For it to be free, the Dark Presence needed the writer to finish the story. Again and again the story let it get frustratingly close to the writer without letting it capture him. It was bound by the events depicted in the manuscript.
But it could pursue the writer indirectly, put others on the task, and stop those who would help him.
It took over everything in its path, made them its puppets, and sent them after Alan Wake.
Departure Manuscript: The Dark Presence Hunts Wake
