Control

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The Other Castle.

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The Other Castle, I'm Andrea.

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And my name is Tom.

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So the production, the filming, the creation, the creators, and what actually happens in the game.

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Yes, we do.

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Side Quests.

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Where we do things like DLCs to games.

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We also do histories on games that can't really be covered on this show.

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One time I did a prank.

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You fully pulled a prank on everyone and did an April Fool's Day episode instead of the promised Detroit Become Human episode.

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That's the prank.

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Yes, because we still did the Detroit Become Human Revolutionary run in the end anyway.

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I'll do anything that involves Jesse Williams.

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Yes, you will.

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So that's fun.

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Including Jesse Williams himself, apparently.

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Oh my God, what a fucking dream.

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He's splooshed.

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He's so fucking hot, it's unreal.

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Sploosh.

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But speaking of hotties, today we're getting into control.

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Control, oh my gosh, we're back on Remedy.

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I wouldn't necessarily call this a bisexual nightmare, which is obviously when a cast is so stacked, you're like, I'm just generally horny.

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Male and female, everyone's hot.

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Yeah, entirely, like examples, The Quarry.

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Right.

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Holy shit, even Ethan Supply can get it in that shit.

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I don't know why, but he manages to make that happen.

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I love a bisexual nightmare, it's wonderful.

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I think Hades being another prime example of a bisexual nightmare.

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Oh, absolutely, like one of the best ones too.

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Everyone's hot down to like the insane art to the beautiful voices.

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Right.

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Which is a great segue into talking about Remedy Games.

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I did it, I did it, I did it.

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I know you're excited about another Remedy Game that you didn't have to play.

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I have heard nothing but Sam Lake for far too fucking long.

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I talk about Ilkaville too.

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Yeah, but not nearly as much as Sam Lake because he's involved in all this shit.

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He's fascinating.

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He's just a guy who loves coffee and Finland and Twin Peaks.

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And constantly drinking a cup of coffee with friends.

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Well, Finland does consume the most coffee out of any country per capita.

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That is very true.

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It's something like an average of six cups per person every day.

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Every day though.

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I haven't had caffeine since 2019.

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That would actually kill me.

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Like by cup two, I'd be like changing color, you know?

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I like coffee, but not that much.

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Not in a Finnish way.

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You're not a Finisher.

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So I tell the story of the development of Remedy, the company that made this game, and Sam Lake, my best friend, the creative director of Remedy Entertainment and his entry into the gaming world, the foundation of how Remedy approaches storytelling and all this really cool shit about the studio in our Alan Wake episode.

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So we're going to skip a little bit of that just so I'm not recovering it for people to listen to that one, because I'm assuming if you're into Control, you probably are into Alan Wake.

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I would hope so, because isn't this like connected to the entire world together?

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Oh, bitch.

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More so than Marvel.

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It's a Remedyverse.

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Yeah, it's entirely a Remedyverse.

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So as we learn in the core of Control, everything is connected and nothing is coincidence.

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Following Alan Wake in 2010 and some mobile games and a remake of Death Rally, Remedy eventually put out Quantum Break in 2016.

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This was an Xbox One exclusive that eventually also came out on PC, because like whatever, exclusivity means nothing apparently.

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That's really cool to hear from my wife.

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Wait, no, except for our marriage.

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Like I think we signed something.

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We're Gucci.

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Everything's fine.

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Quantum Break was originally slated to be a direct sequel to Alan Wake.

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They were like, this is the next thing.

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Let's fucking go.

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The end product of what that became isn't particularly tied to Alan Wake, but did have several Easter eggs to Remedy's previous games.

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Quantum Break had an accompanying live action TV show on the Xbox streaming network that complimented the game and the in-world lore.

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Really?

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So this is before Fallout.

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This is before doing like The Last of Us.

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Oh yeah.

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And it wasn't that it was a TV show that followed the game.

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It was chapters of the game, of the entire story.

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So you'd have to be popping between watching the TV show and playing the game.

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Holy shit.

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I don't know anybody that's done that before.

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You could argue that Death Stranding with their 45 minute cut scenes did that.

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But albeit this is live action.

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That's fair.

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So kind of cool.

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It's really just that Sam Lake loves TV.

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And this was a big hybrid of the two mediums to tell one story.

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And he was like, this is all I've ever wanted.

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I just want fun shit to happen.

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It also had a killer cast starting with the protagonist, Sean Ashmore.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Iceman.

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Beautiful baby faced man.

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Holy shit.

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Dominic Monahan and the late great Lance Reddick.

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Oh, Lance Reddick's great.

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From the fucking John Wick movies.

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He works the hotel.

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He's got the glasses.

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He loves dogs.

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We love him.

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Yeah, the concierge in that movie.

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This was the first video game that a lot of the traditionally film actors had worked on, which is kind of cool, including an actress named Courtney Hope.

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Courtney Hope had done a ton of soap operas and a lot of single episode work on TV shows here and there, but nothing really that stuck.

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Quantum Break was Courtney's first video game performance, and she learned a lot through the process of acting for a video game versus acting for a camera.

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And she was like, I had a great fucking time.

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That was just a great learning experience.

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I'm a better performer because of it.

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So many actors come away from performing in video games saying the exact same thing.

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I think that's so cool.

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Yeah.

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Sam Lake also had a great time working with Courtney.

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So after Quantum Break, Sam Lake reached back out to her for another game.

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He approached Courtney with a role he actually started writing with her in mind.

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So he's really like, man, I really hope she liked working with us.

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He wanted her to be the protagonist of his next game, Control.

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That's this game.

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That's it.

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It all comes together, baby.

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Wow.

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Because everything in Remedy is connected.

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Courtney Hope jumped at the chance to not only be in another Remedy game, but to be the lead of a Remedy game.

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That's pretty fucking cool.

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Hell yeah, the lead of anything.

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Her character in Quantum Break was originally supposed to be playable, but that got scrapped.

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So she ended up just being a supporting character, but they really wanted a female lead, and especially someone as cool as Courtney Hope.

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Courtney had grown up playing Mario, and she actually admitted she's a World of Warcraft girlie.

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Hell yeah.

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I could not figure out if she was the Horde or the Alliance.

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Horde or Alliance, yeah.

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I did try and find it.

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She talks about having an account though, so.

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Hell yeah, we did a great episode on World of Warcraft over on our Patreon.

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And honestly, it's just fun because Tom talks about borking the orc in that one.

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Just with one person.

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Whatever.

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I think it's funny.

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But back to Courtney.

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She had so much fun in Quantum Break that this was a total dream come true for her.

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You know, minus flying back and forth to Finland to record, but you know, whatever, still a dream role.

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From start to finish, Control's production cycle was about three years and cost about 30 million euros to produce.

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Sam Lake really wanted to create a more unique experience for gamers, and that culminated in making an open world game in a closed off, isolated environment, where the player takes charge of Courtney Hope's character, Jesse, exploring a world of brutalist architecture.

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Okay, what is brutalist architecture?

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You know, I'm glad you asked, because I'd be remiss to not talk about the architecture of Control, the physical architecture of the building.

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It's a world based on a very specific aesthetic of brutalism within architecture.

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That means it's very concrete, it's heavy, and it's minimalist, and it's pretty devoid of personal color or flair.

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In fact, the main location of Control, a place called The Oldest House, is based on the AT&T Long Lines building at 33 Thomas Street in New York City.

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Oh, I know that building, actually.

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Do you really?

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Yeah, is that the one without any windows whatsoever?

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Yeah, entirely.

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Yeah, they used that in Men in Black, actually.

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Oh, that fully tracks, actually, because there is some lore that it might be owned by the CIA.

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Right.

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It has no windows.

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It's so creepy because it's also so fucking tall.

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There is also in the game an extra nod to it being this building because the canonical address of the oldest house is 34 Thomas Street next to the Long Lines building being 33 Thomas Street.

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Smart.

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Okay.

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Also, Thomas Street.

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What's up?

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That's me.

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So Remedy saw this 29 story windowless concrete skyscraper that is made to blast through a fucking nuclear fallout and said, that sounds great.

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Why does a phone company own this?

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It fully doesn't.

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I know.

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It's funny.

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Like the cover up is so terrible.

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What is AT&T getting in terms of kickback to let them like say they own that?

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You don't want to know.

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It's the only reason AT&T is still around.

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Right.

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That's a joke for legal reasons.

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Shit.

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Fuck.

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Oh, the men in black are going to come knocking on our door.

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They do know people at the NSA fucking CIA building.

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So the concept behind brutalism architecture aesthetic is based in not hiding the materials, just letting a building be functional and exactly what it needs to be without any fluff.

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You know, there's no, oh, let's put a fucking window here.

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No, no window for you.

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You are just room.

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Stop.

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Sam Lake said that aesthetic decision feeds into the lore of what the oldest house houses.

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So, ooo.

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Spooky shit.

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Yeah.

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Immediately.

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In production for Control, the team actually started by creating a world that they wanted to explore just as gamers and then looking into gameplay sequences and elements that they wanted to create.

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While most of Remedy's games are hyper story focused, the team wanted to push their limits to focus on a seamless game experience that would be unique to them and bring something special to their lineup of other games.

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And when we think about their other games, fucking Max Payne and Alan Wake, it's a dude from New York just kind of fucking shooting shit.

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So yeah, you know, go off.

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There's a fucking trope about it.

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Sam Lake was fully down and wanted to explore what stories could be told in this kind of environment and how that fits into the larger Remedyverse, because, like you said, he loves fucking connecting things.

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He likes a story that adds to his other stories.

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It's exciting.

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Another thing that's pretty exciting is a person he loves dearly.

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In addition to Courtney Hope and a few other Remedy performers that ended up in control, we have the iconic James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne and Thomas Zane, hired to be Director Trench.

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Ooh, that's fun.

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Sam Lake actually pitched this to James McCaffrey as being an all-star Remedy game, so he like had to do it, which is fun.

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It's bringing in the hits.

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Entirely.

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Speaking of the hits, Matthew Perretta also rounds out the main cast, and we know him as the voice of Alan Wake.

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So everyone except for Matthew Perretta, Sam Lake had written a specific part for.

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He was like, I wrote this character, his name is Jesse, I absolutely need Courtney Hope to do this.

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Fucking I've got James McCaffrey.

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All right, Matthew Perretta, what do we do with him?

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What's he up to?

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So Sam Lake and Matthew Perretta actually worked together to create the character of Dr.

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Casper Darling, one of the best characters in the Remedyverse period.

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Really?

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I love him so much.

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So a character they had no idea what to do with, they ended up making one of the best ones.

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Yeah.

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That's awesome for me, for me.

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I mean, I'm sure fucking fight me on the Discord about it, but I love Dr.

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Casper Darling so much.

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With a name like Darling, how can you not?

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He wears bow ties and he's just a silly boy.

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I love him.

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A lot of people loved him too because both Matthew Perretta and Courtney Hope did get nominated for their performances in control at that year's Game Awards.

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They did lose to Mads Mikkelsen in Death Stranding though.

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Oh, of course.

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So during E3 of 2018, Remedy announced control during the Sony showcase.

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And here's why that's important.

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Remember I said Quantum Break was an Xbox One exclusive?

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I figured that's why this was important.

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You're fully just eating popcorn right now.

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It was published by Microsoft.

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Alan Wake also published by Microsoft and was an Xbox PC exclusive.

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But after Quantum Break, Remedy broke up with Microsoft as their publishing partner and Control was their first non-Microsoft published game since the Max Payne Rockstar era.

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So after years and years of being so close with Xbox, Microsoft, that whole family, Remedy worked with 505 Games to publish Control across all the fucking devices, because fuck you.

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But they did debut it on PlayStation.

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I know.

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Oh, that's good.

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That's so, I think it's so fucking sick to be like, we're thriving.

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We've moved on Microsoft to Sony.

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We will take place in your showcase like, oh, yeah, I think Bungie did something similar with Destiny as well.

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Oh, that's so cunty.

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I love it.

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Through their partnership with 505 Games, Control came out on August 27th, 2019 across, like I said, all the devices.

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And to this day, 505 is scheduled to publish Control 2, which has officially been confirmed and is in active development for PC and consoles.

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Oh, damn.

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Like there's a home page on the Remedy site for it.

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Well, with the success of Alan Wake 2, how can you not?

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Oh, God.

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We'll talk about that one in another episode.

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There's some debate there.

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That one's a tricky one to wrap your arms around.

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In 2020, two pieces of DLC were released for Control called The Foundation and AWE and are now bundled in the Control Ultimate Edition, which is what I played unknowingly and just did the whole fucking thing.

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It was like, that was fun.

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Oops.

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I played the whole thing plus the DLC.

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So you played the full, full, full experience.

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I did.

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And speaking of DLC, one, the DLC episode will be coming.

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It will be separate.

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It will not be baked into this because it's a little expansive.

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And I mean, we got to get this shit rolling like right now.

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There's a lot to cover in Remedy.

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Yeah.

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And two, on speaking of DLC is one more thing.

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I want to bring up something that our Patreon subscribers heard a few weeks ago.

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We covered Alan Wake here on the main show, like I mentioned, and for our patrons, we covered the Alan Wake DLC entries of The Rider, The Signal, and The American Nightmare Game.

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American Nightmare came out in February of 2012, six years before Control was even announced.

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In Alan Wake, American Nightmare, there's an Old Gods of Asgard song that's featured and it's called Balanced Slays the Demon.

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If the song is played backwards, there is a secret message.

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The message reads, it will happen again in another town, a town called Ordinary.

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So just like keep that in mind.

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Okay, but the fact that they put a fucking hidden message in reverse in a Heavy Metal song is like such a classic thing.

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I fucking love that.

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That's so fucking cool, right?

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This is Control.

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The loading screen for Control aesthetically matches a ton of the game.

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It's large, all caps, white font that says Control over a grinding dark gray background.

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The screen goes black and we hear narration break the silence.

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It's Jesse Fadon, our protagonist.

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She says, fair warning, this is going to be weirder than usual, can't be helped.

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The black screen is broken up by a spinning spiral.

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It's dark gray on black and it's mechanical looking.

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She says, you called me, so here I am.

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The scene shifts out of the spiral and to the exterior of a massive concrete building with no windows.

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She continues saying, I know I shut you out sometimes.

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I'm always glad to hear from you, it's just that I get my hopes up.

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The camera pans down from the heights of the buildings into a street side entry.

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It's New York City and the people are out here minding their business, walking down the street.

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A cab goes by.

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Jesse goes, so many times it's led to nothing.

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The camera pushes in up the short flight of stairs to the main entrance of the building.

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Jesse says, I found nothing.

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It's like we live in a room and there's a poster on the wall.

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We stare at it and we think, that's the whole world, the room and the poster.

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The picture is something nice, a landscape, a famous person.

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Like in that movie, what was it called?

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The Prison Movie?

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Oh God, The Shawshank Redemption.

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The room is a cell and it's different for each of us.

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It can be beautiful or terrible, but we're all transfixed.

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The camera moves into the building and we see the unattended front desk for the Federal Bureau of Control.

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We see a framed portrait of a man, an important man on the wall.

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Then we're at the man's desk.

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He sits staring forward.

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He's in a clean tailored suit.

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The camera cuts to a tighter shot of his face and he looks forward and starts to nervously move his jaw.

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We get a flash of an all white space with a black pyramid coming down from the ceiling.

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We get a flash of a bald man in a prison style jumpsuit with P6 marked on his sweater.

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We come back to the suited man and a gun comes down to his temple and the screen pops white.

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The screen comes out of its white haze and the portrait of the suited man has changed to a portrait of a janitor mopping the floor as Jesse says, it's all a lie, something to distract us from the truth.

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The scene pops to see the janitor mopping in the dark alone.

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Jesse says, they're lying to us.

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We're lying to ourselves.

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The room's not the world.

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The world is much bigger and much stranger.

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There's a hidden hole in the poster that leads to the real world.

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We all feel safe in that room.

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But sometimes, something crawls out from behind the poster.

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Our perspective is back on the entrance to the Federal Bureau of Control, and we see Jesse walking through the automatic doors.

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Her mouth isn't moving, but we hear her say, and the ones that see it happen freak out and try to forget what they saw.

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The camera goes tighter on her face as she looks up the lobby of the building.

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She says, I'm here.

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Why did you bring me here?

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We get our first look at Jesse and she's bottled dark red hair pulled like loosely in a ponytail.

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She's cute.

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OK, good.

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Like any self-respecting New Yorker, she's wearing all black with a leather jacket.

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Just like immediate bad bitch energy.

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It's like Connor undercover.

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No, it's not.

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What the fuck?

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Jesse looks around the abandoned lobby and is like, this is weird that we're alone.

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The lobby is big and concrete, like everything here.

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On the wall is metal lettering announcing that she is in the Federal Bureau of Control, the FBC.

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On the ground at her feet is big tiled insignia for the FBC.

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It's a government building as shown by the American flags, just like flanking this big ass desk with no one attending it.

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Oh, they love doing that in federal buildings.

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Just a big flag.

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Jesse calls out for anyone, but no one answers.

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No one's manning the desk or nearby security checkpoints, so Jesse lets herself in.

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Throughout the FBC, Jesse can find FBC memos and files and redacted documents in the building.

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The first one we find is right here at the security checkpoint.

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It's a basic government building checkpoint with metal detectors and a small x-ray machine to prevent weapons entering the premises.

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The first memo is a staff reminder that certain objects are not permitted in the bureau, such as pagers, laptops, smart watches, smart phones, smart gaming devices, anything considered smart, number two pencils, and any objects considered ironic representations of an archetypal concept such as rubber ducks or ketchup packets.

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I'm sorry, what?

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That got weird.

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Well, you can't have smart devices because that's a Wi-Fi issue.

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Oh, I just figured because you're a government employee, you can't be smart.

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Shut the fuck up.

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We're not doing that today, okay?

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Jesse wanders up these wide concrete steps to find literally anyone here.

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She does find more documents and FBC branded folders, and she says to herself, This seal, I saw it a long time ago.

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I keep seeing it in my dreams.

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The hallway has cheap red low-pile carpet and some occasionally leafy green plants, which is weird because there's literally no natural lighting here by design.

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Right.

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In the first hallway, there are three portraits on the wall.

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On the left is the portrait of the suited man that we saw before.

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This is Director Trench, the director of the Federal Bureau of Control, played by James McCaffrey.

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In the middle is a portrait of the janitor mopping.

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Like a painted portrait of this janitor.

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What?

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By the janitor?

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This is Ati.

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He's an older Finnish guy who loves music.

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And if you look close, you can see he's wearing headphones while he works.

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So he's like, hey, we're jamming out while I'm mopping.

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He's played by Finnish actor Marty Susalo.

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I apologize if I fucked that up.

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Who took home the only BAFTA award that Control actually got out of all of its nominations that year.

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What the hell the janitor character did?

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Yes.

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Okay, this janitor better be fucking cool as shit.

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He is a non-playable character.

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He's not in every chapter of the game.

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He's a very minor character.

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Yeah.

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Doesn't have any impact on the story.

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He's kind of just a homie.

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He's fucking amazing and he won a BAFTA for this performance.

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That's awesome.

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They were nominated for 11 BAFTAs that year.

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Can you imagine putting in all the effort for the game and one of the people that put in the least amount got the award for it?

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Like he didn't get a nod during the game awards.

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I don't know if that's an American versus European thing.

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Like he is a Finnish actor.

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Maybe I don't know what happened.

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But yeah, Courtney Hope got nominated for her performance as the protagonist a bunch of times.

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It sounds like the people that made the game got a bunch of nominations and they didn't win either.

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Oh, entirely.

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It's like narrative, writing, fucking lighting and music and shit.

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The Jander won though.

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I'm not trying to downplay what he did.

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It's just that there were a lot of people that did a lot more for this game and he ended up winning.

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Imagine being like this.

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Oh my God.

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That's hilarious.

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He really is.

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The portrait on the right side is just like a silly rabbit of a man in a white lab coat, a bow tie and glasses.

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Rabbit of a man.

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Silly rabbit of a man.

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This is Dr.

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Casper Darling, the head of research here at the FBC since 1995.

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Well, you've already buried the lead and said you love this man.

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I do.

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He's the Matthew Paretta character.

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I fucking love him.

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This performance is why in the Alan Wake episode, I think that the voice guy is more fuckable than the face guy.

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Oh, all right.

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Why is that?

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You'll see.

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Okay.

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If you hang tight, I'm going to tell you everything that happens in the game in control.

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Oh, is that how this show works?

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Spoilers.

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That's the show.

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Jesse burst through some more doors and find some abandoned offices.

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She thinks out loud to us, I guess, that she's been looking for the Federal Bureau of Control and they were hiding in plain sight for years.

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Further down another dark, abandoned hallway, Jesse hears humming from a man.

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She turns a corner to see Auti, the janitor, the BAFTA award-winning janitor.

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He's exactly as he's portrayed in his portrait.

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He's mopping in the dark, singing along to something and finish.

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Jesse says hello to the man and he only turns about halfway when he tells her, You are here about the job, janitor's assistant.

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You need to go to the interview.

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He's already immediately the best person.

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Yeah, literally, he won.

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Because he saw a stranger and said, You are here to interview to be my assistant, declarative statement.

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He points her down to an elevator and Jesse doesn't fight back on him, assuming she's here to be his assistant.

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He's pleased by this and he introduces himself to Jesse.

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He tells Jesse, You'll work for me.

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Tell them I sent you.

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If they don't hire you.

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And then in Finnish, I looked this up and he apparently just says, Then it's totally fucked up.

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All right.

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Yeah, I see why he won the awards.

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So charming off the bat.

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Immediately.

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He continues saying, There will be work for the acts.

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I'll take them behind the sauna.

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And then he just goes back to mopping and like bopping to himself.

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Yeah, I would die for this man.

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Immediately.

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Jesse thinks to herself, you know, I've done enough night shift loner jobs to know it makes us come off kind of weird.

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Auti the Jander, friendly face in my book.

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Auti?

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Here's her thinking about that and responds, Better than someone with no face at all.

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Think about it.

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No face.

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Oh, shit.

00:26:51.766 --> 00:26:54.526
Okay, so Jander's got some powers.

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In Finnish lore, like just traditional folklore, the god of lakes is named Auti.

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Oh, I'm sorry, no, it's not a lake, it's an ocean.

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Auti!

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I had to.

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That was good.

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Auti is the god of the sea and of fishing, so he's named Auti for a reason.

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Alone in the elevator, Jesse remembers the room and the poster.

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She was 11 years old the first time she saw behind the poster.

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They told her she imagined it.

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She's been trying to pull it down ever since.

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Then she says, will you help?

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The opening credits begin.

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The cinematic shows the lead performer, Courtney Hope and other producers and creators' names as we pan over FBC paperwork and desks and filing cabinets and reports.

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It's so weird that games are kind of making this resurgence of opening credits.

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It's so cinematic.

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It really is cinematic, because movies don't even have opening credits anymore.

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Oh, totally.

00:27:57.226 --> 00:27:57.786
True.

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Interestingly, in this set of shots in the opening credits, we do get a shot of architectural blueprints that shift around within the sequence, like the layout of the building is alive and changing.

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The neutral tones of the building start shifting into more flavors of red, just tonally, and documents end up flying, and the cabinets are flung open with no one nearby.

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More and more, chaos and red fill the office as the credits roll on.

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Then the title card, white, all caps text, on black, control.

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The elevator door is open, and Jesse sees a more lively floor of the FBC.

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To herself, she starts thinking, did I lose you there for a moment?

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You know what's on my mind?

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My baby brother, Dylan.

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17 years since the men of this bureau took him.

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Oh, shit.

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When she talks to herself, there's an echo, barely a glimpse, but a gray spiral appears in her vision.

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It only happens for a moment and shows up the way light refracts through glass.

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This is Polaris.

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This is an entity that Jesse is mentally connected to.

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When we never hear Polaris speak back to her, we know that they are communicating in some way, even though we only hear Jesse's side.

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Polaris may show up as this gray, refracted spiral in The Oldest House to show Jesse where to go or to nudge her to the right place.

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And it's what drew her to The Oldest House in the first place.

00:29:27.686 --> 00:29:30.026
You know, it's funny that we mentioned Men in Black earlier.

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Because how could you not?

00:29:32.786 --> 00:29:33.586
Because how could you not?

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Because of the building and everything.

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Also, just kind of this world that we're about to step into.

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Clearly.

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And what's funny is, I think this is actually the plot of Men in Black International.

00:29:46.586 --> 00:29:48.246
Oh, shit, the Chris Hemsworth one?

00:29:48.266 --> 00:29:50.786
The Chris Hemsworth one with Tessa Thompson.

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Tessa Thompson.

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I think this is Tessa Thompson's character who, like, got a peek at, like, what really is going on in the world and has spent her life hunting down the Men in Black so she could join them.

00:30:02.246 --> 00:30:05.206
Are you calling Men in Black International a hack?

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Derivative of the comic book that it's based off of.

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The fourth movie in this franchise?

00:30:14.246 --> 00:30:21.686
But no, it's very funny that it's just it does sound very like I was like, this sounds a little familiar, and I had to kind of trace it back because that movie is not very good.

00:30:21.706 --> 00:30:26.246
So you've just been sitting here going, what fucking movie am I thinking about?

00:30:27.606 --> 00:30:29.406
It was like, no, it's because we mentioned Men in Black.

00:30:29.426 --> 00:30:30.406
It's the same fucking thing.

00:30:30.626 --> 00:30:36.386
I don't know who came first, the chicken or the egg in this situation, but really, it's just, you know, nothing's original.

00:30:41.326 --> 00:30:42.946
Not cynical at all.

00:30:45.166 --> 00:30:48.386
Jesse comes into a hallway leading to the director's office.

00:30:49.006 --> 00:30:56.446
In a desk just outside of the office doors, Jesse finds a memo from Director Trench requesting to cancel all of his appointments for the week.

00:30:57.186 --> 00:31:00.466
He says he can't trust anyone, not a single one of them.

00:31:02.166 --> 00:31:06.226
Then Jesse hears a popping bang from inside the office.

00:31:06.806 --> 00:31:08.406
She runs to the door and opens it.

00:31:08.966 --> 00:31:15.086
Director Trench's office is big and grand with library-style shelving on the walls filled with books.

00:31:15.906 --> 00:31:18.326
In the center of the room is Director Trench's desk.

00:31:18.666 --> 00:31:20.246
It's messy with obligation.

00:31:21.166 --> 00:31:22.966
With obligation, like Hades?

00:31:24.126 --> 00:31:25.386
Exactly like Hades.

00:31:25.566 --> 00:31:27.486
His desk looks like Hades.

00:31:28.386 --> 00:31:29.166
Excellent work.

00:31:29.666 --> 00:31:36.706
Jesse opens the door all the way and says, shit, as it's revealed that Trench is on the ground bleeding out.

00:31:36.966 --> 00:31:37.926
Oh shit, yeah.

00:31:38.606 --> 00:31:42.746
As she approaches the body, players' gray spiral glimmers as she walks up.

00:31:43.306 --> 00:31:45.366
She says, you want me to pick it up?

00:31:45.826 --> 00:31:48.646
As she approaches the weapon, clearly used on Trench.

00:31:49.906 --> 00:31:57.986
Upon closer inspection, it's clear Trench was shot in the head and no one is here, so we can kind of just assume Trench shot himself in the temples.

00:31:58.626 --> 00:32:02.386
His blood pools into the carpet and a handgun is at his side.

00:32:03.366 --> 00:32:06.026
It looks like a modified pistol with a large barrel.

00:32:06.666 --> 00:32:10.346
The glimmers of Polaris shine around the gun as Jesse comes even closer.

00:32:10.946 --> 00:32:14.286
Jesse picks up the gun and has her hands touch the warm metal.

