diff --git a/murmurflow/dictate.py b/murmurflow/dictate.py
index 06976e6..4ae9638 100644
--- a/murmurflow/dictate.py
+++ b/murmurflow/dictate.py
@@ -1790,13 +1790,22 @@ def stream_tail(pasted: str, final: str) -> str:
     if not already:
         return final
     words = final.split()
-    keys = [_key(word) for word in words]
+    return " ".join(words[_reached(already, [_key(word) for word in words]) :])
+
+
+def _reached(already: list[str], keys: list[str]) -> int:
+    """The index in ``keys`` just past everything that is already on screen.
+
+    Split out of :func:`stream_tail` because :func:`missing_mark` asks the same question about the
+    same two sequences — where does the screen END inside this transcript — and two answers to that
+    would drift apart word by word.
+    """
     if keys[: len(already)] == already:
-        return " ".join(words[len(already) :])
+        return len(already)
     matcher = difflib.SequenceMatcher(a=already, b=keys, autojunk=False)
     matched = [block for block in matcher.get_matching_blocks() if block.size]
     if not matched:  # nothing corresponds: trust the count, lose nothing
-        return " ".join(words[len(already) :])
+        return len(already)
     reached = matched[-1]
     # Words on screen PAST the alignment are ones the final pass said differently. The tail that
     # follows them is not new text, it is the same words again in the better model's wording, and
@@ -1804,7 +1813,40 @@ def stream_tail(pasted: str, final: str) -> str:
     # exactly what one reworded last word looks like ("the design" + "designs"). One dropped for
     # one left over: the rewording is skipped and anything genuinely beyond the screen still lands.
     reworded = len(already) - (reached.a + reached.size)
-    return " ".join(words[reached.b + reached.size + reworded :])
+    return reached.b + reached.size + reworded
+
+
+def missing_mark(pasted: str, settled: str) -> str:
+    """The mark that belongs directly after ``pasted``, once a later word has confirmed it.
+
+    **This is the punctuation streaming used to lose, and it is the last of it.** A mark rides on
+    the word in front of it, and :func:`stable_prefix` will not type the mark on a word that is
+    still touching the end of the audio — a pause is how whisper decides a sentence ended, and it
+    takes that decision back the moment the speaker carries on. So the word lands bare, and
+    nothing could ever put the mark on afterwards: the word is already on screen and there is no
+    un-type. Reported as "there was a break before, but no punctuation".
+
+    A LATER pass answers the question the earlier one could not. If the word carrying the mark is
+    no longer at the end of the transcript — real speech follows it, and whisper still ends the
+    sentence there — the mark is a decision made WITH the following audio, which is the same test
+    every other word passes before it is typed. It goes on with no space in front of it, joined to
+    the word it belongs to.
+
+    Returns ``""`` unless a word after it has also settled, so this can never be the lone full stop
+    of :func:`end_mark`'s docstring: the mark is only ever typed in the same breath as the word
+    that proves it.
+    """
+    already = [_key(word) for word in pasted.split()]
+    words = settled.split()
+    if not already or not words:
+        return ""
+    index = _reached(already, [_key(word) for word in words])
+    if index <= 0 or index >= len(words):
+        return ""  # nothing before it, or nothing after it to confirm it
+    mark = _TRAILING_MARK.search(words[index - 1])
+    if not mark or pasted.rstrip().endswith(mark.group()):
+        return ""
+    return mark.group()
 
 
 def _partial(live: Path, snapshot: Path, language: str = "") -> Heard:
@@ -1948,6 +1990,9 @@ def _stream_loop(rec: Recording, stream: Stream) -> None:
         settled = stable_prefix(previous, heard)
         previous = heard
         chunk = stream_tail(stream.text, settled) if settled else ""
+        # The mark on the word already at the end of the screen, now that a later word has
+        # settled behind it. Only ever together with that word — see :func:`missing_mark`.
+        mark = missing_mark(stream.text, settled) if chunk else ""
         if chunk:
             with _INJECT_LOCK:
                 # Inside the lock, because `stop_streaming` sets this and then takes the lock: past
@@ -1961,7 +2006,7 @@ def _stream_loop(rec: Recording, stream: Stream) -> None:
                 # `stream.text` is literally what is on the screen, built from what LANDED rather
                 # than from what was asked for — see :func:`place`. The leading space travels with
                 # the chunk, so this is a concatenation and never a re-join.
-                landed = place(f" {chunk}" if stream.text else chunk)
+                landed = place(f"{mark} {chunk}" if stream.text else chunk)
                 if landed:
                     stream.text = f"{stream.text}{landed}".strip()
                     stream.typed += 1
diff --git a/tests/test_murmurflow.py b/tests/test_murmurflow.py
index 504c241..6ae7a0d 100644
--- a/tests/test_murmurflow.py
+++ b/tests/test_murmurflow.py
@@ -1695,6 +1695,57 @@ def test_the_microphone_closes_itself_when_the_second_tap_never_comes(monkeypatc
     assert dictate.MAX_CLIP_SECONDS == 600
 
