Picking up right where the main game left off, Alan finds himself outside the diner in a nighttime Bright Falls that abruptly shifts to daytime. Stepping inside, he relives a surreal, déjà-vu dream of his arrival — everything eerily familiar yet subtly wrong. Unable to recall where he was before this moment, Alan knows only that he must reach the back of the diner, which he forces his way into. There Zane speaks to him, warning him to go no further and to focus, and plays a video of Alan struggling against reality — even foretelling events that unfold as Alan realizes exactly where he is: The Dark Place.