Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea Episode One EXPLAINED! (Complete Analysis)

[@kishinasura1504]

It's worth noting that Elizabeth shows certain animosity towards this Booker. When he tells her to call him Booker instead of Mr. DeWitt, she refuses.

[@thefreshprincer5587]

Strong hostility

[@lunasa4387]

Because you're not playing as booker, you're playing as comstock

[@64thKomapatient]

@@lunasa4387 Actually, you are playing as both.

[@Frog_Mario]

It may because he is a comstock

[@thedoomslayer5863]

This specific one was a booked who turned to comstock who then turned back to booker after watching his baby Ana (elizabeth) get decapitated by the rift

[@ohokcool]

He didn't force himself to forget. Like with the original Booker, traveling to a universe where he doesn't belong forced Comstock's brain to manufacture memories in an effort to fit into the new reality. The nosebleeds happen whenever Booker/Comstock remembers anything from the other universe. The only people who can carry memories from other universes with them are those that can travel freely through the multiverse (i.e. Elizabeth and the Luteces).

[@shirororororr]

Robert Lutece also had also such problems but Rosalinda Lutece find a solution against this problem

[@sonicx1298]

@@shirororororr yea ur right it was in a autograph

[@lordtachanka5512]

So technically anyone can take memories with them if they think hard enough? (Not trying to be a smart as)

[@mohd8877]

Thank you. This was the one point I didn't fully understand.

[@mish375]

@@shirororororr That was before the Luteces became scattered across the multiverse. Rosalind's audio diaries suggest that Robert nearly died as he was hemorrhaging for days. She only saved him by giving him a blood transfusion from her own veins (knowing they were identical she knew they'd be a match). It was after that she realized that music seemed to help with the "cognitive dissonance" issue. My guess is that Robert had such a strong reaction because he had stepped into a new universe in close proximity to his female counterpart. Once the two of them became timelords, neither Lutece would have that problem again. Elizabeth doesn't bleed because of her abilities. But anyone else who goes universe hopping will experience those problems to a certain degree.

[@shafiendd]

The bioshock series is so fucking incredible. It's so important. Everyone should play the games. Absolutely incredible story telling. Pure genius.

[@awesomekanny8366]

+Nicholas Grefe Yeah you are right. i was a kid when i played original bioshock i didnt knew english that much so i had no idea whats going on. later i played it again cuz i wanted to know the story, playing bioshock 2 and then infinte i was not sure what a hell is going on when i realizedi was like OMG best story ever! changes the plot of bioshock 1 so well i just fell in love with frenchise (sorry for bad english)

[@shafiendd]

+Awesome Kanny lol don't apologize. That's actually kinda cool dude. You got to enjoy the series twice. I'm really not sure if I want another Bioshock because obviously I'd love more game time but the 3 game series they have right now is really solid.

[@0w8wsj7w]

Nicholas Grefe it's a.Nice game.But there's.Nothing special or deep.about it really

[@sirbudz5095]

gds jhgefs Or you just don't understand the story as you should. No other game out has a story as in depth as bioshock and there will probably never be one.

[@MonkeyDIvan]

Sir Budz You might be exaggerating a little bit. This game is phenomenal, but it does have quite a few plotholes if you actually take the time to analyze them. The concept upon which this game is set is just way too confusing -- parallel universes, multiple timezones, etc. -- too complicated. This game was bound to run into a few of them (plotholes) is what I'm trying to say. I wouldn't call it the game with the greatest of depths.

[@tunamesut]

After Booker's drowning it eliminated the possibility of Booker to sell Anna/Elizabeth to Comstock. This allows him to be "reborn", if you will, in an alternate universe in which Comstock never existed and he was able to keep his daughter without ever going through the "Bioshock Infinite" story at all. - MikeSNG

[@yousufhellsing581]

I think this universe when pooker alive at the ending of infinite after the credit it's the same universe that Andrew Rayne bullied Raptrue witch is the same universe anna or Elizabeth went to Paris at the beginning of chapter 2

[@marcov.914]

*Pretends to understand this*

[@zombieslayadylan2923]

Not that hard. Literally just pay attention.

[@zombieslayadylan2923]

Smokeman777 HouseStack77 No. Elizabeth had to kill Booker in Infinite for there to be no Comstocks, and the last remaining Comstock was the one in BaS part one. Comstock was just pretending to be Booker, and Elizabeth got revenge on Comstock for killing Anna. Make sure to watch the video before saying stuff like that.

[@FlyingDilPickle]

Smokeman777 HouseStack77 man what a bitch, being sold when you were young, being trapped in a tower and never being able to leave , used for her powers and making her weak, I wonder why she’s a bitch

[@John-qe5sq]

Zombie Slaya Dylan surely if Elizabeth killed booker at the end of bioshock infinite, all Elizabeth’s would disappear because booker is her father? (Haven’t played BAS ep 2 yet just in case you want to mention it)

[@ermanozcan7729]

@@John-qe5sq By killing Booker at baptism she took out the choice of becoming comstock or remaining as a booker from bookers hand so booker never chosed it and never became comstock but it didnt erased booker its just erased comstock. Well at least what i understood...

[@malloryechelmeyer6679]

"There's a profit to be made and men who make it." "There's a Prophet to be made and men who make it."

[@riffhousestudios96]

6 years later: yyyyyyooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[@thatalerusguy2924]

I have to say, The bioshock series has some deep and confusing stories in gaming history in my opinion

[@ChevelleRocks88]

Right next to the Kingdom Hearts series. But I prefer this storytelling to a simple or boring one.

[@evanweaver1060]

HyruleHero19 Hero of time boy you ever played metal gear or final fantasy? Lol

[@FIRING_BLIND]

Evan Weaver I haven’t even played metal gear, and even I know that the whole plot is convoluted… There are too many snakes!

[@KAINMUSIC]

What I want to know is why the hell is Elizabeth at the scene where Comstock is pulling baby Elizabeth through the tear. Everybody seems to glaze over that detail.

[@surnusan]

yeah, is the older Elizabeth the one who grew from the tower or the one who guide booker to take the baby back, if she's the one who grew from the tower then why Comstock need another Anna, or if she's the one who guide booker to take back the baby then why Comstock didn't surprised?

[@ccecereal]

+Dominik Polák you can still get his message in that soup of words.

[@surnusan]

+Dominik Polák Alright alright, let me try this again. I was saying that the Elizabeth who yelled at Comstock could be the Elizabeth who guide booker to take the baby back, or the Elizabeth who grew up in the tower at Colombia and haven't met Booker yet. Since we know that there's two possible Elizabeth. Now, let's put the information we know to the scene. As we know from the game that Comstock tried to take baby Anna from Booker because Comstock didn't have a child, but from the scene we saw there was Elizabeth standing and yelling to Comstock, at this point there shouldn't be any Elizabeth yet, unless she's the Elizabeth who guide Booker to take his baby back. I already found the answer of my question. That Elizabeth was the one who guide Booker, and her act of yelling at Comstock made him surprised which caused him to let go baby Anna, which unfortunately cut off the baby's head. I know this is a long explanation, but I tried my best to make you understand my point.

