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[eerie music]

Perry, help me out here, man.

I told you what I remember.

[sighs]

If someone redecorated precinct with

my partner, I think I'd remember a little something.

There are cameras everywhere, they had to have

seen what happened.

Yeah, we're working on it.

[sighs]

Am I under arrest.

Look, we're just holding you

until we figure this thing out.

[knocks]

Sit tight. [footsteps]

[door clicks]

[indistinct whispers]

There was a vinyl record in evidence.

Yeah? It's missing.

[eerie music]

They're a genetic hybrid, Japanese Black beetle

crossed with a rare genetic strain recently extracted

from paleolithic fossils.

They're noisy.

[eerie music]

I find it relaxing.

You have a strange relationship to relaxation.

How's the old ball and chain?

You wanna rephrase that?

Oh, I like Lana, she's just a little, you know.

I don't know.

Lana and I are very happy.

Good, see not so hard.

[eerie music]

Lyle Litton, did you know him?

Met him once, trying to track down a record

for one of my VIP clients but he wouldn't

sell me his copy, so.

So, this was before you started breaking

into people's homes to get what you wanted.

Before I taught you all of my tricks.

I had a few of my own.

[eerie music]

Before he died he was working the Key series.

[electric crackle]

Ow, damn it.

Why did he press three of the same record?

You know why his records sound so good?

Good mastering, technical proficiency?

He was a master of FRM, that's

frequency resonance manipulation.

Here we go.

All matter in the universe resonates

at a specific frequency.

Now, if we can manipulate that frequency, theoretically

speaking, we can manipulate anything.

In practical terms, we do it all the time,

take your little black box here for example.

But, the Key series was different 'cause

Litton was heavy into the mumbo jumbo side of it.

Magic?No,

science on the fringe.

Audio on those recordings is encoded with a frequency

outside the range of human hearing.

It was like some sort of resonance manipulation experiment.

Which was what? No idea.

And the Litton Lacquer, have you heard it?

Anyone who's heard it is dead or insane.

Must be one hell of a sound.

Well, whatever it was

gave Litton a heart attach when he was cutting it.

A record can't do that, it's not possible.

Who the hell knows, but my guess is if the Key series

were meant to be the keys then Litton Lacquer's the lock.

[chitters]

I'm gonna find it. Why?

I'm being paid to, and I want to.

It's Dekker.

[sighs]

Blood in the water.

So far, no trace online.

Huh, you have heard about books, haven't you?

Don't be a dick, everything's online.

Well, somethings people make sure to keep offline.

Back in the day when the Lacquer would change hands

you'd know it because owner would turn up dead.

[metal clatters]

How does that--

It was how they died, I always think of Lot's wife,

the pile of ash.

They say if you only heard part of it

you'd go completely insane,

which I can confirm, sort of.

With your mystery envelope?

Back in the 90s I met this guy named Tuck Weston,

a DJ, a college station couple hours north of here.

He went insane on air?

Uh-huh, and he only heard a piece of it.

He wanted me to track the record down for him.

Said that playing it backwards was the only way

to fix himself.

He was a total nut job.

He's holed up in Big Bear somewhere, whatever's left of 'em.

You didn't find it.

No, I don't even know if it exists anymore,

but I did find Key Two and

the Litton Matrix code, what he could remember

and his address.

That's Litton's mark, but the others I don't recognize.

Lana's not gonna be able to Google this one.

Dark web, deep forums, government databases,

that's your best bet, what?

Dark web.

It's a thing.

[anticipatory music]

[door clicks]

[thuds]

[sighs]

The security footage was pretty scrambled,

but.What?

You should see for yourself.

So, you're not gonna believe this.

Someone entered these exact matrix numbers into

the Los Angeles Police Department Evidence Database.

When? Last night.

That can't be a coincidence.

Someone must know this thing in back in circulation.

We've gotta make sure we get to it.

Lana! Uh, you can hear that?

Fucking Cosmonauts can hear that.

[laughs]

Sorry, just organizing my key chain.

I'm allowed to have my own collection.

I'm sorry, your collection is very cute.

Thank you.

So yeah, something's definitely weird.

There's an active investigation going on around

the evidence logs.

I think something happened last night at the police station,

but all I see are these weird database entries,

not the case files.

Great. I did get

the name and address of the guy whose house it came from.

Perfect, text it.

Oh, the entry for his cause of death has to be a fake.

Why, what does it say.

Mummification. [chuckles]

[door clicks]

Perry, I'm gonna send you home for the night.

Get some rest.

[eerie music]

Did you watch the security footage?

Just stay put at home.

All right, let's see it again.

[eerie music]

[screams]

Jesus hamburger hotdog.

So yeah, it's just this for about 10 minutes,

then Perry gets up and finds Burnett.

Who was that screaming, Burnett?

I don't, it's not...

What? These cameras

don't record sound.

[anticipatory music]

[dramatic music]

[electronic whirring]