- (Seth) Previously on Life is Strange.
- (Ms. Grant) David Madsen, our chief of security,
wants to put surveillance cameras all around the campus.
- I thought all schools had security cameras.
- How do we tamper with it? Oh. - That's perfect. Yes, yes!
Oh! They loosened the thing.
- "Hey girl, I borrowed your drive,
so I can watch some flix while I study."
"While I study." (chuckles)
- (Juliet) Dana's been sexting with my boyfriend.
- Ohh! - (Max) How did you find out?
- Victoria's room? I think we can still enter. Can we snoop?
- So we obviously know she's a murderer.
This time on Life is Strange.
(phone beeps) - Oh.
- Oh, Warren!
"I don't mind waiting out here forever.
I love this parking lot. I can count all the cars."
- Yeah. Warren's like... - Come in, Warren. Man.
Don't respond to a guy, he just goes wild.
- I mean, yeah, it's taken a while, I feel like.
- He's like, don't worry about it. I'll wait.
- Where is that parking lot, though?
- (ugh) I can hear the bugs. (laughs)
- (boy) [Bleep] this shit.
- (girl) Ow! That hurt.
- (Max) Damn. I better rewind.
- Don't do it. (chuckles) Aw.
- Ahh.
- Wait, do we have to? - She's crying!
I say it's not gonna-- he doesn't mind waiting.
- He doesn't mind waiting in the parking lot.
We can fix this.
What do we do?
Hey.
- Zachary, we're just gonna-- - Speak. Oh, that's....
- I think we have to talk to the other girl.
Yeah, to, like, elicit... - God damn it.
- Go talk to-- - I'm telling you guys,
we should just let her get hit in the head.
- (laughs) - But why would she say...?
- No, she wouldn't say-- - Maybe this chick has, like--
- Oh, go talk to her, and tell her to move!
- Ask her to accompany us. - Warn.
- (Max) Alyssa, move your head. - Move your head. There you go.
(glass shattering) - (gasps)
- (Max) Now that's what I'm talking about.
I actually helped somebody. - See?
- This action will have consequences.
The window's broken now. Before it wasn't broken!
We could've just went to the parking lot,
and let her get hit in the head, but...
- What if she had a concussion and died?
- Uh, BTW thanks, but we're-- - What did I tell you?
Victoria's on our bad side again, guys.
I'm just right in all the parts here, right?
- Because why? Because what's her face didn't snitch
on us for saying that. - Yeah, she did.
How else would she know? - I don't-- I'm not reading into it.
- You know, we're just gonna let it be.
I didn't really wanna be friends with her anyway.
- I think you guys just don't wanna be wrong.
- Yeah. - You see that, Seth?
- Oh, whoop, that's not what I wanna do there.
- I thought that was Warren, and I was like, oh, god damn it.
- (David) So don't think I'm blind. I see everything here at Blackwell.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
- (Kate) No, and leave me alone!
- Who is that?
I think we should just take a photo.
- Yeah, photo. - Photo? Okay.
- 'Cause last time we intervened when we pulled the fire alarm,
that didn't go well.
- (David) So you better figure out what side you're on.
- Oh my god. - (Kate) Please! Leave me alone.
- So then we can report it, and we have evidence,
you know what I mean? - Yeah.
- Yeah. - That he's harassing the students.
- We should talk to her really fast. - Dude.
- Oh! Wait she knows we did it.
- (Kate) Thanks for nothing, Max.
- (gasps and groans)
- (Max) Man, I should have stepped in between Kate and David.
That asshole was so over the line. - I don't know, guys.
- I don't think we should intervene. - I don't think we should fix it.
- It wants us to make the nice choice,
but is that the right choice? - But I think we have photo evidence
and I think-- - I think the photo...
- Yeah, I think we're fine. I don't think we should rewind.
- Yeah, let's just go. - Let's keep playing.
- Go to the parking lot. - We're on the same page.
- Cool. - Cool. Great.
- 'Cause I feel like she says stuff like that
'cause the game wants us to try and like feel bad about it
and crap, but it's like, no! - It's trying to take us down
an easy path. - This is our decision!
Stand by it!
