Across town, in a small suburban house, Katie Li stares at the old man in the mirror, and she trembles in fear. Jacob Foster's oldest daughter, concerned, places a gentle hand on her father's shoulder, while Jacob's three young grandchildren run up to the woman they believe is their grandfather and hug him tightly.
Meanwhile, as Meagan O'Shea cowers, hyperventilating, on the front lawn of the Madison house, Jane Madison walks worriedly out to the front lawn. Her children have been behaving so strangely this morning, and she can't help but think that something has happened, something that she's missed. Lovingly, she crouches down into the grass and places an arm around the shoulders of her eldest son.
And on the high school soccer field, the cheerleaders have managed to restore some semblance of order. A heartbroken Sarah McMillan has gone home, and Gabrielle Morrison--"Gabby" to her friends and family--has insisted on going staying with her friend. The rest of the cheerleaders have assembled on the field. Coach Walsh, spotting Janelle Carter beneath the bleachers, calls her back to the field as well. Janelle seems clumsy and forgetful this morning, almost as though she has forgotten all the moves; a couple of girls snicker that Janelle must still be loopy after the french kiss Biff Meadows gave her half an hour ago. (They'd totally done it under the bleachers, Jane Butler insists; she saw them with their clothes off, and Biff had been groping Janelle's boobs.) Coach Walsh tells the girls to be quiet, and decides they need to practice their tosses. She tells Janelle, one of their fliers, to climb up on Jane's shoudlers. Janelle, trembling, says that she can't, she won't, but Coach Walsh insists; and so Janelle reluctantly grabs Jane's shoudlers and places a foot in a teammate's Alexis Darling's cupped hands. Suddenly both Alexis and Jane go simultaneously limp, and Janelle, screaming, tumbles into two other girls on the team.
And all over town, nine new pairs of lives--eighteen people in total--are switched...
