As she prepared to leave the deli and join the crowds heading to Memorial Stadium, Caydance remembered playing that message for Griff. Although she did not want to hear it again, from her telephone answering machine, in the otherwise silent studio, the voice of Mackie Alarie emerged.
The tape had reached the part where Alarie/Knox said that on Saturday afternoon he was planning to take time off from his busy schedule and open the book object, when the sound of his shivery voice was interrupted by the sound of the buzzer announcing that someone had arrived at the front door of the building.