Jack slowly stands.

Sarah reaches for his hand, but he looks past her, toward Lily.

JACK: "She's gotten so big."

Sarah nods through tears.

SARAH: "She waited all morning. She picked out that dress herself."

Jack notices Lily wearing a blue ribbon in her hair.

He smiles sadly.

JACK: "Blue. Still her favorite color?"

SARAH: "Because you told her the sky was the same everywhere."

Across the terminal, Lily sits on a bench, staring at her photograph.

Jack approaches carefully and sits several feet away.

JACK: "Can I see that picture?"

Lily hesitates, then holds it up without moving closer.

In the photograph, Jack is smiling while holding baby Lily in both arms.

LILY: "This is my daddy."

JACK: "I know."

LILY: "He promised he'd come back."

Jack swallows.

JACK: "I did come back."

Lily shakes her head.

LILY: "But you're missing something."

Jack looks at his pinned sleeve.

JACK: "I lost my arm when I got hurt, sweetheart. But I'm still the same person."

LILY: "Then why don't you look the same?"

He struggles to answer.

Sarah begins to explain, but Jack gently asks her to let Lily have time.

Then the little girl pulls something from her backpack.

A child's drawing of a tall soldier holding a little girl's hands.

LILY: "I made this so Daddy would know what we were going to do when he came home."

Jack studies the picture.

Two hands.

Both belonging to her father.

LILY: "But you can't do it."

Jack feels tears gathering.

JACK: "Maybe not the way I imagined."

Lily folds the drawing.

LILY: "Then I'll wait for the daddy in my picture."

CHAPTER END HOOK: Jack notices three tiny blue stars drawn in the corner of the paper — a symbol he thought only he and Sarah knew about.