What Tyler said left John feeling unsettled. Everyone had a secret here? Well, John could argue that no one felt particularly normal, even if they didn't have Terminators coming after them or know what their future held, sort of. Still, he didn't think that Tyler meant your run of the mill problems or secrets. There was something about this place that bothered him, something that made him feel as though it wasn't ordinary and that his mother wasn't planning some daring breakout.

"I'd really like to find a phone and talk to my Mom," he said, beginning to plot the easiest way to swipe a cellphone off someone. "It's 2006, right? The cellphones are small enough."