Ep 01- The Black Door

Dr. Ryder gets a call from a woman who is being haunted by a mysterious black door.

Act I
At the start of the episode, Amanda tells Dr. Ryder that she's never listened to his show before and asks if it is alright ro talk about uncommon phenomena instead of more common monsters like vampires. He agrees and she goes on to talk about a date she found herself on. The first date wasn't good but she decided to invite him to a charity event at an art museum. Her date abandoned her in favor of the food there, so she fled to the Postmodern Contemporary Sculpture of the museum to avoid him if he came looking for her.

There she found a black door and stared at it for hours without realizing that any time had passed. The guard who brought her back to her senses at two in the morning couldn't see the door and when she turned back to it, it had disappeared.

Today in Odd America
Moline, Illinois in 1938: the Dhondt family goes missing and their disappearance becomes the first recorded case of the Jack-O-Lantern Murders.

Act II
Amanda tells Malcolm that the door has been following her everywhere and she describes its doorknob as an "unassuming brass" and the black door itself as the "colour of absence" and "like the center of a black hole". Staring at it makes her feel like the darkness is looking back into her and "feeling her insides".

Since the night at the museum, several people have seen the door. All of them tell her to open it. One of those people was a good friend who attacked her while looking at the door.

Amanda promises Malcolm she won't open the door but then hangs up when she realizes he doesn't know what she's dealing with.

Continuity

 * Amanda appears again in episode 03 - The Ghost Library & The Black Door Part II, Voicemails From Darkness - MSG 4: Shadow and Voicemails From Darkness - MSG 5: Dreaming Wrong.
 * The Jack-O-Lantern Murders come up again in episode 05 - Another Time, Another Place.