kate moves back to manhattan trying to get away from sonny. sonny takes her to bensonhurst, where they visit several memorable places from the youth. sonny then proposes, but kate does not answer and runs away. she later tells sonny that she did not accept his proposal because he does not love her as who she is now; he loves connie from bensonhurst. megan ward echoes her character's words; she stated kate "fears that sonny is really in love with the girl she was and not the woman she has become". an emotional kate meets with jasper jacks. megan ward explained her character was "feeling very lost" and that is "why she came clean to jax". kate admits her life as connie in bensonhurst to jax, who asks what her family thinks. kate does not answer the question on several occasions, leading fans and magazines to speculate the character is keeping a secret.