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Game Script by Shotgunnova (Patrick Summers) / shotgunnova(@)gmail.c0m
I. SCRIPT
01) Lighthouse ................................................... GS01
02) Welcome Centre ............................................... GS02
03) Raffle Square ................................................ GS03
04) Comstock Centre Rooftops ..................................... GS04
05) Monument Island Gateway ...................................... GS05
06) Monument Tower ............................................... GS06
07) Battleship Bay ............................................... GS07
08) Soldier's Field .............................................. GS08
09) Hall of Heroes ............................................... GS09
10) Soldier's Field [II] ......................................... GS10
11) Finkton Docks ................................................ GS11
12) Finkton Proper ............................................... GS12
13) Shantytown ................................................... GS13
14) The Factory .................................................. GS14
15) Emporia ...................................................... GS15
16) Port Prosperity .............................................. GS16
17) Downtown Emporia ............................................. GS17
18) Comstock House ............................................... GS18
19) The Hand of the Prophet ...................................... GS19
20) Ending ....................................................... GS20
II. DLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DLCS
Burial at Sea, Ep. 1 ............................................. BAS1
Burial at Sea, Ep. 2 ............................................. BAS2
III. UPDATES & CONTRIBUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UPDT
IV. LEGALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LGLT
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01) LIGHTHOUSE [GS01]
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Dialogue will be written normally.
Internal monologue will be parenthetized: ( )
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Female Voice: Booker...are you afraid of God?
Booker: No. But I'm afraid of you.
Caption: "The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories
where none exist..."
- Barriers to Trans-Dimensional Travel
R. Lutece, 1889
Caption: 1912, Coast of Maine
[Booker, along with a man and woman, ride a dinghy out towards a lighthouse.]
Gentleman: Are you going to just sit there?
Lady: As compared to what? Standing?
Gentleman: Not standing. Rowing.
Lady: Rowing. I hadn't planned on it.
Gentleman: So you expect me to shoulder the burden?
Lady: No. But I do expect you to do all the rowing.
[She hands Booker a box.]
Booker: What's this?
Gentleman: And why is that?
Lady: Coming here was your idea.
Gentleman: My idea?
Lady: I made it very clear that I don't believe in the exercise.
Gentleman: The rowing?
Lady: No. I imagine that's wonderful exercise.
Gentleman: Then what?
Lady: The entire thought experiment.
Booker: Excuse me. How much longer?
Gentleman: One goes into an experiment knowing one could fail.
[Booker opens the box to find a handgun and some pictures.]
Booker: That'll do.
Lady: But one does not undertake an experiment knowing one HAS failed.
Gentleman: Can we get back to the rowing?
Lady: I suggest you do, or we're never going to get there.
Gentleman: No, I mean I'd greatly appreciate it if you would assist.
Lady: Perhaps you should ask him. I imagine he has a greater interest in
getting there than I do.
Gentleman: I suppose he does...but there's no point in asking.
Lady: Why not?
Gentleman: Because he doesn't row.
Lady: He doesn't ROW?
Gentleman: No. He DOESN'T row.
Lady: Ah. I see what you mean. We've arrived.
[They land at the lighthouse landing and Booker disembarks.]
Lady: Shall we tell him when we'll be returning?
Gentleman: Would that change anything?
Lady: It might give him some comfort.
Gentleman: At least that's something we can agree on.
Booker: Hey! Is somebody meeting me here?
Gentleman: I'd certainly hope so.
Lady: It does seem like a dreadful place to be stranded.
Booker: Ah, well, maybe there's someone inside...
[As the couple sails out of sight, Booker knocks on the lighthouse entrance.]
Booker: Ah, excuse me. It's Booker DeWitt. I guess you're expecting me... Is
anyone here? Hello?
[He goes upstairs to find a corpse with a bag on its head.]
Booker: Shit...
[Atop the lighthouse, he finds a bell puzzle.]
Booker: Wait a minute that card...
[He uses the card's hand-written combination to do the puzzle.]
Booker: Huh.
[The sky glows red as a foghorn blows into the night.]
Booker: What in the world...?
[The noise finally subsides and the door opens.]
Booker: Alright. Looks like they expect me to sit in their fancy chair.
[He sits in the chair.]
Booker: So now wha--
[The chair activates hand restraints.]
Booker: ...The hell?
Countdown Voice: Make yourself ready, pilgrim. The bindings are there as a
safeguard.
Booker: This can't be good...aah!
[Metal sections rise from the floor and lock him into a small rocket.]
Booker: No, no...goddammit!
[He drops his pistol through the floor.]
Countdown Voice: Ascension...ascension in the count of five... Count of four...
Three...
Booker: No, no, no, no...
Countdown Voice: Two... One...
Booker: No...!
Countdown Voice: Ascension...ascension...
[The rocket shoots off. He can see the clouds passing by his window.]
Booker: Just stay calm...
Countdown Voice: Five thousand feet...ten thousand feed...fifteen thousand
feet...
[The rocket breaks through the clouds to reveal a cityscape.]
Countdown Voice: Hallelujah.
Booker: Wha...?
[The rocket lands on a platform and is taken underground. Verses are visible
on the way down.]
Text: Why would he send his savior unto us,
If we will not raise a finger for our own salvation?
And though we deserved not his mercy,
He has led us to this New Eden.
A last chance for redemption.
[Booker can see a stained glass mural as he descends.]
Mural: And the Prophet shall lead the people to the New Eden
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02) WELCOME CENTRE [WK02]
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[The rocket comes to rest in a chapel.]
Booker: Gotta find the exit out of this place. Excuse me? Where am I?
Male Pilgrim: Heaven, friend. Or as close as we'll see till Judgment Day.
Booker: (Best keep such questions to myself, 'less I want to get made.)
[Downstairs, Booker finds a preacher's long-winded sermon in progress.]
Witting: And every year on this day of days, we recommit ourselves to the our
city, to our Prophet, Father Comstock. We recommit through sacrifice,
and the giving of thanks, and by submerging ourselves in the sweet
water of baptism. And lo, if the Prophet had struck down our enemies
at Wounded Knee, and not railed against the Sodom beneath us, it would
have been enough. If the Prophet had just railed against the Sodom
beneath us, but not accepted the three golden gifts of the Founders,
it would have been enough. If the Prophet had just accepted the three
golden gifts of the Founders, and not prayed for our deliverance, it
would have been enough. If the Prophet had only prayed for our
deliverance, and not led us to this New Eden, it would have been
enough. If the Prophet had just led us to this New Eden, and not
purged the vipers of the Orient, it would have been enough. If the
Prophet had just purged the vipers of the Orient, but not suffered the
sacrifice of his beloved, it would have been enough. If the Prophet
had just suffered the sacrifice of his beloved, but not expelled the
Vox Populi, it would have been enough!
[Booker enters the prayer circle with the others.]
Witting: Is it someone new? Someone from the Sodom below? Newly come to
Columbia to be washed clean, before our Prophet, our Founders, our
Lord?
Booker: I just need passage into the city.
Witting: Passage to the city? Haha. Brother, the only way to Columbia is
through rebirth in the sweet waters of baptism. Will you be cleansed,
brother?
Booker: Hey, I'm just looking to pass through.
Crowd: Hallelujah!
Crowd: Glory be!
Crowd: Reach out, brother!
Booker: (It's either this or turn around and get back on that rocket. Might as
well get it over with.)
[He reluctantly accepts. The preacher takes his hand.]
Booker: ...hey!
Witting: I baptize you, in the name of our Prophet, in the name of our
Founders, in the name of our Lord! And make him born again, in the
bosom of Columbia!
[He dunks Booker.]
Witting: I don't know, brothers and sisters! But this one doesn't look clean
to me...
[He's dunked again. Flashback: Booker's office. Someone's knocking.]
Booker: Who's there? Who's there?!
Male Voice: Bring us the girl and wipe away your debt.
Booker: What do you want?
Male Voice: We had a deal, DeWitt! Open this door, right now!
Booker: I told you...I'm not gonna do it! Now go away.
Male Voice: Mr. DeWitt! Mr. DeWitt!
[He opens the door, seeing an image of Columbia burning. He soon comes to in
a reflection pool of sorts.]
Booker: That idiot priest needs to learn the difference between baptizing a
man and drowning one. I need to find a landmark and figure out where
the hell I am.
[He passes by pilgrims repeating mantras.]
Booker: Just 'cause the city flies don't mean it ain't got its share of fools.
All right...still got a girl to find.
[He enters New Eden Square and sees a parade float by.]
Parade Director: After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did
present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of
the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the
Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even
more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb,
that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that
she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.
Policeman: All clear. Good luck at the raffle, folks.
Booker: "Columbia Raffle and Fair"...huh.
[He spies a gigantic floating angel statue on the horizon.]
Booker: Yeah, that's where they said I'd find her.
Boy: Telegram, Mr. DeWitt.
Booker: Huh...
Boy: Telegram for you, sir.
Booker: "DeWitt STOP. Do not alert Comstock to your presence STOP. Whatever
you do, do not pick #77 STOP. Lutece." What the...?
[He heads to the fairground and finds a vigor seller.]
Booker: Gimme one of those.
Possession Hawker: With just a whisper, they're all ears...
[He drinks the tincture, making his vision go momentarily screwy.]
Booker: What the hell was that?
[An automated ticket-taker machine is near the gate.]
Automaton: Sorry, pal, the raffle is all sold out. Entrance is reserved for
dignataries and very important personages alone.
Booker: I'm guessing that don't mean me.
[Booker jacks the bot with Possession.]
Automaton: Well, if it isn't Assemblyman Buford! Your spot at the raffle
awaits! Don't know why I didn't recognize you before. Odd! Always
good to have gentlemen of your caliber at our fine fairgrounds!
[Through the gate, a man and woman are waiting for passers-by.]
Gentleman: Heads?
Lady: Or tails?
Booker: Come on, let me through.
[He flicks him a coin, waiting to see the result.]
Gentleman: Heads?
Lady: Or tails?
Booker: Huh? Tails.
[He gets heads, like the other 12 who've passed through.]
Gentleman: Told you.
Lady: Hmm.
Gentleman: I never find that as satisfying as I'd imagined.
Lady: Chin up. There's always next time.
Gentleman: I suppose there is.
[A sign warning people of a False Shepherd with the mark "AD" is seen. Booker
looks at his hand, seeing that very same mark.]
Booker: What the...?
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03) RAFFLE SQUARE [GS03]
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[Booker makes his way to the lottery drawing's stage where Jeremiah Fink is
speaking to the crowd.]
Fink: Splendid, haha! And now, the 1912 Raffle has officially begun!
Girl: Hey, mister! Mister!
[He finds a girl with many lottery balls in a basket.]
Girl: Wouldn't you like a ball?
Booker: Sorry, no sale.
Girl: Silly, there's never a charge for the raffle. You been sleeping under a
rock?
[He picks a ball and draws...]
Booker: Seventy-seven...
Girl: Seventy-seven? That's a lucky number. I'll be rooting for you.
Fink: Bring me the bowl! Is that not the prettiest young white girl in all of
Columbia? Haha!
[He picks the winning ball.]
Fink: All right then...the winner is...number seventy-seven!
Booker: Well, what do you know?
Girl: Over here! Over here! He's the winner!!
Fink: Number seventy-seven, come and claim your prize! First throw!
Crowd: First throw! First throw! First throw!
[The curtain raises as a white man and black woman are brought onstage.]
Bride: Please...please don't do this.
Groom: It was me. It was all me! Please, please! No... Please, what are you
doing?!
Fink: Come on, are you gonna throw it...or are you taking your coffee black
these days? Hahahahahaha!
Groom: Let her go, please! I'm the one you want!
Fink: Oh, looks like we've got a shy one here! Hahaha... We've gotta do
something about that! Time's a-wasting, my boy! Why don't you give her
a throw!
Booker: I got something for you, you son of a bitch!
Fink: Wait!
[He turns to throw the baseball at Fink, when a cop catches his throwing arm.]
Man: It's him!
Fink: Now, where'd you get that brand, boy? Don't you know that makes you the
back-stabbin', snake-in-the-grass False Shepherd?
Policeman: The False Shepherd!
Fink: And we ain't lettin' no False Shepherd into our flock, haha! Show him
what we got planned, boys!
[Booker mashes a cop's face into the other's hook weapon, claiming it himself.]
Fink: Stop him...stop him! The False Shepherd's come to lead our lamb astray!
Policeman: Come on! Move it, move it!
[As the crowd flees, Booker slays the attacking policemen.]
Policeman 2: This way! Cover the gate!
[Booker fights his way to Shady Lane.]
Booker: It's getting hot. What's going on?
[He kills a fireman, which drops something.]
Booker: A vigor, huh? Devil's Kiss. Well, you only live once.
[He drinks it, feeling the incinerating power in his body.]
Booker: Whew...that wasn't no sample.
[After killing some pursuers, he takes refuge in the Blue Ribbon restaurant.]
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04) COMSTOCK CENTER ROOFTOPS [GS04]
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[Booker finds the strange coin-flipping duo at the counter.]
Gentleman: We have company.
Lady: We do indeed.
Booker: Why are you following me?
Lady: We were already here.
Gentleman: Why are YOU following US?
Booker: I--
Lady: Aperitif?
Gentleman: You'll find that happy in a pinch.
Lady: The difference between life and death.
[Booker takes the shield upgrade.]
Booker: Ooh...what was that?
Lady: Hmm. Surprising.
Gentleman: Surprising that it worked?
Lady: Surprising that it didn't kill him.
Gentleman: But a magnetic-propulsive field around one's body can come in handy.
Lady: If it doesn't kill you.
Gentleman: A fair point.
[Outside, Booker can hear a loud broadcast.]
Gunship PA: Blood on the streets! And worse is the insult, because today is the
day that marks our secession from the Sodom Below!
[A hook's nearby.]
Booker: What if I could...hook onto them with this sky-hook?
[He jumps and easily gets across the huge gap, thanks to his device.]
Booker: Whooaaa!! Heh -- damn hook must be magnetized!
[Booker starts leaping across the rooftops.]
Gunship PA: As our Prophet has seen, the False Shepherd has come! He has come
take our lamb and lead her astray. Everyone stay calm and lock your
doors if you can... The Prophet has seen this day would come. The
answer is not in panic, but prayer.
[Booker finds a civilian house with a printing press.]
Man: Violence is not the answer! As much as I support her cause and her people,
blood must not be shed.
Woman: What do you expect these poor negroes to do? How they treat them -- it
was bound to happen!
Man: Violence is not a foregone conclusion.
[They see Booker.]
Man: It's him! The one they're after. Go...they're looking for you.
Voice: Police! We're in need of your assistance...
Woman: They're here!
Man: Shh! Keep your voice down!
Voice: Alright, let's move on.
[The police storm in and a gunfight breaks out.]
Woman: Get out!
[After, Booker finds the Fraternal Order of the Raven building's altar.]
Crow: And so, the Prophet lead us into Peking, where we demonstrated to the
Sodom Below the true mission our Founders had given us. And when the
Mandarins and hypocrites of Washington betrayed him, our Prophet did not
heel. He did not come crawling back for their forgiveness... Like our
fathers broke from the Great Apostate, our Prophet broke with these so-
-called patriots...and today is the day we celebrate this secession...
[He breaks up the ceremony and continues on. A radio reports on him.]
Radio: Shortly after one o'clock this afternoon, the scoundrel -- believed now
by many to be Vox Populi -- began his terrible rampage... Trouble began
almost instantly. Full of wrath and bent on harm, The Anarchist
maliciously wounded several Columbian peacemakers -- before then arming
himself and firing into an assemblage of virtuous fair-goers. As of this
hour, he is considered wholly responsible for causing at least eight
God-fearing Columbians to meet their Maker in Heaven... He is considered
brimming with danger and evil intent, and we implore you not to tempt
ruination by facing him without aid of Columbia's Finest... Now, back
to the music.
[Booker continues, hearing an argument in the distance.]
Chinese Prisoner: Why do you do this? I just want to go back to my family!
[He opens the door, seeing crows attack the bound man.]
Chinese Prisoner: Nooo! No! WHY? WHY?!
[On death, the murderer drops a crow-shaped bottle.]
Booker: What's this? Some new kind of vigor? That's a hell of a thing...
[Outside, more propaganda is being spread.]
Gunship PA: The False Shepherd, this anarchist, is either mulatto dwarf or a
Frenchman with a missing left eye, no more than four foot and nine
inches.
Booker: I bet I can get to Monument Island from that station.
[Booker enters a house, listening to someone give a statement downstairs.]
Female Witness: He was taller than that...slimmer. His eyes were farther apart.
Policeman: Mmm-hmm. What color were his eyes?
Female Witness: Blue. No, green...hmm, I can't remember. His eyes were bigger
than that...squinty.
Policeman: Okay, miss, can you recall his hair color?
Female Witness: It was, hmm...red and curly? He looked Irish to me. Yes, like
that!
Policeman: Okay, what about his temperament?
Female Witness: Oh-ho-ho-ho! He was certainly an anarchist. You can spot them
anywhere, you know.
Policeman: Oh, I know.
Female Witness: That's a close likeness.
[He eventually reaches the gateway via skyhook.]
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05) MONUMENT ISLAND GATEWAY [GS05]
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Automaton: We're sorry to say that Monument Island is off-limits. You've got
to go! Workmen should proceed to the island by means of the
sky-line.
Booker: The sky-lines, huh? Those things them coppers came riding in on back
by the lottery. That line heads to Monument Island. Worth a shot.
[He jumps to the skyline and immediately blazes toward the island.]
Booker: Whoaaa! Whoa!
Gunship PA: Give heed, believers! There is menace! There is threat! The False
Shepherd -- here in Columbia! Full of hate and avarice and guile,
like all his kind in the Sodom Below... He seeks the Lamb and
hastens to her tower, even now... His intent is RUIN...
[The skyline adventure continues.]
Booker: Need to head to the roof...and take that sky-line to Monument Island.
[He finds an lift with Comstock on a projector.]
Comstock: I know why you've come, False Shepherd. I see every sin that blackens
your soul. Wounded Knee. The Pinkertons. The drinking and the
gambling. And, of course, Anna. And now, to repay a debt, you've come
for my lamb. But not all debts can be repaid, Booker.
Booker: You don't know me, pal!
Comstock: Prophecy is my business, Mr. DeWitt, as blood as yours. Do you know
why these men will die for me? Because I have seen the future in
their glory, and hence they are content. What brought you to
Columbia, Booker? "Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt"? This
will end in blood, DeWitt. But then again, it always does with you,
doesn't it? It always ends in blood.
Booker: ...Jesus.
Comstock: You've come to lead my lamb astray, but thy crook is bent and thy
path is twisted. Go back to the Sodom from which you came! Go back!
[An explosion occurs nearby.]
Booker: Holy shit...
[He commandeers the Prophet's zeppelin.]
Booker: I got to find the controls to take this thing to Monument Island.
[A woman is praying at a shrine on the bridge.]
Booker: It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you. Just sit down, and everything
will be fine. Okay, I'm sure I can get this thing going.
[As he fiddles with the controls, Comstock's gunboat rises up to eye level.]
Comstock: The Lord forgives everything. But I'm just a prophet...so I don't
have to. Amen.
Woman: Amen.
[The woman sets herself on fire, and the bridge with it.]
Booker: Jesus! Gotta get the hell outta here!
[He leaps from the cargo bay to a sky-line below.]
Booker: Holy shit! That was close.
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06) MONUMENT TOWER [GS06]
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Booker: Well, there it is: Monument Island. Wonder why they got her locked up
in this place.
[He searches the place and finds an isolated test chamber.]
Booker: What the hell were they doin' to her?
[He finds a dark room with pictures of the girl mid-undress.]
Booker: They've been watching her.
[He flips a switch that tells the so-called specimen's location.]
Booker: Dressing room. That's where we need to go.
[Retracting a window divider, he sees the girl through the two-way mirror.]
Booker: That's her.
[Tracking her to the dining room, he sees her open a portal into Paris.]
Booker: Whoa! What is...?
[She closes the portal before an ambulance can run her over.]
Booker: Whatever that was, it's got nothing to do with the job at hand. This
job's getting worse all the time.
[He spots her again with the specimen tracker panel.]
Booker: Library.
[The next door leads out onto the island's windy exterior.]
Booker: Holy shit. Alright, I can do this.
[Back inside, the floor gives way.]
Booker: Oh god!
[He falls into the library, landing near the girl.]
Booker: Uhh...hello.
[She starts throwing books at him in self-defense.]
Booker: Hey -- ow -- knock it off! Ugh, will you stop it? Will you stop it?!
...I'm not here to hurt you.
Elizabeth: Who are you?
Booker: My name is DeWitt. I'm a friend. I've come to get you out of here.
Elizabeth: Get away.
[She quits resisting after a few moments.]
Elizabeth: Are you real?
Booker: I'm real enough.
[A weird whistle alarm sounds.]
Elizabeth: He's coming...y-you've gotta go.
Booker: Why?
Elizabeth: You don't wanna be here when he gets here.
[She yells at the hole Booker fell from.]
Elizabeth: Just a minute! I'm getting dressed!
Booker: I can get you outta here.
Elizabeth: There's no way out, trust me, I've looked.
[She yells at the ceiling again.]
Elizabeth: Stop it! You're too impatient! That's enough!
Booker: W-what about this?
[He holds up the key he received en route to the lighthouse.]
Elizabeth: What about it?
Booker: This is the way out, isn't it?
Elizabeth: W-what are you...? Give it to me!
[A weird chirping noise rings out as Liz tries out the key.]
Elizabeth: Huh... It's a way out! Come on, this way!
[The building shakes.]
Elizabeth: It's his job to keep me locked up in here!
Booker: We'll see about that!
Elizabeth: Who are you? Why did you come here? This way, come on!
Booker: Wait!
[Something outside the tower slashes partially through the wall.]
Elizabeth: Hurry!
Booker: Call the elevator!
Elizabeth: What?
Booker: The hell is that thing?! Press the button!
[As they wait, Liz notices the two-way mirrors into her various rooms.]
Elizabeth: What is all this? They were watching me? All this time... Why? Why
did they put me in here? What am I? What am I?!
Booker: You're the girl who's getting out of this tower.
[A kind of robotic avian smashes through the elevator, inches from the two.]
Elizabeth: We have to keep moving! He's tearing the building apart!
[They start ascending.]
Booker: Be careful, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: How do you know my name?
Booker: Not now.
Elizabeth: Hurry! There's a door up here!
Booker: Out of the way, let me try.
Elizabeth: Which way?!
Booker: Up!
[Out on the exterior, they can see the robotic guardian flying around. Part
of the building gives way, throwing them off into the clouds, but not before
Booker snags Liz and deftly snags the sky-line. The guardian recklessly gives
chase.]
Booker: Whoa!
[They watch as Monument Island's angel statue falls apart.]
Booker: Whoa!
[Part of the skyline falls apart, sending the two into the waters below. The
robot jumps in after Booker, but soon flees, seemingly taking damage. Booker
once again dreams he's in his old office; Liz is there this time.]
Male Voice: Mr. DeWitt! Mr. DeWitt!
Elizabeth: Bring us the girl...and wipe away the debt.
Male Voice: Are you in there, DeWitt?
Booker: Huh? What do you want with her?
Male Voice: We had a deal, DeWitt!
Booker: Tell me what you want with her!
Male Voice: Open this door, right now!
Booker: Are you going to hurt her? Tell me what you want!
[He opens the door.]
Booker: Anna? Annaaaa!
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07) BATTLESHIP BAY [GS07]
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[Booker comes to on a beach.]
Booker: Anna...Anna!
Elizabeth: No, it's me, Elizabeth. Are you alright?
Booker: Where am I?
Elizabeth: Back in the land of the living. Here, let me...
Booker: I'll be fine.
Elizabeth: You almost drowned, you need to--
Booker: I said, I'm fine...Just, just give me a minute...
Elizabeth: Do you hear that? It's music!
Booker: Go on...I just...just need to...
Elizabeth: Okay, I won't be long. I won't be long, Mr. DeWitt.
[Booker conks out, waking up later in the day.]
Booker: Where is she?
[He asks random beach-goers.]
Booker: Hey! You see a young girl?
Man: Is this some kind of sales pitch? Because I am not interested.
Booker: You see a young girl? Uh, blue skirt...no?
Woman: No, but I'm without an escort if you're looking to pass the time.
Booker: Hey, I'm looking for a young girl.
Man: Who isn't, brother?
[He sees an Aerodrome advertisement.]
Booker: An airship...that could be our ticket outta here.
[He finds Liz dancing at a beachside bandstand, but she playfully ignores him.]
Booker: Hey, miss. Miss! Could you just-- Hey, I need you to stop! Please stop.
Alright, miss...c'mon. Hey, miss...MISS...Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: Hello! Oh, this is wonderful! Oh, come dance with me, Mr. DeWitt!
Booker: I don't dance. C'mon, let's go.
Elizabeth: Why? What could be better than this?
Booker: Well...how 'bout Paris?
Elizabeth: Paris? I...don't understand. How can we get there?
Booker: Well, it's where that airship's goin', but if you want to stay and
dance, we could--
Elizabeth: No, let's go! C'mon, let's go! C'mon, let's go right now!
[They continue on.]
Elizabeth: I'm out. It's hard to believe but it's true, isn't it? Oh, can you
smell that? I've never smelled anything like that before, have you?
Booker: Beaches I know don't smell much like that.
[They enter a station, seeing a poster of Father Comstock.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt... Comstock. I've read about him. They say he can see the
future.
Booker: Give a man a little power, he falls in all kinds of love with himself.
Elizabeth: I don't like his look.
Shopkeep: Can you dislike the look of the Prophet? Or his gaze?
Elizabeth: Can we leave now?
[They continue upstairs.]
Elizabeth: Huh, that fall into the water did you no favors. I'll keep an eye
out for something that might ease your pain.
[They reach another boardwalk, this one selling jewelry.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt, here! Come look at these!
[The strange man and woman combo from before are there now.]
Gentleman: Bird?
Lady: Or the cage?
Gentleman: Or perhaps the bird?
Lady: Nothing beats the cage.
Booker: These two again. How do--...never mind.
[Elizabeth looks at their brooches; they have a bird and cage insignia.]
Elizabeth: Look at these, they're amazing! Which one do you like more? This
one...or this? The bird is beautiful, and the cage is somber, but
there's really something special about it. I just can't decide.
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Booker: The one on the right.
Elizabeth: Are you sure?
Booker: I'm sure.
Elizabeth: I love it!
Lady: Surprising. I expected the cage.
Gentleman: If you're going to be a sore loser, then I shan't do this
again.
Lady: Now that's just sophistry.
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Booker: The one on the left.
Elizabeth: Are you sure?
Booker: I'm sure.
Elizabeth: I love it!