00:32:14.786 --> 00:32:19.366
She is transported to the astral plane to meet with the board.

00:32:19.386 --> 00:32:22.526
Oh, that's what happens whenever you have to log in to a new gun.

00:32:23.186 --> 00:32:23.786
Oh, really?

00:32:24.046 --> 00:32:24.286
Oh.

00:32:26.586 --> 00:32:28.406
I don't know gun shit, Tom.

00:32:28.426 --> 00:32:29.306
The fuck?

00:32:30.566 --> 00:32:32.566
Not even Skippy in Cyberpunk does that.

00:32:33.126 --> 00:32:35.326
Well, we do things a little different here at Remedy.

00:32:36.966 --> 00:32:38.046
It's all the coffee.

00:32:38.086 --> 00:32:42.706
If you guys switch to like a nice tea, the games would be a lot more chill.

00:32:42.706 --> 00:32:44.366
What are they putting in that coffee though?

00:32:44.386 --> 00:32:45.266
Holy shit.

00:32:45.826 --> 00:32:51.326
The astral plane is a white space, devoid of time and devoid of boundaries.

00:32:51.986 --> 00:32:55.066
It happens here in The Oldest House, the home of the Federal Bureau of Control.

00:32:55.786 --> 00:33:00.306
When the FBC's board wants to meet Jesse, they'll pick her up and take her there.

00:33:01.286 --> 00:33:04.006
Her weapons and abilities will come along with her, which is nice.

00:33:05.026 --> 00:33:10.706
As Jesse enters the astral plane, it's all white with a black pyramid coming down from the top of the screen.

00:33:11.606 --> 00:33:18.966
There's some static that Jesse hears, but there is captioning to show us the sound we're hearing is the speaking of the board.

00:33:19.626 --> 00:33:24.046
Despite the voices being illegible sounds, Jesse understands what they're telling her.

00:33:25.606 --> 00:33:28.986
Here, the board tells Jesse they are broadcasting from the pyramid.

00:33:29.366 --> 00:33:31.806
They say that only the director can wield the gun.

00:33:32.366 --> 00:33:34.426
Your application will be processed.

00:33:35.226 --> 00:33:42.766
We get a cinematic shot of Jesse holding the gun to her temple, framed just like how we saw Trench with the gun to his temple briefly earlier today.

00:33:42.986 --> 00:33:43.466
Oh damn.

00:33:44.166 --> 00:33:47.286
Jesse says, and there goes the poster.

00:33:48.586 --> 00:33:52.166
The perspective shifts to a video from the head of research, Dr.

00:33:52.186 --> 00:33:52.986
Casper Darling.

00:33:53.646 --> 00:33:57.426
It's live action, like every single one of his appearances in this.

00:33:57.526 --> 00:34:00.766
It's all just like really cute little videos he made.

00:34:00.786 --> 00:34:03.446
Oh, so he's like Fred Willard and Wally.

00:34:03.606 --> 00:34:04.306
Yeah.

00:34:04.326 --> 00:34:08.646
I think we made that reference once before in We Happy Few as well.

00:34:08.686 --> 00:34:09.706
Why is that a trope?

00:34:10.746 --> 00:34:11.326
The fuck?

00:34:11.746 --> 00:34:13.646
In this first video, Dr.

00:34:13.666 --> 00:34:20.986
Casper Darling, my favorite person, describes what's known here as objects of power and altered world events.

00:34:21.806 --> 00:34:33.346
He says here, objects of power can cause or be results of AWEs, altered world events, intrusions upon the perceived reality.

00:34:34.146 --> 00:34:44.946
Now, the service weapon is, of course, a prime example of an object of power, a very powerful one, ingrained in the Bureau's DNA, a key component in our prime candidate program.

00:34:45.606 --> 00:34:47.406
So this thing's more than just a gun.

00:34:47.886 --> 00:34:48.706
It's a test.

00:34:50.806 --> 00:34:54.366
And it is an object of power, which means it's a little paranatural.

00:34:54.366 --> 00:34:59.626
I was going to say, like, an object of power, that, like, kind of gives it a supernatural sense.

00:35:00.286 --> 00:35:01.786
That's a great way to say it.

00:35:01.926 --> 00:35:03.026
But it's a gun.

00:35:03.366 --> 00:35:04.846
Yeah, the gun's a little alive.

00:35:05.166 --> 00:35:06.246
A little alive.

00:35:06.326 --> 00:35:07.426
All right, let's go for it.

00:35:08.326 --> 00:35:10.766
We cut back to Jesse holding the gun to her head.

00:35:11.106 --> 00:35:18.506
The board says to her, Only the director can bind the service weapon and live or die.

00:35:19.646 --> 00:35:20.766
This is your ritual.

00:35:20.926 --> 00:35:23.366
You must choose to be the chosen one.

00:35:24.726 --> 00:35:27.906
Now, Jesse is out of the director's office and she's in the astral plane.

00:35:28.286 --> 00:35:32.146
It's all white all around with dark granite slates of shapes everywhere.

00:35:32.546 --> 00:35:37.846
They jet up from the ground in long, sharp, geometric patterns while Jesse wanders around.

00:35:37.986 --> 00:35:39.026
Like, what else are you going to do?

00:35:39.966 --> 00:35:44.086
She walks farther and sees the upside-down pyramid dangling in the astral plane.

00:35:44.666 --> 00:35:50.846
The board is watching her to see if she can yield the service weapon and if she can choose to accept a potential fate.

00:35:51.906 --> 00:35:55.246
Jesse walks through the maze and puts her hands on the service weapon.

00:35:55.826 --> 00:36:00.366
She shakes as she holds it, like she's being electrocuted or trying to get a handle on the power of it.

00:36:00.946 --> 00:36:05.866
Then, all at once, it snaps into her control and she moves it around with ease.

00:36:06.886 --> 00:36:09.086
Jesse goes, OK, now I have a gun.

00:36:09.646 --> 00:36:10.386
Ho, ho, ho.

00:36:12.906 --> 00:36:19.906
It is a nice change on the trope of the chosen one to have it that you have to also accept your role as the chosen one.

00:36:19.926 --> 00:36:21.146
It's a little Excalibur.

00:36:21.226 --> 00:36:21.806
Yeah.

00:36:22.766 --> 00:36:28.366
The board instructs Jesse to destroy the targets and shadowy targets show up, you know, in a remedy game.

00:36:28.626 --> 00:36:29.306
They have to shoot.

00:36:29.966 --> 00:36:30.586
Go figure.

00:36:30.686 --> 00:36:31.006
Right.

00:36:31.546 --> 00:36:33.986
Jesse shoots at them and her fate is sealed.

00:36:34.826 --> 00:36:37.186
The board says, Jesse wields the gun.

00:36:37.766 --> 00:36:42.666
And then the board appoints Jesse and congratulates the new director.

00:36:43.806 --> 00:36:45.366
That is one way to get a promotion.

00:36:45.386 --> 00:36:48.886
I mean, you were coming in for an interview as the janitor's assistant.

00:36:48.926 --> 00:36:52.606
Well, that's only according to Ahti.

00:36:52.626 --> 00:36:55.086
HR isn't aware that they're conducting this interview today.

00:36:55.106 --> 00:36:56.946
Well, the board seemed to be aware.

00:36:56.966 --> 00:37:01.926
So with that, we get a vision of Director Trench smoking a cigar.

00:37:02.626 --> 00:37:03.966
He says, something is coming.

00:37:04.626 --> 00:37:08.166
He says, the duty of the director is to keep the bureau safe.

00:37:08.866 --> 00:37:13.766
Jesse snaps back into the director's office, just where she was standing, free of the astral plane.

00:37:14.366 --> 00:37:16.166
She says, did you hear that?

00:37:16.666 --> 00:37:17.546
It's the dead man.

00:37:18.466 --> 00:37:19.506
She looks down at the gun.

00:37:19.986 --> 00:37:26.046
She thinks, right after the pyramid spoke to me, it was just noise, and I understood every word.

00:37:26.986 --> 00:37:28.386
And this gun is alive.

00:37:28.806 --> 00:37:30.906
As she thinks that, the gun starts shifting.

00:37:31.446 --> 00:37:34.026
The barrel changes shape in her hands.

00:37:34.706 --> 00:37:35.466
What the shit?

00:37:35.546 --> 00:37:36.706
It's so fucking cool.

00:37:36.726 --> 00:37:37.726
The service weapon is great.

00:37:37.986 --> 00:37:44.026
Instead of having to carry a fucking backpack full of different weapons, you get one weapon that's convertible.

00:37:44.486 --> 00:37:46.626
Okay, this gun sounds insane.

00:37:46.706 --> 00:37:48.266
It's fucking fun as shit.

00:37:48.486 --> 00:37:49.406
You can upgrade it.

00:37:49.426 --> 00:37:55.806
You can unlock different variations of the gun focused on whether you want a big shatter shot or like one massive shot.

00:37:55.826 --> 00:37:56.666
It's fucking cool.

00:37:56.766 --> 00:37:59.446
But you're going to keep the same gun throughout the entire of the game.

00:37:59.926 --> 00:38:00.566
Yeah.

00:38:00.626 --> 00:38:01.306
Okay, I got it.

00:38:01.426 --> 00:38:02.466
It's so fucking cool.

00:38:03.766 --> 00:38:09.386
Jesse, looking down at her alive gun, comes to the conclusion, though, that she's happy to be here.

00:38:10.506 --> 00:38:14.746
She leaves the director's office, which is now her office, I guess, because she passed the gun test.

00:38:15.886 --> 00:38:21.026
And in the hallway that was once completely brightly lit, it's just glowing red.

00:38:22.046 --> 00:38:26.806
At the top of the ceiling are three floating bodies hanging limp in the air.

00:38:27.406 --> 00:38:30.906
Okay, I've seen this imagery, and it is the creepiest fucking thing.

00:38:30.926 --> 00:38:32.966
It looks more like they're floating in water.

00:38:33.466 --> 00:38:36.786
Yeah, they look like they're drowned, but they're suspended in air.

00:38:37.066 --> 00:38:39.186
And I just want to say, this made me fucking scream.

00:38:39.526 --> 00:38:40.266
Yeah.

00:38:40.466 --> 00:38:43.726
I didn't think that a scare was coming because I was like, what?

00:38:43.746 --> 00:38:46.686
We're 10, 15 minutes into this game?

00:38:46.706 --> 00:38:47.466
This is fine.

00:38:47.666 --> 00:38:48.726
It wasn't fine.

00:38:48.886 --> 00:38:50.206
It was fucking scary.

00:38:50.266 --> 00:38:50.906
I jumped.

00:38:51.186 --> 00:38:55.126
And just in the imagery that I saw, and I imagine you did the same thing.

00:38:55.146 --> 00:38:57.806
You were going around looking for the fucking strings holding them up.

00:38:57.826 --> 00:38:58.986
Yeah, no, they're floating.

00:38:59.006 --> 00:39:00.226
It's fucking terrifying.

00:39:01.406 --> 00:39:08.166
As Jesse leaves the office and approaches the bodies, she screams and she crumbles in pain, holding her ears.

00:39:08.826 --> 00:39:12.226
Surrounded by red light, she tells herself, you can't let this happen.

00:39:12.786 --> 00:39:17.886
Something powerful is here, and it tries to infiltrate her fucking brain.

00:39:19.346 --> 00:39:21.966
You don't want things infiltrating your brain, everybody.

00:39:24.386 --> 00:39:26.726
Thoughts, parasites, anything.

00:39:26.906 --> 00:39:27.326
Nothing.

00:39:27.926 --> 00:39:35.426
We get layered shots of Jesse holding her head in pain, in live action, actually, as she fights whatever it is that's trying to hurt her.

00:39:35.886 --> 00:39:37.826
She hears a sharp hiss.

00:39:39.286 --> 00:39:45.426
The shots are framed red and black, and she rides around, and then she finally gets a hold of herself.

00:39:45.686 --> 00:39:48.506
She's back in the office, and she's in the gray tones.

00:39:48.886 --> 00:39:49.426
No red.

00:39:49.946 --> 00:39:52.166
Polaris' glow appears around her face.

00:39:52.526 --> 00:39:56.386
She realized it helped her fight the hiss, and she says, You stopped it.

00:39:57.026 --> 00:39:58.346
And she thanks Polaris.

00:39:59.546 --> 00:40:01.966
As she comes out of her daze, the red tones are all gone.

00:40:02.326 --> 00:40:08.746
The bodies that were floating drop a full story to the floor from the ceiling and draw their weapons on Jesse.

00:40:08.906 --> 00:40:10.106
Oh, shit, alive?

00:40:10.386 --> 00:40:10.726
Yeah.

00:40:10.846 --> 00:40:15.126
Oh, when you said drop, I just figured they just splat, but no, they landed on their feet like a fucking cat.

00:40:15.146 --> 00:40:16.466
They landed, bitch.

00:40:16.546 --> 00:40:17.306
Oh, shit.

00:40:18.286 --> 00:40:24.146
Whatever the red hiss was before that tried to get into Jesse has gotten into them.

00:40:24.526 --> 00:40:27.806
Describing a sound by a color is insane.

00:40:28.966 --> 00:40:30.126
It is a little insane.

00:40:30.546 --> 00:40:33.846
What also is insane is that they're going to try and kill Jesse now.

00:40:34.366 --> 00:40:35.666
Well, yeah, it's a shoot-em-up.

00:40:35.766 --> 00:40:36.126
Yeah.

00:40:37.326 --> 00:40:40.866
Jesse whips her service around to attention and shoots them down.

00:40:41.266 --> 00:40:45.986
Upon closer inspection, they're dressed like security guards, and we start to put it together.

00:40:46.626 --> 00:40:50.926
Something has leaked into the building and is starting to possess the people's minds inside.

00:40:51.666 --> 00:40:56.266
It tried to take Jesse, but she was able to fight whatever it was off, probably because of Polaris.

00:40:57.046 --> 00:41:00.086
These guys she shot down, though, they were not so lucky.

00:41:01.146 --> 00:41:06.266
Jesse starts moving through the offices and gets a vision from the recently deceased Director Trench.

00:41:07.086 --> 00:41:10.146
When Jesse gets visions, it's similar to how she sees Polaris.

00:41:10.886 --> 00:41:14.986
It's almost an optical illusion where the person she hears is projected on the wall.

00:41:15.406 --> 00:41:20.966
She sees the shadow of them like they're backlit, but can see through them, like the light breaking up through a pane of glass.

00:41:21.066 --> 00:41:22.886
Yeah, looking like a ghost in Ghostbusters.

00:41:25.146 --> 00:41:28.066
Trench tells Jesse through this vision to get to the hotline.

00:41:28.906 --> 00:41:32.166
More and more red-toned enemies come up on Jesse and shoot at her.

00:41:32.766 --> 00:41:39.526
Some people in office attire are floating, hung in the ceiling, awaiting further instructions from whatever got inside of them.

00:41:40.646 --> 00:41:43.786
In the central executive wing of the building, the colors are all red again.

00:41:44.506 --> 00:41:50.626
The walls are jagged and boxy, like the components of the wall have just started jutting out into sharp, strange shapes.

00:41:51.886 --> 00:41:58.806
Jesse recognizes this occurrence as the hissing sound that tried to invade her earlier, so she simply calls it the hiss.

00:41:59.686 --> 00:42:03.246
She sees that the hiss is starting to burrow into everything in this place.

00:42:03.966 --> 00:42:06.566
She asks Polaris, is the hiss your enemy?

00:42:07.506 --> 00:42:12.646
As she does, Polaris appears to correct her, because then she says, right, it's our enemy.

00:42:14.246 --> 00:42:22.186
In the center of the central executive wing is a big clearing in the room with huge FBC logos like built into the floor with the tiles.

00:42:23.026 --> 00:42:27.146
There are satellites around the logo as if they're trying to hone in on some sort of frequency.

00:42:28.466 --> 00:42:33.766
The room is lit red so Jesse shoots down all the hiss afflicted fighters who ascend on her.

00:42:34.486 --> 00:42:39.186
As she does, she hears Trench tell her in a vision to cleanse the control points.

00:42:39.826 --> 00:42:44.426
His message is broken up, but he says, an enemy, corrupt, spreading.

00:42:45.786 --> 00:42:50.706
In the center of the FBC logo where the satellites are, Polaris' blimmering spiral appears.

00:42:51.306 --> 00:42:54.626
Jesse goes to it and puts both hands down on the ground and focuses.

00:42:55.326 --> 00:43:01.746
Just like she was able to fight the hiss and keep it out of her body, she's able to expel the hiss here and remove it from this whole area.

00:43:02.466 --> 00:43:05.786
This control point is cleansed thanks to Jesse, and the red is gone.

00:43:06.286 --> 00:43:07.606
Everything goes back to gray.

00:43:08.446 --> 00:43:13.426
We see the walls move around geometrically and reshape into a standard structured office shape.

00:43:14.226 --> 00:43:22.966
With the hiss gone, the anomaly is gone, and we see that directly over the FBC logo in the center of the room, there's an upside-down pyramid.

00:43:23.826 --> 00:43:27.906
The board is at the heart of this building, watching over The Oldest House.

00:43:28.786 --> 00:43:31.746
So you are putting the powers that be back into power.

00:43:32.346 --> 00:43:34.066
I mean, who's to say?

00:43:36.666 --> 00:43:38.786
I do like this, like, clearing of sections.

00:43:38.786 --> 00:43:40.926
You're earning your title as the director, at least.

00:43:41.026 --> 00:43:49.006
Yeah, and functionally in the game, when you clear a section and you cleanse a control point, the control point ends up being a fast travel spot.

00:43:49.246 --> 00:43:49.806
OK, nice.

00:43:49.986 --> 00:43:52.966
So it's a mechanic, but it's functional.

00:43:53.106 --> 00:43:53.566
It works.

00:43:55.066 --> 00:44:00.886
So within The Oldest House, which I've brought up a couple of times, it's the building obviously inspired by 33 Thomas Street.

00:44:01.366 --> 00:44:03.006
This is where the FBC lives.

00:44:03.386 --> 00:44:06.646
But The Oldest House doesn't really live anywhere.

00:44:07.726 --> 00:44:10.766
The Oldest House itself is a shifting place of power.

00:44:11.366 --> 00:44:19.166
In the mid-1960s, the Bureau was investigating an altered world event in New York City when they stumbled upon an entrance to The Oldest House.

00:44:20.286 --> 00:44:23.926
The thing about The Oldest House is the entrance isn't always available.

00:44:24.446 --> 00:44:25.786
The house doesn't like attention.

00:44:26.126 --> 00:44:28.806
So if you're not looking for it, it can't be found.

00:44:29.706 --> 00:44:32.966
The Oldest House, like the service weapon, is alive.

00:44:33.806 --> 00:44:38.666
It moves around constantly and is flexible and, at times, illogical.

00:44:39.266 --> 00:44:49.546
It's massive and unreasonably ever-changing and always shifting as like a tangible place that doesn't exist and simultaneously is also very much a real place.

00:44:49.786 --> 00:44:58.546
This is kind of a pretty common cryptid, not necessarily like in terms of like a creature, but it is a mystical place that I have heard of before in kind of like mythology.

00:44:58.746 --> 00:45:01.446
Somewhere between a Baba Yaga and an office park.

00:45:01.746 --> 00:45:02.726
Yeah, exactly.

00:45:02.746 --> 00:45:09.886
It's just a location that moves around and you have to be, like you said, looking for it in order to find it.

00:45:10.126 --> 00:45:11.426
Otherwise, you're not going to find it.

00:45:11.446 --> 00:45:11.746
Yeah.

00:45:12.486 --> 00:45:17.466
Now, because of the kind of work that the Bureau does, it's essential to be low-key and secure.

00:45:17.486 --> 00:45:26.726
So a huge ever-moving concrete structure that randoms can't just stumble into and also has no windows is kind of ideal for the Federal Bureau of Control.

00:45:26.966 --> 00:45:27.366
Right.

00:45:27.606 --> 00:45:32.246
We play the entire game within the bounds of The Oldest House, buried in brutalism architecture.

00:45:33.386 --> 00:45:37.806
After the central executive wing is cleansed, Jesse hears the voice of a woman asking for help.

00:45:38.666 --> 00:45:42.466
Over a telecom system, the woman asks Jesse if, hey, can you hear me?

00:45:43.106 --> 00:45:48.586
There's a shelter just off center from the room where a bunch of unafflicted Bureau members were hiding from the hiss.

00:45:49.406 --> 00:45:55.166
Jesse is excited to talk to someone sane, and unfortunately, the voice on the other end says the feeling is mutual.

00:45:55.906 --> 00:45:56.366
Oh, no.

00:45:56.386 --> 00:45:57.226
Uh-oh.

00:45:57.666 --> 00:46:00.826
The hiss is clearly making life very difficult for everyone here.

00:46:01.026 --> 00:46:01.746
It's the nothing.

00:46:02.686 --> 00:46:04.026
The woman here is Dr.

00:46:04.066 --> 00:46:05.346
Emily Pope, Dr.

00:46:05.366 --> 00:46:06.706
Casper Darling's assistant.

00:46:07.406 --> 00:46:15.606
Jesse introduces herself, and she says she's just visiting, but Emily goes, oh, you're the new director, because word gets around crazy fast out here.

00:46:16.046 --> 00:46:16.946
She saw you had the gun.

00:46:17.146 --> 00:46:18.726
Yeah, true.

00:46:18.746 --> 00:46:20.986
That's probably, oh, I didn't think about that.

00:46:22.126 --> 00:46:24.346
I thought she was just like, you're just some bitch, what?

00:46:24.426 --> 00:46:26.366
Yeah, it's kind of like the badge, like, oh, you got the gun?

00:46:26.386 --> 00:46:27.266
You must be the new director.

00:46:27.426 --> 00:46:28.026
Got you.

00:46:29.006 --> 00:46:31.766
Emily and a few other Bureau members come out of the shelter room.

00:46:32.166 --> 00:46:34.706
They all have large harnesses across their chests.

00:46:35.466 --> 00:46:38.406
Emily is a friendly white lady with a short blonde haircut.

00:46:38.866 --> 00:46:41.826
She has a kind face and is immediately warm to Jesse.

00:46:42.286 --> 00:46:48.086
There's this, like, magic that happens at some point in your late 20s as a woman, where immediate camaraderie kicks in.

00:46:48.606 --> 00:46:57.886
It starts as drug girls in the bathrooms, like sharing hair ties and tampons, but it leads to this incredible, beautiful kinship, where we innately have each other's backs in all situations.

00:46:58.606 --> 00:47:02.786
I remember the first time you really started to experience that as an adult.

00:47:02.806 --> 00:47:03.526
I was 26.

00:47:03.726 --> 00:47:04.146
Yeah.

00:47:04.166 --> 00:47:07.026
You came home and started talking about it.

00:47:07.046 --> 00:47:07.846
You're like, I don't know.

00:47:07.866 --> 00:47:10.046
There's just this weird sisterhood that's out there now.

00:47:10.686 --> 00:47:12.766
It's fucking awesome.

00:47:13.826 --> 00:47:17.566
And I just also want to say it's not universal, and it certainly doesn't always happen.

00:47:17.586 --> 00:47:24.526
Like I did almost get by the other day, which I don't think I should talk about, but it was funny.

00:47:26.066 --> 00:47:28.706
But when it does happen, it's fucking amazing.

00:47:28.726 --> 00:47:30.286
And it happens here with Emily and Jesse.

00:47:31.226 --> 00:47:33.926
Emily struggles to describe the force that is infiltrated.

00:47:34.126 --> 00:47:35.506
And Jesse goes, oh, the hiss.

00:47:35.826 --> 00:47:36.926
I just came up with that.

00:47:38.166 --> 00:47:44.326
Emily immediately adopts this and is like, yes, Jesse, the hiss managed to infiltrate the building, and it happened without warning.

00:47:44.606 --> 00:47:46.606
It seems to just like spread.

00:47:47.006 --> 00:47:53.846
And to everyone who's not protected by an HRA, and for some reason, you, the whole fucking place is fucked.

00:47:54.646 --> 00:47:56.006
And for some reason, you.

00:47:56.286 --> 00:47:56.646
Yeah.

00:47:57.746 --> 00:48:03.386
Emily looks in Jesse's eyes and tells her, you are the director, and that makes you special by definition.

00:48:03.726 --> 00:48:06.386
You know, since Trench is no longer the director.

00:48:07.706 --> 00:48:11.666
Which, yeah, bitch, this all happened very quickly, Emily.

00:48:12.606 --> 00:48:15.966
Jesse tells Emily how she found Trench's body and the service weapon.

00:48:16.506 --> 00:48:23.346
She also tells Emily how she's having visions of Trench, how he told her to cleanse the control point, so she did.

00:48:23.666 --> 00:48:25.686
And Emily's like, yep, it'd be like that.

00:48:25.886 --> 00:48:27.926
Not phased at all, couldn't give two shits.

00:48:28.946 --> 00:48:32.986
I feel like Trench is not the first of the directors either.

00:48:33.406 --> 00:48:34.166
He is not.

00:48:34.186 --> 00:48:36.626
He is just the most recent to depart the position.

00:48:36.766 --> 00:48:38.906
Yeah, I think they're used to this shit by now.

00:48:40.566 --> 00:48:46.186
Emily goes, oh, by the way, we were on lockdown because of the hiss, but you got into the building.

00:48:47.306 --> 00:48:48.346
How did that happen?

00:48:48.506 --> 00:48:50.126
Because we were on fucking lockdown.

00:48:51.206 --> 00:48:56.486
Jesse doesn't want to tell Emily about Polaris and be like, oh, yeah, my fucking brain friend brought me here.

00:48:56.846 --> 00:48:57.926
That's how I got in.

00:48:57.946 --> 00:49:00.966
So she just lies and says the janitor let her in.

00:49:02.366 --> 00:49:03.486
Blame it on the janitor.

00:49:03.546 --> 00:49:03.926
Yeah.

00:49:03.986 --> 00:49:05.266
And this makes Emily laugh.

00:49:05.286 --> 00:49:06.926
And she goes, that's fucking unbelievable.

00:49:10.046 --> 00:49:20.966
Then Emily gets her shit together and she goes, okay, I know we have a lot of questions for each other, but I really have to know, if you can expel the hiss from spaces, can you expel the hiss from people?

00:49:21.306 --> 00:49:22.766
Because that changes our game plan.

00:49:22.786 --> 00:49:25.506
If we can save people that have the hiss in them or not.

00:49:25.886 --> 00:49:26.966
That's always the question.

00:49:26.986 --> 00:49:31.166
And that was not the question, actually, that they had in Alan Wake.

00:49:32.706 --> 00:49:37.406
So in Alan Wake, Alan fights faceless shadows, the Taken.

00:49:37.866 --> 00:49:42.786
And you throw a light on them, then they're vulnerable to bullets, and then you shoot them in the fucking dick.

00:49:43.206 --> 00:49:46.206
And Tom was like, hey, can we help them?

00:49:46.486 --> 00:49:48.046
The game said, fuck you, Tom.

00:49:49.846 --> 00:49:50.626
How dare you?

00:49:51.646 --> 00:49:55.426
So Emily is thinking, this is what happens when it's female versus male protagonist.

00:49:56.266 --> 00:50:00.606
Maybe there's some gender commentary there of like, the boys just go, no, just fucking shoot them in the dick.

00:50:00.626 --> 00:50:03.446
And the girls are like, can we save them though?

00:50:03.466 --> 00:50:04.646
Do they have to die?

00:50:04.706 --> 00:50:05.886
What's that saying about me?

00:50:06.786 --> 00:50:08.686
I think you're falling into a gender trope.

00:50:10.126 --> 00:50:12.206
We can blame the patriarchy for this.

00:50:12.266 --> 00:50:13.026
Thank goodness.

