{"id":1843238,"date":"2025-06-09T03:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1843238\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T03:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:16:02","slug":"death-stranding-timeline-complete-story-so-far-what-you-need-to-know-to-play-death-stranding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/1843238\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Stranding Timeline &#8211; Complete Story So Far (What You Need to Know to Play Death Stranding 2!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tt65_5b9660\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDeath Stranding Timeline &#8211; Complete Story So Far (What You Need to Know to Play Death Stranding 2!)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith \u201cDeath Stranding 2: On the\u00a0<br \/>\nBeach\u201d right around the corner,\u00a0\u00a0 I, Suggestive Gaming, thought there would\u00a0<br \/>\nbe no better time to cover the famously complex storyline of the first title from\u00a0<br \/>\nKojima Productions. Yes, this video\u2019s only going over the story of one game\u2026 but it\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nstill a Hideo Kojima game, so strap in. While Death Stranding\u2019s story is told in such\u00a0<br \/>\na way where certain information and backstory isn\u2019t revealed until later in the narrative,\u00a0<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to try to piece everything together\u00a0\u00a0 as chronologically as possible. As such, I can\u00a0<br \/>\nonly recommend watching this video to those who have already played the game and are looking for\u00a0<br \/>\na refresher or better understanding of the plot. Newcomers to the series should definitely play the\u00a0<br \/>\nfirst game to experience the story as intended, but then come back to this video\u00a0<br \/>\nto like, comment, and subscribe. Seriously, while I\u2019d love the views,\u00a0<br \/>\nthe first few sentences of this video will spoil the ending of the game, so turn back\u00a0<br \/>\nnow if you\u2019re not prepared. You\u2019ve been warned. Also note that much like with every open-world,\u00a0<br \/>\nmassive universe-containing game I\u2019ve covered here on the series, I\u2019m going to have to leave\u00a0<br \/>\nout or breeze over a fair amount of side-quests\u00a0\u00a0 and secondary characters. This video is going\u00a0<br \/>\nto focus on the straight through story of the narrative, rather than acting as a massive lore\u00a0<br \/>\nexploration, so keep that in mind as we begin. Now, without further ado, this is what\u00a0<br \/>\nyou need to know about Death Stranding. Our story begins literally at the dawn of time.\u00a0<br \/>\nAcross the millennia of Earth\u2019s existence, the planet experiences five mass extinction\u00a0<br \/>\nevents which wipe out a majority of plant and animal species. Each of these events are\u00a0<br \/>\ntriggered by a being called an \u201cExtinction Entity.\u201d Driven by a primal urge due to their\u00a0<br \/>\nconnection to the \u201cBeach\u201d (a liminal shoreline connecting the world of the living and\u00a0<br \/>\nwhat comes after death), each of these\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEE\u201ds act in such a way to be the catalyst of\u00a0<br \/>\neach of their respective extinction events. While each individual living being has their\u00a0<br \/>\nown Beach, where their soul goes after death, these EEs have access to a shared Beach, one\u00a0<br \/>\nfrom which they influence the living world. At some point in the 21st century,\u00a0<br \/>\nthe sixth extinction event approaches, one meant for humankind. Unbeknownst\u00a0<br \/>\nto the world, a woman in the United States named Bridget Strand is the sixth\u00a0<br \/>\nExtinction Entity. Dreams of a new mass extinction haunt Bridget throughout her\u00a0<br \/>\nlife, but she avoids acting to cause it. During her twenties, however, Bridget (now a\u00a0<br \/>\nhigh-ranking official for a growingly fractured United States) contracts uterine cancer;\u00a0<br \/>\nsomething she theorizes could have been the Beach \u201cpunishing\u201d her for failing her duties.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile undergoing treatment for her cancer, something unprecedented occurs: Bridget\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nbeing is split in two. At this point, her soul (or \u201cka\u201d) awakens, stranded\u00a0<br \/>\non the Beach while her body (or \u201cha\u201d), remains on the hospital bed.\u00a0<br \/>\nThough she\u2019s left without a soul,\u00a0\u00a0 Bridget\u2019s body retains her own distinct\u00a0<br \/>\npersonality, naming her stranded ka \u201cAmelie\u201d. This event leaves Bridget (recovered and now the\u00a0<br \/>\nVice-president of the United States) fascinated with the Beach. She begins researching and\u00a0<br \/>\nexperimenting with the realm, conceptualizing the \u201cChiral Network\u201d: a means to send data\u00a0<br \/>\nand communications through the world of death, whose disconnection from time would allow\u00a0<br \/>\nfor seemingly instantaneous transfer speeds. This network is named after the mysterious\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cChiral Matter\u201d which exists on the Beach, most notably in a crystalline\u00a0<br \/>\nform: called \u201cChiralium\u201d. While this research is ongoing, however,\u00a0<br \/>\nanother event merges the Beach with the world of the living. After a pregnant mother\u00a0<br \/>\nis left brain-dead from an unknown cause, a doctor attempts to deliver her baby via\u00a0<br \/>\ncesarean section. When he attempts to cut the baby\u2019s umbilical cord, however,\u00a0<br \/>\nthe doctor senses a new kind of being,\u00a0\u00a0 one whose soul is stranded in the\u00a0<br \/>\nworld of the living: a \u201cBeached Thing\u201d, or \u201cBT\u201d. While these BTs are normally unseen\u00a0<br \/>\nby the human eye, the baby\u2019s umbilical-cord connection to the world of the dead through their\u00a0<br \/>\nmother (who effectively is in limbo between life\u00a0\u00a0 and death) allows the doctor to see a BT for\u00a0<br \/>\nthe first time in the history of humanity. Shortly after these events, a massive\u00a0<br \/>\nexplosion occurs when the BT\u2019s antimatter combines with the matter of the physical\u00a0<br \/>\nworld, releasing a violent blast of energy. This explosion, later called a \u201cvoidout\u201d,\u00a0<br \/>\nis large enough to destroy an entire city, and the sitting President of the United\u00a0<br \/>\nStates is within the blast radius. As the next in succession, Bridget becomes the\u00a0<br \/>\nPresident of the United States of America. Fearing that the voidout was a sign of the\u00a0<br \/>\napproaching extinction event, Bridget founds\u00a0\u00a0 a company called \u201cBridges\u201d, secretly leading it\u00a0<br \/>\nwearing a mask soas to conceal her true identity as the President. Bridges continues research on\u00a0<br \/>\nthe Beach, primarily through the \u201cBridge Baby\u201d program, which aims to reproduce the birthing\u00a0<br \/>\nprocess that led to the detection of the BT in order to better understand them. The Bridge\u00a0<br \/>\nBabies, or \u201cBB\u201ds are seven-month-old fetuses, removed via c-sections from their brain-dead\u00a0<br \/>\nmothers and placed into pods that simulate the conditions of their stillmother\u2019s womb,\u00a0<br \/>\nallowing them to feel as if they\u2019ve never left. Of the Bridge Babies, one is the son of\u00a0<br \/>\nformer United States Army Special Forces Captain Clifford Unger and his common-law wife,\u00a0<br \/>\nLisa Bridges. When the pregnant Lisa is left brain-dead after a tragic accident, Cliff,\u00a0<br \/>\ndesperate to save her and their child through Bridges\u2019 experimental treatment, contacts his\u00a0<br \/>\nformer squadmate, John Blake McClane. McClaine, now known mononymously as \u201cDie-Hardman\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nthanks to his knack for surviving the\u00a0\u00a0 warzone, is currently working directly under\u00a0<br \/>\nPresident Strand on the Bridge Baby project. Not knowing their true purpose for his son,\u00a0<br \/>\nCliff allows Bridges to deliver him while keeping his wife on life-support, placing\u00a0<br \/>\nthe baby in a pod afterwards for further\u00a0\u00a0 research. This Baby\u2019s potential catches the\u00a0<br \/>\neye of Bridget, who decides to use him as the basis for her Chiral Network. In order to\u00a0<br \/>\nanchor the network to the Beach, however, the Baby\u2019s life must essentially be sacrificed.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen Die-Hardman learns of these plans, they weigh heavily on his conscience, forcing\u00a0<br \/>\nhim to secretly inform his former Captain, Cliff. The pair then immediately devise a plan\u00a0<br \/>\nto get Cliff\u2019s son out of Bridges\u2019 custody. During the daring mission, Die-Hardman works to\u00a0<br \/>\npull the wool over Bridges\u2019 eyes, allowing Cliff to secretly enter and visit his wife for the last\u00a0<br \/>\ntime. Kissing his wife goodbye, Cliff promises to take care of their son. After Die-Hardman spoofs\u00a0<br \/>\nher vital signs, Cliff puts Lisa to rest with a single gunshot, taking their son (still housed\u00a0<br \/>\nin his pod) with him as he flees the facility. On his way out, however, Cliff is discovered and\u00a0<br \/>\nstopped by Bridges\u2019 security forces. He bluffs by holding his gun to the BB, threatening the\u00a0<br \/>\ncompany\u2019s asset and forcing them to let him go. As he turns, though, one security officer opens fire,\u00a0<br \/>\nhitting Cliff in the back. Die-Hardman arrives and commands them to stand down, rushing to assist\u00a0<br \/>\nCliff, who\u2019s now collapsed from the gunshot. As heavy reinforcements arrive, Cliff\u00a0<br \/>\nstands and holds Die-Hardman hostage, bluffing again to prevent their\u00a0<br \/>\ngunfire. After telling his old\u00a0\u00a0 friend, \u201cthanks for trying,\u201d Cliff\u00a0<br \/>\npushes Die-Hardman towards his guards, creating enough of a distraction to run back to\u00a0<br \/>\nLisa\u2019s room. Unfortunately, as Die-Hardman soon points out (still masking his involvement),\u00a0<br \/>\nCliff is simply running into a dead end. Inside Lisa\u2019s room, Cliff shoots the security\u00a0<br \/>\nmechanism locking the doors, preventing them from opening again. The weakened man crawls\u00a0<br \/>\nover to his wife\u2019s corpse, apologizing for his failures and accepting his approaching fate. While\u00a0<br \/>\nDie-Hardman tries to convince his security forces to look elsewhere, a masked Bridget then arrives\u00a0<br \/>\nto instruct her men to cut through the doors. As the heavily armored security forces rush\u00a0<br \/>\nin, one shoots Cliff again, leaving him barely breathing while clutching the BB pod. As he stares\u00a0<br \/>\ninto his son\u2019s eyes, Cliff recounts his fear of becoming a father, causing him to leave the Army\u00a0<br \/>\nso he could always be there for his family. In his last moments, Cliff realizes that it wasn\u2019t\u00a0<br \/>\nfear that drove him, but bravery. Die-Hardman helps Cliff to a seated position as a guard\u00a0<br \/>\nretrieves the BB pod and hands it to Bridget. As Cliff tells his son not to make the same\u00a0<br \/>\nmistakes he did, and instead to live his life\u00a0\u00a0 freely as himself, Bridget looks into the pod\u00a0<br \/>\nto make a shocking realization: it\u2019s empty. She looks down, and sees the premature child in his\u00a0<br \/>\nfather\u2019s arms; free from his captivity. With no other choice, Die-Hardman is forced to raise his\u00a0<br \/>\nweapon to his former Captain, pleading with him to hand the baby over. Bridget, meanwhile, urgently\u00a0<br \/>\ncommands him to shoot Cliff. When he hesitates, Bridget grabs his hand and forces him to fire the\u00a0<br \/>\nweapon twice, striking and killing Cliff Unger. Cliff\u2019s body goes limp, and as his arms\u00a0<br \/>\nsprawl open, his son rolls onto the floor, also tragically struck and killed by one\u00a0<br \/>\nof the bullets. Bridget rushes to the baby, but it\u2019s too late: her key to\u00a0<br \/>\nthe Chiral Network is gone,\u00a0\u00a0 swept away with the lives of\u00a0<br \/>\nCliff Unger and Lisa Bridges. However, on the Beach, Bridget\u2019s ka, Amelie,\u00a0<br \/>\nsearches for the baby. She soon finds him, calling out to him as \u201cSam.