A quaint little platypus walks along the sidewalk of Danville toward the Dr.'s building. He stops in front of it and looks up to try and see the top.
He takes out a grappling hook gun and aims it at the side of the building. He presses the button to make it fire but it the hook gets caught in the barrel of the gun and breaks.
Perry sighs as he walks up to the side of the building. He looks up once more and reaches for the wall. He starts to pull himself up as he thinks about what's up in the Dr.'s building.
As he approaches the top, a bird carrying a piece of parchment perches atop his shoulder. Perry opens the window and climbs into the Dr.'s empty room. Perry removes the parchment from the birds talons and unrolls it.
Printed on the parchment is a simple yet bewildering, '28'. Perry contemplates over what this could possibly mean.
Perry turns around to find that the doctor's room is neater than anytime he's seen it before. To his left, Perry sees resting on a side table another piece of parchment. He scurries over and picks it up. Written on the paper is the phrase, 'Take it slow'.
Now, Perry is in a complete state of confusion. Two notes assumedly meant for him, that he doesn't understand.
"28, and Take it slow," Perry thinks to himself. "What could these mean?"
Perry looks up from the two notes and notices a door on the other side of the room. A faint light is peeking through the cracks.
Perry walks over and puts his ear against the door to make sure that no one is inside. He hears nothing so he decides to look inside. As he opens the door, he notices the doctor's inventions from every past encounter he had with him.
The deflate-inator, the drill-inator, the Mime-inator, the invisinator, the…"
Perry's eyes suddenly widen as he sees something that may be of use.
"The slow-motion-inator! Take it slow!" Perry thinks to himself. "The doctor used this the twenty-eighth time we met! This has to be what he wants me to find! But… what do I do with it?"
Pacing, Perry ponders the things that he can use it for. After a while of thinking, he hasn't come up with anything. So he decides to take the device with him.
As he is heading for the door, the bird returns to Perry. He realizes that it is carrying another note and removes it from the bird's beak. On the parchment, written as if the person was rushing, was, 'I see you'.
Now that was the weirdest note Perry has received so far, and will probably be even harder to solve than the previous two. Perry leaves the building, still examining the paper… still thinking… still wondering… still hoping…
As he walks down the streets of a now seemingly endless street, Perry wonders if he'll ever be able to help his friends. Will he prevail, or will he fall?
Perry stops at a cross section and looks across the street. He sees a tall man shrouded in a black jacket. They stand there, watching each other.
A truck passes in front of them and the man disappears. Perry, scared to be alone, returns home.
He reenters his lair, sets the slow-motion-inator down on a nearby shelf and exits the room.
He returns to the boys' bedroom to hear that all famous line for what seems like the millionth time, "Oh, there you are, Perry."
As he jumps back onto Phineas' bed, he wonders about the journey awaiting him.
After the two brothers are asleep, Perry reaches for his communicator. Perry's heart starts beating faster as he notices that it is not there. His life, his secrets, his gadgets, everything are stored in that device, and he doesn't know where it is.
If it should fall into the wrong hands, or anyone's hands for that matter, he could be relocated. Or worse. Banned from being an agent. Why? For all the agency's data and secrets are on that device.
Perry slowly stands up and hops out of the bed. Quietly, he navigates his way through the dark and out of the house. He backtracks his entire day, starting from the walk to the doctor's building, to the moment he got back to the house.
A feeling of panic overcomes him as his eyes become heavy. He begins to doze off but tries to keep himself awake. He reaches a small pond in the park where all the fish are sleeping. All that watches him is a frog and the butterflies resting on the flowers.
He dips his hands in the water and scoops some up. He splashes the water in his face, trying to wake himself up. He wipes the water from his eyes and looks back into the pond. Standing there, right behind him, not even a foot away, is the dark shadow man.
Perry quickly turns and swings his arms at the figure. But when he looks, the man is gone.
Perry, now in terror, decides to call it a night. He makes himself a place to sleep using grasses, flowers, and the occasional leaf that falls off the nearby oak tree.
A tired platypus falls asleep, hoping that the recurring nightmares will have finally stopped.
But he dreams…
Perry is walking down a dirt road in the forest. All alone, in the dark of night. He frantically keeps turning around, in fear that something is following him… maybe the shadow figure.
He continues walking forward until he comes to a dead end. He turns around but sees that the path has vanished. It's getting darker. Colder. Scarier.
Perry is looking for a place to escape but to no avail. He turns around and standing there is the shadow figure.
He just stands there, not doing anything. Nothing to be said. Just… standing. And watching.
Then, Perry is jolted awake as the shadow figure disappears.
Perry, wishing that he was home, safe, sits there alone, in silence, wishing… hoping… wondering… dreaming…
This, is Perry all alone.