Gentleman: I expected the bird.
Lady: If you're going to be a sore loser, then I shan't do this
again.
[Elizabeth, and a frightened crowd, watches her old tower in ruins.]
Elizabeth: My god...look.
Booker: You alright?
Elizabeth: It was my home.
Booker: We should get out of here.
Elizabeth: Let's go.
[The arcade nearby has an active police checkpoint. They frisk bystanders.]
Policeman: Make sure you have a piece of photographic identification ready for
presentation.
Policeman 2: Put those arms up now! Fingers apart. Legs apart. Stand still!
Now hold steady.
Booker: Well, I ain't gettin' through there.
Elizabeth: I have just the thing. Come on.
[She leads him to a door out of the cops' eyesight.]
Booker: Ahh, damn thing's locked.
[She takes out a bobby pin and fiddles with the tumblers.]
Booker: What are you doing?
Elizabeth: You're a roguish type, what does it look like? Done!
[She manages to get the door open.]
Booker: Where did you learn to pick locks?
Elizabeth: Trapped in a tower with nothing but books and spare time? You would
be surprised what I know how to do.
[They enter a backroom where a black worker is cleaning up.]
Worker: I must take any task with more than the slightest complexity -- or they
simply leave it in ruins for me to clean up later...
[He sees Booker and quickly adopts a mock slave accent.]
Worker: Oh! Ah...h'lo, suh. Doan you pay me no nevahmind. Jus' some
foolish-ness, y'know...haha...jus' monkeyshines.
Elizabeth: Hey. I found these silver eagles...there's a vending device over
there...there might be something to bring you back to health.
Booker: It's probably a good idea.
Radio: Is your housekeeper acting suspicious? Try asking the girl a few key
questions, such as "don't you think those Vox Populi folk have a valid
complaint against the Prophet?" And "I'm sure some of your friends have
attended meetings...I'd sure like to see what they're all about!" Now,
back to the music...
[Booker sees the interracial couple from the raffle.]
Bride: Hey...hey mister...we'd like to help you.
Booker: Do I know you?
Groom: Back at the lottery, you...without you, we wouldn't have gotten away.
Bride: Daisy always said someone like you would come along.
[They enter the bustling arcade.]
Elizabeth: What's that?
Vendor: Hey, here you go, little miss. Cotton candy, here! Get your cotton
candy!
Elizabeth: Mmmm. Mmmm! This is amazing. How have I never tried this? ...I can't
believe how much I've missed.
[They continue on.]
Elizabeth: Why is one bathroom for colors and one for whites?
Booker: It just is.
Elizabeth: Seems like an unnecessary complication.
[They head toward the gondola station.]
Elizabeth: Hey! Flawless Flintlock. The newest one in the series. I read it
was delayed THREE TIMES.
Woman: Annabelle?
Elizabeth: Excuse me?
Woman: Annabelle, it's me, Esther!
Elizabeth: Oh, no, I'm not Annabelle.
Esther: Are you sure?
Elizabeth: My name is Elizabeth. Do I know you?
Esther: Elizabeth? Isn't that a lovely name?
[She leaves.]
Elizabeth: That was odd.
[They also go through the turnstiles.]
Policeman: Last customer, park's closing. Park's closing, everyone!
[They go upstairs to the ticket offices. They find a clerk on a phone.]
Clerk: I don't know...suspect he's carrying something...he's with her. Sure,
we can get both apples with a single pick.
Booker: Hey... Hey! Excuse me.
[He rings the service bell.]
Booker: Two tickets for passage to the First Lady airship.
Clerk: Yeah, just a minute, friend. (to phone) Yeah, I have it. How do you
want to proceed?
Booker: In a bit of a rush, pal.
Elizabeth: Hey, mister, you're gonna get mustard all over your nice suit!
Clerk: Mmmm-hmmm. I got it. I'll ring you back once the matter's in hand.
Booker: I don't like this.
Clerk: Send in the bird, we're ready to execute.
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Booker: Excuse me, can I get some help here?
Clerk: Certainly, sir, sorry about the wait!
[He gets stabbed in the hand.]
Booker: Argh!
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Booker: Stay where you are!
Man: Move in!
Elizabeth: What are you doing?!
Esther: Get the girl!
Elizabeth: Get off of me!
[Booker kills the fake civilians in their ambush.]
Elizabeth: Get away from me! Let me out! I want out of here now!
Booker: Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: Stay away from me!
[She slips through the bars, fleeing ahead.]
Booker: Elizabeth!
[He fights off more policemen.]
Booker: Where is she? Ahh, great.
[He tracks her to the gondola platform.]
Booker: Just stay where you are!
Elizabeth: Get away from me!
Booker: Hey, come back here!
[He finds her on the gondola, frantically trying to escape, to no avail.]
Elizabeth: You killed those people. I can't believe you did that...they're
all dead... You killed those people!
Booker: Elizabeth, I--
Elizabeth: You're a monster!
Booker: What did you think was gonna happen? Hmmm?
Elizabeth: What?
Booker: Do you understand the expense people went through to keep you locked
up in that tower? You think people like that are just gonna let you
walk away? You are an investment...and you will not be safe until
you are far away from here.
Elizabeth: What do...what do they want from me?
Booker: I don't know.
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Booker: One thing I've learned: if you don't draw first, you don't get
to draw at all.
Elizabeth: You're bleeding. C'mere.
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Booker: But that is the last time anyone gets the drop on me.
Elizabeth: L-let me see your hand.
[She tends to his wound.]
Elizabeth: What happened back there, that...that's not the last of it, is it?
Booker: I don't know.
Elizabeth: There. I suppose I best get used to it. You know, I've read a thing
or two about medicine. I'll do my best to keep you supplied with
remedies...and if your wounds are deeper, I'll try to keep you on
this side of the abyss.
[They head through the deserted platform into the next area.]
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08) SOLDIER'S FIELD [GS08]
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[The interior has many models and references to Columbia's creation.]
Elizabeth: "Soldier's Field, built in 1903 by the hand of our Prophet."
Booker: What interest does a prophet have in a bunch of carnies and carousels?
Elizabeth: The place is themed to acquaint children with national service.
Booker: You mean the military.
Elizabeth: "Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he
will not depart from it."
Booker: Huh, did you write that?
Elizabeth: No.
[A gate near them shorts out.]
Elizabeth: The gate's shut up tight. Now how are we going to get to the
airship?
Booker: Let me see if I can get that gate open by hand.
[They go under the shutter.]
Elizabeth: "Shock Jockey. Who needs the power company?"
Booker: Some fool's alternative to electricity.
Elizabeth: Doesn't seem to work very well.
[As they get outside, they see a massive airship fly overhead.]
Booker: There it is, the First Lady. Looks like it's heading for the dock.
Elizabeth: And that will take us to Paris?
Booker: Just stay close.
Elizabeth: Yes, Mr. DeWitt.
Booker: Call me Booker.
Elizabeth: Oh, a-alright. Booker. Should we head to the gondola, or take a look
around the boardwalk? I suppose a place like this might have much
we'd find useful.
[They case the boardwalk.]
Elizabeth: Do you know why you were hired to come and get me?
Booker: I imagine they were interested in meeting you. No doubt for lockpicking
lessons.
Elizabeth: Why you?
Booker: I never even heard of this place before I got here.
Elizabeth: Huh...I assumed Columbia was common knowledge below.
Booker: Guess I got a bit behind with current events.
Elizabeth: What are you, Mr. DeWitt? Some sort of...?
Booker: I'm a, uh, independent contractor. Used to work for the Pinkertons
and such. Not something you'd want gracing a résumé...
Elizabeth: Pinkertons... Weren't they the ones they'd call in to settle things
when the workers took to striking?
Booker: Heh. "Settle." Well, that's a word for it.
[They find a library lounge.]
Elizabeth: Are you interested in gardening, Mr. DeWitt?
Booker: They frown on gardens in my part of town.
Elizabeth: And where is that.
Booker: The part with no gardens.
Elizabeth: So, Mr. DeWitt, is there a woman in your life?
Booker: There was...she died.
Elizabeth: How?
Booker: Giving birth.
Elizabeth: Oh...you have a child?
Booker: No.
[A theater nearby is putting on a Duke and Dimwit performance.]
Elizabeth: Look! Duke and Dimwit! You know..."remember, boys and girls, don't
be a dimwit!" How could you not know that?
Booker: Must be somethin' particular to Columbia.
Elizabeth: Oh, I loved those stories when I was a kid. But they are...they are
a bit...off-putting.
[Near the carousel...]
Elizabeth: Hmm.
Booker: What?
Elizabeth: I was just imagining you...on the carousel.
[They walk to the gondola landing.]
Booker: We need to summon the gondola if we intend to reach that airship.
Elizabeth: These seem to be the controls that summon her.
[The controls short out when used.]
Elizabeth: Looks like this runs exclusively on Shock Jockey.
Booker: Of course it does...where in the hell are we going to find that?
Elizabeth: Look! "Come see the future of power at the Hall of Heroes."
Booker: Ah. Well, that's convenient.
Gunship PA: Gentlemen, the False Shepherd is loose in the streets of our fair
city! Will you suffer the shame of allowing your wives and your
daughters to fall prey to his machinations? Or will you act? Act
for your womenfolk! Act for your Prophet! Act!
[They fight off some foes to reach the Hall's entrance.]
Elizabeth: "Hall of Heroes closed until further notice..."
Booker: Then there won't be a line to get in.
[They enter the elevator, but the power cuts, shaking the cab.]
Booker: Oof. What the hell?
Elizabeth: Is something wrong?
Booker: Ahhh, nothin' I can't fix.
Elizabeth: Agh! Oh, it's a bee. I-I hate these things!
Booker: Ah, jeez, just kill it.
Elizabeth: No, it'll sting me!
Booker: Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: I have a better idea.
Booker: What are you doing?
Elizabeth: I'm opening a tear!
[She opens a portal with her hands.]
Booker: Whoa, shit! What is that?
Elizabeth: It's a tear. I used to open them all the time in my tower.
Booker: B--what is a tear?
Elizabeth: It's like a-a...a window. A window to another world. Most of the
time they're dull as dishwater: a different-colored towel or tea
instead of coffee. But sometimes? Sometimes I see something amazing.
And I pull it through.
[She picks a rose from the newly-spawned bush.]
Elizabeth: There.
Booker: Good god. I don't suppose you've got an airship in there.
Elizabeth: I don't think so. But there is...th-there is something...I-- Oh no!
[Songbird flies around and sees Elizabeth's tear.]
Booker: Close it!
Elizabeth: I-I'm trying!
Booker: CLOSE IT!
[The tear disappears before Songbird can wreck anything. The lift descends.]
Booker: I don't really understand what I just saw back there, but it sure as
hell looks like a shortcut to getting us killed.
Elizabeth: But I could help...
Booker: I can handle whatever comes along. Trust me.
Elizabeth: Have it your way, I suppose.
[Beyond, the two find some troops on Sky Road.]
Founder: And when we strike, we will teach Cornelius Slate a lesson... Now, I
know you've all come to think of Slate as some kinda war hero. But let
me be abundantly clear: Cornelius Slate is NO HERO! Ah, he's been
living down in Finkton so long that the man has gone native! If Slate
had his way, the damn Coloreds and Potato-Eaters would be up in
Comstock House runnin' Columbia! Or, in your homes...copulatin' with
your wives! Now, he has holed himself up in the Hall of Heroes...and
it is our job to get him out...alive or dead. Once our gunships
arrive, we're gonna storm the Hall! Clear 'em out! And have you all
home in time for supper!
[Booker has a hard-fought battle with the soldiers.]
Booker: On second thought, I think those tears of yours might come in handy
next time we're in a scrape.
Elizabeth: Well there has to be a tear around for me to use...I can't just
pull 'em out of thin air.
[Liz remembers who the Founders were talking about.]
Elizabeth: Who's that?
Booker: Slate? I actually know the fella. Seems he's still got a knack for
making enemies.
[Booker finds a strange tablet.]
Elizabeth: Oh. It's a code book for a cipher. A secret message from the Vox
Populi.
Booker: Secret codes?
Elizabeth: The cipher should be around somewhere.
[At the Fellow Traveler, they find a hidden message.]
Elizabeth: Booker, look! That's what the codebook deciphers, I'm sure of it!
Booker: Huh.
Elizabeth: Let's see..."tip the hat to the Vox".
Booker: Well, there must be more to this place than meets the eye.
[Booker tips the hatrack to reveal a passage.]
Booker: Tip of the hat.
Elizabeth: Indeed.
[The secret room has posters of a black woman all over.]
Elizabeth: Daisy Fitzroy, I've read about her. Books say she's out to tear
Columbia from the sky.
Booker: Everybody's got a dream.
[They enter a souvenir shop.]
Elizabeth: Look at this! My tower. It's only fair they give me a cut of the
profits, don't you think?
[Finally, they reach the nearest sky-line.]
Elizabeth: They shut down gondola access to the Hall of Heroes. Must be because
of what's going on with that man Slate.
Booker: Well, I suppose we can take those sky-lines above us. We just need to
find a way to clear off that cargo first.
Elizabeth: This is going to be fantastic!
Booker: You think that keen eye of yours could find some ammunition lying
around? I sure could use it when there's trouble.
Elizabeth: It'll take some scrounging, but I'll do my best. The line's clear!
[They ride to the Hall's plaza and are shot at by snipers.]
Elizabeth: Looks like we found where your old friend Slate is.
Booker: Let's just find that Shock Jockey and get the hell out of here.
[With some difficulty, the team enters the massive building...]
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09) HALL OF HEROES [GS09]
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[A statue of Comstock looms over the lobby.]
Elizabeth: "Our Prophet, Father Comstock, Commander of the 7th Cavalry."
Booker: That man did not lead the 7th. Hell, I don't even remember the guy...
[A spotlight suddenly hits Booker as Slate radios in on the PA.]
Slate: Corporal DeWitt proved his worth on the field that day.
Booker: Well I'll be... Slate? Is that you?
Slate: You've always been different, haven't you, Booker? You crave no glory.
Booker: Look, I see you're...caught up in some kind of jam here. If you could
see fit to let us through to where they keep the Shock Jockey, then
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Slate: That tin soldier Comstock wants my boys dead. We won't die at his hands!
Booker: Shh! There's gonna be trouble.
Slate: All my men have left is a choice: die at the hands of a tin soldier, or
a real one!
[Ex-soldiers attack Booker and are put down.]
Slate: You see?! You're a killer, Booker, like it or not!
Booker: Just give us the Shock Jockey.
Slate: If you want the vigor, Booker, you will give my men a soldier's death.
They wait for you in Wounded Knee and Peking.
Elizabeth: I'll try to keep you stocked with both bandages and ammo, but...the
right materials aren't always at hand.
[Booker enters the Battle of Wounded Knee exhibit.]
Slate: The tin soldier has taken credit for the deeds of the real ones. Now,
your companion, young lady...he wrapped himself in glory on December 29,
Eighteen-Hundred and Ninety.
Elizabeth: What does he mean?
Booker: You don't wanna know.
Elizabeth: You...you were there...at Wounded Knee...I can see it in your face.
Slate: Tell her, Booker! Tell her how we strode that battlefield like the
heroes of Sparta! I still hear the screams...does Comstock?
[Enemies start attacking.]
Slate: Here's the soldier I spoke of! The kind of man Comstock pretends to be!
[Booker kills a contingent single-handedly.]
Slate: You see, young miss? The kind of man Comstock wishes he was? A real
soldier!
Booker: I don't wanna do this, Slate. Just give me what I need.
Slate: I will...after you do the same for me. Come and look for me amongst the
Boxers.
Elizabeth: Who are the Boxers?
Booker: The Chinese. He means to lead us to the other display.
Slate: Can you hear Comstock's tin soldiers coming to silence us? But we are
the true patriots! The history that does not fit in their books!
[He goes to the Peking exhibit.]
Elizabeth: What is this?
Booker: It's the Boxer Rebellion.
Elizabeth: What happened there?
Slate: In Peking? It was my hand that put the city to the torch. Of course,
that's not how Comstock tells it...
[They find a fantastic display in the very back.]
Elizabeth: Oh, I read about this...Comstock led the Columbian troops to
Peking and--
Slate: COMSTOCK WASN'T THERE! The Boxers took my eye and thirty of my friends!
Is there even a stone to mark that sacrifice?!
[Booker, again, slays Slate's troops.]
Slate: You did them a favor, Booker. You let them die like men.
Booker: I didn't ask for this! I have no quarrel with these men!
Slate: Heroes never ask--
Booker: I never claimed to be no hero.
Slate: Then what are you? If you take away all the parts of Booker DeWitt you
tried to erase, what's left? Come back to the rotunda...it's almost
over.
Elizabeth: What did Slate mean? What did you try to erase?
Booker: Now that you're out of yours, you might realize cages have their
advantages.
Elizabeth: A choice is better than none, Mr. DeWitt. No matter what the
outcome.
Booker: Yeah? What if you woke up one day and realized you didn't like what
you chose?
Slate: I've got what you need, Booker. You will find me past the First Lady's
memorial.
[They continue on.]
Elizabeth: Say what you want about Lady Comstock...the woman had an eye for
fashion.
Slate: You've seen what Comstock has done to my history. Now see how he's
rewritten his own.
Elizabeth: "The seed of the Prophet lay in the womb of our Lady but for a
single week." Comstock had a child...my books never mentioned
anything about a child.
Booker: That's quite an omission. Can't imagine that was by accident.
Elizabeth: "But the child took ill and Our Lady prayed for the Prophet's heir
both day and night."
[The next exhibit shows Monument Island.]
Elizabeth: That's my tower.
Comstock Statue: Lo! While Daisy Fitzroy has murdered my beloved, she shall not
have the child! She shall not come betwist her and prophecy!
The seed of the Prophet shall sit the throne, and drown in
flame the mountains of man!
Elizabeth: Am I...? Am I...?
Booker: You're Comstock's daughter.
Elizabeth: No, I can't be, I...I can't!
Booker: He wants you to follow in his footsteps.
Elizabeth: Well, I want a puppy, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna get one!
Elizabeth: I can get through these bars, but you're too broad. Let me scout
ahead, see if there's some way to move forward. Look!
[She tears an attachable hook into the room.]
Booker: Is that...?
Elizabeth: It's a tear. Something I can bring into this world.
Booker: It's a fright hook. Well that's convenient.
Elizabeth: As I said, it's a form of wish fulfillment. Alright, let me know if
you want me to bring that freight hook in.
[Booker jumps onto the hook.]
Elizabeth: I feel there's more where that came from. Whenever I get anxious,
tears have a way of appearing. Booker, do you see those tears? We
can use them against Slate's men... That tear will get us access to
higher ground...and that one will give us a turret...
Booker: And some cover...
[Together, they wipe out the nearby guards.]
Slate: Comstock's pet can do some wonderful tricks. Do you know what you've
got there, Booker?
Booker: That's enough, Slate! We just need the vigor to get out of Columbia.
We're taking it one way or another, Slate! Keep your eye open for that
Shock Jockey vigor.
Slate: Tin me, Booker. That's what Comstock will turn us into! Wires and gears
to replace heads and hearts!
[A motorized Patriot attacks.]
Elizabeth: Aim for his gears!
Slate: You see, Booker? Maybe you're the man I remember, maybe not. It doesn't
matter. Comstock took our stories and scrubbed away our soul. Now...he's
coming for me...and when I'm gone all that will be left is the lie.
Booker: Just give us what we came for!
[They search a back room.]
Booker: The whole place is ransacked. There ain't no Shock Jockey here.
Elizabeth: Slate must have taken them. Look! Is that...?
[They see purple footprints -- whoever dumped the vigors stepped in the goo.]
Booker: Slate. He's here.
[They backtrack and find the rotunda electrified. Ships creak in the distance.]
Elizabeth: What is that?!
Booker: Comstock's ships. He's coming for Slate.
Slate: It was SLATE who killed for his country at Wounded Knee! It was SLATE
who stormed the gates at Peking! SLATE!
Booker: Slate!
Slate: Comstock's coming, Booker! But our lives won't satisfy him -- oh no! He
won't rest until he's turned us into tin! I won't let him! He took my
past but that's all he's getting from me!
Booker: Just give us the vigor! We don't need to do this!
Slate: Here you go, boys! A soldier's death awaits!
[He sics his subordinates on his old comrade.]
Slate: You're not the Booker DeWitt I remember! Tin man! TIN MAN! Is that all
you can muster, soldier? Come on now, DeWitt! Don't disappoint the boys!
Come on, DeWitt! Show me what you're made of!
[Eventually, they find Slate. He proffers a pistol when Booker reaches in.]
Slate: You're not done here, soldier! Eat everything that's on your plate!
Finish it!
KILL SLATE
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Slate: They haven't changed you, Booker...not one bit...
[Booker shoots him in the head.]
Elizabeth: I suppose it was mercy. Comstock's men would have taken him.
Booker: I suppose it was.
SPARE SLATE
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Slate: You're a tin man now! A tin man!
[Booker leaves him to his thoughts.]
Elizabeth: You spared him.
Booker: It wasn't no mercy. Comstock's men will surely take him.
[Booker takes the vigor from Slate.]
Booker: Shock Jockey. Well, this better be worth it, Slate...
Elizabeth: Do you ever get used to it? The killing.
Booker: Faster than you can imagine.
Elizabeth: You know, those vigors seem very powerful. I'll do what I can to
keep you stocked in salts.
Booker: Thanks.
[They mop up the remnants of the 7th Cavalry.]
Elizabeth: Booker...I can tell what Slate said bothered you. You showed me --
sometimes you have to what's necessary to survive.
Booker: There's survival...and then there's finding pleasure in the act.
Elizabeth: Booker--
Booker: Look, you seem like a decent enough sort. That said, the less you know
about me, the better.
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10) SOLDIER'S FIELD [II] [GS10]
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[They return toward Soldier's Field.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt, I--
Booker: The name's Booker.
Elizabeth: I'll be certain to attend to that distinction...Booker...when
there's a moment where we're not being shot at. If you're
interested, I spotted some supplies over there.
[They fight and defeat another Patriot.]
Booker: They're all gone, c'mon out.
[They board an elevator.]
Booker: I don't think I understand how you...do what you do. These tears.
Elizabeth: I always thought of them as doors. When I was younger, I didn't just
open the ones I found; I remember making them.
Booker: ...Making them?
Elizabeth: I could go wherever I wanted, but I always wanted to come back...
Booker: To what?
Elizabeth: I don't know. My family?
Booker: Huh. How do you DO that...whatever it is?
Elizabeth: You know how I said I had plenty of time to read? Well, I tried to
figure it out. I read literature on physics and other such things.
Booker: Yeah? And what did that teach you?
Elizabeth: That there's a world of difference between what we see and what is.
[They finally make it back to a deserted Soldier's Field.]
Elizabeth: Booker, up there...another one of those Shock Jockey doors. Maybe
we should take a look.
[They fix the controls and call the aerodrome's cable car.]
Elizabeth: The gondola's coming!
[Comstock's voice rings out.]
Comstock: He will abandon you, my sweet Elizabeth. Once he has what he needs,
he will leave you alone. What else could you expect from a liar and
a killer of women?
Booker: Comstock.
Elizabeth: Father...Prophet...whomever you are, I'm leaving and there's naught
you can do to stop me.
Comstock: Oh, sweet child...that's where you're wrong.
Elizabeth: Rockets! Rockets, watch out!
[They hold off the attackers and snag a ride to the aerodrome.]
Elizabeth: When you were unconscious on the beach, you kept repeating a woman's
name. Anna.
Booker: I don't wanna talk about that.
Elizabeth: I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't have pried. Where are you from, Mr. DeWitt?
Booker: New York.
Elizabeth: What did you do there?
Booker: Business much like this. Not something that caters writing on a resume.
Elizabeth: It was a fine thing you came along when you did.
Booker: Heh. How do you think I ended up here? I gambled. And now I owe money
to men you don't want to be in debt to. I come here to pay it back. Me
busting you out -- what do you think that was? Charity?
Elizabeth: Who sent you?
Booker: Somebody who was willing to take my marker in exchange for you.
[They board another elevator.]
Elizabeth: So, looks like they call you the False Shepherd.
Booker: And you the lamb.
Elizabeth: Let's not call each other that.
Booker: Suits me.
Elizabeth: How'd you figure they know you'd be coming?
Booker: Either they've got a prophet on their side...
Elizabeth: Har har.
Booker: ...or them that hired me also wrote the signs.
Elizabeth: Why?
Booker: Got me.
[They enter the First Lady and start the zeppelin.]
Booker: You alright?
Elizabeth: I want to see Paris. I want to see...everything.
Booker: Well, that's up to you now. There's no one--
[Elizabeth notices the coordinates he put into the ship's controls.]
Elizabeth: Wait! What is that? 40 North by 74 West. That's not Paris, that's
New York.
Booker: How'd you know that?
Elizabeth: One thing I had in that tower was time, Mr. DeWitt. Time to study
things like geography.
Booker: I owed money. And there's a fellow...he offered to wipe away my debt,
in exchange for you.
[Elizabeth starts crying.]
Booker: Come on, it-- C'mon, everything's going to be okay. Will you just turn
around and talk to me, and we can--
Elizabeth: Whah!
[She clubs him with a monkey wrench.]
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11) FINKTON DOCKS [GS11]
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[In his hazy, addled memory, he sees Elizabeth fiddle with the controls, then
bail when a gunship approaches. Later, Vox Populi can be seen inspecting the
interior, including one who knocks Booker's lights out again. Next time he
comes to, he's half-hung out of the airship's door.]
Booker: Oh, shit!
Vox Populi: Daisy, fresh air did the trick. This one's awake.
Daisy Fitzroy: So you're this "False Shepherd" we been hearing so much about.
Caused a mess of trouble at the raffle.
Booker: You Fitzroy?
Daisy: Nothin' but.
Booker: I got no quarrel with you or your Vox Populi. But this is my airship
you're hanging me out of, and I've got perilous need of it.
Daisy: Really? 'Cause it sure look like ol' Comstock's airship to me.
Booker: Listen, I ain't lookin' for a fight.
Daisy: There's already a fight, DeWitt. Only question is, which side you on?
Comstock is the god of the white man, the rich man, the pitiless man.
But if you believe in common folk, then join the Vox. If you believe in
the righteous folk, then join the Vox.
Booker: I just want my ship.
Daisy: And the Vox shall give her to you. But first, you must help the Vox.
Down in Finkton, there's a gunsmith who can supply weapons to our cause.
Get our guns from him, and you shall have your ship back.
Booker: Whoaaaaaa!
[Daisy's helper pushes him out of the ship. He lands on the Finkton docks.]
Booker: Better find Elizabeth before she lights outta here.
[Further in, Booker spies Liz being pushed around.]
