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	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==
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	[[Billy McConnell]] tracks [[Mister Corbitt the Character\|Bernard Corbitt]] to his workplace and confronts him with ~~Tomaszewski’s~~ name and the mysterious vial. Corbitt tries to bluff his way through it, but Billy catches him slipping when he pronounces Tomaszewski’s name too correctly for someone who claims not to know him. Realizing the game is up, Corbitt distracts Billy with a folder and makes a run for it through the warehouse. What follows is a full-on action sequence as Billy smashes through doors, powers through falling boxes, chases Corbitt between aisles, fires a warning shot, trips over garbage cans, and finally Superman-dives into Corbitt’s moving car to drag him out and arrest him. When Corbitt starts muttering ominously under his breath, Billy solves the problem with the time-honored policing technique of punching him in the face and hauling him back to the house handcuffed and gagged.		[[Billy McConnell]] tracks [[Mister Corbitt the Character\|Bernard Corbitt]] to his workplace and confronts him with [[Randolph Tomaszewski\|Tomaszewski]]’s name and the mysterious vial. Corbitt tries to bluff his way through it, but Billy catches him slipping when he pronounces Tomaszewski’s name too correctly for someone who claims not to know him. Realizing the game is up, Corbitt distracts Billy with a folder and makes a run for it through the warehouse. What follows is a full-on action sequence as Billy smashes through doors, powers through falling boxes, chases Corbitt between aisles, fires a warning shot, trips over garbage cans, and finally Superman-dives into Corbitt’s moving car to drag him out and arrest him. When Corbitt starts muttering ominously under his breath, Billy solves the problem with the time-honored policing technique of punching him in the face and hauling him back to the house handcuffed and gagged.

	Back at Corbitt’s residence, the rest of the investigators are preparing to explore the basement when Billy and [[Simeon Kantstandyerbitz\|Simeon]] arrive with their prisoner. The group quickly compares notes from the journals upstairs and then, in one of the evening’s more memorable moments, proudly shows Billy the severed “head-beast” they killed earlier. Corbitt panics the instant he sees both the dead creature and the open basement door, which tells the investigators they are very much on the right track. Rather than asking many more questions, they adopt the entirely reasonable plan of shoving Corbitt ahead of them as they descend into the basement in case anything horrifying is waiting below.		Back at Corbitt’s residence, the rest of the investigators are preparing to explore the basement when Billy and [[Simeon Kantstandyerbitz\|Simeon]] arrive with their prisoner. The group quickly compares notes from the journals upstairs and then, in one of the evening’s more memorable moments, proudly shows Billy the severed “head-beast” they killed earlier. Corbitt panics the instant he sees both the dead creature and the open basement door, which tells the investigators they are very much on the right track. Rather than asking many more questions, they adopt the entirely reasonable plan of shoving Corbitt ahead of them as they descend into the basement in case anything horrifying is waiting below.
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	With the creature dead, Corbitt gives a muffled shriek of grief and tries to throw himself onto it, only for Tallahassee to stab him and leave him sobbing against the corpse. Billy eventually regains consciousness, Simeon recovers enough to return from his darkness-induced refuge, and the investigators piece together what they have found: the thing below Corbitt’s house was some kind of child or gate-creature, intended to bring forth a greater being from another world. Whatever portal Tomaszewski hinted at in his testimony has now been permanently shut.		With the creature dead, Corbitt gives a muffled shriek of grief and tries to throw himself onto it, only for Tallahassee to stab him and leave him sobbing against the corpse. Billy eventually regains consciousness, Simeon recovers enough to return from his darkness-induced refuge, and the investigators piece together what they have found: the thing below Corbitt’s house was some kind of child or gate-creature, intended to bring forth a greater being from another world. Whatever portal Tomaszewski hinted at in his testimony has now been permanently shut.