Our character's like a quiet, awkward person.
She can't-- - Like, what's she gonna do?
Step up? - Like that's out of character
to step up, you know what I mean?
Also, they get their cars in this boarding school? Like...
- I guess so.
Oh my god. Stop talking about it.
You took a picture.
- Sup, Warren. There's your boo.
- (Warren) ...get your ass over here.
What up, Max? How are you? - Here's your flash. Thanks.
- Oh, that was awkward. - (Warren) No problem.
Check out my new wheels.
- He's so cute. - (Max) Cool. Very old school.
- Oh, very old school. - (Warren) 1978, to be exact.
Now we can go to the drive-in. - (gasps)
- Aw. - Ooh.
- 60 MILES?! - 60 miles away?!
- That's a two-hour car trip!
- Honey. - Hold on.
It's been a strange day.
- Why would he be driving 30? (laughs)
- (Warren) I'd pay money to see a photo of that.
- Say "Really?"
- (Max) Really? I wish I would have known.
- (Warren) You probably could have raised a Kickstarter fund
just for that one image of her covered in paint.
- (Max) Had I known that...
Anyway, Victoria took down my photo, so that drama ended well.
- (Warren) So did you get a chance to check out the movie booty
on my flash drive?
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Uh... - I think we go.
I think we should pursue this. - I mean, why wouldn't
we be honest here? He's our friend. - I don't think we should
play it cool, because what if he asks us what's on it?
- (Max) No, I've been way too busy with class and life.
- (Warren) Damn girl, you had it like a year.
- (Max) Or a week. I did browse... - "A week. I did browse through..."
- Okay, so he's not mad. - (Warren) Ha ha.
Make sure you watch Cannibal Holocaust.
- Cannibal Holocaust? - Seen it.
- Yeah, seen it. - We're over thinking this.
Just seen it. - (Max) Seen it.
I was more disturbed by all those emo-vampire...
- 'Cause I thought no [bleep] way. I was thinking, no,
I'm not [bleep] watching it yeah. - Yeah.
- I was thinking, like, yeah!
- (Max) So you're sensitive? - So you're sensitive!
- (Warren) That sounds awful the way you say it.
- He's, like, a little awkward.
Ooh, we gotta hit him with a quote.
- The quote's fine. It's flirty. - Yeah, that looks interesting.
- (Max) I was impressed you had "Faster pussycat. Kill. Kill."
- (Warren) Russ Meyer was a genius of black and white.
- Babes with breasts. - Babes with breasts.
Big ol' br-- (laughs).
- (Warren) Speaking of hip and fast, we should cruise out in my car...
- Ooh, he's trying to ask her out on a date!
- Come on, girl! Let's get your flirt on.
- Oh, but you seem distracted.
Let's talk. - I think talk. Yeah.
- We need the best friend
to confide in. - Open up to him.
- Well, I don't' even know if we're gonna tell him--
- Oh my god. Wait. Now she's gonna seem like a weirdo.
- (Warren) I won't even prescribe you any meds.
- In da house.
- We might probably have the choice
of telling him the rewind thing or not.
- Yeah. I don't think I'd tell him that, right?
- Yeah, I don't think we should tell anybody
about the back thing, but we can talk to him about...
- (Max) ...bizarro experience in Mr. Jefferson's class today.
I mean, life changing. - Oh, she's kind of telling him.
- (Max) Have you ever had a dream so real it was...
- Oh, so we're just talking about the dream.
- (Nathan) Max Caulfield, right?
- Ooh. - No.
- (Nathan) ...Jefferson's photo groupies.
- (Max) I'm one of his students. - (Nathan) What the [bleep] ever.
I know you like to take pictures,
especially when you're hiding out
in the bathrooms. You best tell me what you told the principal. Now.
- What he's talking about. - Dude, we're telling him,
"I told him the truth." Why lie?
- We know he has a gun, and he deals drugs!
Why would we be like (feminine voice) "I don't know"
when the principal literally talked to him
and was like, (deep voice) "Yeah." - And Warren was right there,
so he's not gonna pull a gun out on us
If there's another guy right there, right?
We're in the open. We're safe.
