(Jacques is distraught over the loss of Claire.)
Jacques: Hey, um, Éponine?
Éponine: Yeah?
Jacques: Could you hold my baby for a second?
Éponine: Sure.
Jacques: Thanks.
(Jacques passes her the baby, then takes off running.)
Éponine: Wait! Where are you—? Oh well.
(Jacques is running along, perhaps trying to find the firing squad and let them kill him as well.)
Voice: Hey, Jacques! Where are you going?
(Jacques stops, recognizing said Voice.)
Jacques: Who is that?
Voice: It's me, dear.
(Jacques turns to see a woman with short blonde hair and no front teeth, who seems a little blurry around the edges.)
Jacques: Mom?
Mysterious Woman: Yes, Jacques.
Jacques: B- but you died!
Mysterious Woman: Yeah...
Jacques: Oh, well, what?
Mysterious Woman: I just think you should know that abandoning your child with a Thénardier is not such a good idea. You'll miss the kid like crazy, and then never get to see her again.
Jacques: You mean him.
Mysterious Woman: Right... what did I say?
Jacques: Her.
Mysterious Woman: Oh.
Jacques: How do you know?
Mysterious Woman: What?
Jacques: That leaving your child with a Thénardier is so awful.
Mysterious Woman: I've done it, of course! And if I hadn't, you, me, and Cosette would all be living happily somewhere in the Parisian countryside.
Jacques: Cosette? You mean, the crazy old man's daughter?
Mysterious Woman: My daughter. Your sister.
Jacques: The crying girl obsessed with Marius Pontmercy was my sister?
Mysterious Woman: What do you mean, was?
Jacques: Well, she'd dead.
Mysterious Woman: What? NOOO!
(She disappears in a cloud of tears.)
Jacques: Wait, aren't you dead too...? Never mind, then.
(And, realizing that what she said is true, he returns to the group.)
