The Black Tapes · Pacific Northwest Stories

Into the Black

January 12, 2020·27 min·2 clips
Alex watches a video of herself sleeping as a tall, shadowy figure stands in her dark bedroom.
Alex Reagan investigates a surveillance video of herself sleeping with a shadowy intruder, while tensions rise with Nick over her objectivity towards Dr. Strand. Mysterious warnings about the Cenefis and Thomas Warren's apocalypse plot lead to a fraught decision about traveling to Geneva, culminating in a personal proposal to escape it all.

As heard by us

A blocked-number voice message turns a Geneva trip into a tense test of escape, trust, and unfinished danger.

Richard Strand's alarm becomes the hinge of the episode. Police have found no sign of forced entry at the narrator's apartment, yet Strand arrives shaken by a blocked-number voice message and by a fear that sits outside his usual control.

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You get a blocked voice message, Geneva waiting, and a dinner-table escape plan with two possible planes.

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