[Ferran nods.] The Mayor in my little town has not been real since before Caligin left the project, but the Mayor you know is the second version. The first was a test of Caligin's to see if the technology could be used to bring back people from the dead.

Which it can, by the way. A couple of your friends here are not alive in their own worlds, but with my lovely camera here, they can be brought back to life.

[Basically, he could have brought Caligin's father back to life as the man was trying to accomplish--but that would have been too easy and none of this would have happened. What Caligin doesn't know won't hurt him...]