In this adventure Morley travels to New York City in 1912 in an effort to prevent World War I from taking place.

Morley soon is enveloped in the blissful world of 1912 New York, seemingly meeting at every turn a woman he calls the "Jotta Girl."

He tries to get close to Butt, but is frustrated by the Jotta Girl, who Morley belatedly realizes is an agent of Dr. Danziger, original head of the Project and opponent to Prien.

Danziger, who opposes changing the past for any purpose, has figured out who Z was, and has sent the Jotta Girl to interfere with Morley.

He is motivated to try again when Prien informs him of the precise date that Morley and Julia's son, Willy, will die in World War I, killed in action.

Aboard, he meets Butt, who spurns Morley's offer to tell him how to get off the ship safely once the iceberg strikes.

Butt will not leave a vessel on which women and children may die (and, according to some accounts, did act in a heroic manner during the sinking).

The war will happen, and the only hope Morley has for Willy is that forewarned with the information about the day he is to die, that he will survive.

He is emotionally torn up not only by his responsibility for the ship's loss, but also by his attraction to the Jotta Girl, who presumably survived and returned to the 1970s.