The cafe materializes in a Midwest farm town as the sun is coming up. Fay is sleepy because of the early-morning start. A boy comes in the door and Frank offers him a seat, then asks if he'd give him a hand cooking. The boy agrees to help, and introduces himself as Luke. Frank asks Luke when he ran away. Luke tells him he ran away the night before, but he doesn't know how he got to the cafe.

As they eat, Frank offers to talk to Luke's parents about getting him a part-time job at the cafe. Luke doesn't want to go back, because he feels safe at the cafe, and he doesn't think his parents will miss him. Frank is adamant, but when he gets up to get a bagel, Luke disappears. Fay peeks out the blinds and realizes that the cafe has moved, but Frank has gone to see if Luke went to the bathroom. As he opens the door, he appears in a hospital room. Luke is on the bed, in a coma, and the nurse tells him that Luke has been that way for a year.

Frank leaves the building and, like Fay, sees that the

As their car coasts to a halt, a woman - Angela - beseeches her husband, Edward, to take a romantic walk with her, but he isn't in the mood. She gets out anyway as the cafe's neon lights come on. Spotting them, Angela tries again to get Edward to visit the cafe with her, but he refuses, hoping she'll get back in the car. Angela goes to the cafe.

Frank, who has been feeling lovelorn, is fascinated by Angela, and flirts with her, ignoring Fay's teasing. Angela flirts back, and Frank inquires if she came with anyone. To his disappointment, she tells him that her husband is waiting outside because they had a disagreement.

Edward has given up waiting for Angela, and gets out of the car to find her. He is set upon by a mugger, who attacks him before running off.

Frank asks Angela what she would really want, if she had the chance. ""All I want is for Edward to love me...and never leave me,"" she tells him. ""I'm just so afraid that he'll abandon me even more than he already has."" At this point,