"Secret until you stumble into some god damn thing," he deadpans, "and either it tries to eat you, or someone tries to sacrifice you to it."

He's so tired of cults!!!

"Or both. I was in missing persons at home; I..."

...but there are some things it's so much harder to be glib about, especially now. Roland didn't make it. Neither, in the end, did his girl, and nor did others. Some clients came to Lester & Yang in addition to the police search, but still more came because the police simply didn't care, and often the best case scenario for those parents was that they'd get closure.

"I, I ran into a thing or two." The dry tone is now more wooden.