After his disastrous night in the swan, Sam finds his family’s apartment in the adjacent city of Ocean Grove. His mother  provides some bad first aid and is skeptical of Sam’s plans to become a rock musician. Sam makes a phone call to a musician contact provided by Jillian but is given the brush off when he reveals the damage to his hand. Sam searches out his younger brother Tom, whom he finds surfing with his black friend Brandon in the dead of winter in Jersey’s crappy surf. Tom hints as...

At midnight in the dead of winter, Sam enters Asbury Park, the town to which his family has recently moved. Introduced to the city by a mysterious old black man, Sam later gets lost and eventually takes refuge in the mechanical swan which floats in the lake by the boardwalk. While sleeping in the swan, he is awakened by people outside discussing a murder. Preparing to defend himself, he instead slices his hand with a knife, but manages to avoid detection. Theme Song: "Rumble on Kingsley" by...

Released from the military, Sam Nesbitt returns to Jersey on a late train. While playing his guitar, he meets a meets Jillian, a beautiful but edgy young woman with whom he shares an interest in music. Things are looking promising for his musical career and love life when the Jersey Coast Line train slams into the Diving Horse of Atlantic City. Theme Song: "Write Me a Song" by Justina Carubia (www.myspace.com/justina)  

With his brother charged with murder in Asbury Park, Sam Nesbitt returns to his hometown to ask a former friend, now a maimed vet, about the origins of the murder weapon. While with his buddy, Sam tells him the story of his own three-year struggle in Asbury to make something of himself, to escape the ghosts of the past. Theme Song: "Change" by Arlan Feiles (www.myspace.com/arlanfeiles)