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<!-- SHANNON: `(To WILL.)` So, any important messages? <br />WILL: Every single one. -->Cate walks up to the phone and calls a woman named [[Summer]], one of her clients. She and says she's doing well except she can't get comfortable enough to sleep, so she's up watching TV, to which Cate suggests a natural remedy. Cate tells the others that she is a birth doula, and that many of her clients seem to appreciate someone with experience who doesn't treat pregnancy like an "illness to be cured" as is often true with nurses.[[File:Phone draft.jpg|thumb|right|''SHANNON: ''(To WILL.)'' So, any important messages? <br />WILL: Every single one.'']]
{{expand}}[[File:Radvansky Center draft.jpg|thumb|left|''MIMI: I just get this awful feeling whenever I see them. Like I knew them once, but not anymore ... like when they make up a dead person to look like an old photograph of themselves. <br />JENN: Sort of familiar, sort of strange. '']]The next video shows a cat, [[Coconut]], who Jenn mentions disappeared from the center one day without a trace. Shannon walks over, underneath an archway, to feed Coconut. The video cuts to yet another room where Shannon listens to a tape of doors opening and closing, with a questionnaire asking her to recall her thoughts before and after listening to the recording. Mimi and Jenn switch to viewing an extended monitoring tape showing Will sitting in a waiting room; Mimi comments that he looks familiar, likely having worked at the university when she was an undergrad. Mimi recounts her time in college and her distressing final year in which her boyfriend, [[Charlie]], died suddenly by falling off a roof while back home visiting his [[:Category:Lysette's family|family]]. On the following video, Shannon stands in a room with multiple TVs where she watches a number of videos about doors and answers questions about them. Mimi and Jenn discuss what happened with Weaver – a few months after her departure, bizarre events started happening around the station that persisted for years, such as interference during regular broadcasts via a jamming signal that blacked out the feed. After a few moments, a video of Weaver staring at the camera would come on, accompanied by a sinister, awful hum and creepy captions in an unconventional font. The video was the last thing broadcast before the flood. As instructed by another questionnaire, Shannon makes a phone call and talks with a man who reveals himself to be an orthopedic physical therapist; the two have a brief chat about getting to know someone based on the sound of their voice. Mimi suddenly recollects that she knew "Wise Will" from university, where he worked as a technician in the music department, frequently telling stories about the school's architecture and local history. As Shannon flips through a calendar, Mimi and Jenn change to a tape of the monitoring room in attempt to see who was working back at the time of the group's visit. The tape proves unhelpful in answering their question, but does answer another mystery – on the tape, Ezra walks into a room, greets Coconut, and promptly leaves; the cat follows him outside, taking her leave. The two switch to the final extended monitoring tape of the dock, where Conway is seen talking with three glowing skeletons. As Will, Shannon, and Ezra – now followed by Coconut – return to the dock, the skeletons disappear, and the group boards the dinghy to return to the boat. <!-- open air gallery --><!-- ezra and cate grove or will's nap -->
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[[Shannon]] stands at the helm of the [[Mucky Mammoth]], looking out at the water. She circles around the side of boat to talk to Will, and asks him for his story – a classically trained organist with a minor in French literature, he used to teach theater at the local university until a budget cut hit and he was demoted, left to do odd jobs around the campus. Eventually, he found his way to the Echo, where he met [[Cate]], the captain, and has been traveling up and down the river ever since, and helps with maintenance, mail, trash, and recording their journey. Shannon goes to talk to Cate, who assures her that they're indeed on their way to [[File:The Mucky Mammoth.png|thumb|left|''CONWAY: I've got to repay my debt. Hell, I should be grateful for the opportunity — if you want to die with any dignity, you've got to settle up. That's why it's such a damned shame when people go sudden.'']] [[Dogwood Drive]], the site of [[Conway]]'s delivery, but notes that the river is dicey tonight; in addition, they must make other stops as well – dropping off mail, picking up garbage, and delivering on a few favors – before reaching the [[Silo of Late Reflections|Silo]] mail stop. She introduces Shannon to her dog [[Valkyrie]], whom she calls Val, and tells her to take advantage of the amenities: fresh air, cozy beds, and hot tea – and also mentions that the video room on the boat contains some interesting-but-weird VCR tapes, including one of a woman talking with no sound except for a strange hum. As Cate heads back inside, [[Ezra]] runs up to Shannon and asks for batteries for a tape recorder [[Johnny]] lent him.