- Okay, fine! But if we get shot--
- I told him the truth. - I'm just saying.
- A student had a gun. Yes.
- (Nathan) ...you told him I had a gun.
That's why he dragged me into his office.
- (Max) And did what? Give you a stern lecture?
- We're standing up! Character development!
They try. - Why is he crazy, though?
- (Max) You should talk to somebody, Nathan.
- (Nathan) Do not analyze me! - He got the Arthur hand! (laughs)
- "I pay people for that."
- Take a step back. - Yeah, I don't think
we should get in his face. - (Seth and Mikaela) Yeah.
- Take a step back? - (Seth and Mikaela) Yeah.
- (Max) Take a step back, Nathan Prescott.
- Oh, just kidding! I thought we would take a step back!
- If we threaten with police, that didn't go well last time
when the-- oh! - (gasps) Oh!
- Good one! Hey, leave him alone.
- (gasps) - Ohh. Whoa, whoa.
- Kiss, kiss, kiss! Oh, uh... - Whoa, whoa, whoa! (gasps)
She scratched him! (car tires squealing)
(gasps) - (gasps) Whoa! We almost died.
- (claps) It's the girl!
- (Nathan) No way. You again? - (Max) Warren!
- (Warren) Go, go! I got this! - (gasps)
- (gasps) - (Rae and Mikaela) OHH!
- (laughs) - No, don't ditch him! No!
- (Nathan) ...out of there now! Don't even try to run!
Nobody messes with me!
(controller vibrating loudly) - (laughs)
- Wait, we just ditched homie!
- Whoa. Oh my gosh she has this. - (gasps)
- She has a meme sticker.
- (Max) This day never ends. - (Chloe) "Oh, and thanks, Chloe."
- (chuckles) - Whoa.
- The girl saved your life, too.
- Oh that was-- - Oh, is that the girl?!
- Yeah, from the bathroom. - No, from the picture.
- From what picture? - When they were best friends.
- Oh yeah, they were BFFs. Yeah. - Oh! She just dyed her hair.
Oh, so we saved our best friend from being shot.
- Maybe. That's just a thought, though.
- I have no idea. - I have no idea.
- It's a safer bet here. - Yeah.
- (Max) I have no idea. I know he's a Prescott.
- (Chloe) And an asshole. Your friend really stood up for you.
- (Max) Warren? Yeah. I owe him big time.
- (Chloe) You're not the only one in debt,
and you're already causing trouble. - (Max) I thought
it would be quiet here. Feels so weird to be back.
- (Chloe) So I guess Seattle sucked hard?
- She was from-- she went to Seattle.
- Yeah, I guess. That'd be good.
- (Max) It was cool, but I felt kind of lonely,
out of my league.
- (Chloe) I would think you'd fit right in
with the art school hipsters. - (Max) Right.
You look like the cover of hipstergirl.com.
- (Chloe) At least you're still a smartass.
- (Max) That's why I'm here. - So cute, the little banter.
- (Chloe) You came back for Blackwell Academy.
- Of course. - Of course.
- 'Cause then it like-- 'cause she's here, too, you know?
- Yeah, you right.
- (Max) ...programs in the country.
- Oh. - (Max) And my favorite teacher,
Mark Jefferson. - She still brought him up.
- See?
- Oh.
- (Max) Don't you think I'm happy to see you?
- (Chloe) No. You were happy to wait five years
without a call or even a text.
- I wanted to, then why didn't you? Why don't' we just say "I'm sorry"?
- Just say I'm sorry.
- (Max) I'm sorry. I know things were tough on you when I left.
- (Chloe) How do you know? You weren't even here.
- (Max) I didn't order my parents
to move specifically to [bleep] you over, Chloe.
- (Chloe) You've been at Blackwell for almost a month
without letting me know. 'Nuff said. - (Max) I just wanted
to settle in first, and not be such a shy, cliche geek.
I totally would've contacted you.
- It's really not that hard to contact your friend.
- Mm-hmm. - Write her an email. (chuckles)
She got angsty too, with the pictures.
- Even more angsty. - Yeah.
- I feel like if there was any way to avoid that where we had to
get mad at her. - I-- oh.