00:50:14.226 --> 00:50:16.086
So Jesse's like, I'm going to try.

00:50:16.086 --> 00:50:19.646
And then quietly to Polaris, Jesse goes, we can try together.

00:50:19.666 --> 00:50:21.686
Because we got to keep Polaris looped in.

00:50:21.846 --> 00:50:22.166
Right.

00:50:22.186 --> 00:50:27.686
You see, Polaris sees her best friend talking to Emily, and she's like, oh, man, excuse me.

00:50:28.526 --> 00:50:33.146
So Jesse runs over to a hiss-afflicted agent who's suspended in the air, catatonic.

00:50:33.746 --> 00:50:36.906
She puts her hands around the agent's head and starts to concentrate.

00:50:37.506 --> 00:50:40.966
Jesse focuses and sees red, but she can't do it.

00:50:41.466 --> 00:50:46.486
The agent falls to the ground, still catatonic and does not survive this.

00:50:47.046 --> 00:50:48.626
Doesn't land on their feet and start shooting.

00:50:48.806 --> 00:50:50.066
No, not this time.

00:50:50.546 --> 00:50:52.386
And Jesse goes, damn, that's crazy.

00:50:52.806 --> 00:50:53.446
It didn't work.

00:50:54.486 --> 00:51:01.466
I guess it's more that like the hiss burrows too deep and ripping it out, rips people apart as it infiltrates and comes out.

00:51:01.526 --> 00:51:04.246
So once they're afflicted, they're gone.

00:51:04.846 --> 00:51:06.686
Yeah, a very good parasite will do that.

00:51:07.466 --> 00:51:10.546
And also a very simple explanation that they could have thrown it out.

00:51:10.866 --> 00:51:11.226
Yeah.

00:51:12.706 --> 00:51:15.286
Jesse comes to Emily and says she can't cleanse them.

00:51:15.426 --> 00:51:16.966
Emily goes, yeah, I'm 10 feet away.

00:51:17.526 --> 00:51:18.566
I saw that happen.

00:51:19.546 --> 00:51:20.986
I was right fucking here.

00:51:21.326 --> 00:51:22.786
But thank you, Director Jesse.

00:51:23.606 --> 00:51:26.826
Emily goes into a boardroom to hunker down and get some work done.

00:51:26.866 --> 00:51:28.186
And Jesse follows her in there.

00:51:28.946 --> 00:51:31.446
They sit and Jesse risks it for the biscuit.

00:51:31.746 --> 00:51:39.846
She tells Emily, listen, the Bureau was involved in an incident in my hometown, Ordinary, 17 years ago.

00:51:40.506 --> 00:51:41.166
Ordinary.

00:51:41.786 --> 00:51:42.866
We heard that name before.

00:51:43.206 --> 00:51:44.366
I told you to remember.

00:51:45.746 --> 00:51:48.986
Jesse goes on that the Bureau came in and covered the whole thing up.

00:51:49.526 --> 00:51:52.086
I've been looking for this place for a really long time.

00:51:52.986 --> 00:51:55.886
Jesse stops and second guesses even telling Emily that much.

00:51:56.406 --> 00:51:58.986
To herself, she's like, I can't bring up Dylan yet.

00:51:59.986 --> 00:52:03.726
Emily admits she's seen mention of an altered world event in Ordinary.

00:52:04.186 --> 00:52:06.386
She leans in and asks Jesse to confirm if it was...

00:52:06.866 --> 00:52:08.886
Wait, were you at Ground Zero as a child?

00:52:09.986 --> 00:52:13.346
Because that was one of the big ones, but it was before Emily's time.

00:52:13.606 --> 00:52:15.866
When they're saying Ground Zero, they're not talking about 9-11, are they?

00:52:15.886 --> 00:52:16.786
No, this is in Ordinary.

00:52:18.666 --> 00:52:23.106
Of course, also just the fact that they called it Ordinary and it has an otherworldly fucking event.

00:52:23.206 --> 00:52:23.686
I know.

00:52:25.706 --> 00:52:28.046
Really not a swinging for the fences on that one.

00:52:29.746 --> 00:52:38.126
Emily also mentions that the Ordinary Altered World event is very classified, but she says she can try and dig up some files and that her boss, Dr.

00:52:38.146 --> 00:52:43.046
Casper Darling, would know for sure, but he is actually missing right now.

00:52:43.806 --> 00:52:45.006
No one's seen him for a while.

00:52:45.366 --> 00:52:47.386
Yeah, he's stuck in the real world.

00:52:49.106 --> 00:52:50.886
He's in a different medium, bitch.

00:52:52.966 --> 00:52:56.326
As friends now, Emily tells Jesse she suspects Dr.

00:52:56.346 --> 00:52:58.306
Darling knew the Hiss was coming.

00:52:58.946 --> 00:53:02.846
He came up with the HRAs, those harnesses that Emily and the other agents were wearing.

00:53:03.386 --> 00:53:10.286
The HRA stands for Hedron Resonance Amplifiers, and Emily says that's what saved them from the Hiss.

00:53:10.446 --> 00:53:14.186
Whatever is going on in this harness kept the Hiss from breaking into my mind.

00:53:14.906 --> 00:53:16.626
Emily says a few weeks ago, Dr.

00:53:16.646 --> 00:53:19.526
Darling started handing out the HRA harnesses to staff.

00:53:20.166 --> 00:53:27.926
Some staff refused to wear them because there's always going to be some people that go, I know you're a doctor, but I think my Google search was better about this.

00:53:28.186 --> 00:53:30.006
And this is before 2020?

00:53:30.026 --> 00:53:31.826
This was 2019!

00:53:31.926 --> 00:53:33.566
And people were rejecting their masks?

00:53:34.906 --> 00:53:37.806
Oh, sorry, their resonance amplifier?

00:53:41.166 --> 00:53:42.046
Oh, my good.

00:53:42.366 --> 00:53:44.246
Time is a flat circle, Tom.

00:53:44.266 --> 00:53:44.926
So he was Dr.

00:53:44.946 --> 00:53:45.386
Fauci.

00:53:47.346 --> 00:53:48.106
Okay, so Dr.

00:53:48.126 --> 00:53:49.046
Casper Darling.

00:53:49.386 --> 00:53:49.786
Dr.

00:53:49.806 --> 00:53:50.606
Casper Fauci.

00:53:50.906 --> 00:54:00.286
He said that the HRAs send out a powerful shortwave frequency that operates on another level, or maybe another plane of existence, let's be real.

00:54:00.906 --> 00:54:06.466
It appears to keep the Hiss from afflicting the wearer, so hell yeah, let's go and see how we can attack the Hiss.

00:54:07.466 --> 00:54:09.626
Honestly, if we're going to attack the Hiss, Dr.

00:54:09.646 --> 00:54:10.586
Trench would know what to do.

00:54:11.206 --> 00:54:13.646
And Jesse goes, oh my god, the ghost guy.

00:54:15.046 --> 00:54:16.606
Wait, what do you know about the ghost guy?

00:54:16.626 --> 00:54:18.706
The ghost guy told me to go find a hotline.

00:54:18.766 --> 00:54:19.766
Can you help me, Emily?

00:54:20.346 --> 00:54:26.346
I love how casually she's like, oh yeah, the ghost guy, because here people would probably be like, oh yeah, the ghost guy.

00:54:28.026 --> 00:54:28.806
Which one?

00:54:30.486 --> 00:54:32.546
This is sci-fi Hogwarts, it's fucking great.

00:54:32.666 --> 00:54:35.166
Yeah, it's sci-fi, but also a little supernatural.

00:54:35.346 --> 00:54:40.386
Yeah, Emily tells Jesse the hotline is an object of power, like the service weapon.

00:54:40.946 --> 00:54:47.066
The hotline is an old red landline telephone that acts as a direct line between the board and the director.

00:54:47.866 --> 00:54:54.926
People who are not the director have played around with the phone and have died, so it's imperative to keep the hotline isolated.

00:54:55.926 --> 00:55:02.566
Emily figures Jesse can talk more directly to Trench through the hotline, you know, even though he's dead, and he might know how to destroy the Hiss.

00:55:03.626 --> 00:55:09.826
Emily points Jesse in the direction of communications and is like, the hotline's through there, and Jesse goes, hell yeah, I got this.

00:55:10.726 --> 00:55:19.306
Emily can also clarify that Trench is totally not a ghost, because that's not real, but more of an echo of who he was here.

00:55:19.866 --> 00:55:32.586
She says since he was killed with a service weapon, an object of power, his final thoughts may have been recorded or captured somehow by the bullet in his brain, like the gun itself in Jesse's hands is bringing some part of Trench to her.

00:55:33.446 --> 00:55:35.906
Emily notes that's just a theory, but it's all we got.

00:55:35.926 --> 00:55:37.826
This place is just fucking weird, so roll with it.

00:55:37.986 --> 00:55:38.526
I don't know.

00:55:38.546 --> 00:55:43.586
This sounds a little bit like Lady Comstock isn't a ghost, but totally is a ghost situation once more.

00:55:43.726 --> 00:55:45.026
They tried to explain that.

00:55:45.146 --> 00:55:47.646
They're just not really explaining.

00:55:48.146 --> 00:55:48.966
Like we'd get it.

00:55:48.986 --> 00:55:51.546
It looks like it's going to be a ghost, but we're saying it's not a ghost.

00:55:51.586 --> 00:55:53.026
It's basically a ghost, though.

00:55:53.046 --> 00:55:54.506
But it's totally a fucking ghost.

00:55:54.526 --> 00:55:55.006
Yeah.

00:55:56.106 --> 00:56:04.306
To herself, Jesse reminds herself and Polaris, I guess, that she is here to find her brother and to get answers, even if she may not understand them.

00:56:04.946 --> 00:56:08.966
That she's got more than enough proof she's in the right place, because holy shit, this is all real.

00:56:09.486 --> 00:56:16.086
She wants to be a part of this world, and it scares her shitless that she found it only to see the hiss destroying fucking everything here.

00:56:17.226 --> 00:56:21.446
We get a vision of a floating glass room suspended in darkness.

00:56:22.086 --> 00:56:27.886
The glass room is poorly lit, but we see a leather chair and a small side table with a red telephone next to the chair.

00:56:28.706 --> 00:56:29.886
Then the phone starts ringing.

00:56:30.486 --> 00:56:31.166
The bat phone.

00:56:32.566 --> 00:56:33.386
The ghost phone.

00:56:33.546 --> 00:56:34.486
Commissioner, what's up?

00:56:35.106 --> 00:56:36.726
We come back to Jesse with Emily.

00:56:37.046 --> 00:56:41.426
Jesse can sit with Emily here and chat with her to get some information on the world of the FBC.

00:56:42.006 --> 00:56:46.846
Emily's camping out in this boardroom just to study the hiss in a safe area while the building is on lockdown.

00:56:46.866 --> 00:56:48.566
She's like, I'm not walking in my fucking desk.

00:56:48.906 --> 00:56:49.786
I'm taking this room.

00:56:49.866 --> 00:56:50.246
Bye.

00:56:50.266 --> 00:56:52.006
This is my office now.

00:56:52.026 --> 00:56:53.586
I have fully done that.

00:56:53.606 --> 00:56:54.426
I've been like, you know what?

00:56:55.426 --> 00:57:00.566
I'm booking myself a room, and I'm just in a conference room, and I'm like, I'm working alone.

00:57:00.606 --> 00:57:03.166
It's not like any of these offices have a fucking window.

00:57:03.186 --> 00:57:04.126
Girl, right?

00:57:06.006 --> 00:57:15.766
Emily and Jesse chat for a second, where Emily says, she doesn't know where the Hiss came from, but since Jesse didn't see anything outside, it must have come from inside the Oldest House.

00:57:16.526 --> 00:57:20.866
The Hiss cannot escape the Oldest House, or it could be disastrous for the entire world.

00:57:21.606 --> 00:57:22.986
Also, where the fuck is Dr.

00:57:23.006 --> 00:57:23.426
Darling?

00:57:23.706 --> 00:57:30.746
He usually talks about his inventions and like his innovations and shit in big presentations, but with the HRAs, he just handed them out.

00:57:31.486 --> 00:57:34.526
Emily is suspicious about what he knew before he disappeared.

00:57:34.926 --> 00:57:36.026
To the real world.

00:57:39.086 --> 00:57:45.366
It's like that episode of A Treehouse of Horror where Homer ends up in like downtown, and it's just real life footage.

00:57:46.426 --> 00:57:48.926
Yeah, and he's like, well, time to find a donut shop.

00:57:48.946 --> 00:57:49.266
Yeah.

00:57:50.146 --> 00:57:53.086
From here, the game is a much more open world game.

00:57:53.466 --> 00:57:57.866
Some areas are blocked off of clearance levels that you'll have to acquire and upgrade throughout the game.

00:57:58.486 --> 00:58:04.906
Some are blocked and can be unlocked by finishing other missions, but you can cruise around most of the Oldest House from here.

00:58:05.666 --> 00:58:11.506
It makes sense to run around exploring so you can find different material to upgrade your service weapon, you know, because it's alive.

00:58:12.626 --> 00:58:19.406
After you clear areas of the Hiss and cleanse control points, those become your fast travel, so you really do want to like explore and like get down.

00:58:20.286 --> 00:58:25.126
After areas are cleansed, the Hiss can still appear, but you won't lose your cleanse control points.

00:58:25.146 --> 00:58:27.206
You can just pop in and out, shoot some baddies.

00:58:27.446 --> 00:58:28.106
Have a good time.

00:58:28.286 --> 00:58:35.046
There are side missions and ways you can spend your days in the Oldest House while ignoring the critical path, and they are worth playing on your runs.

00:58:35.326 --> 00:58:36.406
So it's a lot of side missions.

00:58:36.666 --> 00:58:37.546
They're available.

00:58:37.986 --> 00:58:38.526
It's nice.

00:58:38.946 --> 00:58:45.026
Some of those side missions really get into working with some of the Bureau's objects of power or altered items, which is very fun.

00:58:45.886 --> 00:58:55.626
In this world, objects of power are mundane objects that house paranormal energies and have developed a link to the astral plane and thus can be controlled.

00:58:56.326 --> 00:59:01.746
That differentiates them from altered items, which have paranatural forces, but can't be controlled.

00:59:02.406 --> 00:59:02.606
Ah.

00:59:03.306 --> 00:59:08.306
Altered items can't be bound in the para-utilitarian sense, which are Emily's words, not mine.

00:59:08.406 --> 00:59:09.686
Para-utilitarian?

00:59:10.326 --> 00:59:10.986
Menomina.

00:59:14.566 --> 00:59:16.546
Please tell me you have an explanation for that one.

00:59:17.766 --> 00:59:19.266
What part confuses you?

00:59:19.966 --> 00:59:20.706
All of it?

00:59:22.366 --> 00:59:26.486
Para as in paranatural and weird and funky and just getting a little nutty.

00:59:26.826 --> 00:59:29.586
Utilitarian as in, what's it doing?

00:59:29.606 --> 00:59:30.426
What's its utility?

00:59:30.446 --> 00:59:30.826
What's her?

00:59:31.206 --> 00:59:31.886
What's she up to?

00:59:32.106 --> 00:59:32.706
It's use?

00:59:33.746 --> 00:59:34.066
Okay.

00:59:34.526 --> 00:59:35.426
You get it.

00:59:36.206 --> 00:59:38.126
It's use in paranatural shit.

00:59:38.226 --> 00:59:39.306
Yeah, you get it.

00:59:39.966 --> 00:59:40.606
Now I do.

00:59:40.906 --> 00:59:41.266
See?

00:59:41.826 --> 00:59:42.366
We learn.

00:59:42.566 --> 00:59:43.686
This is a great show.

00:59:45.226 --> 00:59:48.826
Jesse leaves Emily and heads for the communications department to pick up the hotline.

00:59:49.186 --> 00:59:52.126
As you know, in that hotline ring, it can only mean one thing.

00:59:52.126 --> 00:59:52.806
Oh, my God.

00:59:52.966 --> 00:59:55.526
It means we have to kill the fucking Hiss with the Ghost Man.

00:59:55.546 --> 00:59:56.146
Okay, good.

00:59:56.166 --> 00:59:57.766
I didn't hope Drake was showing up.

00:59:57.866 --> 00:59:58.986
Drake will never show up.

00:59:59.126 --> 01:00:00.546
Please don't let Drake show up.

01:00:00.566 --> 01:00:02.626
I don't want to play a game that Drake shows up in.

01:00:02.646 --> 01:00:04.166
We've already said Drake too many times.

01:00:04.286 --> 01:00:08.346
You need to take the Degrassi All-Star SleaM off your list next season.

01:00:10.186 --> 01:00:13.646
Jesse makes her way through sectors to get to the communications department.

01:00:14.046 --> 01:00:17.226
To make it to the hotline, she has to get through an area called Dead Letters.

01:00:17.926 --> 01:00:25.426
The Dead Letters department was established by Director Trench, and it houses letters that either reference or have paranatural properties.

01:00:26.026 --> 01:00:32.606
The post office intercepts these letters, marks them as undeliverable, and they end up here at the FBC to be investigated.

01:00:33.386 --> 01:00:35.786
Which, this is not necessarily plot relevant.

01:00:35.826 --> 01:00:38.326
I thought it was just so fucking cool and I wanted to talk about it.

01:00:38.426 --> 01:00:39.006
Okay, good.

01:00:39.386 --> 01:00:40.226
I love when that happens.

01:00:41.086 --> 01:00:45.886
Dead Letters is dripping with hiss, so Jesse clears it out and finds a control point to cleanse.

01:00:46.726 --> 01:00:51.806
Deep in Dead Letters, Jesse can find one of the first TVs that have a live action Dr.

01:00:51.826 --> 01:00:56.086
Casper Darling video kind of one year exploring at your own free will, so this is fun.

01:00:56.306 --> 01:00:59.506
I love that nobody questions the fact that somebody's in live action either.

01:01:00.746 --> 01:01:02.666
That's not the weirdest thing about this game.

01:01:03.566 --> 01:01:05.786
Granted, we've seen people floating in the air.

01:01:06.406 --> 01:01:07.726
We're very early on.

01:01:07.746 --> 01:01:08.946
It's only going to get weirder.

01:01:08.986 --> 01:01:09.666
Oh, good.

01:01:10.406 --> 01:01:10.766
Dr.

01:01:10.786 --> 01:01:19.566
Darling loved recording his findings to track his progress, so in TVs throughout The Oldest House, there are a ton of these videos that are all live action.

01:01:20.066 --> 01:01:20.946
Inexplicably.

01:01:21.966 --> 01:01:23.066
In these videos, Dr.

01:01:23.086 --> 01:01:27.926
Darling is typically cheery, with a big smile on his face and a big bow tie.

01:01:27.946 --> 01:01:30.006
He's just the cutest little rabbit man.

01:01:30.186 --> 01:01:31.906
Is he Bill Nye, the science guy?

01:01:32.046 --> 01:01:33.286
But, like, round-faced.

01:01:33.306 --> 01:01:34.046
It's cuter.

01:01:35.026 --> 01:01:35.526
That's right.

01:01:35.626 --> 01:01:36.866
He's very pointy-faced.

01:01:37.606 --> 01:01:43.006
In this one video we find immediately, he's talking about a floppy disk that the CIA sent to the FBC.

01:01:43.486 --> 01:01:50.006
The CIA was concerned because random objects started floating near the floppy disk, so they were like, oh, fuck.

01:01:50.606 --> 01:01:51.266
That's bad.

01:01:51.306 --> 01:01:52.486
That's an object of power.

01:01:52.586 --> 01:01:53.066
Yeah.

01:01:53.866 --> 01:01:54.206
Dr.

01:01:54.226 --> 01:01:59.486
Darling says to date, they've been able to use the floppy disk to launch about three dozen pencils in the air.

01:01:59.886 --> 01:02:00.566
Pencils.

01:02:00.786 --> 01:02:01.646
So useful.

01:02:02.086 --> 01:02:06.046
He brags that once, they even launched a cup.

01:02:06.286 --> 01:02:07.006
A whole cup.

01:02:07.006 --> 01:02:07.426
Yeah.

01:02:07.766 --> 01:02:08.826
He's so proud of it, though.

01:02:08.846 --> 01:02:10.666
He's like, you guys will never believe this shit.

01:02:13.126 --> 01:02:18.526
Jesse comes out deadletters and sees a room full of his entities launching shit across the room.

01:02:19.086 --> 01:02:22.666
The hiss has control of the fucking floppy disk.

01:02:22.866 --> 01:02:23.526
Oh, no.

01:02:24.206 --> 01:02:31.606
Jesse evades flying shit and makes it to the floppy disk, where she lays her hands around it and forces the hiss to leave the object of power.

01:02:32.806 --> 01:02:36.646
As the hiss leaves the floppy disk, Jesse puts her hands on the disk itself.

01:02:37.166 --> 01:02:44.406
This sends her back into the astral plane, where the board tells her that the floppy disk can now be bound to gain telekinesis.

01:02:45.206 --> 01:02:49.626
With this, Jesse can move shit with her mind, and it's fucking sick.

01:02:50.226 --> 01:02:52.706
Is she made out of the same shit the hiss is made out of?

01:02:53.046 --> 01:02:54.546
I mean, that's a great question.

01:03:00.246 --> 01:03:01.086
Hope it was.

01:03:02.426 --> 01:03:09.146
So now that Jesse can move shit with her mind, the fucking astral plane spits her back out in The Oldest House.

01:03:09.806 --> 01:03:14.506
Jesse makes it to the mail room, where she runs into the head of communications, Tomasi.

01:03:15.586 --> 01:03:24.926
The thing with Tomasi is, he was adamantly against wearing HRAs, because it's his body, his choice, so unfortunately, he is fully corrupted by the hiss.

01:03:25.046 --> 01:03:28.306
That is not how my body, my choice works, but okay.

01:03:28.326 --> 01:03:28.786
What do you mean?

01:03:28.806 --> 01:03:29.166
What?

01:03:29.326 --> 01:03:30.206
Let's just keep going.

01:03:31.006 --> 01:03:38.466
He comes crawling out of the walls and starts flying toward Jesse, and Jesse says, Oh, they can fly now.

01:03:38.646 --> 01:03:39.606
They can fly now.

01:03:39.686 --> 01:03:40.786
They can fly now.

01:03:41.026 --> 01:03:48.846
Jesse shoots Tomasi down to a point, but eventually he flies away, because again, he can fly now, and escapes through a ceiling corridor.

01:03:49.086 --> 01:03:51.586
Jesse's like, cool, bye, man.

01:03:51.926 --> 01:03:59.306
Jesse does find the hotline chamber, and down this long hallway is a window at the end of the hall that goes from the floor to the ceiling.

01:03:59.826 --> 01:04:02.086
It's pointed inward though, we do not see the outside.

01:04:02.826 --> 01:04:11.226
Through the window, probably 100 feet out, seemingly suspended in the air, is the all glass room that the red hotline phone sits in.

01:04:12.306 --> 01:04:14.686
Here at the end of the hallway, Jesse has a vision of Trench.

01:04:15.286 --> 01:04:26.926
What he's saying is choppy, but Jesse makes out him saying, the ocean view motel and casino, dream logic, the light switch cord, the door marked with the black pyramid.

01:04:27.826 --> 01:04:30.426
To her left, Jesse sees a dangling light switch cord.

01:04:31.086 --> 01:04:33.506
There's a sign that says, the rule of threes applies.

01:04:34.106 --> 01:04:34.986
She pulls it once.

01:04:35.566 --> 01:04:39.106
The colors of the room go from bright and yellow to a deep blue tone.

01:04:39.826 --> 01:04:43.246
She pulls it a second time, and it goes to a really strong yellow.

01:04:44.046 --> 01:04:49.746
She pulls it a third time, and she has been transported to the ocean view motel and casino.

01:04:52.246 --> 01:04:54.626
Jesse goes, whoa, have we been here before?

01:04:55.626 --> 01:04:56.846
No, this is a new place.

01:04:58.206 --> 01:04:59.846
She's at one end of the motel.

01:04:59.946 --> 01:05:07.446
It's a one-story spot with about six motel rooms, and then a check-in area with some chairs, and then six more rooms on the other end of the motel.

01:05:08.286 --> 01:05:11.886
It's dimly lit and seems to be abandoned, like there's not even staff here.

01:05:12.786 --> 01:05:16.446
The ocean view motel, like The Oldest House, is a place of power.

01:05:16.966 --> 01:05:26.306
It was discovered by the FBC in 1992, and according to their research, the only way to enter or exit the motel is via the light switch cord.

01:05:27.246 --> 01:05:30.526
Jesse sees a door with a black pyramid on it, but the door is locked.

01:05:31.286 --> 01:05:34.366
There's other symbols on some of the other doors by the light switch cord too.

01:05:34.746 --> 01:05:35.806
Like one's a spiral.

01:05:36.586 --> 01:05:45.846
Jesse thinks about all the shitty roadside motels she's ever stayed in and thinks, this place feels like all of them, like something I'm recognizing and rebuilding in a dream.

01:05:46.986 --> 01:05:57.066
There's posters in the lobby, including one for the Pacific Northwest, because as you know, all European developers love the Pacific Northwest in the United States.

01:05:57.946 --> 01:05:58.986
It's a fucking plague.

01:05:59.926 --> 01:06:02.026
Across the hall, the other rooms are numbered.

01:06:02.446 --> 01:06:08.486
Jesse goes to the front desk and rings the bell, and as she does, some of the numbered doors open and close.

01:06:09.126 --> 01:06:14.346
She dings the bell into one room toward the end of the hall and finds a set of keys with a black pyramid on them.

01:06:14.966 --> 01:06:17.946
It opens the door with the black pyramid and she enters that room.

01:06:18.826 --> 01:06:26.246
The room is completely dark, except for a mildly lit framed painting of Jesse in The Oldest House and a light switch cord.

01:06:27.826 --> 01:06:34.526
Jesse pulls on the cord, and the light over the painting flickers between mildly lit and leaving her in total darkness.

01:06:35.226 --> 01:06:45.506
She does this a second time, and then a third time, and with that, it takes Jesse out of the Ocean View Motel and puts her on a walkway leading to the glass room with the red phone.

01:06:46.966 --> 01:06:50.126
Jesse hears the phone ringing and walks to the glass room and picks up the phone.

01:06:50.846 --> 01:06:53.326
As she answers, she's sent to the astral plane.

01:06:54.026 --> 01:06:56.386
The board tells her that the hotline is a transmitter.

01:06:56.766 --> 01:06:58.066
Directors can call the board.

01:06:58.766 --> 01:07:02.886
Jesse is thrown into a puzzle, and as she navigates it, she hears the phone ringing again.

01:07:02.906 --> 01:07:13.026
As Jesse makes it to the red phone that's now here in the astral plane for some fucking reason, the board says she can use the phone to contact the board or past selves.

01:07:13.366 --> 01:07:16.626
Jesse answers the phone, and the screen cuts to a video from Dr.

01:07:16.646 --> 01:07:17.106
Darling.

01:07:17.886 --> 01:07:20.326
He describes the hotline phone as an object of power.

01:07:20.886 --> 01:07:23.126
He says it doesn't connect to any typical network.

01:07:23.426 --> 01:07:25.926
It's a direct line to the astral plane and the board.

01:07:26.266 --> 01:07:30.746
He has a hypothesis that it could also connect to other planes of existence.

01:07:31.586 --> 01:07:38.026
While Jesse holds the phone to her ear, she has a vision of Trench saying, a director needs a team, my management team.

01:07:38.686 --> 01:07:44.166
He tells her how his people know the secrets of the Bureau as well, or even better than he does.

01:07:44.746 --> 01:07:46.586
He specifically calls out Dr.

