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Answer: Al Templeton

Al's diner was one of the old aluminum trailer types often seen in the '50s and '60s. Al discovered the portal after moving his business to Lisbon. He used it to basically buy the same ground beef over and over, at 1950s prices, and sell his own famous Fatburgers at a huge discount to the people of 2011.

He still made a fantastic profit on the inexpensive burgers. Despite the success of his diner, the corporation who owned his lease chose not to renew it. So, this prompted Al to return to the past for his longest stay.

He stayed four years, but was not able to save JFK. He contracted lung cancer and was forced to return home and enlist Jake Epping in his cause.

Answer: True

Al explained to Jake about how long he'd been gone into the past. He said that previously he'd never stayed there very long, and I believe he said a month was his longest stay. He'd stayed a month to save a young girl from a bullet wound that paralyzed her, and that was because he wanted to see if changing the future was even a real possibility.

He did save the girl from being shot. Her life had been fine afterward, but not as accomplished as when she was paralyzed. He also explained the rules of the portal, at least the ones he had discovered. You could stay as long as you wanted to, but when you came back to 2011 it was only two minutes later there than when you'd left.

It was always the same day in September of 1958 when you went into the past, and that was how he always knew what to expect when he arrived. Al saved the young girl twice, but Jake reset everything Al had done when he went back for his first test trip.

Answer: Ford Sunliner

Al had all of the items he would need to pass for a man in 1958, including the persona of George Amberson. Jake had to purchase things like a car, extra clothing, and a suitcase from the era. He bought the same car, from the same dealer, on trips two and three.

It was a 1954 Ford Sunliner, described as a ragtop, which meant it was a convertible. When he came back for THE trip, number three, he did a better job of dickering on the price. He paid $315 for it the first time, complete with a sticker and 14 day license plate.

The second time he got the car for $300.

Answer: Arthur 'Tugga' Dunning

I was unclear as to why Jake waited until Halloween night, the night Harry's father attacked the family. I thought it would have left less to chance and timing if he took out Frank way before that time. But, on his first go around, Jake waited until the last moment, and as Al warned him, history does not like to be changed.

He developed an awful stomach virus, which almost incapacitated him on Halloween. Then, his plan was interrupted when Bill Turcotte stopped him from killing Frank. Frank had been married to Bill's sister many years prior, but Frank claimed she ran off and took their young son with her. Bill believed Frank had killed them both and buried their bodies in the woods, so he wanted to be the one to kill Frank.

In the end, it was Bill who killed Frank that night.

He died as well, after Jake left town, of a heart attack. On the the third trip, Bill was not a factor in Frank's death, but Jake did send him a warning about the heart attack. Bill lived this time.

Answer: The Yellow Card Man had committed suicide

Al had explained about the Yellow Card Man to Jake before his first trip. He told Jake that the Yellow Card Man, a drunk, would ask for a dollar to buy booze. Jake was to tell the man that all he had was fifty cents. On his first trip into 1958, Jake met the Yellow Card Man and it all went down exactly as Al had warned. On his second trip, the one to save the Dunning family in Derry, the Yellow Card Man now had an orange card instead. Jake knew something was off about this man each time he went into the past. I suspected that the Yellow Card Man was not actually from 1958 and did not know how to return. I was partially correct. On Jake's third trip, the one he intended to use to take care of all of his plans, the man had committed suicide and his card was black.

At the end of the book, Jake learned the truth about this man and why his card changed colors.

Answer: Carolyn Poulin

On that third excursion, Jake went back to Derry to save the Dunning family. This time, he played the situation much more carefully, and left nothing to chance. He killed Frank Dunning while the man was standing at his parents' grave site. This was a place Jake already knew Frank would be.

He saved the entire Dunning family this time, but felt a little guilty for killing Frank before he was even in the act of murder. So, he sent a letter to Bill Turcotte warning him about his impending heart attack, and decided to save Al's pick, Carolyn.

He knew she would live either way, both decent lives despite her being paralyzed in one. But, Al wanted to spare her entirely, so for Al, he saved her by occupying the time of the hunter who would accidentally shoot her. Al, dying from lung cancer, had committed suicide after Jake returned from his second trip, and Jake knew it was to prevent him from changing his mind about Oswald.

