Great, so if they're telling the truth, the crew's not failing. Perfect.

"...nothing. The night before I'd bought an engagement ring for my girl after work, went to bed as usual, ready to pull off the best proposal ever. Next thing I knew, I was with some people I've never met on a train platform that was foggier than a subway station vape party. And the good 'ol Express pulled up, some of the crew left through a gate that locked the reset of us in, and the staying crew came out to meet us. They tell us we're gonna die if we don't board, the usual stuff, but apparently the train doesn't mean to kill us. Think it has something to do with a thing called tethering."

Yeah, his research is still a little foggy on that point.