Went wrong from the start? When 'the start' involved waking up just about half-dead... how can it have been anything else?

"Yeah. I can hear them," he says, softly. Still - something's off about this. That warning's got to be there for a reason, and he's having trouble just disregarding it.

Listen to me this time. Why this time? Who'd gone out there before?

There's someone in trouble - they've got to help. But what's going on?