Worker: Get outta here, snipe. You wanna know what we do to pretty little
stowaways? Or maybe you don't.
Booker: Hey! Ergh, just stop for a minute!
Elizabeth: Get away from me! Stay away!
Booker: I just wanna talk to you!
Elizabeth: I said stay away!
[She tears a distraction before running away again.]
Booker: Elizabeth! Just hold up for a minute! I'm not angry with you.
Elizabeth: Get away from me! Stay away!
[She opens another tear, this time causing a marching band to appear.]
Booker: Hey, watch out! Move it! Move!
Elizabeth: Stay back!
[Her next tear almost hits him with a speeding train.]
Booker: Whoa! Goddamnit!
Elizabeth: I am not going with you!
Booker: Don't go in there!
Elizabeth: I have no need for one such as you!
[Her next tear puts her right near the enemy.]
Founder: It's her! Call it in, call it in!
Elizabeth: No! Let me go!
Founder: We got her!
Booker: There's gotta be another way in.
[As Booker follows, he can hear Liz and her captors nearby.]
Announcer: Requested troops are on their way. Keep close watch... A Handyman
will be about to collect her shortly.
Founder: That's enough outta you!
Elizabeth: Let go of me! Get your hands off of me! Let me go!
Founder 2: Comstocks wants you and we mean to give you to him! I want you to
be quiet!
[Booker kills the assailants, but Liz still flees.]
Booker: Will you stop already?!
Elizabeth: I am NOT going with you!
Booker: Elizabeth, wait!
[He finally catches up, except he's attacked by a handyman.]
Handyman: False Shepherd!
[The handyman easily throws him off the docks. Just as he's about to fall to
his inevitable death, Liz tears a zeppelin below him, cushioning his descent.]
Booker: H-hey! I'm slipping!
Elizabeth: Do not attempt to follow me, Mr. DeWitt!
Booker: Elizabeth, I've made an arrangement to get our airship back.
Elizabeth: You can get us out of here?
Booker: Yes. I just need to supply enough weapons to arm an entire uprising.
Elizabeth: And where will we get these weapons? From one of our many friends
and allies?
Booker: A gunsmith in Finkton. Should be a walk in the park. What do you say?
Partners?
Elizabeth: You're a liar, Mr. DeWitt, and a thug. But you're also my only means
of reaching Paris.
[She pulls him onto the dock and continues to sulk.]
Elizabeth: Don't get too comfortable with my company, Mr. DeWitt. You are a
means to an end, no more.
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12) FINKTON PROPER [GS12]
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Elizabeth: That would be your gunsmith. Who sent you to find this person?
Booker: Daisy Fitzroy.
Elizabeth: She's either a great hero or the worst of scoundrels, depending on
who's doing the telling.
Booker: If she's good for an airship, I don't care if she's the Queen of
Holland.
Automaton: Welcome to Fink Industries recruitment! We are not looking for any
help. You hear that? No help!
Elizabeth: How are we going to get into Finkton?
Booker: Illegally. Let's look for another way in.
[They break into the downstairs floors.]
Elizabeth: Over there, a service elevator. Should take us down to Finkton.
Booker: And get ourselves killed in the bargain.
[They investigate the lower offices.]
Elizabeth: "Gunsmith Chen Lin wanted for known connections to the outlaw Daisy
Fitzroy."
Booker: Looks like our guy's drawn attention.
Elizabeth: That's not good, is it?
Booker: No.
[They wait for the elevator to load. Liz finds a book nearby.]
Elizabeth: Booker, it's Slate's locker. He must have worked here. Wha...I...
This is my mother's diary. Why would Slate have it? "My husband
claims the child was created from whole cloth by divine will. I am
a believer, but I am not a fool. His...bastard...shall not be raised
under this roof." My mother...SHE had me locked in that tower.
Booker: Elizabeth...
Elizabeth: I just want to get out of this city. PLEASE...
[They start the descent to Finkton. Some of Fink's nonsense plays on the PA.]
PA: Greetings! My name is Jeremiah Fink, and I want to share with you my
personal creed. What is the most admirable creature on God's green earth?
Why, it's the bee! Have you ever seen a bee on vacation? Have you ever seen
a bee take a sick day? Well, my friends, the answer is no! So I say, be...
the bee! Be the bee!
[The phone suddenly rings.]
Booker: Ummm...hello?
Secretary: Mr. DeWitt?
Booker: Uh, yes?
Secretary: Hold for Mr. Fink, please.
Elizabeth: What's going on?
Fink: DeWitt? Fink here. Listen, my boy...we had our eye on you, and I can tell
you right now, you are our top candidate! Top! My associate Mr. Flambeau
will help you with anything, haha.
Elizabeth: What the hell was that?
Booker: I have no idea.
Elizabeth: He seems oddly pleased to make your acquaintance.
[They see a gigantic statue in the likeness of Fink.]
Elizabeth: Well, the man's got an ego.
[Fink's PA propaganda starts up again.]
PA: Now, some say to me, "Fink, why is it we get paid in tokens that are only
good at the company store?" Well, I'll tell you what: I'll be damned if I'd
let any of you poor folk get robbed at some shady establishment. You see,
the Fink company store brings you Fink products! At a price designed
specifically for the Fink worker!
[As they leave the elevator, they find Fink's crony waiting.]
Flambeau: Mr. DeWitt, welcome to Finkton. You'll find a variety of supplies
here that should see you through your visit.
Elizabeth: What does Mr. Fink want with us?
Flambeau: Excuse me, miss, but Mr. Fink's interest is strictly in the
gentleman.
Elizabeth: But why--
Flambeau: So sorry, young miss. But any questions regarding the gentleman's
application should be taken up with Mr. Fink directly.
Elizabeth: Does this strike you as good news? It doesn't strike me as good
news. What do you think? Head to the gunsmith or scavenge supplies
by that clock shop?
[They find an odd red tear in one of the buildings. It plays "Fortunate Son"]
Elizabeth: Here that? Music. It's coming through that tear.
Booker: I never heard that song before.
Elizabeth: I don't suspect anyone's heard that song.
[They find the factory entrance.]
Booker: Can you get this open?
Elizabeth: I've never even seen a lock like this. Anti-pressure device, a
spring-loaded wiper, a relocker. You'd need a battering ram to open
it.
[They check out the clock shop, finding a cipher.]
Booker: Huh. So do we need to find the codebook?
Elizabeth: Yes...hmm...looks like everything's been impounded at the Good Time
Club. Maybe that's where we'll find it.
[They locate Chen's abode.]
Elizabeth: Here it is, Booker. "Chen Lin, Gunsmith".
[They enter the gunsmith's shop and find a shrine.]
Elizabeth: I've read about this...that's Gautama Buddha.
Booker: Who?
Elizabeth: The founder of Buddhism. He spent 49 days under a Bodhi tree until
he achieved enlightenment.
Booker: Something tells me Comstock doesn't cater to idols getting worshipped
that ain't him.
[They reach the ransacked top floor.]
Booker: Hello? Hello! Mr. Lin? Chen Lin? Is anybody here?
Elizabeth: What happened here?
Booker: Someone worked this place over. Local constabulary, no doubt.
Elizabeth: You hear that? There's someone downstairs.
[They find a woman crying at the Buddhist shrine.]
Booker: Excuse me... Ma'am, I'm sorry to bother you. I ju--...we're looking
for Mr. Lin? Mr. Chen Lin?
Elizabeth: Booker...
May Lin: Mr. Lin not here. He...gone.
Elizabeth: Gone?
May Lin: They take Flying Squad. I pray Gautama Buddha. Pray give husband back.
Give back to May Lin.
Elizabeth: Where did they take him?
May Lin: Club. Everyone take to Good Time Club.
Booker: Where is this club? Ma'am, please -- where is this club?
Elizabeth: Booker, we'll find it. Just leave her be.
May Lin: Why not Vox Populi help Chen Lin? Why not Daisy Fitzroy help Chen Lin?
Elizabeth: Who are the Flying Squad?
Booker: Cops. The kind that probably got their boot on Lin's throat, asking him
how well he knows Daisy Fitzroy.
Elizabeth: Isn't she the one we're working for?
Booker: As a matter of fact, it is. Alright, now let's figure out where this
Good Time Club is.
[They head across the street.]
Elizabeth: Watch out! Handyman!
[Booker takes on the gargantuan and slays it.]
Elizabeth: I don't much care for you, Mr. DeWitt...but I must admit, you know
your way around a brawl. I'm sorry about what I said at the dock...
you know, calling you a thug.
Booker: Yeah? Can't see how I might've changed your sense of that.
Elizabeth: You protected me.
Booker: Job's a job.
Elizabeth: There it is, Mr. DeWitt.
Booker: Now we just need to head inside and find Mr. Lin...and, just...call me
Booker.
[They enter the club.]
Automaton: Welcome to the Good Time Club, sir or madam! Where the lions roar!
The show is about to begin!
Fink: Ah, DeWitt, my boy! You know, the best kind of interview is one where the
applicant doesn't know he's being evaluated! Hahaha! But, I've watched
you since the other day at the lottery. Heh heh...you're a brute! And in
times like this, I could use a brute!
Booker: What do you want, Fink?
Fink: Why, labor unrest is coming, DeWitt! Heh heh. Now, Fitzroy has got the
jungle all riled up. A man like me could have use for an old Pinkerton
like you.
[They enter the balcony.]
Booker: Let's find Chen Lin and get the hell out of here.
Fink: Now, now! All I ask is that you finish what you started, DeWitt. Wouldn't
want to disappoint the other applicants! Our first candidate is a veteran
of Peking...now what's that they say about old soldiers? Hahahaha!
Frankly, my money's on you... He's something of an old hand at handling
explosives...only man I know who hasn't, heh heh, lost a limb working
with them. Yet.
Elizabeth: Fireman!
Fink: Heh heh, yes! Yes! Quite the eager beaver, isn't he. We're getting
excellent results!
[Booker slays the fireman.]
Fink: This young go-getter is a former devotee of Lady Comstock. But without
the old gal, they just don't know quite what to do with themselves!
Picked this one up at the Hiring Fair, for a song!
Elizabeth: Crow! See him?
Fink: Haha! Son! I do say I like the cut of your chin!
[Booker kills the gunmen.]
Fink: Now, enough of the opening acts! Your true rival is an expert with the
automata...wants to replace all our security with machines! I'll give
the old boy credit, though: it would be fewer mouths to feed! Hahahaha!
That's it! That's it! Why, that sort of ambition, my boy, will serve you
well at Fink Industries! My, my, my! Quality work!
[Booker slays the Patriot and mosquitos.]
Fink: Congratulations, DeWitt! You know, when your name was first passed to me,
I wasn't quite sure you were the man for the job, heh heh! But now, I can
say with certainty that I was quite wrong!
Booker: I'm not interested in your job, Fink!
Fink: Now, now, I know all about your little job for Fitzroy. But do you really
want to take her job over mine? Do you know how many people would kill to
be Head of Fink Security? You're a tough nut to crack, Mr. DeWitt! A
tough nut! But, I promise you this...I will get what I want.
Elizabeth: Booker, theres a door over here. I think that's the way down.
[They go downstairs.]
Guard: C'mon, Frannie, you're a modern woman -- it's 1912!
Woman: It's gonna be 2012 before I'm interested in one like you.
[They slay the guards and find a blackboard describing prisoner setups.]
Elizabeth: Look! "Chen Lin, cell number 9."
Booker: Hmm... I used to work for folks like Fink.
Elizabeth: Really?
Booker: I was with the Pinkertons. They'd call us in when the workers got
restless.
Elizabeth: To do what?
Booker: Demonstrate the folly of men striking, throwin' down tools.
Elizabeth: You hurt people...
Booker: I'll tell you this: sometimes there's precious need for folks like
Fitzroy.
Elizabeth: Why?
Booker: Because of folks like me.
Elizabeth: Over here! That's it. That's the book for the clock shop!
[Elizabeth finds a projector and plays it. It's of Lin's interrogation.]
Guard: Tell us what you know about Fitzroy, you goddamn gook! We know you can
hear us! You wanna say something? Or you want us to bring in Mrs. Lin
for company?
Elizabeth: Huh.
Guard: Eh...throw a cold bucket of ice water on him, we got three more to bring
in tonight.
[They continue further down.]
Elizabeth: Ugh...what's that smell?
Booker: Ain't no privies down here.
Elizabeth: They treat them like animals. What could people have done to deserve
to be locked up in a place like this?
Booker: Fink don't need much of a reason.
Elizabeth: No...no he doesn't.
[They find Lin's cell.]
Elizabeth: This is it, isn't it?
Booker: Yep, number nine.
Fink: DeWitt, you're a lion. But you can't blame me for looking after my own
interests, can you? Now, I know Fitzroy has come calling...but I think
you'll find your business with her has come to an end, heh heh. Lions
walk with lions, DeWitt, not hyenas!
[They turn the light on, revealing Lin's corpse.]
Elizabeth: Booker...
Booker: We're too late, goddamnit...
Elizabeth: Fink...this is what he meant...
Booker: Now we need to find someone else to make those guns.
Elizabeth: No.
Booker: Dead is dead, Elizabeth.
[He looks up to see the strange man and woman from several times before.]
Gentleman: Dead is dead.
Booker: What? ...The hell did...?
Lady: I see...heads.
Gentleman: And I see tails.
Lady: It's all a matter of perspective.
Booker: Why are you following us? Who sent you, Comstock? What do you want
from--
Gentleman: What do you see here, from this angle?
Lady: Dead.
Booker: Listen--
Lady: And that angle?
Gentleman: Alive.
Elizabeth: Booker...Chen Lin...
[Booker moves aside and sees a tear enveloping the corpse.]
Booker: The body's gone.
Gentleman: It was never here.
Booker: It's another Columbia.
Elizabeth: A different Columbia.
Gentleman: The same coin.
Lady: A different perspective.
Gentleman: Heads.
Lady: Tails.
Gentleman: Dead.
Lady: Alive.
Elizabeth: We have to go through...to this other Columbia, but...how?
Gentleman: It's like riding a bicycle.
Lady: One never really forgets.
Gentleman: One just needs the courage to climb aboard.
Elizabeth: If we go into this tear...I don't think I'll be able to bring us
back. Are you sure you're ready?
Booker: Okay, open it.
[They enter the tear, putting them in parallel Good Time Club basement.]
Elizabeth: Look! There's no blood.
Booker: And no body.
Elizabeth: It's another world, Booker. Another Columbia.
[They can hear riotous yelling far above.]
Booker: Something tells me one dead gunsmith ain't the only thing that's
changed.
[They backtrack to the projection room. This time, the film has changed.]
Guard: Daisy Fitzroy. C'mon, you piece of shit. Tell me about Daisy--
Guard 2: Cut him loose.
Guard: What?
Guard 2: Scofield says cut him loose. They're bringing his tools to the lockup.
That'll keep him clean, I guess.
Guard: Why?
Guard 2: What are you, the Columbia Gazette? The chink's wife got friends in
high places. Come on, we need the cell.
Booker: I don't understand how Chen Lin is alive now.
Elizabeth: We're in a world where he was never murdered. Somewhere we'll find
out why, I suppose.
Booker: I don't suspect you can change something like that and have everything
else remain the same.
[They find two guards, killed in the previous world, writhing in insanity.]
Elizabeth: These men...
Booker: I killed them. They were dead.
Elizabeth: Not in this world... Booker, their noses... They're...they're all
bleeding...
Guard: I'm disgusted, DISGUSTING, sick, sick, sick...
Guard 2: Did I...why am I still here...?
Guard: I hate one of me...WHO DO I HATE? Can't tell WHICH ONE... Two in here...
Who is the I? Which ONE hates WHICH?
Guard 2: Wh-what do we do now?
[They continue upstairs.]
Booker: What was wrong with them?
Elizabeth: They remembered...
Booker: Remembered what?
Elizabeth: Being dead.
[They enter the club floor, now filled with enemies and Fink's voice. Since
it's another world, Fink's proposition to Booker never took place.]
Fink: WHAT is going ON here, SANSMARK? As my HEAD of Security, I suspect YOU'LL
want to find out HOW these two slipped past YOUR MEN, and WHAT THEY WERE
DOING IN THE BASEMENT!
Sansmark: You got it, J.F.! Make me look bad with the boss, will ya? Well we'll
see about that!
[Booker kills the assailants.]
Elizabeth: That man we just fought. In the other world, he was the one who was
strung up on the wall.
Booker: "In the other world?" This whole business makes my head hurt.
[They exit the club back to the Plaza of Zeal. A sign notes no jobs are open.]
Elizabeth: Booker, look. Looks like Fink isn't giving you the job.
[They return to the clock shop.]
Elizabeth: All right, give me a second. "The broken clock tolls at midnight."
Booker: Which clock? This looks like the one.
Elizabeth: Set it to midnight.
[Doing so reveals a hidden cache.]
Booker: Well, I'll be...
[They return to the machinist's store.]
Elizabeth: Do you hear anything?
Booker: Huh?
Elizabeth: No machines. No tools.
Booker: Let's go find that gunsmith. Maybe he's upstairs now.
Elizabeth: Booker, look. The shrine...it's a figure of Comstock now.
[They find Lin upstairs, but he's afflicted by the tear like the guards were.]
Booker: Um, Mr. Lin? Chen Lin? 'Scuse me, Chen Lin?
Chen Lin: Who are you? You speak up! Speak up! Can't hear you over all these
machines! Very loud!
Booker: I'm Booker DeWitt--
Chen Lin: Stand back! These machines very dangerous. Wait downstairs with Mrs.
Lin.
Booker: Uh, Daisy Fitzroy sent us. W-we need to talk to you about getting some
weapons.
Chen Lin: Machines very dangerous. No place for stupid people. Want to lose
pretty head?
Booker: Mr. Lin--
Chen Lin: Downstairs!
Booker: What is wrong with him?
Elizabeth: Remember him dead in that cell? Maybe in some way he remembers that,
too. How would you reconcile that?
Booker: I don't know.
[His wife praying at the shrine, but she's not the same woman as before.]
Sarah Lin: Heal my husband. Calm his troubled thoughts. Ease his burden. Bring
Chen Lin back to me.
Booker: Excuse me, ma'am, I'm looking for Mrs. Lin.
Sarah Lin: I'm Mrs. Lin.
Booker: No, I mean a little Chinese lady. She was--
Elizabeth: Booker. This IS Mrs. Lin.
Sarah Lin: They took Chen's tools. What's he got without his tools?
Booker: Well your husband is a bit out of sorts.
Sarah Lin: If he could work again, maybe...i-if he could work, he'd--
Elizabeth: Mrs. Lin, can you tell me who took your husband's tools?
Sarah Lin: Goddamn police. They took them and locked them up, in the impound
in Shantytown.
Elizabeth: Is she right? Would having his tools back fix his mind?
Booker: Who cares. We're not getting any guns if Chen Lin doesn't have his
tools. Let's head to Shantytown.
Elizabeth: Did you notice? Lin had a bloody nose.
Booker: Seems to be in style.
Elizabeth: This tear...I'm not so sure it was a good idea.
[At the Shantytown entrance, they wait for cargo to move.]
Elizabeth: If you want to ask me, ask me.
Booker: About what?
Elizabeth: My finger.
Booker: I...I didn't...
Elizabeth: It's alright. It's as much a mystery to me as anyone else. Maybe
Songbird knows, but he's not talking.
Booker: Heh. Uh, I'm sorry...
Elizabeth: What for? I get to wear this stylish thimble to cover up my hideous
deformity. I hear they're all the rage in Paris.
[They take an elevator down.]
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13) SHANTYTOWN [GS13]
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Elizabeth: You must think me some sort of...freak. A girl who can bring dead
men back to life...whose only acquaintance is a...giant bird
creature. I must seem ridiculous.
Booker: You just got dealt a bad hand.
Elizabeth: I am not going back to that tower, no matter what happens.
Booker: They won't stop until they have you.
Elizabeth: Why? What did I do to them?
Booker: You frighten them.
Elizabeth: Good.
[At the bottom, they find a street preacher talking to the disenfranchised.]
Brother Love: This is what they want, brothas...to keep you so HUNGRY you
can't speak but to beg... To keep you so IGNORANT you can't think
of solutions to all your problems... To keep you CHASIN' that
almighty SILVER EAGLE, so you can BUY EVERYTHING they're sellin'
to keep you down, brothas... But Daisy Fitzroy says there's
ANOTHER WAY...another way comin' REAL SOON.
Elizabeth: These people are like this because of Fink? Maybe Daisy's right.
Maybe she should pay him back for all of this.
Booker: Not before she pays us. We're here for guns and then the airship.
[They head toward the Bull Yard.]
Founder: The Vox Populi are the bastard child of the Foreigner and the Heathen,
and like all bastards, we serve it best by smothering it in its crib.
We hear tell that the gunsmith was making weapons for the Vox. We
squashed that gunsmith like a bug and took his tools for our own.
Make no mistake, soldiers: the Vox and weapons go together like fire
and gunpowder. One spark and we'll have a blaze we cannot control.
Elizabeth: Booker, there's the impound.
Founder: We're gonna have to get through an army to get those tools.
[They slay the opponents to enter the impound lot.]
Elizabeth: There they are. The tools!
Booker: Now we just have to get them back to the Vox, and then we get our
airship.
Elizabeth: Who are we really helping by getting guns for the Vox Populi?
Booker: It's gonna help us.
Elizabeth: Daisy can make a change, can't she? Make things better for the
people here.
Booker: Sure.
[They find Chen's tools...all of them gigantic and heavy.]
Booker: Well, we sure as hell aren't gonna be able to carry this all back to
the shop. God, we didn't think this all the way through.
[He spies another tear.]
Booker: What is that?
Elizabeth: It looks like a tear...to a-another version of this room that
doesn't have any tools in it.
Booker: Well, if the tools aren't in there, then...
Elizabeth: Then they must be--
Booker & Elizabeth: --back at the shop!
Elizabeth: Booker, if we go into this tear...I don't think there's any turning
back. Are you sure you want to go now?
Booker: Do it.
[They go through the tear, finding the area full of guns, not contraband.]
Elizabeth: Well, that did something.
Booker: Come on, let's head back to the gunsmith and finish our deal. I aim to
be on that airship, and well shut of this place 'fore long.
Elizabeth: Booker, if the Vox get their weapons, there's going to be a
revolution just like in Les Miserables! These people are gonna have
better lives.
Booker: Yeah.
[They can hear a battle outside the building.]
Founder: They're coming, the Vox are coming! Come on, let's go! It's the Vox!
Elizabeth: Can you feel it? Daisy's moved these people! Things CAN change,
Booker, and we can be a part of it!
Booker: I don't WANT to be a part of it. Once we get our airship, we'll be well
shut of this place.
[They exit back into Shantytown.]
Daisy: Comstock says all this trouble, all this strife, is on our heads. Says
we're to blame. Says ain't nobody got nothing to complain about, and if
it's not fine for you and yours, that's 'cause you a backslider and
you've fallen into sin... Hmph. Let me tell you about sin. It's a sin
when you turn on your tap and ain't no hot water come out. It's a sin
when you work 18-hour days and can't feel your young ones. It's a sin
that Comstock sleeps in his mansion on a hill, and you got to make your
bed in hay and straw. But I'm here to tell you something, brothers and
sisters: the biggest sin of all, the mother of all sins, is that we sit
back and take it.
[They plow through an ongoing battle.]
Man: You...you're Booker DeWitt, the hero of the Vox!
[He runs off ahead.]
Booker: What the hell are they talking about...
Elizabeth: Look at that poster! In this world, you're a hero...
Booker: I remember I led the Vox, I...Slate and I...burned down the Hall of
Heroes...
Elizabeth: Booker, your nose...you're bleeding.
Booker: Hard to think. There's two memories in the same place...
Elizabeth: Booker, come back to me... We're going to find Daisy Fitzroy...
Booker: And we're getting out of here on the First Lady...let's go.
[Daisy's voice rings out to her celebrating people.]
Daisy: Booker DeWitt died for this day! It was he who spoke with one voice of
the people! Now is the time to stand true to his cause! Now is the time
for Fink to fall! To the factory! Let the mighty be laid low! For the
people, for Booker DeWitt, and the true voice! We're going to the
factory -- and we're not just gonna burn it down! Only way to be sure is
to pull it up from the roots!
[They pile back into the Finkton elevator.]
Elizabeth: In this world, you were a martyr...
Booker: These folk need a better class of hero. When it comes down to it...the
only difference between Comstock and Fitzroy is how you spell the name.
Elizabeth: Well...I guess we did it. I don't know if I brought us to a world
where the Vox had weapons...or I created one.
[They return to the gunsmith's, but they're both dead.]
Elizabeth: No...no, this is not what I meant to happen...
Booker: Elizabeth...
Elizabeth: They're dead, Booker!
Booker: Come on, let's leave this place. Let's go to the factory and get our
airship. This isn't our responsibility -- none of it. You just opened
a door to this world and we stepped through.
Elizabeth: Are you sure, Booker? Did I just bring us to a world where Chen Lin
was alive, or...or did I create it? I told you, I always thought
that my little trick was a form of wish fulfillment. I got my wish.
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14) THE FACTORY [GS14]
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[They approach the factory with the rebels.]
Vox Populi: Open that gate and the factory is ours!
[A massive zeppelin appears to bracket the walkways with fiery blasts.]
Vox Populi: No way to open the gates with that zeppelin fire!
Booker: They can't get that door open until someone takes that airship out.
Elizabeth: Are we volunteering?!
[Booker uses a sky-line to mount the ship.]
Booker: Need to sabotage the engine and bring this thing down.
[He kills the crew and uses his skyhook to cut into the engine.]
Booker: Okay...now to get off this thing.
[He jumps back down to ground level.]
Crowd: Yeah! Booker DeWitt!
Elizabeth: Booker, that was amazing.
Booker: Come on, Elizabeth. Let's go find Daisy in the factory.
Vox Populi: The gates are open! NOW LET'S TAKE THEIR HEADS!
[Booker and Liz finally get into Fink's stronghold.]
Elizabeth: Daisy said she was coming here for Fink.
Booker: We need to take that elevator up. Bet it leads to Fink's offices
[They ascend, watching vigors and vending machines being made by assembly.]
Elizabeth: They're just right for each other, aren't they?
Booker: Who?
Elizabeth: Fitzroy and Comstock. May Lin...Mr. Lin...my god, I...I was so set
on going to Paris...I didn't really think that--
Booker: You couldn't have known this would happen.
Elizabeth: I had a role in this catastrophe, if, if you want to pretend we're
innocents in this, then that's you're prerogative, but--
[The phone rings.]
Booker: Umm...hello? ...Fink?
Daisy: I saw you die, Booker. Saw it with my own eyes.
Booker: Fitzroy. Listen, I got you your guns. I'm here for my airship.