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nShe picks up the lifeless baby, sealing the opening where his umbilical\u00a0<br \/>\ncord was cut before restoring life to the child through her connection to the Beach.\u00a0<br \/>\nCliff watches from the waters, as Amelie then places Sam into the waters. As he sinks, a\u00a0<br \/>\nnew ability awakens within him: \u201crepatriation\u201d. This ability allows Sam\u2019s soul to return to\u00a0<br \/>\nhis body, and he awakens back in his pod to see a very relieved, unmasked Bridget\u00a0<br \/>\nStrand along with her right hand man, Die-Hardman. The latter quickly points\u00a0<br \/>\nout that the baby\u2019s days as a BB are done, considering his connection is now severed.\u00a0<br \/>\nBridget decides to take the boy out of the pod, electing to raise him as her\u00a0<br \/>\nown under the name: Sam Strand. Following Sam\u2019s resurrection, however, the\u00a0<br \/>\nworld is forever changed. The Beach begins to entwine itself with the living world. Chiralium\u00a0<br \/>\nbegins to appear on Earth, and its introduction to the atmosphere leads to a meteorological\u00a0<br \/>\nphenomenon that\u2019s come to be known as \u201ctimefall.\u201d During timefall, precipitation falls much like\u00a0<br \/>\nrain or snow, but due to the Chiral Matter\u2019s connection to the Beach, whatever it touches\u00a0<br \/>\nexperiences an extreme acceleration of time. Far greater of a threat than the timefall\u00a0<br \/>\nis the sudden appearance of more and more\u00a0\u00a0 BTs. Due to the Beach\u2019s connection to the\u00a0<br \/>\nliving world, the soul of any human who dies remains tethered to its lifeless body. Over\u00a0<br \/>\nthe following 48 hours, the body\u2019s natural necrosis process is replaced with a new one\u00a0<br \/>\nin which chiral matter fills the corpse, submerging them into a tar-like substance\u00a0<br \/>\nbefore they emerge as a new BT. These BTs, if allowed to come in contact with a living human,\u00a0<br \/>\ntrigger additional voidouts throughout the world. To prevent more and more destruction, humankind\u00a0<br \/>\nquickly learns to incinerate their dead before they necrotize (although they must do it\u00a0<br \/>\naway from populated areas, as the chiralium released from the bodies into the air brings\u00a0<br \/>\nmore timefall, and with it, BT presence). These connected phenomena come to be known\u00a0<br \/>\nas an event called the \u201cDeath Stranding.\u201d The damage from the voidouts cause\u00a0<br \/>\ngovernments around the world collapse. The United States of America dissolves\u00a0<br \/>\ninto fractured city-states and bunkers separated by stretches of land now claimed\u00a0<br \/>\nby roaming BTs. As society crumbles, roads, highways, trains, planes, and other means of\u00a0<br \/>\nphysical travel become nearly nonexistent. Bridget Strand, America\u2019s last President,\u00a0<br \/>\nshifts Bridges\u2019 goals to rebuild the country under the new banner of the \u201cUnited Cities\u00a0<br \/>\nof America\u201d (or UCA). They continue their work on the Chiral Network, relaunching the\u00a0<br \/>\nBridge Baby program to serve a new purpose. In order to transport goods between the\u00a0<br \/>\ndisconnected cities, package carriers\u00a0\u00a0 (or \u201cporters\u201d) are entrusted with a BB in a pod.\u00a0<br \/>\nThrough a connection with the BB, as well as the baby\u2019s connection to the other side, porters\u00a0<br \/>\nare then able to detect the presence of BTs, allowing them to navigate through their\u00a0<br \/>\nterritory to make deliveries. These BBs,\u00a0\u00a0 however, have a shelf-life, as they eventually\u00a0<br \/>\nrealize their womb is artificial. After this occurs (usually shortly after one year),\u00a0<br \/>\nthe BB is \u201cremoved from commission\u201d. True to her word, Bridget raises Sam as her own\u00a0<br \/>\nson, and while he\u2019s aware that he\u2019s a repatriate, he has no knowledge of his true parents, or the\u00a0<br \/>\nhorrific events that led to his brief visit to the Beach. During his adolescence, however, Sam\u00a0<br \/>\nquickly realizes his connection to the other side. He\u2019s plagued with nightmares of the forthcoming\u00a0<br \/>\nextinction, and can sense BTs on his own. This condition comes to be known as DOOMS, and Bridget\u00a0<br \/>\nand Amelie learn to grant it to others as well, studying various \u201clevels\u201d that grant\u00a0<br \/>\nmore abilities to the sufferer. Worst of all, Sam often awakens to find himself\u00a0<br \/>\ntrapped on the Beach, left to wander along the unending shore. Luckily, Amelie finds him again\u00a0<br \/>\nand again, and he quickly grows to know her as his sister. To help him deal with his nightmares,\u00a0<br \/>\nAmelie gives Sam a dreamcatcher to wear, promising to always be with him as long as\u00a0<br \/>\nhe has it. However, as she gives it to him, she makes him promise her that when the time\u00a0<br \/>\ncomes to stop her, he\u2019ll use it to do so. In return, Sam crafts a \u201cquipu\u201d for\u00a0<br \/>\nhis sister (a knotted necklace), and his strong connection to it allows him\u00a0<br \/>\nto bring the physical object with him to\u00a0\u00a0 the Beach. After giving it to her, Amelie\u00a0<br \/>\nputs it on, and never removes it after. In the living world, Sam isn\u2019t left\u00a0<br \/>\nwithout lasting effects of his origin.\u00a0\u00a0 He develops a psychological condition\u00a0<br \/>\nthat causes intense physical discomfort (and even allergic reactions) whenever\u00a0<br \/>\nhe\u2019s touched, called \u201caphenphosmphobia.\u201d As Sam reaches adulthood, Bridget introduces\u00a0<br \/>\nthe world to her other adult \u201cdaughter\u201d, Samantha America Strand, more commonly\u00a0<br \/>\ncalled: Amelie. Unbeknownst to the public, Amelie is actually Bridget\u2019s separated ka,\u00a0<br \/>\nwho hasn\u2019t aged since her creation decades ago due to the Beach\u2019s detachment from the\u00a0<br \/>\npassage of time. Bridget claims that her daughter was born with a condition that\u00a0<br \/>\ncaused her soul to be born on the Beach,\u00a0\u00a0 masking her true origin. Bridget claims that\u00a0<br \/>\nher daughter&#8217;s advanced DOOMS abilities have finally allowed her to freely travel\u00a0<br \/>\nto and from the Beach, but in reality, Amelie is simply creating visual projections of\u00a0<br \/>\nherself in the living world using chiral matter. As an adult, Sam joins Bridges, taking advantage\u00a0<br \/>\nof his unique abilities to help drive them towards their goal of uniting the fractured cities.\u00a0<br \/>\nDuring his work with Bridges, Bridget has him meet with one of their therapists, a woman named\u00a0<br \/>\nLucy, to try to overcome his aphenphosmphobia. The two meet, and Sam quickly shares\u00a0<br \/>\nhis stories of DOOMS, repatriation, and his experiences on the Beach. Through\u00a0<br \/>\ntheir sessions, the two fall in love, causing Lucy to resign before\u00a0<br \/>\nthe couple marry shortly after. When Lucy gets pregnant, however, their unborn\u00a0<br \/>\nunchild (planned to be named \u201cLouise\u201d) inherits her father\u2019s DOOMS condition. As Lucy nears\u00a0<br \/>\nchildbirth, she begins to have apocalyptic nightmares of the Beach, suffering the DOOMS\u00a0<br \/>\nsymptom through her fetal daughter. Left unable to face the forthcoming extinction\u00a0<br \/>\n(as well as her potential role in it),\u00a0\u00a0 Lucy intentionally overdoses while alone,\u00a0<br \/>\ntaking her and their daughter Lou\u2019s lives. Left alone while Sam is away,\u00a0<br \/>\nLucy\u2019s body is allowed to necrotize, causing a massive voidout that\u00a0<br \/>\nobliterates their entire city. There\u2019s only one survivor of the blast\u2026 and that\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nonly because he was resurrected afterwards. Sam, as a repatriate, is left to walk out of his city\u00a0<br \/>\nalone. Left devastated and broken by his loss, as well as his guilt for causing\u00a0<br \/>\nit, Sam resigns from Bridges.\u00a0\u00a0 He begins working as a freelance porter,\u00a0<br \/>\nspending the next decade building his reputation as a legendary deliverer \u201cSam\u00a0<br \/>\nPorter\u201d, while living in his own self-exile. Bridget, meanwhile, continues her work with\u00a0<br \/>\nBridges, still attempting to connect the\u00a0\u00a0 various cities of America. She recruits various\u00a0<br \/>\nothers to assist her in her development of the Chiral Network, including the creators of its\u00a0<br \/>\nhardware and software (respectively): a pair of twin scientists named M\u00e5lingen and Lockne.