Katherine sneaks into the group by pretending to Daniella McCarthy, who is absent from the conference. Katherine joins them at the conference, and discovers that all the names from the Survivors list were intentionally put into the same group. Shortly afterward, Jonah and Chip are invited to an adoption conference at Clarksville Valley High School. Upon returning home, Chip discovers that Katherine's photographed file contents have been deleted from his computer. Jonah, Katherine, and Chip escape through a window before seeing Angela disappear into thin air. Their meeting is interrupted when a violent man attempts to attack them, however he is restrained by the strange man from the FBI office, whom they nickname JB. She also tells them she believes the event was caused by time travel, which Jonah and Chip reject. Angela tells them she refused to do so, and lost her job as a result. The FBI were unable to determine the origin of the plane so they decided to outright deny the event, forcing all the witnesses to do the same. At the library, they meet a former gate agent named Angela DuPre, who tells them she saw a plane carrying 36 babies appear out of thin air thirteen years ago. Katherine and Chip call every name on the Witnesses list, however, they are rejected by everybody they call.Ī few days later, Chip receives a letter from one of the witnesses he previously called, who tells him to meet at the Liston Public Library.

They enlarge the pictures at Chip's house and see the contents organized into two lists one titled Witnesses, and the other titled Survivors, which includes Jonah's and Chip's names. When Jonah tells her to memorize as much of the folder's contents as she could while he distracts Reardon, she does better by taking photographs of the folder's contents. During the meeting, Katherine sees a strange man put a file folder on Reardon's desk before disappearing, which leaves her disturbed for the remainder of the meeting. Jonah and Katherine join their parents in meeting Reardon, who is reluctant to share any meaningful details regarding Jonah's past. After the boys break into a safe at Chip's house, they find the name and contact info of FBI agent James Reardon. Katherine decides to help Jonah and his friend Chip Winston learn about their birth families after the two of them receive strange letters that are seemingly linked to their respective adoptions.

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