[@matheusribeiro8523]

+Surya Nusantara But it stills make no sense since there would be no point in Comstock re-stoling a baby when he already "have" a Elizabeth at his side. Unless this Elizabeth we see yelling at Comstock had actually opened a tear and traveled to the past (to the exact moment Comstock was stealing Anna) to try to prevent Comstock from stealing Anna, which ended up very badly.

[@surnusan]

+Matheus Ribeiro true, strange actually. if Elizabeth can see the future, then she must be know that baby Anna will die if she comes to the scene. is she wants to kill baby Anna?

[@almondbutterumyum]

The only thing I'm still confused about is why/how Elizabeth was there yelling at Comstock as he was trying to take Anna!

[@jazi150]

6 years later, but whatever: Elizabeth always tried to stop Comstock from taking Anna, she is yelling him to not take her, but Comstock has this sterile problem so he was obsessed to take her and raise her as his daughter. Elizabeth tries to convince him not to take Anna and stop the cicle, but as always Comstock wins, and at the end both Comstock and Booker need to die to stop this.

[@Mr.Truxton]

@@jazi150 But Anna became Elizabeth, so how is there already an Elizabeth next to Comstock?

[@ianmac4595]

Same way booker talked to Liz in burial at sea pt 2

[@arifcelen7992]

I think this scene is happening when Elizabeth gained her all powers after torture in the main game. When it happent, she gained power to reach all universes and timelines. At that moment, she tried everything to change things. This scene that she is yelling at Comstock was one of this attempts but ended up with death of baby Anna. She saw all possibilities we didnt see at game too and she ended up deciding to kill Booker before he became Comstock. Because she tried other ways but they didnt work. And all these happent when the Syphon(that tower she was held)destroyed. Burial at Sea is just a result of one of these attempts of Elizabeth.

[@dimitrisprasinos9872]

@@jazi150 omg ive seen so many videos and i now understand what is all about in 5 sentences thank you so much

[@MrHotSalsa]

The thing that fucks me up the most is the fact there's a Booker out there with a headless Anna

[@mrknockknock1]

Yeah, that's depressing. I have no idea what happened to him, but given the fact that he's right there with a baby's decapitated body, he would be charged with murder, should anyone find him there. He obviously can't say that "those people came through a tear and then went off into another universe", who would believe him? Even he had no idea about any of this, about what was going on. Personally, I think he just shot himself right then and there. His baby is dead, and he did have a role to play in that. And based on all he has done before, I don't think he would be able to live with himself after adding this to his list of things that make him feel guilty.

[@oofdude6615]

Can you imagine sitting there with a headless baby thinking: “Well. _Shiiiiiit._ I done goofed.”

[@scottbuttenham4803]

THERE'S A PROFIT TO BE MADE? THERE'S A PROPHET TO BE MADE?

[@cookedgoose2580]

Lol I thought the same thing!

[@leodarksam6230]

"Able Prophet Untold Profit" - Fink

[@aestheticbeatz5700]

Brilliant

[@burner2235]

Double entendre for baptism

[@BenHopkins1000]

9:47 You forgot the part where Cohen says something about "A moth [becoming] a butterfly." This is clearly a reference to Jack, the hero of the first Bioshock.

[@autumnrose2041]

I've beat the game and dlcs multiple times and watched numerous amounts of theory videos and sometimes I just watch them again to have my mind blown all over again...

[@rawrr6067]

what i don't understand is how Elizabeth was standing next to Comstock when he was trying to steal Anna but accidentally killed her, because Elizabeth is technically Anna but raised by Comstock, so if Comstock never actually successfully stole Anna there would be no Elizabeth to stand next to him

[@nialwallace1098]

She is anna in a different universe

[@dangoldberg2841]

My interpretation of that was that was that he's seeing her "at the moment" while trying to get Sally out, but remembering in flashback about when his anna was killed. Her in the "present' saying "let her go!" but being superimposed on his memories of before.

[@technamarc1676]

I think it's booker's past where comstock stole Anna and it's the part of the original BI (bioshock infinite) where Lizzy showed what happened to booker's past except in this past comstock mucked it up causing the original Anna( the baby) to die and never become Lizzy so by that knowledge the Lizzy you see on the side is Bi's Lizzy

[@Anastasia2048]

Why don't they refer it as Electro Bolt in burial at sea?

[@thatoneloser9623]

Eepy-Cheepy Cheepaford Constants and Variables my friend.

[@allenharper2928]

And that line right there makes ALL the difference. Holy moly...

[@mancamiatipoola]

Because it is not the same universe as the original Bioshock Rapture. It is a different Rapture. It's all in the tiny details, my friend.

[@arttheclown9458]

Crazy to think about huh? Its a compeltely different yet same universe as the original Bioshocks we played. The constant is that rapture exists, the variable is that sky lines and drinkable plasmids existed in that one. Dude, its insane bro. It gets super deep. Im tripping out again just thinking about it lol.

[@TrinidadSuperman]

awesome video my man. I don't think too many ppl understand the time and effort it takes to make a video like this so just wanted to say good job dude!!!

[@Britfan06]

You explained part 1 and part 2 in a wonderful, easy to understand way. You would make a fantastic teacher.

[@mrknockknock1]

+Britfan06 Unfortunately, his videos have some seriously false information. Unless you're a Bioshock know-it-all like me, you won't know what to trust and what to ignore in this video.

[@dicloniusgames]

+mrknockknock1 What false information if I may ask since you're a supposed know-it-all?

[@mrknockknock1]

Nobody except Ken Levine knows every single detail about the Bioshock series. Even I don't know everything. But, I do know, that when a nose bleeds, it doesn't mean that you're dead. It means that the brain is processing two different, conflicting memories at once, and trying to stabilize itself by creating one solitary memory made outta the two. Seriously, that's not even a hard-to-understand thingy. It's a basic thing.

[@dicloniusgames]

I never got a chance to play episode 2 as I sold my 360 before episode 2 released to upgrade to the PS4. Kind of a shame, even JV's explanation of episode 2 doesn't do me enough justice as I wanted to experience it for myself.

[@mrknockknock1]

Jose Gonzalez Don't miss it dude. One helluva game right there. You kinda screwed up by watching this video before playing the game. But still, worth playing just for the heck of exploring the fallen Rapture on Unreal Engine 3. Not like the Rapture in the original Bioshock 1 & 2, but still a beauty.

[@thesadwolf3233]

Meh, multiverse is fine, but how come Booker didnt heard the Big Daddy coming behind him. Thoses monster make loud noises when they walk, yet booker get impaled.

[@Fabian6980]

He wasnt booker he was comstock

[@thesadwolf3233]

Booker is Comstock. Comstock in that peticular episode got Renamed Booker. The point is, why the BD in that scene dont make noise. Surprise element I know, but still.