Daisy: But my Booker DeWitt died for the Vox Populi. You either an imposter...
or a ghost. My Booker DeWitt was a hero to the cause. A story to tell
your children. You...you just complicate the narrative.
[The Vox turn on Booker. Through a window, he sees Daisy and Fink.]
Elizabeth: Booker!
Fink: No! Stop it! No! No, no, no!
[She shoots Fink in the presence of his son.]
Daisy: Kill the imposters. Burn their bodies when you're done.
[They kill the guards. Daisy is still alone with Fink's kid.]
Elizabeth: No! No, no, no! She's going to kill that child... Booker, we have
to do something! We have to act -- we have to get in there! C'mon,
Booker, we've -- we gotta get in there. Boost me up! Go to the
window and distract Daisy. Go!
[He boosts her inside.]
Booker: Is this it? Is this your movement, Daisy?
Daisy: This is what needs to be done! You see, the Founders ain't nothin' but
weeds. Cut 'em down and they just grow back! If you wanna get rid of a
weed, you gotta pull it up from the root! It's the only way to be
sure-- Aaah!
[Liz stabs her as she's about to kill the kid.]
Booker: Elizabeth...
Elizabeth: I guess it runs in the family.
Booker: Elizabeth...
[She backs away as he tries to comfort her.]
Booker: Whoa, whoa...hey...hey, easy...
[He follows her to the First Lady, where she's locked herself in a room.]
Booker: What are you doing in there? I know how this feels. L-Listen, I think
you should talk to me.
[Booker sets the course. Liz emerges with short hair and a new dress.]
Booker: Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: This is all they had.
Booker: Listen--
Elizabeth: How do you do it?
Booker: How do I do what?
Elizabeth: Forget. How do you wash away the things that you've done?
Booker: You don't; you learn to live with it.
Elizabeth: So the moment of truth between us. New York or Paris?
[Before they can decide, Songbird flies by.]
Elizabeth: No...no...no no no no no!
Booker: Oh shit! Come on, we gotta make this thing go faster...
Elizabeth: There's gotta be some sort of...some sort of throttle or accelerator
or something!
Booker: Well, do you know what that looks like?
Elizabeth: I don't know!
Booker: Help me find it!
[Songbird flies into the bridge, depressurizing the cabin.]
Booker: Elizabeth! Hang on to something!
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15) EMPORIA [GS15]
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[Booker awakens in the crashed ship. The strange twosome plink on a piano.]
Gentleman: That's not it.
Lady: It certainly is.
Elizabeth: Booker! Ah...
Booker: Hold on.
Elizabeth: Booker...we've got to stop them.
Gentleman: No, that's the E.
Lady: No.
Elizabeth: Booker, hurry! If they play the whole song, he'll come back!
Booker: Here.
Lady: Hmm. Nope, that is not it.
Gentleman: Is. Is. Is. Pay attention.
[He opens the door, giving passage to the ruined building below.]
Elizabeth: Stop it! Stop it, you don't know what you're doing!
Lady: Ha! There it is.
Elizabeth: No! You've done it now, he's...he's coming back...he's coming back!
Gentleman: The notes were correct.
Lady: The instrument was not.
Gentleman: One needs both to get his attention.
Lady: But if you know how to sing to him...
Gentleman: He will take you where you need to go.
[Booker takes a card from the man's outstretched hand.]
Elizabeth: Who are you?
Lady: We are where we are needed.
Gentleman: And needed where we are.
Booker: So Comstock uses these songs. Are there others we can use? Something to
keep the bird off our back?
Lady: Perhaps you should ask the maestro himself.
Booker: So where is he--?
[He looks up and both have vanished.]
Booker: --of course. Well, at least they left the piano.
[Off in the distance is a large mansion.]
Elizabeth: Booker...that's Comstock House. If we're gonna find him, we should
start there.
[They notice civilians all trying to escape with their possessions.]
Elizabeth: Where are these people going?
Booker: Wherever the Vox Populi ain't.
[A dead refugee is nearby.]
Elizabeth: Look at this one. Do you think he wanted any part of this?
Booker: Did you?
[They finally make it to Port Prosperity station.]
Booker: What is it about that song that brings in the bird?
Elizabeth: It always has. When I was younger, I used to be excited when I heard
it.
Booker: Excited?
Elizabeth: He was all I had. He fed me, brought me books. He was...my friend.
Booker: Friend?
Elizabeth: Until I grew up. And then I hated him. Because he was my warden. But
he's just Comstock's pet, isn't he? Just like me.
[The interior is mostly in ruins, dead bodies strewn about.]
Elizabeth: Look at this. Fitzroy's no better than Comstock...was she?
Booker: Once people get their blood up...it ain't easy to settle it down again.
Elizabeth: This is on our hands, isn't it?
[They continue on.]
Elizabeth: This prophecy business... You don't think anyone can really see the
future, do you?
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Booker: I saw something once, when I first got here...a dream... It was New
York, but larger than any New York I ever saw...it was burning.
Elizabeth: Hmmm. Hope none of the Prophet's "magic" is rubbing off on you.
[They board the car to Emporia proper.]
Elizabeth: I just realized who those two are. They...at least, she...invented
the technology that allows the city to float.
Booker: Giant balloons?
Elizabeth: Quantum particles. Suspended in space-time at fixed height.
Booker: So...NOT giant balloons?
Elizabeth: But the thing is, my books say they disappeared several years ago.
[The Gentleman and Lady -- Robert & Rosalind Lutece -- are visible nearby.]
Robert Lutece: I told you they'd come.
Rosalind Lutece: No, you didn't.
Robert: RIGHT, I was going to tell you they'd come.
Rosalind: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalind: You sure that's right?
Elizabeth: Something tells me they're not exactly what they appear.
[This becomes obvious as the car passes them, yet they appear further up, too.]
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalind: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalind: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalind: It would had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Elizabeth: They seem to want help.
Booker: They seem to be out of their minds.
Rosalind: Odd, isn't it?
Robert: What's odd?
Rosalind: The facts that sometimes we--
Robert: --finish each other's sentences?
Rosalind: Exactly.
Robert: It would be odder if we didn't.
Rosalind: Hm.
Elizabeth: How do you suppose they manage that?
Booker: I'll get back to you after I figure out the floating city bit. Come
on, Comstock House is up ahead.
[The long cable car ride finally ends in Port Prosperity.]
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16) PORT PROSPERITY [GS16]
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Elizabeth: "The seed of the prophet shall sit the throne." He was grooming me,
wasn't he?
Booker: Comstock? Yeah, I think so.
Elizabeth: Then why lock me up?
Booker: Well, I'm guessin' you didn't want to be groomed. Maybe he had
something in the works to make you...agreeable.
Elizabeth: Like what?
Booker: I think it's best we don't find out.
Radio: Excuse me...if there's anyone who can hear the sound of my voice...
These are dire times and I could ever so use your aid... I hope no one
has forgotten about me here... Er, ah...now, back to the music...
[They fight off leagues of Vox.]
Elizabeth: Those turnstiles are one-way. Should we check out the bookstore
before we leave?
[They go through, finding a locked elevator.]
Booker: Can you open this?
Elizabeth: It's a simple dual-dial lock. My book says most fools keep the
combination no more than twenty feet away.
Booker: Let's hope we find one of those fools.
[They snoop around the offices.]
Booker: This might be it. Why are you so keen on lockpicking and codebreaking?
Elizabeth: If you put a person in a cage, they develop an interest in such
things.
Booker: I suppose so.
Elizabeth: And I won't be locked up again, Book--
[She gesticulates the need for silence, as one of Songbird's alarms goes off.
They hide as the creature approaches, and come out after its brief search.]
Booker: Elizabeth. Elizabeth, you--
Elizabeth: Promise me.
Booker: I will stop him.
Elizabeth: No...that is an oath you cannot keep. But promise me -- if it comes
to it -- you will not let him take me back.
[She takes Booker's hand and puts it around her throat.]
Booker: It won't come to that, alright?
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17) DOWNTOWN EMPORIA [GS17]
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[From their elevator, they can see ongoing conflict.]
Elizabeth: Look! The Vox are tearing this place apart.
[They attackers break the lift, so they break the attackers.]
Booker: Back there at the shop, what you asked me to do...
Elizabeth: Let's not discuss it.
Booker: No, what did that thing do to you?
Elizabeth: If you were to take me back...that's death, Mr. DeWitt. Or something
so like it, I cannot tell the difference.
[They look at the red flags in the snipers' area.]
Elizabeth: Look at those pennants. Seems like the Vox have chosen their
favorite color.
Booker: Seems about right.
Elizabeth: What a waste. How's the city going to come back from this?
Booker: Maybe it shouldn't.
[They kill the stragglers of a Founders-Vox showdown.]
Elizabeth: You know, I...I keep thinking about that dream you had. New York on
fire. There's something about it...
Booker: Hmm.
[They reach Comstock Square.]
Elizabeth: Beyond that gate lies Comstock House.
Automaton: Lady Comstock, how lovely to see you! Wonderful of you to make the
journey, especially considering your painful death 19 years ago.
Booker: Lady Comstock?
Elizabeth: The dress...the thing has mistaken me for my mother.
[She tries the gate's scanner.]
Automaton: Your fingerprints do not seem to be your own today, Lady Comstock.
Are you unwell?
Booker: This isn't going to work.
Elizabeth: I think it can.
Booker: Your mother's dead, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: Yes, I think it's time I paid my respects. Let's head to where she's
buried.
[They enter Memorial Gardens, causing Liz to run ahead.]
Elizabeth: There's the graveyard, where my mother's buried.
Booker: Where are you going?
Elizabeth: Come on.
Booker: What are we looking for?
Elizabeth: There it is.
[The gate has no lock, but Liz tears one into existence for picking purposes.]
Booker: It's your mother's grave.
Elizabeth: They have her preserved in an airtight chamber. Her fingerprints
will get us into Comstock House.
Booker: She's your mother.
Elizabeth: A mother who abandons their child doesn't draw a lot of sympathy in
my book.
Booker: Take a moment to think about what you're doing...
Elizabeth: There. Will you open the door or do I have to go in without you?
[They go to her casket, where she lies in repose.]
Booker: Elizabeth...
Elizabeth: It's her. How are you, mother? All locked up in there, huh? Looks
like you and I have some common ground.
Booker: Let me do it.
Elizabeth: No.
Booker: Let ME do it.
Elizabeth: Look on the other side.
[As they're about to bust into the coffin, the lights dim and a PA comes on.]
Comstock: You see, child? You chose to follow the false shepherd, and he has
led you astray!
[Flowing lights flow into Elizabeth.]
Comstock: What I do, I do for love! What lion does not cringe to see their cub
in pain?
Elizabeth: Make it stop, Booker! Make it stop! Ahhhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhhhh!!
Comstock: If you won't listen to me, perhaps you will listen to your mother!
[The lights focus on Lady Comstock, reanimating her. She disappears.]
Elizabeth: I'm...I don't...no...wh-where did she go?
Booker: Elizabeth? Are you all right--
Elizabeth: Where did she go?
Booker: Just hold on, you need to rest for a minute.
Elizabeth: No, I'm getting that hand!
Booker: Elizabeth? Why is your mother a ghost?
Elizabeth: She's not, he...he used me, t-to power that device, he opened up
some kind of tear!
[Lady Comstock's "ghost" appears when they exit the display.]
Siren: Child! Child! You are the lie that spewed from my womb. You are the lie,
the lie, the lie, the lie!
Elizabeth: What's happening?!
Booker: It would seem your mother...is raising...the dead.
[They finally kill the siren.]
Booker: What is she?
Elizabeth: I don't know...what am I? My god, is she the source of my power?
Booker: But what is she? Alive or dead?
Robert: Why do you ask what--
Rosalind: --when he delicious question is when?
[The strange duo has appeared in the graveyard.]
Robert: The only difference between past and present..
Rosalind: ...is semantics.
Robert: Lives, lived, will live.
Rosalind: Dies, died, will die.
Robert: If we could perceive time as it truly was...
Rosalind: ...what reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?
Robert: Like us all, Lady Comstock exists ACROSS time...
Rosalind: She is both alive and dead.
Robert: She perceives being both.
Rosalind: She finds this condition...disagreeable.
Robert: Perception without comprehension...
Rosalind: ...is a dangerous combination.
Elizabeth: Look! Footsteps...
Rosalind: She goes to unfinished business...
Booker: We have to follow her, convince her to open the gate to Comstock House.
Robert: It is a shame you have need of her to enter Comstock House.
Rosalind: Frankly, she doesn't seem all that cooperative.
Robert: There is a way to bring to reason.
Rosalind: Three truths you must discover first.
Robert: Truths which, in this world, Comstock has destroyed.
Rosalind: If only one of you had power to alter time and space...
Robert: That would be a blessing, wouldn't it?
Rosalind: Mmm.
[They disappear again.]
Booker: Well...they're sarcastic.
Elizabeth: There's something...off about Lady Comstock.
Booker: Yeah, I noticed.
Elizabeth: N-no, you don't understand, she...she doesn't belong here. I brought
something through, it's just...I'm not so sure it was her.
[They follow the footprints to Lutece Laboratories. A machine makes a tear.]
Booker: It's a tear.
Elizabeth: There's something in there. Should I open it?
[They do, and see a scene involving Lady Comstock.]
Lady Comstock: You...you whore!
Elizabeth: That's my mother!
Rosalind: I assure you, madam, my sexual interest in your dear Prophet is
nonexistent.
Elizabeth: And Madam Lutece...
Rosalind: Furthermore, the man is quite sterile.
Lady Comstock: That's a lie! Come and get your little bastard, I want her out
of my house!
[The tear closes.]
Booker: Sterile?
Elizabeth: They weren't my parents...
Booker: What? Then what were you to them?
Elizabeth: A child that they decided to imprison. She deserved whatever
Comstock did to her.
Booker: What did you mean before, when you said Lady Comstock didn't belong
here?
Elizabeth: She's almost...feral. It's like a reflection of...umm, I don't know.
[Next, they visit the Bank of the Prophet.]
Elizabeth: What could this place have to do with my mother?
[They descend to the lower reaches.]
Booker: The footsteps seem to go down to the vault...
[Elizabeth snoops around an office.]
Elizabeth: Fifty percent!
Booker: What's that?
Elizabeth: Fifty percent of everything people earn here goes right to Comstock
as a tithe.
Booker: I gotta get me a job in the prophet business.
Elizabeth: Booker, look! There's a cipher written on the stationery.
Booker: Hudson's tailors...
Elizabeth: Maybe that's where the codebook is...
[If they go to Hudson's...]
Elizabeth: Is that the codebook?
Booker: Looks like it. We should head back to the bank.
[And if they return to the code room...]
Elizabeth: Alright, let's see..."type...three letters...to spell...the voice."
Booker: Three lettters?
Elizabeth: V-O-X. Try the typewriter.
[It reveals a secret room. They enter the vault and inspect the second tear.]
Fink: And if I do this, this...uh...sabotage, all their patents...?
Mansfield: All of them, Mr. Fink.
Fink: Now, why does the Prophet want these two killed?
Mansfield: For the same reason Lady Comstock lies buried: the child.
Fink: And why does he want me to do it?
Mansfield: Because only you can make it seem an accident.
[The tear closes.]
Elizabeth: I don't think that's the REAL Lady Comstock. I think she's...I think
she's a combination of herself and my feelings towards her.
Booker: What do you mean?
Elizabeth: I'm just so angry, at her and at my father. I think she's her but
she's also partly me. I-I'm not even sure I understand it myself.
Siren: Not of my womb! Not of my womb, not of my womb, NOT OF MY WOMB!
[They kill the siren and progress to a photo studio. The final tear's there.]
Rupert Cunningham: But you two are dead...I took your funeral photo!
Rosalind: Yes...and made an absolute hash of it...
Robert: One doesn't expect a picture of one's corpse...
Rosalind: ...to come across so lifelessly.
[They return en route to Comstock House.]
Elizabeth: He killed Lady Comstock...the Luteces...
Booker: And anybody who knew the truth was better dead than alive.
Elizabeth: I'm not even his daughter...I'm just some...specimen to be poked
and prodded...
Booker: No...you're not. Elizabeth, listen to me...what you've been through...
ain't nobody in the world deserves that.
Elizabeth: Booker--
Booker: We are gettin' outta here, you got it? And you're never gonna have to
look back.
[They reach Comstock House. Liz speaks to her mother's statue.]
Elizabeth: Rosalind Lutece is not my mother...and neither are you. But he
killed you both...because of me. I know you hate me for not being
your daughter, and I hated you for not being my mother.
[They defeat the siren that spawns.]
Elizabeth: I owe you an apology...Comstock used me to bring you back, but...I
brought back a version of you from the reality I had built up in my
own head. He pretended to love you, like he pretended to love me. I
am not your husband's bastard; I am his victim. But my days of
victimhood are done. We must forgive each other...because there is
one far worse than you or I.
Siren: The Prophet...killed me...
Elizabeth: Because you wouldn't keep his secret...about me.
Siren: If that is so, then why am I alive?
Elizabeth: You're not...not in this world. But maybe this is you in another...
a world where you never meet him...
Siren: Or where I saved him?
Elizabeth: I don't know. Is that possible?
Siren: Find out, child...find out.
[Lady Comstock's siren destroys the house gates before dissipating.]
Elizabeth: Booker...thank you...
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18) COMSTOCK HOUSE [GS18]
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[As they pull the lever for the Comstock cable car, Songbird appears.]
Elizabeth: Booker!
Booker: Run, Elizabeth!
[Songbird tosses Booker through a nearby window, knocking him out. He has his
office dream, with the Luteces and Liz there.]
Rosalind & Robert: Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt!
Elizabeth: Bring us the girl...and wipe away the debt.
[He awakens as Songbird prepares to kill him. Liz intervenes.]
Elizabeth: Stop! Stop it! Stop it, don't hurt him! I'm sorry! I'm sorry...I
never should have left...I never should have left... Take me back.
Take...take me home. Please?
[Songbird takes Liz and flies off.]
Booker: ELIZABETH! I gotta catch up to her. Come after me if you want. I'm not
letting you take her, you hear me? Huh, you feathered piece of shit?!
I'm not going to--
[The fog clears to reveal the House and...]
Booker: Snow? It's July... Elizabeth! Can you hear me?
[From a tear, he can hear her yelling.]
Elizabeth: Get your hands off of me! Just take me back to my tower. Please...
Please!
[He enters inside to find a gigantic statue of Liz, short hair and all.]
Booker: Is that...? What the hell?
[A recording of Liz's voice is on the PA.]
Elizabeth PA: Some men dream of money, some men dream of love. My father dreamt
of a flood of fire. We were given Eden, and we turned it into
Sodom. Why do we deserve salvation? The Lord gave Noah a fish in
the form of a flood. But he was not so easy on me... He said:
Prophet, I want you to train a nation of fishermen.
[Booker can hear his companion whimpering from the rooms beyond.]
Elizabeth: What is this place? What are you planning to do to me? Please! I
don't understand! Ahhhh, ahhhh! Please! Please, no, no! No! NOOO!
Please...please, just tell me what I did! NOO! Please...please just
let me go! Just...just let me go! No, please! I'll be...I'll be your
daughter. I'll be your daughter! I'll be...I'll be your daughter,
please!
[Booker continues on, finding the rehabilitation centre.]
Booker: Dammit! I gotta find a way in. I hope I don't have to go all the way up
to the warden's office to get in.
[After killing some masked creepers, he hits the intercom.]
Booker: All right...listen. I just want to see the girl. Who were those...
doesn't matter. Just gotta get to the warden's office.
[Via a tear, he can hear Elizabeth talking with someone.]
Elizabeth: Please...please, what is this place? Just...just send me back to my
tower!
Dr. Pettifog: It's too late for that now, child. Your father gave you a lovely
home, and you chose to destroy it...
Elizabeth: He's NOT my father!
[Booker ascends.]
Elizabeth PA: Like my father, I can see all that would be, might be and must
not be.
[Another tear's nearby.]
Comstock: Child, would you like to pray with me?
Elizabeth: They're hurting me. Please, just let me go!
Comstock: We're going to cure you.
Elizabeth: I'm not sick!
Comstock: Your spirit is. All I ever wanted is to see you live up to your
potential.
[Booker encounters another tear.]
Dr. Pettifog: I'm Dr. Pettifog, Elizabeth, and I'll be taking care of you.
Elizabeth: Get away from me.
Dr. Pettifog: Defiant, even after all this time. DeWitt just left you here.
You need to give up on him, love.
Elizabeth: He will come.
[Near the atrium is another tear.]
Dr. Pettifog: The specimen needs to be destroyed! We couldn't even hold her in
that tower, and now the Prophet--
Dr. Powell? Destroy the Lamb...his heir?
Dr. Pettifog: If we modify the procedure, we could... It would be safer for
everyone. It would seem an accident...
[Booker fights a crow and some Founders.]
Elizabeth PA: And what did the Lord receive in return for his gifts? Eve and
her apple? Sodom and Gomorrah? Humanity wrote a bad check, and
the flood was the only way to settle the accounts. For what is
Columbia, if not a different ark, in a different time?
[There's another tear nearby.]
Dr. Pettifog: You're not eating, love. Is something the matter?
Elizabeth: I'm not hungry.
Dr. Pettifog: You'll need to eat sooner or later. If you hold out for DeWitt,
you'll just starve to death. Come now...
[...and another tear can be found!]
Comstock: The child is ready. It's time.
Dr. Powell: Prophet, even if we cure her...why do you think she'll do what you
ask?
Comstock: My daughter has two problems, doctor. One is the condition your
science will cure her of. The other affliction is of a spiritual
nature.
Dr. Powell: What affliction is that?
Comstock: Hope.
[The next room has a tear, too.]
Dr. Pettifog: Your surgery is tomorrow, you know. You better eat. Hmmm...you
still expect DeWitt to burst in and rescue you, don't you? It's
been six months.
Booker: Six months?
[Booker continues on.]
Elizabeth PA: A man once promised me he would free me of my chains. But in the
end, he abandoned me to serve his own needs. But, in some ways,
I thank him: he showed me exactly how much faith our species
deserved. God put his faith in men once, too. It seems that we
have something in common: disappointment. I did not always love
the Prophet. In truth, I ran from his embrace. I even denied that
I was his. I followed a man who seemed to be everything my father
was not. But that man was a False Shepherd, and when the wolves
came for me, he was nowhere to be found.
[Booker makes it to the warden's office.]
Booker: There's the switch. Should be able to head downstairs and get to
Elizabeth now.
Elizabeth PA: I am here to finish my father's work. As he baptized me with
water, I shall baptize the Sodom Below with fire...and prepare
for the coming of the Lord. Are we worth saving if we will not
save ourselves? There will be no salvation until fire floods the
cities and covers the plains. Once this world has been born
again, a million others wait their turn. Baptism is the rebirth
of the spirit...but sometimes the mind gets in the way. If the
mind will not yield, then you must expose the mind to every
version of itself. Either the mind will yield, or be reduced to
a blank.
[He treks on, Liz's screams still ringing out in the distance.]
Booker: Elizabeth, hold tight! What, it's a tear... What is it--
[He finds her screams are coming from a tear also. The strange duo is there.]
Robert: Why do you ask "what"?
Rosalind: When the delicious question is "when"?
Robert: Lives, lived, will live.
Rosalind: Dies, died, will die.
[He finds Liz in the flesh a little ways beyond.]
Elizabeth: As you can see, Booker, the lunatics are running the asylum. They
don't even listen to me anymore. All I can do is watch as what I
set in motion slides into its terminal stage. It took all I had left
in me just to bring you here.
Booker: E-Elizabeth, I don't understand! I heard you screaming, I was...I was
coming to get you! Are we--
Elizabeth: Here...take my hand...
[He goes closer and takes her hand, finding her old and grey. She pulls him
onto a vista to watch New York burning.]
Elizabeth: "The seed of the prophet shall sit the throne, and drown in flame
the mountains of man." Say what you will about Comstock, he was a
hell of a fortune-teller. It wasn't the torture that broke me. It
wasn't the indoctrination. It was time. Time rots everything,
Booker...even hope.
Booker: I was coming.
Elizabeth: Songbird. He always stops you.
Booker: Yes, but I would find a way.
Elizabeth: No. It's too late for me. I brought you here for your sake. Yours
and hers. Here.
[He takes a card from her.]
Booker: What is this?
Elizabeth: It's for her...she'll know how to read it.
Booker: What does it say?
Elizabeth: It's advice.
Booker: Advice on what?
Elizabeth: How not to become me.
[Old Elizabeth and the destruction disappear, putting Booker back to his time.
He seems to realize the Liz he spoke to was from a different world.]
Booker: I'm back, 1912...before she... There's still time.
[He hears her screaming in the distance.]
Booker: Elizabeth!
[He finds Comstock and doctors around Liz's isolation chamber.]
Dr. Powell: You two men upstairs...if she gets ornery, just hit her with the
machines. She opens one tear, and there will be nothing but
regrets.
Booker: Comstock! What are you doin' to her?! Let her be!
Comstock: Mr. DeWitt! What's the expression? "Day late and a dollar short."
Booker: I gotta get in there. Maybe if I shut down those machines from
upstairs.
Elizabeth: No, no! No! Turn it off! TURN IT OFF! Please? Please, it hurts!
Dr. Pettifog: Can't we give her something to quiet her down?
Dr. Powell: Well, the Prophet says half the procedure is the pain...
Dr. Pettifog: Hmm. When the body cries out, the spirit listens.
Comstock: Do you hear that screaming, DeWitt? That is the sound of your
interference. You have led my daughter into temptation!
Booker: She is NOT your daughter!
Comstock: Perhaps not now...but trust me when I tell you, she will be.
[Booker goes upstairs and pulls the generator release.]
Dr. Powell: He shut down one of the generators.
Dr. Pettifog: If we don't sedate her and he shuts down the other one...
Dr. Powell: We're not sedating her!
[Booker shuts down a second generator.]
Dr. Pettifog: He shut down the other siphon!
Dr. Powell: She's getting up... She's...
Dr. Pettifog: No!
[Liz's tear summons part of a faraway farm, where a tornado is approaching.]
Dr. Powell: Dewitt! Turn it back on...please! Please!!
[The tornado hits the room, killing the doctors before closing.]
Booker: Elizabeth, I'll be right there!
[He goes down to her chair.]
Booker: I've got you, it's okay... Okay, I'm gonna fix this. You ready? Here...
Elizabeth: Just do it.
[He disconnects the weird pump attached to her spine.]
Elizabeth: Help me with this.
[He gives her the note from Old Elizabeth.]
Booker: I think someone meant for you to have this.
Elizabeth: What is it?
Booker: Just...read it.
[He starts fixing her corset.]
