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In the video, a man sits alone, staring at a cup of black coffee. He doesn't move for three minutes. The only sound is the low hum of a refrigerator and the distant, rhythmic clack-clack of a train. At the four-minute mark, the man looks directly into the lens. He looks exactly like Elias—ten years older, graying at the temples, with a jagged scar running through his left eyebrow.

Elias sat in his dark office, the hum of his own computer suddenly sounding exactly like the refrigerator in the video. He felt his left eyebrow itch. He reached up to scratch it and realized, with a jolt of ice in his chest, that he was already sitting in a diner. EXFD151.mp4

The train was coming. And he had exactly six months to find out why he was filming himself. In the video, a man sits alone, staring