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Before we get started, this episode contains discussions of drug use and mental health issues, grief and loss, character death, and dread.

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Thank you. The I'm gonna'... The I'm starting over. When I first started this investigation seven months ago, I thought it would be just like any other case.

I'd catalog evidence, interview witnesses, cross-reference testimonies with people who knew the victim,

and then I'd close it, one way or another.

And it was either alive, and I'd eventually find her tucked away some more quiet,

or more likely she was dead, and I'd eventually find her tucked away somewhere quiet, or more likely she was dead,

and I'd find a corpse in a back alley or shallow grave somewhere outside Oslo.

The only problem is I knew the world wasn't that simple, that cut and dry.

I knew deep down in my gut that there was so much more beneath the surface.

But I couldn't admit that to myself, not after what I'd done, not after what I'd lost.

So I actively closed myself off to the things I knew about myself, about the true nature of my existence, about what lingered in the dark when I wasn't looking.

I thought I could ignore those memories, memories of the voice in the lake, the one that took my parents, took my home, took Alan, and in return gave me power, power that's connected me to

Anna's story in intensely personal ways. But it's time to start again. If nothing else, I have to

refocus. I need to keep a record of this, all of this.

If I'm going to figure out what happened to Anna Sheridan,

if she's alive and how and what she was doing here with Isfa,

...