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe pair were born with DOOMS, and conjoined at the head. When they were separated at birth, they\u00a0<br \/>\nboth fully recovered, but found while growing up that they could telepathically communicate with\u00a0<br \/>\neach other no matter the distance between them. Lockne soon falls in love with a fellow Bridges\u00a0<br \/>\nmember, but she\u2019s unfortunately unable to carry a child to term. When Lockne\u2019s partner dies in\u00a0<br \/>\nan accident, she\u2019s left emotionally devastated. Feeling her pain through their shared connection,\u00a0<br \/>\nM\u00e5lingen suggests that the pair \u201chave a baby\u201d, offering to carry the pregnancy in her womb using\u00a0<br \/>\nLockne\u2019s egg and her late partner\u2019s frozen sperm. However, while she\u2019s in the hospital awaiting her\u00a0<br \/>\nc-section, the building is struck by a group of terrorists opposing Bridges. Pinned under the\u00a0<br \/>\nrubble for days, M\u00e5lingen is forced to survive by drinking timefall, eventually giving birth\u00a0<br \/>\nto the baby \u201con the other side\u201d. M\u00e5lingen hears the baby\u2019s cries silence, as an ethereal umbilical\u00a0<br \/>\ncord connects her to a small, baby BT. Eventually, M\u00e5lingen is discovered by Bridges, but she\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nunable to leave the site of the hospital, as the BT (along with herself, by extension) is tied to\u00a0<br \/>\nthe location. M\u00e5lingen, taking on the moniker of \u201cMama\u201d, continues her work for Bridges, who builds\u00a0<br \/>\nher a new laboratory over the hospital\u2019s ruins. Mama\u2019s experience not only leaves her tethered\u00a0<br \/>\nto the lab, but it leaves her somewhere between alive and dead. Her pulse flatlines, causing\u00a0<br \/>\nher to hide her vitals from Bridges. Even worse, however, is that this partial-death severs her\u00a0<br \/>\nsupernatural connection with her twin sister, cutting off the constant communication she\u2019s thus\u00a0<br \/>\nhad with Lockne. Left ashamed, Mama decides to continue her work alone in the lab with her baby\u00a0<br \/>\nBT, isolating herself from Lockne completely. Bridget also recruits \u201cDeadman\u201d, a man\u00a0<br \/>\nborn via an experimental genetic mix grown in an artificial womb. This left him\u00a0<br \/>\nwithout a ka, or his own Beach. Physically, he requires various transplanted organs\u00a0<br \/>\nin order to survive, creating something of a \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s monster\u201d, as he later\u00a0<br \/>\nrefers to himself. To maintain this aura, Deadman goes even further by (falsely)\u00a0<br \/>\nclaiming that these donations came from cadavers. His fascination with death leads\u00a0<br \/>\nhim to work as a coroner for Bridges. Additionally, Bridget recruits \u201cHeartman\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0 whose story may be the most tragic of all. While\u00a0<br \/>\nin a hospital ICU undergoing surgery on his heart, two nearby voidouts occur at the same time,\u00a0<br \/>\nleaving two overlapping craters in the ground, coincidentally in the shape of a heart. While the\u00a0<br \/>\nhospital is spared from the blasts, the ensuing shockwaves take out the power, bringing down\u00a0<br \/>\nHeartman\u2019s life support and stopping his heart. He then suddenly finds himself on the Beach.\u00a0<br \/>\nLooking around, he sees the casualties of the voidouts, walking off to the ocean towards the\u00a0<br \/>\nworld of the dead. Among the procession, he\u2019s shocked to find, are his wife and child. While\u00a0<br \/>\nhe tries to reach them, the power in the hospital is restored, and the doctors on the other side\u00a0<br \/>\nattempt to resuscitate him. As they successfully restart his heart, Heartman is forcefully pulled\u00a0<br \/>\nfrom the Beach, and away from his lost family. Obsessed with finding his family and moving\u00a0<br \/>\non with them, Heartman replicates the events of his death and resurrection over and\u00a0<br \/>\nover again. Staying alive for twenty-four minutes before his heart stops for three,\u00a0<br \/>\nultimately leading to a resuscitation which restarts the cycle. This continuous cycle\u00a0<br \/>\nof life-and-death occurs sixty times a day, and Heartman uses these trips to study the Beach,\u00a0<br \/>\nbut more importantly to search for his family. This repeated start and stop ultimately\u00a0<br \/>\ndamages his already genetically-deformed heart, which is shaped like a heart\u00a0<br \/>\nsymbol, earning him his nickname. Along with Die-Hardman, now wearing the mask\u00a0<br \/>\nBridget once did to completely hide his former identity, the USA\u2019s last President enacts\u00a0<br \/>\nher final plan to create her vision of the United Cities of America. Amelie then embarks on\u00a0<br \/>\na journey westward across the continent, hoping to spread Bridges\u2019 message and convince the various\u00a0<br \/>\ncities to join the Chiral Network. Starting on the East Coast of the former United States, she\u00a0<br \/>\ntravels with a group of fellow Bridges members, building facilities and terminals to connect to\u00a0<br \/>\nthe network in the cities that allow them to. During this period, private delivery companies\u00a0<br \/>\npop up, one of the larger of which is called \u201cFragile Express\u201d, named after the daughter of\u00a0<br \/>\nits founders. When Fragile (a DOOMS sufferer) takes over the company in her adulthood, she\u00a0<br \/>\ncontinues growing it before merging with her main\u00a0\u00a0 competitor to the west, effectively making Fragile\u00a0<br \/>\nExpress the only delivery company in the region. Unbeknownst to Fragile, however, the president of\u00a0<br \/>\nthe company Fragile Express merged with, a fellow DOOMS sufferer named Higgs Monaghan, has been\u00a0<br \/>\nhaving secret discussions with Fragile\u2019s mother, under the pseudonym of \u201cCoffin.\u201d Coffin\u00a0<br \/>\ninforms Higgs of Bridges\u2019 experiments using unborn children, ultimately leading to\u00a0<br \/>\ntheir \u201cdecommission\u201d by slaughter. This leads Higgs to build a deep hatred for Bridges, as\u00a0<br \/>\nwell an opposition to the idea of the UCA. At some unknown point, Higgs is discovered\u00a0<br \/>\nby Amelie. To Higgs, she reveals the truth behind her abilities, and finally explains\u00a0<br \/>\nher ultimate goal: to fulfill her duty as an Extinction Entity by outdoing her predecessors in\u00a0<br \/>\na massive event she calls the \u201cLast Stranding.\u201d This plan involves uniting America through the\u00a0<br \/>\nChiral Network so she can combine everyone\u2019s Beach with her own, forming a massive \u201cSeam\u201d between\u00a0<br \/>\nworlds. Through this seam, enough BTs could flood the living world at once that the massive amount\u00a0<br \/>\nof antimatter will wipe out all life entirely. Seduced by the power Amelie is able to grant\u00a0<br \/>\nhim, including a DOOMS level so high he can control BTs, Higgs effectively becomes Amelie\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cagent of extinction.\u201d She provides him with a Bridge Baby of his own, however it\u2019s not a\u00a0<br \/>\nreal baby, but instead a doll that still grants him the ability to sense BTs. However, he quickly\u00a0<br \/>\ngrows impatient with how long her plan is taking; as well as jealous of her belief that Sam\u00a0<br \/>\nwill somehow usher in the end of days. Donning a golden, skull-like mask, Higgs leads an\u00a0<br \/>\neffort to combine the various splinter separatist groups into one large militant terrorist\u00a0<br \/>\norganization, called \u201cHomo Demens\u201d. Hoping to stop the UCA and capture Amelie so he can\u00a0<br \/>\nuse her trigger the Last Stranding himself, Higgs commands the group to attack various\u00a0<br \/>\ncities to prevent their connection. As part of this mission, Higgs sends a nuclear\u00a0<br \/>\nbomb to Fragile Express for delivery to \u201cMiddle Knot City\u201d in the central region of the\u00a0<br \/>\ncontinent. Not knowing the package&#8217;s contents, Fragile delivers the package, only\u00a0<br \/>\nfor it to detonate not long after,\u00a0\u00a0 leaving a massive BT-filled\u00a0<br \/>\ncrater where the city once was. Fragile, realizing the Demens are attempting the\u00a0<br \/>\nsame plot with a delivery to South Knot City. She intercepts the bomb, but is soon stopped on her\u00a0<br \/>\nway out of the city and captured by Higgs. During a timefall storm, Higgs strips her down to almost\u00a0<br \/>\nnothing and offers her a choice: she can take the bomb and safely dispose of it in a nearby tar\u00a0<br \/>\npit, but she\u2019ll have to run through the timefall, severely aging her entire body. Fragile states\u00a0<br \/>\nthat she\u2019ll take \u201cthe damage, and the goods,\u201d before Higgs places a mask on her face and allows\u00a0<br \/>\nher to run out into the rain to save the city. Despite these sacrificial measures,\u00a0<br \/>\nrumors still swirl about Fragile\u00a0\u00a0 Express\u2019s involvement in the Middle Knot City\u00a0<br \/>\nattack, completely destroying their reputation, along with causing the world to accuse\u00a0<br \/>\nFragile herself of being a terrorist. Three years into Amelie\u2019s westward journey,\u00a0\u00a0 the team finishes their expedition and reaches\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cEdge Knot City\u201d on the West Coast. Unfortunately, they fall right into Higgs\u2019 final trap. Homo\u00a0<br \/>\nDemens attacks the city and takes control, holding Amelie hostage in the process. Using\u00a0<br \/>\nthe abilities Amelie granted him herself, Higgs surrounds the city in the strange tar-like\u00a0<br \/>\nsubstance, effectively walling it off with BTs. Ten years into his isolation, \u201cSam Porter\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nmakes his way toward Central Knot City to make a critical delivery of \u201csmart drugs\u201d.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen he\u2019s caught in a timefall storm,\u00a0\u00a0 he catches a glimpse of a woman holding an\u00a0<br \/>\numbrella: Fragile. He swerves to avoid her, causing him to lose his motorcycle. Sam, who\u00a0<br \/>\nnotices the woman is now mysteriously gone, is forced to continue on foot, taking shelter\u00a0<br \/>\nin a nearby cave to wait out the storm. Inside the cave, a photograph falls out\u00a0<br \/>\nof his pocket. As he goes to retrieve it, a drop of timefall falls on it. The\u00a0<br \/>\nphoto, which was once of himself,\u00a0\u00a0 his pregnant wife Lisa, and his adoptive mother\u00a0<br \/>\nBridget, is now faded where the drop fell: removing his last recorded memory of his\u00a0<br \/>\nwife from him. As he goes to retrieve it, Sam notices handprints appearing in the mud around\u00a0<br \/>\nhim, sensing surrounding BTs thanks to his DOOMS. When he thinks they\u2019ve passed, Sam goes to grab\u00a0<br \/>\nthe photo again, but is stopped this time by a hand grabbing him, instantly triggering his\u00a0<br \/>\naphenphosmphobia. He looks to see Fragile, who quietly signals that the BTs are\u00a0<br \/>\nstill nearby. The pair hold their breath to avoid detection until the BTs drift\u00a0<br \/>\naway. Afterwards, they exit the cave, looking up to the sky to faintly see five floating\u00a0<br \/>\nfigures before they vanish along with the storm. Fragile introduces herself and quickly\u00a0<br \/>\nrealises that Sam is a fellow DOOMS sufferer. She offers him a job working for Fragile\u00a0<br \/>\nExpress, but he declines and the pair part ways, with Fragile using an ability granted to her\u00a0<br \/>\nby her advanced level of DOOMS: transportation using the Beach, effectively allowing her\u00a0<br \/>\nto teleport from one location to another. Sam continues his delivery, braving the\u00a0<br \/>\nterrain to finally reach Central Knot City, where he turns in the Smart Drugs to complete\u00a0<br \/>\nit. After Mama thanks him via transmission, Sam is met with an urgent message\u00a0<br \/>\nfor a commission. He walks outside, where he\u2019s met by a Bridges\u00a0<br \/>\ntransport vehicle pulling up. A man named Igor Frank introduces himself to\u00a0<br \/>\nSam as a member of Bridges\u2019 Corpse Disposal Team. Opting to explain on the way, Igor climbs\u00a0<br \/>\ninto the truck with Sam to show him their cargo: the corpse of a man who tooks his own life,\u00a0<br \/>\nhours away from necrotizing. Using his DOOMS, Sam