- Oh, no. - (Max) Man, are you cereal?
- "Are you cereal"? No!
She's in that phase. - Man.
- This is 2012, isn't it? That's why there's the meme thing
on the back of the mirror.
- (Chloe) Maybe you can fix it at my place.
- (Max) I need very specific, tiny tools.
- (Chloe) Nerd alert! My stepdad has a fully stocked garage.
And he actually is a tiny tool. - (chuckles)
- (Chloe) Welcome home, Max.
- So it's a boarding school, but they don't--
she doesn't live at the school? - I think she lived there,
and then she moved, and then she came back.
(birds chirping)
- (Chloe) Come on in. Don't be shy. - (Max) The house still looks nice.
- (Chloe) Home, shit home. - Home, shit home.
- (Rae and Mikaela chuckle)
- A little bird.
Oh my god.
♪ (gentle music) ♪
Thank like a man? (chuckles)
- (Chloe) My room looks a bit different
than the last time you saw it. - Yeah. It's a little hardcore.
- (Max) At least we can chill out.
- (Chloe) This isn't exactly my chill-out zone.
My step-fuhrer makes sure of that. - Oh my god.
- (Chloe) I'm gonna close the door. (door closes)
Put on some music while I medicate. - She's just smoking instantly?
She had an already-lit cigarette just waiting by her bed.
- Hold on. She asked us to put--
- (Max) When's the last time I had to dig through Chloe's crap?
- She said go put on some tunes. Oh, we have to search through shit.
Okay.
- (Max) And it reeks like dirty laundry. Gross!
- (Rae and Mikaela) Box. - Search.
- That's definitely got music in it.
- (Max gasps) - Oh shit.
- (Chloe) Dude, you broke my glass snow dome. Thanks.
- Wait, you didn't look at the thing. - Look down. There.
- Oh should we have looked at it first?
- Probably. (laughs) - Let's look at it first.
- Okay.
- I don't know why else there would be a cutscene
when something falls.
- (Chloe) Dude, you broke my glass snow dome. Thanks.
- (Max) Damn. Chloe was kicked out of Blackwell two years ago.
- (gasps) - (Max) She used to be
a great student when she cared. - Oh.
- All right, now we can rewind. - Okay, now we can...
- There. - All right. Search?
- Yeah.
- (Max) We had such a blast drawing these together.
- How cute. - Power Girls. Cute.
- Search.
- (Max) Look at that.
- Me and Daddy? Oh, just kidding! (laughs)
- Mikaela! - That does not look like a dad!
That doesn't look like a dad!
Now it does.
Power switch.
- Aw, that's cool. - Aw, cute.
- Oh, there it is.
- So what now?
- Hi-fi. What's a hi-fi?
- It's the music. - (Max) Houston, we have the power.
- Oh.
- It's probably around it.
- I think you should search the drawer.
- I think you're looking too far into it.
- There we go. - There we go.
- Oh, there's a picture of someone in there.
- I think that's her. - Oh.
- Like, back before she dyed her hair.
Just kidding. - That's the missing girl!
- Are you sure? - Yeah, that's the picture.
That's the picture on the poster!
- (Max) Obviously, she was a good friend.
- (Chloe) That's putting it mildly.
- Oh, maybe they were dating.
♪ (soft guitar music) ♪
- It's like we know who it is. - But we know who it is.
- Yeah, so just say, "That's Rachel Amber."
- This? - Yeah, hit it.
- (Max) That's Rachel Amber.
Her "Missing Person" posters are all over Blackwell.
- (Chloe) Yeah, I put them up.
She was my angel.
After my dad died and you moved, I felt abandoned.
Rachel saved my life.
- (Max) Man, I had no idea.
- (Chloe) Well, you never made much effort to find out.
I was 14.
- I wonder why she never reached out to her.
- I don't know. - "I never forgot."
I don't wanna-- we don't wanna sound salty.
- Yeah, "So Rachel took my place"? That's kind of... Yeah.
- That's kind of salty. - I'd say, "I never forgot."
- Yeah.
- (Max) I never forgot. Even if I was an asshole
and didn't keep in touch. But you had Rachel.
