Shortly after sending Ryder off to school, Heather Canyon is surprised by a visit from a military type, John Newbie. "I want to talk about your husband," he says as he shakes her hand. The last time she was visited by a military type, she was informed of her husband's death, and she's quite sure that nothing this man can tell her will be good news.

Heather shakes her head, "There's nothing to talk about. He was taken hostage. They killed him before you could save him." Her husband had been involved with several human rights organizations, and had been helping to distribute food and medicine in the war zone when he was taken hostage by terrorists.

"Your husband was more than just a hostage, he was one of my sources. He gave us a lot of information about enemy movements."

"Peter wasn't involved with the military," Heather interrupts him, "He was a pacifist."

"That's why I recruited him for counterintelligence," Newbie says, "And that's why I want you to take up his work. You were working overseas with him when you met, you have the same connections, the same ability to get into hostile territories and report their movements."

"I haven't been overseas since my son was born, and I'm not going back, especially not to help you with your war for oil," Heather insists.

"We're fighting for your freedom," Newbie says angrily.

"Whatever," Heather says, choking back tears, "I'm not going to get involved anymore, working for peace or war, I'm just want to raise my son. Please, leave now and don't bother me anymore."

After Newbie left, Heather spent a few hours crying, trying to sort the new information about her husband into what she knew about him, unable to put the two pieces together. The Peter she knew would never have helped the military. Was the Peter she knew even the real Peter, or was she part of his cover story? What else didn't she know about him?

Another visitor came by, a friend of hers and Peter's from the peace movement. Like Newbie, she wants Heather to pick up where her husband left off. "We're having a huge rally downtown, we want you to be a speaker, to tell the world about Peter's work."

"I moved away from the city to get away from all that, to give my son a normal life, as much of a normal life as he can have without a father," Heather says, "I'm done with peace and war, and politics."

"You can't turn your back on the world, Heather," Brittany insists.

"The world took my husband, my son's father," Heather answers, "I'm not giving it anything else."