determines that the body has already begun\u00a0<br \/>\nthe process, making the situation even more dire. The group are forced to cross BT territory\u00a0<br \/>\nto get to the nearest incinerator, but Igor is confident that with\u00a0<br \/>\nSam\u2019s DOOMS, and his own Bridge Baby,\u00a0\u00a0 they\u2019ll be able to avoid the Beached Things to\u00a0<br \/>\ncomplete their mission. When they enter another titanfall storm, the group are ambushed by\u00a0<br \/>\nBTs, causing the transport truck to crash. When Sam comes to, he finds Igor frantically\u00a0<br \/>\ntrying to pull the driver out from the overturned vehicle as the BTs surround them. The\u00a0<br \/>\ncorpse unfortunately necrotizes right before their eyes, and it immediately\u00a0<br \/>\nrushes over and pulls the driver away. Igor is forced to pull his pistol and shoot the\u00a0<br \/>\nman before he can be consumed, avoiding a voidout. Unfortunately, a masked Higgs then appears\u00a0<br \/>\nto bring the BTs back. They grab Igor, and he detaches his BB, throwing it to Sam while telling\u00a0<br \/>\nhim to run. Igor is then grabbed by a massive BT, and swept off of his feet before he can\u00a0<br \/>\naim his pistol at his own head. As he\u2019s pulled into the air, Igor frantically stabs\u00a0<br \/>\nhimself, trying to prevent a voidout. Despite his sacrificial efforts, the BT is able\u00a0<br \/>\nto consume him while he\u2019s still alive, triggering a massive blast. Sam grabs the\u00a0<br \/>\nBridge Baby, and shields it while the pair are swept up in the voidout. Central Knot\u00a0<br \/>\nCity is completely destroyed in the blast. Sam then finds himself on the Beach,\u00a0<br \/>\nwhere he sees the Bridge Baby (with\u00a0\u00a0 no pod) on the sand beside him. He picks up\u00a0<br \/>\nthe baby and holds them close, but suddenly the cries stop and the baby vanishes,\u00a0<br \/>\nleaving small, BT-like handprints in the sand. Sam then stands to see the five figures\u00a0<br \/>\nfloating in the sky before they vanish again. After a quick vision of Amelie, Sam\u00a0<br \/>\nrepatriates to return to the living world. There, he looks around to see the crater where\u00a0<br \/>\nCentral Knot City once stood. In his arms, luckily, is the surviving BB, its pod unharmed\u00a0<br \/>\nthanks to Sam shielding it from the blast. Two days later, Sam awakens in a\u00a0<br \/>\nBridges facility, handcuffed to a bed. Deadman appears (via chiral projection from a\u00a0<br \/>\nnearby isolation ward) and introduces himself before remotely releasing one of Sam\u2019s cuffs.\u00a0<br \/>\nHe then explains that the other should stay on, as it\u2019ll keep him connected to Bridges\u00a0<br \/>\nwhile simultaneously monitoring his\u00a0\u00a0 vitals. He further explains that\u00a0<br \/>\nwhile the BB survived the blast, it\u2019s \u201cbroken\u201d, left unable to detect BTs.\u00a0<br \/>\nAs such, it\u2019s been marked for disposal. Deadman tells Sam that he\u2019s currently in Bridge\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nnew headquarters: a base in Capital Knot City. He then tasks Sam with another delivery:\u00a0<br \/>\ntaking morphine to President Bridget Strand, whose cancer has returned and is now in\u00a0<br \/>\nits final stages. He reluctantly agrees, taking the drugs to bring to Deadman\u00a0<br \/>\nin person in the isolation ward. Sam delivers the morphine to Deadman\u00a0<br \/>\nbefore he\u2019s led to the President\u2019s office,\u00a0\u00a0 where he finds her in a hospital bed alongside\u00a0<br \/>\nDie-Hardman. After a brief reunion with the masked director of Bridges, Sam approaches his\u00a0<br \/>\nmother and the other two men leave them alone. Although she\u2019s weak, Bridget informs Sam about\u00a0<br \/>\nhis sister\u2019s mission and subsequent capture, asking for his help in rescuing her and\u00a0<br \/>\nreconnecting America to save humanity. Sam simply reminds her that America is dead and gone,\u00a0<br \/>\nrefusing her request. Panicked, Bridget reaches for him, and the pair fall to the ground. Sam\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nphobia makes him crawl away from the dying woman, who\u2019s already starting to produce the tar-like\u00a0<br \/>\nsubstance. She then tells him she loves him, before uttering her final words: \u201cI\u2019ll see you on\u00a0<br \/>\nthe Beach,\u201d a phrase that echoes through Amelie. Deadman rushes in and carries the\u00a0<br \/>\nPresident back to her hospital bed,\u00a0\u00a0 but it\u2019s too late. Bridget Strand, the\u00a0<br \/>\nUnited Cities of America\u2019s first president, and the United States\u2019 last,\u00a0<br \/>\npasses away from her cancer. The situation quickly turns from somber to\u00a0<br \/>\ndire, as Deadman and Die-Hardman realize they must incinerate the President\u2019s body\u00a0<br \/>\nbefore it necrotizes (optimally without the public finding out about her death). With\u00a0<br \/>\nno other option, Sam reluctantly agrees to carry his adoptive mother\u2019s corpse up\u00a0<br \/>\nthe mountains to the nearest incinerator. After the two Bridges officials strap the\u00a0<br \/>\ncargo to Sam\u2019s back, he begins his delivery; perhaps the most important of his life so far.\u00a0<br \/>\nClimbing the mountains, Sam reaches the facility, and brings the president\u2019s corpse to the\u00a0<br \/>\nincinerator. Slowly placing her inside,\u00a0\u00a0 Sam says a silent goodbye before Bridget is\u00a0<br \/>\nlowered into the chamber. The flames ignite, cremating the president and preventing a new BT. However, an immediate spike in chiralium then\u00a0<br \/>\noccurs, triggering a heavy timefall storm. Sam then notices another piece of\u00a0<br \/>\ncargo he was sent with to destroy:\u00a0\u00a0 Igor\u2019s \u201cbroken\u201d Bridge Baby, codenamed \u201cBB-28\u201d.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile Sam has some reservations about incinerating a living child, Deadman implores him to\u00a0<br \/>\ndispose of the broken piece of equipment. Suddenly, the power to the facility goes out, and\u00a0<br \/>\nBTs soon arrive along with timefall. Instead of incinerating BB-28, Sam decides to give it another\u00a0<br \/>\nchance instead. Sam then hooks into the BB pod, giving him a quick flash of his own lost memories\u00a0<br \/>\nof his time spent in one. BB-28 begins to work, helping Sam locate and avoid BTs as he\u00a0<br \/>\nmakes his way back to Capital Knot City. There, he meets Deadman, handing\u00a0<br \/>\nhim BB-28 and claiming that they all\u00a0\u00a0 owe their lives to the baby.\u00a0<br \/>\nDeadman agrees to look after the BB, sending Sam to his private room to\u00a0<br \/>\nmeet the new president of the UCA. After Sam recovers in his private room, he returns\u00a0<br \/>\nto the President\u2019s office to meet the new face of America: Amelie. Taking her mother\u2019s place, Amelie\u00a0<br \/>\nappears via chiral projection from Edge Knot City, isolated there but still allowed to\u00a0<br \/>\nspeak with Bridges by her Homo Demens\u00a0\u00a0 captors. Die-Hardman and Amelie then reveal why\u00a0<br \/>\nBridget brought Sam there in the first place: to retrace Bridges I\u2019s steps on their westward\u00a0<br \/>\nvoyage, connecting all of the Chrinal Network terminals that have now finished construction.\u00a0<br \/>\nTo accomplish this task, Sam is given a \u201cQ-pid\u201d, the hardware developed by Lockne containing\u00a0<br \/>\nthe security and operations protocols that he must insert into the terminals\u00a0<br \/>\nto integrate them into the network. Sam declines the job again, storming out\u00a0<br \/>\nof the room. Die-Hardman convinces him to sleep on the decision, and Deadman\u00a0<br \/>\narrives with a re-configured BB-28,\u00a0\u00a0 giving the pod to Sam to take\u00a0<br \/>\nwith him back to his private room. As Sam sleeps, he is taken to the Beach,\u00a0<br \/>\nwhere Amelie meets him. She reminds him that he\u2019ll always be \u201cSam Strand\u201d, and\u00a0<br \/>\nthat their bond can never be broken. She hugs him and asks him to come back, before\u00a0<br \/>\nwalking into the sunset over the waters. Sam then awakens, and he\u2019s visited by\u00a0<br \/>\nDie-Hardman, who asks him if he\u2019s made\u00a0\u00a0 a decision. While he notes that he doesn\u2019t\u00a0<br \/>\nshare their goal of connecting the world, he admits that he\u2019ll still do anything to\u00a0<br \/>\nhelp Amelie. Sam then takes the Q-pid and wears it around his neck, suiting up to\u00a0<br \/>\nbegin his journey to reconnect America. On his way out, he connects up to BB-28,\u00a0<br \/>\ntriggering another disjointed memory of Cliff, whom he doesn\u2019t recognize but refers to\u00a0<br \/>\nhimself in the vision as \u201cdaddy.\u201d While Sam is unable to comprehend these visions, he\u00a0<br \/>\nhas no clue that they\u2019re his own memories. Sam then embarks towards \u201cPort Knot City,\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\non the shore of the lake that formed in the\u00a0\u00a0 crater left by the very first voidout.\u00a0<br \/>\nOn his way, he works with other various individuals in waystations along the way to\u00a0<br \/>\ndeliver parcels and connect more terminals to the network. He also encounters a new\u00a0<br \/>\ntype of threat in the form of \u201cMULEs\u201d, individuals who live with an insatiable addiction\u00a0<br \/>\nto stealing cargo from porters. Even the MULEs know not to mess with BTs, however, and they\u00a0<br \/>\nretreat as soon as a timefall storm rolls in. Sam soon learns another benefit of the\u00a0<br \/>\nChiral Network: chiral construction. Using chiralium and other materials, Sam is able to\u00a0<br \/>\nconstruct bridges and various other resources. Other Porters then begin to do the same,\u00a0<br \/>\nsharing their work and making everyone\u2019s collective jobs a bit easier. Mama also\u00a0<br \/>\nends up developing anti-BT weapons, using Sam\u2019s own blood (which the\u00a0<br \/>\ncreatures have a negative response to). Eventually, Sam reaches Port Knot City and uses\u00a0<br \/>\nthe Q-pid to get them online. When the man who greets him, Viktor Frank, recognizes a charm\u00a0<br \/>\nof an astronaut named \u201cLumens\u201d on BB-28\u2019s pod, Sam is forced to give him the news that it\u00a0<br \/>\nonce belonged to Igor, his now-dead brother. Needing a way across the lake to continue\u00a0<br \/>\nwest, Viktor recommends Sam check with\u00a0\u00a0 a private company to charter a boat; one\u00a0<br \/>\nSam quickly recognizes as Fragile Express. As Sam goes to the harbor, however, he\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nstopped by Higgs, along with a group of\u00a0\u00a0 BTs under his control. Higgs introduces\u00a0<br \/>\nhimself to Sam, noticing Fragile watching them from afar. Higgs gets closer to Sam,\u00a0<br \/>\nand senses through his feelings that Bridget has died and Amelie has taken her place.\u00a0<br \/>\nHiggs taunts Sam with the knowledge that Amelie is an Extinction Entity, cryptically\u00a0<br \/>\nreferring to her as their \u201cangel of death.