Dale was nothing if not good in a crisis. Everything happened too fast for either him or Joe to do anything about it, but nothing was over yet. He just hoped that this was really Jack's actual world, and not just a facsimile like the island, where the rules of Jack's existence wouldn't hold.

"Check to see if they left anything behind," said Dale, and hoped that even if Joe wasn't good at taking orders, Dale's instruction would give him something constructive to do. "Then help me move Jack out of sight."