Answer: She had twin daughters

Before his lies were discovered, Jake/George spent two seasons as a teacher in the small town of Jodie. Here he was able to feel a warmth and sense of community, while also being close enough to Dallas and Fort Worth to travel for Oswald prep work. Sadie was a married woman, who planned to save money and travel to Reno for a divorce from her mentally disturbed husband John.

In a moment of distraction, George/Jake sang lyrics to a song that had never been released. That, coupled with a few odd phrases he'd spoken, made Sadie seriously question his identity.

She ended their brief love affair, and Miz Ellie (Dockerty), who knew he'd lied about his credentials, kept his secret. So, he left Jodie and headed to Dallas to continue his end game. Before he left, Jake discovered Sadie's name to be Sadie Doris Dunhill Clayton.

The fact that her name contained the words 'Dori Dun' was too close for comfort, and Jake worried about the sanity of Sadie's soon to be ex-husband John Clayton. He warned her, Deke Simmons, and Ellie Dockerty about the man possibly coming after Sadie.

They should have paid him more mind.

Answer: a scarred face

Vince Knowles had a drunk driving accident, though it was not revealed as such right away. Jake learned that later. Poor Bobbi Jill Allnut had suffered a facial laceration that left her disfigured. Afterward, she became so depressed and embarrassed by her face that she attempted suicide. That prompted Jake to organize a fund raiser so that Bobbi Jill could pay for some cosmetic repairs.

The resulting surgery was a complete success, leaving her new scar to be only of the faintest white line. But, as time went on, Jake began to realize that the past was "harmonizing itself" more and more.

It would not be too much longer before Sadie Dunhill would be subjected to a facial disfigurement much more severe than Bobbi Jill had suffered.

Answer: True

Johnny, as she called him, was a seriously disturbed man. Sadie had revealed to Jake that he had never consummated their marriage, and literally kept a broom in the bed between them. He was obsessed with the idea of mankind killing itself off, and suffered from paranoid delusions. Sadie finally looked at the envelope, which he'd smartly sent from Savannah, Georgia.

The photos were grisly images of the Japanese people after the bombings. Each picture had the same message on the back, "Coming soon to America. Statistical analysis does not lie." Sadie opened the envelope at the same time America was experiencing the Cuban Missile Crisis and then almost overdosed herself on pills and booze. Though they'd been apart all summer, Jake was overcome with the urge to see her on this night.

He arrived in time to save her from an accidental death by overdose. This resulted in the pair getting back together, with Sadie's promise she wouldn't push him to reveal his true mission. The only thing she needed to know for sure was that he was human and from Earth.

He assured he that he absolutely was those things.

Answer: He killed himself

It turned out that John Clayton had been stalking Sadie, just as Jake/George had warned many people might be true. But, in the 1960s the certainty of psychosis was not discussed ad nauseum on television and in best selling books. People were still stuck in ideals of human nature, not butting into people's issues, and to some extent that women were not entirely worth protecting from men they'd married. So, John was able to walk right past Deke Simmons, who loved Sadie, and have Deke not make issue of it. Deke convinced himself it was not John. Just as Jake was about to go and observe Oswald attempt to kill the racist General Edwin Walker, he was interrupted. First it was Marina Oswald knocking at his door looking for her husband Lee.

Then, the phone rang and it was John. John was in Jodie and had Sadie hostage.

He gave Jake just enough time to drive back from Dallas or he'd kill her. Jake enlisted the help of Deke to distract John. It worked, but not before Sadie was severely injured and John had killed himself.

Answer: He'd been nearly beaten to death

Jake had taken opportunities to place sure win bets in the past, to help supplement his income. He was almost killed by a bookie in Florida, very early on in the book. The first attempt was a house bombing at his rental place, but Jake's instincts had him out of there just in the nick of time.

Afterward, he became a teacher in Texas and had no need for much betting income. But, in an attempt to get more money for Sadie's reconstructive surgeries, he placed one last bet on a boxing match. He only made a $1500 profit, and had tried to avoid any mobster ties in placing the bet. But, it all came back around.

The past was obdurate, and fought all change. It also harmonized itself. Jake was out of luck, and the past was fighting back hard. After closing out his rental on Neely Street, Jake was attacked by men from the first bad bookie who'd be warned by the bookie who placed his very last, most recent, bet.

He almost died. In the weeks of rehab that followed, he fought to regain his memories, as his damaged body healed as much as it could.