 
+def _drive_stream(passes):
+    """What lands on screen when the live pass reads ``passes``, one after another.
+
+    The same four calls `_stream_loop` makes, in the same order, so a sequence that broke a real
+    dictation can be replayed as a test. Kept beside the tests that use it rather than inside them:
+    four copies of the loop drift, and a copy that drifts stops testing the loop.
+    """
+    screen = previous = ""
+    for heard in passes:
+        settled = dictate.stable_prefix(previous, heard)
+        previous = heard
+        chunk = dictate.stream_tail(screen, settled) if settled else ""
+        mark = dictate.missing_mark(screen, settled) if chunk else ""
+        if chunk:
+            screen = f"{screen}{mark} {chunk}".strip() if screen else chunk
+    return screen
+
+
+def test_the_mark_lands_once_a_later_word_confirms_it():
+    """Reported as "there was a break before, but no punctuation".
+
+    A mark rides on the word in front of it, and that word is never typed with its mark while it
+    still touches the end of the audio — a pause is how whisper decides a sentence ended, and it
+    takes that back the moment the speaker carries on. So the word landed bare and nothing could
+    put the mark on afterwards. A later pass answers it: real speech follows and whisper STILL
+    ends the sentence there, so the mark goes on, joined to the word it belongs to.
+    """
+    reference = "I did not say the three times. I did, however, say really three times."
+    screen = _drive_stream(
+        [
+            "I did not say the three times",
+            "I did not say the three times",  # the break
+            "I did not say the three times.",  # whisper ends the sentence
+            "I did not say the three times.",
+            "I did not say the three times. I",  # he carries on
+            "I did not say the three times. I did however say",
+            "I did not say the three times. I did, however, say really",
+            reference,
+            reference,
+        ]
+    )
+    # ...plus the one thing only the key release can know: the mark that ends the clip.
+    landed = screen + dictate.end_mark(screen, reference)
+    assert landed == reference  # streamed, and identical to the whole-clip transcript
+    # And the fixes it must not undo, driven through the same loop.
+    assert _drive_stream(["Could you please work on my", "Could you please work on my..."] * 2) == (
+        "Could you please work on my"
+    )
+    assert "The The" not in _drive_stream(["Well, yeah. The The The"] * 3)
+
+
 def test_a_pause_never_types_a_lone_full_stop_where_the_next_word_goes():
     """Reported as "it puts a period instead of the word" after a short break.
 
@@ -1704,24 +1755,21 @@ def test_a_pause_never_types_a_lone_full_stop_where_the_next_word_goes():
     screen with no letters in it, so the next alignment read it as something the final pass had
     reworded and dropped a real word to pay for it. The word this ate, in the report, was "But".
     """
-    screen, previous = "", ""
-    for heard in (
-        "and then I ran the command",
-        "and then I ran the command",  # the pause: the transcript stops growing
-        "and then I ran the command.",  # whisper decides the sentence ended
-        "and then I ran the command.",
-        "and then I ran the command. But",  # he speaks again
-        "and then I ran the command. But when I say",
-        "and then I ran the command. But when I say",
-    ):
-        settled = dictate.stable_prefix(previous, heard)
-        previous = heard
-        chunk = dictate.stream_tail(screen, settled) if settled else ""
-        if chunk:
-            screen = f"{screen} {chunk}".strip() if screen else chunk
-    assert " ." not in screen
-    assert "But" in screen
-    assert screen == "and then I ran the command But when I say"
+    screen = _drive_stream(
+        [
+            "and then I ran the command",
+            "and then I ran the command",  # the pause: the transcript stops growing
+            "and then I ran the command.",  # whisper decides the sentence ended
+            "and then I ran the command.",
+            "and then I ran the command. But",  # he speaks again
+            "and then I ran the command. But when I say",
+            "and then I ran the command. But when I say",
+        ]
+    )
+    assert " ." not in screen  # never a mark standing on its own
+    assert "But" in screen  # and never a word paid to the alignment for one
+    # The full stop DOES land, because "But" settled behind it and confirmed it.
+    assert screen == "and then I ran the command. But when I say"
 
 
 def test_a_pause_does_not_put_a_full_stop_in_the_middle_of_the_sentence():