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[[File:Farmhouse.png|thumb|left|''WEAVER: That's my father's brother's daughter, Shannon. We're about the same age. Well, we used to be. She's older now.'']]
Conway drives north on [[Interstate 65]] to the Márquez residence, optionally encountering a variety of hidden locations and characters on the way. One location describes a museum with a book in the entrance. On the book's cover is written a smudged, indecipherable three-word phrase. On the first page of the book is a drawing of a horse; after several dozen blank pages is an elaborate ink drawing of a one-legged man working an antique adding machine, surrounded by whiskey bottles. Exploring further into the museum, Conway finds a marble hallway, its walls lined with plexiglass boxes filled with bird wings. If choosing to push through and shatter two glass doors, he finds another hidden door that leads to a large room filled with CD-ROMs, prints, and punchcards in envelopes labeled with real life artists' and game developers' names, along with titles of their work. One envelope's label contains the text "''If I Had My Way, I'd Tear the Building Down''. [[Joseph Wheattree|Wheattree]], 1985." Conway is able to gather that it is about three characters in a tragic "love polygon": Joseph, Donald, and Lula. [[File:Elkhorn Valley.png|thumb|right|''SHANNON: We all lost people down here. Well, not all of us. But most of us.'']] At the farmhouse, he Conway meets Weaver, who asks Conway him to set up the TV, after which she can explain how to get to the {{Zero}}. Conway sets up the TV; looking at the image displayed on the screen, Weaver says that Conway has made a mistake in setting it up. She tells Conway that it is time to start paying attention, and to look closely at the television. Looking into the screen, Conway's gaze drifts to the barn out back and spaces out.
Weaver informs him that the TV is picking up the wrong signal, but that her cousin [[Shannon]] can fix it. Although she would rather have Conway find Shannon and fix her TV, she gives him directions to the {{Zero}} on-ramp. When Conway looks away from the screen, Weaver has vanished. As Conway heads back down to his truck, [[Emily, Ben, and Bob]] can be seen and heard playing "[[You've Got to Walk]]" in the foreground.
Arriving at his destination, Conway finds that the area is an abandoned mineshaft called [[Elkhorn Mine]]. Though skeptical that the mine would house an on-ramp, he walks inside. In the entryway, he meets Shannon, who is on the phone with someone about a looming eviction. After she hangs up, Conway explains his predicament. Shannon then reveals that she encountered Weaver earlier that evening, and that Weaver told her to come to the mine to "find something she's been looking for." The two head into the mine, and Shannon has Conway test a P.A. system to measure the depth, width, and air quality of the tunnels before venturing further. During the last test, the reverberation causes the roof of the mine to collapse onto Conway, crushing his leg.