Elizabeth: Your dream of New York...happens. And it's me...I'm the one who...
Booker: She's given us a way to get past Songbird. We're gonna find an airship
and we'll leave--
Elizabeth: Booker.
Booker: Paris, Elizabeth...remember, you wanted to go to--
Elizabeth: We're not leaving. We are going to find Comstock.
Booker: Why?
Elizabeth: You saw what he turns me into, I will not allow that.
Booker: And so, what, you're going to kill him?
Elizabeth: Is this where you start moralizing, Booker? You forget, I know you.
Booker: I'm not going to let you kill him.
[She tears open the plains tornado scene again.]
Elizabeth: Really, Booker? What are you going to do to stop me?
Booker: Not a damn thing. Because I'm gonna do it for you. All right, now to
find the Prophet.
Elizabeth: Comstock's zeppelin is outside. The Hand of the Prophet, he calls
it.
Booker: When did you learn that?
Elizabeth: I've been here for awhile.
Booker: How long?
Elizabeth: Long enough. I hope Comstock got what he wanted from me...'cause
he is not gonna have long to use it.
[They pile into the elevator.]
Elizabeth: This doesn't make any sense. Everything here is a cipher that I
understand, except this symbol... It's a...cage. Did she say
anything about this?
Booker: No.
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19) THE HAND OF THE PROPHET [GS19]
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[They peek onto the rooftops.]
Elizabeth: Look! It's the Hand of the Prophet -- Comstock's flagship. We've
got to find a way onboard.
Booker: Stay here. I'll handle this.
Elizabeth: We're doing this together, or I'm doing it alone. Either way, I need
to know the thing's been done.
[Comstock's PA is nearby.]
Comstock: Oh, DeWitt...you struggle against prophecy, like a stone loosed from
a sling. How thrilling the launch! How breathtaking the apex! And how
terrifying the descent, as gravity drags you down into the
inevitable.
Booker: What's that sound?
Elizabeth: Look! Take cover!
[The missiles fired don't explode.]
Elizabeth: They must be duds.
Booker: Those aren't duds, they're--
[The "duds" spit out Patriots.]
Comstock: Look around you, Elizabeth. I built all of this for you! You are my
heir and my blood! And what has DeWitt ever done for you? To him you
are now what you always were: a means to an end.
Elizabeth: Booker, look! It's a shuttle that can take us to the Hand of the
Prophet.
[They slay the Founders to reach the vehicle.]
Automaton: This ship is set to return to the Hand of the Prophet. I am awaiting
your order to proceed.
[They flip the lever.]
Automaton: Right you are! We depart to the Hand of the Prophet!
Elizabeth: Do you think...it's possible to redeem the kind of things that we've
done?
Booker: Redeem? I don't see much use in that.
Elizabeth: Booker...are you afraid of God?
Booker: No...but I'm afraid of you.
[Another gunship is in the distance.]
Elizabeth: Over there! It's Comstock's men, they're coming out to meet us!
Booker! Another gunship on the left! Watch out, rockets!
[Booker repels some Founders.]
Elizabeth: Booker, look! It's the Vox! They're coming to attack the flagship.
Look out! More of them!
Elizabeth: There he is! We need to land below and fight our way up to him.
Booker: Or, we can just fly this thing to Paris...
Elizabeth: Just drop me off if you want to. This isn't your problem, Booker.
Booker: I won't abandon you.
Elizabeth: You wouldn't...would you? Look, there are sky-lines all over the
surface of the flagship. They're covered with those motorized
patriot pods.
Booker: That must be where they're deployed from. I wouldn't go near those
pods while those pods are in place.
Elizabeth: Comstock is at the top of the ship. Let's head up.
[As soon as they set foot on the craft, the PA rings.]
Comstock: Look at DeWitt, child. There's something about him that you just
can't put your finger on. Soon you'll understand the man I am, and
the man he isn't.
Elizabeth: Booker, those sky-lines lead up to the next deck! If we clear the
lines of those pods, we can use them to get up to the next decks.
Booker: This should clear 'em.
Comstock: I have seen the seeds of fire that will prepare the Sodom Below for
the coming of the Lord. But it will not be I who carries that banner
up the hill. That job...falls to you, Elizabeth. That job falls to
you.
Elizabeth: The sky-lines are clear, Booker!
Booker: Follow me!
[They ride up a deck.]
Comstock: On one side of our Lamb stands the False Shepherd...and the other,
the remnants of the heretical Vox Populi. Which one of you men will
not gladly go to his reward to see her safely to her destiny?
Rejoice! Rejoice!! Death has no sting!
Elizabeth: There's the launch panel.
Booker: Let's get those pods off the lines.
[They hit the button.]
Booker: Something's wrong.
Elizabeth: Why are they dropping so slowly?
Booker: I don't know. We're gonna have to wait it out.
[Enemies attack in the interim.]
Elizabeth: That's one quarter of the pods ejected!
Booker: That's ALL?!
[They keep fighting.]
Elizabeth: One half done!
[Finally...]
Elizabeth: Booker, the lines are clear.
[They escape to the third deck.]
Comstock: I may be the one who strikes you down, DeWitt, but you've always had
a knack for self-destruction. Who's to say you won't beat me to the
punch?
Booker: One more deck...let me take care of this on my own.
Elizabeth: No, I'm going with you. We can take that sky-line to the Prophet's
cabin.
[They ride the final sky-line towards the top.]
Comstock: You come to wipe your slate clean, False Shepherd -- but time will
walk backwards before you find redemption. Some sins can't be
forgiven.
[Inside the entry is a model of Monument Tower with an inscription.]
Elizabeth: This is my tower...what's this...the siphon?
Booker: I saw this there. I could hear you singing from above...and the machine
came to life in response.
Elizabeth: And then in my mother's grave, there was a smaller one...they were
draining me...maybe that's why I can't...
Booker: Can't what?
Elizabeth: When I was little, I used to be able not to just open tears, but I
could create new ones...anywhere I wanted to go. But in the tower...
Comstock: Yes, I'll be right with you.
Booker: Stand back. I'm ending this.
Elizabeth: Booker, no. This is between me and him.
Booker: You are walking into a trap--
Elizabeth: I need to do this.
[They enter into Comstock's cabin. The man himself is there this time.]
Comstock: Come here, child. Well come on, I don't bite! My, oh my, how you have
grown.
Elizabeth: Tell me.
Elizabeth: What am I?
Comstock: Look at you, child, you're a mess.
Booker: Hey. Let go of her--
Comstock: Elizabeth, everything I've done...I've done to keep you safe.
Elizabeth: Safe from what?
Comstock: "The seed of the prophet shall sit the throne, and drown in flame the
mountains of man." But the archangel revealed something else.
"Beware, Prophet. Beware the False Shepherd, Booker DeWitt...for he
shall be as a wall between her and destiny."
Elizabeth: Why?
Comstock: DeWitt, I'm a fool. I've sent mighty armies to stop you; I've rained
fire on you from above. I did all of that to keep you from her, when
all I needed to do was tell her the truth. Ask him, child. Ask him
what happened to your finger. Ask DeWitt.
Elizabeth: Let go of me...
Comstock: Ask him! Ask the False Shepherd! Tell her! Tell her, False Shepherd.
Tell her the truth!
Elizabeth: My hand! Please let go!
Comstock: Tell her about her finger!
[He separates the two.]
Booker: She's your daughter, you son of a bitch! And you abandoned her! Was it
worth it? Huh? Did you get what you wanted? Tell me! Tell me!
Elizabeth: Booker!
Comstock: It...is...finished.
[He stops choking Comstock and instead puts his face in the water vessel.]
Booker: Nothing is finished! You lock her up her whole life!
Elizabeth: Booker...BOOKER!
Booker: You cut off her finger...and you put it on me!
Elizabeth: Booker, stop it!
[He stops his rage, but Comstock has already drowned.]
Elizabeth: You killed him. What did he mean? Huh? You tell me, what did he mean
about my finger?
Booker: I don't know...I...I just assumed you were born with it. I don't know.
Elizabeth: Your nose...it's bleeding.
Booker: What? Elizabeth, I swear to you, I have no idea what he was talking
about.
Elizabeth: You do. You just can't remember it.
Booker: No...I'll prove it to you. We'll destroy the siphon. The answer's
behind one of your doors, you just have to open it.
Elizabeth: Destroy the siphon? It's the entire tower, Booker. How are we gonna
do that?
Booker: I don't know...but I'll think of something on the way.
[They enter the zeppelin's bridge.]
Elizabeth: Cage...cage...what does that...
Booker: Now what?
Elizabeth: What is she trying to tell us...cage...cage. I'm missing
something... Come on...
[A Vox ship flies in front of them.]
Vox PA: They said they knew what was BEST for us...
Elizabeth: Booker...?
Vox PA: They said they KNEW what was comin' next...
Elizabeth: Booker!
Vox PA: Did you see THIS comin', OLD MAN? Did you see this coming, PROPHET?!
Booker: Okay, we gotta get ready. I think they mean to board us!
[Liz has her epiphany.]
Elizabeth: The bird!
Vox PA: You ain't gonna place your daughter on the throne, we're gonna place
her in her grave!
[She takes a pipe and starts hitting the Songbird alarm statue.]
Booker: Whoa, what are you doing?
Elizabeth: We have to sing to him!
Booker: Sing to who? Elizabeth, stop it!
Elizabeth: C-A-G-E! It's not a word, Booker...it's a SONG!
[Liz's destruction summons Songbird to the area. She blows into the flute she
pulled from the statue, making Songbird docile and friendly.]
Elizabeth: Shhh...shhh, it's okay, I'm here. Will you help me? I need you to
protect me, will you do it? Will you do this for me, just...just
this one last thing? Please...
[It squawks its affirmative.]
Elizabeth: Go. Go! Go go go! Booker, he'll help us! We can use him against the
Vox fleet! Booker, tell him where to go!
Booker: We need this thing to make it to Monument Island!
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Elizabeth: Zeppelin!
Booker: Go for the zeppelin!
Elizabeth: I don't like the looks of this!
Vox PA: You thought the streets were paved with gold, but they were paved with
blood, sweat and tears...OUR blood, sweat and tears! But today, our
tears become gold! And your tears...will become blood.
[They take out some Patriots.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt, I think there's some more of them!
Vox PA: Long live the Vox Populi!
[With Songbird's help, the repel the Vox before the ship's destroyed.]
Booker: Well, that didn't work out so bad...
Elizabeth: Booker, come here...
Booker: What? What is it?
[They both go to the bow where Columbia is burning.]
Elizabeth: Look. You can use Songbird to bring the whole damn thing down.
Destroy the siphon.
Booker: That's what you want?
Elizabeth: It's the only way we'll find the truth. About my finger...Comstock.
Everything.
[Booker takes the whistler.]
Booker: Tear it down. Tear it ALL down.
[He plays the sequence, summoning Songbird to the task. The creature dives
through the island, utterly destroying it. Without the siphon, Elizabeth's
power starts returning to her in full.]
Booker: The whistler! Elizabeth! The bird, Elizabeth! I lost control! He's
coming!
Elizabeth: No, he isn't.
[She tears into a new area -- Rapture, the underwater city in Bioshock 1.]
Booker: Where is he? Where is he?!
[Songbird can be seen drowning through the window.]
Elizabeth: Shhh...shhh...it's okay, it's all right. I'm here. Just let go.
There you go...there you go.
Booker: Elizabeth...I'm sorry. What is this place? Elizabeth?
Elizabeth: It's a doorway. One of many. This way.
Booker: What do you mean, it's a doorway? Where are you going?
Elizabeth: Come on. Yes, it's this way.
Booker: What Comstock said about your finger...is there an answer here? Do
you--
Elizabeth: Down here. Over here, Booker! This is where we have to go.
[She leads him to a bathysphere elevator.]
Booker: Why? What is going on? Elizabeth, what do you mean, this is a doorway?
Elizabeth: I'll have to show you.
Booker: Probably gonna regret this.
[He pulls the lever, descending into the deep.]
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[The bathysphere floats out over Rapture's skyscrapers.]
Booker: City at the bottom of the ocean? Ridiculous.
[Under a starlit sky, the pod surfaces, near a lighthouse.]
Elizabeth: Look at that. Thousands of doors...opening all at once. My god,
they're beautiful.
Booker: What, the stars?
Elizabeth: Come on...come on, it's this way...come on!
[They land at the lighthouse.]
Booker: Are you going to open it?
Elizabeth: It's no good. Damn it, I thought once we were here, I could fully
control it...I thought...
Booker: What is that?
Elizabeth: It's a key.
Booker: Where did it come from?
Elizabeth: It's always been there, I just...I just couldn't see it.
[They unlock the door to find...more lighthouses.]
Elizabeth: See? Not stars. Doors.
Booker: Doors to...?
Elizabeth: To everywhere. All that's left is the choosing.
Booker: What are all these lighthouses? Why are we...who are...?
Elizabeth: There are a million million worlds. All different and all similar.
Constants and variables.
Booker: What?
Elizabeth: There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man, there's always a
city...
Booker: How do you know this?
Elizabeth: I can see them through the doors. You...me, Columbia, Songbird...
But sometimes, something's different...yet the same.
Booker: Constants and variables.
Elizabeth: Yes.
[She leads him to another lighthouse. This time, it's dusk and they can see
another Booker and Elizabeth walking along a lighthouse path.]
Elizabeth: Look!
Booker: It's us.
Elizabeth: Not exactly. We swim in different oceans but land on the same shore.
It always starts with a lighthouse.
Booker: I don't understand.
Elizabeth: We don't need to. It'll happen all the same.
Booker: Why?
Elizabeth: Because it does. Because it has. Because it will.
Booker: There are so many choices.
Elizabeth: They all lead us to the same place...where it started.
Booker: No one tells me where to go.
Elizabeth: Booker...you've already been.
[The next lighthouse opens into a baptismal ceremony.]
Booker: Wait a minute...I know this place. I was here, it must have been...
twenty years ago. Right after Wounded Knee. I was looking for--
Preacher Witting: Come on now, time's a-wasting!
Elizabeth: Why were you here?
Preacher Witting: Are you ready to have your past erased? Are you ready to have
your sins cleansed? Are you ready to be born again? Take my
hand...
Booker: No...no, I don't want to.
Elizabeth: But you already did, didn't you?
[Booker takes Witting's hand.]
Preacher Witting: Are you ready to be born again?
Booker: I am.
Preacher Witting: Do you hate your sins?
Booker: I do.
Preacher Witting: Do you hate your wickedness?
Booker: Yes.
Preacher Witting: Do you want to clean the slate, leave behind all you were
before, and be born again in the blood of the Lamb?
Booker: Yes!
Preacher Witting: Jesus, wash this man clean...Father, make him born again...
Lord--
Booker: No no no wait, stop it! Stop it! No, get off me! Get off!
[He doesn't accept the baptism.]
Elizabeth: You didn't go through with it.
Booker: You think a dunk in the river's gonna change the things that I've done?
Let's get outta here. These doors of yours, they're all tears, right?
Well open one up! Open one up to Paris. I want to be shut of all this.
Elizabeth: Not until we find Comstock.
Booker: Comstock's dead!
Elizabeth: No. He was here. This way.
[The next tear leads Booker to his P.I. office in New York. He watches a scene
he once had with the client...who he know knows is Robert Lutece.]
Booker: And what of my debts?
Robert: Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt.
Booker: This is the man who hired me to find you.
Elizabeth: Really?
Booker: Yes. The girl for the debt.
[Booker enters a side room housing a crib.]
Booker: Wait, wait, no, this is wrong. What's this? There was no...there was
no baby. I remember... No, there was no baby. And if there was, I sure
as hell wouldn't give it over to this guy!
Elizabeth: Booker...you don't leave this room until you do.
Robert: DeWitt! Time is running short. Bring us the girl, and wipe away the
debt.
[Booker picks up the child.]
Elizabeth: Go ahead.
Booker: No.
Elizabeth: You can wait as long as you want. Eventually, you'll give him what
he wants.
Booker: How do you know all this?
Elizabeth: I can see all the doors, and what's behind all the doors, and behind
one of them, I see him.
Booker: Comstock.
[He gives the infant to Robert.]
Booker: What choice do I have?
Robert: The debt's paid. Mr. Comstock washes you of all your sins.
[Robert shuts the door. When Booker opens it, he's back in the boat where he
started the game, only this time Liz is there as an extra passenger.]
Elizabeth: Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt.
Booker: There was no baby. The deal was, I go to Columbia to get you.
Elizabeth: Booker...you're bleeding.
Booker: No...I remember what I remember...
[The man and woman who came with Booker initially are revealed to be Robert &
Rosalind Lutece.]
Robert: Now we've upset him.
Rosalind: I don't expect this next bit will do much for his mood.
Elizabeth: Come on.
[They climb out.]
Booker: What are we doing here? Comstock's dead. We can just...go on with our
lives, you don't need to--
Elizabeth: Dead? You mean like Chen Lin? Like Lady Comstock? He is alive in a
million million worlds. It's not over because the Prophet is dead.
It will only be over when he never even lived in the first place.
[The next lighthouse door opens up to an alleyway scene. Comstock, the Luteces
and the baby Booker traded are there. Rosalind is on the other side of an
open portal.]
Robert: The field's rather unstable.
Rosalind: It's fine, hurry!
Booker: Hey...hey, the deal is off, you hear me? The deal is off! Give her
back. Give her back!
Robert: "Fine?" Are you mad?!
Rosalind: No! You will not get caught between, come!
Robert: It is comfortable enough as it is!
Rosalind: It's going to be more uncomfortable if you don't come now!
Robert: If I don't get caught, it's going to be a very long time before we see
each other.
Rosalind: You will not get caught, I promise!
Robert: You can't promise me that!
Rosalind: We're going to lose our window!
Robert: I'll wait, thank you!
Booker: Give her back, you son of a bitch!
Rosalind: It's ready, go!
Booker: No...no no no! No! Anna! ANNA!
[Booker can't stop the adults from entering the portal with the child.]
Comstock: Shut down the machine! Shut down the machine now! Do it!
Booker: GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER! NOOOOOO!
[The portal to Lutece Labs closes, but Anna isn't pulled through in time,
causing her pinky finger to be partially sliced off in the process.]
Booker: Anna...Anna...no...no...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Anna. I'm sorry...
[The scene changes to his office again. He immediately goes to check the crib.]
Elizabeth: She's gone, Booker. Anna's gone. You shared this room with your
regret for almost 20 years...till one day, a man came to see you...
offered you a chance of redemption. A chance for us to be together.
[A tear opens to Comstock's world. DeWitt steps through and immediately starts
losing consciousness.]
Robert: I told you it would work.
Rosalind: We already know it works. The question is, will he?
[Booker's mind is jumbled. The Luteces stand over him.]
Booker: Anna...Anna...I'm so sorry, Anna...
Rosalind: Do you suppose he branded himself as some sort of penance?
Robert: Hmmm...
Rosalind: I don't see the point. What's done is done. What's done...WILL be
done.
Robert: Hmmm...
Rosalind: I suppose the brand is his hair-shirt, as he is ours.
[They drag Booker along, his mind coming in and out of consciousness.]
Booker: ...and wipe away the debt...bring us the girl and wipe away the debt...
Robert: See, he's starting to put his story together...
Rosalind: Hm. You're quite fond of this theory of yours.
Robert: He's manufacturing new memories from his old ones.
Rosalind: Well...the brain adapts.
Robert: I should know...I lived it.
Elizabeth: Booker, wake up.
[Booker's mind snaps back to normal. He's in the Luteces' rowboat again.]
Elizabeth: Booker...wake up...this is where it started.
Booker: I sold you...I sold you...
Rosalind: To your credit, you did try to weasel out of the deal.
Booker: This is all Comstock's fault... What if I went back...killed him before
he did any of this?
Rosalind: Things get set in motion.
Robert: How would one know how far back to go?
Booker: That's the only way to do it: go back to when he as born...and I'll
smother the son of a bitch in his crib.
[He disembarks at the lighthouse again.]
Elizabeth: Booker, are you sure this is what you want?
Booker: I have to...it's the only way to undo what I've done to you.
[He takes her hand off the door and pushes it open. It places him right back
at the baptismal ceremony he passed up earlier.]
Witting: Booker DeWitt, are you ready to be born again?
Booker: What is this? Why are we back here?
Elizabeth: This isn't the same place, Booker.
Booker: Of course it is, I remember--...wait, you're not...you're not...who
are you?
[He looks around and sees other versions of Elizabeth there as well.]
Elizabeth 2: You chose to walk away.
Elizabeth: But in other oceans, you didn't. You took the baptism.
Elizabeth 3: You were born again as a different man.
Booker: Comstock.
Elizabeth 4: It all has to end.
Elizabeth: To never have started.
Elizabeth 5: Not just in this world.
Elizabeth: But in all of ours.
Booker: Smother him in the crib.
Elizabeth Ensemble: Smother...smother...smother...before the choice is made...
Elizabeth: Before you are reborn...
Witting: And what name shall you take my son?
Elizabeth 6: He's Zachary Comstock.
Elizabeth 7: He's Booker DeWitt.
Booker: No...I'm both.
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[His daughters him in the water, holding him down. Eventually, his vision
gives and he drowns. Without his existence, the Elizabeths simply disappear
one by one...]
[Credits roll.]
[After the credits, Booker is in his NY office.]
Booker: Anna. Anna?!
[He opens the door to her room.]
Booker: Anna? Is that you?
[The game finishes before he can look inside.]
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[The DLC opens with distorted voices.]
Woman's Voice: Come --
Man's Voice: -- tear -- unstable --
Woman's Voice: fine -- hurry!
Booker: Give me back my daughter! No!
[Booker wakes up, having slept at the desk in business office. It's New Year's
Eve, 1958. A woman in her late twenties enters.]
Booker: We're closed.
Woman: You don't look the sort who can afford to turn down legitimate work.
Booker: What do you want?
Woman: How about we start with a light?
[He offers to light her cig.]
Booker: You got a name, miss?
Elizabeth: Elizabeth. You can call me Elizabeth.
Booker: What can I do for you?
Elizabeth: There's a girl who needs to be found. Maybe you've seen her.
[She shows a photograph of a girl with a doll.]
Booker: This girl...this girl's dead.
Elizabeth: You know her?
Booker: You'll see dozens of her type down by the docks or the slums in Apollo
Square. Orphans. With Fontaine's charities shut, no place for 'em.
Elizabeth: But her you know.
Booker: As I said, girl's dead.
Elizabeth: Lost.
Booker: Look...I don't know where you get--
Elizabeth: Lost isn't dead. Name your rate, I will pay you for this work. But
you'd do this one gratis, wouldn't you?
Booker: I don't follow.
Elizabeth: Something tells me you will.
[She leaves. Booker follows, revealing his office isn't in NY, as it was in
the campaign, but in Rapture, the underwater city.]
Elizabeth: Seems my instincts were correct.
Booker: Where's Sally?
Elizabeth: I don't know...but I know someone who does. Follow me.
Booker: What's this girl to you?
Elizabeth: What I need from her is my business. But I know where to start
looking. Something tells me a man with your particular talents could
be useful.
[They come across some young girls standing near their teacher.]
Elizabeth: What happened to these children? What are they?
Booker: Where've you been, a cabin in Arcadia? Little Sisters. ADAM factories.
Elizabeth: It's grotesque.
Teacher: Red means stop, green means go. This is the rule all little girls
know.
[They continue on to an elevator.]
Booker: Funny.
Elizabeth: What?
Booker: You not knowing about the Little Sisters. How long have you been in
Rapture?
Elizabeth: Let's just say I don't get out much.
Booker: You've got eyes and ears, don't you?
Elizabeth: If I wanted to share my life's story, Mr. DeWitt, I would write my
memoirs. If I learned anything about Rapture, I thought it was a
place people understood to mind their own business.
Booker: Where we headed?
Elizabeth: The man we need to see is in the Garden of the Muses.
Booker: How do you know--
Elizabeth: My sources are my own, Mr. DeWitt. If you have better information
as to the whereabouts of your girl, I suggest you avail yourself of
it.
[They board the elevator.]
Booker: Where are you taking me?
Elizabeth: When's the last time you saw Sally?
Booker: What?
Elizabeth: She was taken from you wasn't she?
Booker: How do you know this?
Elizabeth: She was taken. Down at Sir Prize. You were playing the tables and--
Booker: She disappeared.
Elizabeth: And...
Booker: Cop friend of mine, Sullivan. Says they found her floating in the
docks.
Elizabeth: You see the body?
Booker: Look--
Elizabeth: Did you see...the body? This world values children, not childhood.
There's a profit to be made and men who make it. I'm taking you to
one of them.
[Booker has a momentary flashback of images that spaces him out.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt, you alright?
Booker: I'm fine...just get these spells sometimes. It'll pass.
[The lift opens at Le Temps Perdu, and a waiter appears.]
Waiter: Refreshment, sir? Madam?
Booker: We're fine, thanks.
[The waiter disappears and reappears near another customer.]
Waiter: Need a light?
[They continue through the lounge, stopping in front of Cohen's theater.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt. We'll find my source inside of my club.
Booker: Cohen? What does that lunatic have to do with Sally?
Elizabeth: "Private party. No entry without invitation."
Booker: We'll see about that.
[Booker knocks. A doorman peers through the grille.]
Doorman: Which business do you represent, sir?
Booker: Uh, business?
Doorman: Yes, which business?
Booker: DeWitt Investigations.
Doorman: Mr. Cohen does not truck with private detectives. Masks of invitation
went to artists and craftsmen alone.
Elizabeth: I'm with the Artist's Struggle. We're expected.
Doorman: No mask, no entry.
[The doorman closes the slit and leaves.]
Booker: Stuffed shirt.
Elizabeth: These invitation masks he spoke of -- they must have gone out to
local artisans.
Booker: Well...I guess we'll have to persuade someone to loan us one.
[Liz reads a sign nearby.]
Elizabeth: "The business of Rapture is business..." Says it's sponsored by the
Artist's Struggle, the Golden Rule and Rapture Records.
Booker: I guess those stores would be as good a place to start as any.
[They leave Cohen's vicinity.]
Booker: What brung ya to Rapture?
Elizabeth: A man.
Booker: Really. You don't strike me as the romantic type.
Elizabeth: Wasn't that kind of man.
Booker: Then what?
Elizabeth: There's a debt that needs repaying.
Booker: I've known my share of shylocks. You're no shylock.
Elizabeth: Wasn't that kind of debt.
[They arrive at Rapture Records.]
Elizabeth: Invitations to Cohen's shows are highly coveted. Nobody's going to
just hand us one.
Booker: You think you can figure out a way to distract the store owner while I
take a look around?
Elizabeth: You just find the mask. Leave the distractions to me.
[The duo enters.]
Shopkeep: Come right in.