[@Azraelseraphim]

eskoturn5000 Comstock Booker. Booker Comstock. Thats a pretty thin, blurry line considering what kind of men we are dealing with.

[@thesadwolf3233]

Lol indeed

[@UnKiKuma]

Plus the Drill Detaches at some point I think o-o like a rocket and gets dragged back o-o

[@max123season4]

"he always seems to lose a child" that's a little harsh xD

[@justanotherdude6737]

One thing at the end of infinite and the beginning of burial at sea. Right at the ending of infinite, ur Elizabeth is not present when booker is drowned ( your Elizabeth has the pendant u chose while during the drowning scene there is no pendant). The Elizabeth ur employed by in burial at sea wears the pendant u chose showing she’s your Elizabeth from infinite

[@dustichux867]

Why does Comstock still have the AD on his hand? As you explain, this Booker was once Comstock, who never had the AD. Also, where did the AD on Booker's hand come from in the original game?

[@lunasa4387]

He carved it into his hand in the original after selling Elizabeth and I assume he got it tattooed after getting Elizabeth killed

[@cra8zykidg]

Well the Booker in that universe got baptized and became Comstock this never having a childHowever in another timeline book a refuses The baptism it has a child who he then gives to Comstock

[@aminebenz1411]

AD stands for Anna Dewitt. Comstock probably carved her name out of guilt, or had seen Booker have it from the Lutece field so did it to impersonate him.

[@Zinc_Nitrogen]

Although I'm ok with infininite's story I just think its unnecessarily complicated . The older ones got their depth from a simple but powerful story.

[@chabandou]

This is Brilliant, what a great way to prolong the story as a DLC, The writers have my respect.

[@adayintheroux]

I agree with nearly everything you've said about this episode, but I think I have some ideas that may fill in the holes people have been finding: First of all, I'm content with there being one Elizabeth left at the end of Bioshock Infinite because, considering the infinite number of constants and variables noted in the original game, it would make sense for at least one universe to exist after the last scene for reasons we do not know. Exactly how is open to interpretation, of course. (I'm personally guessing that Booker/Comstock somehow survived the drowning in one universe, but that's me.) Anyway, I believe that the last Elizabeth is still intent upon destroying all chances for the continuation of these constants and variables and has attempted to stop the cycle in this last story (Burial at Sea) by first trying to stop Comstock from taking Anna and then by finding Comstock in Rapture. When we see Elizabeth on Comstock's side of the tear, she is there only to try to stop Comstock for the first time. If Comstock had her there by his doing, he wouldn't be trying to steal Anna away again because he'd already have a daughter. Elizabeth is there without Comstock realizing who she is. Her attempt to stop Comstock in the realm of Columbia is successful, but now she must stop him in Rapture. Side Note: This timeline would explain why Comstock has the AD on his hand in Burial at Sea. Much like Booker felt guilty for losing Anna and symbolically branded himself on his side of the tear, Comstock felt guilty after accidently decapitating -- and thereby losing -- Anna and symbolically branded himself (hello, constants and variables!). Only after wallowing in his guilt did he again turn to the Luteces to seek Rapture. As for the discoloration of the AD in Burial at Sea, Comstock's brand is older and has become more scar tissue than flesh wound. I'd say that Booker's AD in Bioshock Infinite was still red because it had been a fresher brand. Thus, Comstock's brand and doll's head serve as his last two reminders of the daughter he lost. This is when Elizabeth arrives in Rapture to successfully stop Comstock for the last time. I do not see her actions in Burial at Sea: Episode One as revenge because that would be out of character for her. She is extremely forgiving and benevolent throughout the Infinite story. I think she was simply acting the way Rapture people do (no one as selfless as Elizabeth lives in Rapture and it would be a red flag if she were herself) to gain Comstock's trust and ultimately end the cycle of Booker-Comstock for good.

[@Kristofer382]

O my god

[@andresrossi8744]

five years on and this is still the best explanation i've read

[@mymindisdigital]

Cheers to you!

[@ringsaphire]

My take is, this Elisabeth erased her own time lines by drowning her father before he could conceive her, thus she "died" along with her alternates selves; Or they just returned to their respective timelines and all she did was create a new reality where neither Booker nor she exists... wich is the hypothesis I like best. I believe the Lutece outside the lighthouses can see/know every alternate versions of themselves at the same time... if that means anything :D So, this version of her was able to somehow, like the Luteces, exist outside the Bioshock time stream in the lighthouses world, use her powers to cross over to other alternate realities, obtaining also a tear-related version of omniscience: knowledge of many different possible realities and how to get there. At some point, not satisfied with a universe where she doesn't exist, Elisabeth spent some time after Infinite storyline to hunt down any other surviving versions of Comstock she couldn't erase, hunting them in a number of alternate universes, kind of cleaning house in order to create a "happy" alternate reality for herself. At some point she finaly meets Rapture's "last Comstock". This Comstock in the "Buried at sea" reality can exist because in it, baby Elisabeth died (because of our grown Elisabeth earlier time walking and interfering with events in her attempt to create a version of her ideal reality), Columbia is still founded but "Tower Elisabeth" is not there to erase pre-baptism Dewitt via Infinite's walkthrough; wich is the reason why this Comstock can live to flee to Rapture and make himself forget his sinful past using the help of his version of the Lutece... Haunted by her baby self dying partly because of her own intervention - and with the ability to live it directly (talk about a trauma!) she then hunts down her Last Comstock in a revenge / atonement quest... and selfishly let young Sally get in harm's way, wich she later came to regret. (because there being an infinite number of constants among all the variables, she would never be able to erase all Comstocks in existence, qed). AAAAAAnd I will stop there before going crazy or getting a brain freeze :D

[@mancamiatipoola]

I agree with almost everything you said, frend. Except the last paragraph. What we see in Burial at Sea is an Elizabeth that is much more cynical, snidy and dark. Much more cold than the innocent Elizabeth from Infinite. It is an Elizabeth that has been through a lot and her decisions from her extensive multiverse travels weigh heavily upon her. She is also much more secretive telling Booker only parts of the truth in order to goad him forward. I believe this is the Elizabeth that was traumatized by seeing her younger self from this (Burial at Sea) universe being decapitated and she realized it was partly because of her temporal interference. Thus, this death and probably many other events from her travels have weighed heavily upon her conscience and eventually it affected her sanity. She eventually decides to take revenge on Comstock in order to shift the blame from herself onto him entirely. I think that she tried many times to go back and alter that event (the kidnapping) and every time it ended in failure. In all those hundreds of attempts to fix her mistake her sanity must have started slipping. She did not realize the ultimate crushing truth: she was the variable in that event. She had to take herself out of that equation entirely in order to prevent it. She had to find out why she was still around and remove herself from existence as well. I think that would have closed her loop for good. There was a similar situation in the movie The Butterfly Effect and the way he resolves it in the end was the best way.

[@pesky716]

So if Booker traveled to Rapture to forget about letting Anna die, what is the significance of Sally? Why is she important to Booker or Elizabeth?

