At the Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex in New Mexico, Wade briefs a group of government officials on a recent incident at the complex involving "an exotic biological weapon release" and "cadavers animated by an engineered viral strain of unknown origin". The Army has hidden many classified items at Kirtland, including highly advanced robots and an interdimensional portal leading to "Dimension Z". Wade believes the gateway was the source of the release. The base's sci-bots have activated the gateway, which is supposedly shuttered, allowing observation of Dimension Z. Wade suggests to the officials that the other dimension could be useful in many ways once cleared of "animated cadavers". Many hands reach out of the gateway and pull Wade into it. A moment later, a wave of blood