Latest / Replay Reviews / Asthma, Alzheimer's & Motel Room Mischief - Heavy Rain - Part 6
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- 0:00Are you ready for the out of context summary?
- 0:03Yes.
- 0:03Truly out of context for you now.
- 0:05Ethan and Madison make a dirty motel room even dirtier.
- 0:09Shelby becomes a prescription drug addict.
- 0:13And Madison's butt, yes, because it is its own character, almost turns into a rump roast.
- 0:20Why am I not surprised about more Ethan and Madison scenes?
- 0:25I hope she doesn't become Sean's stepmom.
- 0:28Uh, no comment.
- 0:34Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews. My name is Leah.
- 0:37And my name is Cathy.
- 0:38We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
- 0:42And since Cathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes.
- 0:47Almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
- 0:50We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
- 0:59There's a lot to discuss right out of the gate on this one.
- 1:02Oh my gosh.
- 1:03Madison.
- 1:05She only knew Ethan, I think, less than four days.
- 1:10In terms of the duration spent together, probably less than 24 hours, I would say.
- 1:16Yes, okay.
- 1:17Let's take her from the top.
- 1:19Okay.
- 1:19So she finds him in his motel room.
- 1:23For some reason, she's there again.
- 1:26He confesses to killing Brad.
- 1:29But Madison either ignores this or assumes that he's just believing he's the origami
- 1:34killer because he doesn't say who he killed.
- 1:37And so she said that she can prove he's not the killer.
- 1:41But do you think she knows that he killed someone?
- 1:44I think she doesn't care.
- 1:46Okay.
- 1:47Because that's my question.
- 1:48Someone says I killed someone and you just go in for a kiss.
- 1:54I just...
- 2:02I'm a bit speechless because I'm just...
- 2:04If a man tells you that he is a murderer and yet you still lean in for the kiss.
- 2:11It's also a bit frustrating too on Ethan's end because right before this, he says,
- 2:15I have to save my son. Sir, you should be prioritizing how to save your son.
- 2:22Okay. Yeah.
- 2:23There's a lot of red flags.
- 2:25Number one, he could be a serial killer.
- 2:28It's looking less likely right now.
- 2:30She acted like she didn't even hear that.
- 2:33Well, she also said that, I know you're not the origami killer.
- 2:37I can prove it.
- 2:38But then proceeds to start making out with him.
- 2:40And I said, didn't you just say that you can prove he's not the killer?
- 2:45So why not show the evidence?
- 2:47Well, especially because he doesn't even know if he's the killer or not.
- 2:50He still thinks he's the killer and she's not going to tell him the proof.
- 2:54She knows that he should be prioritizing saving Sean.
- 2:58Imagine them sleeping together, takes too much time and then a son dies.
- 3:04It's funny you say that because I have a note that says, he just said,
- 3:09saving Sean is all that matters now.
- 3:13I don't think they have time for this.
- 3:15It's pouring down rain.
- 3:17Sean is slowly drowning.
- 3:19And also Ethan's half dead right now.
- 3:21How good is this really going to be?
- 3:23Is it going to be worth it?
- 3:25Madison is just infatuated with him since day one.
- 3:29She doesn't care if he's limp.
- 3:34Okay, taking us up back.
- 3:35They do give you the choice to reject or accept this kiss.
- 3:40I wanted to reject it.
- 3:41I was yelling at Leah, reject it!
- 3:44I know!
- 3:45I thought you were going to be so mad at me if I rejected it.
- 3:48And that's the only reason I accepted it.
- 3:51If this was a Majima situation, it's a different answer.
- 3:55But this is not.
- 3:56You know how I felt about Madison and the way they wrote female characters.
- 3:59Not when I was playing the game.
- 4:01I didn't know anything yet.
- 4:03That is true because you played the entire game before we started reacting.
- 4:07Unfortunately, this kiss leads to further activities.
- 4:11And they make you control way too much of this.
- 4:14I felt way too involved in this situation.
- 4:16I was way too close to what was happening.
- 4:18With them breathing down your neck.
- 4:20And then the controls for taking off the clothing.
- 4:24Is it necessary?
- 4:25No, not at all.
- 4:26No.
- 4:27Also, another enormous issue, probably second to they should be saving Sean.
- 4:33There's a bed two inches away from them.
- 4:37They're so close to it that they're touching it.
- 4:39They're bumping into it.
- 4:41But no, let's stay on the motel room floor.
- 4:44Disgusting.
- 4:46Disgusting.
- 4:47Ethan then wakes up in the bed so at least they didn't sleep on the floor.
- 4:51He opens up the last origami figure which reads,
- 4:54The last letters.
- 4:55The 961 Rainbow Lane.
- 4:58And he's getting ready to leave and he says something like,
- 5:01Clean break.
- 5:01I better get out of here.
- 5:04Was he just gonna dine and dash her?
- 5:06He was just gonna leave.
- 5:08He was.
- 5:08But this is also coming from a guy who doesn't really make much sense.
- 5:12Because what kind of person would open origamis one at a time?
- 5:17Why would you open them all at the same time?
- 5:20Sorry, I'm just imagining you ask his doctor, what's the diagnosis?
- 5:25He doesn't make much sense.
- 5:28I'm a bit frustrated with him.
- 5:30I'm frustrated with Madison.
- 5:32There's a lot of things about this game so far and the characters that are making me a bit cranky.
- 5:38But as he's getting ready to leave, he knocks some items out of Madison's coat pocket.
- 5:42One of them is a camera, which includes a very disturbing picture of Ethan sleeping.
- 5:49It also contains a notepad.
- 5:51And this is when Ethan figures out that she is a journalist.
- 5:54She tries to explain herself.
- 5:56And then, okay, so she says that she wants to be with him.
- 6:00And again, how do you know that already?
- 6:04She's never even met the kid yet.
- 6:07Well, this is where I expected you to again get mad at me, but I was like, I already accepted the kiss.
- 6:13I'm gonna reject her here because I don't like this.