[@hmitchell9759]

+JV2017gameplay When you said Elizabeth was leading Booker on through out the entirety of Bioshock Infinite, did you mean that she knew who he was even at the point when they first meet and that only way to free herself from the "circle" was to drown him at the baptism?

[@mrknockknock1]

+Connor “Dom” Mitchell Nope, she didn't. The siphon in the tower suppressed her powers, not allowing her to create tears at her will. She could open any visible tears, but couldn't use her powers to their maximum potential. The siphon probably had her DNA or something in it, as her powers remained suppressed even after she escaped the tower. She saw all the doors, and what's behind the doors, after she got Songbird to destroy the siphon.

[@securitygaming7282]

Was watching this last night at work and got the urge to replay infinite since I have the collection on Xbox one. Game is still amazing

[@MrBX5]

5:36 No, even though most of the main game (everything that happens in Columbia) is in 1912, when they go to Rapture at the end, they also traveled in time to after/during Bioshock 1. You know that, because the zone in Rapute that you're transported to is the same place where Jack got his first plasmid and if you go to Eden's Garden, where it was, it is not there anymore. "Booker" on episode 2 also mentions that they went to 1960. Also, but this one is just a theory, Song Bird's death can be heard during Bioshock 1. Booker doesn't bleed from his nose because he is a dead man, it is a secondary effect due to changing universe, and happens when he tries to recall memories. And on that that note, that's how he forgot about what happened, not because he forced himself to forget. Remember that the same happens in the main game, he forgets about is past as the travels to the other universe.

[@ashtraydelicacy5773]

+MrBX5 That scene in Rapture was always a bit weird. The plasmid is gone from the Eden's Garden, meaning that Jack would've taken it. However if you look at the railing adjacent to the machine, it's not broken, meaning that Jack couldn't have been there, as he broke the railing when he injected himself.

[@RickWeasel]

I understood the game but your explanation of it made it even more clear. It was a bit hard to grasp and even took me a few seconds. Thank you for your hard work on this. Check out Part two!

[@rohanpurohit4217]

Even in 2023 this vid comes in handy Thanks alot

[@jayveeeee]

glad i could help :)

[@norahernandez4306]

I just noticed that at 9:56 when Elizabeth is waking Booker up and saying how he was saying his daughters name, it references back to the original Bioshock Infinite when the two are first at the beach,and a very similar thing happens..

[@mitchiemoHD]

Jv2017. Did you see the ad sign on comstocks hand at buriel at sea episode one. But now instead of skin colour, it is in blue. Any clues about that ?

[@mitchiemoHD]

You can see it when he pulls the girl out of the tube. Maybe he made a tatoo. That would explain the blue ?

[@lorrainadiaz8816]

I could be wrong but I don't think the tattoo in Columbia was skin colored, I could be wrong again but it looked Branded on booker in Infinite in burial at sea it looks like a actual tattoo.

[@mrknockknock1]

+Mitchiemo HD In Bioshock Infinite, the Booker Dewitt we play as is a man who sold his daughter to pay off his gambling debts. He uses a knife to brand a scar of 'AD' representing his daughter's name, "Anna Dewitt" on his hand. In Burial At Sea - Episode One, the Booker Dewitt we play as is formerly Comstock. In his flashback, we all clearly saw that he tried to buy and forcefully take baby Anna from an alternate version of himself, and unintentionally ended up decapitating her. He was guilty about killing an innocent little baby, not to mention, it was his own child in a different world. So, he was bound by guilt. So, after he accidentally killed the baby, and before he went to Rapture, he was at Columbia for a fairly long period of time. At some point of time between those events, he tattooed the initials because the guilt ate him up. So, Booker having the AD brand is a constant. But the events that make Booker do it, and the way in which he chooses to brand the symbols, are variables.

[@MrBX5]

+Mitchiemo HD I think that the color was just to diferenciate this Comstock from the Booker on the main game. The reason for the tattoo, is (kinda) the same, they both lost Anna/Elisabeth. BTW, on the main game, it wasn't a tattoo, but self-inflicted cuts that turned into scars.

[@mrknockknock1]

The color of the screen is kinda brown to indicate that it's a flashback. Also, the color of the tattoo must've gotten lighter with time. I also answered all questions way before you even got here. :P

[@Trilasent]

Just wanna point this out for anyone who sees this in the future: Notice the similarities between how 'Booker' tries to pull Sally out of the vent just like the guy from the Bioshock 1 trailer did. Also notice the similarity in how they both die from a Big Daddy drilling them through the torso.

[@MurlokDredger]

this helped me a tiny bit but everything else just fried my brain!

[@SylvainThuret]

There are videogames. And there is Ken Levine and his team.

[@dicloniusgames]

So if she drowned Booker at the source thus eliminating the possibility for Comstock's existence, then how does one Comstock escape to Rapture if all possible Comstocks are dead?

[@edzips]

Because only this Comstock travelled to future, cuz he fucked up in his universe, rest of the Comstocks and Bookers died in there normal timelines 1912 when Elizabeth drowned Booker from infinite, but this Comstock is living in 1958, and that's why he survived, cuz he lives in future, and that's why constants and variables doesn't affect him. But still, Elizabeth found him and killed him, cuz she can see all the alternate universis, future and past, so there was no escape for Comstock. Thats what i think. :)

[@braders790boop]

Yeah. With this booker, Anna died (she got decapitated by the tear instead of just losing a finger), so in this universe there is no columbia, and booker went to rapture. I don't understand that time difference though.

[@Azraelseraphim]

Also that baptism isn't the end all be all. Booker may have lost heart in the first baptism but may have found his balls and was baptized at a later date. Taking that into consideration there are probably variants of Booker and Comstock. You might even find a universe where Booker is the ultimate scum bag and Comstock was all about peace and love. Might as well snuff out baby Booker in his crib just to be on the safe side.

[@OWmyDragonballz]

Azraelseraphim Comstock being the crazy scum bag was a constant. He no longer exists this far in the story. Booker was always the man who regretted selling anna.

[@rubadubdubb8375]

If I read anything that has been replied to you, my mind will fucking get blowned.

[@charlyssa3219]

This guy explains things so clearly and in a comprehensive way, which makes it worth the hour to patiently watch his videos. It makes me yearn for more information and theory(s) he has obtained and formulated throughout the whole BS series.

[@shafiendd]

Even after hearing these explanations I'm still too dumb to comprehend all this. Lol

[@LoveSucks4797]

Me niether. It's been months since I finished the game (or in this case since the game finished me) and I still haven't wrapped my mind around all of it, let alone the multiverse theory...

[@chloenammour5195]

But what happens to Sally? Is she dead in that vent? And what about the body less doll? How’d Elizabeth get the head

[@boblambert74]

One question, @ 18:00 WHY and HOW was Elizabeth beside Comstock? Was she the last surviving Elizabeth from the black screen where booker was drowned, trying to travel to all the other universes righting the wrongs? And is the Elizabeth in This DLC the same Elizabeth @ 18:03 the one in columbia? Other than this, everything was pretty clear.