\u201d The masked man then summons a massive\u00a0<br \/>\nBT, leaving Sam alone to fight it. Knowing that he can\u2019t allow the BT to\u00a0<br \/>\nconsume anyone (lest another voidout\u00a0\u00a0 wipe out Port Knot City), Sam is forced to take\u00a0<br \/>\nthe BT head-on. Using his own blood as a weapon, Sam is able to defeat the creature, for the\u00a0<br \/>\nfirst time in human history. After collecting the massive amount of cirilium left in the BT\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nwake, Sam continues to the harbor to find Fragile. Luckily, she meets him there, filling him\u00a0<br \/>\nin on her history with Higgs as she takes Sam to her boat. The pair then climb aboard\u00a0<br \/>\nand begin to sail across the cratered lake. On the ride over, Fragile tries to speak with\u00a0<br \/>\nSam, but he coldly ignores her, drifting off to sleep instead; dreaming of Amelie. When he\u00a0<br \/>\nawakens, he finds that the boat has docked, and Fragile welcomes him to Lake Knot City. After\u00a0<br \/>\ndelivering some cargo, Sam links up the city before Amelie and Die-Hardman inform him that with\u00a0<br \/>\nthe destruction of Middle Knot City, he\u2019ll have to gain the support of various independent\u00a0<br \/>\nshelters to bolster the Chiral Network. Fragile agrees to use the goodwill her company has\u00a0<br \/>\nleft with those in the region to assist Bridges, using it as an opportunity to get\u00a0<br \/>\nback at Higgs. She gives Sam a cord woven with her blood and chiral\u00a0<br \/>\ncrystals, signifying their bond,\u00a0\u00a0 while pointing out how their paths keep\u00a0<br \/>\ncrossing (hinting at something more than sheer coincidence.) Additionally,\u00a0<br \/>\nshe offers to help Sam even further by letting him call her to \u201cjump\u201d across space\u00a0<br \/>\ntogether using her control of the Beach. After assisting some shelters and convincing\u00a0<br \/>\nthem to join the UCA (with some being easier\u00a0\u00a0 to convince than others), Sam\u2019s visited\u00a0<br \/>\none night by Fragile in his private room (who helps herself to his shower while\u00a0<br \/>\nhe\u2019s asleep). She again assures him that\u00a0\u00a0 Fragile Express had nothing to do with the\u00a0<br \/>\nterrorist attacks, despite the rumors Sam\u2019s heard through his travels. She admits her part\u00a0<br \/>\nin the explosion that took Middle Knot City,\u00a0\u00a0 but tells her story of sacrificing her body\u00a0<br \/>\nto save South Knot, finally earning his trust. Meanwhile, Deadman attempts to find out\u00a0<br \/>\nabout BB-28\u2019s history to try to learn the truth behind the visions Sam encounters\u00a0<br \/>\nwhen connecting up to it. Unfortunately,\u00a0\u00a0 his trail stops dead, as BB-28\u2019s service\u00a0<br \/>\nrecord is completely locked down. Sam continues delivering supplies to various\u00a0<br \/>\nremote facilities as he proceeds west, bringing them onto the network and learning of\u00a0<br \/>\ntheir plans to help rebuild society as he goes. Among these are a junk dealer, who believes his\u00a0<br \/>\nlost love (a woman who makes art with chiralium) was killed in a terrorist attack, blaming\u00a0<br \/>\nFragile Express (and Sam, by extension). Luckily, Fragile is able to learn that the woman is\u00a0<br \/>\nstill alive, and Sam is able to find her\u00a0\u00a0 and bring her back to the Junk Dealer, reuniting\u00a0<br \/>\nthe couple (who promptly get engaged to marry). These actions earn Sam the Junk Dealer\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\ntrust, servitude, and Chiral Network terminal. As Sam takes an order for South Knot City,\u00a0<br \/>\nthe delivery terminal suddenly goes offline. A Bridges technician then arrives, suspiciously\u00a0<br \/>\nwith the brim of his hat covering his eyes. Although he doesn\u2019t know it, this technician\u00a0<br \/>\nis actually a disguised Higgs, who gives him an order that was left off accidentally; one\u00a0<br \/>\naddressed to Fragile herself. Warning Sam that the \u201ccontents are fragile,\u201d the man runs off,\u00a0<br \/>\nleaving the porter to take it to South Knot City. Fortunately, Sam is able to see through this\u00a0<br \/>\nruse, either with or without Fragile\u2019s help. Sam instead throws the package into the nearby\u00a0<br \/>\ncrater lake, revealing its contents were in fact explosives, which detonate safely under the\u00a0<br \/>\ntar pits. After thwarting another attempt at South Knot City\u2019s destruction, Fragile\u00a0<br \/>\nappears next to Sam to thank him for\u00a0\u00a0 stopping Higgs\u2019 latest attempt to frame her.\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter finally sharing the full details of her experience with Higgs at South Knot, she makes Sam\u00a0<br \/>\npromise her that however things end with Higgs, he\u2019ll leave him alive for her. She wants to\u00a0<br \/>\nfind out for herself why he betrayed her. When Sam makes his delivery to South Knot City and\u00a0<br \/>\nbrings it online, however, bad turns to\u2026 weird. As Amelie thanks Sam for making it halfway\u00a0<br \/>\nthrough his journey, her transmission suddenly\u00a0\u00a0 cuts out. Mama then tells Sam to be careful,\u00a0<br \/>\nas there\u2019s been a massive chiral spike in his vicinity. Sam exits the Bridges facility out\u00a0<br \/>\ninto the city, only to spot a massive timefall storm nearby. He\u2019s quickly swept up in a vortex\u00a0<br \/>\nwith several beached whales before blacking out. Cliff Unger then emerges on a Beach, seemingly\u00a0<br \/>\none shared by the fallen soldiers of the first World War. Cliff, on an endless search\u00a0<br \/>\nfor his \u201cBB\u201d, takes the role as commander, leading a squad of skeleton soldiers\u00a0<br \/>\nto assist in his hunt. Seeing Sam, he recognizes the BB pod, but not the adult\u00a0<br \/>\nman. Not knowing that Sam is truly his son, Cliff goes after BB-28, prompting a battle\u00a0<br \/>\nbetween the porter and the skeleton squad. When Sam eventually defeats Unger, the man falls,\u00a0<br \/>\nbut still attempts to pull the BB pod away from Sam. As the two men are pulled close, Sam sees\u00a0<br \/>\nanother vision of Cliff\u2019s attempted escape. Suddenly, he finds himself back\u00a0<br \/>\noutside the Bridges facility in\u00a0\u00a0 South Knot City. Mama calls and explains\u00a0<br \/>\nthat the moment Sam exited the facility, the storm stopped and the chiral levels\u00a0<br \/>\ninstantly lowered. While Sam feels like he\u2019s been gone for hours, Mama explains\u00a0<br \/>\nthat comms were only down for a second. Hoping to learn more about his experience\u00a0<br \/>\n(and considering her lab is on the way),\u00a0\u00a0 Sam decides to pay Mama a visit in person. When Sam reaches Mama\u2019s lab, he\u2019s shocked to learn\u00a0<br \/>\nof her current condition: still tethered to the BT of her stillborn daughter by her ethereal\u00a0<br \/>\numbilical cord. Mama shows Sam the weather data proving that the storm only lasted one second.\u00a0<br \/>\nHowever, when she pulls the data from his cuff, she finds audio recordings of the battlefield,\u00a0<br \/>\ngiving them something to look into at least. After another chiral spike in the area, Mama\u00a0<br \/>\nrealizes that the expanding Chiral Network is leading to dangerous increases of\u00a0<br \/>\nchiral levels. She notes that she\u00a0\u00a0 installed special limiters in the Q-pids to\u00a0<br \/>\nprevent this issue, so his must be faulty. She gives him a new Q-pid, but notes\u00a0<br \/>\nthat the software on it must be updated,\u00a0\u00a0 and the only person who can do that is her twin\u00a0<br \/>\nsister, Lockne, who\u2019s currently in Mountain Knot City. After Mama tells Sam the story of\u00a0<br \/>\nhow she wound up in her current predicament, she takes a sample of his blood to test before\u00a0<br \/>\nsending him on his way to find her sister. Shortly after, Sam is visited by a projection\u00a0<br \/>\nof Amelie in his private room. Sam quickly notices that her quipu is missing; Higgs has\u00a0<br \/>\ntaken it, and the city is growing more and more dangerous for her to stay in. Amelie urges\u00a0<br \/>\nSam to finish the network before disappearing. When Sam reaches Mountain Knot City, he\u00a0<br \/>\nfinds Lockne less than receptive to the\u00a0\u00a0 idea of joining the UCA, believing\u00a0<br \/>\nthat expanding the Chiral Network is just asking for another Death Stranding.\u00a0<br \/>\nWith her refusing to even listen to Sam,\u00a0\u00a0 he\u2019s forced to return to Mama to\u00a0<br \/>\nsee if she can talk to her sister. When he returns to Mama\u2019s lab, she gives them\u00a0<br \/>\na new set of cuffs imbued with his blood, which should allow him to cut the umbilical\u00a0<br \/>\ncords tying BTs to the land of the living, returning them to the world of the dead. To\u00a0<br \/>\ntest this theory, she tells Sam to cut the cord tying her to her baby BT. Sam reluctantly\u00a0<br \/>\ndoes so, finally setting them free. As Mama says goodbye to her baby, her connection to the living\u00a0<br \/>\nworld begins to fade. She asks Sam to take her to Mountain Knot City to reunite with her sister,\u00a0<br \/>\nand he agrees, strapping her to his back as cargo. However, just as Sam leaves Mama\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nlab, he finds Higgs waiting for him. Somehow channeling the chiral energy\u00a0<br \/>\nin his mask, he summons a massive,\u00a0\u00a0 lion-like BT before siccing it on Sam\u00a0<br \/>\nand leaving. With no other choice, Sam is forced to run, safely escaping with\u00a0<br \/>\nhis cargo to continue up the mountains. When Sam finally arrives at Mountain Knot City, he\u00a0<br \/>\nhelps M\u00e5lingen onto a stretcher, and Lockne rushes out to finally reunite with her twin sister\u00a0<br \/>\nface-to-face after years apart. The sisters apologize and share their love for one another,\u00a0<br \/>\nwith M\u00e5lingen finally revealing the loss of their baby. While she states that she wasn\u2019t able to\u00a0<br \/>\nsave their daughter, Lockne still has the ability to save their entire world, urging her sister\u00a0<br \/>\nto fix Sam\u2019s new Q-pid. Telling Lockne she loves her one last time, M\u00e5lingen\u2019s Ha\u2019s connection to\u00a0<br \/>\nthe living world closes, and her body falls dead. Later, Lockne updates the code on\u00a0<br \/>\nSam\u2019s Q-pid, finally allowing him to\u00a0\u00a0 use it to connect Mountain Knot City\u00a0<br \/>\nto the Chiral Network. When he does, Lockne suddenly perks up. One of her eyes turns\u00a0<br \/>\nblue, the same color that were her sister\u2019s, and she suddenly feels M\u00e5lingen in her mind once\u00a0<br \/>\nagain. Almost like before M\u00e5lingen\u2019s accident, the sisters now live together\u00a0<br \/>\nas two minds in one person. Unfortunately, when Sam returns to his\u00a0<br \/>\nprivate room, he\u2019s met with an alarmed\u00a0\u00a0 Deadman who states some news: BB-28 is starting\u00a0<br \/>\nto become self-aware, growing into an actual child. While Sam doesn\u2019t see that as a problem,\u00a0<br \/>\nDeadman proclaims that at its current rate, the BB will become \u201cbricked\u201d within a\u00a0<br \/>\nfew days. To correct this, Sam allows Deadman to take BB-28 with him to conduct a\u00a0<br \/>\nprocedure to reconnect it to the other side. However, when Deadman admits that the BB might\u00a0<br \/>\nlose its memories, Sam grabs it, asking if the baby, whom he\u2019s started to call \u201cLou\u201d, will still\u00a0<br \/>\nremember him. Deadman then snatches the BB pod, which\u2026 expels some waste fluid on him, covering\u00a0<br \/>\nhis suit. Deadman then helps himself to Sam\u2019s personal shower, but when Sam looks over to\u00a0<br \/>\nBB-28, the baby gives him a hintful \u201cshh\u201d motion. Sam then joins Deadman in the shower,\u00a0<br \/>\nand the coroner turns it on. With the cover of the shower\u2019s noise, Deadman\u00a0<br \/>\nquietly reveals that he needs to tell\u00a0\u00a0 Sam something that won\u2019t be picked up via\u00a0<br \/>\naudio or video surveillance by Die-Hardman. Deadman then reveals that he\u2019s uncovered some\u00a0<br \/>\ntroubling information about President Bridget\u00a0\u00a0 Strand\u2019s involvement in the Bridge Baby project.