The story of Bill Rowe's final days in the Memphis PD is true, save for one thing - nobody in that garage was chained, and when he came upon his daughter there, he wasn't knocked out from behind - he saw her begin to change into [i]something[/i], and her 17-year old frame threw him into the room he was found in like he was a toy. He passed out not long after.

In the listlessness after finding and losing Sara, a woman reached out to him. A representative of an elite behavioral health inpatient facility in the Pacific Northwest, one that he'd looked into for Sara shortly before her change. The woman on the other end of the phone call was blunt - she knew that Bill didn't believe Sara was dead. What more, she believed him.

Sara had been possessed by an animal spirit, the woman said - most likely a wolf, and that she was out there, probably with other wolf-possessed people. The Talbot Group, the organization the woman represented, was dedicated to humanely treating not only this scourge of lycanthropy, but also addressing the larger problem of "overgrown spirit ecologies". Finding places where spirits grew in power, even places where they crossed over to the real world, and dismantling them before they could take control of innocent people.

Bill knew what he'd seen, and he knew that the thing that knocked him out that day was not Sara, not really. And while he didn't hold much hope of seeing her again, the notion of preventing that theft of body in more innocent people resonated with him deeply. He offered his services, and the Talbot Group accepted.

Bill left Memphis, arranging for his trusted ex-partner to wire him his pension every two weeks, and made for Talbot Group training. After a few cleansings of spirit gathering places on the west coast, the Group sent him back south, to Louisiana, to investigate reports of intense and widespread spirit activities.