- (Chloe) Rachel had my back. We were gonna kick the world's ass.
You would laugh at how different we were.
She wanted to be a star.
- (Max) She looks like a model.
- (Chloe) That was her plan. Our plan.
Get the hell out of Bigfootville and into Los Angeles.
- "So what happened?" - (Seth and Mikaela) Yeah.
- (Max) So what happened?
Did your folks, your mom, try to stop you?
- (Chloe) My mom was too busy hooked up with Sergeant Shithead.
- (Max) I feel the love.
Now, when did Rachel actually disappear?
- (Chloe) Six months ago. She just left Arcadia without a word.
Without me. - Damn.
- "About her parents"? I guess she's missing,
so yeah, "How do you know?" - She's "missing," so like...
- Okay, so, "How do you know?" - Yeah.
- You're right.
- (Max) How do you know she disappeared?
Maybe she wanted to start a totally new life.
- (Chloe) Unlike you, she would've told me, okay?
Something happened to her. - Oh!
- (Max) I believe you. I'm just trying to get all deductive.
- (Chloe) Before Rachel left, she said she met somebody
who changed her life, then poof. - Kidnapped her.
- (Max) And you haven't heard anything from her since?
- (Chloe) Like everybody in my life. My dad, you... and Rachel, gone.
Can you put on some music, now? - That's so sad.
♪ (sad guitar music) ♪
- Now they're in the feels with the sad music, man.
- Hipster music, man. - Oh.
She's smoking. - (Chloe) Anyway, you can find tools
to fix your camera in the garage. - (Max) Chloe, are you okay?
- (Chloe) Sure, I'm awesome.
I just want to blaze and be alone for the moment.
- (chuckles) - Jeez.
- Should we just go? - (Seth and Mikaela) Yeah.
- She wants to be alone. - Should probably not dig through
any more of her stuff after that very emotional moment.
- Yeah.
♪ (indie music) ♪
- I like... - This is a good soundtrack.
- Yeah! - I really like the--
- This game is really, really good.
- It's real hipster, but-- - I feel like I'm in a teen movie,
like a coming of age movie. - For sure, for sure. 100%.
- Open it. - (Rae clicks tongue)
- Do we look at the mail?
- I don't wanna look through their mail.
That's kind of... - I mean, you can find out a lot.
- Look. - Doesn't look like the Price family
is rolling in dough these days. - Uh-oh.
- It's like past-due bills. - Bills and stuff.
- They're not doing so hot.
- I like the art style of this game. - Yeah.
- Who's Kate?
"Sorry Kate, I chickened out"?
- I mean, hey, we're the only nice person to this girl,
so if she wants to be mad at us for one time, like,
not doing something, like... - I think the game's trying
to guilt us. - But we can't do anything about it.
- All right, let's find this garage.
Oh, is this the garage? - Oh.
- This is a stretch. - Yeah.
- Why is there a laptop in every room?
- (Max) These are way too big. I need tiny tools for that camera.
- Maybe because, like, I think we can look through
the laptop and, like... - Yeah.
- ...and learn more about people or whatever.
Files.
- I'm saying yes. - (Max) I wonder what's
in those files up there. - Let's do it. Search.
- I'm saying yes. I mean, hey, we can always rewind.
- (gasps) Oh. - Rewind!
- But let's look at it first.
- (Max) Kate Marsh?
Why the hell would he have pictures of her?
- "She knows something."
- They were talking about choosing sides earlier, so...
- Rewind. There's a stalker photo. - Oh, wait a second.
- What? - Okay.
Chloe calls her stepdad the step fuhrer.
- He's the security guard! - Okay.
- Wait, is he the security guard? - I think so,
because she called him-- I was thinking that, but--
- I don't know if he's the security guard,
but if he's a white supremacist, and then the security guard,
when we looked through his file thing,
he had the Confederate flag, so both supremacists.
They could be in cahoots, and then they'd be saying,
"Hey, yo. What side are you on?"
So there's something up with this Kate girl.
- I think her stepdad is the security guard, though,
'cause she called him, like... - Yeah, sergeant something.
- She said something about a sergeant stepdad or something.
- I mean, he could just be ex-military.