\u00a0<br \/>\nNot only was it conducted in secret for years, but she also had intentions of not\u00a0<br \/>\nonly using the BBs to detect BTs,\u00a0\u00a0 but also to incorporate them directly into the\u00a0<br \/>\nChiral Network to facilitate travel to the Beach. Knowing Die-Hardman was Bridget\u2019s right-hand-man,\u00a0<br \/>\nDeadman fears that they can no longer trust him, especially considering neither of\u00a0<br \/>\nthem know his true name or face.\u00a0\u00a0 Deadman then cuts the shower off and\u00a0<br \/>\ntakes BB-28 with him, sending Sam off alone to recover some lost data to hopefully\u00a0<br \/>\nlearn more about their secretive director. Left with no way to detect BTs, Sam is\u00a0<br \/>\nforced to avoid them as he puts some distance between himself and \u201cLou\u201d as he makes\u00a0<br \/>\nmore deliveries and connects more terminals, allowing their bond to weaken a bit to restore the\u00a0<br \/>\nBB\u2019s stability. Once it\u2019s back to working order, however, Deadman calls to reveal that another\u00a0<br \/>\nmassive vortex storm is heading right for Mountain Knot City. Luckily, Deadman had gone out to the\u00a0<br \/>\nfield for work with BB-28, escaping the storm. The pair then agree to meet at a cabin\u00a0<br \/>\nnear the city so Sam can reunite with Lou. However, as soon as Sam arrives at the\u00a0<br \/>\ncabin, so does the storm. In a flash, the roof of the building is torn off,\u00a0<br \/>\nand Deadman (clutching BB-28 with\u00a0\u00a0 all of his might), is pulled into the\u00a0<br \/>\nstorm. Sam is swept up shortly after. Deadman then finds himself (luckily still\u00a0<br \/>\nholding BB-28), in another one of Cliff Unger\u2019s war-torn Beaches, this one reflecting\u00a0<br \/>\na battle on the city streets during the second World War. Deadman scurries to find shelter,\u00a0<br \/>\nas Cliff arrives with his skeleton squad to search for the baby he\u2019s currently holding.\u00a0<br \/>\nSam wakes up elsewhere on the Beach and\u00a0\u00a0 is able to make contact with Deadman before\u00a0<br \/>\nthe pair agree to meet in the city\u2019s sewers. Sam explores the war torn streets to\u00a0<br \/>\nmake his way underground to reunite\u00a0\u00a0 with Deadman. While they\u2019re blocked by\u00a0<br \/>\na set of metal bars, Deadman is able to hand Lou over to Sam, and the pair share\u00a0<br \/>\na quick reunion. Sam reconnects to the BB, allowing him to stand a chance against\u00a0<br \/>\nCliff, who\u2019s now fully on the hunt. After another gunfight with the confused\u00a0<br \/>\ncommander, Cliff tries to once again snatch\u00a0\u00a0 BB-28 from Sam\u2019s body. This time, as the men\u00a0<br \/>\npull close, Sam pulls off Cliff\u2019s dog tags. Sam is given another flash of his buried memories\u00a0<br \/>\nof Cliff\u2019s escape before suddenly awakening in his private room. He rushes over to Lou,\u00a0<br \/>\nluckily finding the baby safe in her BB pod. Deadman then arrives, explaining that he had\u00a0<br \/>\nSam brought there after finding him passed\u00a0\u00a0 out. Deadman then reveals that he\u2019s figured\u00a0<br \/>\nout why Sam keeps calling the Bridge Baby, \u201cLou\u201d, as he\u2019s learned of Sam\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nhistory during his research. Sam notices the dog tags he was able to bring\u00a0<br \/>\nback, and Deadman explains that they belonged to Clifford Unger, who he learned was a\u00a0<br \/>\nformer US Army Special Forces officer. Unfortunately, that\u2019s all the information\u00a0<br \/>\nDeadman was able to dig up on him. Deadman leaves to let Sam continue his mission\u00a0<br \/>\nwestward, with his next stop being Heartman\u2019s lab. Curiously, Heartman noticed that Mama\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nbody has shown no signs of necrotizing since she died. Hoping to study her corpse\u00a0<br \/>\nto understand more about the process,\u00a0\u00a0 Heartman has Sam bring her body\u00a0<br \/>\nfrom Mountain Knot City to his lab. Lockne hands over Mama\u2019s corpse,\u00a0<br \/>\nand Sam takes it to Heartman\u2019s lab. Once Sam arrives and gets the lab\u2019s chiral\u00a0<br \/>\nnetwork connection established, he enters\u00a0\u00a0 Heartman\u2019s lab to find the man during one of his\u00a0<br \/>\nthree-minute trips to the Beach. After Heartman is resuscitated, he introduces himself to Sam and\u00a0<br \/>\nexplains his unique condition and motivations. Heartman then looks at Mama\u2019s body, noticing\u00a0<br \/>\nthat, despite being dead for days, it shows no signs of decomposition. Unbeknownst to Sam, he\u00a0<br \/>\nwas also sent with a preserved piece of Mama\u2019s umbilical cord. After waiting out another\u00a0<br \/>\none of Heartman\u2019s flatline Beach searches, Sam is sent to connect the final few terminals\u00a0<br \/>\non his way to Amelie in Edge Knot City. As he does so, Sam collects data from previous\u00a0<br \/>\nextinction events, showing that chiral matter has existed since before the dawn of man. Heartman\u00a0<br \/>\nnotes that each of the five previous extinctions were accompanied by the appearance of a Beach,\u00a0<br \/>\nand thus each had their own Death Stranding. Sam returns to Heartman\u2019s lab, where the man fakes\u00a0<br \/>\na cardiac arrest so he can secretly talk to Sam without Bridges knowing. He delivers a message\u00a0<br \/>\nfrom Deadman, revealing that the umbilical cord Sam delivered to Heartman wasn\u2019t Mama\u2019s\u2026 it was\u00a0<br \/>\nBridget\u2019s. Heartman then shows Sam fossil records of the previous five Extinction Entities, noting\u00a0<br \/>\nthat each one had an umbilical cord of their own. This leads them to the realization that\u00a0<br \/>\nBridget Strand could\u2019ve been an EE herself, and Sam remembers Higgs\u00a0<br \/>\nstating that Amelie was one.\u00a0\u00a0 Not knowing the true nature between Bridget\u00a0<br \/>\nand Amelie\u2019s connection, they wonder if the President could have passed on her status\u00a0<br \/>\nas an Extinction Entity to her daughter. Either way, Sam has to get to Amelie, and fast.\u00a0<br \/>\nHe\u2019s able to repair a chiral relay before using the BTs own power to pull buildings up from the\u00a0<br \/>\ntar against him. Angering a group of them, they inadvertently create a path for Sam to traverse\u00a0<br \/>\nacross Higgs\u2019 tarbelt towards Edge Knot City. As he reaches his destination, he sees Amelie\u00a0<br \/>\nwalking atop the tar. As Sam tries to reach her, however, he\u2019s dragged into the depths of the pit,\u00a0<br \/>\nquickly finding himself upon the Beach. There, he follows Amelie out to sea, before\u00a0<br \/>\nwaking up just outside of Edge Knot City. Sam is immediately met by Higgs, appearing behind\u00a0<br \/>\nhim and sarcastically thanking him for nearly completing the Chiral Network. Higgs swiftly\u00a0<br \/>\ntraps Sam in a pool of tar, before finally taking off his mask to taunt his rival face-to-face.\u00a0<br \/>\nHiggs then shows Sam that he has Amelie\u2019s quipu, challenging him to a race to find her; with\u00a0<br \/>\nthe winner getting to usher in the end of days. Sam then gets the penultimate\u00a0<br \/>\nremaining terminal online,\u00a0\u00a0 retreating to his private room where he is visited\u00a0<br \/>\nby Amelie once again. She tells him not to worry, as she\u2019s somewhere Higgs can\u2019t find\u00a0<br \/>\nher: on her Beach. She urges him to\u00a0\u00a0 get the final terminal online, promising\u00a0<br \/>\nto meet him back in his room afterward. Before she leaves, however, she finally admits\u00a0<br \/>\nto Sam that Higgs was telling the truth, she\u2019s an EE. She promises that\u00a0<br \/>\nshe doesn\u2019t want to end humanity, but instead to make everyone in the\u00a0<br \/>\nworld \u201cwhole.\u201d She then tells Sam to\u00a0\u00a0 promise her that she\u2019ll stop her before\u00a0<br \/>\nshe vanishes to await him on the Beach. Sam finally connects Edge Knot City to the Chiral\u00a0<br \/>\nNetwork, completing it\u2019s coast-to-coast coverage and finishing Bridges\u2019 mission to reconnect\u00a0<br \/>\nthe country as the United Cities of America. Sam then returns to his room to await his meeting\u00a0<br \/>\nwith Amelie. When he falls asleep, he awakens on the Beach, hearing Amelie\u2019s distorted voice.\u00a0<br \/>\nHe turns to see a masked Higgs, who then points towards the waters, where a massive, kaiju-sized\u00a0<br \/>\nAmelie is walking towards them. \u201cHiggs\u201d then takes off his mask, revealing Amelie\u2019s face underneath,\u00a0<br \/>\nwho tells Sam that she is the Extinction Entity. When Sam awakens, he leaves his room to go find\u00a0<br \/>\nAmelie, but as soon as he exits, he immediately realizes the truth of the premonition the night\u00a0<br \/>\nbefore. Walking towards him through the city is a colossal, human-like BT. Higgs then appears\u00a0<br \/>\nbehind Sam to point out that embedded in its heart is a captive Amelie. He then has Sam \u201cmeet\u00a0<br \/>\n[his] ender\u201d, as he transports Amelie before him. Higgs places his mask on Amelie,\u00a0\u00a0 and she tells Sam that now that the \u201cgreat\u00a0<br \/>\nwork\u201d of completing the network is done, she\u2019ll merge all of mankind\u2019s Beaches into a\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201csingle shore\u201d to create the largest extinction event of them all. While Sam doesn\u2019t know\u00a0<br \/>\nwhether this is simply a trick by Higgs, Amelie nonetheless states that this is her \u201creason\u00a0<br \/>\nfor being,\u201d calling it the Last Stranding aloud. With the truth revealed, Higgs\u00a0<br \/>\nremoves his mask from Amelie,\u00a0\u00a0 wishing Sam a \u201cHappy DOOMS-day\u201d before\u00a0<br \/>\nleaving him to fight the massive BT. After a grueling battle with the massive being,\u00a0\u00a0 Sam is able to defy the odds and finally bring\u00a0<br \/>\nit down, leaving nothing but a mass of chiralium in its wake. Higgs appears once again,\u00a0<br \/>\nholding Amelie (who\u2019s wearing his mask). Higgs shoots at Lou\u2019s pod, causing Sam to turn\u00a0<br \/>\nand take the brunt of the gunfire. Higgs then vanishes off to the Beach, beckoning Sam\u00a0<br \/>\nto meet him there for the grand finale. Sam then repatriates, returning to his private\u00a0<br \/>\nroom to plan out his final attack on Higgs. There, he\u2019s met by Fragile, who can send Sam to\u00a0<br \/>\nAmelie\u2019s Beach, promising to follow him\u00a0\u00a0 as soon as she can get to him. Leaving Lou\u00a0<br \/>\nbehind, Sam then lets Fragile touch him, following the love he holds for his\u00a0<br \/>\nsister to transport to her Beach. There, Higgs holds Amelie hostage and\u00a0<br \/>\nchallenges Sam to a \u201cgood old-fashioned bossfight.