[@jordanebacher]

+JV2017gameplay But she killed Booker before the baptism so that there are no Comstocks, so how could that last surviving Elizabeth be there next to Comstock at 19:07 - it just doesn't make any sense to me...

[@letsbusk66]

I was asking myself the same question as this guy (asking 'WHY and HOW'). As an earlier commenter pointed out, perhaps she (the single possible Elizabeth at the end of Infinite) opened up a tear to try and warn this universe (Burial At Sea 1)'s Comstock about the imminent beheading, which she then failed to stop. I think that both Infinite and B.a.S.' Elizabeths have to be the same Elizabeth, because she's the only possible Elizabeth following Booker/Comstock's drowning... But alas, I'm still confused, as that means that the baby Anna in Infinite's final scene has to therefore be the Elizabeth that a forgetful Booker saves in Infinite's gameplay, right? Which doesn't add up/just hurts my head...Or is history re-written through Elizabeth's/Booker's actions somehow, meaning the sold Anna ('repay the debt') rewrote history to allow herself NOT to be sold? ARGH!!

[@sygyl]

the creators of bioshock are genius man. my jaw dropped the whole last 10 minutes of this video

[@Tsimosh]

I havent played Episode 2 yet, so please do not spoil it for me. I do have one question about Episode 1: In the end when we are seeing Comstock stealing Anna from Booker (from Comstocks perspective), and Elizabeth is standing right next to him.. Why is she there? If Anna = Elizabeth and she is there with Comstock, why was he stealing her again?

[@deathkuramoto]

She is trying to stop Comstock from successfully pulling Anna through so as to ensure that Booker will be able to keep his daughter and neither of them will have to undergo the suffering that she did with her Booker.

[@AnthonyBrinias]

H[lambda]LF That's a really good question. I always assumed Bioshock Infinite took place several years after the baby was stolen, and so she grew up to become Elizabeth.

[@mrknockknock1]

+H[lambda]LF If you're thinking that Comstock stole Anna, raised her, and is trying to steal her again, you're misunderstanding the entire thing completely. At the end of Infinite, there is one Elizabeth that is not wiped out of existence. That same Elizabeth opens up a door to that timeline moments after drowning Booker. She opens up a door to that timeline where Comstock and Booker are fighting over baby Anna. She does hate Comstock, but thinks that if she can reason Comstock into not kidnapping her, she won't have to spill more blood. So, she requests Comstock to let go of baby Anna while Booker and Comstock are fighting over her. At that point, the situation was so tense that Comstock was unable to think much. He didn't know who Elizabeth was. All he knew was that he was fighting over baby Anna, the Booker on the other side of the tear is trying hard to get her back, the Luteces are trying to keep the tear open, and this weird woman opened up a tear and came outta nowhere, requesting him to let go. And he doesn't get to think much, so he does let go of Anna, only to see her get decapitated due to the early closing of tear. In other words, we can say that Elizabeth caused that. She pretty much made the situation more tense, and sort of distracted Comstock, leading to this horrible accident. But, Comstock is the one who bears the guilt as he attempted to kidnap the innocent baby in the first place. So I guess it pretty much answers your questions. The Elizabeth that is there is a different Elizabeth. Comstock is still pretty young, and is NOT stealing baby Anna for the second time. There are no instances where Comstock steals baby Anna twice. Also, we see it from Comstock's perspective because in Episode 1, we are Comstock. Although he loses all memories related to his Comstock persona, Columbia and this horrible event, he's not exactly a pure Booker DeWitt. He is a Comstock, who's brain uses his old memories to create new ones, thus making him think that he is Booker DeWitt. So, Elizabeth recreates a similar event in order to set his erased memories into motion. Then, Booker realizes that he is actually Comstock, and he had accidentally decapitated Anna. I hope that answers your questions.

[@TheMyke5000]

+mrknockknock1 why isn't it the same Elizabeth ?

[@mrknockknock1]

Jeff James Isn't who the same Elizabeth? To be honest, none of them are same. 1. Elizabeth that we played with as Booker in Columbia dies at the end of Episode 1. The same bouncer that kills Booker/Comstock kills Elizabeth. 2. Baby Anna is different from this Elizabeth, although they're the same person, but speaking in terms of the multiverse, they are two different version of the same person in two different worlds. Get the idea?

[@bakersfield123456789]

this was very well explained and the most informative and understandable video I've watched explaining burial at sea ending. great job on this video!

[@noct4862]

Man, I got to understand the normal campaign, but all the way in July 18th, I still have no fucking clue what happened in Burial at Sea Episode 2, because when I let my douche bag cousin borrow some of my xbox games, he sold it for drug money. I'm way too lazy to watch hours of explanations and walk-throughs to know what happened.

[@savageproduction186]

Cut off his hand

[@2010btube]

I'll donate mine

[@2jacko5]

I really like your explanations:) The only thing I think you may have misinterpreted (as we all did probably) is that this Elizabeth is the last one or that the Booker drowned by those Elizabeths is the last one. Elizabeth at the baptism is not the one we know from Columbia, u can proove it by watching your Infinite ending explanation video, at 13:10. In that video Elizabeth at the lighthouse (our E from Columbia) is wearing that necklace with a bird broche Booker picked for her, but when Booker goes through the door and enters the baptism scene THAT El doesn't have the necklace, and NONE of those other Els that appear have that necklace. Our El was never at the baptism! If she were she would think Comstock doesn't exist anymore and would never go to find him in Rapture (like she did in this dlc). Also in this dlc we see another Comstock AND another Booker whose doughter Comstock killed when trying to steal her through the Tear. Which means there is another Booker that survived the baptism, that didn't get drowned. Elizabeths dissapearing at the end of Infinite are only those Elizabeths that were effected by that Bookers drowning.

[@danielkong6767]

Pretty solid explaination, but however then you would also have to aknowledge that the hole point of the first game (kill every comstock) was for nothig and if one comstock got through the risk is more of them did, making the events in Bio-infinite even more pointless from a story perspective. Theres just got to be another explaination for the comstock in burial at sea ...

[@XParthurnax]

its sucks that he died like that

[@mrknockknock1]

+XParthurnax I totally agree!

[@efahad]

I just started my journey at 35yo as an icon of "Gaming Noob"..! However, I'm the expert of following video of games explained specially that I'm not native so I might miss hints hear & there ! you have the best explanation among all others. Great style of re-arranging events and starting from comprehensives or agreed upon points (constants). Still, that doesn't mean I always get it :) BIG THANK YOU TO YOU AND OTHERS who are making our gaming life easy..!

[@IVAN3DX]

10:20 What do you mean with "Elizabeth did this during the entire game"?

[@kelleyroche856]

I wondered the same thing here. I went through the comments and didn't seem to find any answers. Its I think something only JV2017gameplay can explain. My guess is that he meant to say after the syphon is destroyed and she sees everything she was leading him on about what she knew? I don't think she knew since day one that Booker needed to be drowned at the baptism. Again, I have no idea really, just a shot in the dark.

