storage facility), Mallory heads there and sees the girl being abducted on the security footage. Meanwhile, Christopher Vine, a colleague of the murdered man, has been reported missing. At Vine's house, a phone message leads Mallory to an abandoned factory. There, he finds a tape recorder playing on repeat, "I found you. Time is running out. I will kill you." A vagrant then approaches Mallory and says, "he left this for you", giving him a photo of a building. He then learns that the fingerprints on the murdered man's body are those of Vine. Heading to the location depicted in the photo, he finds the body of the missing girl, with a note directing him to another derelict factory. There, Mallory finds Vine's body. Mallory is then attacked by Serial Killer X. He escapes, but SKX pursues him through the building. Eventually, he catches Mallory, and beats him to death with a 2x4. Expanded universe plans In October 2005, Warner Bros. announced plans to release a film tied to the then upcoming Condemned: Criminal Origins. The plan was for the film to take place in the same fictional universe as the game, rather than being an adaptation, and ultimately, the Condemned universe would gradually expand across multiple video games and films. This expanded universe was the idea of Jace Hall and Nathan Henderickson. Hall, former Monolith CEO and current vice president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, said they wanted to "come up with something specifically designed to use multiple mediums to tell stories that had some continuity and connective thread [...] we wanted to create a universe that, like Star Wars, was big enough where different stories could exist". Indeed, as well as the game and film, Hall had mapped out a storyline that would encompass three additional games, culminating in Condemned 4. With the film named Species X, Kurt Sutter was hired to write the script, with Basil Iwanyk and David S. Goyer on board as executive producers. The story followed a police officer hunting down a serial killer, but along the way, he discovers that the killer may be tied to other still open murder cases. As he discovers he has supernatural abilities, the cop begins to question his own nature, eventually discovering that he has alien origins. Ultimately, he is dragged into a war between two alien races and must reconcile his humanity with his alien DNA.