After going through the rabbit-hole, Jake repeats his initial actions from his first visit by speaking to the Yellow Card Man and giving him a half dollar. The Yellow Card Man, whose card is now orange, calls Jake JIMLA. Jake doesn’t understand the reference but finds the whole interaction unsettling.

Jake goes to Kennebec Fruit Company as before and is unnerved by small changes in the conversation. Jake visits several stores, first purchasing a suitcase and then buying clothes to fill it with. He stops at a payphone to call for a taxi. While digging in his pocket for change, he realizes that he forgot to leave his cellphone at the diner and that he has change from the future. That night, he puts the change in an envelope, then tosses both the envelope and the cellphone into a pond behind the Tamarak Motor Court.

Jake buys a “1954 Ford convertible—a Sunliner” (146) for $315 cash. He drives north to Derry, Maine, the town where Harry Dunning grew up. From the moment he arrives, Jake feels as though there is something wrong with the town. He goes to a few places asking after Harry Dunning’s father.