"I mean, honestly, if we were back in New York somehow and you'd told me that then, I probably wouldn't have believed you," she says, punctuating the words with a sigh.

"But after everything I've seen here, everything that this place changes - itself, the people here - it doesn't sound so ridiculous or farfetched to imagine that it could happen in other worlds too. Of course, that still doesn't mean that there's someone in a cape and mask walking around my version of Manhattan, but who's to say that isn't happening in another New York somewhere, right?" She rests her hand against his shoulder, noting the mixture of emotions in his expression.

"Did you know anyone like that? Personally?"