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Previously on Dead Eyes.

Hey did Tom Hanks say that I have dead eyes?

You're never going to get that answer.

You're not even going to get close to a real resolution, I think really at best you can hope for a sense of resolution and a sense of an answer and like a lot of things in life that's just going to have to be good enough.

After my conversation with Colin Hanks, I wasn't sure exactly where I should go next.

I'd come all this way, built up so much momentum and enthusiasm, got people all worked up, and now I was sort of stuck

in a place where the future felt uncertain and my options felt limited.

So I did what I've always done when the case goes cold. I revisit the timeline, searching

for connections, clues, points where my life and the life of Tom Hanks intersect. I went to IMDb. And among

Tom Hanks' credits, I spotted something that I must have overlooked dozens of times before called Electric City.

When I clicked through to investigate, I realized that the full title was actually Tom Hanks's Electric City.

His name was a possessive, like Walt Disney's Fantasia.

It was an animated series released in 2012 starring Tom Hanks.

20 episodes, each roughly between 4 and 6 minutes long.

When I started looking for more information,

I found articles and videos about a cryptic

promotional website and even a mobile app and role-playing game released alongside the show.

How had I missed all this? I checked my Roku to see if it was

available to stream anywhere and it became clear pretty quickly that there was no

legitimate way to watch it anymore.

I ended up finding it on a YouTube playlist

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