WARNING: Spoilers for Alan Wake 2Alan Wake 2 continues the turbulent tale of the titular writer as he attempts to defeat the Dark Presence and escape his imprisonment within the warped space and time of the Dark Place it calls home beneath Cauldron Lake. Though Alan has learned a lot about the shifting rules of reality during his 13-year-long limbo in it, he had some prior help along the way. In the first title, Alan encounters a strange figure clad in a vintage diving suit while lost in the depths of the lake. This was later revealed to be Thomas Zane, a mysterious figure who explained many details about the nature of their shared predicament.