\u201d Sam then finally fights\u00a0<br \/>\nthe man one-on-one on Amelie\u2019s Beach, culminating in a fistfight. When Sam eventually\u00a0<br \/>\ndefeats Higgs, Fragile finally arrives. Sam rescues Amelie, who takes off Higgs\u2019 mask,\u00a0<br \/>\nremoving the powers that she once gave him. Fragile then punches Higgs in the face, finally\u00a0<br \/>\ntaking out her frustration. Sam then ties him up, allowing Fragile to get her answers. She then\u00a0<br \/>\ngives Sam BB-28, who she was able to bring to the Beach, before leaving him alone to\u00a0<br \/>\ndo whatever he needs to with Amelie. Sam and Amelie then reunite, and she reveals\u00a0<br \/>\nthat she had been lying from the start,\u00a0\u00a0 she was never under capture. She further\u00a0<br \/>\nexplains that it was Die-Hardman\u2019s idea, as they had no other way to convince Sam to finish\u00a0<br \/>\nBridget\u2019s mission. Regardless, Amelie states that everything worked in the end, inviting Sam to run\u00a0<br \/>\nalong the Beach with her until they make it home, just like Mario and Princess \u201cBeach\u201d (this\u00a0<br \/>\nis a real line in the game, by the way). As they run, however, Amelie and Sam get\u00a0<br \/>\nseparated. When Sam goes to look for her, he instead sees Bridget Strand on the\u00a0<br \/>\nBeach, and before her is Die-Hardman, holding a gun to her. Die-Hardman, finally\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cinvited\u201d to the Beach, points out that he\u2019s holding the same gun that started everything,\u00a0<br \/>\nwhich he\u2019ll now use to make things right. When Bridget tells him to fire the gun, he does,\u00a0<br \/>\nbut quickly finds that she\u2019s unharmed. Bridget solemnly states that \u201cthere is no atonement\u201d for\u00a0<br \/>\nthem, pointing towards the waters. Die-Hardman looks to see the skeleton soldiers emerging\u00a0<br \/>\nfrom the depths. When their leader arrives, Die-Hardman is met face-to-face with a ghost from\u00a0<br \/>\nhis past: his former commander Clifford Unger. Cliff takes off Die-Hardman\u2019s mask,\u00a0<br \/>\nrecognizing the man underneath as his friend, John McClane. John apologizes for his part in\u00a0<br \/>\nwhat happened to Cliff, but Unger immediately turns his attention to Bridget instead,\u00a0<br \/>\ndemanding that she hand over his BB. She simply tells him that he\u2019s been looking in the\u00a0<br \/>\nwrong place, pointing towards Sam in the distance, currently holding BB-28. As Cliff and his men\u00a0<br \/>\nadvance towards Sam, Amelie appears before him once again, suddenly pushing him off a\u00a0<br \/>\nnearby cliff into the surrounding water. Sam is then forced to repatriate before\u00a0<br \/>\nawakening back in his private room. There, he\u2019s met by Deadman, who explains that Amelie\u00a0<br \/>\nbrought him back before leaving a message: \u201cI\u2019m going to finish what Bridget started,\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nbefore completely vanishing. With Amelie, Cliff, and Die-Hardman all likely still on that Beach,\u00a0<br \/>\nSam decides that he must return immediately. Deadman convinces him to give Lou a break,\u00a0<br \/>\nhowever, and the remaining Bridges team (along with Fragile), convince Sam to return east to\u00a0<br \/>\ntheir headquarters to regroup. Unable to use the Beach to travel, Sam embarks on a journey\u00a0<br \/>\nback to where he started: Capital Knot City. On his way, Deadman and Heartman uncover\u00a0<br \/>\nthe dangers of the Last Stranding, however, they believe a vengeful Cliff is behind it\u00a0<br \/>\n(still not knowing Amelie\u2019s true intentions). As Sam approaches Lake Knot City, he notices\u00a0<br \/>\nanother massive chiral storm approaching, and he is once again swept up in its vortex. Sam then finds himself on one more war-like\u00a0<br \/>\nBeach, this one resembling the Vietnam War. This initiates one, final battle with Cliff\u00a0<br \/>\nand his skeletons through the jungle. After defeating him one last time, Sam approaches\u00a0<br \/>\na collapsed Cliff, who looks at the BB and finally realizes what Bridget meant. He then\u00a0<br \/>\nstands and hugs his son before vanishing. Sam then has a vision of Cliff and John McClane\u00a0<br \/>\ntalking in Lisa\u2019s room before waking up in his private room in Port Knot City. There, Deadman\u00a0<br \/>\nappears and plays a prerecorded message from Die-Hardman, left in case he didn\u2019t return. In\u00a0<br \/>\nit, John reveals that Amelie invited him to the Beach personally, using a doll as a guide. While\u00a0<br \/>\nhe suspects it\u2019s a trap, he decides to go anyway. He then reflects on how everyone\u2019s been\u00a0<br \/>\nfollowing Amelie\u2019s plan without question,\u00a0\u00a0 even though no one\u2019s ever seen her in\u00a0<br \/>\nperson\u2026 not even Die-Hardman himself. He then reveals that when the\u00a0<br \/>\nUCA archives were restored,\u00a0\u00a0 he learned the truth: Bridget had uterine\u00a0<br \/>\ncancer in her twenties and was infertile, which means Amelie can\u2019t be her daughter.\u00a0<br \/>\nHe questions who Amelie really is, and whether the Extinction Entity\u00a0<br \/>\ntheory is even real. Still, if there\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0 even a chance she\u2019s responsible for the Death\u00a0<br \/>\nStranding, he feels it\u2019s his duty to stop her. Knowing he may not return, Die-Hardman loads his\u00a0<br \/>\ngun with hematic rounds made from Sam\u2019s blood, hoping their connection will allow\u00a0<br \/>\nhim to use it on the Beach. He then\u00a0\u00a0 closes his message by admitting he has no powers; no DOOMS, no repatriation\u2026 he\u2019s just a man\u00a0<br \/>\nwho\u2019s always run from death\u2026 until now. At this point, all signs begin to point towards\u00a0<br \/>\nAmelie behind everything, and as the chiral network begins to break down, things get even more\u00a0<br \/>\ndire. Fragile then arrives to confirm the worst: she finally got Higgs to talk, and he\u00a0<br \/>\nrevealed everything about Amelie\u2019s plan\u00a0\u00a0 for the Last Stranding, including her\u00a0<br \/>\nbeing the source of his DOOMS powers. While Sam initially denies it, Fragile\u00a0<br \/>\nexplains that like Die-Hardman,\u00a0\u00a0 Higgs carried a doll, and both were\u00a0<br \/>\na connection to Amelie and her Beach. Deadman backs her up, noting that Cliff carried\u00a0<br \/>\ndolls too. All three men were drawn to Amelie\u2019s Beach to be used by the Extinction Entity.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe only way to confirm who the EE truly is, however, is for Sam to return\u00a0<br \/>\nto the Beach\u2026 one last time. Before he can do that, though, Fragile\u00a0<br \/>\nsuddenly collapses into a coma. Deadman calls on Sam to help retrieve a supply\u00a0<br \/>\nof \u201ccryptobiotes\u201d from Port Knot City.\u00a0\u00a0 These bug-like organisms started\u00a0<br \/>\nappearing after the Death Stranding, and ingesting them helps the consumer\u00a0<br \/>\nrestore their blood. The group hope\u00a0\u00a0 Sam\u2019s delivery will help revive her before she\u00a0<br \/>\nbecomes stranded, and he quickly heads off. However, Sam\u2019s progress is quickly halted by the\u00a0<br \/>\nlargest BT he\u2019s seen thus far. This gargantuan, whale-like creature dives in and out of the tar\u00a0<br \/>\npits, weaponizing its chiral energy into a laser beam. Sam calls upon all of his abilities\u00a0<br \/>\nand Bridges tech to eventually bring the Beached Thing down, leaving nothing\u00a0<br \/>\nbut a mass of Chiralium in its wake. After recovering the cargo and pressing on, Sam\u00a0<br \/>\nis able to make his delivery to Capital Knot City, finishing his journey back east, and helping\u00a0<br \/>\nto bring Fragile back from the brink. With Sam back at headquarters, the\u00a0<br \/>\nentire Bridges team finally reunites. Fragile thanks Sam for saving her, and the group\u00a0<br \/>\nconfirms what they\u2019ve all come to accept: Sam, as the only one who can reach Amelie\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nBeach, is their only hope. Fragile admits that she didn\u2019t escape the Beach\u00a0<br \/>\non her own, she was repatriated;\u00a0\u00a0 pushed out by Amelie to clear the stage for Sam to\u00a0<br \/>\nreturn to finally finish things once and for all. The team then lays out the stakes: if Sam can\u00a0<br \/>\nconvince Amelie to stop the Last Stranding, the world might still be saved\u2026 but if she refuses,\u00a0<br \/>\nSam may have no choice but to kill her. However, if he does, the connection to her Beach will\u00a0<br \/>\nclose, and he\u2019ll be stranded there forever. While Sam knows that preventing this extinction\u00a0<br \/>\nwill only buy humanity time, he agrees anyway, learning through his travels that they\u00a0<br \/>\ndeserve the chance to keep rebuilding.\u00a0\u00a0 He then takes on his final\u00a0<br \/>\ndelivery, but not just for himself. For everyone who believed in\u00a0<br \/>\nhim. For everyone who waited. For Lou. He hands over the BB to Deadman and Lockne,\u00a0<br \/>\nknowing that she\u2019s already been through enough. His last journey will be on his own. Fragile\u00a0<br \/>\nthen helps him cross over one final time, and he holds his dream catcher as he reaches\u00a0<br \/>\nfor Amelie across the void. In a flash, Sam disappears, and the others are left to\u00a0<br \/>\nwait for his return from the Beach\u2026 hopefully. Amelie then welcomes Sam back to her Beach,\u00a0\u00a0 offering once again to take him home. However,\u00a0<br \/>\nthings quickly unravel as Bridget appears, finally revealing the truth to her son\u00a0<br \/>\nthat she and Amelie are one and the same. Bridget confesses that she\u2019s the Extinction\u00a0<br \/>\nEntity, and that Amelie never existed in the real world. Bridget was split, with\u00a0<br \/>\nher \u201cHa\u201d in the world of the living,\u00a0\u00a0 and her \u201cKa\u201d trapped on the Beach. As Bridget aged\u00a0<br \/>\nand weakened, Amelie remained young and powerful. She created the persona of a daughter to hide the\u00a0<br \/>\ntruth, but the moment has finally come to end it. She then states that the Last\u00a0<br \/>\nStranding has already begun,\u00a0\u00a0 and now Sam has a final decision to make:<br \/>\nDo nothing: stay with her on the Beach, and witness the end of the world together.