diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/script_run.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/script_run.rs
index eb89bd174..8f5e3b109 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/script_run.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/script_run.rs
@@ -182,6 +182,22 @@ pub(crate) fn ask_to_close(app: &mut VectorcraftApp) {
     app.ui.dialog = Some(Dialog::new(CLOSE_KIND, fields));
 }
 
+/// Closes the question quitting asks once the run it asks about has ended, and forgets the
+/// script's dialog it was asked over once the run no longer waits at that dialog, so Cancel does
+/// not show it again.
+pub(crate) fn settle_close(app: &mut VectorcraftApp) {
+    if !app.ui.dialog.as_ref().is_some_and(|d| d.kind == CLOSE_KIND) {
+        return;
+    }
+    if !app.session.script_running() {
+        app.ui.dialog = None;
+    } else if app.session.script_dialog().is_none()
+        && let Some(d) = app.ui.dialog.as_mut()
+    {
+        d.fields.remove(super::PARENT);
+    }
+}
+
 /// Shows the dialog the running script waits at.
 pub(crate) fn open_notice(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, d: &ScriptDialog) {
     let fields = json!({
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/script_runs.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/script_runs.rs
index 65a9dc9eb..02c222974 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/script_runs.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/script_runs.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ pub fn poll(app: &mut VectorcraftApp) {
     if !app.session.script_running() {
         return;
     }
+    script_run::settle_close(app);
     if ask(app) {
         return;
     }
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ pub fn poll(app: &mut VectorcraftApp) {
     if app.ui.dialog.as_ref().is_some_and(|d| d.kind == script_run::GROWTH_KIND) {
         app.ui.dialog = None;
     }
+    script_run::settle_close(app);
     match result {
         Ok(_) => app.status(format!("Ran {name}")),
         Err(e) => failed(app, e.to_string()),
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/script_dialogs.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/script_dialogs.rs
index da09c777b..b3750001a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/script_dialogs.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/script_dialogs.rs
@@ -220,6 +220,32 @@ fn close_while_notification_waits_abandons_or_resumes() {
     assert_eq!(app.ui.status, "The script was stopped and its changes were undone");
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn close_question_ends_with_a_run_stopped_another_way() {
+    let mut app = app();
+    start(&mut app, &format!("{DRAW} vc.log(prompt('Name', ''));"));
+    assert!(until_dialog(&mut app));
+    dialogs::script_run::ask_to_close(&mut app);
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.dialog.as_ref().unwrap().kind, CLOSE_KIND);
+    assert_eq!(app.run("script.stop", json!({})).unwrap()["stopped"], true);
+    script_runs::poll(&mut app);
+    assert!(!app.session.script_running());
+    assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none(), "the question about a run that has ended closes");
+    dialogs::cancel(&mut app);
+    assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none(), "Cancel does not show the stopped script's dialog again");
+    assert_eq!(objects(&app), 0);
+    // Asked to stop, the run no longer waits at its dialog before its next slice ends it.
+    let mut app = self::app();
+    start(&mut app, &format!("{DRAW} vc.log(prompt('Name', ''));"));
+    assert!(until_dialog(&mut app));
+    dialogs::script_run::ask_to_close(&mut app);
+    app.run("script.stop", json!({})).unwrap();
+    dialogs::script_run::settle_close(&mut app);
+    assert_eq!(app.ui.dialog.as_ref().unwrap().kind, CLOSE_KIND, "the run has not ended yet");
+    dialogs::cancel(&mut app);
+    assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none(), "Cancel does not show a dialog the run no longer waits at");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn notification_layout_with_long_text_and_small_window() {
     let mut app = app();