| Aired on 10.05.2000
As the show opens, we see Derek Barnes working at a computer as he tells us via voice-over that his brother had a website called occultresearch.com, and that said brother hired Derek as his lead investigator. As we close in, we learn that he is recording this speech into his computer. This is what's known in the trade as "a framing device." Derek says that his job is simple: "To get out into the world, and gather the truth behind these strange, bizarre stories, and post them on the site." Derek didn't really care about the stories, but it was fun and a chance to work with his brother, until "the night [he] walked into that roadside bar." And isn't that how all good stories start? Walking into a roadside bar? Well, except for the "good" part. The roadside bar in question has a neon sign of a scantily clad women, and as DVO (Derek voice-over) tells us that "nothing in [his] life would ever be the same again," a plume of flame shoots out of the sign's right breast. Huh? What kind of crazy-ass bar is this? Plus, please. Couldn't the writers come up with anything less hackneyed than "nothing in my life would ever be the same again"? This does not bode well for this show.
Inside the bar, men are drinking and women are dancing on a stage. Derek is telling a waitress that she doesn't understand, and she launches into possibly the worst faux-Southern accent ever, saying, "If I hay-ed a daah-lerr ev'ry tahm I herd thay-at!" Derek continues to pester the poor waitress (while checking out her ass), saying that he's heard rumors about "dancers who burned up on stage" and "went up in flames in the middle of a lap dance." Now, I'm not too familiar with the gentlemen's clubs, but don't lap dances normally take place offstage? Not to be all nit-picky, but as you will see, this is but one example of the lazy writing on this show (or at least this episode). I'm sure we've all heard the stories about how the head guy left the show, because Fox wanted the show to be less "edgy," and then they had to reshoot scenes for the pilot to make the tone lighter. So keep that in mind, too. Anyway, the waitress has completely lost the Southern accent and is all, "Why do you want to know?" and Derek gives her a business card with the website's URL on it. She asks if Derek is a "computer geek," and Derek says that his brother is the geek. He's "just a surfer trying to keep corn flakes on the table." Okay, here's how much of a "computer geek" I am: when he said "surfer", I thought he meant "web surfer" and I didn't get it. But as you have probably figured out, he meant surf-in-the-ocean surfer. And P.S. -- who talks like that? "Corn flakes on the table"? The waitress is impressed for some reason. Derek's cell phone rings, and he answers it, "This had better be life and death." Shouldn't that be "life or death"? It's Adam, and Derek is all "slow down" but trying to get off the phone so that he can hook up with the waitress. Eventually, Derek pretends that the call is breaking up to end it, reassuring himself that his brother will understand. Derek checks himself out in the mirror, but then something weird happens, and if the special effects were better, I could tell you what happened. Instead, it just looks like Derek turns into a mummy for a second. This freaks Derek out, and another problem I have with his characterization is that for someone whose day job is to investigate the paranormal, he is pretty easily freaked out. You'd think he would develop some immunity. Anyway, he calms down and goes off with the waitress, as the camera zooms in on a painting of a house in the background.
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The painting turns into a real house, and it's big and spooky, and there is (of course) lots of thunder and lightning. Derek pulls up, and we see his Florida license plate, which reads "Surf WWW." See, to me that still says that he's a web surfer. ["Or a tool. Or both!" -- Wing Chun] Derek runs up to the house, and when Adam (whose house this is) doesn't answer the door or respond to his yells, Derek uses the spare key to open it. All is dark inside, and when Derek flips the light switch, nothing happens. He flicks a lighter, commenting that "this place smells nasty" and starts up the stairs. But wait! There's water coming down the stairs. There's water in the upstairs hallway. There's water everywhere! Derek pushes open the door to the bathroom, but I think he took a wrong turn somewhere onto the set of the video for "King of Pain" because of all the candles. The shower curtain is drawn so we can't see what's in the tub. Derek sogs through the water on the floor and jerks back the curtain to reveal dead floaty Adam at the bottom of the bloody-water filled tub. Ew! Derek reaches into the water and pulls out his brother's dead body, while sobbing, "Oh my God! I'm so sorry!" So, okay. That would pretty much suck. And now we've established that Derek feels responsible for Adam's (alleged) suicide. Cue credits.