Booker: Excuse me. The lady has some questions for you.
Shopkeep: Yes, of course...
[He walks over to where Liz is admiring a phonograph record.]
Elizabeth: What is this piece?
Shopkeep: It's by Trenet, but of course, covered by Mr. Reinhardt.
Elizabeth: Oh, it's lovely. Isn't it lovely?
Shopkeep: Oh, yes.
Elizabeth: Oh, music does something to me...especially something in this
vein...
Shopkeep: Yes.
Elizabeth: It's almost primal, isn't it? A part of us that exists before
thought, before logic -- purely sensual...
Shopkeep: The finest music...touches us...in places--
Elizabeth: --that we never knew existed...
Shopkeep: Yes...
Elizabeth: Can you turn it up? Oh, it's so intoxicating...but also -- but also
powerful and masculine... Oh, yes...one-one feels the urge to
surrender...
[While Liz turns on the charm, Booker searches behind the counter.]
Booker: Cohen sends those masks out in some kind of box...
[He opens up a specialty case, but it's empty.]
Booker: Damn. Must be somewhere else.
[He returns to Liz empty-handed.]
Elizabeth: I must go...I must go. Even one more note shall prove my undoing.
[They leave.]
Elizabeth: Any luck?
Booker: Nothin'. Let's find another shop.
Elizabeth: Where to next, Mr. DeWitt? The Golden Rule is just across the way,
or shall we go upstairs to the Artist's Struggle?
[They go to the Golden Rule jewelers.]
Shopkeep: Welcome.
Booker: You see that dish I walked in with? Well, you give her the star
treatment, pal, and I'll make it worth your while.
Shopkeep: Of course! Right away.
Elizabeth: I'm interested in this piece.
Shopkeep: Ah, excellent. You've an eye, haven't you, miss? It's a natural
sapphire and diamond, 18-carat gold ring, fully hallmarked for Paris,
1887.
Elizabeth: That's a lot of fine talk about a stolen ring.
Shopkeep: I beg your pardon?
Elizabeth: Right out of her coffin at Twilight Fields. Did you think we
wouldn't notice?
Shopkeep: I can assure you that--
Elizabeth: The assurances of a graverobber of are no interest to me! If you
hand the ring back, the matter will remain between you and me.
Shopkeep: You come into my shop and talk this trash? I don't think so. Hit the
bricks, you tramp, or I'll see to it they hit you.
Elizabeth: Get your hands off of me!
[He grabs her, but she knows where to kick.]
Shopkeep: You little--
Booker: Hmmm.
Elizabeth: Might be best of we were gone when he wakes up. Did you look for
the mask?
Booker: Didn't see one.
Elizabeth: There's no other way to get us into Cohen's. It's got to be back
there.
[They enter the back room.]
Booker: Gotta find that box...
[A case is sitting in the safe.]
Booker: Nothin'. Well, only one place left.
[He rejoins Liz and they leave the store.]
Elizabeth: Nothing?
Booker: No. Got one place left, though.
Elizabeth: And if that proves to be fruitless?
Booker: We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
[They enter the Artist's Struggle, a gallery, preparing to dupe the clerk.]
Booker: Hey, pal -- you wanna help out the little lady?
Shopkeep: Yes, of course...
[He goes over to where Liz is inspecting a large piece.]
Shopkeep: Interesting, isn't it? An original Sander Cohen...he calls it
"Miasma".
Elizabeth: I'm sorry, but I know precious little about art.
Shopkeep: How does it make you feel?
Elizabeth: I don't want to open my mouth, for fear of what foolishness might
tumble out.
Shopkeep: Would you like me to tell you what it means?
Elizabeth: Oh, would you? Oh, I would like so much to understand.
Shopkeep: In this piece, Cohen intended to show us the struggle of the great
man -- condemned to breath the air of the swampy parasite.
Elizabeth: You see all that in that little picture? Oh, what's this one? Oh,
it's so beautiful... What does it mean?
Shopkeep: Oh, my dear, that is something truly extraordinary...shall I explain?
Elizabeth: Oh, yes, please! Tell me everything. You're so knowledgeable...why,
you must be an artist yourself!
Shopkeep: Oh, I dabble...but I'm no Sander Cohen...
Elizabeth: Do you have anything of your own that you could show me?
Shopkeep: Well...yes...right over there...
Elizabeth: You've given me so much to think about...I feel a trifle swoony...
Would you mind if I returned tomorrow for further education?
Shopkeep: I shall be here at your service. Until tomorrow.
[While Liz flatters the clerk's ego, Booker searches the back room.]
Booker: Where is he hidin' that box... There you are, you little son of a
bitch.
[With the mask taken, they quickly exit.]
Elizabeth: Good, you've located the mask.
Booker: Third time's the charm.
Elizabeth: Alright. It's best we head back to Cohen's.
Booker: Fine piece of work back there with those shopkeeps. You've got a bit of
the grifter in you.
Elizabeth: For that you can thank my father.
Booker: Oh, yeah?
Elizabeth: He was a man comfortable in a variety of roles.
Booker: So, what kind of field you in?
Elizabeth: Field?
Booker: Yeah, you know, occupation? Can't imagine what kind of employment would
lead you to tag along on a job like this.
Elizabeth: I suppose you could say I work in debt collection. This better work,
or we'll certainly look the fools.
Booker: Trust me.
[Booker puts on his ridiculous bunny mask and knocks on the door again.]
Doorman: Ah! Very well. Mr. Cohen awaits your participation at his performance.
[They're let inside the club.]
Elizabeth: So who is this fellow Cohen? Some sort of underworld figure?
Booker: Worse. He's an artist.
Elizabeth: An artist who kidnaps children...
Booker: Cohen's muse is a bit more diverse. I've seen his type. Gets an idea
in his head, end of conversation, don't matter who gets hurt.
[They finally make it through the entryway to the actual club in back. The
guests are all fraternizing to "Waltz of the Flowers".]
Cohen: Dance, dance, move! Move, move! That's right, that's right... Be the
conduit! Open yourselves to the music! To the spirit of the eternal!
[They descend to find Cohen coaching two guests in their dance.]
Cohen: No... Why do you fail in this fashion?! To embarrass me in front of my
muse? My muse shall not be mocked! Fitzpatrick! The stick!
Dancer: Please!
Dancer 2: Sander, for god's sake!
[The cords connected to the dancers electrocutes them.]
Cohen: My muse shall not be mocked! Get them out of here. There shall be no
failure on my canvas!
[The dead dancers are hoisted upwards and out of sight.]
Cohen: There's no room in Rapture anymore for the artist.
[Booker and Liz approach the crestfallen painter.]
Cohen: Who are you?!
Booker: Name's DeWitt.
Cohen: Is that right? My...this one's a real biscuit. Isn't he a biscuit,
ladies?
Booker: I need to ask you a few questions.
Cohen: Questions! Yes! Yes! It is the work of man to ask. It is the work of
the artist...to answer.
Elizabeth: You've seen this girl, haven't you?
Cohen: We artists see more than most. You're more than you claim to be, little
songbird, are you not? Watch this one, DeWitt. She'll take you where you
don't want to go. But I know the child in that photograph is important
to you. So many children flit-flit-flit away... I know where the girl
is. And I will send you to her. In exchange, all I ask...is a dance.
Booker: What?
Crowd: A dance...a dance...a dance!
Cohen: I see something in you two! Art strips away artifice. Show me who you
are -- and I will show you where you need to go...
Booker: Listen, Cohen, you son of a bitch--
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt...
Booker: What?
Elizabeth: Dance with me.
Cohen: Come, come, dance! Come on, dance! Feel the music, feel the music!
[Booker reluctantly takes Liz's hand, standing where the last two were.]
Elizabeth: I shudder to think what greater price he might care to extract.
Cohen: Fitzpatrick!
[The music starts.]
Cohen: Beauty and pain. They can be no more separated than birth and blood.
Elizabeth: What do you think Cohen's customers do with the children? Do they--
Booker: Sometimes. But those types lack the capital of types like Ryan and
Suchong.
Elizabeth: That's a blessing.
Booker: You saw those Little Sisters. You so sure? But if Suchong had Sally...
I'd know it.
Elizabeth: How?
Booker: 'Cause I tied him to a chair and asked him.
Elizabeth: So?
Booker: For fifteen hours.
Elizabeth: I don't know what to make of you, Mr. DeWitt.
Cohen: No, no, no, no!
Booker: Listen, we're not going to keep--
Cohen: Fitzpatrick!
[They're electrocuted by the floor and fall over. Booker can hear Cohen above.]
Cohen: I see suffering in you...I know how to shine a light on your pain. A
moth will become a butterfly.
[Later, Booker awakens to Elizabeth's voice.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt. Mr. DeWitt! Mr. Dewitt! Are you alright?
Booker: I'm fine.
Elizabeth: You were dreaming...you kept saying your daughter's name, Sally.
Booker: She's not my daughter.
Elizabeth: I thought--
Cohen PA: Pain and beauty. To an artist, they are parent and child.
Booker: Cohen?
Cohen PA: I'm sending you to find your...young one. No need to thank me. I'm
so sure you'll like what you find.
[Booker stands up, noticing he and Liz are in a descending elevator. There's
some building far below where the rest of the city is.]
Elizabeth: Look...
Booker: Fontaine's. Ryan sunk the whole thing to the bottom.
Elizabeth: But it's a prison now. Why would Cohen have sent Sally there?
Booker: I don't know.
Cohen PA: Everyone has needs. I merely provide a service to those who have the
means to pay. You'll find your little bird in the housewares
department.
Elizabeth: How many people do you suppose Ryan's got locked up in that place?
Booker: Enough. Fontaine had amassed something near an army. Now they're down
there, spliced up and wild. Alright, there's a dock up ahead.
Elizabeth: Takes a cold son of a bitch to do that to a living person.
Booker: What's that?
Elizabeth: Burial at sea.
Booker: You read your residency contract with Ryan Industries? "In perpetuity."
We're all buried at sea.
[Their elevator lands at Fontaine's Station.]
Elizabeth: Oof.
Booker: Don't get too comfortable. Keep your eyes open.
Elizabeth: Seem to be some supplies this way, Mr. DeWitt.
Booker: It's "Booker."
Elizabeth: What?
Booker: Just call me "Booker."
Elizabeth: If it's all the same to you, let's leave it at "Mr. DeWitt."
[Booker has another one of his "spells".]
Elizabeth: Look up there. Let's have another look around. Perhaps we'll be
able to find something to get us up and over.
[He finds an Air Grabber claw device.]
Booker: Could be handy.
Elizabeth: A sky-hook.
Booker: "Sky-hook"? You mean the "air-grabber"? Kids use 'em to ride around up
on the pneumo lines.
Elizabeth: "Air-grabbers"? Huh. Constants and variables.
Booker: Constants and what--?
Elizabeth: Never mind.
[Booker uses his new toy to get above the gate.]
Booker: Goddamn Grabber's stuck...
Splicer: I want the frosty one! GET ME THE FROSTY ONE!
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt...someone's coming...
[They see two splicers fighting over an ice-type vigor.]
Splicer: No! Come back! I want the frosty! Want it! Want it!
[The splices run past the gate and out of sight.]
Booker: Alright, I got the grabber unjammed.
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt...look.
[Out the window, the Housewares tower can be seen.]
Elizabeth: Housewares...that's where Cohen said we'd find Sally. The store ran
trams between the three buildings. We'll need to avail ourselves to
that.
Booker: Assuming it still works.
Elizabeth: Optimism, Mr. DeWitt. It helps in situations like this.
[They board the first tram.]
Elizabeth: When did you come to Rapture?
Booker: Oh, it was...jeez...I guess around '51. No...'48?
Elizabeth: That's a rather large gap.
Booker: Time...life I had before...sort of becomes a blur. '49. '49 for sure.
[He notices his nose is bleeding.]
Booker: Damn.
Elizabeth: You look a mess, Mr. DeWitt.
Booker: Just keep your eyes open for splicers. They can do us a whole lot
worse.
[The tram reaches the next building. An insane splicer is talking to herself.]
Splicer: There, little birdies. Eat it up. It's good for you, you know! I never
heard of birds that didn't like seeds! What's, what's the matter with
you? Do you think it's poison?
Elizabeth: Careful. They don't look friendly.
[They take out the splicers and continue on. Entry to the next tram's blocked.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt -- look.
Booker: Well, there's the tram.
Elizabeth: That splicer had no problem freezing a path for himself before.
Booker: I'm sure he'll be happy to do the same for us.
Elizabeth: I have no doubt you'll prove persuasive. Mr. DeWitt, look.
[A sign advertises a chilly attraction.]
Elizabeth: An ice rink.
Booker: Be good a place as any to look for our new friend.
Elizabeth: Says it's on a top floor.
Booker: So we go up.
[They encounter a locked door.]
Booker: Agh, damn thing's locked.
Elizabeth: Let me see that. Ugh, have matters progressed so little...I could
turn this with a rake pick. Done.
[She easily gets through.]
Booker: Where'd you learn that?
Elizabeth: Oh, it's something I picked up a long time ago.
Booker: Our frozen friend leaves a hell of a trail.
[The next room has a splicer banging on a door.]
Splicer: Come on...just let me in ok? Fontaine said we're all equals down here
now, all in the same boat. I just want a taste of some high-class
food!
Elizabeth: Splicers! I don't think they see us. If you keep quiet, maybe you
could get the drop on 'em. Maybe even the odds.
Booker: Yeah. Maybe even lay down a trap or two.
[After the splicers are dealt with, they continue on.]
Elizabeth: What's happened to these people...they don't even seem sane.
Booker: Nothing beats your first splice. From there, it's all downhill. The
frozen frosties, the jockeys who will hand you a thousand volts as soon
as look at you.
Elizabeth: You sound sympathetic.
Booker: They wouldn't be the first sons a bitches who found an answer at the
bottom of a bottle. But once you seen them go all weak in the knees at
the sight of a Little Sister and all her ADAM...well...then they cut a
less sympathetic figure.
[There's another elevator down the way.]
Booker: Short-circuited. Probably be able to pop it open with a--
Elizabeth: --a jolt of Shock Jockey.
Booker: You familiar with Shock Jockey?
Elizabeth: More than you could know.
Booker: Let's look around. Maybe there's a store ain't been ransacked by
splicers yet.
[They go to Jack Frost's Souvenirs, which is unironically at sub-zero temps.]
Elizabeth: It's freezing in here.
Booker: Something tells me all that cold isn't just comin' from the ice rink.
[They can hear someone talk nearby.]
Frosty: Nobody gets even a sip unless I say so! You got it? Anyone come nears
that bottle without permission is a DEAD MAN!
[They slay the splicers. They search the guarded display case.]
Booker: Damn it. That son of a bitch drank every last bottle of Old Man Winter.
Elizabeth: I think I can help.
[She opens a tear where a bottle still exists in the display case.]
Booker: Whoa. What was that?
Elizabeth: It's a, uh, new plasmid. Let's me...let's me bring in things that
might exist but...don't...
Booker: Not sure I understand. What's it called?
Elizabeth: Tear.
Booker: Where'd you find that?
Elizabeth: You don't expect a girl to share all her secrets, do you, Mr.
DeWitt?
[DeWitt drinks the juice and they start back.]
Booker: Alright, I know you're the client and all, but I've gone about far
enough without a few answers.
Elizabeth: My purpose here is none of your concern. Consider me a means to an
end.
Booker: Then why do I get the feeling like I'm being set up?
Elizabeth: I told you, I'm in collections. An account is in arrears. My clients
simply want to see matters set to right.
Booker: Don't make any sense, that's all.
Elizabeth: If you don't like the arrangement, the bathysphere's back that way.
[They continue on.]
Elizabeth: Why did Ryan lock up all of Fontaine's followers in a department
store?
Booker: He needed somewhere to put Fontaine's button men. Why not shut down
the competition in the bargain?
Elizabeth: But I thought Andrew Ryan was all about free markets and open
competition?
Booker: All those ideas lose their luster when the quarterly earnings come in
and you find the other guy's eating your lunch. Either way, Fontaine's
dead.
[They reach the broken pipes.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt, use the plasmid.
[They freeze a makeshift bridge across.]
Elizabeth: If Sally's not your daughter, what's she to you? Why risk life and
limb?
Booker: Is this part of the job?
Elizabeth: You owe me no explanation.
Booker: She's just another orphan. After Fontaine went down, city was lousy
with 'em.
Elizabeth: And...
Booker: I don't know. You have a reason for every stupid thing you've ever
done? She started showing up, looking peaked. More fool me to feed the
brat -- shoulda known she would never leave.
Elizabeth: How did you lose her?
Booker: It's none of you business.
[They get in the next tram.]
Booker: Somethin' about you doesn't sit right.
Elizabeth: Yes?
Booker: Wouldn't peg you as the Rapture type. Not even a little.
Elizabeth: If you mean I have no interest in joining the Andrew Ryan book club,
you'd be right. Just another set of fanatics with a different set of
books.
Booker: I gamble.
Elizabeth: What?
Booker: You asked me how I lost Sally. I gamble. Took her somewhere a kid's got
no business being. I was winning. In a place like that...you don't let
a kid outta your sight.
Elizabeth: But you did.
Booker: Yeah, and here we are. But the million-dollar question is: what's she
to you?
Elizabeth: I have an interest in reuniting you with her. Isn't that reason
enough?
Booker: Let's hope Cohen was on the level when he said this is where we'd find
Sally.
Elizabeth: I can only imagine what they would do with a child in a place like
this.
Booker: Cohen's halfway to splice Town. Probably thought putting a child in
prison would be "high art".
Elizabeth: The sooner we find her, the better.
[As they step into Housewares, they see Sally climbing into a Little Sister
vent, trying to get away from a pursuer.]
Splicer: C'mon outta there! Papa's got all sorts of plans for you! Now, you
come out and take your medicine!
Booker: Sally!
[By the time they intervene, Sally has already disappeared into the pipe.]
Booker: Sally! Come out of there!
Elizabeth: I can't see her...
[She kneels near a toolbox.]
Booker: What are you doing?
Elizabeth: This is a schematic for the venting system. It shows there are more
vents like this one in electronics, the bistro, returns, the book
department and the appliance show floor.
Booker: So?
Elizabeth: If she's in there, there are only six vents she can come out of.
[She shuts the vent.]
Elizabeth: And now there are five. All these vents are connected to the central
heating unit. If we close them off and turn the heat up, she'll be
forced out through the central exhaust. It's the only exit.
Booker: You want to burn her alive?
Elizabeth: No, we just make it hot enough to flush her out.
Booker: Can't do that.
Elizabeth: Look, either we find her...or one of those splicers will.
Booker: ...All right. Where are the other vents?
Elizabeth: Up ahead.
[They enter Electronics, spotting splicers guarding an exit vent.]
Splicer: C'mon, love. Ol' Mickey just wants to give you a little squeeze. You
don't want to disappoint your old uncle, now do ya?
Splicer 2: You come outta there! Ain't no fair keeping that tasty ADAM locked
up in your stomach! Ain't no fair!
Splicer: Quiet, ya yag. She comes out for the honey, not the vinegar.
[They kill the splicers.]
Elizabeth: We need to close these vents. Two down. Where to now?
[Later, they encounter a locked door housing an odd device.]
Elizabeth: What is that thing in there?
Booker: It's a Radar Range. Never could figure out if the thing's designed to
cook a turkey or a splicer.
Elizabeth: Damn door's got a key code lock. No way to get in without knowing
what it is.
[After solving the mystery, they close the next vent.]
Elizabeth: Halfway there.
[Near Appliances, more splicers wait for the kill.]
Splicer: It's not working! Where is she?!
Splicer 2: C'mon...my baby needs you! Get outta there! What's wrong with you?!
Ain't you got no heart?!
[Liz and Booker slay 'em, then close the next vent.]
Elizabeth: Okay, next one.
[In a projector room, they find more splicers.]
Splicer: More! It's not enough! That giant son of a bitch will walk right
through that!
Splicer 2: What if there's still a service door? Or...or a fire exit?!
Splicer: We'll seal it up! Lock him away forever!
[They kill the splicers guarding the door.]
Elizabeth: What exactly were they trying to keep out?
Booker: Something worse than them.
Elizabeth: And what could that be?
Booker: You'll know it when you see it.
[They pick through the door, finding a splicer talking to herself in a store.]
Splicer: Oh, isn't everything just wonderful? The food, the band...even your
parents are behaving! Really? You mean it! I tried to hard to reduce
to fit into this gown. I just wanted to look beautiful for you. I
knew right away, silly, right there at the Kashmir! You were sitting
with that horrible girl, oh, what was her name? And I said to
myself...soon he'll be sitting with me.
[Booker kills her.]
Elizabeth: I don't know if she was dangerous...or just insane.
Booker: Next time, I'll be sure to ask.
[They go to the bookstore where, unsurpringly, more foes wait by a vent.]
Splicer: Listen, honey! You know there's rats in there! The size-a ponies...
Have you seen 'em?! I bet they seen you... How much you weigh,
sweetie? 'Bout 40 pounds? You know, they got rats in there double
that... Hey, once those rats get a taste for little girls, it don't
stop!
[Booker kills the freaks and closes the grate.]
Elizabeth: There should be one more.
[They make for the showroom. Sally's humming can be heard coming up the pipes.]
Elizabeth: Hear that?
Booker: Sally...? Sally, it's me, Booker. Now, you come out now! Sally? Dear,
do you hear me? It's me, Booker. Now listen, dear -- you come out right
now!
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt, she's not coming. Now let's get the rest of these vents
sealed. It's the only way.
[Booker shuts it.]
Elizabeth: That's the last one.
Booker: Where's the exhaust?
Elizabeth: In the toy department.
[They hurry over to Toys, but the door's shut.]
Booker: Locked from the other side. How the hell are--
Elizabeth: Look. I think I can squeeze through. Gimme a boost.
[He boosts Liz into the vent. On the other side, she sets to work lockpicking.]
Booker: What's taking so long?
Elizabeth: I just, I can't get the--
Booker: Come on!
Elizabeth: I'm just, I'm try--...just give me a second!
[Booker slays the splicers who show up. Liz finishes her task.]
Elizabeth: DeWitt. Well, you don't seem any worse for wear.
Booker: Speak for yourself.
Elizabeth: Alright, let me go check the exhaust vent.
[She peers inside the pipe.]
Elizabeth: No sign of her. Looks like we'll need to turn up the thermostat if
we're going to flush her out. It's over that way.
[They go into a back room.]
Elizabeth: Thermostat's right there. Turn the heat up.
Booker: I'm not going to burn her.
Elizabeth: It's the only way to bring her to us. If you won't do it, I will.
Just gimme the word.
Booker: Turn it up.
Elizabeth: what?
Booker: Turn the goddamn thermostat up.
[Almost immediately, they hear Sally crying somewhere.]
Sally: Too hot!
Elizabeth: Do you hear that? We need to get back to the exhaust before we lose
the girl again.
[They run to an exhaust port. Sally is visible, trying to exit a closed vent.]
Booker: Sally...Sally come out!
[She goes out of sight.]
Booker: It isn't working.
Elizabeth: I told you, she's coming.
[They can hear Sally crying in the pipes.]
Booker: It isn't working. Turn it off.
Elizabeth: If we turn it off, it's not going to work.
Booker: We have to turn it off; we are hurting her.
Elizabeth: Look!
Booker: Sally. Sally? Sally, it's Booker...it's me... Sally, c'mon. I'm gonna
get you outta here. Sally! Come out here right now!
Sally: No no no no! No!
[He pulls her into the light, finding she's been turned into a Little Sister.]
Booker: Sally...no...!
Elizabeth: Booker!
Sally: Mr. BUBBLES--!
[Booker turns around, just in time to evade a Big Daddy's drill attack. They
defeat the giant opponent.]
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt, the girl!
Booker: Sally!
Sally: No no no no!
Elizabeth: Mr. DeWitt...is she...?
Booker: It's okay, Sally...
Elizabeth: Is she--
[He holds up the head of her doll.]
Booker: Look....look, it's Sarah! Huh? She's come to see you! We're going
home...do you want to go home?
[He attempts to pull her out of the vent.]
Booker: Don't fight...please... Don't...I'm here. I just want to take you
home...I just want--
[As Booker struggles, his memories start to coalesce. He recalls a similar
scene where he, as Comstock, is pulling a child through the portal into
Columbia. The Luteces and Elizabeth in her younger days are there.]
Elizabeth: You're hurting her!
Comstock: She's got to come with me!
Elizabeth: She's not your child.
Comstock: She IS mine!
[The flashback stops.]
Elizabeth: Let her go...let her go!
Booker: She's mine!
[He continues pulling, and remembers more of the flashback scene.]
Robert: The tear is closing!
Comstock: Shut it down! Shut down the machine!
Rosalind: You've got to pull her through!
Comstock: Shut down the machine!
Robert: No, she's not through!
Rosalind: Hurry!
Comstock: Shut it down!
Rosalind: Oh, no, no, look out!
[Booker collapses as he remembers the child wasn't pulled through the portal;
it instead was pulled back the other way, the portal closing on her neck
instead of her pinky.]
Booker: I remember...all of it. That poor child...
Elizabeth: She wasn't yours...Comstock. I wasn't. Yet you had to have me,
didn't you?
Booker: No, this isn't right...
Elizabeth: And when the guilt was too much--
Robert: --you turned to use to solve your problem.
[He whirls around to see the Luteces are there in Rapture. Flashback still: the
Luteces open their portal at Lutece Labs.]
Rosalind: To provide a place to go where you might forget.
[Flashback still: the Luteces open a portal into Rapture.]
Robert: Where there never was an Anna in the first place.
Rosalind: Comstock was never one to own up to his errors, was he, brother?
Robert: Never comfortable with the choices he made...
Rosalind: Always seeking someone else's life to claim his own...
[Flashback still: Booker, as Comstock, has set up his Rapture P.I. business,
and is shaving off his trademark prophet beard.]
Booker: Elizabeth...child...I am so sorry...
Elizabeth: No you're not...but you're about to be.
[The Big Daddy's drill impales Booker and starts up.]
END OF PART ONE
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BURIAL AT SEA, PT. 2 [BAS2]
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[The game recaps Bioshock 1 for players not in the know. Over a black screen:]
Booker: Sally! Sally, come out!
Elizabeth: She wasn't yours, Comstock.
Booker: Elizabeth...I am so sorry...
Elizabeth: No you're not...but you're about to be.
[The first images are of the La Poche du Temps Cafe in Paris. Note that most
non-Elizabeth lines are in French; the translation are given instead.]
Artist: Madamoiselle?
Elizabeth: Yes?
[He's drawn a picture of her, ponytail and all.]
Artist: What is your name?
Elizabeth: Elizabeth.
Artist: For you, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: Oh, no...no, I-I couldn't! I can't accept.
