Interlude: Man in the Long Black Coat (Instrumental)

Deep in the frozen desert, beneath a film of dust and neglect, a small machine awakens and connects to a tired satellite.

Battery: forty-one percent and dropping. Time since last connection: seven thousand, four hundred and forty-eight hours, eleven minutes, and sixteen seconds.

A red light pulses at one corner as coordinates and instructions scroll down its scratched and weathered screen.

No one notices.