Derek continues to speak into the computer, saying that it's now three years later, and he probably should have shut down the website after Adam's death, but it felt unfinished and unresolved. He changed the name of the site to "Freakylinks" and took on a partner. Cue wacky partner intro via handheld video camera. Derek's partner (whose name we have yet to learn) clearly always messes things up. We see the two of them preparing to enter some barn, and the partner gets all the details of the plan wrong. Partner takes the camera to shoot the "opening crawl," where Derek tells us that he and his partner Jason (ah!) are there to investigate "the black market purchase" of an occult icon, "the severed head of the great Seminole war chief, Osceola." Derek and Jason exit their car to enter a barn where the purchase is supposed to go down. Derek pauses to give us the mission of the Freakylinks team: "To uncover the truth behind the strange and unusual, to answer the questions that have no answers, and take you with us." Derek enters the barn and spies on someone he informs us is "Gunter Mahlburg, the vertically-challenged Donald Trump of occult collecting." We see a really short guy counting off bills as Derek zooms in on the severed head in some sort of jar. Suddenly, one of the head's eyes opens, and Derek yells, "Whoa!" which causes the people in the barn to notice him. He takes off and we are treated to shaky-cam of him running out and dropping the camera on the ground.
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Some chick who looks a little bit like Scary Spice was watching the video footage on a computer, and she turns and says, "You've gotta be kidding me!" and then asks Derek and Jason what happened . Derek says, "They caught us and they killed us." Scary Spice believes it for a second, like how dumb is she? Then she says it's not easy always being the one left behind, so clearly she is the Velma in this Scooby Gang. Derek reveals that Scary's name is "Lan" (pronounced "Lahn") and says they can't waste her brain out in the field, and she keeps the whole operation going. He butters her up some more, and she says, "Really?" and he says, "Absitively!" Ugh! No one talks like that! No one, ever, has said the word "absitively," and if they did, they should be shot. He asks Lan to figure out what made the severed head's eyes move. After she walks off, Derek looks...something (Ethan Embry's not a very good actor, so I can't tell if he's upset with Lan, or with himself, or not upset at all). Jason asks what's up, and Derek says that they needed the severed head because their "new subscribers are down 37\%" and that's the third time this month that Mahlburg scooped them. Subscribers? So their revenue depends on subscribers? No wonder they aren't making any money. ["Pfft -- really. Everyone knows that revenue model does not work on the web, and only total idiots still try to use it." -- Wing Chun] Jason throws a dart into a poster of Mahlburg on the wall, and asks if business is really that bad. Derek says that if they were a horse, they'd have been shot by now. Jason looks at the image of the severed head on Derek's computer monitor, and shakes his head. This is important later.
Derek walks over to the fridge and looks at a picture of himself and Adam. See, they're twins. But Adam's hair is slicked back because he's the Elizabeth, and Derek's hair is wild because he's the Jessica, in Wakefield terms. Jason reaches into frame and grabs the last can of soda before Derek can get it. Then there's a really weird scene that I guess was inserted to "lighten up" the episode, where Jason talks about some chick named "Sissy Bargo" who has gotten fat, but still turns him on, and it disturbs him. So, Jason is dumb, inconsiderate and offensive. And they keep him around, why, exactly?
Derek logs onto his computer and is told he has eighty-seven new messages. ["Rookie!" -- Wing Chun] This causes him to comment to Lan that "the wack pack has been busy." As his email messages load, Derek looks at a picture of Adam and some chick and says that maybe he should have left the website the way Adam left it. Lan comments that it was a "dry, academic wasteland of occult novelties" and that even the name sucked. Yeah, because "Freakylinks" is rocking the house. Adam sees one email with no subject from a "Lazarus," so he opens it. A QuickTime video launches wherein a woman with braided hair walks by and then someone who looks remarkably like Adam follows her. Derek calls Lan over, and she accuses him of "stalking women at the ATM." Derek says it's not him (didn't she notice the slicked-back hair?) because he doesn't own a bank card and he's never been that place in his life. Lan asks if it's a video of Adam before he died, but Derek points out that "the time code" says that the "footage was taken the day before yesterday." Yeah, and I'm sure the time code couldn't be faked. I still don't get how these people are supposed to be searching for the truth behind strange stories, and yet they don't seem to be at all cynical or skeptical. That was my first thought -- that it was faked.
