among the things he remembered with particular sharpness , once they had crossed into new england and the talisman began to glow again , signalling the return of normal time - or perhaps the return of time itself to jack sawyer - were the faces of people peering into the back seat of the el dorado ( people in parking lots , a sailor and an ox-faced girl in a convertible at a stoplight in a sunny little town in iowa , a skinny ohio kid wearing breaking awaycstyle bicycle gear ) in order to see if maybe mick jagger or frank sinatra had decided to pay them a call .