- 6:16I think she's being dumb.
- 6:18I'm glad you rejected it because I was yelling at you to reject it too.
- 6:22Yeah, because he's right.
- 6:24She took advantage of him and he can't trust her anymore.
- 6:27Do you believe her?
- 6:28The fact that these two characters are so irresponsible, I can see her being sincere.
- 6:37But from someone who is looking straight and looking at her, I wouldn't believe her.
- 6:41I there's a lot of things wrong with her.
- 6:43And I feel like we can't tell when she's being sincere and when she's not.
- 6:49I agree.
- 6:50And I really thought she was lying until I listened to her thoughts when she was leaving.
- 6:54And she says, I meant what I said.
- 6:56So I guess it's true.
- 6:58I still don't understand.
- 7:00But on her way out, she sees a bunch of cops, including Blake, arriving at the motel.
- 7:05And she uses the phone in the office to call Ethan and warn him.
- 7:09Ethan's able to make a very narrow escape after being chased along the roof.
- 7:13He does a fall jump off of a roof to get away.
- 7:18And then he steals a cab.
- 7:20But also, why does the cab driver then just sit in the middle of the road?
- 7:27I get that it sucks to have your cab stolen, but now you're also cold and you have a soggy butt.
- 7:33He's waiting for some kind of financial compensation for having his cab stolen.
- 7:39We are back to Scott Shelby.
- 7:41And it seems like Kramer must have put the squeeze on Lauren, who has let him and his goons into Scott's apartment,
- 7:47where he gets jumped upon entering.
- 7:52He then wakes up in a submerged car to find himself and Lauren are restrained.
- 7:56And Lauren is unconscious.
- 7:58She was accepting the risk of being with him and probably dying.
- 8:02That's true.
- 8:04That is a fair point.
- 8:05But they don't die.
- 8:06They get out of the car.
- 8:08And they kind of don't react enough to what just happened.
- 8:13I guess they're just in shock.
- 8:14Anyway, Scott asks if he can borrow Lauren's car because he's going to go settle some scores.
- 8:21He shows up with a bang at the Kramer mansion.
- 8:25He drove Lauren's car through the wall.
- 8:28It's probably totaled.
- 8:29You can't drive that again.
- 8:30That's pretty rude.
- 8:32Doesn't he have his own car?
- 8:34I thought so.
- 8:38Oh, no, no, his car is at the bottom of the lake.
- 8:41Oh, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
- 8:43Whoa, we were almost just real stupid.
- 8:47Dodge that one narrowly.
- 8:51So he gets out of the car and starts just shooting everyone and eventually makes it up to Kramer in his office.
- 8:58And he beats the truth about his son out of him.
- 9:01Kramer says, he wanted to be like the origami killer.
- 9:07He kidnapped that kid.
- 9:09He held him under the water for a little too long.
- 9:12Okay, that's called murder.
- 9:16Red flag number one of him not understanding.
- 9:20And then he continues to say it was an unfortunate accident and Gordy was crying, so he felt really sorry.
- 9:26Why is he still protecting his son who's obviously showing signs of being a psychopath?
- 9:32And sure, even if he's regretful that first time he commits murder,
- 9:37he still should suffer some kind of consequences or at least take him to see a therapist.
- 9:42Because my goodness, that does not sound normal.
- 9:45Normal people just don't worship killers and want to pretend and have the same MO as them.
- 9:53Right, and he's essentially covering up a murderer.
- 9:57We know he paid people off.
- 10:00That's not good.
- 10:02He's going to get what's coming to him, though.
- 10:03Scott starts to leave, but Charles makes a big mistake and for whatever reason, whatever unknown reason, says,
- 10:11No one will miss him.
- 10:13Talking about the boy that Gordy killed.
- 10:16Why did he say this?
- 10:18Because he's arrogant and he's stupid.
- 10:21He's really stupid.
- 10:23Obviously, this angers Scott who returns and questions him some more about John Shepard,
- 10:29to which Kramer responds, I own the construction site where he died.
- 10:33I never forgot.
- 10:35Which you called in the last episode.
- 10:37Thank you.
- 10:38So good job on that one.
- 10:40Yay.
- 10:41He also tells Scott that John's mother's name is Anne, so a little bit more of a lead there.
- 10:46And then again on his way out the door, Scott is then asked by an ailing Charles to bring him his pills
- 10:52because he seems to be having a heart attack.
- 10:54So I got the pills and then I just left with him.
- 10:58And I feel so good about that decision.
- 11:03He had it coming.
- 11:05He had it coming.
- 11:06The audacity.
- 11:07There was no way I was leaving those pills in that room.
- 11:10Do we need to do so long for him?
- 11:12Obviously, he's a so long mother****.
- 11:14I don't know how you could justify.
- 11:16So long, mother****.
- 11:20There is no justification.
- 11:21There is no justification. I don't care if he cared about his son.
- 11:26I don't care if he felt bad about the kid dying at his construction site.
- 11:30If you feel bad and still do nothing, that makes you even worse in my book.
- 11:35I think that's all there is to say about this guy.
- 11:37Yep. Nothing else.
- 11:39We shouldn't even spare an extra thought about him.
- 11:42Madison found Anne Shepherd.
- 11:44She arrives at the hospital and she's able to eventually bypass Anne's extremely frustrating
- 11:51Alzheimer's.
- 11:52To learn that, we're going to go through a couple of things here.
- 11:55The origami dog was John's favorite and he always named them Max.
- 12:00She put orchids on John's grave when he died.
- 12:03And I don't think I want to say the last one yet.
- 12:05So anything yet in this scene that you want to talk about?
- 12:10Scene so far, we can chalk it up to being a very useless 15 minutes.
- 12:16I mean, we do have some things we need from it.
- 12:19But I think that in this entire part, this is probably the most useless scene.
- 12:24To be fair, I completely butchered the origami part.
- 12:28So that added some time.
- 12:30There were cranes in the room, so I thought, sure, it's the crane.