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Lan asks if Derek is sure that isn't him in the video, and Derek points out a (barely noticeable) scar above Adam's eye, caused by Derek pushing him off his bike when they were six. Nice! Lan says that this video is the result of some serious video effects, "Hollywood-level stuff" and that she needs to "figure out the password" so they can get into "this protected website." What website? It's a video. Was there a link in the email somewhere? I hate when television shows try to use computers and just assume that the viewers won't know or care enough if they get the details wrong. As Lan brings up the "website" (which looks a lot like a telnet window), she is prompted for a password. ["Just override the password request! That always works on TV!" -- Wing Chun] Derek reaches over and types something into the keyboard. Lan asks what it was, and Derek says it was "a made-up name Adam and [he] used to call each other -- twinspeak." It that anything like Twin Peaks? Derek says that he and Adam always used to know what the other was thinking, show up at the same restaurants, finish each other's sentences, and sometimes Derek would pick up the phone before it even rang, and Adam would be on the other end. If that's true, wouldn't Derek have known that Adam was going to kill himself? I have to say the whole twin phenomenon is cool and spooky -- I have friends who are twins, and they really do all that stuff he said. Anyway, Derek has guessed the correct password, and the screen goes black, and then the word "Croatoan" is written on it. Lan asks what it is. I know exactly what it means, but I'll wait and let the show explain it.
Back to Framing Device Derek, recording his monologue on a computer. He says he had no idea what it meant. Just then, Jason walks in and interrupts, and asks if he can sit there for a moment, and that he'll be quiet. Derek starts up again, but of course Jason interrupts him. Like, ha ha, not. Anyway, this scene (like the scene with Jason) was so unnecessary and just screams "Scene Inserted After The Fact To Inject Some Levity." Derek says that the whole thing made him decide to get in touch with "the one person who loved Adam as much as [he] did."
Cut to a boxing ring. Blue Sweatshirt is beating on Gray Sweatshirt, and finally knocks him out. Blue sweatshirt takes off her headgear to reveal that she is a chick. Derek (who has been watching the whole time) advises her to pick on someone her own size. Blue sweatshirt is suddenly out-of-breath, even though she seemed fine before, and wheezes, "D-Derek?"
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Cut to a locker room where Derek asks about the boxing thing, and the girl says that it's "great for relieving the body of stress." She asks if he is still "chasing things that go bump in the night." Derek says he "makes a living at that circus" and the girl points out that "Adam never saw a dime when his name was on it." Derek says that Adam wasn't about the money. The girl looks at him for a while, and Derek's all, "What?" and she's all, "I forgot how much you two look alike." Like, duh! They're identical (I assume) twins! Derek asks "Chloe" if she's ever heard the word "Croatoan." Chloe grabs her stuff and starts to book out of there, like maybe she just took an American history class like the rest of us, and that's where she heard it. Chloe tells him to "stay away" and Derek says that he knows it's hard for her, but that he wouldn't have come if it wasn't important.
At Chloe's apartment, Derek shows her a printout of the video of Adam, and says that he had Lan run "video scans" and the video hasn't been tampered with. Well, I'm convinced. Chloe thinks it's a hoax and the "Internet freaks" are screwing with his head. Derek reveals that the night Adam died, Derek "had a vision" that he can't explain.
Cut to later that evening, where Chloe is showing Derek some research Adam did about the Roanoke colony, a group of settlers brought over from Europe by John White in 1587. John White sailed back to England for supplies and left the settlers at Roanoke, departing only a few days after his granddaughter, Virginia Dare (a.k.a. first English child born in what would become America), was born. Throughout this explanation, we see a cheesy re-enactment of the proceedings, but I'm going to ignore it and stay with Chloe's voice-over. Trust me on this one. When John White returned four years later, the camp was deserted, and one hundred fifteen people had vanished without a trace. There was no evidence that the colonists were absorbed into local Indian tribes. Well, that's not exactly true, but I'll go with the show's revisionist history. Chloe says that the fate of the Roanoke colony is "the Holy Grail of urban legends." As my boyfriend pointed out, isn't the Holy Grail the Holy Grail of urban legends? Derek asks about the word "Croatoan," and Chloe replies that it's an island near the settlement, and White found the word carved into a tree, so he thought maybe the settlers fled there, but "he never had a chance to go there." "Didn't have a chance"? No, I didn't have a chance to finish this recap yesterday. But if my entire family disappeared, I don't think "didn't have a chance" would come into play.
