Dark Tales Uncovered – Season 9 GRIMES: BEFORE THE WALLS KNEW HIS NAME Chapter 19 – The Man Who Never Left

Time moves differently inside Rosewood. Days become months. Months become years. Residents arrive. Residents leave. Staff come and go. Managers retire. Names disappear from doors, photographs are replaced, and eventually even the people who remember Phil Rogers become fewer and fewer. But one man remains. Brian Grimes. The nervous maintenance worker who once arrived at Rosewood looking for a job is gone. In his place stands the man everyone relies upon. Need a door unlocked? Ask Brian. A radiator stops working? Find Brian. Something strange happens in the middle of the night? Brian will know what to do. Nobody remembers exactly when he became so important. Nobody remembers who gave him all those keys. And almost nobody asks how long he's actually been there. Brian simply… belongs. New staff arrive and assume he's always been part of Rosewood. Residents recognise the sound of his keys coming down the corridor. And Brian knows every inch of the building. Every room. Every hidden passage. Every pipe running behind the walls. Every place where Rosewood keeps its secrets. But there is something else. As the years pass, Rosewood changes. Brian doesn't seem to. The photographs in the staff room are replaced. Faces grow older. Uniforms change. Yet Brian Grimes remains almost exactly as people remember him. And late at night, when the corridors are empty, new members of staff begin whispering about the maintenance man. How long has he worked here? Where does he go after his shift? Does anyone actually remember Brian leaving? Deep beneath Rosewood, the boiler continues beating. The same rhythm. The same sound. Thump. Thump. Thump. One night, Brian places his hand against the wall. The pipes answer. Brian smiles. And whispers: "I'm still here." Rosewood knows. Rosewood has always known. Because Brian Grimes isn't simply working at Rosewood anymore. He's becoming part of it. This is Dark Tales Uncovered – Season 9. GRIMES: BEFORE THE WALLS KNEW HIS NAME. Chapter 19 – The Man Who Never Left. Before the legend… Before the Rosewood Slasher… Before Dave and Sini would eventually face the monster stalking these corridors… there was simply a man with a set of keys. A man Rosewood refused to let go. Brian Grimes. The man who never left.