01:07:46.606 --> 01:07:49.666
Darling, Tomasi, Salvador and Marshall.

01:07:50.326 --> 01:07:52.846
Especially Marshall, who sees through all of his bullshit.

01:07:53.246 --> 01:07:57.166
It's just so refreshing to see somebody who is praising people on their team.

01:07:58.766 --> 01:07:59.626
Are you okay?

01:08:02.146 --> 01:08:02.946
Are you good?

01:08:03.606 --> 01:08:03.826
Oh.

01:08:05.266 --> 01:08:12.946
Jesse hangs up and leaves, pleased that she now has a direct line to Trench, even though it feels like hearing more of an echo of him than speaking to him.

01:08:13.106 --> 01:08:15.326
But he's definitely not a ghost.

01:08:15.406 --> 01:08:16.066
Exactly.

01:08:16.846 --> 01:08:22.446
She wonders if it's too soon to tell Emily about Polaris, but figures Emily may be able to help after all.

01:08:23.406 --> 01:08:27.406
Jesse heads back down to connect with Emily, and Emily is so excited to hear about the hotline.

01:08:28.026 --> 01:08:30.826
Jesse tells her, she's like, I heard from Trench.

01:08:30.966 --> 01:08:32.466
He talked about his management team.

01:08:33.066 --> 01:08:33.926
I guess that's cool.

01:08:34.006 --> 01:08:35.026
What's going on with everyone?

01:08:35.646 --> 01:08:36.566
They go through the list.

01:08:36.566 --> 01:08:38.266
Darling, actively missing.

01:08:38.826 --> 01:08:41.866
Tomasi, definitely corrupted by the Hiss, tried to kill me.

01:08:42.586 --> 01:08:44.226
And then there's Salvador and Marshall.

01:08:44.946 --> 01:08:48.686
Emily says, well, Salvador is the head of security and Marshall is the head of operations.

01:08:49.546 --> 01:09:00.926
Emily warns Jesse that Marshall is like a tough ex-CIA baddie and that Marshall went to the research sector with some soldiers to keep the HRA production secure, but no one's seen her since.

01:09:02.446 --> 01:09:05.386
Jesse asks how she can reach the other sectors if we're on lockdown.

01:09:05.606 --> 01:09:09.646
And Emily is like, well, it's impossible because reference the lockdown.

01:09:09.706 --> 01:09:10.406
Lockdown, yeah.

01:09:10.926 --> 01:09:17.186
But you, as the director, can perform a directorial override in the maintenance sector and unlock the rest of the building.

01:09:17.206 --> 01:09:19.946
And Jesse goes, well, I'll figure it out.

01:09:19.946 --> 01:09:20.506
I got this.

01:09:20.566 --> 01:09:21.066
Thank you.

01:09:22.506 --> 01:09:25.106
Figured everything else out so far, so might as well.

01:09:25.146 --> 01:09:26.966
I'm winging it real hard, Emily.

01:09:26.986 --> 01:09:27.666
Like, let's go.

01:09:27.686 --> 01:09:29.246
Honestly, that's any job.

01:09:29.466 --> 01:09:30.126
That's true.

01:09:30.146 --> 01:09:32.706
You just wing it and then eventually just figure it out.

01:09:32.986 --> 01:09:33.346
Yeah.

01:09:34.326 --> 01:09:35.066
Or you don't.

01:09:37.626 --> 01:09:43.386
Emily is so impressed and tells Jesse it's incredible that you have no training and you're doing so well.

01:09:43.406 --> 01:09:46.726
And on top of that, you haven't been afflicted by the fucking hiss.

01:09:47.886 --> 01:09:55.706
Emily is also like, by the way, if you're down, I would love to run some tests on you just to understand what's going on inside of you because you are fucking special.

01:09:55.906 --> 01:09:56.326
Right.

01:09:56.566 --> 01:10:03.246
Jesse seems just a smooch skeeved out by this, but is like, I guess I want to learn more about myself.

01:10:03.266 --> 01:10:04.506
Like, maybe later.

01:10:05.066 --> 01:10:07.126
Emily is like, hell yeah, that's enough of a yes.

01:10:07.146 --> 01:10:07.906
I will take it.

01:10:08.386 --> 01:10:12.026
Also, I'm just going to look out for like any lockdown bypasses.

01:10:12.066 --> 01:10:15.866
But man, I think you really need to do this fucking override to get shit open.

01:10:16.046 --> 01:10:19.406
I'm fully getting you a 23 and me for your next birthday.

01:10:19.426 --> 01:10:21.026
And we're going to find out all your shit.

01:10:22.006 --> 01:10:22.926
We got this bitch.

01:10:23.606 --> 01:10:24.806
Jesse is like, cool.

01:10:24.866 --> 01:10:33.426
Well, I'm going to go into a completely locked down maintenance center in the middle of a hiss affected paranormal building and open all the doors.

01:10:34.526 --> 01:10:36.246
I'm sure nothing wrong will happen.

01:10:36.726 --> 01:10:39.966
Emily says, hey, I hear some singing coming from the elevator.

01:10:39.986 --> 01:10:42.106
And Jesse's like, cool.

01:10:42.326 --> 01:10:43.586
I'll figure that out too.

01:10:43.926 --> 01:10:44.646
Never creepy.

01:10:45.046 --> 01:10:47.926
As she approaches the elevator, the doors open for her.

01:10:47.946 --> 01:10:50.726
And she hears Auti say, time to work.

01:10:51.126 --> 01:10:52.266
Meet me in maintenance.

01:10:53.346 --> 01:11:00.806
And with that, despite the lockdown, the elevator lets Jesse pick the maintenance sector and the building is on her side now.

01:11:01.746 --> 01:11:04.166
I'm so glad that the building chose to work with her.

01:11:04.246 --> 01:11:07.726
Yeah, it would suck if it had a grudge, you know?

01:11:08.626 --> 01:11:13.986
Jesse gets down to maintenance and figures once she finds Auti, he can help her get into the directorial override.

01:11:14.526 --> 01:11:17.006
Maintenance is the janitor's domain after all.

01:11:17.446 --> 01:11:18.506
Oh no, the janitor.

01:11:19.266 --> 01:11:25.246
Maintenance is devoid of the offices we saw in the executive corridor and houses a lot of pipes in the guts of the building.

01:11:26.126 --> 01:11:32.346
Deep in maintenance, Jesse stumbles on an object of power that's afflicted by the Hiss, a merry-go-round horse.

01:11:33.066 --> 01:11:37.886
Jesse sees this and wonders just out loud, why is kid stuff so creepy?

01:11:38.206 --> 01:11:39.286
Always, right?

01:11:40.046 --> 01:11:43.646
She puts her hands around it and clears the Hiss and is sent to the astral plane.

01:11:44.186 --> 01:11:50.366
With this trip, Jesse earns the ability to jump and move her body through the air from area to area.

01:11:50.886 --> 01:11:51.766
Like levitation?

01:11:51.926 --> 01:11:56.906
Yeah, she shoots off into the air and is like, haha, let's see the Hiss keep up with me now!

01:11:57.286 --> 01:11:59.006
This girl's fucking badass.

01:11:59.146 --> 01:12:00.866
She's so chill about this too.

01:12:00.866 --> 01:12:02.086
She's like, I love learning.

01:12:02.106 --> 01:12:02.686
This is great.

01:12:04.526 --> 01:12:08.266
She takes to these powers like a duck in water, and it's a little concerning.

01:12:09.126 --> 01:12:11.546
But it's so fucking cool to see her do well.

01:12:13.106 --> 01:12:19.886
Jesse finds a door that has a poster of Auti the Janitor posing with his mop on the front.

01:12:20.306 --> 01:12:23.786
Oh no, I have a feeling this mop might be a thing of power.

01:12:24.006 --> 01:12:26.766
I love fucking, I just, Auti is so good.

01:12:27.106 --> 01:12:28.426
I love Auti.

01:12:28.986 --> 01:12:32.446
Jesse opens the door and finds Auti and his mop.

01:12:33.106 --> 01:12:36.286
Auti tells Jesse, well done, you got the job.

01:12:38.346 --> 01:12:40.346
Congrats, I truly need an assistant.

01:12:42.826 --> 01:12:46.846
That's the secret of the director role, is you're actually Auti's assistant.

01:12:47.446 --> 01:12:51.366
Silently, Jesse tells Polaris, that's actually funny because I have been a janitor.

01:12:52.286 --> 01:12:53.306
So have I actually.

01:12:53.446 --> 01:12:56.266
She says she's more at home in that role than as the director.

01:12:58.286 --> 01:13:01.446
Out loud, Jesse is like, hey man, yeah, what's up, Auti?

01:13:01.526 --> 01:13:03.426
Can you get me to the directorial override?

01:13:04.186 --> 01:13:07.026
And Auti says, yes, yes, easy peasy.

01:13:07.366 --> 01:13:08.406
It's around the corner.

01:13:08.786 --> 01:13:11.126
But first, you need to start working.

01:13:11.766 --> 01:13:15.286
Real, easy, several hours job.

01:13:16.866 --> 01:13:24.086
Jesse is a little hesitant because of the lockdown, and Auti sees this, so he's like, you think there is a dog buried in this.

01:13:24.946 --> 01:13:26.806
He has so many fun Finnish sayings.

01:13:26.826 --> 01:13:27.386
You do?

01:13:28.106 --> 01:13:28.686
I love him.

01:13:29.006 --> 01:13:29.786
You think that?

01:13:30.766 --> 01:13:35.526
He says, I can tell you, I'm not yesterday's grouse's son.

01:13:36.766 --> 01:13:37.046
What?

01:13:37.346 --> 01:13:38.386
I don't know what that means.

01:13:39.706 --> 01:13:41.906
His colloquialisms are fucking weird.

01:13:41.966 --> 01:13:43.666
I am Irish and Filipino.

01:13:43.686 --> 01:13:44.786
We don't say this shit.

01:13:44.806 --> 01:13:45.406
I don't know.

01:13:45.426 --> 01:13:48.106
And American.

01:13:48.166 --> 01:13:50.086
Yeah, and culturally American.

01:13:50.106 --> 01:13:51.966
I don't know what's going on, but I love him.

01:13:52.726 --> 01:13:58.566
Auti says the house has a vermin problem that is fucking up the cooling pumps and the power plant's generators.

01:13:59.226 --> 01:14:02.486
You know, because there's always a goddamn generator.

01:14:02.506 --> 01:14:05.786
There's always a goddamn generator.

01:14:06.786 --> 01:14:14.986
Auti then tells Jesse that the situation needs to be fixed before the plant blows up and we all disappear like a fart in the Sahara.

01:14:16.046 --> 01:14:16.906
Why there?

01:14:16.926 --> 01:14:19.446
I love him.

01:14:19.966 --> 01:14:23.526
Jesse thinks out loud, I'm trying my best to keep up with this.

01:14:23.626 --> 01:14:26.226
Fix the coolant pumps, the power generators.

01:14:26.326 --> 01:14:28.146
Otherwise, the power plant may blow.

01:14:28.886 --> 01:14:31.726
Auti tells her he left her clear instructions.

01:14:32.726 --> 01:14:35.826
And then he says he's going on vacation.

01:14:38.026 --> 01:14:40.526
And Jesse says, you have PTO?

01:14:40.546 --> 01:14:44.126
Yeah, it's probably his first vacation in decades, too.

01:14:44.326 --> 01:14:50.006
Yeah, and Auti proudly says, no one is going to cancel my holiday, but don't worry about it.

01:14:50.326 --> 01:14:54.586
You'll take care of it, and soon this crisis is going to be last year's snow.

01:14:54.986 --> 01:14:55.526
You know what?

01:14:55.526 --> 01:14:56.606
Hell yeah, Auti.

01:14:56.806 --> 01:14:57.326
You know what?

01:14:57.566 --> 01:14:59.846
You do not request time off.

01:14:59.886 --> 01:15:03.446
You let them know you're not going to be there during that time.

01:15:06.826 --> 01:15:14.546
Auti gives her a clearance level 2 card and points her in the direction of the power plant, and Jesse snaps to it, because we got to get this taken care of.

01:15:14.566 --> 01:15:16.226
He's got some fucking PTO to get to.

01:15:17.346 --> 01:15:24.886
The power plant is well guarded with FBC agents with HRA devices, so it's actually nice that Jesse can talk to regular ass people again.

01:15:26.266 --> 01:15:28.546
Jesse meets Chief Arish, the head of security.

01:15:28.986 --> 01:15:31.706
He's stressed and concerned that Jesse isn't wearing one.

01:15:31.726 --> 01:15:32.346
He's like, cool.

01:15:32.806 --> 01:15:33.286
The fuck?

01:15:33.746 --> 01:15:37.706
Chief Arish goes from hurried and worried to pleased because he's meeting the new director.

01:15:38.226 --> 01:15:43.226
He calls Jesse ma'am, and she immediately is like, let's skip the formalities, do not drop ma'am on me.

01:15:44.366 --> 01:15:46.066
He's like, okay, fine, sorry, I got you.

01:15:46.086 --> 01:15:47.946
Look, it's a flash shit show down here.

01:15:47.966 --> 01:15:54.906
His team is holding their ground, but whatever is afflicting The Oldest House has been wrecking the coolant pumps and the power converters.

01:15:55.306 --> 01:16:01.426
Shit is starting to overheat, and his team can't even get in to do repairs before the fucking his people shoot them down.

01:16:02.206 --> 01:16:10.906
He tells her that Salvador, the head of security, told him to protect the power plant if they're ever attacked because what's inside the power plant is fucking dangerous.

01:16:12.206 --> 01:16:14.186
He looks Jesse in the eyes and says that Dr.

01:16:14.206 --> 01:16:16.006
Darling seemed to know it would be a target.

01:16:16.766 --> 01:16:17.946
Jesse asks if Dr.

01:16:17.966 --> 01:16:20.626
Darling is here, but Chief Arish says no.

01:16:21.166 --> 01:16:32.026
He came down a few days ago before everything went to hell and was drunk, rambling about vulnerabilities and HRAs, and then gave security down here a bunch of the HRAs to use.

01:16:32.866 --> 01:16:39.046
Also, while this was happening, he was starting to tear his clothes off.

01:16:40.046 --> 01:16:45.746
Oh, you know, the eccentric have the ways of just doing things that we just kind of have to accept sometimes, I guess.

01:16:45.826 --> 01:16:48.446
Yeah, and Jesse is like, got it.

01:16:48.546 --> 01:16:50.066
All she hears is that Dr.

01:16:50.086 --> 01:16:55.046
Darling knew the hiss was coming and prepared for it, also very confident in his body.

01:16:55.066 --> 01:16:55.566
Yeah.

01:16:56.946 --> 01:17:03.506
Chief Arish gently is like, look, it's been great to meet you, but we have to get these systems back up or the whole house is going to collapse.

01:17:04.246 --> 01:17:12.886
He says he's going to have his squad open the doors up for Jesse to get in and fix everything and asks if she sees Salvador to find out what the plan is because he's fucking lost here.

01:17:13.746 --> 01:17:14.946
Jesse's like, dope, got it.

01:17:14.966 --> 01:17:16.306
Fix everything or it all blows up.

01:17:16.406 --> 01:17:17.066
I'm on it, dude.

01:17:18.266 --> 01:17:24.426
The power plant is deeply afflicted by the hiss, and there are more and more flying hiss fuckers fucking everywhere.

01:17:25.026 --> 01:17:31.946
Jesse gets some power boxes in the right places to get the generators running well and is like, fuck yeah, I'm going to kill you all and I'm going to light this bitch up.

01:17:32.866 --> 01:17:40.866
There is lore that the power plant is also powered by a previous director of the Federal Bureau of Control.

01:17:41.266 --> 01:17:43.646
Like his spirit or Echo, I guess we're calling them.

01:17:44.326 --> 01:17:47.326
Unlike Trench, he is not deceased.

01:17:47.886 --> 01:17:48.606
Oh, okay.

01:17:48.786 --> 01:17:55.806
Director Northmore was so obsessed with objects of power that he eventually just fucking became one.

01:17:56.266 --> 01:17:58.146
He became an object of power?

01:17:58.746 --> 01:18:06.246
I think that it's kind of like a mercury poisoning thing, like you're around the object or the shit so much it starts to like get into your bloodstream and stuff.

01:18:06.586 --> 01:18:07.186
Oh, fuck.

01:18:08.026 --> 01:18:14.566
He, as a man, is actually used to power The Oldest House, and he lives inside the power plant.

01:18:17.046 --> 01:18:19.026
He's the fucking electricity gremlin.

01:18:19.226 --> 01:18:26.266
The power plant itself is called the NSC, the Northmore Sarcophagus container.

01:18:26.806 --> 01:18:28.106
Sarcophagus.

01:18:28.926 --> 01:18:33.266
I hate the word sarcophagus in terms of like holding someone hostage so much.

01:18:33.446 --> 01:18:34.366
Maybe he's not hostage.

01:18:34.386 --> 01:18:34.806
I apologize.

01:18:34.826 --> 01:18:36.286
Maybe he's there of his own free will.

01:18:36.306 --> 01:18:38.946
He's like, I am a part of the project I've created.

01:18:39.006 --> 01:18:40.486
He enjoys the power that he has.

01:18:40.966 --> 01:18:43.646
Yeah, and so does everyone else because it's not solar.

01:18:43.906 --> 01:18:45.486
It's just our fucking old boss.

01:18:48.686 --> 01:18:56.246
Jesse has a line here in the power plant sometimes that goes, both previous directors lost control while dealing with paranatural forces.

01:18:56.806 --> 01:18:58.306
Not a trend I want to continue.

01:18:58.886 --> 01:18:59.326
No.

01:18:59.726 --> 01:19:05.606
Auti also has a line in the game about the power plant where he says, the pensioner in the power plant.

01:19:05.806 --> 01:19:08.026
The pensioner, like the retired boss?

01:19:08.126 --> 01:19:08.586
Yeah.

01:19:08.786 --> 01:19:09.466
Oh, fuck.

01:19:10.146 --> 01:19:10.346
Ugh.

01:19:10.806 --> 01:19:16.386
Such a weird little piece of lore that's not delivered to you, but when you dig for it, it's fucking crazy.

01:19:16.406 --> 01:19:19.246
It's one of those those who know, those who don't know.

01:19:20.786 --> 01:19:32.326
When Jesse makes it to the coolant pumps, she hears Auti's voice telling her to fix it fast because if the plant goes boom, we can throw the spoon in the corner.

01:19:32.346 --> 01:19:34.106
The fuck?

01:19:34.126 --> 01:19:35.266
The spoon in the corner?

01:19:35.306 --> 01:19:36.166
I'm not finished.

01:19:36.186 --> 01:19:37.326
It's not my culture.

01:19:37.346 --> 01:19:38.226
I don't know what it means.

01:19:40.406 --> 01:19:40.786
You know.

01:19:40.986 --> 01:19:42.146
I'm trying to decipher it.

01:19:42.166 --> 01:19:44.346
I'm sitting here like, the spoon in the corner.

01:19:44.366 --> 01:19:46.286
We can throw that spoon in the corner.

01:19:47.026 --> 01:19:47.546
Whatever.

01:19:48.826 --> 01:19:54.546
Deep in the pipes, there's some sort of clog, as Auti says, keeping the pipes from working appropriately.

01:19:55.066 --> 01:20:00.686
Jesse gets in and sees a living bulbous growth all over the coolant pipes.

01:20:00.786 --> 01:20:04.566
That's nothing you ever want to see anywhere, let alone growing in a pipe.

01:20:04.826 --> 01:20:05.166
Yeah.

01:20:05.386 --> 01:20:08.886
And she looks at this and verbatim says, what the hell is that?

01:20:09.266 --> 01:20:13.046
That's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life.

01:20:14.026 --> 01:20:16.166
It's basically living rot.

01:20:16.246 --> 01:20:17.046
And it's fucking vile.

01:20:17.566 --> 01:20:20.766
And honestly, if I'm being real, I'm still a little upset I had to look at it.

01:20:23.006 --> 01:20:28.246
As Jesse shoots at this fucking thing, it starts to recoil and leave the pipes.

01:20:28.786 --> 01:20:33.306
Jesse gets rid of all this fucking rot, clears out the pipes and is like, hell yeah!

01:20:33.666 --> 01:20:35.866
Please let me lift the fucking lockdown now.

01:20:36.406 --> 01:20:38.166
The previous director didn't do shit.

01:20:38.366 --> 01:20:39.026
I know.

01:20:39.746 --> 01:20:44.926
Jesse fights her way to the control room and using her service weapon, she lifts the lockdown.

01:20:45.426 --> 01:20:51.586
The service weapon is basically like you mentioned as good as the director's badge, so it's forming to like unlock a keyhole.

01:20:51.606 --> 01:20:52.346
It's fucking sick.

01:20:52.366 --> 01:20:53.506
I love a living weapon.

01:20:53.606 --> 01:20:56.806
Oh, I thought she literally just pointed her gun at a lock and shot it.

01:20:57.046 --> 01:20:58.626
No, what?

01:21:00.106 --> 01:21:01.526
That's some bozo shit.

01:21:01.546 --> 01:21:02.346
Can you imagine?

01:21:03.266 --> 01:21:05.626
Anyway, Jesse is like, hell yeah, that's it.

01:21:05.646 --> 01:21:06.146
We're good.

01:21:06.386 --> 01:21:07.926
The other sectors should be open now.

01:21:08.486 --> 01:21:16.006
Jesse tells Polaris she wants to tell Emily why she's really here and that Polaris and Emily should get to know one another because friendship.

01:21:17.086 --> 01:21:17.946
Friendship's important.

01:21:19.086 --> 01:21:21.566
Jesse gets back to Emily who's really excited to see her.

01:21:22.046 --> 01:21:27.506
Jesse starts with trauma dumping on Emily, saying she has a younger brother named Dylan.

01:21:27.986 --> 01:21:33.106
When they were kids, they found an old slide projector in a landfill in the town they grew up in.

01:21:33.766 --> 01:21:34.746
Ordinary, Maine.

01:21:36.026 --> 01:21:37.646
Oh, ordinary once again.

01:21:38.446 --> 01:21:43.286
It'll happen again in another town, a town called Ordinary.

01:21:44.266 --> 01:21:45.206
Thank you.

01:21:45.226 --> 01:21:46.746
You're putting so much salt on that.

01:21:46.766 --> 01:21:47.206
It's great.

01:21:48.666 --> 01:21:52.906
When they played with the slides, the slides created doorways to other places.

01:21:53.586 --> 01:21:56.446
Bad things would happen and would come through the doors.

01:21:56.806 --> 01:21:57.746
But they found help.

01:21:58.226 --> 01:22:03.666
One of those doors they opened brought them to a being that helped them turn the projector off.

01:22:04.646 --> 01:22:09.326
As Jesse describes the being, the shimmer of Polaris's gray spiral shines.

01:22:09.966 --> 01:22:12.726
Polaris helped make all the bad things go away.

01:22:13.366 --> 01:22:19.406
But soon after the projector was turned off, the FBC came through and tried to take Dylan and Jesse.

01:22:20.006 --> 01:22:22.066
They got Dylan, but Jesse escaped.

01:22:22.826 --> 01:22:24.126
She never saw him again.

01:22:24.566 --> 01:22:26.686
And she's been looking for him ever since.

01:22:27.786 --> 01:22:29.606
She just wants to find her brother.

01:22:29.986 --> 01:22:31.686
That's the only reason she's here.

01:22:31.706 --> 01:22:32.926
Yeah, truly.

01:22:33.806 --> 01:22:37.226
Emily is super sympathetic and is like, holy shit!

01:22:37.806 --> 01:22:39.346
What happened to the slide projector?

01:22:39.766 --> 01:22:41.986
It sounds like that was clearly an object of power.

01:22:42.066 --> 01:22:43.246
I've never heard of it, though.

01:22:44.106 --> 01:22:49.046
Jesse says she figured the FBC took the projector when they took Dylan because, like, why wouldn't they?

01:22:50.386 --> 01:22:52.106
Emily is like, oh, god damn it.

01:22:52.126 --> 01:22:53.686
Everything here is so classified.

01:22:54.166 --> 01:23:00.226
But in the Ordinary Altered World Event file, it does say that Trench and Darling were involved, personally.

01:23:01.566 --> 01:23:13.606
The case isn't active, but there is a big containment sector dedicated to the event, so there might be evidence or files or something there, but she has no idea if anything is there, so it's kind of a crapshoot.

01:23:14.506 --> 01:23:16.206
Emily asks about the being they found.

01:23:16.606 --> 01:23:17.266
Polaris.

01:23:17.866 --> 01:23:21.826
Jesse says she's been with me ever since Ordinary, just living in my head.

01:23:22.546 --> 01:23:23.506
She led me to you.

01:23:24.086 --> 01:23:26.866
She is Polaris, and she is my best friend.

01:23:28.226 --> 01:23:30.066
Emily goes, oh, like the guiding star.

01:23:30.466 --> 01:23:31.926
No, like drop dead Fred.

01:23:32.046 --> 01:23:32.286
What?

01:23:35.006 --> 01:23:36.786
Did Polaris know about the his?

01:23:36.786 --> 01:23:42.366
Because if she got you in here in spite of a whole ass fucking lockdown, that bitch is powerful.

01:23:42.366 --> 01:23:44.346
Emily is like, okay, Polaris, what's up?

01:23:46.506 --> 01:23:52.206
Anyway, Emily did some file searching based on Jesse's data readings because she did get to run a little test on her.

01:23:52.626 --> 01:23:55.026
And she found two matching files for Jesse.

01:23:56.186 --> 01:24:02.586
One is for someone under the file name P6, referring to Prime Candidate.

01:24:03.206 --> 01:24:13.386
And the Prime Candidate program is the program the FBC uses to find potential new directors, because directors have to be someone special, someone like Jesse.

01:24:14.406 --> 01:24:16.966
And we also saw P6 in that flash.

01:24:16.986 --> 01:24:17.766
Yeah.

01:24:17.786 --> 01:24:18.686
Oh, I'm glad you remember.

01:24:18.706 --> 01:24:19.546
That was so long ago.

01:24:20.426 --> 01:24:24.486
To Polaris, Jesse says, well, that's obviously Dylan, right?

01:24:26.186 --> 01:24:31.526
I love that sometimes the games are very knowing, and they're like, if you're jumping to conclusions, we'll jump with you.

01:24:31.526 --> 01:24:32.286
We got you.

01:24:32.306 --> 01:24:33.086
Yeah, right.

01:24:33.106 --> 01:24:35.386
Or if you haven't got there yet, we're just going to spell it out.

01:24:35.406 --> 01:24:37.246
Yeah, we'll make sure you caught up.

01:24:37.266 --> 01:24:38.326
Like, it's fine.

01:24:39.006 --> 01:24:47.106
The other file for Jesse is something called Hedron, which Emily figures is connected to the Hedron resonance amplifiers, those harnesses.

01:24:47.446 --> 01:24:54.986
Since Jesse is Hiss immune, it kind of makes sense that something in her DNA is connected to the thing that's keeping everyone else safe from the Hiss.

01:24:56.566 --> 01:25:04.546
Emily's also like, oh, Marshall went to research to secure the HRA production unit and make sure we could keep those coming out for staff to keep people safe.

01:25:04.566 --> 01:25:08.646
So she's probably going to be the most helpful in this situation for you.

01:25:08.906 --> 01:25:10.286
Jesse goes, oh my god, yeah, sick.

01:25:10.286 --> 01:25:10.746
I'm on it.

01:25:10.766 --> 01:25:11.126
Let's go.

01:25:12.586 --> 01:25:16.366
Jesse takes the elevator down to research to find Marshall and get some answers.

01:25:17.086 --> 01:25:21.106
Near the entrance of research is a welcome to research video from Dr.

