Taavi Plays Stories Untold #4 - The Last Session
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The Last Session
This episode begins with the game's opening sequence, thereafter paused as the camera pulls back to reveal it is playing on a television. Dr. Alexander takes the player, James Aition, to an empty room for a session that's being recorded on a cassette recorder: he is recovering from a 2-week coma following an accident, according to Alexander, and the session is aimed at recovering his memories of the events surrounding the accident. In the previous three sessions, James had merged his memories with fantasy, all terminated early due to panic.
The sphere from The Lab Conduct appears and transports him to the arctic station. The microfilm now displays the police report: James was in a car crash with his sister, Jennifer, trapped and critically injured. The other driver, Charles Hennings, a retired police officer, was killed, smelling of alcohol with an empty bottle found in the passenger seat. After completing a puzzle, a friend of Hennings, through a message, claims he never talked about alcohol and accuses Aition of irresponsibility. The game switches then to the laboratory, where the interactions with the machine mirror a life-saving operation on himself in the emergency room, where he arrived with no pulse. Following the ER doctor's orders, he restarts his heart, relieving a hemorrhage by drilling into his head.
He wakes at the computer desk to play The House Abandon, now detailing the events prior to and during the crash. At the house, full of people due to a New Years' party, James, who is set to leave on a long trip, finds a gift bottle of whiskey from his father, and gets drunk on it. He is then asked by an unsuspecting Jennifer to drive her home. James has a premonition of her covered in blood with the Futuro projecting her bloodied face in a body bag, before having another premonition showing his mother at the hospital being told that Jennifer is dead, but that James is alive, but her mother saying she doesn't want to see him. On the road, Jennifer realizes that James is drunk, but can't convince him to pull over, and they crash into oncoming traffic. Afraid of going to jail and ruining his reputation, he pours some of the whiskey he received from his father onto Hennings and places the bottle in Hennings' car. Police officers arrive, as he approaches the silhouette of one.
The sphere then transports him back to the hospital, with the voice of Jen berating him on his behavior and actions, saying that he has to admit his guilt. Walking back into the room, James pushes "stop" on the tape recorder, per Alexander's orders. Alexander says he'll pass on the information to the police, and James then returns to watching Stories Untold on television.