Janet's still napping when Sam gets to the Children's Office, so Sam lets her sleep for a little longer while she talks to William. She thinks maybe he needs some prep for this, especially with how touchy he's been lately. She tries to explain to him--how do you even explain this to a toddler?--that Uncle Jack is here again, and he doesn't remember the things that happened when he was here before, but he really wants to meet him and Janet. William just nods and puts his thumb in his mouth (something Sam hasn't seen him do in a while) and Sam worries a little but she's not sure what else to do. She bundles William up in his coat and hat and collects Janet, who doesn't wake when Sam wraps her in her thick blanets and puts on her fuzzy pink hat.

And then there's not much else to do than take the short walk home. It's not a long enough walk for her to really think about how she actually feels about all this. It's good to see Jack, certainly, but it's painful, too--in some ways, it's like he's someone she doesn't know. But he's stuck here and she's just dumped a lot on him and it's not like she's going to walk away.

When they enter the apartment, William clings to her leg. He doesn't pull his hat off or his coat and drop them in the floor like he usually does; he just curls his fingers in her pants leg and holds on, peering at Jack from behind her knee.