[ What he's not saying is that he doesn't really know what he's doing. Maybe he's just saying what he wishes would happen, but at the end of the day, he still feels like his time passed him by years ago. The world moved on without Alan Wake. It didn't need him to make the movies based on his books, and does it really need him now? ] I know that tone; what do you think I should be doing?

[ That might have been the point, or Alan's idea of the point, but now he's not so sure. ]

Weirdly? Yeah, I did.

[ He shakes his head, still finding it all hard to believe. ]

I've always been interested, even when something was telling me that maybe I shouldn't ask questions or look too closely. I think the other Alan was like that too; he just didn't know how to say it.

[ He stiffens slightly as he comes to the realization that she might be right. For some reason, he hadn't thought about it in exactly that way until he heard her say it. ]

You know what, I think that's exactly what happened. One minute, I was talking to Beth, and the next... It was like- like a door opened, and I was there with him and Beth.