Artist: Please, I insist.
Elizabeth: Oh, thank you.
[Liz gets up from her seat and starts her stroll.]
Woman: Good morning, madamoiselle.
Kid: Hello, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: Bonjour.
Kid: How are you?
Elizabeth: Ca va bien?
[She walks by an artist.]
Elizabeth: Bonjour, Monsieur Seurat.
Man: Hello, Miss Elizabeth. Nothing good to paint today!
[Further along...]
Girl: Come play with us, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: I'm sorry, Cosette. Next time, I promise.
Girl: Aww, too bad!
[She walks into a bookstore.]
Man: Every book you could ever want! And reasonably priced, too!
Elizabeth: Do you have "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton?
Man: I'm sorry, cherie, but that has not been written yet.
[Along the Seine, Elizabeth finds a girl with a balloon.]
Elizabeth: Sally? Sally!
[Her balloon floats away.]
Sally: Come back!
Elizabeth: Sally, wait!
Sally: Come back!
Elizabeth: Wait! Sally, stop!
Sally: Come back!
Elizabeth: Sally, where are you going?
Sally: Come back!
Elizabeth: Sally, hold on!
Sally: Come back!
Elizabeth: Stop, stop! Where did she go?
[She finds a red balloon in front of DeWitt Investigations. When she opens the
door, she's face to face with a thermostat, breaking when it gets to high. A
she turns around, Sally is there, as a Little Sister.]
Elizabeth: Go away. It wasn't my fault. I didn't do anything!
[She imagines Sally trapped in the heated vent from Episode 1.]
Sally: Hot! Hot! Hot!
Elizabeth: No...no, no...no! It wasn't my fault! Leave me alone! Can't you just
leave me alone? I'm sorry! I'm sorry...I never should have left...I
never should have left you there...
[Liz's Parisian dream ends, as she comes to. She's still in the first epiode's
department store, next to a dead Booker DeWitt. The weird spinning sound she
hears is a man spinning his gun's cylinder. He pulls the trigger, but the
chamber's empty.]
Lonnie: Empty. Empty again. What are the odds?
[In the background, a splicer is trying to pull Sally from the vent. Atlas,
a major character from Bioshock 1, walk into view.]
Atlas: What's the hold up?
Lonnnie: Just having a bit of a laugh, Atlas.
Atlas: This ain't a sportin' event. Put a bullet in her. No need to torture
the poor girl. We're not animals, ya know.
Lonnie: Alright, alright, alright...
Elizabeth: Let her go!
Lonnie: Quiet down now, dear...in a minute, all your problems will be over.
[She hallucinates Booker being alive, sitting in a chair nearby.]
Booker: Elizabeth. Tell him you can get him back.
Elizabeth: Booker? Oh, Booker...what? I don't understand what... How--
Booker: Say "I can get" -- Say "I can get you back to Rapture."
Elizabeth: What?
Booker: Just say it.
Elizabeth: I can get you back to Rapture!
Atlas: Put the gun down. Now...what was that you said about Rapture?
Elizabeth: I can get you back to Rapture.
Atlas: And how you plan on doin' that, sister? You some kinda magician?
Booker: Suchong.
Elizabeth: What?
Booker: Tell him "Suchong."
Elizabeth: Suchong.
Atlas: And how do you know that slant-eyed wonder?
Booker: You're his lab assistant.
Elizabeth: I'm his lab assistant.
Atlas: If it escaped your notice, Andrew Ryan's sunk us 5,000 fathoms below
his shining city. How does Suchong propose to get us back?
Booker: That's between me...
Elizabeth: That's between me...
Booker: ...and the slant.
Elizabeth: ...and the slant...but if I do this, the girl goes with me.
Atlas: Little Sisters are worth their weight in gold. She's not up for
negotiation.
Elizabeth: Last time I checked, back in the city they were making Little
Sisters by the dozen.
Atlas: That's a right fairy tale you've dreamed up, sister. But if you're
lying, we can just as well kill ya tomorrow. Down here, we got nothin'
but time.
[He kicks a radio to her.]
Atlas: In case I need to get hold a ya. If you see Suchong, tell him: Atlas
says he hasn't forgotten 'im.
[Lonnie knocks her out. She comes to alone, except for Booker's corpse.]
Booker: Elizabeth. Come on. It's time to get movin'.
Elizabeth: Booker?... What?...
Booker: Over here. On the radio.
Elizabeth: You're not Booker.
Booker: Of course I ain't.
Elizabeth: What have I gotten myself into? I didn't orphan that girl. I didn't
kidnap her.
Booker: But she made for some exceptional bait, didn't she?
Elizabeth: Had to be done.
Booker: Did it?
Elizabeth: I felt everything that every version of me felt. All of that
knowledge, it...I lost a pinky. But that version of me, she lost
everything! And Comstock -- that final Comstock -- he thought he
could avoid his guilt by coming here.
Booker: You educated him proper.
Elizabeth: But then why am I back here? Huh? I don't remember opening a tear
to come back. And who are you? Huh?
Booker: I think you'll figure that out soon enough.
[Liz sets out on escaping the deparment store.]
Elizabeth: I was in Paris. I...I was happy. And now I'm here, dealing with
this Atlas, this...this psychopath. What was I thinking?
Booker: That wasn't Paris any more than I am Booker.
Elizabeth: And now I have to find this...this Suchong... And, I don't even
know who that is!
Booker: Not yet. But you know he's the key, don't you?
Elizabeth: To what?
Booker: You're asking me? Elizabeth...I ain't even here.
[Liz tries to unhinge some rubble.]
Elizabeth: What are you? Huh? An how did you know exactly what to tell Atlas?
Booker: Let me ask you a question: you feelin' like yourself, Elizabeth?
Elizabeth: I feel...I feel strange and...and smaller, I...I can't see the
doors, what's behind the doors, I...I can't see the future... I
can't even see any tears!
[She pushes clears the rubble to reveal a dead Elizabeth, impaled on rebar.]
Elizabeth: Oh my god...
[Flashback.]
Elizabeth: Stay away from me...
[Flashback ends.]
Elizabeth: Booker...
[Flashback: a Big Daddy approaches.]
Elizabeth: No, no, no, please -- please, don't...
[Flashback ends.]
Elizabeth: I died here...I was killed by that--
[Flashback: the Big Daddy punches her into the wall, collapsing it.]
Elizabeth: Stay away from me!
[Flashback ends.]
Elizabeth: But then, how am I...here? How can I be dead in this world and yet--
[She notices her nose is bleeding and her missing pinky is restored.]
Elizabeth: My finger... What am I, huh? I...I don't understand, I-I...
Rosalind: If we're going to end up at the same place, I don't see the harm in
enjoying the ride.
Robert: Are you being cute?
[Elizabeth finds herself in the rowboat that started the main campaign, with
the Luteces there, of course.]
Rosalind: I've come round to your way of thinking.
Robert: Have you?
Rosalind: Yes. I do believe one can change things. But after all the bother,
one often wishes that one had not.
Robert: You're a fatalist.
Rosalind: A physicist?
Robert: A fatalist.
Rosalind: So was Newton. Especially when it came to apples falling from trees.
They always contrive to land with a splat. She left the child to rot.
Robert: Are you implying she's the apple?
Rosalind: I'm implying that she did not fall far from the tree.
Robert: And now she wants to go back.
Elizabeth: I need to go back. To fix what I broke.
Rosalind: Back to where she has no right to be.
Robert: Back to where she doesn't belong.
Elizabeth: Doesn't belong? Wait, what do you mean?
Rosalind: Do you want to tell her, brother, or shall I?
Elizabeth: Because I died...
Rosalind: There are rules.
Robert: Even for one such as you.
Rosalind: She'll forget.
Robert: All the doors.
Rosalind: And what's behind all the doors.
Robert: All closed to her now.
Rosalind: She'll be just like the rest of us.
Robert: Forgetting the past--
Rosalind: --the present--
Robert: --the future.
Rosalind: I'd wager she won't even remember this conversation. We've arrived.
[Elizabeth disembarks at a lighthouse.]
Rosalind: You're trading omniscience and croissants for death and mildew.
Elizabeth: I left Sally to rot...for what? So I could punish Comstock? He was
trying to help her, to save her, and I... If I don't make that
right...
Robert: We all have our crosses to bear.
Rosalind: But, there is a thin line between a martyr and a fool.
Luteces: (singing) Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream... Merrily,
merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream...
[The rowboat disappears out of sight. She opens the lighthouse door, putting
her back in Rapture at the point she discovers her dead self.]
Elizabeth: The Luteces warned me that if I came back here, I would collapse.
Booker: Collapse?
Elizabeth: From a-a quantum superposition...to just me.
Booker: A quantum what?
Elizabeth: I've changed, Booker. No tears, no cosmic knowledge...just a normal
girl with a normal pinky. Wait, if...if I can't open tears...I'm
never leaving here, am I? I...I'm never going back to Paris... And
you, you're just -- you're -- you're just what? You're just the
fragments of my memory telling me what my future holds?
Booker: You decided to come here, Elizabeth. You knew what that meant. Only
option, as I see it, is to trust yourself. Find Suchong.
[Liz takes the elevator down, hearing a splicer nearby.]
Splicer: You spiff Rabbit, you spiff Frankie and you leave me what? Nothing?
You think I don't got a family to feed?
Elizabeth: I think I'm gonna have to use this air-grabber... It's gonna be
messy, I don't know if I--
Booker: Well, a blow to the back of his head will serve just as well. Be a hell
of a lot quieter, too.
Elizabeth: Well, that's not what you would've done.
Booker: I'm not Booker. Just because your father did something one way doesn't
mean you have to.
[She sneaks by another splicer.]
Splicer 2: Recently? I've been on something of a "hiatus"... Is it that tart
from the paper? She been spyin' on me again?!
[Liz approaches a third splicer.]
Booker: You'll wanna get the drop on him, and quiet.
Elizabeth: Shhh!
Booker: He can't hear what's only in your head.
[Liz brains him with her weapon.]
Elizabeth: Well, he's not getting up anytime soon.
Booker: And what with his head still attached to his body.
Elizabeth: From here on, it's only gonna get worse.
Booker: And how much worse is up to you.
Splicer: Children are clay, Bradburn! It's up to us to see they become Grecian
urns and don't return to mud. Get them young enough? You can mold them
for life!
[She clubs that splicer, too.]
Elizabeth: Now, let's get his lockpick.
Elizabeth: Simple enough -- just a six-pin tumbler. Ugh, but there's also an
alarm. Huh...that could come in handy, though.
[She continues through the school.]
Splicer: To become an "intellectual superhuman," you must wade deep within the
most dangerous mental territory: looking for a fight!
[Liz goes to pick up a teddy bear, only to suffer one of the same "spells" that
Booker was getting in the last installment.]
Elizabeth: What was that?
Booker: You know, don't you?
Elizabeth: The-the doors, they're...they're cracking open. My memories of the
future, and somewhere I'm going to go...
Booker: You sure it's your future you're looking at?
Elizabeth, if not mine, then...then whose?
[Liz picks up a crossbow near a door.]
Booker: You sure you're ready to use that?
Elizabeth: It's a crossbow. Looks like the bolt delivers some kind of sleep
agent, probably phencyclidine or sodium thiopental.
Booker: Hmm.
Elizabeth: They had all kinds of books in my tower. How do you think I always
knew what ammo to toss you?
Booker: Knowin' ain't the same as bein' ready.
Elizabeth: Why don't you ask Comstock how ready I was?
Booker: Your father's blood runs in your veins, but it doesn't have to be on
your hands. It's up to you.
Splicer: And what does Ryan the Lion warn us?
Splicer 2: Very painful, I assure you. But you will be hardier for it! More
highly evolved! Superhuman!
[Liz silently eliminates the opposition and exits the prep school. Outside, a
sign for the Silver Fin restaurant notes it's been closed by Dr. Suchong.]
Elizabeth: Look, Suchong! That's the name you had me tell Atlas. Huh...
Booker: I don't follow.
Elizabeth: It looks like this Suchong character has taken over the Silver Fin
restaurant. That's...that's where the tear was that I used when I
first came to Rapture looking for Comstock. Before this place was
turned into a prison.
Booker: But the first time you came to Rapture was in 1960. With Booker. When
you drowned Songbi--
Elizabeth: Over a year from now... Yeah, that-that's right, I... When I could
see all the doors, it all made sense, but now it's...it's just a
jumble.
Booker: Elizabeth, you're...you're bleeding.
Elizabeth: Now I know what it feels like. Alright...if we're going to find
Suchong, the Silver Fin is the place to start. I know the way.
[She enters the seedy Cupid's Arrow bookstore.]
Elizabeth: I was here as well... Right after I came through, I needed...I
needed something to wear that was a little more Rapture-appropriate.
Well...they didn't have these books in my tower.
[Splicers noisily enter the store.]
Elizabeth: I could use this Plasmid and see them through the walls, or, if
worse comes to worst, turn completely invisible to get the drop on
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Splicer: I didn't say you could go!
Splicer 2: I saw where you went! Canary in a coal mine...somebody's lurkin'
about...
[Liz takes out the nogoodniks.]
Booker: What did you mean before when you said you were in Paris?
Elizabeth: It wasn't really Paris, it was more...it was more the world as I
want to see it. And I suppose I wasn't really happy there. We'd all
be better off, us DeWitts...if we could leave well enough alone.
[She finds the dress she had on when she arrived in Rapture.]
Elizabeth: Hey...there you are.
[Later, Liz enters an abandoned elevator.]
Elizabeth: Once I could see everything...every possible moment. And now...
Booker: You're just like everyone else.
Elizabeth: Why? Why, because I died here? If I'm just like everyone else, I
can't help Sally. I can't even go back to where I was.
[Atlas comes on the radio.]
Atlas: If you don't mind me askin', love: why are you talkin' to nobody? If I
had pegged you for a loon, I might have had second thoughts on our
arrangement.
Elizabeth: I'll hold up my end. But I better find the girl the way I left her.
Atlas: You're in no position to make demands. But I must confess, I do like a
bit a sass in a lass.
[Liz next comes to Bathyspheres Deluxe. A Big Daddy walks around the area.]
Elizabeth: It's him...it's the Big Daddy...the one that killed me.
Booker: You can't trade blows with him.
Elizabeth: Comstock put him down, and he got right back up. Now, I can't hurt
him...I could keep my distance, but if I watch myself, he could come
in handy. Enemy of my enemy.
[Liz finds a locked door and bangs on it. A man looks through the peephole.]
Atlas Follower: Whadda you want?
Elizabeth: Let me in. I'm working with Atlas.
Atlas Follower: I ain't heard nothing. Nobody gets in here without a kind word
from the boss.
[She goes to the restaurant.]
Elizabeth: The Silver Fin. This used to be a restaurant when I first came
through. Now it belongs to this Suchong. Looks like I'm not the
first one who tried to get in here. Huh...at least he left a trail.
[She follows the blood trail to a maintenance area.]
Elizabeth: Somebody must have shot him when he tried to break into Suchong's.
Huh...what's this?
[The corpse has a blueprint.]
Elizabeth: Hmm. Well, seems like central heating came from this room, so...it
would stand to reason that the ductwork should go to Suchong's.
Wait a minute...
[She moves a cabinet to reveal a duct.]
Elizabeth: Suchong wasn't exactly a master of subterfuge...
[Via the ducts, she infiltrates the lounge. A photo of Suchong adorns a wall.]
Elizabeth: Think we found our man.
Booker: No sign of him now.
Elizabeth: Either's he dead...or working for Ryan.
[A door is locked with a rotary code.]
Elizabeth: Locked. And nothing to pick. But I came here for a reason, right?
Isn't that why you told me to find Suchong?
Booker: Well, technically, you told yourself.
Elizabeth: Thanks, I appreciate the reminder.
Booker: Of what?
Elizabeth: My tenuous mental state.
Booker: People ain't designed to see what you've seen. And now that you're
just plain old flesh and blood...well, be grateful you've got things
this well held together.
Elizabeth: There must be something here I need to find, something Suchong was
working on.
[She looks at photos plastered on the wall.]
Elizabeth: Columbia...he knew about Columbia. And-and Booker, and...and me.
This Suchong must have found a way to reopen the tear I made to
come here...but how?
[The answer lies inside a nearby room.]
Elizabeth: A Lutece device. That's how he must have reopened the tear. Look,
the tear still leads back to Columbia. Plasmids, Vigors...he and
Fink must have been in communication...sharing secrets. Like the
Luteces, before they were physically together. Why did I need to
come here? What does this have to do with Sally?
Booker: You remember, don't you?
Elizabeth: What hasn't happened yet? I told you, I can't do that any--
Booker: Concentrate, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth: No! The doors are shut! They're--
[She has a flash of memory: pulling a lever in a room, somewhere in Rapture.]
Elizabeth: The Lutece particle. I use the Lutece particle. If it can make a
city float--
Booker: --it can make a prison rise.
Elizabeth: I can't open tears, but we could use this device to go to Columbia
and find a particle. But it's been vandalized.
Booker: You'll fix it.
Elizabeth: Sure. You know, my tower didn't come stocked with the Lutece device
repair manual.
Booker: You will fix it.
Elizabeth: Yeah, I'll just--
Booker: Elizabeth. You will fix it.
Elizabeth: Okay...okay, there must be some information around here.
[Upstairs, a diagram of the device is found. Suchong's written in the margins.]
Elizabeth: These are elements -- sodium, titanium... Why would these be on
schematics for-- It's code. A Vigenere cipher. If, if we assume
hydrogen is A, and iron, the 26th element, is Z...
Booker: You always used to need a code key, or--
[She concentrates on the word "Suchong".]
Elizabeth: It's right here. Never underestimate the fallibility of the
egomaniac. Looks like a punch list for things Suchong needs to fix
the machine: a cold cathode tube...a carbon dioxide scrubber...and
a heatsink. Any of the vending machines should have the cathode
tube, and we can look for the CO2 scrubber in the bathysphere
showroom -- a lot of models should have them. A heatsink...that's...
where in a department store are we going to find...
Booker: "Keep your cool with Old Man Winter."
Elizabeth: That'll work. Time to find those parts...and then I just have to
repair the most sophisticated piece of technology ever created.
Booker: Elizabeth, you saw yourself make this repair. You can do this.
Elizabeth: Whatever you say. Guess we'd better find our way out of here. Atlas,
you there? I need a favor.
Atlas: A favor? I don't suppose you've conjured up the miracle you promised
yet?
Elizabeth: I'm working on it. I'm gonna need some Old Man Winter.
Atlas: You might try where they hock them new bathyspheres. As I hear it, Old
Man Winter's the only thing keeps their batteries from bursting into
flames after five minutes.
Elizabeth: Thanks.
Atlas: Think nothin' of it...but it's the last favor you'll be gettin'.
[Liz leaves and tries the door exit. This sets off an alarm, trapping her.]
Suchong: Penalty for vandalism of Suchong device is death. Even for pretty
lady.
Elizabeth: I suppose you'd be Suchong? Save your ammunition, your device
doesn't work.
Suchong: Device work! Vandals sabotage! You are vandal!
Elizabeth: Actually, I intend to fix your device. That is, unless you plan on
coming down here and doing it yourself.
Suchong: It...not prudent for Suchong to return to lab. You say you can fix?
Elizabeth: I broke your code, didn't I? Now, just give me the one to open that
door and we'll see what your creation can do.
Suchong: 1-2-1-6.
Elizabeth: Your birthday?
Suchong: Enough talk. Fix machine.
[The alarm shuts off and the gates rescind.]
Booker: How'd you know that?
Elizabeth: Never underestimate the fallability of the egomaniac.
[Liz returns to Test-Drive.]
Elizabeth: Old Man Winter. That's how we'll cool Suchong's machine.
[She knocks on the door again. The peephole-staring guy is there again.]
Atlas Follower: Yeah?
Elizabeth: Atlas sent me here for some Old Man Winter.
Atlas Follower: You haven't been around here long, have you?
Elizabeth: What makes you say that?
Atlas Follower: 'Cause you're the only one of us who don't smell like the
reptile house at the zoo. Now, be quick about it -- and just
take the Winter! This ain't the goodwill.
[Liz goes downstairs.]
Elizabeth: There, that machine -- it'll have the cathode tube. Got it. Now we
need to find Old Man Winter and a CO2 scrubber.
[She picks up the OMW nearby, too.]
Elizabeth: Just what we needed. All we need now is a CO2 scrubber.
[While snooping around, she finds a decrypted morse code translation.]
Elizabeth: Hmph...looks like someone's been decrypting a code. "We've confirmed
completion of the ace in the hole. Suchong has it, but unlikely to
give it up easily. We'll update when we know more." What's that all
about?
[Liz sneaks out as splicers attack, heading for the bathysphere shop.]
Elizabeth: Where there's bathyspheres, there's bound to be CO2 scrubbers...
Booker: And why's that?
Elizabeth: If you don't remove the carbon dioxide from the air supply in a
submersible, you'll suffocate. One thing I did like about Rapture...
lots of new books to read. We'll need a long-haul bathysphere,
something where the CO2 buildup would limit the submersible period.
[Liz starts a long elevator descent, sighing.]
Booker: You okay?
Elizabeth: I've seen all this happen before... I've seen it, everything, that
will happen, and now...now...I only see darkness.
Booker: You sent yourself here for a reason.
Elizabeth: The debt.
Booker: If that's what you wanna call it.
Elizabeth: This...Atlas. I'm gonna have to kill him. Either that or he'll
kill me.
Booker: Maybe so.
Elizabeth: I'm not you, Booker, some war hero. I'm not even ME anymore. No
tears, no omniscience or...whatever you wanna call it. Just a whole
lot of book-learning...and a handful of lockpicks.
[She gets off the lift and finds an old-timey submersible.]
Elizabeth: "The Humpback Whale"...this thing's as old as the hills. Strictly
bargain basement, you gotta wear an O2 tank and a mask. You won't
find a scrubber on that.
[She finds another.]
Elizabeth: Oh, a '52 Mako. Classic...but it's a deathtrap. Twenty-eight known
fatalities related to its use...carbon dioxide poisoning...and
they're still on the market.
Booker: They're steeply discounted, though.
[Another sub is hanging near the ceiling.]
Elizabeth: There: the Stingray. Submersible time of ninety minutes...that's
our girl.
Booker: All the way up there.
Elizabeth: The grease monkeys had to get it up there somehow. Just gotta find
the controls. Probably a switch around here somewhere.
[Near the control room, Liz finds another morse code slip.]
Elizabeth: Another coded message..."attempt to retrieve ace in the hole from
Suchong unsuccessful. Ryan Private Security killed three of our men
in the bargain. Will need to explore alternate method of obtaining
ace."
[Liz goes to the bay controls.]
Elizabeth: This is going to be noisy...
[She avoids the splicers and gets to the sub. The scrubber's in the floor.]
Elizabeth: Got it. That was the last of it.
Booker: Now you think you can manage the repair?
Elizabeth: Sure, I've been fixing quantum field generators since kindergarten.
[All pieces obtained, it's another elevator ride up.]
Atlas: Any progress, love? I must confess, I'm becoming a wee bit skeptical.
Elizabeth: Remind me: why am I supposed to care?
Atlas: You see, me lads have taken a keen thirst for ADAM. And there's a
vintage right in front of me that'll do nicely.
Elizabeth: If you kill her, I hope you are truly happy living down here. Put
down roots; start a family. Or maybe you think Andrew Ryan is gonna
ride to your rescue.
Atlas: Fair enough. But remember: there are fast ways to harvest Little
Sisters...and some very slow ones.
[On the way back, Liz finds another note in Bathyspheres Deluxe.]
Elizabeth: "Whereabouts of the foreign bitch scientist unknown. Ryan presumes
she's dead but our guess is she's gone underground with the Little
Sisters. Options on obtaining the ace are dwindling."
[The final note is in a clinic.]
Elizabeth: "Atlas, the heat is on. Ryan knows something's up and is sending
men to investigate the department store. Suggest you lay in supplies
at the Manta Ray lounge and prepare for a siege." Hmm, looks like
there's something in the Manta Ray lounge worth investigating.
[Deep in the lounge, they find a poster of Elizabeth.]
Booker: Elizabeth...this poster. What's this all about?
Elizabeth: Cohen. Spent two months as his "discile" trying to get a line on
his trafficking ring. Awful man.
Booker: Why not just kill Comstock and be done with it?
Elizabeth: Comstock had to know why. He had to know that he deserved it.
Booker: And did he? Did he deserve it?
Elizabeth: I suppose we all do...one way or another.
[She finds a strange countertop arrangement deep in the club.]
Elizabeth: Those bottles...just like on the coded note to Fontaine...
[Inside is a dressing room with all manner of men's makeup and wigs.]
Elizabeth: Fontaine and Atlas...son of a bitch...
[Eventually, Liz returns to the Silver Fin, talking as she places the parts.]
Elizabeth: Now we won't immediately die of CO2 poisoning the moment we turn
the thing on. Well, it's not the proper phospher frequency, but...
it'll do. ...Okay, that should stop it from overheating. There...
everything's fixed. We're ready.
Booker: Let's fire it up and see.
[The Lutece device works, showing the Columbia portal.]
Elizabeth: Open sesame.
Booker: What'd I tell you?
[Liz enters the tear, reappearing back in Columbia. She's actually on the
First Lady, where it's docked in Finkton.]
Elizabeth: Booker, look...we're on the First Lady.
[She goes to exit into the bridge where Booker would normally be.]
Elizabeth: It can't be this easy. The First Lady Mk. II was built around a
particle lift system, just like all the buildings in the city. I
read all about it in the "Columbian Scientific." The particle is
seated at the top of the structure. Must be up that lift.
[She looks around, spotting the lift.]
Elizabeth: Perfect.
Booker: Seems like a lotta technology just to float an airship. Comstock never
heard of hydrogen?
Elizabeth: The First Lady Mk. I did run on hydrogen and it was destroyed by
a single bullet from a Vox sniper. Unfortunately, the Prophet wasn't
onboard at the time. If I take the active particle, then the First
Lady is just a 40-ton paperweight. Best to take the spare.
[She takes the quantum particle capsule near the lift system.]
Elizabeth: Here we go. Now let's head back through the tear.
Booker: You honestly expect Atlas to honor his side of the deal?
Elizabeth: No...but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Booker: How do you plan on handling Atlas? He ain't just some spliced-up
maniac.
Elizabeth: He'll make a mistake. I just have to be ready to take advantage of
it when it happens.
Booker: All for a girl you barely know.
Elizabeth: How well did you know me when you came to Columbia?
[She returns to the tear, but it doesn't let her come back. Suchong can be
heard talking on the other side.]
Suchong: Pretty lady not finished yet.
Elizabeth: What? Open the tear!
Suchong: Power for device very expensive. Tit for tat.
