diff --git a/server/src/events/cleanup.js b/server/src/events/cleanup.js
index fe886b6..97951b6 100644
--- a/server/src/events/cleanup.js
+++ b/server/src/events/cleanup.js
@@ -320,6 +320,16 @@ async function sweep() {
   // cleanup, whose counters were spent deliberately.
   const candidates = await resourcesDb.runsNeedingCleanup(CLEANUP_RUN_BATCH, MAX_REVERT_ATTEMPTS)
   let swept = 0
+
+  // **A finished run with nothing left to give back is complete** (MODULE_API
+  // 1.11.0). The scan above joins on an unresolved row, and until `expired` no
+  // run could end `pending` without one. Now a zone can expire while its run is
+  // still going — `expireResource` leaves a live run's status to its terminal
+  // path — and when that run ends, nothing in the scan would ever select it:
+  // `pending` for ever. Found by the step-2 walk, run 46.
+  for (const runId of await resourcesDb.finishedRunsWithNothingLeft(CLEANUP_RUN_BATCH)) {
+    if (await runsDb.setCleanupStatus(runId, 'complete', ['pending'])) swept += 1
+  }
   for (const candidate of candidates) {
     if (!runsDb.TERMINAL.includes(candidate.status)) continue
     try {
diff --git a/server/src/model/events/eventRunResources.db.js b/server/src/model/events/eventRunResources.db.js
index 4e68195..354f51e 100644
--- a/server/src/model/events/eventRunResources.db.js
+++ b/server/src/model/events/eventRunResources.db.js
@@ -402,8 +402,30 @@ async function runsNeedingCleanup(limit = 25, maxAttempts = 3) {
   )
 }
 
+/**
+ * Finished runs still marked `pending` that have no unresolved row at all — a
+ * run whose last resource the game expired while it was still going (MODULE_API
+ * 1.11.0). The sweep settles them `complete`; `runsNeedingCleanup` cannot see
+ * them because it joins on an unresolved row.
+ */
+async function finishedRunsWithNothingLeft(limit = 25) {
+  const rows = await query(
+    `SELECT r.id FROM event_runs r
+      WHERE r.status IN ('completed', 'cancelled', 'failed', 'missed')
+        AND r.cleanup_status = 'pending'
+        AND NOT EXISTS (
+          SELECT 1 FROM event_run_resources res
+           WHERE res.run_id = r.id AND res.status IN (?, ?, ?, ?, ?))
+      ORDER BY r.id
+      LIMIT ?`,
+    [...UNRESOLVED, Number(limit)],
+  )
+  return rows.map((row) => Number(row.id))
+}
+
 module.exports = {
   STEP_KIND,
+  finishedRunsWithNothingLeft,
   HELD,
   UNRESOLVED,
   reserve,
diff --git a/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js b/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js
index 27202c7..abf6eed 100644
--- a/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js
+++ b/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ beforeEach(() => {
     ...new Set([...store.rows.values()].filter((r) => ['pending', 'confirmed'].includes(r.status)).map((r) => r.owner_module)),
   ]
   resourcesDb.runsNeedingCleanup = async () => store.candidates || []
+  resourcesDb.finishedRunsWithNothingLeft = async () => store.nothingLeft || []
 
   runsDb.setCleanupStatus = async (id, to, from = null) => {
     if (from && !from.includes(store.cleanupStatus)) return false
@@ -728,3 +729,20 @@ test('a run still in flight keeps its cleanup status, and so does one with rows
   await cleanup.expireResource('demo', { kind: 'zone', ref: 'y' })
   assert.equal(store.cleanupStatus, 'incomplete')
 })
+
+test('a run whose last resource expired while it ran is settled complete when it ends', async () => {
+  // The step-2 walk's run 46: the zone expired while the run was still going, so
+  // expireResource left its status to the terminal path — and the sweep's scan,
+  // which joins on an unresolved row, would never have selected it. `pending`
+  // for ever, on a ledger with nothing left in it.
+  store.cleanupStatus = 'pending'
+  store.candidates = []
+  store.nothingLeft = [RUN.id]
+  assert.equal(await cleanup.sweep(), 1)
+  assert.equal(store.cleanupStatus, 'complete')
+
+  // And never over an incomplete one — that is a human's to clear.
+  store.cleanupStatus = 'incomplete'
+  await cleanup.sweep()
+  assert.equal(store.cleanupStatus, 'incomplete')
+})