The news that a patient had come back to life after dying and gone off to dig up a corpse soon alerted the police.
Vincent, the doctor who had followed him at the time, and the patient's family underwent three rounds of questioning.
By the time the final round ended, evening had fallen.
An inspector and a probationary inspector had questioned Vincent in his office about what had happened, but he had seen through the window that they had arrived in a Church carriage.
So, when the questioning ended and the two inspectors rose to leave, Doctor Vincent suddenly asked, "Gentlemen, did I encounter some... some supernatural phenomena this afternoon?"
The inspector replied, "This may simply be the result of several coincidences occurring together. If you feel frightened or uneasy, you can visit a church to pray and confess."
What had happened with the corpses could still just barely be explained by "common sense," and other people would only listen to it as a ghost story anyway.
Thus, the inspector-or rather, Ryan, a member of the Nighthawks squad-merely did his best to conceal the truth without having Vincent sign a confidentiality agreement.
Just then, a pale, badly frightened old man ran in. Seeing the two inspectors, he breathed a slight sigh of relief. "Thank goodness you haven't left yet. They-no, those things-they want to get up! Heavens, they want to get out! They're about to get out!"
Vincent naturally recognized the old man as Fitz, the morgue caretaker. He had an odd temper and rarely socialized. Ryan, the Nighthawks squad member, knew him too. Fitz had guarded the morgue for over twenty years and encountered two Beyonder cases. They had previously had him sign a confidentiality agreement.
After hearing Fitz's words, Doctor Vincent roughly understood that "they" must refer to