 Later that evening while trying to write a letter to her mother Helen trips over a chair in her bedroom and suffers the exact injuries that the caller predicted.Scared, Helen calls her fathers old acquaintance, investment councilor Paul Blackshear and asks him to come over to offer his advice.Blackshear, retired since the death of his wife from cancer is initially reluctant to help but upon seeing Clarvoe’s distress agrees to help track down Merrick.