Action: Celeste waits in a New York subway station.
Celeste: If I can find my way to daddy's work, I can ask his secretary to stop making mommy jealous.
Action: Celeste stands aboard a subway as it travels.
Celeste: I've never ridden the subway by myself, but I feel safe here, wrapped in this bucking and surging cocoon of steel...
Celeste: ...blurring the landscape, this palimpsest of urban rituals unique to our city.
Celeste: Here dogeared novels are consumed, gritty hip hop flows through countless ear buds and nodding heads, intimate connections are made...
Narration: ...while some connections are missed
Action: We see Wortle panting as he tries, unsuccessfully, to catch Celeste's subway train. We can see Celeste reading in the window, unaware of her friend's distress.