- And obviously, they're talking about, like, "We liked your porn."
I think someone's stalking her. - Oh right, the porn, though.
- And taking these pictures of her, these unsolicited pictures of her,
like, that's weird. So obviously, someone's watching her.
- 'Cause this is the stepdad's room,
so those are photos that he took, not Chloe.
- I mean, I think maybe they're in cahoots somehow.
- Maybe she said sergeant stepdad 'cause he's the police officer
on the case. - "Warning. I don't dial 911."
- Never mind, I guess. - Yeah.
I'm telling you, he's just a crazy white guy.
- "This action will have consequences." Why?
- Switch on. Then we could, you know.
- Oh my god. - (Max) What the?
- (gasps) - (Max) Chloe's stepdad
actually installed cameras in the rooms?
- Oh my god. - (Max) For reals?
This guy has serious trust issues. - They're in the bedrooms, too.
That's gross, bro.
- I thought it was gonna be Kate's house or something.
That would've been good. - Should we rewind?
'Cause it said, "This action will have consequences."
- Look, what's that? Look at the map.
- (Max) Wowser, a map of Blackwell Academy.
I wonder why.
- This guy's strange, bro. - Yeah.
- I'm gonna close this. - Yeah.
- Should we just rewind? 'Cause this has actually consequences.
- I think you can just close it. I mean, either way, we see it, so...
- Yeah. - Switch on?
- Oh god, it's a gun rack, though. - Switch on what?
- Switch on the gun? - I don't think the switch on--
- Do it, do it! - Like, it's a light. It's a light.
- (Seth and Rae) Oh.
- There's one missing! - (gasps)
- That's the gun! - It's the drug dealer!
I'm telling you!
Okay, security guard, Chloe's dad,
drug dealer guy... - Full circle, there's a full circle
thing going on here. - ...and Victoria.
- (Max) Chloe's stepfather is this asshole from Blackwell?
- Ah, okay. - (Max) You've gotta be shitting me.
- Yup, okay, so he's the security guard.
- And you were right, too. He's ex-military.
- Ex-military. - I knew it.
- There's obviously some theory going on against that other girl.
And obviously, this guy is weird about following her,
taking pictures. There's cameras for their house.
- We just need to learn to speak up regardless if it's stupid or not.
- There's a full circle thing going on here.
- (Max) Chloe's stepdad is head of security at Blackwell.
He wants to put surveillance cameras all over the school?
(scoffs) How paranoid can you get? - Maybe he's the one
who kidnapped Rachel, 'cause if he's the stepdad
he must've known about their friendship, you know?
- He knows about their friendship.
That gun is missing, but it ended up in that one kid's hand,
who somehow full-circled back to pointing that gun at Chloe.
- I think the-- - I think he knows
what happened maybe. - We just gotta keep going.
- And since he's a security guard, he can't be, like...
- Let's keep going. - You know, he can't let the truth
get out, 'cause it's his job. - And figure it out.
- I don't think he would help her. I don't know.
- And there's a car in the garage. - There is a garage.
- Dang it. Okay. - Okay, let's just keep going then,
and it'll make sense to us more. - We gotta find small tools.
- Are there tools up there? - Yeah.
- (Max) Boom! Precision screwdrivers. Except, I can't reach them.
- It's gonna shake it. - Yeah.
(dryer rumbling) - Watch your head, girl.
- (Max) That was very smart, dumbass.
No can reach. - William's stuff.
Who's William's stuff?
- (Max) Man, I should've done that before they fell.
- Okay, rewind. - Oh.
- I think we're good. All right. - Wait. Is that?
- Yeah. - So put the thing under.
The cardboard, push it.
- What does the cardboard, though? - There we go.
- To pull it out? - So you'll pull it out.
- Oh, okay.
- She couldn't just reach under? Like, is it really that hard?
She has to MacGyver everything. - (laughs)
There we go. Turn off.
And then pull cardboard.
- (Max) Yes! You have mad skills, Max.
- There we go. - Her self-commentary, so cringe.
- She's like, "You know what? You go, girl."
- (Max) I should go back upstairs before Chloe freaks.
- Go upstairs.
- That's it for today.
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