Seizures Mark the Town's Chosen Arrivals

The seizures targeting specific arrivals are not medical anomalies but a selection mechanism, and the town's controlling force is the agent. Pastor Dune began convulsing before his car crossed the boundary, not after. Mari's comparison to Elgin's arrival seizure closes the door on coincidence and establishes the link through a character with medical authority. Two newcomers, separated by time and circumstance, experience the same crisis at the same threshold. The question the evidence now forces is mechanical: what is the precise trigger that initiates the seizure before physical entry, and does the town select the person or does the approach itself confirm a selection already made elsewhere?

The pattern extends backward to Sara, whose progressive symptoms across prior seasons include inscriptions appearing on her skin. If the arrival seizure is the entry point and Sara's condition is a later stage, then Dune and Elgin are not sick newcomers but early-stage recipients of a process the town runs on people it has already claimed. The Man in Yellow's demonstrated ability to interact with specific individuals across time supports the inference that seizures do not affect all arrivals indiscriminately but target those already marked.

Mari's warning to Kenny sharpens the stakes past anything medical. She is more worried about what happens if Dune wakes up than if he does not. That statement is not about stroke damage or brain injury. It reflects what the township has already observed about Elgin: the seizure is not the crisis. The seizure is the opening. Whatever passes through that opening is the crisis. If the pattern holds, Dune's religious framework and apparent sensitivity to the town's presence are not incidental traits. They are the reason he was selected before he arrived.