The episode opened with a timestamp:

Leo paused it. His hands were shaking.

Then, a voiceover — Ross’s voice, but cold, measured: "Experiment 09. The BD9 variant. They still laugh at the wrong times. But we’re getting closer to the control group."

He looked down at the disc. The inner ring now glowed faintly blue.

Leo had been clearing out his late uncle’s attic for three days. The old man was a hoarder of obsolete tech: VHS tapes, LaserDiscs, a Betamax player, and a shelf of DVDs so disorganized they looked like a digital landfill.