01:25:21.126 --> 01:25:23.166
Darling, which is so fucking cute.

01:25:23.386 --> 01:25:24.506
I love that Dr.

01:25:24.526 --> 01:25:26.586
Darling is kind of the tour guide.

01:25:26.806 --> 01:25:27.546
He is.

01:25:27.566 --> 01:25:29.886
He's like the good Cave Johnson.

01:25:29.906 --> 01:25:30.206
Yeah.

01:25:30.226 --> 01:25:33.066
Just showing up and welcoming people.

01:25:33.086 --> 01:25:33.906
Oh, that's good.

01:25:34.146 --> 01:25:40.726
Jesse calls research the home of the Bureau's mad scientists, which is a total read, but she killed it.

01:25:41.886 --> 01:25:53.226
Since we're talking about quirky characters, once you have access to the research sector, you'll be able to unlock a side mission that has a very special cameo from a dear friend of Sam Lake.

01:25:53.866 --> 01:25:57.606
He has a lot of dear friends, so I'm very fascinated to find out who.

01:25:57.966 --> 01:25:58.846
Hideo Kojima.

01:25:59.226 --> 01:26:00.026
Holy shit.

01:26:00.326 --> 01:26:05.546
He voices a Japanese scientist through a guided imagery experience.

01:26:06.446 --> 01:26:07.446
Does he look like Hideo?

01:26:07.686 --> 01:26:08.486
It's just a voice.

01:26:08.586 --> 01:26:09.486
Oh, it's just a voiceover?

01:26:09.526 --> 01:26:15.306
It's just a voice, and it is perhaps the balanced tradeoff to Sam Lake appearing on screen in Death Stranding.

01:26:15.626 --> 01:26:16.326
Oh, goodness.

01:26:16.346 --> 01:26:19.746
I mean, these two, they love one appearing in their own games.

01:26:21.466 --> 01:26:22.246
That's true.

01:26:22.346 --> 01:26:27.986
So I imagine that's kind of the joke that has become is that now they're like, well, you want to come appear in my game?

01:26:28.646 --> 01:26:29.826
You want to do a tradezies?

01:26:31.686 --> 01:26:33.606
I see them play on Instagram all the time, too.

01:26:33.626 --> 01:26:36.466
They're always just drinking coffee and being best friends.

01:26:36.546 --> 01:26:41.226
Yeah, they are two of the strangest game creators, like in terms of their personal lives.

01:26:41.426 --> 01:26:45.626
I'd also imagine that they might have to communicate in English, which is neither their first language.

01:26:45.746 --> 01:26:48.386
That's very true, yeah, which can be very frustrating.

01:26:48.466 --> 01:26:52.886
And they still find this way to build this beautiful, productive relationship.

01:26:52.906 --> 01:26:54.146
And that's fucking awesome.

01:26:54.206 --> 01:26:55.146
No, that's really beautiful.

01:26:55.206 --> 01:26:56.746
Friendship without fucking borders.

01:26:56.766 --> 01:26:57.246
Let's go.

01:26:58.366 --> 01:26:59.146
Back to Jesse.

01:26:59.406 --> 01:27:03.766
She fights his until she hears Marshall on an intercom asking for backup.

01:27:04.226 --> 01:27:08.506
Jesse tries to intercom her back, but doesn't hear Marshall respond and then goes, Ah, fuck.

01:27:09.366 --> 01:27:10.366
Everything is terrible.

01:27:10.566 --> 01:27:11.466
We have to hurry.

01:27:12.686 --> 01:27:17.486
On the way, she finds another his grouping and encounters her first his cluster.

01:27:18.086 --> 01:27:23.466
It's a ball of his energy that actually protects and heals all the infected hiss around it.

01:27:23.646 --> 01:27:25.326
So they have to be prioritized in fights.

01:27:25.346 --> 01:27:28.806
I'm not going to bring up a lot of mechanics, but this one's just so fucking cool.

01:27:28.966 --> 01:27:32.006
And it's literally just a big ass ball that shoots across the map.

01:27:32.026 --> 01:27:33.246
And it's weirdly fun.

01:27:33.466 --> 01:27:35.526
And it's so satisfying to kill them.

01:27:36.246 --> 01:27:41.226
It's amazing how many great characters like boss fights have been balls.

01:27:44.386 --> 01:27:46.386
And are actually like good boss fights.

01:27:46.886 --> 01:27:49.086
I fucking love killing that circle.

01:27:49.106 --> 01:27:51.426
Yeah, like you've got freaking Wheatley.

01:27:51.746 --> 01:27:55.386
You've got the big ball at the end of Okami.

01:27:55.646 --> 01:28:00.806
You've got, you know, so many big balls that end up being these wonderful boss fights.

01:28:00.826 --> 01:28:02.126
The Las Vegas Sphere.

01:28:04.386 --> 01:28:05.906
That's a boss fight for life.

01:28:06.306 --> 01:28:10.106
Oh, anyway, it's gone up against a wrecking ball main and fucking Overwatch can say as well.

01:28:10.246 --> 01:28:10.886
There you go.

01:28:11.686 --> 01:28:18.046
Jesse fights through research and here's Marshall on the intercom again, saying she's diverted agents to the Luck department.

01:28:18.546 --> 01:28:20.906
Because of course, there's a fucking Luck department.

01:28:21.906 --> 01:28:36.086
On the way to Luck, Jesse unhisses an object of power that grants her the ability to use C's, which is always my favorite thing in any fucking Bioshock, because it lets her take over certain hisse-afflicted enemies and make them allies.

01:28:36.946 --> 01:28:38.646
Oh, it's a hypnotized plasmid.

01:28:38.686 --> 01:28:40.386
Fuck yeah, I fucking love C's.

01:28:41.646 --> 01:28:48.006
I worked so hard to max this out on the skill tree as fast as possible, because it's so satisfying to be like, you want to kill me?

01:28:48.166 --> 01:28:49.266
You want to kill you?

01:28:49.286 --> 01:28:53.106
And we keep forgetting to say Bioshock to all these Bioshock references.

01:28:53.226 --> 01:28:54.126
Oh, I'm hammered.

01:28:56.446 --> 01:29:00.606
Jesse makes her way to an intercom and finally gets a hold of Marshall and introduces herself.

01:29:01.006 --> 01:29:06.426
Marshall's a bad bitch who's like down to business and is cool as fuck and is like, sending you an elevator.

01:29:06.706 --> 01:29:07.226
See you soon.

01:29:07.306 --> 01:29:08.846
Like, oh, shit, that's cool.

01:29:10.146 --> 01:29:17.606
Down in the luck and probability sector, there are a few HRA wearing agents and a lot of catatonic hiss agents.

01:29:18.226 --> 01:29:20.486
It's a bummer, but I guess that's just luck.

01:29:20.746 --> 01:29:26.646
I actually really love the idea of a luck department, like a group that studies luckiness.

01:29:26.946 --> 01:29:27.906
That's so cool, right?

01:29:27.926 --> 01:29:31.066
It's such an abstract concept and I kind of fucking love it.

01:29:31.326 --> 01:29:35.686
See, you don't understand the Finnish sayings, but as an Irish person, you're like, we should be studying luck.

01:29:38.006 --> 01:29:38.506
Really?

01:29:39.306 --> 01:29:41.886
Okay, that's a fucking read right there.

01:29:43.046 --> 01:29:44.706
Tom with the leprechaun lore.

01:29:46.906 --> 01:29:49.406
You're like, how do I get involved in this?

01:29:49.506 --> 01:29:50.786
Check my ancestry.

01:29:51.466 --> 01:29:54.526
Where finally I'm like, no, luck is the coolest one so far.

01:29:56.866 --> 01:29:57.726
It is really cool.

01:29:57.746 --> 01:30:02.266
There are like calico statues and other symbols of luck throughout the fucking floor.

01:30:02.286 --> 01:30:03.226
It's really cute.

01:30:03.266 --> 01:30:03.926
Oh, this is good.

01:30:03.946 --> 01:30:05.006
Lucky rabbit's feet.

01:30:05.026 --> 01:30:07.146
Yeah, fucking shamrock shit like that.

01:30:07.166 --> 01:30:07.966
Horseshoes.

01:30:08.266 --> 01:30:13.306
Marshall is at a war room table with some of her agents and congratulates Jesse on being the new director.

01:30:13.746 --> 01:30:16.306
It's starting to feel like everybody congratulating Dr.

01:30:16.326 --> 01:30:17.966
Gordon Freeman in the first half life.

01:30:18.166 --> 01:30:19.466
And he's like, what the?

01:30:19.486 --> 01:30:20.286
He doesn't say anything.

01:30:20.306 --> 01:30:22.126
Yeah, way to go on your new job there, buddy.

01:30:22.326 --> 01:30:23.186
Oh, we love you.

01:30:23.206 --> 01:30:24.466
It's a little sarcastic.

01:30:25.366 --> 01:30:28.146
It's a little, you're probably going to die, but good for you, bitch.

01:30:29.186 --> 01:30:34.306
She says this super dry because Marshall is just like the most only business.

01:30:34.326 --> 01:30:34.786
Fuck you.

01:30:34.806 --> 01:30:37.566
I'm here for work, ass bitch, which I kind of love.

01:30:37.586 --> 01:30:38.026
I get it.

01:30:38.106 --> 01:30:38.986
You can respect that.

01:30:39.006 --> 01:30:39.246
Yeah.

01:30:39.566 --> 01:30:46.166
When we moved out here for that first job I had, my best friend at work was like, you literally never say anything personal.

01:30:47.426 --> 01:30:49.386
You come in and you are just down to business.

01:30:49.406 --> 01:30:52.226
You don't give a fuck how anyone's weekend was, but you're funny.

01:30:52.626 --> 01:30:55.786
So I feel like we're friends, but I know nothing about you.

01:30:55.806 --> 01:30:57.526
And I was like, yeah, I'm at work.

01:30:57.546 --> 01:30:58.766
What the fuck?

01:30:58.826 --> 01:31:00.286
That's exactly what I'm going for.

01:31:00.306 --> 01:31:01.426
That fully didn't comprehend.

01:31:01.446 --> 01:31:02.406
I was like, yeah, I'm at work.

01:31:03.326 --> 01:31:05.326
And I don't give a shit about people's weekends.

01:31:05.346 --> 01:31:05.986
What do you mean?

01:31:06.446 --> 01:31:07.706
One of your dearest friends today.

01:31:07.726 --> 01:31:10.746
Yeah, we eventually bonded outside of the office.

01:31:10.766 --> 01:31:12.046
So I was like, my name's Andrea.

01:31:12.126 --> 01:31:12.466
Hi.

01:31:13.746 --> 01:31:14.966
She's like, I've known you for three years.

01:31:14.986 --> 01:31:15.626
Nice to meet you.

01:31:16.686 --> 01:31:17.486
So I get it.

01:31:17.566 --> 01:31:19.246
Marshall is fucking great.

01:31:19.546 --> 01:31:23.466
She introduces herself as Helen Marshall, the head of Bureau Operations.

01:31:24.366 --> 01:31:27.526
She states that Trench is dead and assumes Jesse found his gun.

01:31:27.826 --> 01:31:30.266
And Jesse goes, well, okay, first of all, you nailed me.

01:31:30.286 --> 01:31:33.886
Second of all, yeah, and you can also just call me Jesse.

01:31:33.906 --> 01:31:35.446
We don't need to do the director thing.

01:31:36.026 --> 01:31:37.206
I don't want to do that.

01:31:37.406 --> 01:31:38.066
Oh my gosh.

01:31:38.086 --> 01:31:39.006
I'm the cool boss.

01:31:39.426 --> 01:31:45.746
Marshall is unflappable and unfazed and continues to call Jesse Director Fadon for every interaction.

01:31:46.806 --> 01:31:47.626
Very formal.

01:31:48.106 --> 01:31:55.306
Marshall gets down to business because that's her whole deal and says, Darling made the HRAs in a lab nearby, and they need more to survive the attack.

01:31:55.666 --> 01:31:59.706
But her Rangers can't secure the lab because the entity is too powerful.

01:32:00.306 --> 01:32:02.186
Jesse says, I'll be the firepower.

01:32:02.466 --> 01:32:03.446
I'll clear out the hiss.

01:32:03.986 --> 01:32:06.706
Marshall accepts and says, that's a good answer.

01:32:07.226 --> 01:32:08.406
Oh, she's so fucking cool.

01:32:08.426 --> 01:32:09.566
She's so fucking cool.

01:32:09.806 --> 01:32:16.186
Jesse heads out and has to like kill a bunch of hiss and solve some quirky little puzzles to unlock Darling's HRA lab.

01:32:16.706 --> 01:32:21.986
It's a tall room with like a laser machine in the middle that's pointed down at a black rock prism.

01:32:22.326 --> 01:32:24.366
But it's not moving, it's not on, nothing.

01:32:25.006 --> 01:32:27.806
Jesse asks Polaris if she has any idea how to make it work.

01:32:28.426 --> 01:32:33.326
As Jesse starts poking around, Marshall and a few agents come through now that the path has been cleared.

01:32:33.966 --> 01:32:36.266
Marshall goes, yes, hello, we have a new problem now.

01:32:36.586 --> 01:32:38.466
The machine is definitely not running.

01:32:39.446 --> 01:32:40.246
Yeah, man.

01:32:40.926 --> 01:32:48.726
Marshall does say that Darling loved his quirky little puzzles though, so there's definitely a system for making this run hidden in the notes around the room.

01:32:49.646 --> 01:32:52.146
Which is such a weird way to be like, you're in this level.

01:32:52.926 --> 01:32:53.326
Do it.

01:32:54.806 --> 01:33:00.506
Jesse has to match shapes and puzzles and run back and forth to turn on terminals to get the HRA machine up and running.

01:33:00.786 --> 01:33:05.406
She does, and the laser kicks back on and blasts into the black rock prism.

01:33:06.106 --> 01:33:10.646
Polaris' gray spiral shimmers around the rock as Marshall comes over to observe them as well.

01:33:11.426 --> 01:33:14.766
The laser glows, and then the prism shatters.

01:33:15.706 --> 01:33:18.026
Marshall says, the prism shattered.

01:33:18.726 --> 01:33:21.366
She's sharp, but she's also very redundant.

01:33:21.546 --> 01:33:22.446
Just a little bit, yeah.

01:33:23.866 --> 01:33:30.706
Marshall tells Jesse they need more black rock prism to make the machine work and get the HRAs back into being made to keep people safe.

01:33:31.286 --> 01:33:36.566
There's a whole ass fucking quarry of black rock in The Oldest House.

01:33:36.906 --> 01:33:37.706
Of course there is.

01:33:37.726 --> 01:33:39.146
There's gonna be a full mine, right?

01:33:39.166 --> 01:33:42.206
Yeah, with fucking mine carts and shit.

01:33:42.226 --> 01:33:44.266
Of course this exists in this office building.

01:33:44.366 --> 01:33:52.546
I'm getting the impression this place is kind of like a Harry Potter tent, where it's just the inside doesn't make sense in terms of the scale on the outside.

01:33:52.566 --> 01:33:55.166
Oh yeah, I told you it was fucking sci-fi Hogwarts.

01:33:55.186 --> 01:33:59.306
Yeah, like there are rooms whose proportions are not gonna make any sense whatsoever.

01:33:59.346 --> 01:34:01.766
Oh yeah, you're living inside of the Mary Poppins bag.

01:34:01.786 --> 01:34:03.866
It's fucking crazy.

01:34:05.126 --> 01:34:07.346
Jesse is like, okay, how do I get there?

01:34:07.466 --> 01:34:09.246
Oh, the quarry is through maintenance.

01:34:09.466 --> 01:34:10.926
I know maintenance, I got this.

01:34:11.866 --> 01:34:14.426
Before Jesse leaves, she asks Marshall about Dylan.

01:34:14.786 --> 01:34:21.886
Marshall blows this off and is like, I am aware you have questions, but if this HRA machine doesn't work, people could die, Director Fadon.

01:34:22.506 --> 01:34:24.066
We can talk once we save lives.

01:34:24.246 --> 01:34:26.746
And Jesse goes, okay, fair, I see you.

01:34:27.266 --> 01:34:28.126
I get it, I'm on it.

01:34:28.146 --> 01:34:29.766
By the way, please call me Jesse.

01:34:30.126 --> 01:34:33.366
And Marshall looks at her and says, I'm gonna call you Director Fadon.

01:34:33.386 --> 01:34:35.926
She don't give a fuck.

01:34:37.026 --> 01:34:41.506
Jesse tells Marshall to head to Emily's base up in Executive where she knows it's relatively safe.

01:34:42.266 --> 01:34:51.126
Jesse then heads back down to maintenance, resolving to herself and Polaris that once the HRE machines are up and running, it'll save lives, including Dylan's if he's here.

01:34:51.646 --> 01:34:55.026
And then she can get down to what happened with the slide projector and her brother.

01:34:56.126 --> 01:35:00.926
Once they're alone, Jesse asks Polaris to keep Dylan safe, the way she keeps Jesse safe.

01:35:01.566 --> 01:35:03.326
It's sweet, we love Polaris.

01:35:03.546 --> 01:35:05.366
She's the cuddliest foreign entity ever.

01:35:07.086 --> 01:35:09.406
The best little brain parasite you've ever had.

01:35:09.466 --> 01:35:11.366
Out of all of them, yeah, top 10.

01:35:12.766 --> 01:35:18.066
Jesse navigates through maintenance further and encounters a small personal safe that is an object of power.

01:35:18.746 --> 01:35:22.626
She cleanses it of the hiss, and the safe grants her the power to shield herself.

01:35:23.826 --> 01:35:27.986
The safe becomes a shield, and I think that's unreasonably cute.

01:35:29.526 --> 01:35:30.666
The safe is your safety.

01:35:30.786 --> 01:35:34.026
Exactly, I was like, that's so clever on two fronts.

01:35:35.686 --> 01:35:40.606
Jesse also runs into another light switch cord, the entry point into the Ocean View Motel.

01:35:40.686 --> 01:35:42.226
Let's go ahead and check it out.

01:35:42.986 --> 01:35:49.726
The Ocean View Motel is barren once again, and Jesse goes through the numbered rooms to arrange objects in the rooms in a certain way.

01:35:50.346 --> 01:35:56.906
Once the motel is adjusted, she goes through the black pyramid room and is spit out much closer to the Black Rock Processing Plant.

01:35:57.586 --> 01:35:58.346
That's convenient.

01:35:59.746 --> 01:36:01.146
On this side of it, a Dr.

01:36:01.166 --> 01:36:03.666
Darling video discusses the Ocean View Motel.

01:36:04.246 --> 01:36:13.086
He talks about the Bureau finding the first light switch cord and how after the motel was first accessed, more and more light switch cords would appear throughout The Oldest House.

01:36:13.686 --> 01:36:15.286
The two places became connected.

01:36:15.806 --> 01:36:21.026
To this date, the actual physical location of the Ocean View Motel is unknown.

01:36:22.886 --> 01:36:27.266
On her route, Jesse clears out lots of his and then hears Chief Arish calling to her.

01:36:27.966 --> 01:36:32.806
She runs to him to see what's going on, and he says, Oh, I'm glad to still be seeing you.

01:36:32.826 --> 01:36:33.426
You're alive.

01:36:33.446 --> 01:36:34.326
That's fucking great.

01:36:35.406 --> 01:36:36.966
Jesse says she's looking for Dr.

01:36:36.986 --> 01:36:38.706
Darling's Black Rock Prism Lab.

01:36:38.986 --> 01:36:40.346
And Chief Arish is like, Oh, cool.

01:36:40.366 --> 01:36:40.926
Great news.

01:36:41.226 --> 01:36:42.046
It's right down the hall.

01:36:42.486 --> 01:36:43.226
Bad news.

01:36:43.506 --> 01:36:45.546
There is a hiss monster over there.

01:36:45.566 --> 01:36:46.286
So good luck.

01:36:46.646 --> 01:36:47.606
Hiss monster.

01:36:47.626 --> 01:36:48.866
A hiss monster.

01:36:49.306 --> 01:36:52.946
Also, Salvador would totally know what to do, but we still haven't seen him.

01:36:53.166 --> 01:36:53.786
Hint, hint.

01:36:53.786 --> 01:36:55.386
Please don't forget this plot point.

01:36:55.486 --> 01:36:55.806
Right.

01:36:56.926 --> 01:37:01.446
Jesse tells Chief Arish to take his team and head back to the base executive to regroup.

01:37:02.406 --> 01:37:05.866
Then Jesse heads off and immediately runs into a hiss monster.

01:37:06.066 --> 01:37:07.906
And Chief Arish wasn't fucking around.

01:37:08.086 --> 01:37:13.566
This is basically a small dragon that flies around erratically and fucking sucks.

01:37:13.726 --> 01:37:15.046
I'm surprised you didn't quit the game.

01:37:17.766 --> 01:37:20.586
I do have an aversion to like fantasy creatures.

01:37:21.066 --> 01:37:27.886
So like the second I see a fucking orc or dragon, I'm like, hmm, wonder what it looks like to see paint dry right now.

01:37:27.906 --> 01:37:28.426
What's going on?

01:37:29.806 --> 01:37:30.326
I don't know.

01:37:30.346 --> 01:37:31.886
I just it doesn't click for me.

01:37:31.906 --> 01:37:33.066
It's just not my genre.

01:37:33.086 --> 01:37:33.726
And that's OK.

01:37:33.746 --> 01:37:35.406
I'm not trying to yuck a yum.

01:37:36.266 --> 01:37:38.166
I just don't understand it fundamentally.

01:37:38.386 --> 01:37:38.926
But here.

01:37:39.206 --> 01:37:42.146
But here it's a hiss dragon and you can shoot it in the dick.

01:37:42.346 --> 01:37:43.866
So that's what I had Jesse do.

01:37:45.866 --> 01:37:50.506
Jesse destroys the hiss dragon and keeps wandering toward the black rock prism quarry.

01:37:51.206 --> 01:37:52.606
On the way, she finds a Dr.

01:37:52.626 --> 01:37:55.506
Darling video talking about the black rock prisms themselves.

01:37:56.566 --> 01:38:02.706
He says how black rock prisms are basically paranatural lead, which is probably why they're being used in HRAs.

01:38:03.306 --> 01:38:06.566
And as a side note, we're talking about lead in the way where it's impenetrable.

01:38:07.026 --> 01:38:09.726
Oh, OK, the way like you can't see through it with an x-ray.

01:38:09.806 --> 01:38:10.686
Yeah, exactly.

01:38:11.386 --> 01:38:11.726
Dr.

01:38:11.746 --> 01:38:16.566
Darling to this point has actually been using them to contain paranatural items throughout The Oldest House.

01:38:17.486 --> 01:38:20.646
So using it as a containment unit does make sense, though.

01:38:20.746 --> 01:38:21.746
Entirely.

01:38:22.306 --> 01:38:25.246
In the middle of this video, Emily Pope, who again is Dr.

01:38:25.266 --> 01:38:28.966
Darling's assistant, actually comes in while he's filming and interrupts.

01:38:29.426 --> 01:38:30.166
She asked Dr.

01:38:30.186 --> 01:38:33.986
Darling what the code for the quarry elevator is, which is going to be plot relevant.

01:38:34.006 --> 01:38:35.066
So thank God, Emily.

01:38:36.446 --> 01:38:36.846
Dr.

01:38:36.866 --> 01:38:45.326
Darling says it's 665, and then he puts little horns on his head with his fingers and says neighbor of the beast, neighbor of the beast.

01:38:46.286 --> 01:38:48.326
Of course, he's on some quirky shit.

01:38:48.426 --> 01:38:50.866
But also is she in live action now?

01:38:51.726 --> 01:38:53.806
It's she's not on screen.

01:38:54.506 --> 01:38:54.806
Okay.

01:38:54.826 --> 01:38:56.026
So it's a voice interruption.

01:38:56.026 --> 01:38:58.426
Yeah, she's off screen comes in as like, Dr.

01:38:58.446 --> 01:38:59.426
Darling, what's the code?

01:38:59.446 --> 01:39:01.626
He's like, remember, it's the neighbor of the beast.

01:39:01.646 --> 01:39:03.166
Look at my little finger ears.

01:39:05.006 --> 01:39:14.986
The code 665 has also shown up as a password in Max Payne, and Max Payne reads it and goes, ah, it's 665, neighbor of the beast.

01:39:15.666 --> 01:39:20.326
Oh, so they're just making fun of themselves once again, like the whole fucking, it's not a lake, it's an ocean shit.

01:39:21.646 --> 01:39:26.186
They're very knowing and like Sam Lake isn't afraid to kind of poke fun at himself, I guess.

01:39:26.186 --> 01:39:26.986
That's pretty good.

01:39:28.026 --> 01:39:30.826
Jesse heads down to the quarry and has a moment of reflection.

01:39:31.346 --> 01:39:38.146
She's like, I'm in an infinite building with doors to different dimensions, and I never want to leave.

01:39:39.046 --> 01:39:41.186
Even with the horrors, I'm happy.

01:39:42.026 --> 01:39:45.366
She's really like found herself in this new job, and it's so cool to see.

01:39:45.386 --> 01:39:51.666
It's like when one of your friends gets their first grown up job and you see them giving a shit about their career and you're like, oh my god, baby.

01:39:52.106 --> 01:39:53.906
Right, you see your friend finally grow up.

01:39:53.946 --> 01:39:56.966
Yeah, the horrors persist, but so does Jesse.

01:39:57.546 --> 01:40:00.846
All the way out to the black rock quarry in the guts of the Oldest House.

01:40:01.446 --> 01:40:08.406
Unlike the brightly lit, corporate-coated concrete through the rest of the bureau, the quarry is legit just like a fucking quarry, like I said.

01:40:08.426 --> 01:40:10.626
We're seeing minecarts, we're seeing rocks.

01:40:10.986 --> 01:40:14.706
It's dark as fuck down here, and it's also crawling with hiss down here.

01:40:15.786 --> 01:40:18.866
Jesse sees all of this and goes, not what I expected.

01:40:19.906 --> 01:40:20.666
What did you expect?

01:40:21.106 --> 01:40:24.946
I love that she was like, this is not what I had on my Mingo card, okay.

01:40:24.986 --> 01:40:26.486
You had expectations though.

01:40:26.686 --> 01:40:28.206
I guess, yeah.

01:40:28.726 --> 01:40:34.746
Jesse fights a ton of hiss and blows some shit up and is able to get her Black Rock prism for more HRA devices.

01:40:35.246 --> 01:40:43.106
She notices that Polaris is really leading her to the prisms and is like, the prisms, the HRAs, they mean something to you.

01:40:44.066 --> 01:40:49.106
Before she and Polaris can heart to heart over it, she's like, okay, let's get this to Marshall and get this shit on the road.

01:40:50.066 --> 01:40:53.946
Back in the executive sector, Jesse finds Marshall and hands her the prism.

01:40:54.486 --> 01:40:57.726
Marshall says she'll get the HRA production back up immediately.

01:40:58.366 --> 01:41:01.046
Then Marshall brings up Dylan and says, you have helped me.

01:41:01.266 --> 01:41:02.386
I can help you now too.

01:41:02.606 --> 01:41:03.926
She's so black and white.

01:41:04.946 --> 01:41:09.506
She's very clearly transactional in most of her situations, and I kind of love it for her.

01:41:10.746 --> 01:41:13.726
Marshall reveals that Dylan is, in fact, still here.

01:41:14.406 --> 01:41:18.366
He was once known as Prime Candidate 6, code named P6.

01:41:19.166 --> 01:41:20.746
The plot's really just going to hand it to you.

01:41:21.566 --> 01:41:25.126
The Bureau was grooming him to be a future director of the FBC.

