Claudia punched in the number to Artie's cell.

Instead of ringing, an electronic voice came on the line, saying "I'm sorry, the number you've dialed is not in service. Please check the number and try your call again."

"OoohKay," Claudia said, making a face as she lowered the phone from her ear.

"No luck?" Trubel asked, making a face.

"No, no luck. I'm gonna try someone else." Claudia shrugged.

She entered Steve's number.

"Hello?" A woman's voice answered.

"Hey, who's this? I need to talk to Steve."

"This is Monica. No Steve here." The woman on the other end hung up.

"No, no, that can't be," Claudia shook her head.

"What's going on?" Trubel asked, looking at the horizon.

"It's just—" she punched in Pete's number. "—this isn't possible."

Trubel smirked. "There's plenty of that around."

"Don't I know it." As if this isn't weird enough….

She scoffed as another automated error signal played.

"Sure you're dialing right?"

'Yeah, just one more."

Myka's number…someone had to answer…

It rang once, then popped to voicemail. She groaned as the recording played. "Hey, it's Johanathan, leave me a message."

"No, no, no!" Claudia grimaced, punctuating her words by clawing the air with her free hand.

"So what's going on?"

"It looks like my coworkers don't have the same numbers here. Wherever, uh, here, is."

"Portland."

"Yeah, yeah, but like, this….world."

"This world?"

"Yeah, I think, maybe I'm in, a parallel….parallel universe."

"Well, I think you should come with me." Trubel said, motioning up the path.

"No, I really—" Claudia began, crossing her arms as she thought as she trailed off.

"Look, it's gonna be dark soon, and besides, I know somebody who might be able to help." Trubel said.

"Really?" Claudia's face fell as she looked to the sky, seeing the setting sun, indecision showing in her voice.

"Yeah. You're not the only one that deals with weird, Agent Mulder." Trubel proclaimed.

"So what would you be, then? If you deal with weird." Claudia asked, her expression now conveying curiosity.

"Uh…kind of…like…a vampire slayer, I guess." Trubel muttered, making a face as she settled on what she seemed to find a goofy way of saying it, judging by her tone.

Claudia laughed. "Seriously? How long has that been going on?"

"Longer than I want to remember." She rolled her eyes in an amused way.