[@IVAN3DX]

Kelley Roche I was thinking the same, but that's not "the entire game" xD

[@kelleyroche856]

Maybe he just misspoke?

[@IVAN3DX]

Kelley Roche That's unforgiveable

[@kelleyroche856]

Man, trying to convey points through text and not speech is such a struggle. I think what JV was referring to was not the full game and misspoke when he said the entire game. What he was referring to was when she was leading Booker to his death after the syphon being demolished. There, I think that makes more sense.

[@venoumusgammer4112]

So if he stays Booker then Rapture is built but is he becomes Comestock Coulambia is built?

[@allenharper2928]

No, they're both built in all universes, that's a constant. There's always a man, there's always a lighthouse, and there's always a city.

[@Sunbeach10]

This entire series rocked my world it was like I was in the game the story line and the characters Elizabeth and comstock being father daughter was insane

[@guilhermezan]

So basically Elizabeth is travelling through all of the multiverses chasing down Comstock in order to kill him? Well, that's rather simple..

[@engsy]

It is also noted that Comstock's tattoo is slightly different as compared to the one Booker had in Columbia. Comstock's tattoo was a bit posh and fancyful whist Booker's was a just an ordinary font.

[@engineermole2688]

+Bryan Eng I think Booker's is actually a branding but I could be wrong

[@mrknockknock1]

Comstock was a prophet with tons of money and people working for him. Even though he was guilty, he used his money and power to symbolize. Booker, on the other hand, had nothing. He was guilty, but he didn't have any money or people working for him. And because his life was far more depressing than Comstock's, he figured that just using a knife or something the brand the symbols wouldn't be a bad idea.

[@richardtylenda7652]

But how are you playing as Comstock, if Elizabeth kills him off?

[@thankqlol]

You play as Booker, not comstock.

[@richardtylenda7652]

+RwR Gaming I'm talking about Burial at Sea because in the end of Bio Infinite, Elizabeth kills all Comstocks

[@awesomekanny8366]

+ItsZazzyBud you are wrong you play as comstok who wants to forget the past and changed his name to booker

[@thankqlol]

+Dah Legend She killed all bookers, some how one comstock lived and wanted to go back to being booker. It's pretty weird.

[@LoveSucks4797]

+ItsZazzyBud yeah this is the only thing that doesnt make sense to me

[@MrChickenAndFish]

Thats why, if you play slots in the intro sequence of BaS, Elizabeth say's "better quit while you're ahead"

[@MrChickenAndFish]

You in on your first spin and then you never win again. (at least in my experience)

[@randyparsons3188]

The main problem with all these stories is the multi universe theory. The ending of Infinite doesn't make much sense because you die in only that universe, it would not effect any of the other universes in the slightest. Same with the DLC. Comstock and Eliz can do what they want, but how could it possibly carry over to other universes? Also why would the other universes follow a very similar or same timeline with similar characters? Why would Eliz be the same person with slightly different hair and dresses? Kinda cheesy. The problem is you can't mix the 2 kinds of time travel, you can't mix multiverse with single timeline it just doesn't work. This game does this to force an ending. Great game though.

[@erlendkopp]

Randy Parsons Constants and variables.

[@randyparsons3188]

Interesting how that can be an answer to any question. What is evolution? Constants and Variables. What's for dinner tonight? Constants and variables.

[@erlendkopp]

Haha yeah 😊

[@MrTHEMONEEMAKER]

Randy Parsons Think of it like this, from bookers birth there was two things that could happen and then two things for those two things and so on and so forth until you have a big tree with branches going on for the millions and millions and millions of possibilities now the creation of Comstock was from a particular branch and in order to stop him permanently they just cut off that branch ''booker drowning there during that baptism'' because all comstocks originate from that choice so to stop him there is to stop him everywhere

[@maxijonson]

Randy Parsons Constants and variables. Killing DeWitt or Comstock just like that in other universes would just be a variable, as they are not the constants of the story, and therefore, they would just be dead and other universes would keep on going and creating more universes because of the other variables that they make, but Eliz's goal was to stop Comstock from existing in EVERY universes, and destroying variables wouldn't do nothing, you have to destroy the constant and the constant in infinite is the baptism, because that is where comes out either DeWitt or Comstock. So Eliz had to lie to him all the time because he probably wouldn't have had agreed to let himself get killed, until he sees it for himself at the end and understands he is both, no matter what. Killing him at the baptism puts an end to the constant as nothing comes out of it if he is dead.

[@thejulionic8799]

That was one tight vent

[@B.torres]

How would Comstock still exist if Elizabeth wiped out all Comstock's at the baptism, in Infinite ?

[@zoomyhaxor]

Because he accepted baptism

[@danielkong6767]

Gaben Pls but elizabeth wiped out every booker that took the baptism, aka no comstock, so what gives this comstock a freepass?

[@braders790boop]

the booker in rapture was never at the baptism, something happened earlier in his life that meant his course of events was totally different

[@Azraelseraphim]

Daniel Kong He might have had another opportunity to have a second baptism at later time. He lost heart in the first one and went with it in the second sometime later. There are many variants of Booker and Comstock. Some so similar you could spend your whole life combing over the minute differences. Some so vastly difference they defy comprehension. You might have a universe where Comstock isn't the scum bag and instead its Booker.

[@123doomdoom]

half assed plot with Levin using the multiple universe concept as a crutch. Didn't like this concept in Infinite with me having lots of questions and after finishing part one of this, I dis like it even more because he just pulls whatever plot out of his ass and excuses it for being a multi demnsional plot.

[@TheSinsation20]

Notice that the baby is turned in the opposite direction when they're trying to pull her through the tear. In infinite, Anna's head was on Booker's left side, and Comstock's right side.

[@TheSinsation20]

Sinsation20 Constants and Variables.

[@iqbalbara8538]

damn confusing. or maybe... maybee in this whole time we did trying to connect a unconecteed stories (flawed stories ) which there contains a big gap hole in it. thats why these thing seems preety damn confusing . and in the meantime the story-writers of Bioshock Infinite laughing their ass off cause of us, they said " how the hell that flawed stories that couldve make us get fired now goes rocket to the top like that hahaha , and they even try to make it sense " . #justsaying . and screw my grammar

[@UniversalAero]

The complete analysis of the ORINGLE!!

[@nanyafahkinbiznes1352]

Meanwhile in another universe Elizabeth drugs Booker and does Sweet Home Alabama with him, good job Studio FOW.

[@Stygian_blackwitch]

I hate how since there infinite possibilitys it can happen

[@shadowpeople2645]

It could happen it could also happen that booker was killed as a baby

[@squiddybits9394]

I never got to play the dlc's, so this was much needed, but mann.. the tear doorway cutting baby anna got me frfr. Like sheeeshhhhh😢

[@guisouzadias]

Ok, but HOW CAN ELIZABETH EVEN EXIST? I still didn't get that. If the all other Elizabeths disappeared with Booker's drowning, before being born, how can that Elizabeth still remain? I know she has quantum powers and stuff, but those others had it too, 'cause they were there, traveling through space and time to see the baptism and drown Brooker. So... or there is a plot hole or I missing something very important here.