01:41:26.066 --> 01:41:31.366
He had fucked around with the slide projector object of power and showed some real paranatural potential.

01:41:31.766 --> 01:41:35.026
So he's one of the few people even qualified to be a director.

01:41:35.746 --> 01:41:39.586
In fact, he was more talented than anyone else in the Prime Candidate program.

01:41:40.906 --> 01:41:43.706
Jesse hears this and goes, So you kidnapped him?

01:41:44.706 --> 01:41:48.566
Marshall course corrects and says they took him in, which is kidnapping.

01:41:48.606 --> 01:41:48.986
Right.

01:41:49.306 --> 01:41:56.386
Marshall looks Jesse in the eyes and says that your parents, along with every other adult and ordinary, vanished in the Altered World event.

01:41:56.666 --> 01:41:57.806
Which is news to the player.

01:41:58.106 --> 01:41:58.646
Hold up.

01:42:00.366 --> 01:42:01.846
As you say, news to the player.

01:42:02.086 --> 01:42:02.506
Yeah.

01:42:02.586 --> 01:42:03.526
Is this news to her?

01:42:04.126 --> 01:42:04.986
No, she's aware.

01:42:05.166 --> 01:42:07.006
She knows that her parents disappeared during this?

01:42:07.086 --> 01:42:08.606
Yeah, she's not fazed at all right now.

01:42:08.626 --> 01:42:10.226
She's like, yep, yep, that shit happened.

01:42:10.546 --> 01:42:11.646
What the fuck?

01:42:12.446 --> 01:42:18.086
Marshall continues saying, Eventually, Dylan's power changed him, and there were casualties.

01:42:18.646 --> 01:42:21.886
They felt because of the deaths, he wasn't fit to be director.

01:42:22.746 --> 01:42:24.526
Jesse asked Polaris if she knew.

01:42:25.026 --> 01:42:27.146
If she was keeping Jesse away until now.

01:42:27.166 --> 01:42:29.346
Because what the fuck was going on here?

01:42:29.566 --> 01:42:33.286
Also, so far from what we've seen, that is kind of the job of the director.

01:42:33.346 --> 01:42:33.986
Yeah, right?

01:42:34.166 --> 01:42:34.906
To kill.

01:42:35.686 --> 01:42:36.346
So like...

01:42:36.506 --> 01:42:37.986
It's not a passive job.

01:42:38.066 --> 01:42:39.226
No, not at all.

01:42:39.286 --> 01:42:40.426
Not a lot of busy work.

01:42:40.766 --> 01:42:42.206
Like, your badge is a gun.

01:42:43.206 --> 01:42:44.246
That is your ID.

01:42:44.286 --> 01:42:46.346
Yeah, it's not turn in your badge and gun.

01:42:46.426 --> 01:42:47.306
It's the same thing.

01:42:47.386 --> 01:42:48.526
Turn in your gun and gun.

01:42:48.546 --> 01:42:53.586
To Marshall, Jesse asks, Where is Dylan?

01:42:54.586 --> 01:42:57.646
Marshall tells Jesse that Dylan is in the containment sector.

01:42:58.006 --> 01:43:00.026
You know, because he's being contained.

01:43:00.466 --> 01:43:04.506
Okay, I was like, is he just going to gesture vaguely, be like, all of this?

01:43:05.266 --> 01:43:06.346
He's somewhere around here.

01:43:07.826 --> 01:43:10.586
Jesse says she's going there, and Marshall goes, yeah, I figured.

01:43:11.026 --> 01:43:13.766
But when you go, do not let Dylan out.

01:43:14.026 --> 01:43:16.306
Remember, Director Fadon, he's dangerous.

01:43:16.986 --> 01:43:20.706
Jesse, too Polaris, is like, oh, my God, how do I get her to stop calling me that?

01:43:22.526 --> 01:43:24.206
I love that that's her priority here.

01:43:24.226 --> 01:43:25.266
Not like, sorry.

01:43:25.286 --> 01:43:31.346
Also, she should realize this has been her mission from minute one to get to her brother.

01:43:31.366 --> 01:43:34.026
And you're going to say, don't release the brother.

01:43:36.166 --> 01:43:38.266
I'm going to try and release the brother.

01:43:39.006 --> 01:43:42.386
Marshall tells Jesse she's got some shit to handle and will be away for a minute.

01:43:42.406 --> 01:43:43.826
So BRB, goodbye.

01:43:44.366 --> 01:43:45.126
Just fucks off.

01:43:46.146 --> 01:43:48.646
Jesse wonders, what is going on?

01:43:49.126 --> 01:43:50.086
Who can she trust?

01:43:50.726 --> 01:43:54.266
They took Dylan with force, but welcomed her with open arms here.

01:43:54.966 --> 01:43:56.786
Are these people enemies or are they friends?

01:43:57.666 --> 01:43:58.546
I need to see Dylan.

01:43:59.466 --> 01:44:02.366
Jesse begs Polaris to just stay with her through this.

01:44:02.906 --> 01:44:04.166
She needs a friend right now.

01:44:05.406 --> 01:44:10.846
Jesse takes the elevator to the containment sector, where she has another vision of her predecessor, Trench.

01:44:11.586 --> 01:44:19.466
We make out some words like containment sector, altered items, maximum security prison, and then the word dangerous.

01:44:20.106 --> 01:44:22.906
Jesse speeds down the containment sector looking for Dylan.

01:44:23.426 --> 01:44:26.246
For the most part, it mostly looks like a regular office area.

01:44:26.766 --> 01:44:29.246
No windows, lots of cubicles, gray aesthetic.

01:44:29.866 --> 01:44:37.126
The hiss down here is even more warped, and the people it afflicts turn into loose ragdolls that fling themselves at Jesse.

01:44:37.606 --> 01:44:42.106
Containment is dark and largely abandoned, except for the hiss, which is concerning.

01:44:42.946 --> 01:44:50.066
Chief Arish had mentioned that containment is where the head of security, Salvador, is, but no one's heard from him since they got dispatched.

01:44:50.926 --> 01:44:56.246
Unfortunately, that's still ringing true, and there are no signs of Salvador, but hopefully she can find him.

01:44:57.406 --> 01:45:04.826
After rounds and rounds of hiss, Jesse finally finds a security monitor that says the P6 cell has been breached.

01:45:05.506 --> 01:45:07.646
She's like, oh shit, that's Dylan.

01:45:07.666 --> 01:45:08.466
God damn it.

01:45:08.666 --> 01:45:10.146
Oh no, that's my brother.

01:45:10.506 --> 01:45:11.706
Shouldn't be surprised by this girl.

01:45:13.886 --> 01:45:17.326
Jesse asks Polaris if she's there with him and if she can protect him.

01:45:18.146 --> 01:45:20.266
Polaris does not glimmer as she asks this.

01:45:20.786 --> 01:45:21.946
We see no spiral.

01:45:23.726 --> 01:45:25.986
Just past the monitor is another light switch cord.

01:45:26.466 --> 01:45:33.506
Since the motel tends to take Jesse wherever she needs to be, she runs over to pull the cord three times and enters the Ocean View Motel.

01:45:34.466 --> 01:45:37.646
As she runs in, a scream is heard from one of the motel rooms.

01:45:38.326 --> 01:45:40.006
The numbered rooms are all distorted.

01:45:40.206 --> 01:45:42.306
One has all the furniture upside down on the ceiling.

01:45:43.006 --> 01:45:48.566
Jesse does a quick puzzle to get the rooms to be regular again and runs to the safety of the black pyramid room.

01:45:49.086 --> 01:45:49.666
Same deal.

01:45:50.106 --> 01:45:51.426
Pull the cord three times.

01:45:51.666 --> 01:45:55.966
And now she's in a tall, barren, concrete hallway.

01:45:56.326 --> 01:46:02.426
Jesse reflects, saying it's been a long time since she and Dylan have known each other, but she's always wondered about him.

01:46:02.746 --> 01:46:04.166
What kind of man he'd grow up to be?

01:46:05.226 --> 01:46:11.586
She wondered if things were hard for him like they were for her, or if it was even harder being in this place for 17 years.

01:46:12.846 --> 01:46:16.786
Jesse heads down the hallway to another part of the containment sector, where the cells are.

01:46:17.366 --> 01:46:22.466
She runs into the supervisor of this area, a guy with a deep receding hairline and long hair.

01:46:22.946 --> 01:46:26.026
It's a paradox, but that's where The Oldest House really thrives.

01:46:26.146 --> 01:46:28.666
I was gonna say, that sounds like opposites, but alright.

01:46:29.266 --> 01:46:30.086
This is Langston.

01:46:30.106 --> 01:46:33.546
He's the supervisor of the Panopticon, this area of containment.

01:46:34.066 --> 01:46:38.446
He's a bit surprised to meet Jesse, but maybe he's just surprised in general from his attack.

01:46:38.986 --> 01:46:45.526
He tells Jesse that Panopticon was one of Trench's initiatives to house altered items, objects of power, stuff like that.

01:46:46.226 --> 01:46:50.226
He tells Jesse that Dylan was kept in a maximum security cell on the upper level.

01:46:50.746 --> 01:46:54.786
He does warn her though that there's an object of power loose and wrecking house up there.

01:46:55.286 --> 01:46:58.466
It's an old TV set and it's been fucking things up really bad.

01:46:59.846 --> 01:47:01.486
It's the rabid TV set.

01:47:01.546 --> 01:47:02.286
I know, right?

01:47:03.146 --> 01:47:09.106
Apparently, when Salvador got down here, he and his team went after the TV, but they haven't been seen since.

01:47:10.466 --> 01:47:18.546
Langston warns Jesse that if the TV keeps going at it, it can crack open the panopticon and let all of these altered items loose.

01:47:18.926 --> 01:47:20.946
And no one wants to deal with that shit.

01:47:21.126 --> 01:47:22.086
Absolutely not.

01:47:22.626 --> 01:47:24.426
He says it'll be catastrophic.

01:47:24.546 --> 01:47:25.906
Jesse's like, I got you.

01:47:27.506 --> 01:47:29.786
Langston tells Jesse he'll get the door for her.

01:47:30.146 --> 01:47:33.086
Try not to touch anything and please call him Fred.

01:47:33.606 --> 01:47:35.146
Jesse says, thanks, Langston.

01:47:36.186 --> 01:47:41.806
Bitch, you just complained about somebody not calling you by the name you prefer.

01:47:42.046 --> 01:47:44.646
I'd like to think this is like corporate assimilation for her.

01:47:44.666 --> 01:47:47.246
She's like, maybe that is the way, you know?

01:47:47.466 --> 01:47:47.886
Right.

01:47:50.406 --> 01:47:53.206
As Jesse leaves, Langston mutters to himself.

01:47:53.586 --> 01:47:55.726
The sudden stop movie comes out tonight.

01:47:56.066 --> 01:47:57.546
He's so devastated.

01:47:57.906 --> 01:48:01.886
He's missing the next Alex Casey movie because the world may be undue.

01:48:01.906 --> 01:48:03.906
Did you just say Alex Casey movie?

01:48:04.086 --> 01:48:04.706
I did.

01:48:05.166 --> 01:48:06.886
Jesus fucking Christ.

01:48:08.506 --> 01:48:15.166
Okay, so Alan Wake's book series got adapted to film?

01:48:15.346 --> 01:48:15.706
Yes.

01:48:16.546 --> 01:48:17.086
All right.

01:48:17.546 --> 01:48:19.226
And it's in this game series.

01:48:19.306 --> 01:48:23.486
Look, okay, so Alan Wake's been missing since like 2010.

01:48:23.746 --> 01:48:26.226
So this is eight years after his disappearance.

01:48:27.486 --> 01:48:29.446
Alice has to make money somehow.

01:48:30.566 --> 01:48:31.566
And so does Barry.

01:48:31.586 --> 01:48:34.486
And maybe that includes selling the movie rights to his books.

01:48:35.426 --> 01:48:36.066
Fair enough.

01:48:38.186 --> 01:48:39.786
I mean, it's a cute little nod to you.

01:48:40.966 --> 01:48:48.166
Jesse enters the panopticon, and it looks like a circular prison with a center tower, all the cells pointing inward.

01:48:48.746 --> 01:48:50.806
It's extra dark and gray and cold in here.

01:48:51.366 --> 01:48:55.706
There are so many hiss flying in, aggressively attacking in here.

01:48:55.726 --> 01:49:00.206
You can really feel the fight creep in this section get harder, and I loved it.

01:49:01.306 --> 01:49:05.566
There are lots of cells with secure windows that have objects of power enclosed in them.

01:49:06.306 --> 01:49:12.386
One of them has an old refrigerator, and there's a man who's sitting in a folding chair staring at it.

01:49:12.966 --> 01:49:13.886
His name is Philip.

01:49:14.346 --> 01:49:21.486
Philip's entire job is to stare at the fridge, or the fridge will become angry.

01:49:22.366 --> 01:49:22.966
Oh, shit.

01:49:22.986 --> 01:49:23.306
Why?

01:49:23.326 --> 01:49:23.946
What the fuck?

01:49:23.966 --> 01:49:24.386
Fridge.

01:49:25.006 --> 01:49:29.026
Philip's replacement hasn't shown up yet, and he's starting to lose his mind.

01:49:29.426 --> 01:49:30.746
How long has he been there?

01:49:31.766 --> 01:49:32.506
We'll find out.

01:49:34.686 --> 01:49:37.906
He's in the containment cell with the fridge, too.

01:49:37.926 --> 01:49:41.146
So he's like begging for help from inside a cell with a fridge.

01:49:41.406 --> 01:49:43.206
Can somebody come relieve me?

01:49:43.726 --> 01:49:46.686
He hears Jesse run by, and he starts begging her for help.

01:49:47.186 --> 01:49:51.206
She's like, hey, there's a time-sensitive emergency, but I promise I will be back.

01:49:53.386 --> 01:49:56.426
Jesse keeps going and finds the TV deep down a hallway.

01:49:56.966 --> 01:50:02.426
As Jesse goes towards it to get ready to cleanse it of the hiss, the TV lifts and starts floating.

01:50:03.146 --> 01:50:09.066
The TV screen goes from static to a concrete geometric spiral spinning within the screen.

01:50:09.306 --> 01:50:09.906
Oh, shit.

01:50:10.086 --> 01:50:26.866
Jesse watches in awe as the TV then shoots through the back wall of the hallway and starts altering the entire hallway around it to spin and disintegrate into a geometric blocky spiral around Jesse.

01:50:27.006 --> 01:50:28.666
Oh, I bet that is nauseating.

01:50:28.886 --> 01:50:29.786
It's fucking sick.

01:50:31.526 --> 01:50:39.886
Jesse falls and slides down to a lower platform and looks up at this concrete tornado spinning above and around her.

01:50:40.946 --> 01:50:48.626
Then the tornado comes to a head and spins to create a new hallway down to somewhere new, and she has no choice but to chase the TV.

01:50:49.646 --> 01:50:53.406
She runs through a concrete spiral similar to what the TV showed her earlier.

01:50:54.066 --> 01:51:00.406
Through it, furniture hangs catatonic like we saw Bureau agents doing throughout the other areas of the Oldest House.

01:51:00.606 --> 01:51:02.126
Less creepy if it's furniture.

01:51:02.486 --> 01:51:04.686
Yeah, it's a lot less intimidating to see like a lamp.

01:51:05.906 --> 01:51:09.986
You're like, oh, yeah, that's spooky, I guess, but I'm not thinking about mortality.

01:51:10.646 --> 01:51:16.546
This hallway leads to a large corridor with several huge Hiss-afflicted agents just hanging in the air.

01:51:16.746 --> 01:51:17.466
Much creepier.

01:51:17.646 --> 01:51:28.326
These guys are strapped, and in the middle of this group of Hiss is the biggest one, and he is massively powerful, and the Hiss actually has him superpowered and extra fucking aggressive.

01:51:28.426 --> 01:51:29.366
Well, shit.

01:51:29.826 --> 01:51:35.406
And this huge ass Hiss man in the middle is our big beefy beef boy, fucking Salvador.

01:51:35.526 --> 01:51:36.726
Oh, good, we were looking for him.

01:51:36.766 --> 01:51:38.366
We fucking found him, and it sucks.

01:51:38.826 --> 01:51:48.186
He's the head of security, but Jesse doesn't feel particularly secure here, and has a huge blowout fight set piece, and it's fucking great.

01:51:48.726 --> 01:51:49.446
Oh, that's so good.

01:51:49.566 --> 01:51:52.426
Salvador and his security team just swallow bullets.

01:51:52.566 --> 01:51:57.666
They're fucking ass kickers, and the entire environment changes as you're fighting.

01:51:57.686 --> 01:52:00.086
Things are falling apart, you're breaking shit.

01:52:00.326 --> 01:52:01.526
It's so satisfying.

01:52:01.566 --> 01:52:02.606
Oh, that's so cool.

01:52:02.626 --> 01:52:08.446
When a game has good environmental destruction, it's one of my favorite things.

01:52:08.586 --> 01:52:12.686
If you want to put detail into a game, that's where people need to be really focusing on.

01:52:13.166 --> 01:52:15.746
What do you think that adds to your experience?

01:52:15.766 --> 01:52:16.366
Realism.

01:52:17.126 --> 01:52:18.986
Yeah, of course that chair is broken now.

01:52:19.006 --> 01:52:19.986
It's not bouncing off.

01:52:20.006 --> 01:52:21.686
This isn't Waffle House.

01:52:21.706 --> 01:52:26.786
You knock somebody off a cliff or an edge of a bridge or something, and they take out a chunk of the railing.

01:52:26.866 --> 01:52:35.666
The beauty about Remedy is that they build their own engine so they can really get down on the details of environmental adjustments during a fight scene, which I totally feel you on.

01:52:35.826 --> 01:52:36.546
Oh, I love that.

01:52:37.206 --> 01:52:44.026
After this fucking great fight, Jesse realizes that the big beefy beef boy that she took down was Salvador, the head of security.

01:52:44.646 --> 01:52:52.166
She realizes his fucking team was hired and trained to secure this place, and they didn't stand a fucking chance against the Hiss.

01:52:52.906 --> 01:52:53.606
No one does.

01:52:54.206 --> 01:52:55.426
Except for you, apparently.

01:52:55.526 --> 01:52:57.326
Yeah, but she's still like, God damn it.

01:52:59.266 --> 01:53:00.706
Jesse walks right up to the TV.

01:53:01.346 --> 01:53:06.426
Glowing on the screen is a black and white image of the TV itself, which is like meta, I guess.

01:53:06.446 --> 01:53:07.146
Yeah, a little bit.

01:53:07.586 --> 01:53:10.726
Jesse goes to cleanse the TV and is taken to the astral plane.

01:53:11.306 --> 01:53:14.806
And through this round in the astral plane, she learns how to levitate.

01:53:15.246 --> 01:53:16.846
And now this bitch can fly.

01:53:17.026 --> 01:53:18.226
Just fully fly.

01:53:18.246 --> 01:53:19.146
Full fucking flying.

01:53:19.166 --> 01:53:22.106
You shoot yourself up in the air and then you just zoom around.

01:53:22.266 --> 01:53:23.846
Oh, this is like Kingdom Hearts now.

01:53:25.406 --> 01:53:27.946
With her newfound flight, Jesse is like, perfect.

01:53:27.966 --> 01:53:29.066
The TV is taken care of.

01:53:29.426 --> 01:53:30.346
Let's find Dylan.

01:53:30.946 --> 01:53:35.046
Dylan is supposed to be on the top floor, and that's where all the maximum security cells are.

01:53:35.546 --> 01:53:39.806
She looks over and she finds the P6 cell is ransacked.

01:53:40.926 --> 01:53:44.346
There's debris and bodies just all over the cell entrance.

01:53:45.166 --> 01:53:48.546
In the cell area, Jesse hears an intercom call from Emily.

01:53:49.126 --> 01:53:51.026
Jesse tells Emily that Dylan is gone.

01:53:51.466 --> 01:53:54.046
He might be nearby though, or maybe the hiss got him.

01:53:54.126 --> 01:53:54.626
I don't know.

01:53:54.646 --> 01:53:56.106
It's a fucking disaster here.

01:53:56.686 --> 01:53:59.626
Dylan is just a fucking goalpost that keeps on moving.

01:53:59.926 --> 01:54:00.866
Bitch, I know, right?

01:54:01.426 --> 01:54:02.226
Hang on to that thought.

01:54:03.766 --> 01:54:06.046
Emily goes, I know, Dylan's right here.

01:54:06.066 --> 01:54:07.546
He just walked into this room.

01:54:07.646 --> 01:54:07.946
What?

01:54:09.046 --> 01:54:11.006
Wait, hey, oh, wow, all right.

01:54:11.266 --> 01:54:14.026
It moved somewhere easier than worse, in all fairness.

01:54:14.466 --> 01:54:18.106
I didn't think Dylan was alive anymore, so this is a change of fucking plan.

01:54:18.546 --> 01:54:20.666
Emily says he gave himself up.

01:54:21.206 --> 01:54:24.726
He told the team that he's afflicted by the hiss, but he's different from the others.

01:54:25.186 --> 01:54:26.386
They need to isolate him.

01:54:26.886 --> 01:54:29.066
So they were like, okay, good looking out.

01:54:29.086 --> 01:54:29.846
We will do that.

01:54:31.026 --> 01:54:32.506
Jesse's like, I'm on my way.

01:54:33.326 --> 01:54:40.566
As she heads back, we see that on the walls of Dylan's cell, Dylan had scratched the name Jesse into the concrete.

01:54:40.846 --> 01:54:42.046
Oh shit, that's your name.

01:54:42.846 --> 01:54:46.006
Now that Jesse knows Dylan is safe, she runs back to Philip in the fridge.

01:54:46.266 --> 01:54:47.426
We can't leave our boy hanging.

01:54:48.146 --> 01:54:55.526
Philip is relieved to hear Jesse is back and tells her the door can only be opened by Langston, and he needs someone else to come in and stare at the fridge.

01:54:56.246 --> 01:54:59.026
Jesse tells Philip to hang on, and she goes to Langston for help.

01:54:59.846 --> 01:55:05.866
Jesse gets back down, tells Langston, like, hey, there's someone named Philip in a cell, the guy that's watching the refrigerator.

01:55:06.406 --> 01:55:09.286
Yeah, he's in the middle of mental collapse right now.

01:55:11.166 --> 01:55:13.746
Langston focuses his eyes and goes, Philip?

01:55:14.786 --> 01:55:19.686
Then his face drains of color and he screams, oh shit, I forgot about fridge duty.

01:55:22.046 --> 01:55:24.906
Langston says that Philip's been in there for over a day.

01:55:25.126 --> 01:55:27.866
He just totally forgot to send someone up to relieve him.

01:55:28.246 --> 01:55:29.086
Oh, no.

01:55:29.566 --> 01:55:32.086
Jesse goes, what the fuck, you forgot about him?

01:55:32.766 --> 01:55:33.686
That's a person.

01:55:34.166 --> 01:55:34.546
Right.

01:55:34.766 --> 01:55:37.806
Langston gets defensive and goes, okay, there's a lot going on right now.

01:55:37.826 --> 01:55:38.246
All right.

01:55:38.906 --> 01:55:42.986
There is, but, you know, day to day operations still got to go on.

01:55:43.006 --> 01:55:44.626
You can't forget fridge duty.

01:55:45.466 --> 01:55:47.706
Jesse is like, whatever, man, we need to get him out of here.

01:55:47.726 --> 01:55:49.046
Can you just open the fucking door?

01:55:49.626 --> 01:55:54.546
Langston goes over to the control panel and unlocks the door, but says Philip can't just leave.

01:55:54.786 --> 01:55:57.426
That fridge has been acting really erratically lately.

01:55:58.106 --> 01:56:01.846
Ocular contact is the only thing that placates the fridge and keeps it calm.

01:56:02.906 --> 01:56:08.286
Langston says if they don't have someone in there watching the fridge 24-7, people will die.

01:56:08.426 --> 01:56:09.606
Oh my God.

01:56:09.986 --> 01:56:12.126
Jesse goes, hey, man, I'll figure it out.

01:56:12.146 --> 01:56:12.666
I got this.

01:56:13.566 --> 01:56:17.486
Langston's suspicious, but lets it go because again, he's already going through so much weird shit.

01:56:18.226 --> 01:56:21.126
Jesse makes it back to Philip, who hears Jesse running to him.

01:56:21.706 --> 01:56:29.666
As she turns the corner to get him out, she momentarily can't see the cell, but hears Philip yelling that the fridge is doing something.

01:56:29.906 --> 01:56:30.326
Oh, no.

01:56:30.626 --> 01:56:36.506
Philip is even more frantic than usual, and we hear a light buzzing sound and a small crash.

01:56:36.906 --> 01:56:37.326
Shit.

01:56:37.406 --> 01:56:38.746
Jesse goes, wait, Philip.

01:56:39.426 --> 01:56:46.086
Jesse gets into the cell, and Philip's body is nowhere to be found, but his blood is found everywhere else.

01:56:46.366 --> 01:56:47.066
Oh, shit.

01:56:47.986 --> 01:56:51.646
Jesse is horrified and puts her hands around the fridge to remove the hiss.

01:56:52.506 --> 01:56:54.766
As she does, it takes her to the astral plane.

01:56:55.506 --> 01:56:57.006
But this isn't like the other times.

01:56:57.966 --> 01:57:01.706
Instead of being suspended in white nothingness, she's in darkness.

01:57:01.726 --> 01:57:02.386
Uh-oh.

01:57:02.606 --> 01:57:08.906
Then, a huge spider-like worm creature with one big white glowing eye comes up.

01:57:09.566 --> 01:57:14.446
Its eye alone is easily 20 feet across, and it's massive and looking down at Jesse.

01:57:15.366 --> 01:57:18.486
This fridge doesn't operate like the other objects of power.

01:57:18.726 --> 01:57:20.026
No, it's a fucking web.

01:57:20.046 --> 01:57:21.806
It's like fucking cursed or something.

01:57:22.026 --> 01:57:22.826
Oh, my God.

01:57:23.746 --> 01:57:29.406
Instead of hearing the board, Jesse hears gibberish from an entity called the former.

01:57:30.186 --> 01:57:38.046
Jesse shoots and throws things directly into the eye of the former as it darts around and swings at Jesse with its creepy thin bug arms.

01:57:38.946 --> 01:57:42.146
Jesse shoots the former down and it retreats below the plane.

01:57:42.826 --> 01:57:46.466
After she's alone, Jesse realizes there's no black pyramid here.

01:57:47.226 --> 01:57:50.286
The board doesn't have any eyes on wherever she is right now.

01:57:50.606 --> 01:57:51.306
Oh, shit.

01:57:52.446 --> 01:57:55.546
Jesse finds her way out of the plane, and now the fridge seems happy.

01:57:56.406 --> 01:57:59.626
She's like, OK, fighting that thing fixed this thing.

01:57:59.646 --> 01:58:00.926
Got its inner demons out.

01:58:01.046 --> 01:58:02.106
Yeah, she's like, I did it.

01:58:02.286 --> 01:58:04.106
I did a good job directing today.

01:58:05.326 --> 01:58:07.886
Jesse gets back to Langston and tells him that Philip's gone.

01:58:08.586 --> 01:58:12.446
Langston takes a moment and says, oh, poor Philip.

01:58:13.226 --> 01:58:15.026
He never did like fridge duty.

01:58:15.566 --> 01:58:16.786
Wait, who's watching the fridge?

01:58:17.306 --> 01:58:19.446
Oh, Jesse tells Langston she took care of it.

01:58:19.666 --> 01:58:21.906
She also fought a giant Cyclops worm.

01:58:22.826 --> 01:58:25.426
Langston goes, oh, damn, that's crazy.