Answer: Jake was stabbed and killed by Oswald

Jake did start to regain his memories after he was almost beaten to death in September of 1963. He'd never lost all of himself, but so much was foggy in his mind. And, stuff he did know, he kept losing again. Sadie helped him recover a lot of his memories.

The most important one he finally regained was that somewhere he had Al's notes about Oswald. It took more work, and more lies to Sadie, but he found the notes in the safety deposit box at First Corn Bank in Dallas. And, though he tried very hard to keep Sadie safely away from November 22 in Dallas, she found him anyway. If she hadn't found him, he would have likely slept past the time frame on that date.

She woke him and said she was with him in his mission all the way. He realized he had no choice.

They fought hard to get to the Texas School Book Depository in time. They were in two car accidents, one of which was on a public bus. They did get there in time, just in time in fact. But, every time Jake fired his .38 at Oswald, he missed. Oswald did miss his chance to hit Kennedy.

The Kennedy car high tailed it away from the scene after Oswald's missed shots. The one shot he did not miss was the one that killed Sadie. Jake lost his balance due to his worn out knee, and fell down. Sadie was just behind Jake and Lee Harvey Oswald shot her. She died a hero, and Jake made sure everyone knew it.

Answer: No

Jake was never charged with any attempt on Lee's life. What the FBI did question Jake about, were the details on his knowledge of Lee's intent to kill the president. The agent in question had been keeping tabs on Oswald for a while, and felt that "George" and Sadie may have been in on the assassination attempt and chickened out at the last minute.

It took an extremely convincing, off the cuff, Keyser Söze style fabrication on Jake's part to convince the agent he was innocent. He did so, and received phone calls from both JFK and his wife, First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

Then, the FBI offered Jake a one way ticket to go back into oblivion. Jake took that offer, and made his way back to the portal in Lisbon Falls.

Answer: Zack Lang

Zack Lang was a fresher version of Jake's previous yellow, orange and black card man. Zack told Jake that the other man was named Kyle. He assured Jake they were real men, not aliens or supernatural creatures. He explained the entire situation of the portal, the cards, and why the past is so obdurate.

The portal was actually a bubble. It would not last forever, and he needed Jake to go back to 2011, see all the damage he'd caused, and pop back to 1958 before that bubble burst. The cards were indicators of sanity. Green meant sane. Jake saw Zack's card change from green to yellow, and back to green again during the explanation. Zack said that each time back through did not completely reset the past. Residue of each visit remained, which caused different strings of time to peel off from the original one, thus causing the card man to lose his sanity.

It was too many variations on an original time frame to keep track of. If Al had paid attention to Kyle when he first started coming into 1958, he'd have met a sane Kyle who tried to warn Al repeatedly about making changes.

By the time Jake met Kyle, Kyle was almost gone. That is why he committed suicide on Jake's third trip.

Answer: Harry Dunning

Jake came through the bubble and found himself in an abandoned convenience store. There was no Al's Diner in this brave new world. Outside he found a world of stifling depression. The town was in tatters and basically abandoned itself. He did find Harry Dunning, his former pupil and son of Frank Dunning, in a wheelchair stuck in a rut in the road.

He helped Harry and they went into Harry's place to talk about a history Jake knew nothing about. Saving Kennedy had ended life as we all know it. Not only did the past fight back in the way of potentially apocalyptic earth quaking, but there had been no Civil Rights Movement, no President Johnson, no end to the Vietnam conflict, and America was geographically altered. Japan had lost four islands to seismic activities, and the end of the world was predicted to be in about 70 more years based on the non stop earthquakes devouring the planet. So, Jake once more went back through the bubble and reset the disaster of saving JFK.

This also saved Sadie and he wanted to be with her again, so he did not return home immediately. Finally, Jake realized he had no choice.

He came back through the bubble into Al's Diner and to the 2011 he remembered. He went back to teaching, but left Lisbon Falls. He did some internet research and found out that John Clayton had still stalked and attacked Sadie in Jodie, Texas. She survived when Deke and Miz Ellie arrived in time. John still killed himself the same way, and Sadie went on to live a very productive life. She never married again, but had served several terms as a politician. Jake had to see her again, so he he traveled back to Jodie and had one more dance with an 80 year old Sadie Dunhill. She felt like she knew him and admitted the death of JFK had inspired her political interests. Jake told her that they had known each other.. in another life.