	The aftermath brings an almost equally unsettling twist. Police flood the house, but once the captain and a trusted inner circle see what is in the basement, the response changes immediately. Only Billy, the captain, and a few selected detectives are allowed to know the full truth. Detective Frank Kovach and Detective Burke are brought in to view the hidden room, the rest of the officers are kept away from the real horror, and after some quiet phone calls a black sedan arrives carrying four men in dark suits who head straight into the basement. The implication is clear: there are other people, somewhere above or beyond ordinary law enforcement, who know exactly what kind of nightmare the investigators have stumbled into.		The aftermath brings an almost equally unsettling twist. Police flood the house, but once the captain and a trusted inner circle see what is in the basement, the response changes immediately. Only Billy, the captain, and a few selected detectives are allowed to know the full truth. [[Frank Kovach\|Detective Frank Kovach]] and Detective Burke are brought in to view the hidden room, the rest of the officers are kept away from the real horror, and after some quiet phone calls a black sedan arrives carrying four men in dark suits who head straight into the basement. The implication is clear: there are other people, somewhere above or beyond ordinary law enforcement, who know exactly what kind of nightmare the investigators have stumbled into.

	In the epilogue, the characters each receive a fitting ending. Billy’s role in exposing Corbitt and bringing down the case earns him both a commendation and a promotion to detective, making him the youngest officer on the force to reach that rank. Tallahassee heads home to write what will become the wildest and most unbelievable of his adventure books, ironically also the truest. Simeon returns to Mary Beth Beth with renewed affection and a badly shaken mind, needing time to recover from the knowledge that reality is far stranger and darker than he had imagined. Bakersfield goes home, washes up, drinks from one of his nice glasses, and settles into the quiet certainty that when something is wrong in the world, his job is to make it right. Dom, perhaps most poignantly, realizes he is no longer alone. After all his wandering and grief, he has finally found people he may be able to trust—people who might understand enough to help him continue his search for the truth.		In the epilogue, the characters each receive a fitting ending. Billy’s role in exposing Corbitt and bringing down the case earns him both a commendation and a promotion to detective, making him the youngest officer on the force to reach that rank. Tallahassee heads home to write what will become the wildest and most unbelievable of his adventure books, ironically also the truest. Simeon returns to [[Mary BethBethBeth\|Mary Beth Beth]] with renewed affection and a badly shaken mind, needing time to recover from the knowledge that reality is far stranger and darker than he had imagined. Bakersfield goes home, washes up, drinks from one of his nice glasses, and settles into the quiet certainty that when something is wrong in the world, his job is to make it right. Dom, perhaps most poignantly, realizes he is no longer alone. After all his wandering and grief, he has finally found people he may be able to trust—people who might understand enough to help him continue his search for the truth.

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William Jodeit: Cross-link episodes and characters

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	Billy McConnell tracks Bernard Corbitt to his workplace and confronts him with Tomaszewski’s name and the mysterious vial. Corbitt tries to bluff his way through it, but Billy catches him slipping when he pronounces Tomaszewski’s name too correctly for someone who claims not to know him. Realizing the game is up, Corbitt distracts Billy with a folder and makes a run for it through the warehouse. What follows is a full-on action sequence as Billy smashes through doors, powers through falling boxes, chases Corbitt between aisles, fires a warning shot, trips over garbage cans, and finally Superman-dives into Corbitt’s moving car to drag him out and arrest him. When Corbitt starts muttering ominously under his breath, Billy solves the problem with the time-honored policing technique of punching him in the face and hauling him back to the house handcuffed and gagged.		[[Billy McConnell]] tracks [[Mister Corbitt the Character\|Bernard Corbitt]] to his workplace and confronts him with Tomaszewski’s name and the mysterious vial. Corbitt tries to bluff his way through it, but Billy catches him slipping when he pronounces Tomaszewski’s name too correctly for someone who claims not to know him. Realizing the game is up, Corbitt distracts Billy with a folder and makes a run for it through the warehouse. What follows is a full-on action sequence as Billy smashes through doors, powers through falling boxes, chases Corbitt between aisles, fires a warning shot, trips over garbage cans, and finally Superman-dives into Corbitt’s moving car to drag him out and arrest him. When Corbitt starts muttering ominously under his breath, Billy solves the problem with the time-honored policing technique of punching him in the face and hauling him back to the house handcuffed and gagged.

