The tape rolls, the escalator hums, and a doorway becomes a stage where nothing happens and everything changes. In Part I, we stay inside the hours before the disappearance—dinner with his father, a bar-hop back to the Ugly Tuna, a quick call to Alexis, and the camera frame at 1:55 a.m. that swallows a six-foot-two med student three weeks after the death of his mother, Renee. We rebuild the minute-by-minute timeline, walk the under-construction service corridor the cameras barely touched, and follow the first 72 hours as Columbus searched rooftops, dumpsters, riverbanks, and storm drains. Along the way, we translate what 2006 technology could (and couldn’t) do: analog PTZ lenses, looping tapes, and a nine-second blind sweep that turned into a nineteen-year question. No theories yet—just the night itself, the search that followed, and the stubborn gap between what the footage shows and what the evidence should have left behind.