This island change is one of the more pleasant ones, Sam thinks. She never spent much time in NYC and even though she knows this isn't really New York, just the island in disguise, she's enjoying it. Janet is too little to notice or care, but William likes it, and it's helped distract him from the tantrums he's been having since Daniel disappeared.

She's just gotten out of class and is going to pick Janet and William up from the Children's Office. It's just a short walk around the corner but Sam's forgotten her coat so she's hurrying--she's thinking of taking the kids ice-skating later, if William's not too cranky--and she almost trips over someone on the sidewalk. "I'm sorry," she says, "I didn't see you--oh." She stops when she gets a good look at who it is, and she freezes.

"Oh, my God. Jack?"