Ezra heads inside the cabin where he encounters Junebug and Johnny sitting with another musician named [[Clara]]. They tell him that him she's come from Lithuania to play a concert on the Echo River, after which she'll continue on to play in Nashville and Atlanta, and then the coast. Junebug also mentions another musician, [[Cyrano]], and notes that he's playing tonight at [[The Rum Colony]] where she was supposed to meet with a woman to pick up some old engine parts three hours ago. Johnny sends Ezra out with his tape recorder to collect "found sounds" for Clara to use in her performance. As he exits, Conway walks into the room and grabs a beer from the fridge with his now-skeletal right arm after being sober for 15 months. He heads outside and has a conversation with Shannon about his drinking. He reminisces about [[Lysette]]'s kindness, and mentions says that he has to repay his debt to the [[Hard Times Distillery|distillery]].
[[File:Echo River.png|thumb|right|''WILL: I'm sure I talk too much — everyone on this river does. The problem is that we ''listen'' twice as much as that. We're only telling you half of the stories we hear!'']]
On the other side of the beach, she encounters Bureau clerks [[Luis]], [[Ed Böhm|Böhm]], and [[Rebecca Metzstein|Metzstein]], while [[Rick]] is passed out in the sand. They tell her they're celebrating a milestone, although none of them know the details. The celebration was intended to be held at the Bureau, but the shipment from [[Hard Times Distillery|Hard Times]] never arrived, as the driver was in an [[Act I|accident]] en route.
[[File:The Rum Colony 2.png|thumb|right|''Will never has any money. Good for him.'']] At the bar counter and surrounding tables, Shannon meets [[Sonny and Dawn|Sonny]], who woefully mourns the world's environmental problems such as melting polar ice caps and toxic runoff, and his wife [[Sonny and Dawn|Dawn]], who apologizes for his pessimistic attitude. Nearby, the bartender, [[Patch]] talks to Junebug and Johnny. He tells Junebug that she just missed a lady with an engine for sale who she was planning to meet, and offers them drinks from dozens of options, but they decline. At the stage, Johnny talks with Cyrano, who expresses that he's hoping for tips on his performance but can't appear to the audience as if he cares if he receives them. As Cyrano plays a [[My Light Heaven|plays a song]], Johnny sets out to collect tips from the bargoers, but is only able to find a $20 bill lying in the sand.
After Cyrano's song, Johnny and Junebug agree that they're ready to set off, and Shannon goes to get Conway. As she approaches, three glowing skeletal figures sit around his table, visible only in her flashlight beam. She asks who he's talking to and, startled by her presence, he says it's nothing to worry about and the two return to the boat.
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Clara calls her older sister [[Nadia]] in Lithuania who is on the balcony of her apartment complex. Nadia tells her that their [[Andrius|Uncle Andrius]] has recently been moved to hospice care and is not accepting visitors. She suggests he would see Clara if she came home to visit, but Clara says it would be impossible to make it back in time anyway.
=== The Radvansky Center ===
Security camera footage begins playing. Two employees, [[Mimi]] and [[Jenn]], watch and discuss the undated video tapes of the group's visit to the center, mentioning were discovered by their coworker [[Darryl]] along with old questionnaires that were never processed. The two read the group's completed questionnaires and reference them against the security footage they're viewing. In the first tape, Shannon wanders around a room to inspect a poster and bookcase before sitting down to answer written questions on the purpose of her visit, her first memory, descriptions of the items in the room she just looked at, etc. Upon seeing the name "Márquez" on Shannon's file, Mimi is taken aback, and recollects her time with [[WEVP-TV]], a community television station and cooperative forcibly-funded by the [[Consolidated Power Company]] which used to screen video art she created before it was demolished in a flood. She says that she hasn't heard of Shannon Márquez, but did know [[Weaver Márquez]] who worked at the station before leaving on "weird terms." As they switch to an extended monitoring tape showing the group's arrival at the dock, Jenn remarks that Conway looks like "one of those creepy distillery guys."
[[File:Forgetting Game.png|thumb|right|''EZRA: Nine gray feathers, seven blue petals, three white doves, eight deep breaths, five slow hours.'']]
=== The Mucky Mammoth ===
Cate, Junebug, Clara, and Ezra sit playing a card game while listening to music on a cassette tape over the ''Mammoth'''s P.A. system. Conway's dog, Val, and a [[black cat]] lounge about and relax.
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