- 12:33That's a clue.
- 12:34I'm supposed to make the crane one.
- 12:36No.
- 12:36And I was like, well, the hummingbird, that's a bird.
- 12:39So I made that one.
- 12:40No, of course it's the dog that we've seen 12 times in this game.
- 12:43I don't know what I was thinking.
- 12:44But I agreed with you that it was pretty much useless, except that I found a nugget.
- 12:50I found a little interesting nugget.
- 12:52So Madison asks her about Carnaby Square, and Anne says, I used to live there.
- 12:58And if you remember back from episode one after Ethan's blackout, he wakes up
- 13:04and the street sign we see is Carnaby Corner North.
- 13:08So we don't know how he gets here.
- 13:10But is this a construction site where John died?
- 13:13Only one.
- 13:14John died, only it's fully built now.
- 13:17Sure.
- 13:18But I'm also curious if all the other dads are also waking up and standing in that same spot.
- 13:25Or is it unique to just Ethan?
- 13:28Right.
- 13:28So that's my question.
- 13:30Either he is the killer or has some connection to the events that happened there.
- 13:36Or somehow the killer is like drugging him and dropping him off there.
- 13:41I think we might have to circle back to this question, but it is a burning question for me.
- 13:46So back on your topic of this taking way too long.
- 13:49I get that she needs to find the name before time runs out.
- 13:53But could she not at this point tell the cops what she knows?
- 13:56Is she not endangering Sean's life by not handing over some of this information, this life-saving information?
- 14:03That's actually a note I had in the next few sections down.
- 14:07She doesn't document anything.
- 14:08She doesn't call for help.
- 14:10She doesn't call for help.
- 14:12So what if you find it?
- 14:12If someone accidentally kills you, all that effort goes to nowhere.
- 14:17You're not on speaking terms with Ethan at this point right now.
- 14:20Yeah, I agree.
- 14:21But to play devil's advocate, my only potential thought is maybe she's telling that Sam guy that told her where a creepy doctor lived, Dr. Formaldehyde.
- 14:29That's my only thought.
- 14:31But I agree with you.
- 14:32I feel like she is endangering Sean's life a little bit.
- 14:37If she really wanted to help Ethan, she would have tried to get as many resources to help him, right?
- 14:42But she's not.
- 14:43And it's not like she can single-handedly save Sean with all her investigative skills.
- 14:50Yeah, I agree with you.
- 14:51I think it's a little irresponsible.
- 14:53By the way, poor Anne.
- 14:55She lost both sons.
- 14:56One of them's dead.
- 14:58Nobody comes to see her.
- 15:00She hates the hospital.
- 15:01They won't give her a TV.
- 15:04I feel so bad for her.
- 15:05Go visit your grandma, everybody.
- 15:07Or grandpa.
- 15:08Yes.
- 15:10So Anne does eventually tell her the name, although we don't hear it.
- 15:13She whispers it to her.
- 15:15But Madison acts shocked.
- 15:18So we're back to Ethan.
- 15:19He arrives at the final trial.
- 15:21Are you prepared to give your life to save your sons?
- 15:25And he has to take a vial of poison that will kill him in 60 minutes, but he'll have time to say goodbye to Sean and save him.
- 15:33So he takes the poison without much hesitation, gets the full address, A52 Theater Result Road, and heads out.
- 15:39Who's to know whether or not he actually drinks it?
- 15:44I don't know what time period this was set, but did they have livestream cameras back then?
- 15:492010, probably.
- 15:50Okay.
- 15:51I would think so.
- 15:52He could like drink it, just keep it in his mouth and everything.
- 15:55He didn't have to swallow it.
- 15:56Who's to know?
- 15:57He could have at least tried something.
- 16:00But maybe it's just too risky if you get caught.
- 16:02I don't know.
- 16:03Fair point though.
- 16:05But at the same time, he kind of wouldn't care because he did murder someone.
- 16:10Hello?
- 16:10Are we forgetting that he also is a murderer?
- 16:14So even if he died saving his son and if his son survives and he dies, that's fine because probably a lifetime sentence.
- 16:23It's true.
- 16:24Definitely premeditated.
- 16:26And now we're back to Norman.
- 16:28He's very frustrated going over the evidence when Blake enters into his office and tries to kick him out saying that they have their killer.
- 16:36But Norman is adamant that Ethan is not their guy.
- 16:39We finally see Jaden snap.
- 16:41He's progressed from the throat grab of the, I don't know if he grabbed his throat, but at least a shirt of the goon at the nightclub.
- 16:50So he shouts, you are a, and then I just wrote play audio so I don't remember the quote, but we'll play it.
- 16:55You are an unbalanced psychopathic asshole.
- 17:00And this is the first time that we've seen Blake not really get affected by Jaden jabbing at him.
- 17:06Is it because he got to Jaden by making him scream?
- 17:10I was actually thinking that maybe Blake is secretly proud of Jaden to being more like him, of being aggressive and easily heated.
- 17:22So I think Blake is just trying to corrupt Jaden and seeing him like that makes him happy.
- 17:27He finally leaves Norman alone though, and he jumps into Ari but gets the same warning he received earlier.
- 17:32Butler Ari telling him not to overindulge.
- 17:36A little bit foreboding.
- 17:38He uses the two gas station receipts from the killer's pocket to narrow down geoanalysis.
- 17:44And also discovers that Ari was recording during the fight in Paco's office.
- 17:48He does notice that the assailant is wearing the same watch that the PD gives as lieutenant gifts.
- 17:53And he figures it out, the killer is a cop.
- 17:58Before we move on, I feel like this scene shows us why Jaden has so much trouble overindulging.
- 18:05Because we see how desperate he is to solve this case before Ethan's arrested or Sean dies.
- 18:11He doesn't really have much of a choice. He has to go into Ari.
- 18:14He has to go over the evidence and he has to solve the case.
- 18:16And he has to solve the case. Otherwise people die.