	Back at Corbitt’s residence, the rest of the investigators are preparing to explore the basement when Billy and Simeon arrive with their prisoner. The group quickly compares notes from the journals upstairs and then, in one of the evening’s more memorable moments, proudly shows Billy the severed “head-beast” they killed earlier. Corbitt panics the instant he sees both the dead creature and the open basement door, which tells the investigators they are very much on the right track. Rather than asking many more questions, they adopt the entirely reasonable plan of shoving Corbitt ahead of them as they descend into the basement in case anything horrifying is waiting below.		Back at Corbitt’s residence, the rest of the investigators are preparing to explore the basement when Billy and [[Simeon Kantstandyerbitz\|Simeon]] arrive with their prisoner. The group quickly compares notes from the journals upstairs and then, in one of the evening’s more memorable moments, proudly shows Billy the severed “head-beast” they killed earlier. Corbitt panics the instant he sees both the dead creature and the open basement door, which tells the investigators they are very much on the right track. Rather than asking many more questions, they adopt the entirely reasonable plan of shoving Corbitt ahead of them as they descend into the basement in case anything horrifying is waiting below.

	The basement proves to be far worse than expected. The investigators discover a hidden laboratory beneath the house, complete with chemicals, surgical instruments, blood spatters, and refrigerated stores of human nerves, tendons, and blood vessels. A seemingly empty cabinet gives off a terrible smell, and when they probe further they find it conceals a hidden passage. Beyond it lies a dark, foul, dirt-floored chamber with a damp floor and a stench so awful it becomes almost tangible. As they force Corbitt into the tunnel, he resists in mounting terror, making it obvious that whatever is hidden ahead is the true secret he has been protecting.		The basement proves to be far worse than expected. The investigators discover a hidden laboratory beneath the house, complete with chemicals, surgical instruments, blood spatters, and refrigerated stores of human nerves, tendons, and blood vessels. A seemingly empty cabinet gives off a terrible smell, and when they probe further they find it conceals a hidden passage. Beyond it lies a dark, foul, dirt-floored chamber with a damp floor and a stench so awful it becomes almost tangible. As they force Corbitt into the tunnel, he resists in mounting terror, making it obvious that whatever is hidden ahead is the true secret he has been protecting.

	Around the corner they encounter the campaign’s final monstrosity: a gigantic, shambling mass of mucus, flesh, limbs, vents, and grasping arms, roughly the size of a bull and assembled from stolen body parts into something grotesquely alive. It breathes through puckering holes in its sides, drags itself through the muck, and leaks horrible brown fluid as it advances. Most disturbing of all, Corbitt does not react with fear but with open adoration, gazing tearfully at the thing like a proud lover or parent. The reveal hits the party hard. Bakersfield keeps his cool through sheer wartime nerve, but Billy faints dead away from the shock, while Simeon suffers a bout of temporary madness that leaves him desperate to hide in darkness, fleeing back into the lab to smash the lights and cower there in comforting gloom.		Around the corner they encounter the campaign’s final monstrosity: a gigantic, shambling mass of mucus, flesh, limbs, vents, and grasping arms, roughly the size of a bull and assembled from stolen body parts into something grotesquely alive. It breathes through puckering holes in its sides, drags itself through the muck, and leaks horrible brown fluid as it advances. Most disturbing of all, Corbitt does not react with fear but with open adoration, gazing tearfully at the thing like a proud lover or parent. The reveal hits the party hard. [[Major Bakersfield\|Bakersfield]] keeps his cool through sheer wartime nerve, but Billy faints dead away from the shock, while Simeon suffers a bout of temporary madness that leaves him desperate to hide in darkness, fleeing back into the lab to smash the lights and cower there in comforting gloom.

