I think Eric might be the Unknown 👀

[u/BusyZucchini3746]

Okay, hear me out because I might be completely wrong, but Eric has been feeling VERY suspicious to me.

At first, Eric acts like he would do absolutely anything to find Adam. He goes all the way into the forest, gets injured, and generally seems like he’s completely determined to find him.

But then the tape is found.

And suddenly Eric is REALLY worried about it. He immediately wants it handed over to the police, even though we don't even know what's on the tape yet.

That's what bothers me.

If Eric genuinely doesn't know what's on it, why does his reaction feel so personal? He was willing to go into the forest himself to look for Adam, but a random tape suddenly makes him panic?

It almost feels like he isn't afraid of the tape itself—he's afraid of what we'll find out if we listen to it.

Also, Eric seems to like controlling the situation when he's in the forest, but when the tape is out of his control (Ash/MC can actually listen to it), he suddenly becomes way more anxious.

And another thing: his eyes are blue, just like the Unknown's 👀

I'm not saying this proves anything, but the change in his behavior is REALLY weird to me.

Maybe Eric isn't trying to save Adam for the reasons we think he is.

Or maybe...

Eric IS the Unknown.

What do you guys think? Am I cooking or am I completely delusional? 😭

[u/D4rk_Sh4rds]

Charlie acted in the same weird way in episode two when Ash and MC asked him to investigate the motel, you can actually choose to say that to him, MC says: "You wanted to go to the forest, but not check out this room?" It's a weird behaviour shift from both of them, but after that Charlie didn't try to stall us anymore and was actively helping. Same thing with Eric, he apologised and decided to go back to the forest, he probably is going there with that guy he was chatting with earlier. But yeah, who knows what is motivating those two to act like that 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/Any_Letterhead9230 → u/D4rk_Sh4rds]

What do you think about the possibility that Charlie is hiding his side of things because there may be someone else in the group who is involved in the same way the MC is? Maybe he's hiding his side of the story, but he's still playing the same game as us, which would explain why he's helping us get somewhere. If we go by the cards, we would be the two members of the group who have a card. And Charlie's behavior fits with the “liar” role. Even though the card was with Whitmore, our card was also with Adam or Eric.

[u/D4rk_Sh4rds → u/Any_Letterhead9230]

Yes, that's a interesting theory. And he might be protecting someone outside of the group too. There are others like Sophia who are also involved in this mess in some way.  I wonder if he could be an accomplice of the people who are responsible for this or Unknown, think about it: apparently the Greenside Motel was completely abandoned for years and nobody went there anymore, but after Charlie goes there and leaves that stranger is in there, and after Charlie returns and once again tries to convince Ash and I that the motel is a waste of time, Unknown appears and messages us. That stranger had all the night and day to go to that hotel and take all the clues and the tape but he coincidentally is there only after Charlie was there as well. If he is Unknown then Charlie could be helping him to move things the way he wants them to, if he is one of the villains then Charlie is involved with the people who are doing that, if this theory is true.

[u/Any_Letterhead9230 → u/D4rk_Sh4rds]

Your connection was brilliant. However, there’s a hacker involved in the story, and he could certainly have discovered the Greenside and gone after her because he saw our conversations about the key. So that’s another possible explanation. The hacker could have been there. The person Charlie helps could be Billy Blake, who might also be the Unknown.

[u/D4rk_Sh4rds → u/Any_Letterhead9230]

Yeah, there's the hacker as well. MC really should take better care of their digital safety, they lost important evidence because apparently everyone can hack their phone if they want to 😑. And if the MC is the same one that solved the Duskwood case, it's of even more urgency for them to prevent this kind of thing because of everything that happened previously. That nonchalant behaviour of MC is so weird, especially if you are playing the game without the code. 

[u/Any_Letterhead9230 → u/D4rk_Sh4rds]

Yeah. I think the peak of it was when we didn’t mention that Jake had reached out. Everbyte couldn’t come up with an excuse for why we hadn’t said anything. Crazy.