Peter Tench

Peter's appearance at the end of Presentation

Reunion

Damage Control

*"I know, that-that’s what they did, they took my life from me Marv, everyone thinks I’m fucking dead! My own- my wife and children think I’m dead!"*

*- Peter, to Marvin during Reunion*

**Peter Tench** is a former member of the ASYNC Foundation. He was a cameraman for ASYNC, before he was seperated from his group and transported to May 8th in Informational Video. As of Damage Control, he is presumed deceased.

## Character History

### Informational Video

Peter makes his first appearance in Informational Video, as the cameraman of the team. He walks with the team through the Backrooms, before reaching a corridor. He hears sounds in a room to the right of the corridor, and goes to investigate. As he turns back to rejoin the team, the camera glitches out, indicating his travel to May 8th from February 29th. He goes back into the corridor, confused. He shouts and calls out for George and Marvin. Worried, he frantically runs down and searches for his fellow researchers. Peter continues to search for them before stumbling upon a room with an unknown substance on the floor. He continues to wander around the Backrooms before discovering the observation room. He unlocks the door to the room, however, because the gateway to the Backrooms was sealed, he triggers the motion sensors in the room, sounding an alarm.

### Presentation

Peter appears at the end of Presentation, after entering the observation room at the end of Informational Video. He sets off the motion alarms in the room while the Department of Energy representative is talking with ASYNC employees.

### Reunion

Peter appears at the end of Reunion, attacking Mark Blume and taking his gun. He holds the team at gunpoint while trying to figure out how many researchers are present. Based on his behaviour and his line about "them" taking his life from him, it appears that after the events of Presentation ASYNC may have banished Peter to the Backrooms, possibly to ensure that they get the contract with the Department of Energy. Peter kills Mark after he radios in for armed backup, despite Marvin's pleas to stop. It appears that Peter still trusts Marvin as he instructs him to tell people the truth, stating that "they need to know," before running away.

### Damage Control

Peter appears in the beginning of Damage Control. After attacking Mark Blume with a Remington 870, he makes his way back to the threshold and turns the weapon on nearby researchers before running away in an attempt to make it to the surface. He ran through the lower offices, but while passing empty labs next to storage, Dr Maxwell successfully disarmed him without getting hurt. Peter continued to run and successfully evaded security when he made it to the freight elevator and to the above ground world. Cameras last observed him running to the hillside, where ASYNC reported that he fell and hit his head on a large rock, killing him. Footage was not shown of Peter running to the hillside. There is, however, footage of a man running into a city, presumably Peter, indicating that ASYNC was not being truthful about his death.

## Trivia

* By vertically flipping the newspaper in \_recording14, we can see that one of the articles is about a fiery car crash next to a vineyard killing one person. This is a cover story made up by ASYNC to keep the truth about Peter's disappearance from coming to light.
* Kane has confirmed his last name is Tench, not Pench or Tennis.