[footsteps] [door creaking]

[door creaking]The false door was right where Phyllis said it would be.

The vault it revealed was massive, filled with all sorts of books, cassettes, journals, even what looked like some sketchbooks.

This was exactly the motherload we were looking for.

We'd traveled a long road to get here, the Viers mansion.

Between this moment and the start of the whole thing were a ton of false starts and dead ends, but we'd soldiered through it all, primarily because the money was good and the story was compelling, which for me is a prerequisite for taking a job.

It's hard to pay attention to details when the story's a snoozer.

[footsteps]

[eerie music] [footsteps]

[footsteps]The false door was right where Phyllis said it would be.

The vault it revealed was massive, filled with all sorts of books, cassettes, journals, even what looked like some sketchbooks.

This was exactly the motherlode we were looking for.

We'd traveled a long road to get here, the Viers mansion.

Between this moment and the start of the whole thing were a ton of false starts and dead ends, but we'd soldiered through it all, primarily because the money was good and the story was compelling, which for me is a prerequisite for taking a job.

It's hard to pay attention to details when the story's a snoozer, and I was getting up in age, so I needed to keep things interesting.

Be back in just a few.

How is your dial balancing going?

I, I'm looking at the dials, and I'm watching the, the gauges, the arm of the gauges as they, uh, retain uniformity.

And they start to go out, and my eyes will flick to one, and it'll start to go out.

And then another will, will start to go, and it'll flick.

And I'll kind of, like, be darting around.

Uh, and I may even start to, to miss one as it goes.

And as I notice it, I, I quickly move over, uh, and I change, and I change the dial.

Continue.

[sighs] Phyllis, my dear, I've a feeling you're not going to enjoy this one.

Now come on, you.

That should do it.

Hello, water and power.

[footsteps] [door opening and closing]

Be back in just a few.

The three of us have worked a lot of cases together, but nothing like this one.

You generally don't see an entire town of people go missing, not since the lost colony of Roanoke at any rate.