meanwhile, sammy develops a romantic relationship with the radio voice of the escapist, tracy bacon. tracy's movie-star good looks initially intimidate sammy, but later they fall in love. when tracy is cast as the escapist for the film adaptation, he invites sammy to move to hollywood with him, an offer that clay accepts. but later, when tracy and sammy go to a friend's beach house with several other gay couples, the private dinner is raided by the local police as well as two off-duty fbi agents. all of the men at the party are arrested, except for two who hide under the dinner table, one of whom is sammy. the fbi agents use their authority to sexually abuse sammy and the other man. after this episode, sammy decides that he can't live with the constant threat of being persecuted and breaks off his relationship with tracy. some time after joe leaves, sammy marries rosa and moves with her to the suburbs, where they raise her son tommy in what outwardly appears to be a traditional nuclear family.