Second point: they plan to implant Elisabeth something. Seems like a rather risky long term plan to me, but okay: I can see reason behind it. Let her fall to despair without breaking her personality too much. That they want her to belief in her rescue, only to see that it never comes. I’m no longer convinced.įirst of all: why does Elisabeth still have her clothes, especially her choker? The choker with the pendant chosen by DeWitt earlier in the game? If they want to break her down and form her in the way Comstock wants her, why do they allow this constant connection to her past? The one explanation I see for this is that they want Elisabeth to realize at her own pace that DeWitt wont come. One might think that Comstock’s state-of-the-art- tortureres psychologists know what they are doing. Because that’s probably the first thing you need after getting rescued from the attempt to implant a control device into your neck: less space to breathe.
We free Elisabeth from the… operating device… thing… remove the giant needle from her spine and help her tie her corset. Once the syphon is down, Elisabeth opens a tear to a place currently being devastated by a tornado. The doctors discuss whether to sedate Elisabeth once the syphon goes down, but “pain is a vital part of the procedure”, according to Comstock. We shoot our way past a lot of Founders and disable both parts of the syphon. This would totally ruin a scripted event later on. The operation takes place behind bulletproof glass, so we can’t just go in guns blazing. The syphon, first encountered in the monument at Monument Island, is designed to stop Elisabeth from creating new tears (which she could do as a child before the syphon was build, as she tells us later).
To be save from her during the procedure, a small version of the syphon is placed alongside. This device is built to cause a considerable amount of pain, should she ever try to open a tear. Pettyfog and Powell are currently implanting a device in Elisabeth. We move on towards the operating theatre, where Drs. I’m not quite sure how Booker (who reveals this to us) can know this, but apparently he does.
Back to the year 1912, when Comstock House hasn’t yet fallen to pieces and when Elisabeth didn’t yet give in to Comstock.
This Elisabeth gives DeWitt a card for the younger Elisabeth, an advice how to not become her, and sends him back. What happened, you ask? Comstock’s vision, that his daughter will bring fire to the Sodom below has come true. Booker’s objection that he was on his way is brushed aside: Songbird always intervened. It wasn’t the torture or the indoctrination that broke her, it was time. The lunatics are now running the asylum, we’re told, and all she can do is watch. More tears tell us that Elisabeth is still waiting for DeWitt to come, and the Luteces remind us not to ask “what” is going on, but “when” it’s going on. We make our way back to the now-unlocked plot door, following the screams. In which we meet one Elisabeth, rescue another and board an airship.