01:58:25.626 --> 01:58:27.946
We've heard some reports on that, like, worm thing.

01:58:28.486 --> 01:58:31.266
It must be really powerful if it's breaking through on altered items.

01:58:31.306 --> 01:58:34.026
Just, I guess, be careful if you see it.

01:58:34.246 --> 01:58:34.646
Okay?

01:58:35.546 --> 01:58:36.926
So nonchalant about it.

01:58:37.066 --> 01:58:39.266
Yeah, he's so, like, panicked and then nothing.

01:58:39.646 --> 01:58:40.186
I love him.

01:58:41.306 --> 01:58:44.346
Jesse leaves to go see Emily and her brother back in executive.

01:58:44.906 --> 01:58:46.686
Jesse's excited and nervous.

01:58:46.926 --> 01:58:49.106
After all these years, she's going to see Dylan.

01:58:50.006 --> 01:58:55.386
Emily tells Jesse that Dylan is affected by the hiss, but this is different than everyone else they've ever seen.

01:58:56.146 --> 01:58:59.066
Emily knows there must be something special about the Fadon siblings.

01:58:59.526 --> 01:59:01.386
Or maybe it's their connection to Polaris?

01:59:02.366 --> 01:59:08.266
Jesse says she wants to see him, and Emily directs him to an HRA cage that Marshall set up for him.

01:59:09.626 --> 01:59:14.066
On the way there, there is one memo that is titled Television Proposal.

01:59:14.486 --> 01:59:23.266
It's an unsigned proposal saying that to get the public warm to the Bureau's work and presence, they could do a TV show about paranormal shit.

01:59:23.926 --> 01:59:28.746
They propose rebooting a show called Night Springs that's been off the air for a while.

01:59:28.766 --> 01:59:29.446
Jesus Christ.

01:59:29.506 --> 01:59:31.526
But could work to support the Bureau's work.

01:59:31.646 --> 01:59:32.506
Now, why are you?

01:59:32.686 --> 01:59:33.006
What?

01:59:36.046 --> 01:59:38.666
It's just another reference to fucking Alan Wake.

01:59:39.746 --> 01:59:43.386
Ah, that's the TV show he got his start writing on.

01:59:43.406 --> 01:59:46.206
Yeah, it's so good.

01:59:47.026 --> 01:59:52.866
At this point, I also started noticing that Jesse's director portrait is hung in some offices.

01:59:53.566 --> 01:59:55.506
When the fuck did they have art made of her?

01:59:55.566 --> 01:59:57.266
I was gonna fucking say.

01:59:57.606 --> 01:59:58.626
She hasn't had a meal yet.

01:59:58.646 --> 02:00:01.946
She hasn't had a sip of water since she's walked in this fucking place.

02:00:01.966 --> 02:00:04.506
There hasn't been an all hands introducing her.

02:00:04.686 --> 02:00:05.766
Not even an email.

02:00:05.786 --> 02:00:07.426
No, but we've got her portrait.

02:00:07.506 --> 02:00:08.826
Yeah, we're ready there.

02:00:10.046 --> 02:00:12.446
Jesse can also catch up with Chief Arish for a bit.

02:00:12.886 --> 02:00:17.046
She asks him what he thinks of Marshall and he says, Oh, she's a fucking badass.

02:00:17.146 --> 02:00:18.106
Yes, because everyone loves her.

02:00:18.626 --> 02:00:23.186
But sometimes she'll just disappear for days at a time to hang out in the quarry.

02:00:23.906 --> 02:00:24.726
In the quarry?

02:00:24.746 --> 02:00:25.006
Yeah.

02:00:25.626 --> 02:00:26.966
That's not where people hang out.

02:00:26.986 --> 02:00:27.986
No, that's weird.

02:00:29.026 --> 02:00:32.826
Jesse gets to her brother's HRA cage room and it's heavily guarded.

02:00:33.446 --> 02:00:39.386
In the center of the room is a glass square chamber, and a bald white man in gray sweats is levitating.

02:00:40.046 --> 02:00:43.886
His eyes are closed and he's muttering to himself, like he's in a deep trance.

02:00:44.526 --> 02:00:49.686
Jesse looks on and smiles, seeing her baby brother all grown up after all this time.

02:00:50.966 --> 02:00:52.986
Jesse asks if Dylan knows who she is.

02:00:53.626 --> 02:00:57.246
Dylan looks at her and says, you are Dylan Fadon's sister.

02:00:58.546 --> 02:00:59.026
Oh no.

02:00:59.366 --> 02:01:03.406
Oh shit, either he's speaking to the third person or something's really wrong.

02:01:03.486 --> 02:01:12.066
Yeah, privately to Polaris, Jesse freaks out that her brother is speaking in the third person, and then she just sarcastically goes, that's always a good sign.

02:01:12.966 --> 02:01:13.586
Yeah.

02:01:13.906 --> 02:01:16.126
She asks Dylan, do you know who you are?

02:01:16.866 --> 02:01:18.866
Dylan answers, not Dylan.

02:01:19.306 --> 02:01:21.026
Trench and Darling made sure of that.

02:01:21.586 --> 02:01:24.026
I'm P6, but I'm better now.

02:01:24.666 --> 02:01:25.966
The hiss made me better.

02:01:27.046 --> 02:01:37.806
As he says this, the lights glow red around him, and he levitates up again, knocks his head back, and starts saying creepy shit through a distorted altered new voice.

02:01:38.026 --> 02:01:38.746
Oh no.

02:01:38.886 --> 02:01:41.546
Push your fingers through the surface into the wet.

02:01:41.986 --> 02:01:43.346
You've always been the new.

02:01:43.746 --> 02:01:45.086
You want this to be true.

02:01:45.866 --> 02:01:49.066
Jesse interrupts his chanting and says, can you please stop that?

02:01:49.086 --> 02:01:50.526
Like it's such sibling shit.

02:01:52.706 --> 02:01:56.906
As he stops, the red glow diminishes, and he levitates back down to the ground.

02:01:57.506 --> 02:02:02.606
His normal softer voice comes through, and he says, it feels good to say those words.

02:02:02.946 --> 02:02:03.926
He likes to say them.

02:02:04.566 --> 02:02:05.846
Don't you want to say them too?

02:02:07.026 --> 02:02:09.486
Dylan speaks like a child in a trance.

02:02:10.406 --> 02:02:12.826
Jesse is freaked out and scared, but holds it together.

02:02:13.446 --> 02:02:15.146
She starts begging Polaris for help.

02:02:15.346 --> 02:02:19.686
She needs to get this thing out of his head to save whatever is left of her brother.

02:02:20.586 --> 02:02:24.406
As she talks to Polaris, the glimmering gray spiral appears around Dylan.

02:02:25.406 --> 02:02:28.806
Dylan can feel Polaris and reacts angrily.

02:02:29.526 --> 02:02:33.386
The red light comes back, and his distorted, altered voice takes over.

02:02:33.926 --> 02:02:37.586
He says, you, you came in through the hole in you.

02:02:37.986 --> 02:02:38.906
We let you in.

02:02:39.186 --> 02:02:44.526
You've always been there, the only child, a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy.

02:02:45.186 --> 02:02:46.906
Then Dylan begins to levitate again.

02:02:47.426 --> 02:02:48.046
Oh, shit.

02:02:48.606 --> 02:02:54.346
Jesse tells Polaris this is not safe and tells her to like retreat mentally out of mental sight of Dylan.

02:02:55.586 --> 02:02:59.726
As Polaris retreats, Dylan floats back down and the lights go back to neutral.

02:03:00.486 --> 02:03:10.706
He looks at Jesse and says, we found Polaris together with my sister when we were very small and ordinary, in the desert through the door opened up by the slide projector.

02:03:11.526 --> 02:03:13.666
But she didn't help when Trench took me away.

02:03:14.106 --> 02:03:15.546
She didn't give me any powers.

02:03:16.086 --> 02:03:18.226
She didn't help when they locked me up for years.

02:03:19.006 --> 02:03:24.726
He rambles a bit, then tells Jesse that the Bureau used the slide projector and it opened up the door for the Hiss.

02:03:25.166 --> 02:03:27.446
He says it's the only thing he can thank them for.

02:03:28.326 --> 02:03:34.906
Jesse puts this together that she and Dylan and Polaris stopped the altered world event in Ordinary by turning off the slide projector in the first place.

02:03:35.966 --> 02:03:38.666
Dylan rambles for a bit and then says, he welcomed the Hiss.

02:03:39.266 --> 02:03:40.746
He let it in to get rid of her.

02:03:41.146 --> 02:03:42.346
We don't know who her is.

02:03:43.286 --> 02:03:47.566
Dylan warns Jesse that Polaris is using her, that the Bureau is using her.

02:03:48.106 --> 02:03:49.246
He calls her a puppet.

02:03:49.726 --> 02:03:55.606
Jesse brushes this off but talks to Polaris saying, if they shut off the slide projector, maybe they can shut off the Hiss.

02:03:56.506 --> 02:04:01.726
Dylan rambles more about learning what the Bureau really does and that the Hiss is the better option.

02:04:02.286 --> 02:04:05.726
He tells her to go to the Prime Candidate Program in the containment sector.

02:04:06.586 --> 02:04:09.846
Jesse tells him she'll go, and she wants to see the truth for herself.

02:04:10.726 --> 02:04:13.746
She tells Polaris she's going, but only to look for the slide projector.

02:04:14.826 --> 02:04:18.106
Dylan leans his head back and goes back to levitating in the cage.

02:04:18.986 --> 02:04:23.786
Now, this next part is optional, but Jesse can hang out for a bit and talk to Dylan a little longer.

02:04:24.646 --> 02:04:29.446
He'll typically ramble about non-sequiturs, but he can tell Jesse about one of his latest dreams.

02:04:30.286 --> 02:04:33.186
In this one, he's in a dark place with a man named Mr.

02:04:33.206 --> 02:04:40.206
Door who tells him there are many worlds side by side, on top of each other, sometimes inside each other.

02:04:41.006 --> 02:04:44.106
In one world, there is a writer who wrote a story about a cop.

02:04:44.746 --> 02:04:46.806
In another world, the cop was real.

02:04:47.486 --> 02:04:47.886
Mr.

02:04:47.906 --> 02:04:51.326
Door is a man who is endlessly shifting between worlds.

02:04:52.226 --> 02:04:54.026
Dylan says he asked Mr.

02:04:54.046 --> 02:04:59.226
Door how he can move between worlds so he could bring the Hiss to other realities.

02:05:00.526 --> 02:05:01.106
But Mr.

02:05:01.126 --> 02:05:02.226
Door refused to help him.

02:05:02.566 --> 02:05:02.946
Good.

02:05:04.066 --> 02:05:05.986
Jesse is like, damn, that's crazy.

02:05:06.406 --> 02:05:07.506
And then she just leaves.

02:05:09.026 --> 02:05:11.146
She has to check out the Prime Candidate program.

02:05:11.146 --> 02:05:12.426
It sounds insane.

02:05:12.646 --> 02:05:13.166
Oh, yeah.

02:05:13.646 --> 02:05:19.886
Entering the area triggers a vision of Trench, who we are making out to say, to find a new Prime Candidate.

02:05:20.466 --> 02:05:21.926
The Bureau needs a director.

02:05:22.626 --> 02:05:23.326
Our future.

02:05:24.326 --> 02:05:26.346
P6 and P7.

02:05:26.786 --> 02:05:27.406
P7.

02:05:27.966 --> 02:05:35.486
The Prime Candidate sector is very office library coded with lots of files and data everywhere in tall ceilings and dimly lit corridors.

02:05:36.146 --> 02:05:40.006
The only real life in this area are the hisse-afflicted agents shooting at Jesse.

02:05:40.726 --> 02:05:48.086
It's otherwise empty and ominous, and there are occasional hisse-afflicted people just like chanting deep in the distance, which is so fucking creepy.

02:05:49.926 --> 02:05:50.966
Jesse finds a Dr.

02:05:50.986 --> 02:05:56.726
Darling video talking directly about Dylan, how he's P6, and how he has so much potential.

02:05:57.546 --> 02:06:01.686
He briefly mentions Dylan's sister, but notes they haven't caught up with her yet.

02:06:02.246 --> 02:06:05.826
Jesse also finds an autopsy report on someone that Dylan killed.

02:06:06.466 --> 02:06:09.226
Jesse finds another room marked P7.

02:06:09.986 --> 02:06:14.706
P7 was actually the code name title for this game before it was publicly referenced as Control.

02:06:14.926 --> 02:06:15.666
Oh, wow, okay.

02:06:16.266 --> 02:06:23.626
The P7 room is messy with lots of files and lots of boxes and lots and lots of pictures of Jesse.

02:06:24.266 --> 02:06:24.986
Oh, fuck.

02:06:25.146 --> 02:06:32.186
There's recordings from therapy sessions she's done tracking her location all over the years, all sorts of shit.

02:06:32.866 --> 02:06:40.286
Jesse gets angry seeing that she was being watched, that every time she felt paranoia over the years, it was justified.

02:06:42.286 --> 02:06:50.566
It even tracks where she's living, where she's staying, noting she was in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania prior to moving around and ending up in New York City.

02:06:51.026 --> 02:06:52.026
Oh, goodness.

02:06:52.046 --> 02:06:57.846
While she searched for answers, the Bureau held all of them and just watched her from afar.

02:06:59.006 --> 02:07:06.606
Horrified but equally motivated, Jesse continues on and sees the containment sector for the ordinary altered world event.

02:07:07.286 --> 02:07:10.406
The Bureau studied what happened there, and that's probably where the projector is.

02:07:11.226 --> 02:07:17.326
There's this huge turntable bridge inside the containment sector that keeps the altered world areas separate.

02:07:17.926 --> 02:07:23.866
There are train tracks that lead into different altered world events, and since they're so volatile, it's important that they're difficult to access.

02:07:24.766 --> 02:07:29.406
Jesse gets the turntable bridge spinning and unlocks the ordinary altered world event site.

02:07:30.266 --> 02:07:36.146
In the ordinary altered world event site, Jesse starts finding things relating to what happened to her and Dylan.

02:07:36.766 --> 02:07:44.186
There's a recording of a man frantically calling into a radio station, describing the town itself was there, but all the people had disappeared.

02:07:45.066 --> 02:07:54.286
There's the original case file showing that Trench and Darling went to investigate the slide projector, and that Jesse escaped when they tried to take her in, but they were able to get Dylan.

02:07:55.266 --> 02:08:01.566
There's a recording of Jesse in therapy, where she talks about how a man named Thomas Zane is her favorite poet.

02:08:02.266 --> 02:08:09.406
But the therapist corrects her, saying, there's no record of any of Thomas Zane's writing, just that he's a filmmaker.

02:08:09.426 --> 02:08:10.666
My gosh.

02:08:11.346 --> 02:08:12.626
Are you okay?

02:08:12.906 --> 02:08:17.046
It's just, I didn't realize how much it was going to relate back to Alan Wake.

02:08:17.066 --> 02:08:18.926
Like I thought, oh, cute little nod here and there.

02:08:19.546 --> 02:08:20.966
Now it's just fully connecting.

02:08:20.986 --> 02:08:21.846
We're in the world.

02:08:22.866 --> 02:08:26.506
There's interviews of Dylan and an entire mock up of the whole town.

02:08:26.886 --> 02:08:29.106
Trees, houses, the woods, everything.

02:08:29.906 --> 02:08:34.886
Looking at the mock up, Jesse remembers they found the slide projector in a dump outside town.

02:08:35.406 --> 02:08:37.606
She wonders if they recreated the dump as well.

02:08:38.666 --> 02:08:41.586
Through more concrete corridors, Jesse finds the dump.

02:08:42.226 --> 02:08:43.566
But it's not a recreation.

02:08:44.166 --> 02:08:50.406
They literally moved the entire dump from ordinary Maine to New York in the Oldest House.

02:08:50.646 --> 02:08:51.166
Oh, shit.

02:08:51.266 --> 02:08:55.826
She's entirely shocked to see a full fucking landfill in the middle of this office building.

02:08:56.106 --> 02:08:56.586
Why?

02:08:56.606 --> 02:09:00.706
This office building can grow and contort to whatever you fucking need it to.

02:09:00.726 --> 02:09:02.806
Because they might as well just move the fucking dump.

02:09:03.806 --> 02:09:05.386
There's a hearty his fight here.

02:09:05.406 --> 02:09:09.146
But after that, Jesse spots a portable lab belonging to Dr.

02:09:09.166 --> 02:09:09.586
Darling.

02:09:10.166 --> 02:09:11.006
A video from Dr.

02:09:11.026 --> 02:09:16.506
Darling shows that he was scared and worried and took the projector to the research sector.

02:09:17.086 --> 02:09:22.266
He dedicated a new team and area to study it, something called dimensional research.

02:09:23.306 --> 02:09:32.026
On the way to the research sector, Jesse has a vision of Trench, and Trench describes what he says is an impossibly changing labyrinth.

02:09:32.586 --> 02:09:35.626
As Jesse comes on to the start of the ashtray maze.

02:09:36.286 --> 02:09:37.106
Ashtray maze?

02:09:37.846 --> 02:09:41.886
The ashtray maze is the visual and spiritual centerpiece of the game.

02:09:42.506 --> 02:09:47.646
The ashtray maze has warm wooden framing and green and orange geometric wallpaper.

02:09:48.146 --> 02:09:55.126
It's lit like an old hotel, but not like the Ocean View Motel, but like a fancy cold house filled with fur lining and mean butlers.

02:09:56.286 --> 02:09:56.746
I got it.

02:09:57.166 --> 02:10:04.906
Jesse tries to enter the maze, but hears echoes of Auti's voice saying, broken, contact the janitor if you need to get through.

02:10:05.666 --> 02:10:07.926
And Jesse is like, why the fuck is this broken?

02:10:09.366 --> 02:10:10.306
This is a space.

02:10:10.446 --> 02:10:10.886
Yeah.

02:10:11.786 --> 02:10:17.826
Jesse heads back to Auti's office, but he's not there, because he did say he was going on vacation.

02:10:18.466 --> 02:10:19.766
He's fucking out of the building.

02:10:19.786 --> 02:10:20.746
He's on PTO.

02:10:20.946 --> 02:10:24.346
And Jesse's like, God damn it, I should let him enjoy his PTO.

02:10:24.966 --> 02:10:27.166
Do not fucking call him on his vacation.

02:10:27.746 --> 02:10:28.426
I swear.

02:10:28.706 --> 02:10:33.386
Do not pick up that red phone, black phone, white phone, any fucking phone.

02:10:36.046 --> 02:10:42.246
In his office, there's a painting of Auti in a towel enjoying a sauna day by a lake in the woods.

02:10:43.126 --> 02:10:46.366
Jesse touches this painting and gets a vision of Auti.

02:10:46.786 --> 02:10:51.706
He says his assistant will keep work in the glove and keep the house standing.

02:10:51.726 --> 02:10:54.066
I don't know what that means.

02:10:54.546 --> 02:11:01.446
This leads Jesse down a path through maintenance, following the echoes of Auti's voice all the way to a light switch cord.

02:11:02.166 --> 02:11:06.306
While Auti is on vacation, he is not vacationing at the Ocean View Motel.

02:11:06.706 --> 02:11:07.566
Thank goodness.

02:11:07.886 --> 02:11:16.246
Jesse does a quick puzzle, turning the radios and the motels, and instead of leaving through the door with the black pyramid, she leaves through the door to the janitor's closet.

02:11:17.026 --> 02:11:23.646
The janitor's door takes her to the black rock quarry, and her visions of Auti lead her to a highly restricted area.

02:11:24.246 --> 02:11:25.546
It seems like it might be storage.

02:11:25.566 --> 02:11:27.546
There aren't cubicles or workstations down here.

02:11:28.306 --> 02:11:35.446
Jesse calls a gondola that seemingly cuts through the fog, and she is meeting the phantom of the fucking opera.

02:11:35.566 --> 02:11:36.206
Hell yeah.

02:11:36.726 --> 02:11:40.106
Auti's voice cuts through the fog as he sings in Finnish.

02:11:41.126 --> 02:11:45.306
At the end of the gondola's track is this huge warehouse with dark pillars throughout.

02:11:45.986 --> 02:11:51.706
It's really dim with sparse lighting and occasionally piles of dumb shit like boxes, but it's mostly empty.

02:11:52.486 --> 02:11:59.966
Jesse runs through looking for signs of Auti and gets visions of the woods, of nature, of water and waves moving around.

02:12:01.086 --> 02:12:06.786
Auti's voice rings out saying, Hey girl, for a Finn, holiday is holy.

02:12:07.386 --> 02:12:09.546
God damn right.

02:12:09.566 --> 02:12:10.846
Not even for a Finn.

02:12:11.086 --> 02:12:13.586
That should be for anyone.

02:12:14.126 --> 02:12:20.346
I was mad at the idea that she might call Auti on their vacation.

02:12:22.546 --> 02:12:23.946
That wasn't good enough for her.

02:12:24.246 --> 02:12:26.466
She had to spiritually summon him.

02:12:26.846 --> 02:12:30.826
She had to basically go to his vacation to interrupt it.

02:12:30.846 --> 02:12:32.426
This is some bullshit.

02:12:34.406 --> 02:12:41.486
She sees a vision of Auti in front of her, and he asks her if she had piss in her sock, and then laughs at her.

02:12:41.806 --> 02:12:43.866
Yeah, I would hope so too, Auti.

02:12:43.866 --> 02:12:45.426
So he's at least roasting her a little.

02:12:45.446 --> 02:12:46.666
He's like, the fuck are you doing?

02:12:46.686 --> 02:12:50.806
Yeah, you better have a fucking emergency, like piss in your sock to be calling me right now.

02:12:51.366 --> 02:12:57.586
He tells her, you did good, and offers her his cassette player to borrow while he's on vacation.

02:12:58.506 --> 02:13:02.606
He says that the song is a present from his friends to Jesse.

02:13:03.006 --> 02:13:04.686
It'll get her through the maze.

02:13:05.566 --> 02:13:12.866
Visions of waves crashing take the vision of Auti away, while Jesse is left alone asking, did that really happen?

02:13:12.886 --> 02:13:16.266
Yeah, you really did just interrupt his fucking vacation.

02:13:16.626 --> 02:13:18.006
I'm more upset with you.

02:13:18.306 --> 02:13:19.446
You're so mad.

02:13:19.466 --> 02:13:21.286
Yeah, did that really happen?

02:13:23.386 --> 02:13:25.126
She's like, oh, no, it must have happened.

02:13:25.146 --> 02:13:27.966
He gave me his cassette player, and it'll get me through the maze.

02:13:28.226 --> 02:13:31.046
And then she says, the janitor always has the keys.

02:13:31.586 --> 02:13:32.306
Oh, my God.

02:13:33.026 --> 02:13:36.726
Back at the entrance of the ashtray maze, Jesse presses play.

02:13:37.986 --> 02:13:40.546
The band, the old gods of Asgard.

02:13:42.386 --> 02:13:43.186
Of course it is.

02:13:44.746 --> 02:13:49.686
Kick into a high octane, crunchy, loud as fuck guitar heavy melody.

02:13:50.306 --> 02:13:55.386
Frontman Odin Anderson screams out the words, take control.

02:13:56.646 --> 02:14:00.226
The song amplifies as Jesse runs down the hallway of the ashtray maze.

02:14:00.786 --> 02:14:07.206
The walls fold open as she moves forward like an origami kaleidoscope, revealing more and more of the maze.

02:14:07.386 --> 02:14:10.146
Doorways fold in on themselves to become corridors.

02:14:10.406 --> 02:14:13.906
Hallways fold out to become an infinite wall of wooden doors.

02:14:14.586 --> 02:14:21.746
The maze continues to fold in and out of itself, eventually revealing a hallway of his and the maze becomes full of monsters.

02:14:22.366 --> 02:14:28.406
The song rages on, heightened by Jesse swinging her service weapon out and shooting off to match the pounding drums.

02:14:29.266 --> 02:14:35.366
Jesse clears out the hallway and runs to an open door, which swings to reveal more and more doors opening at Jesse's feet.

02:14:36.086 --> 02:14:40.506
The song swells and matches the energy Jesse brings as she navigates the maze.

02:14:41.286 --> 02:14:52.086
Sam Lake originally envisioned this sequence as more than just a musical set piece, but as a full musical number with dancing and extended lyrics, and the team was like, Sam.

02:14:54.706 --> 02:14:55.066
No!

02:14:56.006 --> 02:14:57.206
Wait till your next game.

02:14:57.546 --> 02:15:06.506
It's okay because his next main series Remedy game did get a full ass musical number, which is in large part accredited to this existing.

02:15:06.806 --> 02:15:11.826
But would you also say that this one exists because of the big musical number in Alan Wake 1?

02:15:11.906 --> 02:15:13.226
Absolutely, I would.

02:15:13.246 --> 02:15:13.966
That's the thing.

02:15:14.086 --> 02:15:17.346
Sam Lake just says, let me bet on making a musical thing.

02:15:17.366 --> 02:15:19.106
And everyone goes, Sam, no.

02:15:19.126 --> 02:15:20.786
And he says, Sam, yes.

02:15:22.586 --> 02:15:23.446
And he does them.

02:15:23.506 --> 02:15:26.946
And every time people are like, that was the coolest fucking thing I've experienced.

02:15:27.206 --> 02:15:30.526
It's not just they say played, they say experienced.

02:15:31.026 --> 02:15:34.546
It's so funny because people like question him every time.

02:15:34.766 --> 02:15:37.526
Every single time they go, Sam, absolutely not.

02:15:37.546 --> 02:15:39.226
And he goes, come on.

02:15:39.886 --> 02:15:42.306
Makes it work every time, still question it.

02:15:42.406 --> 02:15:42.966
Exactly.

02:15:44.406 --> 02:15:50.706
More and more of the ashtray maze reveals itself with more and more hiss, crawling from the walls and appearing through doors.

02:15:51.366 --> 02:15:54.966
The floor rises to reveal more doorways seemingly from nothing.

02:15:55.486 --> 02:16:00.466
The hiss come in waves of Jesse and the music pounds with Finnish flair fit for a god.

02:16:01.886 --> 02:16:04.986
When people think of this game, this is the sequence they think of.

02:16:05.966 --> 02:16:15.626
Jesse flies up to the exit of the maze, and as she exits, the music wraps in the final chords and the final line of the song rings out, I control.

02:16:17.046 --> 02:16:24.186
Jesse leaves and the doors open to a concrete hallway and to herself, to Polaris, and perhaps to Auti in some way.

02:16:25.166 --> 02:16:27.346
She says, that was awesome.

02:16:27.386 --> 02:16:31.346
Yeah, you just kind of think it probably, you know?

02:16:31.366 --> 02:16:34.946
Yeah, Jesse fully was like, holy shit, that was so much fun, go off, Sam Lake.

02:16:36.166 --> 02:16:40.006
Jesse runs down a hallway and sees a vision of Trench talking about the projector.

02:16:40.446 --> 02:16:43.186
He says what Darling brought back changed everything.

02:16:44.366 --> 02:16:46.626
Jesse enters the dimensional research sector.

02:16:46.906 --> 02:16:52.966
She tells Polaris, what sardine and ordinary ends here, you, me and Dylan, we've all come full circle.

02:16:54.026 --> 02:17:01.106
There's a staircase with a mountain of red sand covering the base, leading up to a long barren sector with more and more red sand.

02:17:01.926 --> 02:17:03.426
Jesse recognizes this area.

02:17:03.806 --> 02:17:06.866
She says there was a door here and that's how me and Dylan met you.

02:17:07.586 --> 02:17:10.106
She says, but now there's just an echo here.

02:17:11.326 --> 02:17:15.706
Jesse comes up on a stand, seeing that the projector was here and has clearly been moved.

