The Losers Club gathers in the library after hours, each carrying with them some sort of alcoholic drink for the long night ahead. Bill is the first to arrive with Mike, and as he waits, he thinks about that summer once more. Bill remembers meeting with the other members of the Losers Club in the Barrens. Bill tells them about a conversation he had with his dad about the sewers that run through the Barrens. Bill's dad told him that there have been so many tunnels built under the city that it is almost impossible to go into them and not get lost. Bill then tells how he went to the library and did research on the strange things that have been happening that.....