For the next few months, Jake spends his weekends with Sadie and his weeks observing Lee Harvey. Lee Harvey and Marina’s marriage becomes volatile. On one occasion, the whole neighborhood witnesses Lee Harvey beat Marina. Shortly after, Marina leaves him, but she quickly returns. Not long after that, Jake overhears Marina tell an elderly neighbor that she is pregnant again.

The Oswalds move into the apartment on Neely Street on March 2, 1963. Jake buys a gun, ending up with the same Colt .38 model he bought in Derry. During his trips to Jodie, Jake begins seeing a Plymouth Fury around town like the one he noticed in the parking lot of the Worumbo Mill and Weaving when he first came through the rabbit-hole. He worries it might be Johnny Clayton, but each time he sees the car, it has different out-of-state license plate.

A short time later, Marina meets Ruth Paine and begins giving her Russian lessons. Al noted in his book that Marina would be living with Ruth Paine on the day of the assassination. George de Mohrenschildt comes to the apartment one day while Marina is at Ruth’s. Jake listens to George and Lee Harvey talk.