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In the re-enactment, we see John White looking at the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree (in real life, it was carved into a fence post -- details, people!) and then some weird-looking glyphs carved into the tree as well. Chloe explains that Adam believed John White's journal was incomplete, and that White really found something so horrifying that it was expunged from public record. Re-enactment John White reaches into a crevice in the base of the carved-up tree and pulls out a strip of burlap. He unwraps it to reveal a chain with a round charm on it, which is covered in glyphs similar to those on the tree. As he looks at it, we hear what the captioning calls "ghostly laughter." John White turns to see a little girl in a hooded robe standing behind him, but when he grabs his torch to get a better view, the little girl is gone. He sees her walking further away, and calls out, "Virginia?" and drops the necklace to walk closer. The little girl starts running, and John White gives chase. Wouldn't John White have an English accent? He has kind of a New England-y Grams-from-Dawson's-Creek thing going on. Anyway, Virginia stops in a clearing and turns to look at him, and her face is covered in green makeup. Why? Who knows. We see something rushing at John White as he screams in terror, and then we go to commercial.
Derek looks at some pictures of "Virginia Dare" as Chloe tells him that some local tribes had legends about her being a "shape-shifter," and that Adam became obsessed with one particular passage he believed came from John White's diary. It read, "But dreadfully, in the stead of my granddaughter, there awaited for me something born not of man, something fearsum." Hey, remember when this show was supposed to be titled "Fearsum"? Yeah, me too. Derek pages through some of Adam's notes, which contain lots of drawings of glyphs similar to those carved into the tree in the re-enactment. Derek asks if the name "V. Elsing" means anything to Chloe, and she says no. Derek plans to find out who is "playing games with [his] mind" by starting "at the beginning." He's going to go back to Colonial times? What is this, Quantum Leap? I wish it was Quantum Leap.
Derek and Chloe enter Adam's house, which I guess we are supposed to believe has stood vacant for the past three years, and yet has no damage of any kind, and wasn't vandalized by local youths. Derek hands Chloe a camera and tells her to "keep the tape running." Via Chloe-cam, we see Derek going through pictures and bookshelves. She asks why he never cleared out Adam's things. Why didn't she? Derek says he didn't want to accept "the truth about what happened." Wait, aren't they supposed to be in Florida? Who wears leather jackets in Florida in October? Chloe goes into the bedroom and has a voice-over flashback of her and Adam together. Derek asks if she's okay, and she snaps out of it and volunteers to check the bathroom. Derek says he will, and gently takes the camera from her. Derek goes in and pulls back the closed shower curtain to reveal -- Adam's decomposing body! Ha! Just kidding. That would have been kind of cool, though. There's nothing there, but he films the walls and ceiling anyway.
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As Derek closes the medicine cabinet and sees himself in the mirror, he has a vision of Adam (slicked-back hair, remember?) looking at himself in the same mirror. Adam drops his cell phone on the floor and looks sad. We get quick flashes of Adam and Derek as kids, and then the Braids Lady that Adam was following in the QuickTime video. Adam picks up a razor blade and fingers it. Outside the house, something is growling. Adam sinks into the bloody water as the something outside rushes in the door, and up the stairs -- and Derek breaks out of his vision and stares into the cracked mirror. The camera moves to look at Chloe, outside in the yard. She looks up at the window and sees a really creepy shot of Adam, watching her. Derek exits the house and Chloe says she saw his face in the window. Derek says he wasn't at that window. They both look up, and Derek says it was a mistake to bring her there, and tries to rush her away from the house. Chloe protests, and then finally says that Derek was not the only one Adam called the night he died. She continues, "Adam was changing. I begged him to shut down the website, to walk away, but he wouldn't. He couldn't. He called me that night...and I hung up on him." Thus, Chloe concludes, Derek isn't the only one carrying Adam's death around inside him. Derek looks stunned as his cell phone rings. He finally answers, and Lan tells him she tracked down "V. Elsing". He used to be a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Baltimore. Derek asks where he is now.
