Jake desperately wants to return to Sadie and spend his life with her, but Zack has frightened him. He avoids creating new strings as best he can while he struggles with his decision. Finally, he writes down his experiences, places them in a locked box, and buries them. He returns to 2011.

Jake leaves Maine the same day he returns to 2011, settling in Westborough, Massachusetts. He uses the internet to learn Sadie survived the attack by Johnny Clayton but won’t allow himself to research Sadie anymore. However, when a new student moves into his class with connections to Texas, he believes it is a final harmony and decides to find out more about Sadie. He discovers she is to be celebrated as the Jodie Citizen of the Century, and he drives down to Texas. When he introduces himself to Sadie, she seems to know him without knowing him. They speak for a few minutes and then move together “naturally” (1080) to dance once more to “In the Mood.”