There seemed nothing more that could be done besides piling into Eric's car, so Eric, Jack, Rachel, Stephanie, and Scrap hit the road. The atmosphere was awkward, with four strangers, all tense, jammed together.<br/><br/>As Eric finished his statement about jammed signals, Jack's cell phone began to ring as if to prove Eric a liar.<br/><br/>"Hey, his phone's ringing! It's ringing!" Stephanie squealed from the back seat. Rachel sat beside her, holding Scrap in her lap, with Eric behind the wheel and Jack riding shotgun.<br/><br/>Jack answered his phone and at first heard what he thought was static, but realized it was the sound of someone crying. "Jack? Jack, is that you?" a woman's voice asked. It took Jack a second to recognize it as Rene's, the girl he had met about a half-hour before with Desmond.<br/><br/>"Jack, please help, please," Rene said, sobbing into the phone as she talked. "We're on the highway, and ... Oh God, my phone's about to die! Desmond's hurt bad, there's so much blood. Jack, we didn't see it! We didn't ..." and the call ends.<br/><br/>Even though Jack has only been in town for a short time, he's aware that everyone refers to the main road in and out of Biscay as the "highway," the same road they were traveling along right then.