Bridget, using the pseudonym of Mary-Ann Flaherty, had seduced the earl and assisted the Fenians in kidnapping Wexford.

Bridget too is allowed in, but Georgiana is refused entry when she is diagnosed with trachoma an eye disease that can lead to blindness.

Despite Bridget's criticism of the Ellis Island doctor Carl Travers, the decision is final, but the sisters' Uncle Casey, a powerful businessman, arranges for Georgiana to return to Ireland and then come back on another ship by second class as she wouldn't be checked that way.

Tom Banicek, who has a cousin in New York, meets him on Ellis Island and translates for him when recruiters for the Staunton Mining Company based in Virginia try to employ him.

Despite his cousin telling him that he would be poorly paid, would live in company housing which he would have to vacate if he ever left and that he could be fired for even mentioning joining a union, Tom says that he doesn't have a lot of choices for employment and that the conditions would be better than in the Austro-Hungarian Army which was the reason he came to America because he wants to avoid conscription.

Georgiana and Bridget's aunt however, disapproves and asks Casey to sort the issue, which he interprets as him using his influence to get Marco deported.

After some counterfeit money is planted on his truck, Marco is taken to Ellis Island, to await a ship to take him back to Italy.

Nellie Byfield, a rising star on Broadway, uses Jacob's feelings towards her to marry him, even having a child with him in order to further her career.

He accepts her apology and after learning that she is a competent with a typewriter, offers her a job as his secretary on Ellis Island as he is now chief doctor there.

When Marco asks his father-in-law for his approval to run for the state senate, he agrees and thinks an Ellis Island immigrant would be the perfect candidate to go up against the Irish incumbent backed by Casey O'Donnell.

When Vanessa makes an exhibition of herself at a party due to an alcohol problem, she is admitted to a hospital in Rhode Island, where she is befriended by an artist called Una Marbury.

After the death of a miner, Tom Banicek attempts to organise all of his colleagues against the working conditions at the Staunton Mining Company.

She fears that Denny will tell the authorities who she is and claim the reward money that the British Government is offering for information about the murder of Earl Wexford.