The poor acoustics of the lab room upstairs were captured with perfect fidelity as the tape scratched along. Russ listened carefully to the tape, anxious to hear any clues that bespoke of the beyond Max's test subjects had discovered.

MAX: Operation 17 complete. Subjects gaining consciousness.

VOICE ONE: MY GOD! MY GOD! (screaming persists through conversation... it is not loud, but pained and full of terror)

VOICE TWO: Colors! Colors of the devil!

MAX: Describe the colors.

VOICE TWO: God! The colors drink my hope! I'm falling in them! What have you done? What have you done to me?

MAX: Describe your fall. Describe the colors.

VOICE TWO: A monster! It is spinning into me!

MAX: Describe the monster.

VOICE TWO: Mother... Mother of... (shrieks)

VOICE ONE: (screaming goes to a higher, more anxious pitch)

MAX: DESCRIBE THE MONSTER!

VOICE TWO: The eyes! The eyes consume me! I'm lost! (screams again)

VOICE ONE: (screaming stops suddenly)

MAX: Tell me what you saw!

VOICE TWO: (very quiet, almost completely inaudible) It's inside me.

MAX: What is?

VOICE TWO: The monster. It's eating me from the inside. The worm bites.

MAX: Are you in pain?

VOICE TWO: No. I'm falling. I'm falling. The colors of the devil are carrying me to hell.

MAX: Are you in Hell?

VOICE TWO: I am in Hell. I am dying in Hell.

VOICE ONE: (rattling) CTHTKKECHIKKAQISHITHIKK... CHIK CHIK... KHOKKKKKKKKKKGGGGLLKK...

VOICE TWO: (screams) NO! NO! NOOOOO!

MAX: Qué? WHAT DO YOU SEE?

VOICE TWO: NO! MY GOD! GO- (falls silent)

VOICE ONE: (Continues to make the "choking insect" noises)

VOICE TWO: (Commences making "choking insect" noises)