Mark’s Soliloquy

0:00

The video starts with a dark grainy photo of a window.

[white noise]

[beep]

A light is turned on, making the window more visible.

Phone Automatic Message: You have one new message.

[beep]

Concerned Friend: Hey, Mark. I just wanted you to know that everyone misses you, very much. Please call one of us back, we’re very worried.

[beep]

The video turns black before displaying text that says, in all caps, "it followed me home, Cesar."

[white noise]

0:36

A video recording taken from Mark—on September 13th, 1992 at 10:30 PM—shows him zooming in on his bedroom door as the Alternate outside taunts him.

Alternate : [glitch] Come here, Mark. I have a gift for you-you-you! I have a presen-en-en-ent! I have a surprise! I will not hurt—

It switches to text in all caps that says, "I do not want to see what is on the other side. But it has been days. And nobody has come to help me. What is life really worth. When all I can do. Is confront it all alone?"

[white noise]

1:40

Another video recording from Mark, now on September 15th, 1992.

[door creaks open]

Alternate: [laughing that grows more and more maniacal]

Mark: You fucking bastard!

[gun shot]

Text that reads, "uh oh! bad decision, mark!" in all lowercase.

[beeping]

[white noise]

2:17

[footsteps]

It is now 10:59, on the same day. The recording is pitch black at first, but once the footsteps stop, a grainy image of someone's face is seen staring deeply into the camera with wide unsettling eyes.

[breathing]

2:37

Text in all lowercase says, "i have a gift for you."

[phone dial up]

Phone Automatic Message: [beep] If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up, and then dial your operator. [beep] If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up, and then—

2:58

[rapid beeping]

Mark is seen laying on his bed, gun in hand. His face is pixelated, with a stain from his head, presumably blood. Text on top of him in all caps says, "nobody came for me."

[deep distorted laughter]

Against a black background, the texts says in all lowercase, "and now i'm free."