"Telling a policeman's wife she's a widow is a job nobody wants, and I never tried as hard for anything, he was a friend." The police car just rolled up in front of the Porter home. "It had to be me." Reed an Malloy step out of the police car and head to the Porter's front door. "It had to be me." Officer Reed picks up a child's toy doll and sets it aside on the Porter's front porch. "I knew Tom's wife when her name was Anderson, when she and Tom first started going together, but this was 2 children later." A worried Marge Porter is at the Porter's front door. "Marge Porter, the magazine told us she'd been waiting up for Tom." The magazine falls from Marge's hands in shock of the news over the death of her husband Tom, as she drops to the sofa and explodes in horrendous sobs. "What else could I tell her?" "What else could I say?" "I was a part of it all, when they met, when they got married, when their first child was born 6 years ago, I was a part of it all, a lifetime." Reed by the stair case, Marge goes upstairs all crying, Malloy gazes at the night sky filled with stars. "The rain had moved on, tomorrow could have been a nice day, yesterday was."