In November of 1989, a young Grayson Lee finishes her studies in Italy and graduates with deegrees in folkloristsics, anthropology, demonology and parapsychology. She makes plans to move back to her home country of the United States. After a small reunion with family in Oklahoma, she moves to a tiny apartment in Manhattan. She begins looking for a job, hoping for a teaching position at an esteemed university. She comes up with now luck. Ultimately she gets a job as a waitress in a diner and scrapes by while continuing to search for a better job. During New Years Day, she witnesses the manifestation and take down of Vigo Carpethian by the Ghostbusters, standing outside the museum and watching the events unfold. She instantly becomes obsessed with the four men and begins researching them. She spends hours going over city records, newspapers and old magazines. She even makes visits to the firehouse just to see if she can spot anyone or anything, but the building seems dead. She never sees anyone come in or out. In early February of 1990, while reading through the classifieds in the paper. Lee becomes ecstatic after seeing an ad published by Ghostbusters Corp. seeking nothing less than to hire a Ghostbuster.