02:17:16.286 --> 02:17:17.286
God damn it.

02:17:17.986 --> 02:17:19.866
She wonders aloud, what would Dr.

02:17:19.886 --> 02:17:20.706
Darling do with this?

02:17:21.806 --> 02:17:22.526
There is a Dr.

02:17:22.546 --> 02:17:29.326
Darling video with a slide projector that's marked as not object of power, just being used for demonstrational purposes.

02:17:31.646 --> 02:17:33.746
This is a sample object of power.

02:17:33.766 --> 02:17:34.366
Exactly.

02:17:34.386 --> 02:17:36.166
It does not actually have power.

02:17:36.226 --> 02:17:37.126
It's not to scale.

02:17:37.206 --> 02:17:38.466
Do not attempt to use it.

02:17:38.726 --> 02:17:44.066
He says that the projected image from each slide is a portal to another dimension.

02:17:44.746 --> 02:17:50.286
Only one slide remains because the rest were burned and ordinary during the original Altered World event.

02:17:50.846 --> 02:17:57.346
The only remaining slide says color slide film this side towards screen and the number 36.

02:17:58.366 --> 02:18:00.686
On the slide, there's a formation of five pillars.

02:18:01.206 --> 02:18:03.686
He says there were casualties on their first expedition.

02:18:04.386 --> 02:18:06.786
There's no sound there and the radios don't work.

02:18:07.286 --> 02:18:11.986
There's just some resonance from the world that does a feedback loop that can tear people apart.

02:18:12.206 --> 02:18:12.646
Shit.

02:18:13.086 --> 02:18:17.546
Trench, however, said he heard something else there that made his ears bleed.

02:18:18.646 --> 02:18:20.966
Darling looks really worried as the video cuts out.

02:18:22.026 --> 02:18:27.146
Jesse runs through the abandoned dimensional research lab and finds increasingly erratic notes from Dr.

02:18:27.166 --> 02:18:27.566
Darling.

02:18:28.286 --> 02:18:34.006
In one, he talks about how he brought in his parents' old slides to see if the projector could run regular slides.

02:18:34.486 --> 02:18:34.946
It couldn't.

02:18:35.726 --> 02:18:40.466
He was a little hopeful that maybe his family's memories could be accessed or something, but damn it.

02:18:41.306 --> 02:18:44.026
Another video shows an even more haggard Dr.

02:18:44.046 --> 02:18:47.906
Darling, saying they figured out the source of the resonance in slide 36.

02:18:48.526 --> 02:18:51.486
It's an entity, a whole-ass living organism.

02:18:52.286 --> 02:18:52.666
Dr.

02:18:52.686 --> 02:18:54.826
Darling named it Hedron based on its shape.

02:18:55.526 --> 02:18:58.586
Darling continues on, but Jesse's attention goes to a large window.

02:18:59.306 --> 02:19:03.346
She says to Polaris, Hedron, is that you?

02:19:04.466 --> 02:19:05.826
Is that why you brought me here?

02:19:06.906 --> 02:19:10.186
She looks through this window and sees her secret friend.

02:19:10.706 --> 02:19:11.526
It's Polaris.

02:19:12.426 --> 02:19:18.546
Polaris is this huge, probably like 40 feet tall, massive, slate-grade geometric ball.

02:19:18.646 --> 02:19:19.546
What the fuck?

02:19:19.566 --> 02:19:20.706
Another giant ball.

02:19:21.646 --> 02:19:22.826
This one's our friend, though.

02:19:22.846 --> 02:19:23.966
It's our best friend.

02:19:24.946 --> 02:19:30.246
There are some containment bars around Polaris, but she's in there, and they found her and called her Hedron.

02:19:30.826 --> 02:19:33.166
Jesse says she thought she'd never see her again.

02:19:33.186 --> 02:19:34.966
Then she tells Polaris to hang on.

02:19:34.986 --> 02:19:35.506
She's coming.

02:19:36.226 --> 02:19:39.966
There's a huge HRA device on the door of Polaris' chamber.

02:19:40.566 --> 02:19:43.166
Jesse tears us apart to get in and see her friend.

02:19:44.146 --> 02:19:47.406
As she does this and enters the room, she looks up at Polaris.

02:19:48.246 --> 02:19:49.666
And then she starts to get flashes.

02:19:50.306 --> 02:19:52.746
Jesse sees Red and sees visions of her brother.

02:19:53.586 --> 02:19:57.786
Where Jesse is an extension of Polaris, Dylan has become an extension of the Hiss.

02:19:58.566 --> 02:19:59.206
Oh, fuck.

02:19:59.366 --> 02:20:05.766
Now that Jesse has opened the door to this containment chamber, the Hiss starts to leak in and surround Polaris.

02:20:06.266 --> 02:20:07.006
Oh, you dummy.

02:20:07.286 --> 02:20:11.046
Red shines all around her friend, and the Hiss-afflicted agents start appearing.

02:20:11.926 --> 02:20:13.006
Jesse is confused.

02:20:13.026 --> 02:20:14.606
She says, no, why would you want this?

02:20:14.626 --> 02:20:15.726
Why would you bring me here?

02:20:16.046 --> 02:20:17.166
Why would you let me open the door?

02:20:18.626 --> 02:20:21.706
And then she gets down to business, fighting the Hiss off of Polaris.

02:20:22.346 --> 02:20:26.586
Waves and waves of Hiss come in to attack Jesse and also attack Polaris.

02:20:27.046 --> 02:20:32.186
There are laser points that the Hiss begin to control that point down at Polaris, hurting Polaris.

02:20:32.766 --> 02:20:38.666
The Hiss weakens Polaris more and more, and Jesse scrambles to beat the shit out of the Hiss, get off her fucking friend.

02:20:39.746 --> 02:20:43.026
After the assault, Jesse flies up to see Polaris eye to eye.

02:20:43.426 --> 02:20:47.106
Polaris doesn't have eyes, but like kind of coming up to the top and be like, what's up, girl?

02:20:48.026 --> 02:20:53.206
Jesse watches in horror as Polaris starts to break apart and collapse in on itself.

02:20:53.546 --> 02:20:54.206
Oh shit.

02:20:54.366 --> 02:20:57.926
Jesse watches as her friend's final moments unfold in front of her.

02:20:58.586 --> 02:21:01.426
She says, the poster comes down and there's nothing there.

02:21:01.866 --> 02:21:03.806
It's just the cell and death.

02:21:04.226 --> 02:21:05.026
I was wrong.

02:21:05.286 --> 02:21:06.866
There was never anything there.

02:21:08.166 --> 02:21:13.326
Jesse starts crying and screaming, asking Polaris if she's still there, pleading to not leave her.

02:21:13.906 --> 02:21:20.626
She apologizes that she begs for her only friend, and as she does, the red begins to seep into her mind.

02:21:21.466 --> 02:21:27.606
As the horror and the hiss finally infiltrate Jesse's brain, she is left in darkness.

02:21:28.686 --> 02:21:36.046
The hiss from beneath her skin forced Jesse to say, you are a worm through time before the screen goes black.

02:21:36.566 --> 02:21:37.186
Oh, fuck.

02:21:37.666 --> 02:21:42.266
The title card, Control, scrolls up, followed by Story by Sam Lake.

02:21:42.286 --> 02:21:44.286
Get the fuck out of here.

02:21:44.906 --> 02:21:46.126
Are you shitting me?

02:21:46.886 --> 02:21:51.086
This fucking, like, full on cliffhanger bullshit ending.

02:21:52.106 --> 02:22:00.026
We see the cast credits scroll and the crew credits, but as the animation credits scroll, instead of seeing names, we start seeing what the hiss has said.

02:22:00.206 --> 02:22:00.506
What?

02:22:00.686 --> 02:22:04.026
We see the line, push your fingers through the surface into the wet.

02:22:04.506 --> 02:22:06.406
We see, you are a worm through time.

02:22:06.926 --> 02:22:14.726
The words of the hiss mixed with the credits of the game blend and swirl, and the words distort like you're reading them through the ripples of a reflection.

02:22:14.766 --> 02:22:15.686
What the fuck?

02:22:16.186 --> 02:22:25.626
Soon, as the hiss corrupts the game file itself, the words are completely unreadable and blend into the black and white distortions on the screen.

02:22:26.486 --> 02:22:28.086
Then the screen becomes all white.

02:22:29.606 --> 02:22:32.886
Jesse is back at the FBC in a junior-agent outfit.

02:22:32.946 --> 02:22:34.426
Is this a post-credit sequence?

02:22:35.146 --> 02:22:36.206
I guess technically.

02:22:37.146 --> 02:22:40.166
A clean white button-up tucked into black slacks.

02:22:40.706 --> 02:22:43.166
Jesse is the new girl here, and she doesn't have her gun.

02:22:43.546 --> 02:22:44.326
She can't fly.

02:22:44.866 --> 02:22:46.546
She just has a few simple tasks.

02:22:47.246 --> 02:22:50.726
Scan the forms, collect the coffee cups, deliver the mail.

02:22:51.806 --> 02:22:55.426
The color has been sucked out of the room, everything is muted, including Jesse.

02:22:56.066 --> 02:23:02.346
The Bureau workers are dismissive of Jesse, and she stays committed to a positive outlook, like she's trying to impress these people.

02:23:03.166 --> 02:23:04.546
Some workers even berate her.

02:23:04.726 --> 02:23:10.646
If she stands around, office workers will yell at her to do her job, and she'll submit saying, yes, I'll do it immediately.

02:23:11.466 --> 02:23:12.546
What happened?

02:23:13.666 --> 02:23:14.636
I am so...

02:23:14.636 --> 02:23:15.226
what?

02:23:15.806 --> 02:23:17.866
Is she now the janitor's fucking assistant?

02:23:17.886 --> 02:23:19.826
No, she's somebody else's assistant, it sounds like.

02:23:19.846 --> 02:23:20.226
But like...

02:23:20.426 --> 02:23:21.806
Tom is rubbing his temples.

02:23:22.186 --> 02:23:23.386
What just happened?

02:23:24.286 --> 02:23:25.606
What game are we playing now?

02:23:26.286 --> 02:23:27.566
Are we on a different episode?

02:23:29.226 --> 02:23:32.426
You accidentally dozed off, and I'm just in the Stanley Parable now.

02:23:32.446 --> 02:23:34.006
Like, what the shit?

02:23:35.086 --> 02:23:39.706
Jesse scans the forms, she collects the loose coffee cups, and then she goes to deliver the mail.

02:23:40.366 --> 02:23:45.026
There's no sign of hiss in what Jesse sees, just droll mundane office life.

02:23:45.706 --> 02:23:49.606
Jesse eventually gets a piece of mail that has to be delivered to Director Trench.

02:23:50.186 --> 02:23:54.226
There are whispers from some of the agents saying the new girl is taking the director's mail.

02:23:55.006 --> 02:23:58.526
At the doors of Director Trench's office, Ati is mopping.

02:23:59.046 --> 02:24:01.686
He says, are you sure you are not lost?

02:24:02.106 --> 02:24:04.586
Maybe you can find yourself in the director's office.

02:24:06.046 --> 02:24:09.326
Jesse enters the director's office and Trench makes some small talk.

02:24:09.726 --> 02:24:10.586
Oh, you're the new girl.

02:24:10.646 --> 02:24:12.226
Can you take that outgoing mail as well?

02:24:12.566 --> 02:24:13.006
Thank you.

02:24:13.546 --> 02:24:17.626
Jesse has a flash of herself in full color sitting in the director's chair as well.

02:24:18.026 --> 02:24:23.726
She has a vision of Dylan bringing the service weapon up to her head in the same framing we saw Trench shoot himself.

02:24:24.466 --> 02:24:25.206
Oh, shit.

02:24:25.406 --> 02:24:27.426
Jesse says, No, no, no, I don't like this.

02:24:28.346 --> 02:24:34.126
In the vision, she sees Dylan shoot her in the head while she cries, saying, Why can't I feel you?

02:24:34.906 --> 02:24:44.006
Jesse comes back to the task board at the beginning of this cycle or whatever with the task to scan the forms, collect loose coffee cups, and deliver the mail.

02:24:44.866 --> 02:24:46.906
Jesse does her task but internally is terrified.

02:24:47.866 --> 02:24:52.006
She's begging for Polaris, saying she's scared and she can't feel anything.

02:24:52.606 --> 02:24:53.966
She tells herself to wake up.

02:24:54.726 --> 02:25:00.666
She gets mail for Director Trench again, and as she heads to his office, Ottie tells her to keep trying.

02:25:01.286 --> 02:25:03.526
He tells her, You're getting closer.

02:25:04.386 --> 02:25:10.646
This sequence feels like a loop, but maybe it's a spiral, and maybe she's ascending and making some progress.

02:25:11.826 --> 02:25:13.826
Inside the office, Trench is talking to himself.

02:25:14.546 --> 02:25:16.686
He says they've been invaded and he needs to act.

02:25:17.206 --> 02:25:20.926
He says he'll take the slide projector to the nostalgia department and turn it on.

02:25:21.526 --> 02:25:23.606
He says he'll bring the hiss in and he'll fix this.

02:25:24.446 --> 02:25:25.746
He says he lost Darling.

02:25:26.086 --> 02:25:27.546
Darling was the first to go.

02:25:28.526 --> 02:25:31.426
He says he has his own slide from Ordinary after they were burned.

02:25:32.046 --> 02:25:33.466
It's burned, but it'll work.

02:25:34.326 --> 02:25:35.626
Jesse puts this together.

02:25:35.986 --> 02:25:38.766
Trench turned on the projector and let the hiss into the building.

02:25:39.346 --> 02:25:45.246
When he and Darling went into that slide door from the projector, the thing that made Trench's ears bleed was the hiss.

02:25:45.826 --> 02:25:47.546
It rode with him into the Oldest House.

02:25:48.426 --> 02:25:51.166
She tells herself to remember, the hiss is the enemy.

02:25:52.486 --> 02:25:55.346
Jesse wakes back up at the task board again, but she remembers.

02:25:55.906 --> 02:25:58.546
She says, this is all the hiss inside her head.

02:25:58.966 --> 02:26:00.006
She's trapped in here.

02:26:00.626 --> 02:26:06.626
She starts scanning forms, collecting coffee cups, delivering the mail, and she also resolves to fight and push the hiss out.

02:26:06.966 --> 02:26:07.986
God damn.

02:26:08.686 --> 02:26:11.846
She goes to Trench's office, and Auti says, welcome back.

02:26:12.326 --> 02:26:14.346
I knew I chose a good assistant.

02:26:15.846 --> 02:26:17.426
Jesse enters Trench's office.

02:26:18.146 --> 02:26:20.426
His room is red, and he's reciting his shit.

02:26:20.646 --> 02:26:22.526
He says, you are a worm through time.

02:26:23.326 --> 02:26:24.346
Jesse isn't bothered.

02:26:24.346 --> 02:26:25.846
She says she needs her gun.

02:26:26.566 --> 02:26:29.186
She picks up the gun and says, I know what I need to do.

02:26:29.906 --> 02:26:30.746
Start at the beginning.

02:26:31.746 --> 02:26:35.626
She raises her gun to Trench's temples, just like we saw at the beginning.

02:26:36.746 --> 02:26:40.426
The colors are stored in her face, and she's back in her normal clothes.

02:26:41.686 --> 02:26:43.366
Jesse says she should have seen it earlier.

02:26:43.666 --> 02:26:45.006
This is her mess to clean up.

02:26:45.766 --> 02:26:48.286
The gun kicks back and Trench falls to the floor.

02:26:49.226 --> 02:26:52.566
She takes her seat at the table and says, I am the director.

02:26:53.746 --> 02:26:56.566
The hotline phone on the desk rings, and Jesse answers it.

02:26:57.286 --> 02:27:00.646
On the other line, she hears, Hello, this is Dr.

02:27:00.666 --> 02:27:01.546
Casper Darling.

02:27:01.966 --> 02:27:05.546
I have a classified message for the director of the Federal Bureau of Control.

02:27:06.226 --> 02:27:07.186
I have sad news.

02:27:07.606 --> 02:27:08.746
Hedron is gone now.

02:27:09.366 --> 02:27:10.426
But it was not a source.

02:27:10.546 --> 02:27:11.426
It was a catalyst.

02:27:12.026 --> 02:27:12.826
Do you understand?

02:27:13.566 --> 02:27:14.666
You must go to my office.

02:27:15.286 --> 02:27:15.966
The end game.

02:27:16.786 --> 02:27:17.786
It will be revealed.

02:27:18.526 --> 02:27:22.526
Director Fadon hangs up and gets ready to put an end to all of this.

02:27:23.206 --> 02:27:31.386
Jesse leaves the office and comes out to see floating versions of herself, Jesse, hiss afflicted and hung catatonic in the air outside her office.

02:27:32.406 --> 02:27:34.586
She runs for a bit and sees a light switch cord.

02:27:35.186 --> 02:27:40.286
The Ocean View Motel usually takes her to where she needs to be, so she pulls the cord three times.

02:27:40.986 --> 02:27:43.666
In the motel, she comes to terms with the death of Polaris.

02:27:44.186 --> 02:27:49.786
She says she can't feel her anymore, that she's dead, and that's what Dylan wanted all along.

02:27:50.706 --> 02:27:55.466
She says that the motel is a place of power to move through, and she says this is just a dream.

02:27:56.126 --> 02:27:59.546
It's really just a connecting place where we get to other things.

02:28:00.546 --> 02:28:06.306
Speaking of dreams, she comes into one motel room with a home movie being projected onto a wall.

02:28:08.186 --> 02:28:11.266
Maybe it's not so much a movie as it is a music video.

02:28:11.346 --> 02:28:12.766
Oh, Jesus, of course there is.

02:28:12.946 --> 02:28:14.746
It's the hot new single from Dr.

02:28:14.746 --> 02:28:21.746
Casper Darling, singing his hot tune Dynamite, which is a song about how cool Jesse is.

02:28:23.666 --> 02:28:26.326
I have watched this an ungodly amount of times.

02:28:26.346 --> 02:28:27.986
I'm sure you have.

02:28:28.966 --> 02:28:30.646
I love it so fucking much.

02:28:31.366 --> 02:28:39.846
It's why I really like simp for Matthew Peretta on this one, because he's so fucking goofy, and I just love this silly rabbit of a man so much.

02:28:41.106 --> 02:28:43.406
I'm so glad that they have that in there for you.

02:28:44.086 --> 02:28:45.846
It brings me a lot of joy.

02:28:46.326 --> 02:28:53.826
He sings, he dances, he uses the hotline phone as a prop in the music video, which is established, can kill people.

02:28:54.046 --> 02:28:57.566
It's just the cutest thing that he is like, I'm gonna pick up this murder weapon.

02:28:59.366 --> 02:29:02.966
This paranatural murder weapon has like a cute moment in a music video.

02:29:02.986 --> 02:29:05.166
I just, I fell in love with him so hard over this.

02:29:06.286 --> 02:29:11.746
After the song wraps, Jesse goes, this is so weird, but it is my head.

02:29:11.866 --> 02:29:16.266
The motel is partially made up of dreams, so I think I did this to myself.

02:29:16.266 --> 02:29:17.306
This is all your fault.

02:29:17.826 --> 02:29:23.946
Jesse enters a dark room where she sees herself floating above with the shimmer of the gray spiral around her.

02:29:24.826 --> 02:29:29.786
With Hedron gone, Polaris was able to transfer her entity into Jesse.

02:29:30.406 --> 02:29:36.306
Jesse knows that the physical form of Hedron is dead, but the spirit of Polaris is alive inside of her.

02:29:37.106 --> 02:29:41.946
She says maybe Polaris was always there, but she just needed a trigger to wake up inside of Jesse.

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With Polaris alive and well within Jesse, the Hiss is removed from her mind, and she becomes the new physical Hedron entity primed to fight the Hiss entirely.

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Polaris and Jesse, now one and the same, head to the nostalgia department to take care of the slide projector.

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In the nostalgia department, the Hiss is seeped into the walls.

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Everything is red and moving around wildly, and Jesse hears Dylan's voice ringing through.

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Dylan talks about how Jesse was dreaming and how Dylan took it upon himself to wake her up.

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Jesse flies through moving walls and platforms and makes it to the projector.

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Just as she's done with every object of power, Jesse puts her hands around it and then is sent to the astral plane.

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As she arrives, she hears Dylan's voice raging on, saying, You are a worm through time.

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Jesse says she knows he's still in there, deep under the Hiss.

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She just has to make it to him.

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The astral plane world around her becomes more and more chaotic, as Jesse has to fly through red-soaked Hiss platforms to make it to her brother.

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Instead of the stark white and black, everything is dripping in Hiss red.

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Jesse hears the board tell her to prepare for power boost.

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Jesse fights Hiss after Hiss after Hiss and approaches the black pyramid.

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As she does, Dylan's Hiss chants are getting louder and louder.

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Just below the peak of the pyramid is Dylan, floating catatonic at the hands of the Hiss.

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Oh, no.

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Jesse flies up to him and begins to rid his mind of the Hiss with her powers of Polaris.

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The next scene opens on Dylan, lying on a hospital bed being monitored.

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Jesse was able to eradicate the Hiss out of his mind, but it unfortunately left him in a coma.

02:31:35.206 --> 02:31:35.426
Oh.

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It has killed the other times we've tried it, so this is as close to a success as she's gotten.

02:31:40.626 --> 02:31:41.786
Yeah, this is improvement.

02:31:43.126 --> 02:31:47.566
She says the portal has been closed, but the Hiss is still alive in The Oldest House.

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The lockdown can't be lifted as long as any trace of the Hiss remains.

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She's working on a solution with the team, but it's a long road ahead.

02:31:56.726 --> 02:32:02.026
Jesse sits at her director desk and says, I'm the director of the Federal Bureau of Control.

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We're in this together, you and I.

02:32:05.246 --> 02:32:08.546
And then, for real for real, the credits roll.

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For real this time?

02:32:09.626 --> 02:32:11.366
I promise it's real this time.

02:32:11.386 --> 02:32:13.406
I was going to say, that's a really long post credit sequence.

02:32:14.886 --> 02:32:21.886
It's such a brilliant fake out to start and then have it slowly devolve into madness with the credit sequence.

02:32:22.806 --> 02:32:27.366
Control is so much fun and genuinely, I didn't get so much of that when I first played through.

02:32:27.386 --> 02:32:33.566
It can be a little tricky to piece it together and understand exactly where everyone is and what's happening.

02:32:33.906 --> 02:32:38.766
But as we're heading into the DLC, Tomasi is still gone somewhere.

02:32:39.726 --> 02:32:41.166
Marshal fucked off.

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We haven't seen her since she said, I have some shit to take care of.

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So she's running around Lord knows where.

02:32:46.306 --> 02:32:46.646
Dr.

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Darling actively missing in action.

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We never see him outside of live action filmed sequences that he's clearly recorded kind of throughout.

02:32:54.206 --> 02:32:59.406
The most up to date thing is when we get his call saying, Hedron is dead because we know Hedron has recently died.

02:32:59.426 --> 02:33:02.346
Ah, fucking everything's a mess.

02:33:02.506 --> 02:33:06.566
I'm still predicting he is in another universe where everything is live action.

02:33:08.106 --> 02:33:09.066
Wouldn't you love that?

02:33:09.226 --> 02:33:13.426
He's never portrayed as a computer generated character.

02:33:13.446 --> 02:33:15.286
Yeah, I would absolutely love that.

02:33:15.486 --> 02:33:31.746
It's also interesting because he was nominated for his performance in this despite the protagonist never meeting him, aside from the phone call if you want a really un-actually me, and never appearing as a video game character, being nominated for the Video Game Awards for performance you do as a live action performer.

02:33:31.966 --> 02:33:32.946
And somebody else got it.

02:33:33.706 --> 02:33:34.926
And he lost to Mads Mikkelsen.

02:33:34.946 --> 02:33:35.086
Yeah.

02:33:36.046 --> 02:33:36.826
It is what it is.

02:33:37.186 --> 02:33:39.046
Which Sam Lake is in that game.

02:33:41.346 --> 02:33:44.526
I guess it's a win for Sam Lake somehow in like a roundabout way.

02:33:44.546 --> 02:33:45.906
In a very roundabout way, yeah.

02:33:45.926 --> 02:33:46.666
We're getting there.

02:33:46.706 --> 02:33:47.726
His co-star got it.

02:33:47.926 --> 02:33:51.206
That is Control, my favorite Remedy game.

02:33:51.646 --> 02:33:52.586
That is your favorite one?

02:33:52.666 --> 02:33:53.706
It is so far.

02:33:53.726 --> 02:34:00.806
I want to do another run of Alan Wake 2 to really double check, but man, Control feels good to play.

02:34:00.826 --> 02:34:01.806
The haptics are great.

02:34:02.306 --> 02:34:04.146
It moves in a very logical way.

02:34:04.166 --> 02:34:07.066
The combat is very satisfying, very fun.

02:34:07.726 --> 02:34:09.106
Jesse's really fucking cool.

02:34:09.146 --> 02:34:10.346
I really fuck with her.

02:34:11.106 --> 02:34:15.066
Well, I would hope that a game called Control would master the controls.

02:34:15.146 --> 02:34:16.166
You think so, right?

02:34:16.186 --> 02:34:16.486
Yeah.

02:34:17.146 --> 02:34:21.606
I played it on PS5, had a fan fucking-tastic time, and this is a promise.

02:34:21.626 --> 02:34:28.906
I will be back to do the DLC bridge content as we get closer to the next big Remedy entry.

02:34:29.566 --> 02:34:30.126
Which one's that?

02:34:31.226 --> 02:34:32.326
Alan Wake 2.

02:34:32.366 --> 02:34:33.466
Oh, oh, right.

02:34:34.986 --> 02:34:36.726
This whole thing we're building up to?

02:34:36.746 --> 02:34:37.546
No, I'm teasing.

02:34:37.566 --> 02:34:38.646
Of course I knew that.

02:34:39.646 --> 02:34:45.086
I just love a musical number, and Remedy keeps giving them to me, and I will eat them the fuck up every time.

02:34:45.666 --> 02:34:49.866
Well, thank you so much, Andrea, for taking us on that entire story.

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Our penultimate game for the season.

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Thank you so much, Goombas, for listening.

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Unless you want to bully me, which I guess is fair.

02:35:07.046 --> 02:35:08.666
I fucking love bullying.

02:35:09.206 --> 02:35:13.066
Yes, and then also make sure you go to our website, theothercastlepodcast.com.

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02:35:20.246 --> 02:35:25.226
As Andrea said over on the Patreon, she's going to be covering the DLC to this game, probably in a couple months.

02:35:25.426 --> 02:35:26.306
Yeah, give me a minute.

02:35:26.326 --> 02:35:29.486
I just got off doing a very good prank episode.

02:35:30.366 --> 02:35:32.006
You pranked the shit out of everyone.

02:35:32.026 --> 02:35:35.106
We made them think it was going to be Detroit Become Human, and it wasn't.

02:35:35.226 --> 02:35:38.986
I got a text from a real-life friend that was like, you betrayed my trust.

02:35:39.006 --> 02:35:43.026
And I racked my brain for a minute, like, the fuck did I do?

02:35:43.046 --> 02:35:45.066
And she's like, the April Fool's episode.

02:35:45.086 --> 02:35:46.046
I went, oh, thank God.

02:35:46.066 --> 02:35:48.206
I was scared I lied to you and forgot?

02:35:48.206 --> 02:35:49.106
Like, what the fuck?

02:35:49.506 --> 02:36:16.626
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02:36:17.006 --> 02:36:19.446
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02:36:25.986 --> 02:36:29.206
Anyway, so this is Tom and Andrea reminding you goombas.

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Watch The Fucking Fridge.

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