65f73bb2 100644
--- a/tests/stutter_hitch_check.c
+++ b/tests/stutter_hitch_check.c
@@ -12,9 +12,15 @@ uint64_t kern_now_ns(void) { return clock_ns; }
 void plat_mutex_lock(PlatMutex *m) { (void)m; }
 void plat_mutex_unlock(PlatMutex *m) { (void)m; }
 static int logged;
+static char head[1400];   // the last report's first line
 void rt_log(const char *fmt, ...) {
-    (void)fmt;
     logged++;
+    char line[1400];
+    va_list ap;
+    va_start(ap, fmt);
+    vsnprintf(line, sizeof line, fmt, ap);
+    va_end(ap);
+    if (!strncmp(line, "stutter map (", 13)) memcpy(head, line, sizeof head);
 }
 
 // perf.c's causes, in its order (FT_C_*); the frames below are charged to the last, unattributed
@@ -39,6 +45,19 @@ static void expect(const char *what, uint64_t got, uint64_t want) {
     if (got != want) printf("FAIL %s: %llu, expected %llu\n", what, (unsigned long long)got, (unsigned long long)want), fails++;
 }
 
+// The hitches in play the exit's report prints, and the ones the areas hold (what a report counts so far).
+static uint64_t exit_hitches(void) {
+    head[0] = 0;
+    stutter_report("exit");
+    const char *p = strstr(head, " areas; ");
+    return p ? strtoull(p + 8, NULL, 10) : UINT64_MAX;
+}
+static uint64_t counted(void) {
+    uint64_t n = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < n_areas; i++) n += areas[i].hitch;
+    return n;
+}
+
 int main(void) {
     stutter_map_init();
     clock_ns = 10000000000ull;   // well past any area load
@@ -93,6 +112,26 @@ int main(void) {
     expect("five hitches at 30 fps", areas[3].hitch, 5);
     expect("five hitches at 30 fps (worst)", areas[3].worst_ns, 120000000ull);
     expect("five hitches at 30 fps (their time)", areas[3].cause_ns[OTHER], 600000000ull);
+    // The exit's report counts a hitch in the last frames, which only the next frames would have decided: a frame over
+    // the sure line followed by 0, 1 or 2 frames (a waiting candidate, then an open episode), two such frames in a row
+    // (one episode) and three long frames ending the run (one episode); each time what the run counts once it goes on
+    stutter_area("Death Mountain");
+    clock_ns += 10000000000ull;
+    static const double tail[][3] = {{150.0, 0, 0}, {150.0, 7.0, 0}, {150.0, 7.0, 7.0}, {150.0, 150.0, 0},
+                                     {150.0, 150.0, 7.0}, {87.0, 91.0, 96.0}};
+    for (size_t t = 0; t < sizeof tail / sizeof *tail; t++) {
+        frames(100, 7.0);
+        uint64_t before = counted();
+        for (int k = 0; k < 3 && tail[t][k] > 0; k++) frames(1, tail[t][k]);
+        char what[64];
+        snprintf(what, sizeof what, "the exit right after case %zu", t);
+        expect(what, exit_hitches(), before + 1);
+        frames(60, 7.0);
+        snprintf(what, sizeof what, "case %zu once the run went on", t);
+        expect(what, counted(), before + 1);
+    }
+    frames(100, 7.0);
+    expect("the exit with nothing waiting", exit_hitches(), counted());
     if (!logged) printf("FAIL nothing was logged\n"), fails++;
     if (fails) return 1;
     printf("stutter_hitch_check: all checks passed\n");