Alan stakeout

A lot more is revealed in episode 3.

The back story seems to be that the lake Alan was staying on has some dark force within it (may be supernatural or alien) and in the 70's a writer and his girl friend was staying there. The dark force some how took control of the girlfriend and was using the writer's writing as a conduit for it's power, growing stronger and causing weird events to happen. Then the volcano under the lake erupted and destroyed the island, the writer disappeared and the girlfriend seems to be the dark old woman that keeps popping up. The only one at the time who wrote about the strange events was a local reporter who was friends with the couple, but after the eruption she lost her mind and became this game's version of the Twin Peaks Log Lady, ranting about the dark constantly.

It also appears that during the missing week Alan was holed up in the cabin writing the events of the story playing out now, in order to some how save his wife. Also the old woman has been modifying the pages he wrote to fit her own needs, building in power again.

Back in the present, Alan and the agent visit the waiters and she drugs them so they fall asleep until nightfall. When Alan wakes up he's surrounded by the police and an FBI agent has shown up to arrest him. Alan escapes and for some reason the dark force appears too help him by taking out the cops, but then it may just be that it is taking them out of the way since it also tries to kill Alan. It's kinda odd since It sounds like the force controlling the old lady needs Alan, but it keeps trying to kill him, maybe now that he wrote the manuscript he's a threat.

After escaping from the police Alan goes to meet again with the kidnapper, and after a long run through the mountains he finally catches up to him. The "kidnaper" says that he has no idea where Alan's wife was and never had her, then he gets sucked away by a dark tornado and Alan gets knocked off into the lake. The last scene in the episode is of a had pulling Alan on to a boat and it's superimposed with the image of a hard diving suit that shown up now and then.