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Backrooms - Damage Control is a horror short film and the eighteenth video in Kane Pixels' Backrooms series. The footage follows the aftermath of Reunion, where Peter runs back to the Threshold and escapes the Async Research Facility.
Plot[]
The footage begins with the recording of Mark Blume while he's attempting to call backup at the end of Reunion, playing over various shots of equipment. Right before Mark is shot, the video cuts to black before showing us Team A as they continue to build over Room 14D in the Backrooms, they all hear a gunshot coming from Room 14C. They turn in the general direction of the noise, while one researcher asks, "Uh, what was that?".
The video cuts back to the ending of Reunion, where Marvin E. Leigh and Randall Tachi are surrounding Mark's body, before we see shots of rooms previously seen in Reunion, presumably either Marvin running to get help or Peter Tench running away to escape. The video transitions to security camera footage outside the Async outpost. Peter Tench can be seen, still carrying Mark's shotgun, running towards the Threshold. He points the gun at the researchers inside the outpost before making his way though the threshold into the Async research facility. The next few shots show him running through the Async facility, searching for a way to get outside. A researcher can be seen barely catching a glimpse of Peter as he runs past. The video goes to static before we can see members of the security team running after Peter, who no longer has his shotgun. They are unsuccessful in catching Peter, however, as he makes it to a freight elevator and gets above-ground.
The next section of the video is a presentation from an unnamed researcher about the events concerning Peter Tench. To summarize the explanation:
On March 1st, a team of four researchers: Marvin E. Leigh, Peter Tench, George Levy and Ronald McCarthy were all sent into the Backrooms to analyze the layout of areas. This is what happens in the Informational Video, and he goes on to explain the events of Informational Video from their perspective. Tench had vanished without a trace, and despite several days of search efforts, they were not able to locate Peter.
In _recording014, we can see a newspaper clipping stating that a person was killed in a car accident near a vineyard. They explain that this was staged by Async to avoid suspicion and give a reason for Tench's disappearance, which was his "death". On May 8th however, after the Presentation, a male in hazmat gear arrived at the Threshold, triggering a motion alert. They identified this man as Peter Tench. They kept him in a secure room where they attempted to figure out what happened to him. Because Peter Tench still had his camera from Informational Video, they were able to review his footage to determine what happened. The footage shows the exact scene from Informational Video where Peter was lured into a side-branch by some noise, and was instantaneously transported 2 months forward to May 8th.
It also shows the scene where Peter Tench finally makes his way back to the Threshold. Since Tench was still considered legally dead, they kept him at the Async facility as they attempted to find a solution to integrate him back into society without raising suspicion. Initially, Peter was cooperative, however as time went on, his mental health declined, and he began to exhibit behaviors similar to patients with paranoid schizophrenia. He was under the delusion that the Async facility and personnel were an illusion from the Complex, seeking to hurt him. On the 22nd, when they were ready to transfer Peter to an above ground residence, he ran away and forced himself back into the Backrooms. This would lead to Reunion, where he attacks Mark Blume and leaves him in critical condition before running to the Threshold and making his way to the surface.
While he was running through an empty lab next to storage, Kirk Maxwell was able to disarm him, accidentally discharging the weapon into the ceiling in the process. Cameras presumably last observed Peter running towards a hillside, where as he ran down the hill on the other side, he fell and hit his head on a large rock, killing him. Mysteriously, the camera footage of Peter running to the hillside is omitted despite other footage being shown. The explanation ends when the footage distorts and shows several frames, the last two being of a man running into the city, presumably Tench. The video ends with audio similar to the one heard at the end of Autopsy Report playing in the background as we zoom in on a phone ringing.