The Taken (Manuscript Page)

The Taken is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake's American Nightmare. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.

Manuscript text[]

The Taken may well be the tool the darkness favors over any other. At some point, they used to be human, but whatever humanity they once had is long gone. Now they're just shells covered and filled by darkness.

The Taken Mr. Scratch throws at me are more grotesque and varied than the ones I first encountered in Bright Falls, but I know how to deal with them. I'd be lying if I said they don't frighten me, but I have survived worse. I can't let them stop me.

Location[]

This page can be found pinned on a delivery package located behind the main observatory.

Manuscript Pages (Alan Wake's American Nightmare)
Note: The number next to the page indicates the act in which they can be found.
Rest Stop	Alan Wake, the Writer¹ • Hunting Mr. Scratch¹ • Rewriting Reality¹ • The Devil is in the Details¹ • The Splitter¹ • Too Many Legs¹ • The Twisted Mirror¹ • New Reality: The Satellite¹ • The Appearance of Mr. Scratch² • Pages and Instincts¹ • My Best Friend² • Wake's Friends² • Night Springs, the Cult TV Show² • Night Springs, Arizona² • The Spectre² • Emma Sloan² • Old Gods of Asgard³ • Barry and the Old Gods³ • Old Gods in the Studio³ • The Giant³ • Emma and Mr. Scratch³
Observatory	Success¹ • Pressure¹ • The Genesis of Mr. Scratch¹ • Fighting the Taken¹ • The Spiders¹ • New Reality: Fragment 1¹ • The Darkness² • Lost in the Dark Place² • The Nature of Stories² • Cosmological Truths² • The Taken² • Dr. Meadows² • New Reality: Fragment 2² • Everything Is as Real as Everything Else³ • Dr. Meadows and Mr. Scratch³ • New Reality: Fragment 3³
Drive-In Theater	Bright Falls¹ • Alice¹ • What Really Matters¹ • The Grenadier¹ • A Car in Flight¹ • Survival in the Dark Place² • Equilibrium² • The Doppelganger² • Mr. Scratch's Trap² • The Plan² • The Dangers of Creation² • Serena Valdivia² • Focusing the Beam³ • Serena and Mr. Scratch³ • The Clothes³ • Alice's Film³