Caleb stares. “How do you know my name?”

The Ghost of Tony appears on the prison roof, looking out at the digital bay.

One night, Maya corners him in the breakroom.

But he can also hear Maya, her voice crackling through a speaker in the sky.

She hands him a prototype device: a thick, ugly phone with a textured rubber back and brutalist metal bumper corners. The screen glows with the iconic THPS 3 menu—Reverb’s “The Start” kicks in. He selects from THPS 4.

He has ten seconds of real-world adrenaline left. The only thing left is the big rail—the one that runs the entire length of the pier, ending in a gap over the water.