Cheering Crowd

A non-corporeal, collective auditory presence that intrudes on Dr. Paul Stubbs' consciousness as a vivid memory of a baseball game. The Cheering Crowd does not physically appear in the cabin; it functions as an evocative psychological stimulus that conjures excitement and communal validation, briefly lifting Stubbs out of isolation. In the episode, the sound fills his head during a localized electrical failure, serving as an emotional trigger and a narrative signal that the disturbance shifts from mere malfunction to directed, intimate assault on his mind.