condition. while her body slowly, slowly began to knit itself back together, until more than a month later -- >> and her eyes just went poof. that was just like the most incredible feeling of she's there. she's in there. and your heart just beating. >> it was days later before justine could understand what was going on around her. but the news had to be faced eventually. and so when she seemed ready, they told her. >> when you told her what happened in the accident and how those other people had died, how did she react to that? >> it was very emotional for her. it was very devastating. >> and then what was discovered was, well, quite frankly unimaginable for in the middle of that river of tears, relief on the one side, abject grief on the other, there was an under tow, a twist nobody saw coming.