Here’s what Emma tells Henry in “True North”:
“I was pretty young. I had just gotten out of the foster system and the only job I could get was this 24-hour diner off the interstate. Your dad was training to be a fireman. He always got the worst shifts, so he’d come in and order cores and pie and sit at the counter and always complain that we didn’t sell pumpkin pie but he always came back the next day anyway.”
Henry: “Did you get married?”
Emma: “No, nothing like that. We hung out a few times outside of work. And life happened. His got better and mine got worse and I got in some trouble.”
Henry : “When you went to jail.”
Emma: “Yeah. Before I went I found out I was pregnant with you. I tried to contact him and I found out that he died saving a family from a burning apartment building. So when you think about the savior, Henry, he was. Your father was a real hero.”