Damage Control

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Two security officers looking for Peter Tench.

***Damage Control*** is the fifteenth main episode and the twenty-second overall installment of *the Backrooms* series. It was uploaded to YouTube on January 30th, 2023 and takes place a day after Reunion, with A-Sync explaining the timeline of events as they know it.

## Plot

The video begins with a recording of Mark Blume attempting to call backup during Reunion playing over various shots of equipment. Before Mark is shot, the video cuts to black before showing us Team A continuing with their work, before they all hear a gunshot coming from Room 14C. They all stop speaking and turn to look in the general direction of the source of the noise, with someone asking "Uhh... what was that?". We cut to the ending of Reunion, with Marvin E. Leigh and Randall Tachi surrounding Mark's body, before we see shots of areas previously seen in Reunion, presumably either Marvin running to get help or Peter Tench running away to escape.

The video transitions to security camera footage of the A-Sync labs and the little area where they're expanding into the Backrooms, when Peter Tench, still carrying Mark's shotgun, can be seen running towards the Threshold. He points the gun at the researchers inside the Outpost before making his way into the A-Sync building. The next few shots show him running through the A-Sync building, searching for a way to get outside. A researcher can be seen barely catching a glimpse of Peter. The video goes to static before we can see members of the security team running after Peter, who no longer has his shotgun. They are unsuccessful in catching Peter, however, as he makes it to a freight elevator and gets above-ground. The next section of the video is the longest, which is an explanation from an unnamed researcher about the events concerning Peter Tench. A full transcript of the explanation can be found below, however to summarize it:

On March 1st, a team of four researchers: Marvin E. Leigh, Peter Tench, George Levy and Ronald McCarthy were all sent into the Backrooms to analyze the layout of areas. This is what happens in Informational Video, and he goes on to explain the events of Informational Video from their perspective. Tench had vanished without a trace, and despite several days of search efforts, they were not able to locate Peter. This had created a big problem, as they could not have researchers randomly disappearing. In \_recording014, we can see a newspaper clipping stating that a person was killed in a car accident near a vineyard. They explain that this was staged by A-Sync to avoid suspicion and give a reason for Tench's disappearance, which was his "death". On May 8th however, during Presentation, a male in hazmat gear arrived at the Threshold, triggering a motion alert. They identified this man as Peter Tench. They kept him in a secure room where they attempted to figure out what happened to them. Upon reviewing the camera footage recorded from Peter's camera however, they did figure out what happened.

The video then shows the exact scene from Informational Video where Peter was transported to May 8th, with the unnamed researcher continuing to explain what happens, until Peter made it back. However, because Tench was still legally dead, they could not just let him out into the world, so they kept him in the building as they attempted to find a solution to integrate him back into society without raising suspicion. Initially, Peter was cooperative, however as time went on, his mental health took a toll, and he began to exhibit behaviors similar to patients with paranoid schizophrenia. He was under the delusion that the A-Sync building and personnel were an illusion from the Complex, seeking to hurt him. On the 22nd, when they were ready to transfer Peter to an above ground residence, he ran away and forced himself back into the Backrooms. This would lead to Reunion, where he attacks Mark Blume and leaves him in critical condition before running to the Threshold and making his way to the surface. While he was running however, Dr Maxwell was able to disarm him, which is why he doesn't have the shotgun when he escapes. Cameras last observed Peter running to the hillside, where he fell and hit his head on a large rock, killing him. Mysteriously, the camera footage of Peter running to the hillside is omitted despite other footage being shown. The explanation ends when the footage glitches out and we can see several frames, the last two being of a man running into the city, presumably Tench. The video ends with audio similar to the one heard at the end of Autopsy Report playing in the background as we zoom in on a phone ringing.