	Combat with the creature is chaotic, filthy, and frequently hilarious. The table immediately starts calling it everything from a “multi-bear” to a “butt monster” and a “diarrhea monster,” which does not lessen the danger at all. Dom opens fire with his revolver, Bakersfield blasts huge chunks out of it with his shotgun, and Tallahassee steps up behind them like a two-fisted gunslinger, emptying both a .45 and a .38 in full Doc Holliday fashion. Tallahassee’s shooting is gloriously mixed: some shots tear into the creature, others go wild, and one nearly grazes Bakersfield, prompting a very justified lack of confidence in the overall plan. Corbitt, meanwhile, repeatedly tries to interfere and protect his beloved monster, only to get kicked out from under himself and knocked back into the wall.		Combat with the creature is chaotic, filthy, and frequently hilarious. The table immediately starts calling it everything from a “multi-bear” to a “butt monster” and a “diarrhea monster,” which does not lessen the danger at all. [[Dom Druncard\|Dom]] opens fire with his revolver, Bakersfield blasts huge chunks out of it with his shotgun, and [[Tallahassee Turner\|Tallahassee]] steps up behind them like a two-fisted gunslinger, emptying both a .45 and a .38 in full Doc Holliday fashion. Tallahassee’s shooting is gloriously mixed: some shots tear into the creature, others go wild, and one nearly grazes Bakersfield, prompting a very justified lack of confidence in the overall plan. Corbitt, meanwhile, repeatedly tries to interfere and protect his beloved monster, only to get kicked out from under himself and knocked back into the wall.

	The fight reaches its climax when the abomination surges forward and nearly devours Major Bakersfield, grabbing him with several arms and trying to shove him into its ringed, tooth-lined maw. Bakersfield barely keeps himself alive by jamming his elephant gun sideways across its mouth and holding it back by brute force. With Simeon out of action and Billy unconscious, Dom becomes the unlikely hero of the hour. He rushes forward, braces himself behind Bakersfield, thrusts his revolver directly into the creature’s mouth, and fires repeatedly at point-blank range. In a genuinely dramatic final moment, Dom thinks of Fiona and then cries out Sam’s name as his shots finally strike something vital. The monster collapses in a heap, wheezing and convulsing until at last it falls still.		The fight reaches its climax when the abomination surges forward and nearly devours Major Bakersfield, grabbing him with several arms and trying to shove him into its ringed, tooth-lined maw. Bakersfield barely keeps himself alive by jamming his elephant gun sideways across its mouth and holding it back by brute force. With Simeon out of action and Billy unconscious, Dom becomes the unlikely hero of the hour. He rushes forward, braces himself behind Bakersfield, thrusts his revolver directly into the creature’s mouth, and fires repeatedly at point-blank range. In a genuinely dramatic final moment, Dom thinks of Fiona and then cries out Sam’s name as his shots finally strike something vital. The monster collapses in a heap, wheezing and convulsing until at last it falls still.

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	Billy McConnell tracks Bernard Corbitt to his workplace and confronts him with Tomaszewski’s name and the mysterious vial. Corbitt tries to bluff his way through it, but Billy catches him slipping when he pronounces Tomaszewski’s name too correctly for someone who claims not to know him. Realizing the game is up, Corbitt distracts Billy with a folder and makes a run for it through the warehouse. What follows is a full-on action sequence as Billy smashes through doors, powers through falling boxes, chases Corbitt between aisles, fires a warning shot, trips over garbage cans, and finally Superman-dives into Corbitt’s moving car to drag him out and arrest him. When Corbitt starts muttering ominously under his breath, Billy solves the problem with the time-honored policing technique of punching him in the face and hauling him back to the house handcuffed and gagged.		Billy McConnell tracks Bernard Corbitt to his workplace and confronts him with Tomaszewski’s name and the mysterious vial. Corbitt tries to bluff his way through it, but Billy catches him slipping when he pronounces Tomaszewski’s name too correctly for someone who claims not to know him. Realizing the game is up, Corbitt distracts Billy with a folder and makes a run for it through the warehouse. What follows is a full-on action sequence as Billy smashes through doors, powers through falling boxes, chases Corbitt between aisles, fires a warning shot, trips over garbage cans, and finally Superman-dives into Corbitt’s moving car to drag him out and arrest him. When Corbitt starts muttering ominously under his breath, Billy solves the problem with the time-honored policing technique of punching him in the face and hauling him back to the house handcuffed and gagged.

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