
While visiting his family's grave, he meets a stranger. Roman is convicted of murder and serves 10 years of his prison term, then is released early on parole, given the extenuating circumstances that motivated his crime. Jake falls to the floor and bleeds to death, while Christina and Samuel sob and Roman deliriously sits down next to them on the couch. Jake tells him it was an accident without apologizing, so Roman stabs him in the torso and neck. There, after waiting a day, on a day when Christina and Samuel happen to be visiting Jake for the weekend, Roman confronts him at his door. Roman later tracks down the building where Jake is working and follows him to his apartment. Tessa later reveals Jake's cover name and occupation, but she initially refuses to give his address. Roman meets Tessa and asks her, as a favor, to find Jake. Roman has also moved to another town and now works as a carpenter. Jake, having moved to another state, now works at a travel agency, under the name "Pat Dealbert", and lives alone. One year later, Roman and other crash victims' relatives attend the inauguration of a newly completed memorial at the crash site. Roman refuses to sign it, as neither the company nor the lawyers will express apologies for the loss of his family.
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Roman meets lawyers John and James Gullick, who unsuccessfully try to convince him to sign an agreement stating that the airline will pay his expenses for medical and mental healthcare, plus $85,000 and $75,000 in damages for the loss of his wife and daughter respectively. She ends up leaving behind some prior articles of plane disasters she had written about (to show her fidelity to accuracy and objectivity) through the mail slot of the door.īecause of the seriousness of the incident, his company's lawyer advises Jake to move to another state and adopt a new name for his and his family's safety. At home Roman stays hidden inside, when Tessa Gorbett, a journalist, approaches, expressing interest in writing a book on the incident. Roman goes to the crash site and, posing as a volunteer with no relationship with the victims, recovers his daughter's necklace and the bodies of his wife and daughter. It is reported that all 271 passengers and crew were killed in the mid-air collision. Although the investigators cannot hold Jake responsible for the crash and the passengers' deaths, he blames himself as time passes, he slowly unravels, straining the relationship with his family, and is unwilling to talk about what happened. He is devastated after seeing AX 112 and the other flight, DH 616, disappear from the radar, knowing the two planes collided and were destroyed. Jake is on duty the night of the crash, which occurs when his colleague is on coffee break, forcing Jake to do both their jobs, and the telephone lines needed to communicate with other airports are briefly down while under maintenance. Meanwhile, Jacob "Jake" Bonanos, an air traffic controller, is happily married to Christina with whom he has a young son named Samuel. Roman is devastated and blames the air traffic controller for the deaths of his family.


At the airport to welcome his family, Roman receives the news that AX 112, with his wife and daughter on board, had been in an accident. Roman Melnyk, a construction worker, is allowed to leave work early to prepare for the arrival of his wife Olena and pregnant daughter Nadiya from New York City, aboard flight AX 112.
