#Bioshock infinite booker professional

This is why he sends the note that's in the lighthouse that says to 'stop him' because Booker is coming. This is why he created the entire 'false prophet' campaign and knows about the 'AD' on Booker's hand ( he uses tears to see other times and that's how he saw the 'AD'). So in every timeline, Comstock is ready for Booker and anticipates it. There is no way the Vox could know anything in that timeline to warrant putting a warning in the lighthouse.Ĭomstock of course knows Booker is coming because he knows he wants to try and get his daughter back ( but he wouldn't put a dead body there, he would put a guard there, hence the keeper). Theories of anyone else besides the Luteces putting Booker's or anyone elses body there are impossible since no one would know enough to do it in that specific timeline, except for people who know what's happening already, which would be the Luteces. The Luteces could move the body but you can tell by looking at the body and the tools around it, that person was killed/tortured on the spot for a reason. The Columbia is a different world/timeline each time by the way, not a bunch of Bookers going to the SAME Columbia every time, that wouldn't make sense! This means that if Booker dies, his body wouldn't be in the next 'Booker-takes-on-Columbia' timeline. Second, even though the game doesn't explicitly state it, it's not Booker.Įach Booker the Luteces took to Columbia died. (Though, they could always figure out a way to work him into the plot in a future DLC :) )įirst off, Ken Levine has stated it was a last minute addition and that he was just a 'lighthouse keeper' in this comment/interview. So, apparently the dead body (which even the creative director considers to be just the lighthouse keeper) was just added at the last minute to emphasize the seriousness of Booker's situation, and wasn't meant as an important plot-point.

#Bioshock infinite booker professional

And little details like, you know, he's got a pillowcase over his head random killers don't put pillowcases over peoples' heads and shoot them, so this is clearly some kind of professional work.Īnd so all these details just kept getting added along the way, mostly from having people play it and seeing: were they getting our intent? Were they getting what we were trying to do?

And so this lighthouse keeper, the writing on the wall, the mess, all that got added in the last few weeks (before I came out to show it to you guys), because we realized that story wasn't resonating very well. That was all actually added very very very late, because we didn't really realize how important it was to sell Booker's story in the lighthouse, rather than the story of just going to Columbia. How much went into making sure that this wasn't just an empty lighthouse that you're walking up? How much attention went into the writing on the wall (which isn't necessarily legible, but is there as a nice detail)?Ī. (Asked while walking up to the dead man in the lighthouse) Ken Levine, the creative director of Bioshock Infinite, stated in an interview (5:47) that it's the lighthouse keeper. They might've left the 'Don't dissapoint us' message to add color or feed him the idea that he's working for some shady criminal organization. Maybe they didn't do the deed themselves, they might've just hired another nameless thug to do the dirty job.īut basically: It's nobody but the Lighthouse keeper, who's been tortured and murdered in order to get the means for Booker to get into the city. The Lutece have shown to be quite cold in their behavior and not care much about other people's lives when they get between them and their experiments. Their plan was to send Booker through the lighthouse, and the only obstacle was the man guarding it himself. Now, in the Lutece labs, you find a picture of the lighthouse with a red circle marked around it and the words 'ONLY ONE OBSTACLE' next to it. There are charts in the lighthouse that show where the city is going to be depending on the time of the year, and the pattern it follows.Īnd to activate the chair that ejects you into the city, you need a password, the bell combination, that only said lighthouse guardian would know. There are religious motifs all over the place, because as any good Columbian, he'd be a believer. Such a place would have a keeper, a guardian. The lighthouse serves as an entrance to Columbia, and as we see at the beginning of the game, used by pilgrims and newcomers that have been accepted into the city. It isn't Booker, or any metaphysical representation of his psyche. I think I got the answer, and if you think about it, it's quite straightforward.