- 18:20But at the same time, what kind of police is he that he has to rely on this kind of technology
- 18:25and can't do police work without Ari?
- 18:27I think it's just about, I mean it's basically just a computer but on his face.
- 18:30With all the trade-offs of having the shakes and everything.
- 18:35But on your point, I sort of agree with you because a lot of this information could just be
- 18:40in a computer for him to review the files.
- 18:42I feel like where Ari is necessary is the actual investigation, the crime scene investigation,
- 18:47where we saw him like scanning and finding clues.
- 18:51But after that, when you have the information gathered,
- 18:54could that not just be sent to a computer so you don't have to be an Ari?
- 18:59So after discovering the killer is a cop, he considers Blake but decides to keep investigating
- 19:05and finds that there's only one cop living in the geoanalysis zone.
- 19:09Jaden finds out that he owns a warehouse on the docks.
- 19:14So he heads out. Anything else in scene five?
- 19:18Nope.
- 19:19We now see Scott Shelby and Lauren at a train station and he's sending her away presumably to keep her safe.
- 19:27And they didn't give me an option this time, Kathy.
- 19:30They were forced to kiss and I have to say, Lauren did not look very into it.
- 19:35She looks like a dead fish.
- 19:37A dead fish.
- 19:39She stood there like a piece of plywood.
- 19:42Arms on her side.
- 19:45We then see a flashback to the drowning.
- 19:47John's brother is trying to get their dad to help, but he refuses and is just a giant
- 19:53****.
- 19:54The brother runs back and as John dies, he says,
- 19:57Don't forget about this guy.
- 20:00And we have finally revealed the killer, Scott Shelby.
- 20:04And we then see him modern day destroying evidence that he has collected from his victim's parents.
- 20:10Before we move on, I had a question.
- 20:13So little boy Scott in the flashbacks, when he runs, he does this like,
- 20:17He, he, he, shh.
- 20:20Do you think that has to do with asthma?
- 20:22Do you think that's a clue?
- 20:24That's such a good point.
- 20:26But at the same time, do you think that he was faking his asthma because he's never had that attack afterwards
- 20:32after shooting all the people and that kind of exercise that would have prompted him to have an asthma attack?
- 20:40And so my question is that do you really think that he has asthma?
- 20:44I do because we saw him buy an inhaler and we also find a couple around his apartment.
- 20:51So I think he does have asthma.
- 20:53I do agree that he probably needed a puff after everything that happened.
- 20:58Maybe we just didn't see it.
- 20:59And I'm wondering if this huffing and puffing is a clue to people who understand asthma better
- 21:04of who this little boy is before I find out.
- 21:07And they freaking made them go through a Titanic situation by grabbing his hand and then letting go.
- 21:16I have never seen Titanic.
- 21:18Oh my god, Leah.
- 21:20I don't feel bad about it.
- 21:22It is a very long movie.
- 21:24I will say it kind of traumatized me.
- 21:26I watched that one.
- 21:26I was way too young to watch it.
- 21:30There's nudity in it, Kathy.
- 21:32Even I know that.
- 21:34How old were you?
- 21:36When did I watch it?
- 21:36It was on TV.
- 21:38So I think they blurred it or something or they cut it out.
- 21:42That makes sense.
- 21:44So it appears Anne did give Madison the correct name because she has tracked Shelby down as the
- 21:48killer and arrives at his place to search for Sean's location.
- 21:52Things get dicey.
- 21:54But before we get there, she figures out that he used to be a cop and that's why
- 21:57children trusted him.
- 22:00And then she finds this secret room where he grows orchids,
- 22:03mixes origami, and types up his letters.
- 22:06There's also a live stream of Sean slowly drowning.
- 22:09But also on this computer, the password is Max?
- 22:15Really?
- 22:17Max, three letters?
- 22:18That's your password?
- 22:19How did they even allow him to have such a short password?
- 22:25How is it just three letters?
- 22:27I don't.
- 22:28After the insane complicated scenarios this guy creates, his password is Max.
- 22:35And we're talking about a guy who crawled through small little vents or little tubes,
- 22:43sprinkled shattered glass all the way down the pathway.
- 22:50And he has a password named Max.
- 22:54Who would have thought?
- 22:55It shocks me.
- 22:56I find it shocking.
- 22:58But anyway, Scott catches her, locks her in the secret room, and sets the place on fire.
- 23:04He also left a propane can in the apartment just for fun.
- 23:08Madison is able to escape just before the explosion, and we notice something.
- 23:14She's in the building, running down the stairs.
- 23:17She doesn't warn anybody that there's about to be a massive explosion.
- 23:22What a great journalist and a great person, huh?
- 23:25Could just yell fire.
- 23:27Right?
- 23:28And the thing is that she has been so incredibly nosy, but doesn't warn anyone,
- 23:35and she's just so reckless.
- 23:38She doesn't tell anyone anything.
- 23:40It is just very frustrating.
- 23:42Like the moment she knows Shelby is a killer, why didn't she warn anyone?
- 23:45I know.
- 23:47Based on how she reacted when Anne said, I'm assuming Scotty's name,
- 23:53how does she know Scott is the Scotty that Anne is talking about?
- 24:00I found that odd too.
- 24:02As the player, we have no indication that she knows who that is.
- 24:06So I don't know.
- 24:07I don't know how she knows him.
- 24:09Maybe she just knows private investigators, but she acts like she's like, no, him.
- 24:14No way.
- 24:15Not like it's just some random guy, some random private investigator.
- 24:19So I do find that odd.
- 24:20I also find it odd that she suddenly knows Norman Jaden as well.
- 24:24That too.
- 24:26She calls him now.
- 24:28Now.
- 24:29Of all times you call him.
- 24:30Not when you were trying to figure out the adopted name or before you got to his apartment,
- 24:36when you figured out who it was, now you call him.
- 24:39And she tells him who the killer is, where he's got Sean.
- 24:43And then Jaden just goes, wait, I already know all this.
- 24:47And how does Jaden not try to convince Blake that Ethan is not the killer?
