every day gets brighter

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The video starts with a building with the Mandela County Police Department logo on the side, it is daytime as the clouds in the background are sped up. The clip is in grayscale. The sun can be seen setting.

It switches to a cassette tape, labeled, "thoughts about the ordeal."

[tape plays]

[rustling]

Thatcher (near tears): They haven't stopped till they've taken everything. [sigh] Everything I loved, everything I cared about is gone. [breathing] I'm scared, but I can't show it. I can't show any fucking weakness because if I act human- if I act like this is fucking bothering me [breaths].

Now seen is an Employee of the Month poster of Thatcher, who has straight mid length hair and facial hair.

Thatcher: They're gonna lose hope, everyone's gonna blame me for this.

Next is another grayscale photo of Thatcher, he looks down the right right while carrying a flashlight and has a police hat on.

Thatcher: Everyone doesn't know what to do. No one knows what to do- I don't know what to do.

Now seen are grayscale photos from Mark's investigation. The first shows his gun in hand, with a small marker with the number 4 on it.

Thatcher: I'm sorry I can't be the man everyone wants me to be. [sniff] I'm tired. I feel like I haven't slept in so long.

Next photo is the shell casings on the bed, the marker next to them says 5.

Thatcher: And nobody knows what we're doing. All these missing people, and they blame us for not finding them but we don't know where the fuck they went. [sniffs]

Several TV screens with static appear in a dark room.

Thatcher: They don't realize we're in the same fucking boat as they are. That thing took something from me. I feel... different.

The Intruder fades into view, it wears a hood and has a unsettling long face.

Thatcher: Seeing a perfect copy of you just walk away... Back out into the world.

The cassette tape is seen again.

Thatcher: No one's answering, no one's telling me what's going on. I'm gonna kill this thing if it's the last thing I fucking do. I'm alive... but part of me doesn't want to be.

The tape ends.