
After initially hesitating, Jill eventually went back and got him his jacket. One night, when Jill was about to leave the clinic, Cecil Adams, one of her patients, knocked at the security door at entrance, claiming that he had forgotten his jacket in the waiting room.

As a surprise for her, he also presented Jill his self-made presents for Gideon, a cot and a wooden puppet, showing that he was just as devoted to his son as he was to his wife. This clock greatly fascinated him as the clockwork was almost 300 years old and still worked. Thereby, he showed her an old clock he had told her about and which was part of a deal he had made. At some point, John obtained a new workshop that he proudly showed to Jill. It was also him who gave their son his name, Gideon, the same name as John's first building.

John had already meticulously planned that their son should be born during the year of the pig in the Chinese zodiac.

At one point in her life, Jill Tuck, who ran the Homeward Bound Clinic, a recovery clinic for drug addicts, became pregnant by her husband, John Kramer, who was a successful civil engineer.