[@boblambert74]

Finally, someone to help me with the DLC, I've been watching the Let's Play of Episode 1 and Episode 2 w/ Jesse Cox and boy, it is confusing. This makes way more sense now, I hope you will make one for episode two :).

[@Psychoalives]

my brain hurts

[@notkimpine]

same here

[@fellonahardrock]

It's worse than virtues last reward how​@@notkimpine

[@abcdeisthekeygaming277]

While the DLC was confusing, it was the best part of BioShock infinite and I hope to see more like it in the future. Rapture is so cool

[@gerbil5624]

God I love this game. Also if u stumble on this comment months later. reply so I can see what changed in my life.. -I am currently failing Spanish. -I have a 70 in Algebra II and English II Pre-AP. -If I failed the first semester ACP I fail english and algebra, if I pass, I pass. -My cat left me. -I created so much drama in a group chat. -I'm still on episode 2 of Narcos. -I haven't even started watching supernatural yet. but planning on it.

[@Kamyuyon]

+Cm Punk dont watch supernatural, also 'I am sorry for your cat

[@gerbil5624]

-I passed first semester of spanish.. but currently failing the second. -I passed algebra and english first semester and passing this semester. -nothing changed with my cat.. ;( -I eventually left the group chat cuz it was dead asf. -Still on ep 2 of Narcos.. ;( -why not?

[@shafiendd]

+Cm Punk how you doing?

[@411marcos]

+Cm Punk SI podes leer esto , estas mejor de lo que pensabas, suerte bro

[@ArrayChunkie]

Can we have another update or?

[@quincystewart6892]

i think that at the end of infinite where anna's in her crib with booker is the EXACT SAME universe where anna got her head cut off. then, the mainstream elizabeth (the one we go all throughout infinite AND the one that constantly told Comstock to let go of the baby) traveled to the universe that the Lutece twins sent Comstock and thus leading to the events of Burial at Sea

[@SkylordSweddy]

But if there's an infinite amount of universes, there cannot be a specific number of something. There's an infinite number of everything. For every choice someone makes, for every step some one takes, they create another infinite amount of universes. Creating a new infinite amount of Elizabeths, Bookers, Comstocks, and so on. If you take a step forward you create a new universe for every possible location you can put your foot down. Even bit less than an atom in difference. There's an infinite amount of universes where Booker lost his pinky. As that is a possibility. There's an infinite amount of universes where Booker never went to Wounded Knee. There's an infinite amount of universes where Booker never sold Anna in the first place. *****

[@bobsidian]

Skylord Sweddy Plus, even if you are right why would the creators of the game even need to explain when he did those things when the more interesting and problematic story is these specific events? This dlc is, what i assume to be, the last Elizabeth from the infinite universe simply killing off the last remaining/one of the remaining Comstocks. tying up loose ends, basically.

[@stephenTcartwright]

Difficult one to fathom considering how daunting infinity is, but consider that there are probably more universes where humans don't even exist than universes where they do exist.

[@nizarshawwa3704]

That's a lot for god to process.

[@divineraccoon]

10:18 "...she is leading Booker on. If you remember from Infinite, Elizabeth did this during the ENTIRE game." What? No, she didn't. When was that said or shown?

[@ohkireJ]

16:00 my head hurts so much! Lik if u cri everi tim

[@SyniSTAR100]

Great Job dude, Thanks for laying it out Barney style for us! makes the game as a whole more enjoyable!!

[@sustelsuk]

I love this dlc, I never see rapture before the riots, it’s a good prequel of the first game

[@JonTheBlueWaffle]

The Elizabeth at the end of episode one appears at the end of the Infinite story. She is covered in blood still. Go back and look and look at he ending. If she is present at the death of comstock, then mybe the DLC takes place DURING the infinite campaign.

[@TheWhoamaters]

In my mind, the Elizabeth here is the last one from the end of Infinite, the one we don't see fade away. She is now going and killing off all the Comstocks that somehow survived the ending of Infinite.

[@awildsiscoappears1054]

i thought we were to assume that the last elizabeth at the end of infinite disappears too since the score plays a note each time an Elizabeth fades away and after the screen turns black one last note is played, suggesting the last elizabeth is gone too

[@fellonahardrock]

Exactly

[@francos.4273]

You know what I just realized, in the part when the Elizabeth drown you, they are not drowning just one Booker, they are drowning all the Bookers of her respectives universes

[@matthewvillarde5601]

Ok so let's start a small discussion here. This is what I got from this video. Booker Dewitt cannot exist in Burial at Sea because Elizabeth killed all instances of booker that chose to be reborn as comstock. But what strikes me as odd is... If she killed all Comstocks shouldn't it be that a Comstock can never exist in Burial at Sea?

[@matthewvillarde5601]

Also. If she have killed all Comstocks by drowning him at the constant of the baptism... How did this Comstock came to be?

[@matthewvillarde5601]

If so, perhaps the Baptism is not a full constant but a 99.99% variable where there is the .1% That became Comstock for a different reason. This is then, what Elizabeth is trying to stop. The creation of another Elizabeth because she should be the only one.

[@matthewvillarde5601]

All that said, the last thing that bothers me is how Elizabeth did not perish if all of the 99.99% of Comstocks are prevented...

[@shadowpeople2645]

@@matthewvillarde5601 because that .1% who knows even if it was 99.99% it could be 50% ah dont you love infinite universe's where legit anything is a possibility

[@86themadhatter27]

Only played Episode 1 today. Should have really watched the ending of Infinite again just to get my head into that space again.

[@SouthernersSax]

16:04 My jaw dropped, my eyes widened, and I remember my exact words when I saw this scene during my first playthrough. "SHIT!" with a heavy downward inflection on the last bit of it (like "SHE-it").

[@MisiekWielun]

Great video, great explanation again. Thumb up!

