There are footsteps. Always, always there are footsteps. And he's still pressing ahead, with Jay at his side - meaning there's still a chance. She (she?) said they could get out, so they can get out. Unless - unless that was some delirious, hopeful projection of his own mind...?

Can't be. He'd never dream up something so optimistic, even bitterly. He'd never dream up a way out.

(Maybe that's why they're doomed to fail.)

There are footsteps.

And he keeps - going.

"It's not real," he's saying - he's been saying for some time now, the words a breathless litany issuing without pause. "It's not real, It's not real, It's not real - "

Can't hurt you if It's not real.