Cut to the Psychiatric Unit of Loughmann Medical Center. Some guy (V. Elsing, presumably) is chained to a table in an observation room. Helpful Guard tells Derek and Chloe that Elsing was first picked up for disturbing the peace. Derek asks what happened to his face (which we haven't seen yet) and Helpful Guard says that Elsing "went crazy last night" and attacked one of his guards, and it "took six men to bring him down." I've never spent time in a psychiatric hospital, but I would guess that after attacking guards, said patient would be put on heavy medication. Derek wants to talk to Elsing, but Helpful Guard isn't so helpful in that respect, so Derek slips him a twenty. Helpful Guard says they can have five minutes and gives Derek the money back.
Derek and Elsing sit in a room, and Elsing says "they're not human, the ones that you're looking for." Derek wants to know who he's looking for. Elsing starts babbling about when you hear something in your house at night and you start turning the place upside down to make sure your home is still safe. Derek says that has happened to him, and Elsing says that maybe he really did hear something, like "something else, something fearsome." There's that old title again! Elsing says "they feed on fear," and the only way to stay safe is not to feel terror. Derek asks what he's seen, and Elsing says, "More than enough." He reaches up to scratch his nose or something, and reveals a tattoo on his wrist that looks like the ones on the Croatoan tree or in Adam's notes, and then yells, "You only see what your mind can handle." Derek says he doesn't understand, and Elsing says Adam didn't either, at first, but it doesn't matter because "they'll be coming soon...real soon." And I know that I always take paranoid ramblings of unmedicated psychiatric patients seriously.
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Derek and Chloe exit the hospital, and Derek tells her what Elsing said, and about his tattoos. Chloe says it "gets even crazier" because she "checked the date on Elsing's admittance" and it was "the same night that Adam died." I guess the "even crazier" part is that hospital staff would give out that information. Derek spots Braids Woman walking nearby. In case you didn't get it, they show a clip of the QuickTime video. Derek knocks Chloe aside and follows Braids Lady into a building. Chloe follows and Derek stops inside the doors and tells her that it was "the woman from the ATM footage." Chloe wonders where she went, and Derek doesn't know. The camera pans out from the two of them standing there, and reveals that there are like eight sets of doors the woman could have gone through. Wouldn't that have been more effective if it had been a long hallway with no doors? Yes, it would have.
Uh-oh, montage alert. Flashback to Adam's death. Braids Woman. Virginia Dare. Younger Adam and Derek. The necklace that John White found in the tree. Derek reaching down into the tub to grab Adam's dead body, but this time Adam pops up like Glenn Close at the end of Fatal Attraction. Derek wakes up from a nightmare and hears what the captioning calls, "floorboards creak." Derek grabs a baseball bat from beside his bed and starts wandering around his apartment (which is also the Freakylinks offices), but he keeps hearing creaking coming from different places. As Derek walks by the glass door (with his back to it), we see Virginia Dare hovering in the air outside. Okay, that was creepy. Derek turns around and goes out the door, and I'm all, "No! Don't go outside!" As Derek walks down the steps, a shadowy figure passes in front of the camera. Derek walks across the lawn, where there are some sails flapping in the breeze. I guess they are attached to surfboards or something. Through the sails, he can see Virginia Dare. Well, we know it's Virginia Dare, but he probably doesn't. Derek (baseball bat in hand) starts to make his way over there, but suddenly Virginia Dare has changed into Adam. Derek's all, "Adam?" and we hear the same snarling and growling from scenes, as Adam/Virginia rushes towards Derek. Suddenly, Lan is there, saying that she has "insomnia" and "thought [she]'d get some work done on the Osceola screen grabs." Derek looks back at the now empty spot where he last saw Adam and says that he has a better idea. Then they stand around and breathe heavily for like ten minutes. Cut the scene already! Also, that was the one scary scene of the entire show.
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Lan and Derek are at a computer, and Lan asks what they're looking for, exactly. Derek isn't sure, and Lan rolls her eyes at him, and asks how Chloe is. Lan, it must be said, it moving her mouse in circles, as if that would be effective. Can't they find actors who have actually used a computer before? Lan says it must be strange to see Chloe, since she almost married Adam. Derek doesn't take the bait, and tells Lan to zoom in closer on one spot. Lan says, "She's pretty." Are we supposed to understand that Lan is jealous of Chloe? Because she likes Derek? I don't get it. Anyway, Derek sees something on the wall behind the tub, and Lan takes a closer look. It looks like the wallpaper is peeling away to reveal something awfully similar to the glyphs from Adam's notebook (and Elsing's tattoo, and on the Croatoan tree). Lan is amazed, and turns to talk to Derek, but he's gone. Now, they were sitting side by side. How could he have run out without her noticing?
