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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, Conway meets Weaver, who asks him to set up the TV, after which she can explain how to get to the {{Zero}}. Conway sets up the TV; looking as they look 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 screenagain, Conway's gaze drifts to the barn out back and he 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 playing "[[You've Got to Walk]]" in the foreground.