- 24:54I think he's gone based off of the next scene.
- 24:56Blake is at the warehouse.
- 24:58So I think he's already taken off to go arrest Ethan.
- 25:02The man has a phone.
- 25:02You can call him.
- 25:04He knows he's not going to answer the phone.
- 25:07There's no way he's going to answer the phone.
- 25:09It's true.
- 25:10All right.
- 25:11We're at the end of the game.
- 25:13Ethan arrives at the warehouse and is confronted by Scott, who, quote,
- 25:18has been looking for a father who could do what mine could not do.
- 25:23He talks about being able to make a sacrifice.
- 25:26Sacrifice to save his son.
- 25:30But his dad, Shelby's dad, didn't need to make a sacrifice to save John.
- 25:35All he had to do was stand up and walk a few meters in a direction
- 25:41and pull his kid out of there.
- 25:43What sacrifice does that require?
- 25:46And the thing is that if we're really talking about sacrifices,
- 25:49what would have been a sacrifice is if Scott jumped into the water with his brother,
- 25:54swam down to the bottom and helped freeze.
- 25:56Like that would have been a sacrifice because he would be risking his life.
- 26:00Right.
- 26:01But he's not he's not making a sacrifice.
- 26:03So why is he making these fathers go through such horrendous torture?
- 26:08It doesn't match, in my opinion.
- 26:10Honestly, in giving some thought about this afterwards, too,
- 26:14I low key feel like they were just scrambling to get an ending and justifying.
- 26:19I feel like later we'll talk about some of the loose ends.
- 26:22But here I feel like they're just trying to figure out a reason to justify him killing people.
- 26:31There's like one piece missing.
- 26:33It's like they were choosing between the theory of Ethan testing himself,
- 26:37which is a good theory, and then just letting a kid drown.
- 26:42Like there's no there's no connection between those two things.
- 26:46It's like they wanted that theory, but they wanted the reasoning for it to be a father needs to make a sacrifice.
- 26:55But what happened back in time didn't really require a sacrifice.
- 27:01So I think that's the disconnect.
- 27:03I don't know if that made any sense, but I'll cut it to try to make sense.
- 27:09He also remembered Ethan from the mall incident where Jason died.
- 27:15He saw him dive in front of the car, and that's why he targeted him.
- 27:20But what about all the other kids?
- 27:22How does he choose his targets?
- 27:24So here's what I think.
- 27:26So we know from the newspaper article in part one at Ethan's sad apartment
- 27:32that the origami killer is sort of reappearing.
- 27:36So maybe there's been a bit of a break.
- 27:39And back in time, he's still been searching for the perfect father to test.
- 27:44And then he witnesses Ethan do this and he's like, oh, I have my next victim.
- 27:49And so that's when he resurfaces as a killer.
- 27:52So is it constantly on the lookout for people to test and people to murder?
- 27:59Yeah, I think so.
- 28:01Why choose to put these boys in a situation where they're drowning someone to his brother
- 28:08and also test the death?
- 28:10So what's the purpose?
- 28:12So what if they pass?
- 28:13So what if they sacrifice everything that he wished his dad did?
- 28:18What's the end goal of everything?
- 28:21But what's Scott trying to get out of it?
- 28:23I think that's the question.
- 28:24And maybe that's something that we'll never know about psychopaths and serial killers.
- 28:31And this is just an immediate response to your question,
- 28:34and we might address this further in the summary.
- 28:36But I'm thinking the reason for the test, and he says he's been looking for a father
- 28:41who would be able to do what mine could not do.
- 28:43I think maybe he's trying to figure out does that father even exist?
- 28:48And if the answer is no, then maybe that would help him cope with what happened a little bit more,
- 28:54as in like his father's not quite the asshole he thought he was.
- 28:58And then if the answer is yes, then he has his answer, at least,
- 29:02and that might in some way help him cope a little bit.
- 29:04Shelby continues to say, do you have any idea how it feels to be a worthless nothing in your father's eyes?
- 29:14Believe me, I suffer just as much as my victims.
- 29:21No, there's no justification for this.
- 29:24But yeah, his dad sucked.
- 29:26But what do you feel about this line?
- 29:29I think it's something that people do when they want to justify
- 29:33their actions and knowing that they're wrong, they're trying to make it seem like they're right.
- 29:39And I think part of it might have to do with that their logic itself is a bit wonky.
- 29:46And I think for him, it seems completely logical because his mind is a bit skewed already.
- 29:54And so I can see from his point of view, I understand it.
- 29:57But from someone who isn't into killing young 10 year old boys,
- 30:02I would think that you can't justify it.
- 30:04Even if you're a psychopathic serial killer, there's still going to be some internal processing that's,
- 30:11I would assume, trying to understand why you're doing what you're doing.
- 30:15And maybe this is his reason for coping with what he's doing.
- 30:20All right, so Shelby then draws a gun on Ethan as he turns his back to him to try to free Sean.
- 30:25But then Agent Norman Jaden comes flying in for the rescue, tackles him.
- 30:30Out of nowhere and then pursues a fleeing Shelby.
- 30:35How does Jaden not hear Shelby run towards him?
- 30:38Shelby isn't a skinny dude.
- 30:41And this is something that I noticed with Jaden is that he has a massive blind spot behind him.
- 30:46Even with Ari's help, he never notices when someone's behind him.
- 30:51I'm going to say in this instance, it was really loud.
- 30:53I think there's a lot of noise going on.
- 30:55And maybe that's the same case for Mad Jacks too, but I do feel like that one is a little harder to explain.
- 31:03And I do feel like Ari should have some sort of alert.
- 31:06But yeah, they're fighting.
- 31:07And then we see a butt ton of cops down below.
- 31:10And I guess none of them are going to go help Norman.
- 31:12They're just going to let him dangle up there.
- 31:16But then we see it's Blake, so of course not.
- 31:18He's not going to let anyone go up there.
- 31:20And then Madison arrives, confronts Blake and tries to get him to go up there.