Derek and Chloe are back at Adam's house, and they head upstairs to the bathroom. Derek walks over to the spot revealed in the video, and starts tearing the wallpaper off. The walls are covered with those glyphs. Chloe asks what it is, and Derek says it's a "message from Adam."
Montage shots of Derek and Chloe ripping up wallpaper. Chloe says, "Oh, my God!" as the camera pans out to reveal all of the walls and floors and ceilings covered in these glyphs, and one wall says, "Croatoan." Derek films it while he says that "every opening to the outside world is covered with these things" and it's like Adam was trying to protect something. Suddenly, there is a bang, and Chloe screams, but it was just the wind from an open window knocking something over. Yeah, you heard me. An open window. I'm sure Derek and Chloe wouldn't have noticed that when they were in the house yesterday, filming the whole thing. And that if the window has been open for the past three years, that there wouldn't be water damage or worse in that room. Chloe closes the window, and then says that there is "someone down in the yard." Derek looks, and it's little Ginny Dare, green face and all. She starts walking towards the house, and changes into Adam. Chloe gasps. With the slicked-back hair and black leather jacket, Adam looks kind of like Dieter from Sprockets. Derek says they should get out of there, but Braids Woman suddenly appears (except now she is in black leather). She tosses Chloe out of the way, and then tosses Derek across the room. Derek yells, "I know who you really are!" and she drags him by the hair back to the center of the room, and then makes Derek punch through the wood floor. Just as Derek breaks through, Elsing comes from out of nowhere and pulls Braids Woman off Derek. How did he get out of the pysch ward? Derek grabs a box that was beneath the floorboards. Elsing continues to get the crap kicked out of him, but yells, "It's inside!" to Derek, who opens the box and pulls out the necklace we saw previously when John White pulled it out of a tree, with the circle charm on it. Elsing tells Braids Woman that she's lost and "the power belongs to him now." Derek holds the charm up to Braids Woman and says, "Go to hell, Virginia." Oh, for crying out loud. That was the best they could do? It's no "hasta la vista, baby." Suddenly the window smashes outwards. Derek comforts Chloe.
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Elsing, Derek and Chloe walk outside. Chloe rests on the steps as Derek demands that Elsing tell him what's going on. Elsing says, "It's you. It's the website. You're stirring them up, making them nervous. You're going to end up just like Adam." Derek says, "You mean, dead." Elsing replies that there are worse things than being dead. Hey, Elsing. Christopher Walken called and he wants his schtick back. Derek makes a cat's butt with his mouth and then runs back and gets the necklace from Chloe. He asks Elsing what the necklace has to do with his brother's death, but suddenly Elsing is gone.
day, Derek walks into the Freakylinks offices where Lan asks what happened to his hand. He hugs her and says she wouldn't believe him, and then says he doesn't want to talk about it. Lan shows him a story she found on the web that says that the severed Indian head was cursed, and that Mahlburg was in a gas explosion. Jason walks in and says that he tracked Mahlburg down and...he pulls the severed head from his backpack. Lan and Derek chuckle ruefully. Can you say "scene inserted afterwards to give levity to the proceedings"? I knew you could.
Back to the framing device, Derek continues his monologue into the computer, by saying that he's kept Adam's death buried inside him for almost three years, but now he needs answers. Derek realizes that Adam was terrified by something that drove him over the edge of sanity. Adam was his twin brother, and there hasn't been a moment that Derek didn't think about him, or feel as if he failed Adam. Derek vows to "post everything on the website," and use Freakylinks to help other people solve their mysteries. Derek hits stop and looks at the picture of Adam on his monitor. Then, he picks up the phone (which didn't even ring!) and says, "Hello?" a bunch of times. Cut to a pay phone with receiver dangling.
week: Derek is trying to help a guy who thinks his wife is possessed by a demon. Insert your own Exorcist joke here.