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.
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BioShock infinite burial at sea episode two
FantasíaElizabeth basks in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. However, she unexpectedly spots Sally and gives chase. As she pursues her, Elizabeth's idealized vision of the French city turns nightmarish. Her memories of Columbia, Comstock, and Sally con...