[@TooFrost]

Your videos are great man keep it up :D

[@ringsaphire]

My take is, this Elisabeth erased her own time lines by drowning her father before he could conceive her, thus she "died" along with her alternates selves; Or they just returned to their respective timelines and all she did was create a new reality where neither Booker nor she exists... wich is the hypothesis I like best. I believe the Lutece outside the lighthouses can see/know every alternate versions of themselves at the same time... if that means anything :D So, this version of Elisabeth was able to somehow, like the Luteces, exist outside the Bioshock time stream in the lighthouses world, use her powers to cross over to other alternate realities, obtaining also a tear-related version of omniscience: knowledge of many different possible realities and how to get there. At some point, not satisfied with a universe where she doesn't exist, Elisabeth spent some time after Infinite storyline to hunt down any other surviving versions of Comstock she couldn't erase, hunting them in a number of alternate universes, kind of cleaning house in order to create a "happy" alternate reality for herself. At some point she finaly meets Rapture's "last Comstock". This Comstock in the "Buried at sea" reality can exist because in it, baby Elisabeth died (because of our grown Elisabeth earlier time walking and interfering with events in her attempt to stop the kidnapping), so Columbia is still founded but "Tower Elisabeth" is not there to erase pre-baptism Dewitt via Infinite's walkthrough; wich is the reason why this Comstock can live and flee to future Rapture and make himself forget his sinful past using the help of his version of the Lutece... Haunted by her baby self dying partly because of her own intervention - and with the ability to experience/remember it directly (talk about a trauma!) she then hunts down her Last Comstock in a revenge/atonement quest... and selfishly let young Sally get in harm's way, wich she later came to regret. Because there being an infinite number of constants among infinite variables, she would never be able to erase all Comstocks in existence, so "Last Comstock" was more likely refering to her last attempt at making things right, not the real "Last" Comstock in existence... AAAAAAnd I will stop there before going crazy or getting a brain freeze :D

[@noahrozumiak7955]

Had an urge to play all the bioshocks again but one thing still really confuses me. Does this retcon BS2? Subject delta was always the first one to be pair bonded before the way started to a little sister but now it doesn’t happen until after the civil war starts thanks to Elizabeth?

[@MalkinFan25]

I like your explanations JV! In terms of the ideas in the gameplay of all 3 games, it all makes sense. However, I do have 1 burning question (that I am sure many people have) that I am confused about. I wonder if anyone could help me sort this out: Why does Comstock still exist? If we assume the causality tree, Booker dies at the baptism, Comstock cannot be "born", and therefore the Booker that is still alive (before the baptism) is the only Booker left and cannot have a gambling problem because he hasn't met his future self yet. So my conclusion is (and I may be WAY off).... (This makes the most sense to me) This whole game is like a blooper real, or one of those multiple ending books. Murder of Booker still exists, and Comstock does not anymore. However, in Burial, what we are seeing is one of the multiple endings that could have occurred if Booker took the baptism. In other words, in the timeline of Bioshock Infinite, this scenario is just one of the "lighthouses" so to speak. It is parallel to all of the scenarios that could have occurred in Infinite. However, unlike Infinite, instead of coming to revelation of your wrongdoing then killing yourself at the baptism (the good ending), you're a jerk who killed his daughter and now Elizabeth has come with vengeance to murder you (the really bad ending). Then it's game over, off to another universe. Which, to me, is like DLC Infinite, because 2K studios could make a million of these...

[@Azraelseraphim]

Why are we assuming Booker only had the one opportunity to have the one baptism. Why not a second opportunity to have one at a later date? That also creates infinite Bookers and Comstocks. He has been; is; and will be. Billions of people in billions of dimensions making billions of choices. That's the secret to the multiverse.

[@GarudaPhoenix]

Thanks very much. Finally I now understand the full story. Well presented video.

[@TheSporewow]

Why he has AD markings on his hands ?

[@nicholas164]

TheSporewow Its Anna's intials, AD, Anna DeWitt

[@maxijonson]

***** Then shouldn't it be SD since in this case the girl was Sally and not Anna?

[@giangps96]

+MaxiJonson Sally wasn't his child. He adopted her.

[@mrknockknock1]

+MaxiJonson Here's a clear explanation. After Comstock accidentally ended up decapitating Anna, he spent a long time in Columbia with guilt, before asking the Luteces to do something about it. So while he was still there in Columbia, buried with guilt, he tattooed the symbols AD on his hand before going to Rapture. So as Booker DeWiit in Rapture, he has no idea about the AD tattoo, and no memory of why he got it tattooed on his hand in the first place. His guilt about losing Sally while gambling was not as big as the guilt he had while losing Anna as Booker or while decapitating Anna as Comstock. He did have guilt, and he was sad, but he was pretty much over her once Sullivan told him that she's dead. So, long story shot, AD stands for Anna DeWitt, and the tattoo has got nothing to do with Sally.

[@nakibhasan9919]

anna dewitt duh but how is she sort of evil type \

[@carolinemackay8601]

THANK YOU, thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! I never understood BioShock's ending before you explained it, THANK YOU!!!

[@Samuel_Loegan]

3:43 but hold up now, we don't know if the crib inside is Anna, we all know that the screen fades to black once Booker opens the door to her room.

[@BruceDLeeStudio]

why did comstock steal anna if Elizabeth was already with him? she was next to him when he was trying to steal anna, right? I'm confused. Plz help

[@wayneigoe6722]

"Down the toilet" hehe... And it's underwater... Bu dum tss.

[@wiichii2620]

I just finish the dlc, and what a masterpiece of a game my god 🖤

[@nastynate705]

Great video. Helped me out so much. Thanks a bunch

[@andresfajardo7799]

Thank you so much. Everything u explained in both episodes make so much sense now. The fact that the last Elizabeth died in episode 2 means theres no more alternate universes since theres nobody to open rifts now. You are the man!!!

[@ishineandburn]

Thanks!!

[@jpd466]

The part that I can't figure out is why Comstock has the AD tattoo in this universe?

[@aznracerboi1]

I think the explanation for Elizabeth being in the flashback is that she is just a stand-in for the flashback. She's yelling at Comstock in rapture, while Comstock is flashbacking to grabbing Anna and seeing current Elizabeth arguing with him as if she's there. Like someone yelling in a dream to wake up. She still knew about the decapitation because I think she said in episode 2 she felt all the pain of every version of herself, so she knew she was decapitated in one universe and so traveled there to get revenge.

[@greygiant9646]

I have a series of questions: In burial at sea part 1 why is the child called sally instead of anna? after comstock traveled to rapture to erase his mistakes how did he became booker?he instantly became booker just becouse he changed the universe?or was he both booker and comstock in the same person at the same time?and at first he was booker but he became comstock after elizabeth remembered him of his past?or he was comstock from the start and pretended to be booker?

[@loganbigmo]

Because it's not Anna. It's a different child. And after Comstock caused Anna to be decapitated in this timeline, he shaved his beard and went back to using his birth name. He then asked the Luteces to send him to Rapture, and going through the tear erased his memories.

[@saintz2k7]

So does Burial at Sea part 1 show that killing Booker prior to the baptism at the end of infinite makes no difference to Comstock being created, as it shows that Comstock still comes about in Burial at Sea

[@8bit-steve995]

I love the film noir feel of the beginning of this DLC.

[@Dan_Backslide]

I really enjoy the fact that the hair of the "Little Sister Teacher" will be either Blonde or Dark depending on the playthrough. Just another constant and variable.

[@tommaurice6830]

Wow, impossible for me (I'm French) to find on the web the explications written or told in French, and today, 2 years after BaS, I find this video.. Thank you, now I understand the part 1, nos I'm going to watch the second part

[@mahagony1097]

Bioshock gave me chills literally! This game is a Masterpiece! This is a sad story...