- 31:24And then she arrives, confronts Blake and tries to convince him that Ethan is innocent, but he's having none of it.
- 31:29So when Madison goes up to Blake, she's like, I can prove it.
- 31:33I have evidence and he's innocent.
- 31:36Yet she doesn't see anything else to convince him.
- 31:38She doesn't bring out any of the evidence.
- 31:40You should have gave them evidence because we know that so much can go wrong.
- 31:46And considering how she knows they're about to shoot Ethan, yet she says, he's innocent, but I'm not going to show you.
- 31:52And I'm going to try to ride my bike and save Ethan when he's likely to come out and get a bullet through his head.
- 32:00Because there's snipers everywhere because I failed to provide the evidence that I say I have.
- 32:07I agree.
- 32:08We'll get to the motorcycle in a second because I have more on that.
- 32:12But yeah, the least she could do is throw some evidence in his face, show him some pictures.
- 32:18What a terrible journalist she is.
- 32:20She doesn't document any of this and or demonstrate any of her skills or provide any evidence.
- 32:27It just drives me crazy.
- 32:29Or she's too good of a journalist, so she's still keeping everything under wraps, even though it's keeping people in danger.
- 32:36But then we cut back to inside.
- 32:38Ethan is able to free and revive Sean just as the time on his watch runs out, but he doesn't die from the poison.
- 32:46But I would not be so relieved yet.
- 32:48It's been 60 minutes on the dot.
- 32:52You don't know that it's not going to be two seconds.
- 32:5660 minutes and two seconds.
- 32:5761 minutes.
- 32:59I know.
- 32:59It could be a stroke-inducing poison and he's just not going to die exactly then.
- 33:05It's going to sneak up on him.
- 33:07He took the 60 minutes a little too seriously.
- 33:13Why would he even trust a killer?
- 33:15So yeah, the motorcycle.
- 33:17Why?
- 33:19Why does she drive her motorcycle like a mad woman through all the cops?
- 33:24I understand she needs to get to the door quickly to get inside the warehouse, but what's wrong with a straight line?
- 33:32I feel like she's just so cocky and arrogant between watch me ride my bike and weave around you guys and do donuts.
- 33:40And also, I don't need to document anything.
- 33:43I can go and save Sean by himself and do all the investigation without telling a single person, even though it might endanger Sean.
- 33:51Because I could possibly die and no one would know what's up.
- 33:56You are never going to let this go.
- 33:59I know.
- 34:01I feel like I'm more heated than the whole Makoto and Wajima situation.
- 34:07No.
- 34:08Roll the audio file.
- 34:10Yakuza 0 ending.
- 34:12I hate the scene. I hate it so much.
- 34:16Okay, I do agree with you and admit that I was more pissed that time around.
- 34:22But I just feel like there's so much improvements it could have done with Madison's character.
- 34:26So instead of opting for the straight line option, she swerves around and almost, well, she actually does fall off of her motorcycle.
- 34:34But thankfully near the door and she runs inside to warn Ethan.
- 34:38And then bam, we're back to Jayden.
- 34:40He sent that TV flying into Shelby's face like it was nothing.
- 34:48It's like he just tossed a playing card.
- 34:50Yes. And why are there not any emergency stops on that machine?
- 34:54So many OSHA violations.
- 34:56He probably took them all off because I guess this is Shelby's place.
- 35:00Some more things are tossed. A wrench hits Shelby's square in the face.
- 35:04Fantastic. Very satisfying to see.
- 35:06And he's about to fall into a grinder but reaches his hand up and begs Norman for help.
- 35:13Norman decides to pull him up.
- 35:15Only to be attacked. We'll just get this out of the way. He gets attacked.
- 35:18But in the struggle, Scott ends up falling into the grinder and Jayden is unscathed.
- 35:25First of all, Shelby deserved that.
- 35:27I don't think you disagree.
- 35:30Second of all, let's talk about this parallelism between John's death and Shelby's death.
- 35:37It feels almost like Jayden kind of completes the circle.
- 35:42Because we had John asking for help but Shelby couldn't offer it.
- 35:48But then when he ends up in a situation where he needs someone to help him,
- 35:52someone does help him and pulls him up, but fate says, I don't think so.
- 35:58And he ends up dying anyway, falling into the same pit that he would have fallen into,
- 36:03whether or not Jayden pulled him up.
- 36:06And I feel like the circle closes here somehow, but I can't quite form the thought.
- 36:12I think part of it is the karma that...
- 36:16Well, okay, before we even get there, we gotta recognize two things.
- 36:21One, this is about age, that Scott wasn't able to help save his brother due to his age and his capabilities and everything.
- 36:32And yet, this current present moment, Jayden is a full grown adult with FBI training,
- 36:39so I feel like it's really difficult to compare them.
- 36:42But the full circle part comes in with karma because Scott let that ruin him,
- 36:50because he chose to continue hurting other kids, and because he's a full grown adult,
- 36:55and he still made the conscious decision to put different dads and families through this.
- 37:01I feel like the death of him, of even being saved, still dying, is karma.
- 37:07And it's payback for all the negative actions he did because he should have known better as an adult.
- 37:14I'm not blaming him as a child, but the full grown adult should have been making a better decision.
- 37:20It's not so much about comparing, it's more about the symbolism of it, I guess.
- 37:26So he's in the same situation that John was in.
- 37:29I don't know if he recognizes it in this moment, but he begs for help as a serial killer to an FBI agent who's hunting him down,
- 37:38and he receives the help.
- 37:40And I feel like in that moment, he has an option, right?
- 37:46He can say, arrest me and accept this help and accept what he's done at the same time,
- 37:54but instead of accepting this option that fate gives him of repenting for what you've done, redeeming yourself for what you've done,
- 38:03he continues to attack the person who saves him.
- 38:07And so then the universe again is like, I gave you a chance, you didn't take it, you're going in the grinder.
