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Rollerball wrote:


The cine camera, is it something owned by the Conroy's or another room object? Kind of find it strange it being on the table with the other objects, it's not like we see any photos of any of the Collectors using it during the party. Then again, Eddies seems to own a lot of up to the moment gadgets, instant camera, transistor radio, folding binoculars and so on, don't see why he shouldn't have a cine camera too. Maybe another question for Chris to clear up.

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GUS:

We just ran the motel, that's all. Arlene managed it, I was the janitor. It was just a regular place. It's not like something happened. It's like afterward, we figured something must've happened.

The motei only has nine rooms, right? Except, one day Arlene finds the key to Room 10. We tried the key and...

well, I suppose you know what we saw. There were still a few objects inside. I didn't want any of it.

But Arlene got this look in her eye. She wanted to get all the objects back. She got some of our friends involved. Pretty soon, we were this group...


JOE: The Collectors.


GUS: By '66, we had found almost all the objects. And since there wasn't a Room 10, Arlene started experimenting in Room 9.

And finally she found the watch box. And that's when everything went wrong.


JOE: What do you mean "went wrong"?


GUS: It's easier if I show you. This is a copy.The original was stolen years ago.

(Gus plays the Conroy Experiment footage)

JOE: She looks the same. God, she looks exactly the same.


GUS: Arlene had been looking for
the five objects for years. She said with the right combination, she could open the door the right way.

I think she was insane by then.

Then I gave her the watch box. And everything went bad.
She opened the door, and it was like... like she opened a tear in reality.

JENNIFER: What the hell is happening?

JOE: Gus, was this film spliced together?


GUS: No. It's one continuous piece of film.

Arlene sacrificed herself to end it. I saw Arlene a few months later, at the motel. Just for a few seconds.

She begged me to help her.I couldn't. I didn't know how.

I got rid of the key, and... I never went back.

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