- Mabel Blanche: I think at the lowest level, they send people on errands, and play with people's minds. They sway people to do things, and think certain ways - so that we stay in conflict, focused on ourself - so that we're always .. cleaning house, or losing weight, or dressing up for other people. I think they get inside our heads and make us do destructive things, like drink and over eat. I've seen good people go bad, and smart people go mad.
- Mabel Blanche: I think at the highest level they do things that cause nations to go to war. Things that make no sense. And I think no one knows they're being affected. We all work out other reasons to justify our actions. But free will is impossible with them up there. I've had an entire life to think about this. Years alone. And that's what I think.
- Mabel Blanche: I listen to your broadcast every night. I think you're very good and I hope you can get far away from here.
- [first lines]
- Narrator of Paradox Theatre: You are entering a realm between clandestine and forgotten, a slipstream caught between channels, the secret museum of mankind, the private library of shadows, all taking place on a stage forged from mystery and found only on a frequency caught between logic and myth. You are entering Paradox Theatre. Tonight's episode: "The Vast of Night."
- Grace: Who is this now?
- Fay Crocker: It's Fay.
- Grace: Oh. My lands. When I can't see a face my perception gets pickled.