- 38:14I almost feel like that's what happens here is he gets that chance, Jaden gives him that chance to be redeemed,
- 38:20to accept what he did and the consequences of what he's done, but he doesn't take it.
- 38:25And so he's punished for that.
- 38:27I agree with you that he had the chance to redeem himself, but he chose not to.
- 38:33And I think that the bad person in him continued because he'd rather take down Jaden and die with Jaden than to die by himself.
- 38:44And so I think that there is no redeeming, there is no goodness of him left.
- 38:52I say that knowing that he could have killed Lauren at any point, but he chose not to.
- 38:58So maybe there is still a hint, but I think ultimately, I don't know if he recognizes that he's a bad person.
- 39:05I think he's not willing to admit it to himself.
- 39:08And I think that's why he tries to justify what he's doing by saying like, oh, I'm damaged, basically, which you would be that sucks.
- 39:17But not everyone who has a horrible, horrific event happen to them becomes a serial killer.
- 39:22But I think it's very poetic. It's almost the same shot.
- 39:27We should pull them up side by side for Instagram.
- 39:30Do we need to do a little bit of a so long for Scott Shelby?
- 39:34I think so. As much as I would have loved to see him redeem himself, I think it's ultimately a so long mother****.
- 39:41Pretty good case for a so long mother****.
- 39:44The only thing we can say is like he had it pretty rough.
- 39:48He went through some horrible, horrible things, but we still have choices.
- 39:51And he made some pretty bad ones and then Jayden gave him a chance to redeem himself and he refused.
- 39:59So I think this is the first time where someone pretty much chose to go out a mother****.
- 40:06We now see the epilogue, the aftermath of all these events.
- 40:10First of all, Sean is alive and well. He and Ethan get a new apartment.
- 40:16Ethan gets the credit he deserves for saving his son.
- 40:19They officially ID Shelby as the origami killer.
- 40:22As if there was any question, we do get confirmation here that he is indeed dead.
- 40:27So you said something that hopefully we did not cut in editing where you said, oh, she better not become Sean's stepmother.
- 40:36Oh, had I not rejected her after discovering she's a journalist, she would be in this scene with them.
- 40:44Are you kidding me?
- 40:45I'm not kidding.
- 40:48There's no way I was going to let that happen.
- 40:50I am so glad you rejected it because having her as a stepmom means that one, Ethan isn't in jail for murdering someone or two, that she probably continues to keep the murder a secret.
- 41:05And three, Sean's mom is totally okay with this woman being the mom of her child where the mom chose to have other activities instead of saving Sean and prioritizing her now stepson's life.
- 41:20And also, Ethan totally being okay with Madison using their story and all their trauma to get an award and make profits off of it by writing a book.
- 41:33And so there's a lot to uncover there and unpack.
- 41:36You brought up a good point.
- 41:38Ethan gets away with murder.
- 41:40He does.
- 41:41Full on gets away with murder.
- 41:43And I'm assuming that Madison never writes about that in her book.
- 41:47Well, because here's the thing.
- 41:49We see on her camera pictures of the places he went, and that explains why she was at the location where he cut his finger off.
- 41:57So she had to have followed him there, too, right?
- 42:00I guess she just couldn't get in the building or couldn't get in the apartment.
- 42:04It seems like she would know.
- 42:06How does the investigation for Brad's death not get a notice by the FBI?
- 42:13And how did they not notice that the vomit there is all Ethan's?
- 42:18Honestly, I feel like that guy was pretty shady, probably some sort of drug dealer.
- 42:23They were probably like, ah, he had it coming.
- 42:26It was one of his customers.
- 42:28His customer puked all over his carpet.
- 42:31Have you seen Breaking Bad?
- 42:33Well, drugs and puke go hand in hand sometimes.
- 42:36Oh, OK.
- 42:38But getting to seeing Madison after the fact, she won a Pulitzer Prize.
- 42:44She has a book, and she's on a talk show, and the host is like, you almost single handedly saved Sean Maher's.
- 42:51And then later she's at a book signing.
- 42:54And what the heck happens?
- 42:56Is this Dr. formaldehyde Colin Mochery?
- 42:59But it's in her imagination?
- 43:01I don't understand.
- 43:02So this is where I start getting more questions.
- 43:05Why is all of a sudden Ethan stopping with his blackouts?
- 43:09Right?
- 43:10What is up with that that he had a lot enough to go to see the psychologist and he's always dreaming about drowning and stuff?
- 43:17We don't address that.
- 43:18We don't address what happens to the psychologist who pretty much misled the FBI saying that, oh, he dropped his origami.
- 43:25We're getting similar reactions of Madison seeming like she's about to black out.
- 43:30And it's after someone named Vincent asking for the book signing and everything.
- 43:36So there's just a lot of confusion when it comes comes to that point.
- 43:41The guy walks up to her and says that his name is Vincent.
- 43:45To me, it really sounds like the doctor, but the doctor's name is Adrian.
- 43:51But we know from the first time where we get really confused when we're introduced to Madison, who is this lady?
- 43:57She's dreaming, right?
- 43:59Like she wakes up from that where it's not a hallucination.
- 44:03So has it just her insomnia gotten worse to the point where she's hallucinating while she's awake?
- 44:11And this is what that is.
- 44:13But if that's so, who the heck is Vincent?
- 44:15Because it would make sense if it was a doctor, because that was a traumatic experience.
- 44:20Anyway, she looks up and there's no one there.
- 44:22But she is still holding a book though, isn't she?
- 44:24Yeah, she was so convinced this was real that she wrote the name in the book.
- 44:28Well, or is it that Vincent had her sign something and as she was signing it, Vincent just stepped away and just left and disappeared?
- 44:35I don't think I don't see why someone would do that unless it's a hint of a potential sequel, because he says that you need a more formidable enemy.
- 44:42And so maybe he's got his eye on her and wants to challenge her.
- 44:46But going back to what the host said about Madison singlehandedly saving Sean, did she?
- 44:53Did she save him? Because Jaden gets there first.