<br \/>\nOr sever their connection: cut her Beach\u00a0\u00a0 loose and delay the extinction, allowing\u00a0<br \/>\nmankind to \u201clive to die another day\u201d. Left with the literal fate of humanity\u00a0<br \/>\nin his hands, Sam holds a gun symbolic of the same one that began the Death\u00a0<br \/>\nStranding. However, he puts it down, instead grabbing the woman he\u2019s known as\u00a0<br \/>\nhis sister and pulling her close into a hug, assuring her that he\u2019s there for\u00a0<br \/>\nher, like she always was for him. Sam remembers the promise he made to\u00a0<br \/>\nAmelie long ago, to stop her when the\u00a0\u00a0 time came. The EE explains that the bonds\u00a0<br \/>\nbetween people brought the world together, and she sees how important that is to Sam. She\u00a0<br \/>\nthen volunteers to shut herself in while locking the rest of the world out, hopefully mitigating\u00a0<br \/>\nat least some damage from the Last Stranding. Sam then asks her while she has to stay on the\u00a0<br \/>\nBeach, and she explains that she is the beach; she must stay there and ensure the extinction\u00a0<br \/>\nhappens, even if Sam\u2019s actions prevent it for hundreds of thousands of years. She decides to pay\u00a0<br \/>\nthe price for life\u2019s chance to continue to evolve and survive, promising that even though they won\u2019t\u00a0<br \/>\nbe together, she\u2019ll always be connected to Sam. She then pushes him into the waters, and he\u00a0<br \/>\nsoon washes up on the shores, finding nothing but a doll, his photograph (of himself, Bridget,\u00a0<br \/>\nand the pregnant Lucy), and Die-Hardman\u2019s gun. Sam is then forced to wander the Beach, seemingly\u00a0<br \/>\nalone until he\u2019s visited by the EE again, explaining her entire history and why she\u00a0<br \/>\nshared her dreams of the extinction with Sam. Trapped on the endless Beach, Sam takes\u00a0<br \/>\nthe gun and places it to his own head. Hoping to finally bring his journey to an\u00a0<br \/>\nend, he closes his eyes and pulls the trigger\u2026 Only to hear a click. And another. And\u00a0<br \/>\nanother. Until he finally gives up and falls to his knees. He then hears the EE\u00a0<br \/>\ntell him that she was the one who brought him and Cliff back together; to show him that\u00a0<br \/>\nhe was never abandoned and he was never alone. The voice then urges him to live, before\u00a0<br \/>\nsoftly singing \u201cLondon Bridge is Falling Down.\u201d Sam then begins to hear his friends from\u00a0<br \/>\nBridges call out from the other side. He sees BT-like footsteps in the sand and follows\u00a0<br \/>\nthem to find Amelie, who points to the sky, urging Sam not to give up while telling him\u00a0<br \/>\nthat he\u2019s \u201cstill connected.\u201d Sam then looks up to see the five floating figures once again,\u00a0<br \/>\nthe one in the center seemingly holding a baby. Sam is then pulled into the waters,\u00a0<br \/>\nand looks down to see Deadman,\u00a0\u00a0 frantically grabbing at his leg while holding\u00a0<br \/>\nLou. Sam is then able to repatriate, returning to the world of the living once again thanks to\u00a0<br \/>\nhis friends pulling him back from the other side. Sometime later, Die-Hardman delivers an emotional\u00a0<br \/>\naddress to declare the birth of a new nation: the United Cities of America. As a former soldier\u00a0<br \/>\nwho once swore to protect the Constitution, he now pledges himself to the people. He urges\u00a0<br \/>\nthe UCA to tear down walls and remove masks, finally taking off his own to\u00a0<br \/>\nreveal his true face to the public. Die-Hardman honors the sacrifices of Bridget\u00a0<br \/>\nand Amelie, stating that though they\u2019re gone, their memories live on through the\u00a0<br \/>\nchiral network and in their hearts. He acknowledges that America was rebuilt not\u00a0<br \/>\nby one individual, but by their collective strength. Still, he quietly pays tribute to\u00a0<br \/>\nthe unsung hero who made it all possible: someone whose name doesn\u2019t need to be\u00a0<br \/>\nsaid, because everyone already knows. As the speech ends, Deadman finds Sam preparing to\u00a0<br \/>\nleave, resigned now that Amelie is gone. Deadman tries to lighten the mood by explaining how they\u00a0<br \/>\nbrought Sam back from the Beach, mentioning their\u00a0\u00a0 first failed attempt to use Amelie\u2019s doll.\u00a0<br \/>\nInstead, they used Bridget\u2019s umbilical cord, the most direct connection to Amelie\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nBeach, but even that didn\u2019t work at first. For a month, they searched fruitlessly until\u00a0<br \/>\nDie-Hardman remembered the revolver. Tracing it led them to a distant edge of Sam\u2019s Beach, where\u00a0<br \/>\nMama was the first to see him. Lockne relayed the news, and Heartman confirmed it during\u00a0<br \/>\na near death experience trip to the Beach. To rescue him, Fragile planned to\u00a0<br \/>\nsling Deadman and Lou across the Beach,\u00a0\u00a0 using umbilical cords crafted\u00a0<br \/>\nfrom Bridget\u2019s DNA as a tether. Ironically, the gun that started everything\u00a0<br \/>\nended up saving Sam. Amelie had told him that it had another purpose: it wasn\u2019t a weapon,\u00a0<br \/>\nbut a lifeline. \u201cA stick that became a rope.\u201d Deadman then pulls Sam close to reveal one final\u00a0<br \/>\nsecret: Cliff\u2019s wife (who they still believe is BB\u2019s mother), was named Lisa Bridges. Cliff\u00a0<br \/>\nhimself was killed by a man named \u201cJohn,\u201d a former special forces operative turned presidential\u00a0<br \/>\naide\u2026 who later returned under a new identity as Die-Hardman. Records of this were buried\u00a0<br \/>\nin the chiral archives, with only Sam granted access. Deadman doesn\u2019t trust John\u2026 but he\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nwilling to work with him for the sake of the UCA. On Sam\u2019s way out, Die-Hardman privately confesses\u00a0<br \/>\neverything. He admits he killed Clifford Unger; not for the country, but out of love\u00a0<br \/>\nfor Bridget. John notes that Cliff had\u00a0\u00a0 saved his life many times (explaining\u00a0<br \/>\nwhere his nickname came from), and when Cliff returned as a ghost, Die-Hardman\u00a0<br \/>\nknew he had come for revenge. However, Cliff saw the man he once knew trying to\u00a0<br \/>\ndo right, and chose to forgive him instead. Die-Hardman breaks down, overcome with guilt, but\u00a0<br \/>\nclings to the hope that Cliff brought him back for a reason: to finish what they started. Sam rejects\u00a0<br \/>\nthe idea of an immortal president, reminding John that fear of death is what gives life its value.\u00a0<br \/>\nSam states that if America is to be rebuilt, the old habits truly have to \u201cdie hard\u201d, and\u00a0<br \/>\nthat includes the people who cling to them. Sam prepares to leave, and\u00a0<br \/>\nDeadman meets him with grim news:\u00a0\u00a0 the order to decommission a now\u00a0<br \/>\nunresponsive Lou has come through. The BB was never technically alive,\u00a0<br \/>\nand now that the nation is restored,\u00a0\u00a0 they can\u2019t risk it necrotizing. Sam is given\u00a0<br \/>\nthe choice to perform the incineration himself. Before he goes, Deadman disables Sam\u2019s cuff links.\u00a0\u00a0 If Sam removes them, he\u2019ll be completely off\u00a0<br \/>\nthe grid and untraceable by the UCA. However, Deadman warns him that once he uses the\u00a0<br \/>\nincinerator, the system will reconnect him. Outside, Sam runs into Fragile, who\u00a0<br \/>\ntells him she\u2019s launched the UCA\u2019s first officially approved private delivery\u00a0<br \/>\ncompany. She admits she didn\u2019t kill Higgs, instead exiling him to eternal solitude on the\u00a0<br \/>\nBeach. When she asks Sam to join her new company, he declines, still like the same man she met\u00a0<br \/>\nin the cave before he reconnected America. Fragile then grabs him and reminds him\u00a0<br \/>\nhow far he\u2019s come. Sam doesn\u2019t flinch; his phobia now gone. Fragile insists that\u00a0<br \/>\nhe\u2019s learned to connect. To touch. To feel. However, he insists that\u00a0<br \/>\neverything he touches, he loses. Sam then walks away with Lou\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\npod to make one last delivery. Once he makes it to the incinerator, Sam quietly\u00a0<br \/>\nprepares to say goodbye. After thanking Lou, he plugs into her pod again. This time,\u00a0<br \/>\nSam is flooded with the memories of John and Cliff planning the escape, as\u00a0<br \/>\nwell as the day of its failed attempt. Sam takes off his cuff, removing him from the\u00a0<br \/>\ngrid. As Lou\u2019s pod lowers into the incinerator, he quickly grabs it, plugging in one final\u00a0<br \/>\ntime. At this point, Sam sees the full truth of the events of the day Cliff died. Watching the\u00a0<br \/>\nmemory play out with himself inside his mother, Lisa\u2019s room, the memory suddenly stops just\u00a0<br \/>\nbefore Bridget forces John to pull the trigger. Cliff then speaks to Sam, stating that while\u00a0<br \/>\nhe was only ever good at tearing people apart, his son has an exceptional ability to bring\u00a0<br \/>\npeople together. Cliff then hands the baby form of Sam to himself before his son in for a\u00a0<br \/>\nhug. The memory then resumes as the fun fires, killing Cliff and bringing Sam back to reality. With the truth of his origin now revealed to\u00a0<br \/>\nhim, Sam places his cuffs in the incinerator and burns them, choosing to live free of the\u00a0<br \/>\nconnected network he helped build. He then takes Lou out of her pod, frantically\u00a0<br \/>\ntrying to wake her up. Unfortunately, a BT-like umbilical cord emerges from\u00a0<br \/>\nLou, leading Sam to fear the worst. As he holds the baby to his shoulder, he\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\ninstantly relieved when she begins to cry. Sam then looks to see a happy, revived Lou,\u00a0<br \/>\nholding Amelie\u2019s quipu. Sam then cradles Lou, holding her close as the echoes of the BB\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>\nsacrificed in the past watch over them. Sam then exits the incinerator, holding\u00a0<br \/>\nLou while walking out into a storm,\u00a0\u00a0 seemingly normal timefall-free rain. As the\u00a0<br \/>\ntwo look forward towards their uncertain future together, the clouds part and the sun\u00a0<br \/>\nshines, revealing a rainbow in the storm\u2019s wake. Sometime later, Sam looks at the photograph of\u00a0<br \/>\nhis old family: himself, his mother Bridget, his wife Lucy, and their unborn daughter.\u00a0<br \/>\nA baby\u2019s hand suddenly meets his, and he speaks out to his adoptive\u00a0<br \/>\ndaughter, calling her \u201cLouise.\u201d And with that, we reach the end\u00a0<br \/>\nof the first \u201cDeath Stranding\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0 leaving Sam and Lou to an unwritten\u00a0<br \/>\nfuture in a rebuilt America\u2026 That is until they wind up in Australia,\u00a0\u00a0 ready to travel across another continent to build\u00a0<br \/>\nthe bridges to reconnect society once again. But\u2026 that\u2019s a story for another time. Hey everybody thanks for watching!\u00a0<br \/>\nHuge thanks to the subscribers and\u00a0\u00a0 channel members on screen for supporting\u00a0<br \/>\nthe channel, and you can be one too by checking out the links in the description!\u00a0<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll get to watch videos early and stuff. 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