Section 2 Summary

Interrogation Tape OZK001. The interrogator is Brint and he is guiding the young man back in time to his earliest memories.

The young man recalls his mother's lilac perfume and then memories about "that night." He is lying awake in his bed and hears the muffled sounds of his mother and father talking in the other room. He recalls his father teasing him about keeping a stuffed animal, Pokey the Pig, at the age of three and a half and recalls his mother's tender voice.

That night the voices are not soft and murmuring as they usually are; they are louder and harsher, scratching at the night, as he hears his mother worried they will wake him up. He pretends to be asleep as his father checks in on him. His parents' voices continue, discussing what to do about him, as if they...