- 44:56And also, she's not the one doing CPR on Sean. His dad is.
- 45:02All she did was solve it after Jaden, get there after Ethan revived Sean, and take all the credit.
- 45:11Seriously.
- 45:12We then see Jaden, he's on the same talk show, also gets recognition for his work.
- 45:17And the host also tells him that he saved Sean Mars singlehandedly.
- 45:23So who saved Sean Mars, Kathy?
- 45:26Ari continues to drive him down a dark path. He flushes the trypto though.
- 45:32So is this confirmation that the tryptocaine is what causes the damage?
- 45:38But how is he going to make it without the tryptocaine though?
- 45:41Right, and that's the question because we see he's in Ari.
- 45:45There's a tank game and these tanks show up on his desk while he's in Ari.
- 45:49Then he takes off his glasses, and they're still there.
- 45:52And you can see he's confused, tries to take the glasses off, but they're already off.
- 45:56And so the realities are mixing again.
- 45:59I'm pretty sure we can say with a fairly high degree of certainty that this is what the tryptocaine fixes,
- 46:05is this commingling of the two realities.
- 46:09If the tryptocaine is what hurts him, what happens if this intermixing keeps happening? Does he just go insane?
- 46:18I think he just won't be able to tell what's real, what's not, and where to step and everything.
- 46:24Because he'll be essentially blind to the real world.
- 46:30Why is the police department not taking back all the Aries?
- 46:34It must just help with the investigation so much that it's worth it.
- 46:38At the point of exchanging the life of your police officers in order to do some good police work and everything,
- 46:46it's like, how do you balance that?
- 46:49Maybe it's like we mentioned that he's just so focused on his job and solving the cases that he's in it,
- 46:55maybe more than he's supposed to be.
- 46:58Maybe there's a suggested time limit and he's not sticking to that.
- 47:01What if there is no correlation between the tryptocaine and ARIE that is just a normal drug that he got addicted to?
- 47:09And he keeps using the drugs and ARIE just happens to be another tool that they're not related.
- 47:16Do you think that maybe that's the case?
- 47:18I think the tryptocaine is linked. I think we have enough evidence to support that it is to dampen the effects of being an ARIE.
- 47:26But I wouldn't doubt that he's addicted to it.
- 47:29I think the shakes are withdrawals from it.
- 47:32I think that he's probably going over the recommended limit because he's committed to his job.
- 47:40But I would love to see answers.
- 47:42I would love to see a game that explains what the heck is going on and what really happens if you continue to use it too much.
- 47:50I would love to see that.
- 47:52Anything before we get to Lauren?
- 47:54Nope.
- 47:56This poor woman.
- 47:58She's clearly learned the truth and she visits Scott's grave.
- 48:02She gets it the worst in this game.
- 48:04Not only does the man who killed her son kiss her, lie to her, get her to trust him, total her car.
- 48:13Biggest victim in the whole game.
- 48:16And it was only because Shelby kept prying that everything happened.
- 48:21And I can just imagine if she initially ignored him to begin with, she probably would have never been where she is today.
- 48:30But so your QTE.
- 48:32So last week you got 94.44 and we hope that you were going to increase your score, which you did 94.57.
- 48:42Nice.
- 48:43So 0.13%.
- 48:46Oh man.
- 48:48Something I wanted to say about how unique these controls are in this game.
- 48:55I did better at the QTEs than I did at the normal controls of just walking around, picking things up, opening cupboards.
- 49:05That should never be the case.
- 49:07The QTEs should be the hardest part of the controls in any game that has them.
- 49:12And I think that just shows you how horrible these hand cramp inducing mechanics are.
- 49:19And I know I'm not alone in this.
- 49:22And so with the camera angles and trying to prompt the controls to prompt so you can like open a door or something.
- 49:29Yeah, trying to open the medicine cabinet in Shelby's bathroom is medicine.
- 49:33I almost threw the controller.
- 49:38Are you feeling better about the ending than some of the other games that we've played?
- 49:43I would say this is the second to the last game.
- 49:48Not quite satisfied.
- 49:52But it's not going to keep me up at night and texting you in the middle of the night saying that I hate this game.
- 49:58This is not that.
- 50:00This game is one of the unique ones where I'll accept the ending.
- 50:04But I have so many questions and there's a lot of areas where it could have improved and tie some of those loose ends.
- 50:12Is it bad that I thought that Sean should have died considering how long they took to save him?
- 50:19Just a lot of areas where I feel like they could have fleshed it out a bit more and did it do a better job of it.
- 50:26Yeah, it's like they're not plot holes, but there's a lot of like loose ends.
- 50:31There's a lot of makeshift bridges over the plot holes.
- 50:36But how is everything seeing so like Yippee-ki-yay!
- 50:41At the end, Sean doesn't have any PTSD and Ethan's happy and free and Madison's earning big banks off her books and getting Pulitzer.
- 50:52And Jayden is getting the recognition. How is everything okay?
- 50:57How are their lives not destroyed?
- 50:59It's an interesting point because we see both Jayden and Madison get recognition for what they've done and some success.
- 51:06But then we see both of them sort of have this dark moment of, oh no, something's going to go wrong with these two.
- 51:13And then in contrast, we see Sean and Ethan, who are totally fine.
- 51:18It's like nothing ever happened except you lost a little bit of your pinky.
- 51:22Is that just a sort of an imagery to show you like what it cost to buy these people their freedom and get them their lives back?
- 51:33Is that just the cost that Madison paid and that Jayden paid to allow them to be happy?
- 51:39Is that just some symbolism or is Sean and Ethan's happiness just temporary and they don't realize the ramifications,
- 51:50the effect of what they've gone through?
- 51:52I'm used to you picking sad games that this is not sitting well with me.
- 51:57Well, on that note, I guess I won't tell you what other games we have in store.
- 52:03Oh, gosh.
- 52:05Just kind of make you sweat a little bit.
- 52:07We've been recording for two hours, so yeah, let's wrap it up.
- 52:11It's almost midnight.
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