Presto

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**Presto** is the fourth episode of Act 2 and the direct continuation to Mandela Catalyst.

## Summary

The video starts with someone talking in the background, in a MandelaTECH advertisement for it's CarCamGPS and other products they sell due to MandelaTECH going out of business, therefore making everything on sale, before the voice switches to Evelin Miller talking, with the screen now turning into an image, with a blacked out doorway that says **"WISCONSIN'S ONLY ANALOG TELEVISION"** at the top, and a sign saying **"Please Wait Here"** on the right of the doorway from our perspective. It then switches back to a MandelaTECH image, showing the "fictional location" of the store, as well as the opening and closing times of MandelaTECH, all of this is shown before the video fades to black.

Text on the screen shows up, saying: **"mandelatech 07 13 02 75"**, with text saying **"Loading..."** at the bottom. We are then greeted by a static screen a few seconds later, before it cuts to a video that shows footage possibly taking place inside either the MCPD or a location of MandelaTECH and we hear Evelin Miller and Sarah Heathcliff talking. The "security camera video feed" then cuts to a short screen of static, and then cutting to another security camera's video feed, now showing an area with a door that has a sign saying **"MandelaTECH"** above the door. Sarah then asks who she is looking for again, and Evelin then tells her that she should be looking for "the most unsuspecting middle-aged man." The scene is cut by Adam coughing in a driving car before it goes back to Evelin and Sarah's call as Evelin talks about her encounter and her and Adam's relationship before the call gets interrupted on Sarah's side when her computer connects to the Mandela County Police Department's security feed.

Inside the Police Department, Thatcher asks Adam if he can help Adam's agonizing state in any way which Adam ignores and tells Thatcher he knows about him being wanted by the FBI. Thatcher tells Adam to not worry about the warrant for his arrest and ask to know about the events leading to his current state. Adam talks about starting a group with Sarah and how she lost interest in doing investigations before deciding how Sarah's interest was irrelevant, Nevertheless, he found a replacement who Adam had great disdain for. Not long after him and Jonah went to a "woman"'s house for an investigation and when Thatcher ask what happened at the house, the light above the table starts to flicker and Adam starts to spasm and distort briefly while a glitching or distorted yelling sound could be heard. Adam states he doesn't fully remember the night as it happened quickly though he remembers he talked to someone but can't remember/describe the person he spoke to during the house investigation. Adam goes on to state it was his fault and he was paying the price for the death of Jonah and his current state as he knew it would happened and a 'he' told me. Thatcher asks who told Adam it would happen, to which he responds while staring straight, 'God'.

Der Doppelganger starts playing as a titlecard reading "AN URBAN TRAGEDY" pops on screen. It cuts to the sky above the MandelaTECH building in greyscale with red text, similar to "Gabriel"'s text from overthrone, Volume 4, and Catalyst, in the sky reading "THATCHER DAVIS DOOMS ALL." A CRT Television with static on the screen and distortion behind it is shown then cutting to distorted low quality images of The Intruder and the Faceless Alternate then to the Wisconsin's Only Analog Television attraction inside of the MandelaTECH building with text that is broken up with spaces reading "You were so caught up in your own volition", "that you never noticed your world turning into a gray and twisted version of it's former self." The doorway of the attraction entrance is flashing white as the frowning face from Toddler Stress Assessment is in the bottom right corner just before the screen goes black, ending the video.

## Trivia

* This is the first official episode to feature AlexKaizo as an editor, making him the second Alex K. to be working on the series along with series creator, Alex Kister.
* Prior to its name being revealed, Alex had said that the episode shared names with an album from the band Rush and that it started with P. Presto was one of the three choices, and ended up being confirmed after Alex posted the definition of the word on his twitter account.
* The Intruder makes a small cameo on the Urban Tragedy section, making this his 8th appearance on the (canonical) Mandela Catalogue videos, he also appears alongside what seems to be an Alternate, probably the Faceless Alternate that appears on Mandela Catalyst.
* The flashing at the end of the video is morse code translating to something along the lines of: “I am still here. I miss you.”
* The music at the end is called "Der Doppelgänger", an obvious nod to Alternates.
* There is a real site of MandelaTech, which has the same link as in the video: https://www.mandelatech.com/