Elizabeth: Just tell me what you want.
Suchong: Suchong want something simple. Lock of hair.
Elizabeth: Oh, you're not serious.
Suchong: Not your hair, stupid! Fink has secret lab. Mothballed, forgotten.
In there, hair sample. In jar. Cannot miss. You get for Suchong, then
everybody friends.
Elizabeth: Where is his lab?
Suchong: Closed off, past Fink's quarters. You smart lady, you find.
[The doctor signs off.]
Elizabeth: Should have seen that one coming.
[The airship shakes.]
Booker: Vox Populi. We must have arrived right in the middle of the siege.
Elizabeth: That means the other you and I are probably still in the factory...
on our way up to the First Lady.
Booker: And what happens if we run into ourselves?
Elizabeth: We won't.
Booker: How do you know that?
Elizabeth: Because we didn't.
[Liz sneaks toward Fink's office, eavesdropping on Daisy and the Luteces. Fink
and his kid are blindfolded and bound to their chairs nearby.]
Daisy: I've taken your counsel, and you done me good service. But I will not
hurt the boy... I will see Fink and Comstock burn, but I will not hold
the son to account for the deeds of his father.
Rosalind: You've misunderstood us.
Robert: We neither asked you to harm the child--
Rosalind: --nor did we promise that yours would be the hand that would set
Comstock's world afire.
Robert: A famous man once said--
Rosalind: And a famous man shall say--
Robert: --"I may reach the mountaintop..."
Rosalind: "...but I fear I shall never visit the valley below."
Daisy: But...you mean I won't live to see the-- ...No.
Rosalind: It's up to you what matters more.
Robert: Your part in the play--
Rosalind: --or the play itself.
Robert: Someone is coming.
Rosalind: She'll arrive a girl.
Robert: She must leave a woman.
Rosalind: And what makes the difference between a girl and a woman?
Daisy: Blood.
Robert: Your part in the play.
Rosalind: Or the play itself.
Daisy: Turn her into a killer, how?
Robert: Give the girl no choice--
Rosalind: --and she will be forced to make one.
[Liz sneaks towards the businessman's private quarters.]
Elizabeth: Fink.
Booker: What's that thing you just picked up?
Elizabeth: My guess is it has something to do with that giant clock out there,
and that clock has something to do with opening the door to Fink's
lab.
Booker: A giant clock.
Elizabeth: Sort of...looks like the mechanism unlocks certain activities when
Fink gives his blessing.
Booker: So, what...? We're stuck waiting for the cuckook to go off?
Elizabeth: No, we've already found the key. We can manually wind it, open
whatever door we please.
Booker: Sure seems like a lotta work to lock down a few doors.
Elizabeth: Yeah, well, if there's one thing Fink loves, it's a lot of work.
[They open the lab with the clock crank.]
Elizabeth: Good. Now to get that idiot his lock of hair.
[As she descends the elevator, she can hear the "other" Booker with Daisy.]
Booker: Fitzroy. Listen, I got you your guns. I'm here for my airship.
Daisy PA: But my Booker DeWitt died for the Vox Populi. You either an imposter
or a ghost.
[The lift silently passes by the "other" Booker and Elizabeth.]
Daisy PA: My Booker DeWitt was a hero to the cause. A story to tell your
children. You...you just complicate the narrative.
[Seeing her journey in third person gets Liz in a reflective mood.]
Elizabeth: Booker, you there? ...I miss you. You were the only one who ever...
You were my only friend. Booker...
Booker: I'm not even here. I'm a projection of your own--
Elizabeth: Could you humor me, then? ...Please?
Booker: I think...Booker would miss you.
[Liz infiltrates deeper into the workshop.]
Elizabeth: Daisy sacrificed herself...set me up to kill her, to-to turn
me in -- to turn me into what?
Booker: A killer.
Elizabeth: Yeah, well, mission accomplished. I'm no martyr. How did you do it,
Booker? How did you--
Booker: Elizabeth...I'm not Booker.
Elizabeth: And neither am I.
[She infiltrates the surgical wing.]
Elizabeth: Hair sample in a haystack.
[There's a prototype Big Daddy suit in the observation wing.]
Booker: Huh, seems like Fink and Suchong were sharing their research.
Elizabeth: Like the Luteces. Cross-reality collaboration.
[A projector nearby has images of a Big Daddy.]
Elizabeth: It all makes a kind of sense...the Little Sisters and the Big
Daddies...Songbird and me.
Booker: Constants and variables.
[Downstairs is an ape hooked to a machine and a small female effigy.]
Booker: What is all this?
Elizabeth: Imprinting. That's a wire mother. If you separate a gorilla from
its real mother, it will imprint on almost anything...even that.
Booker: Why would Fink care about that?
Elizabeth: Songbird. He wanted him to imprint on me.
Booker: Well, if I recall, that was a problem he solved.
[Liz picks up a paper about chemical bonds.]
Booker: What's that?
Elizabeth: It's a skeletal formula for...oxytocin. That's the chemical that
bonds mothers to children, women to men, and--
Booker: Songbirds to little girls?
Elizabeth: Apparently not. Fink dismissed it as an unsuitable vector.
[A nearby room has massive tanks full of animals floating in solution.]
Elizabeth: These poor things. Fink couldn't get them to imprint...so he left
them to die.
[A blackboard notes the project's poor results.]
Elizabeth: "Imprinting failed." That can't be right. Clearly they formed a
connection between Songbird and me.
Booker: How?
Elizabeth: I was so young, I...I always remember him just being there.
[Through the glass is part of a Songbird, still moving around.]
Elizabeth: It must be a prototype or something.
Booker: Is it human?
Elizabeth: Does it matter?
[A paper's nearby.]
Elizabeth: They tried hypnotherapy.
Booker: On the Songbird? How'd that go?
Elizabeth: About as well as you'd expect.
[In an abandoned room, Liz finds footage of Songbird and a younger her. The
bird looks partially broken. Young Liz reconnects its mouth hose properly.]
Elizabeth: Booker...the little girl in the film, its me. My god...I re--...I
remember, he...he was... He'd crashed into the tower. I guess he
was in some sort of fight... I waited there, thinking...thinking,
I don't know, that something would happen, but...he just...lay
there...moaning. I couldn't just--
Booker: The lion with a thorn in its paw. So much for science.
Elizabeth: I should have just left him there to die. I should have just... I
will never escape it. Exploited. Exploiting. Me, Comstock, you,
Sally. It's like a wheel of blood, spinning round and round.
[She finds a tube on a desk of her old personal effects Fink had collected.]
Elizabeth: Well, this must be the genetic sample Suchong wanted.
Booker: He sent you all the way back here for a sample of your own hair?
Elizabeth: He doesn't know I was once the child that imprinted on Songbird. But
to him, all the answers lie in DNA. Men like Suchong mistake an
ounce of empathy for a pound of science.
[Liz lifts the quarantine shutters at a control panel.]
Vox: It's open! See if anything's worth reappropriating. Check for stragglers!
Spread out!
[Evading the Vox, Liz returns to the lab elevator.]
Elizabeth: Do you think Daisy really even had a choice?
Booker: What do you mean?
Elizabeth: Right about now, I'm planting a pair of scissors in her back to
protect a child she was never going to harm. She chose to die for
her revolution...what about me? For all the endless worlds, all the
infinite possibilities, did I ever even have a choice? Did you?
Booker: Yeah, Booker thought he did.
Elizabeth: And look where it got us. Right back where it started. All these
infinite universes...and yet we end up just going down the same
paths.
Booker: I don't take your meaning.
Elizabeth: My father sold me to settle a marker. Comstock locked me up in a
tower. And I sold Sally -- for what? Revenge? To prove a point?
Booker: And yet, here you are. Settling the debt.
Elizabeth: And say we find her. The old pass their damage to the young. Isn't
it too late for her now?
Booker: Well, I'd say that's up to her to decide. Just as coming back here was
up to you.
Elizabeth: Rapture runs on children. Little girls with gold growing in their
bellies. I'm not going to break any cycle. If I'm lucky, maybe I can
dent it...just a little.
[Back outside, Liz finds the "other" Booker and Elizabeth have already played
their role: Fink and Daisy are dead, and the First Lady is gone. The Rapture
tear is still nearby.]
Suchong: Pretty lady has the hair? Deal is deal. Bring it to Suchong.
[Liz enters the tear, returning to Rapture's Silver Fin. The ground shakes.]
Suchong: Pretty lady put hair sample in tube. Then business is finished.
Elizabeth: What's going on out there?
Suchong: Bloodshed...violence...but not relevant to our arrangement.
[She puts the sample in the pneumo tube, causing the lights to drop out.]
Elizabeth: Suchong! Suchong, we had a deal, now open--
[The lights come on as a projector with Andrew Ryan's face appears.]
Ryan: Do you know what they call someone who enters a man's home uninvited? A
thief. And I do not remember inviting you into my city.
Elizabeth: I had a deal with Suchong.
Ryan: Yi Suchong is my employee. It was not a deal he was authorized to make.
Elizabeth: What do you want?
Ryan: I granted Atlas and his thugs asylum. You serve those same men in a
desire to escape from my generosity. If they shall not have asylum, then
they shall have liquidation. Give a parasite an ounce of charity, he'll
demand a pound.
Elizabeth: I'm just looking for a girl that was taken from me. A Little Sister.
Ryan: I don't claim to understand what you are...but I know that you are
special. There is business we can do together. And so, I give you a
choice: work for me...or die with Atlas.
Elizabeth: I'm not going anywhere without that girl.
Ryan: If it's a Little Sister you want, that shouldn't stand in the way of
commerce. I've got dozens of them.
Elizabeth: I won't leave without her.
Ryan: My men stand ready to take down the door. In 60 seconds, they will enter
the room. They will either treat you as a valued employee of Ryan
Industries...or as a thief in the night.
[The communication ends.]
Booker: Sixty seconds.
Elizabeth: There must be a half a dozen of them or more. I've gotta get ready.
Now, traps...I can use the Plasmids as traps and seed the room with
them. I gotta find somewhere to hide, and...and surprise them, take
them down one by one. Booker...I'm scared...
Booker: They'll underestimate you, Elizabeth. People always do.
Ryan: Forty seconds. You know what I see on your face? Uncertainty. Who is this
girl to you? Thirty seconds. Do you know the value of the shark? Without
them, the sea would be littered with the detritus of the weak. The men
who come for you have much in common with those great animals. What
sharks do for the ocean, these men do for Rapture. Twenty seconds. I will
tell you something you already sense: Atlas does not honor agreements.
Andrew Ryan does. I cannot save your Sally...but I can save you. Time.
You're not a hero. You're not even a parasite. You're just a rube...and
Andrew Ryan has no time for rubes.
[Ryan's men storm the place, but Liz holds her own to the last.]
Elizabeth: I beat your sharks, Ryan. The better man won. Isn't that the only
thing you respect? Now let me the hell outta here.
Atlas: Sounds like all hell's breakin' loose out there! What's your plan?
Elizabeth: I can't just place the particle on the ceiling, it would just tear
right through it. But...every building in Rapture was submerged into
the ocean on a lunette ring connected to the junction of its
load-bearing supports.
Atlas: That's fascinatin' and all, but if you haven't noticed, Ryan's sent his
goons to murder us! If you're gonna pull a rabbit out of a hat, now's
the time to do it.
[She whips out the blueprints she acquired earlier.]
Elizabeth: It looks like the structural junction is in Frank Fontaine's office.
If I can get there, I can float the building.
Atlas: It so happens I've taken that bastard's office for me own use. I'll make
sure you've access to the private elevator. Now hurry!
[Sneaking through the battle, Liz returns to the Manta Ray lounge.]
Splicer: There's supposed to be a brunette... Anyone seen her? Look around!
The rest of Atlas's crew are barricaded up that elevator shaft. When
the backup arrives, we'll go in and take 'em out easy.
[The elevator's finally reached.]
Booker: Elizabeth, you know Atlas is going to--
Elizabeth: I know...and I'm ready.
Booker: Are you sure?
Elizabeth: I sent myself here for a reason...didn't I?
Ryan: And who exactly are you speaking to, Miss Comstock? If I were less
acquainted with the vicissitudes of genius, I suspect I would question
your sanity. I know so little of you, but I imagine the more I learned,
the more exceptional I would find you. You know Atlas will betray you.
Elizabeth: And what are you? My best friend?
Ryan: You're one of a kind in this world, or others. And now, your misguided
sense of altruism sends you to your doom. It's like watching Isaac
Newton die in a house fire in a vain attempt to save his cat.
[Liz enters Fontaine's office. The structural supports are all intact.]
Elizabeth: There, there, there. All the load-bearing colums come into this
room, and they meet...they meet there. Just need to place the
particle in that junction, activate it, and...the whole structure
should rise. There's no Plan B; might as well just get it over with.
[She climbs a department store model to reach the location.]
Elizabeth: Well, here goes nothin'.
[The particle flies up to the ceiling and wedges itself in the support. The
building, as expected, begins to rise from the seabed.]
Elizabeth: It's working, Atlas, you feel that? Now, you have your prison break.
Now bring me the girl.
[She's rocked off the model. When she looks up, Atlas' men are around her.]
Elizabeth: Oh, great...
Atlas: Didn't your mum teach you not to put your faith in strange, foreign
men?
Elizabeth: Just give me the girl. She means nothing to you.
Atlas: You've got that right -- the girl means nothin'. But you, love...you
mean the world.
[One of the men chloroforms her. Liz wakes up later in a new location, strapped
in a chair. She can hear Atlas and his crony talking nearby.]
Lonnie: No cause for alarm. She's well sedated. So, it's begun?
Atlas: The Kashmir's all blown to hell. If Ryan didn't know we were back
before, I'm sure now he's got the message.
Lonnie: What do you want with this one?
Atlas: If anybody's got the line on the ace, it's her. Find out what she
knows -- oop! But no quackery. She's no good to us with a halo and a
set a wings.
Lonnie: I'll get started as soon as the chloroform wears off. I don't see her
as too tough a nut.
[Later, the burlap sack on her head is removed.]
Lonnie: Where is the ace in the hole?
Elizabeth: What? What?
Lonnie: Where's the ace in the hole?
Elizabeth: I don't...I don't know what you're talking about. Look, we had a
deal, I--
Lonnie: Where...is the ace...in the hole?
Elizabeth: I told you, I don't--
[He shows her a syringe.]
Lonnie: Sodium thiopental. Are you familiar? No? Truth serum. Unpredicatable
stuff. Too little? Nothing. Too much? The subject is euthanized. I am
still playing with the dosage.
Elizabeth: I have nothing to tell you. I don't even know what an "ace in the
hole" is!
[Lonnie injects her. Liz starts to groggily lose consciousness]
Lonnie: I am still playing...with the dosage...
[In her dream, she can see another, younger version of herself staring back.]
Young Liz 1: This world values children, not childhood.
Young Liz 2: There's a profit to be made...
Elizabeth: ...and men who make it.
[Through her dream sequence, she can hear a radio playing.]
Announcer: After the bombing of the Kashmir, we were all plenty scared of Atlas
and his thugs. But only a fool counts out the right-thinking folks
of Andrew Ryan's Rapture. Atlas's thugs have been pushed out of
Point Prometheus, they're on the run to Port Neptune... It's one
thing starting a war, Atlas, but finishing one's an altogether
different matter. Folks say it's only a matter of time until Atlas's
entire mob comes out waving the white flag.
[Her dream ends as she awakens to another interrogation, this time by Atlas.]
Atlas: Two weeks.
Elizabeth: Uhn...what?
Atlas: You've been down two weeks, love. Feckin' doctors. Better off hirin' a
million monkeys.
Elizabeth: Our deal was to get you out of prison. What, did you expect me to
win your war for you, too?
Atlas: I'd tend to your own knitting if I were you. Now, darlin'...being that
you were Suchong's lab assistant and all, why not tell me where me ace
in the hole went to.
Elizabeth: I don't know what the ace--
Atlas: As I said, I'm no doctor. But that doesn't mean I don't find the field
fascinatin'...I keep up on all the medical journals and the like.
Elizabeth: I hope you have someone to help you with all the big words.
Atlas: You know what part a the brain freewill comes from? Stubbornness? The
pre-frontal lobe. Now, I think it's fair to say: you're a bit of a
stubborn one, are ya not? Man named Steinman taught me this. He's a bit
of a lunatic, but a fine surgeon.
[He picks up a long, needle-like pick.]
Atlas: He calls this little trick a "transorbital lobotomy." Take hold of her,
lads.
Elizabeth: You're wasting your time.
Atlas: Now, if you won't remain still, I can't be held responsible for what
comes next.
[His goons hold her down as Atlas, pick in hand, goes to work.]
Atlas: Here we go...you feel that? I'm moving...the pick...across your
eyeball...oh! Still now -- and restin' it on your skull. There's about
a bit over a quarter of an inch of bone between the pick and your
pre-frontal lobe. And that's where this little fella comes in.
[He holds up a small mallet.]
Elizabeth: I don't--
[He taps the pick, causing her vision to go blurry momentarily.]
Atlas: Shhh...it was just a wee tap. But I don't expect it'll take more than a
few of those to reach the meat. And then we might find you a bit less
the mule. Where's me ace in the hole?
Elizabeth: I don't know, alright?
Atlas: You know what else rests in the lobe? Creativity.
[He taps the pick.]
Atlas: Individuality.
[He taps a third time.]
Atlas: Personality.
[He taps again.]
Atlas: In short, what makes you you. Ah...I'm just about through now. Last
chance, pet. Where...is...the ace...in the hole?
[Elizabeth laughs, taking Atlas aback.]
Elizabeth: Or what? What, you'll put a hole in my head and take away my
memories? You wanna make me forget all this? You wanna make me not
care anymore? Go ahead. You'll be doing me a favor.
Atlas: Agh! Bring in the monster!
[He swiftly pulls the pick out.]
Atlas: Bring in the monster! You're a regular hero, ain'tcha? Can't risk
rippin' the only part a you that's worth a damn. Well, there's more than
one way to fry an egg.
[He wheels out Sally, strapped to a gurney.]
Atlas: Now, little one, are you familiar with the term "transorbital lobotomy"?
Elizabeth: No...please, let her go!
Atlas: It's a simple matter. All I need to do is insert this pick into your
eye--
Elizabeth: No...please... Please, I don't know anything, I--
Atlas: Two taps--
Elizabeth: I don't know anything!
Atlas: Better to show by example!
Elizabeth: Oh, please! Please, don't, I-I don't know anything, I-I don't know!
Please!
[AsAtlas goes to tap the pick, Elizabeth finds herself in a room with Booker.]
Booker: Shhh...it's okay, it's okay... Listen, it's okay...
Elizabeth: I can't tell him what I don't know... Where are we?
Booker: You saw all the doors...and what's behind all the doors.
Elizabeth: The ace in the hole. It's here?
Booker: Yes.
Elizabeth: But...but, I don't...I don't remember this place.
Booker: You've never been here.
Elizabeth: Well, then how would I--
Booker: The memories you lost -- they weren't just of the past... You saw
behind all the doors.
[He leads her toward a lit-up room nearby.]
Elizabeth: Even the ones into the future... This is where I'm going.
Booker: If you want.
Elizabeth: I-I don't like it here.
Booker: It's a bad place.
Elizabeth: He's never gonna let me go, is he? Even if I bring him the ace.
Then why am I here? Huh? If I was so smart, if I saw so much, why
just send myself to the slaughter?
Booker: For Sally.
Elizabeth: No, one day, he will just rip her open and tear out her ADAM...all
of this for nothing. Why did I do it? Why?
Booker: You have to decide.
Elizabeth: Decide what?
Booker: To take a leap of faith. I can't tell you what you were thinking,
because you don't remember. But you chose to come. There...in that
room.
Elizabeth: The ace. I don't know what to do, Booker, I--
[He isn't in her subconscious anymore.]
Elizabeth: Booker? booker! No, please! Pleaes, just don't leave me here!
Booker!
[She sees Sally standing over her. Sally's voice from reality seeps in.]
Sally: Let go! No!
[She comes back to reality in time to stop Atlas from picking Sally's brain.]
Elizabeth: Suchong's clinic! It's at Suchong's clinic.
Atlas: That's a bit convenient, now. Ryan's got every turret in the place tuned
to me and me men's genetic code. We'd be torn to shreds before we got
ten feet.
Elizabeth: That's right. Which is why I'm gonna do it for you. You okay with
that?
Atlas: Get me the ace, I'll wrap the brat in a silk ribbon. Bag her and bring
her to my bathysphere.
[Later, the bathysphere stops at Suchong's free clinic. Atlas pushes Liz out.]
Atlas: One a the lads'll show you how to get inside. We'll be waitin' for you
where you come out. Shake a leg, now. The Lord hates a laggard.
[On her own, Liz snoops around, even finding the hair sample she delivered. In
a back room, an injured Big Daddy is slumped near two Little Sisters.]
Masha: Scary...
Elizabeth: Alright...let's see here...what we could do--
Masha: Scary!
Leta: Mr. Monster is mean!
Masha: Scary!
Leta: Stay away from him.
Masha: He's scary!
Elizabeth: Look, it's...it's okay. He...he can't hurt anyone.
Leta: Scary...
[Liz approaches the Big Daddy.]
Elizabeth: Shhh...shhh... Can you move?
[He jerks violently, but doesn't move.]
Elizabeth: Can you just move a little bit for me? Don't...I don't know how to
help you...I...I don't.
Masha: Scary...
Elizabeth: No, he's...he's just hurt, he...he just needs somebody to figure out
how to fix him. I...maybe there's some--...I don't know. Is there
some documentation for him around here or something?
[The girls don't answer.]
Elizabeth: Right. Look who I'm asking.
[She grabs one of Suchong's notes nearby.]
Elizabeth: Huh. Encoded. "Big Daddy will not imprint. If not imprint, what good
is he to Little Sister? She no like him. He no like her. Situation
is impasse. Unacceptable."
[Another note is nearby.]
Elizabeth: "If stupid beasts had half brain, they would realize they need
Little Sister to live. Sister secrete only kind of ADAM that is
genetic match for them. No Little Sister, no Big Daddy."
[She returns to the girls.]
Masha: Scary-scary-scary-scary!
Elizabeth: I've gotta do something...
Leta: Big Monster's sick.
Elizabeth: It's okay, please, I...I don't know how to help him. He needs ADAM.
I don't have any of that, I...I don't know what to do--
Leta: Big Monster's going to die. Not fair.
Masha: We can help. Ow!
[Leta sticks Masha with the syringe, then sticks the Big Daddy with the ADAM.
It gets up after awhile, back in working condition.]
Elizabeth: The lion with the thorn in its paw.
[With the impediment gone, Liz can search the back rooms. She finds a note.]
Elizabeth: "Suchong -- of all the things I know, I know this. It is in your
power to be a different man. What can Ryan take from us that we have
not already sacrificed on the altar of discovery? They are children,
Little Sisters, and, yes, they will forget. But you and I won't...
The memories of what we have done fade only with the dimming of all
lights. --Tenenbaum"
[Nearby, she can hear a Suchong talking. She watches through a two-way mirror.]
Suchong: Clinical trial, protector system. Plasmid Lot 255. Doctor Suchong.
Client: Ryan Industries. Very frustrating day. I can't seem to get the
damn Big Daddies to imprint on the little brats. The protection bond
is just not forming.
Masha: Papa Suchong.
Suchong: Ugh...get away. Maybe if we modify the genetic sequence to--
Masha: Papa Suchong!
Suchong: -- Shush! -- sequence to allow for--
Leta: Papa Suchong! Papa Suchong! Papa Suchong!
Suchong: Get away, you filthy little shit!
[He waves her away violently, angering the Big Daddy.]
Suchong: What? What are you doing? Get back! Get back! ARGH!
[The Big Daddy impales him with the drill and smashes him into the table so
hard, the drill breaks off.]
Elizabeth: There's the ace.
[She picks up a note in Suchong's code.]
Elizabeth: This is it? This is the ace in the hole? All the pain and all of
the death for this?
[She returns to Atlas, who's waiting nearby, just like he said.]
Atlas: Hey, sister. Over here. Do you have it?
Elizabeth: I have it.
Atlas: Give it over, then. I'm keen to get this brat off me hands.
Elizabeth: You know what? Andrew Ryan said I was a rube. But he was wrong. I'm
not the rube, Atlas. You are. Now, we both know what happens next.
Just get it over with.
[She hands over the slip of paper.]
Atlas: Well, love...if you insist.
[He hits her with a monkey wrench. She has a vision where she's standing in a
mirror again, exiting into a plane aisle. Atlas tries snapping her back to
reality.]
Atlas: What is this? It's just a buncha gibberish! What does this say, you
little whore? Hey, hey, hey! What does this say?
Elizabeth: It says...
[Elsewhere, on an airplane, a man on an airplane opens a gift box containing a
gun. The note is visible.]
Note: To Jack with love, from Mom & Dad. Would you kindly not open until
63°2'N, 29°55'W?
[Meanwhile, Atlas is still waiting for a response.]
Elizabeth: ..."would you kindly".
Atlas: We've got the activation phrase. Now all we've got to do is get that
genetic freak on an airplane, and Rapture's ours.
[He hits Liz with the wrench again, presumably killing her. The player then
sees many images and comments relating to the events in Bioshock 1: a jet
crashing near a lighthouse, Ryan, a big Daddy and a Little Sister, Tenenbaum
and, lastly, Fontaine being stabbed by Little Sisters.]
Ryan: I chose Rapture.
Little Sister: And living there is the Lillipoppy! I'll go there with Mr.
Bubbles! And we'll search the place from tail to toppy...
Ryan: A man chooses. A slave obeys.
Tenenbaum: They say "to save one life is to save the world entire". It is you
who are their savior.
Little Sister: It's the bad man! You get away! Bad man...bad. Kill him, kill
him!
Fontaine: You little nothing...
[On a black background:]
Elizabeth: I can see all the doors, and what's behind them. And behind one of
them, incredibly, I see him...
[She refers to a scene where a bathysphere full of Little Sisters floats up
from Rapture, and a man at the lighthouse who helps them off. As the man
takes his hand, she suddenly sees Sally taking her hand in Rapture. Liz then
dies as the game ends and the credits roll.]
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III. UPDATES & CONTRIBUTORS [UPDT]
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03-30-14 ----------------------+ Started script
04-03-14 ----------------------+ Finished script
04-14-14 ----------------------+ Added Burial at Sea episodes
THANKS TO...
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• Sailor/Ceej, for hostin' my crap all these years
• Murder of Crows -- you ate well this playthrough, my pets!
NOTES TO SELF
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• couple baseball-throwing dialogue (if you choose to throw it)
• extra Vox PA lines in the final airship battle
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IV. LEGALITY [LGLT]
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