sammy and rosa cannot hide all their secrets from tommy, however, who manages to take private magic lessons in the empire state building from joe for the better part of a year without anyone else's knowledge. tommy is instrumental in finally reuniting the kavalier and clay duo, which works with renewed enthusiasm to find a new creative direction for comics. joe moves into sammy and rosa's house. shortly afterwards, sammy's homosexuality is revealed on public television. this further complicates the attempts of rosa, sammy, and joe to reconstitute a family. in the end, sammy wants to move to la and joe and rosa try to talk him out of it joe saying he just bought empire comics. the couple the next morning awaken to find sammy gone.