


She is essentially the goddess of the afterlife. Her beach is the heart of the afterlife that pumps blood through the other beaches which act like capillaries. Heartman cuts in to say that Amelie’s Beach is above all other forms of the afterlife. Sam heads back to the ICU in Capital Knot City and finds the whole team back together. Think of the doll as a mind-control device used by Amelie to corrupt Higgs, Cliff and Die-Hardman. We’ve seen this doll before, used by Die-Hardman to get to Amelie’s beach and scattered throughout Cliff’s Beach war nightmares. Higgs was caught up in the allure of Amelie’s BT-controlling power, corrupted and turned into the Agent of Extinction (more on that later!)įragile then reveals a broken doll used by Higgs to connect him to Amelie and her beach. Episode 12: Bridgesįragile Sam what Higgs told her: that the terrorist voidouts, and plan to summon another extinction event - in this case The Last Stranding, referring to the previous Death Strandings recorded in fossil records and cave paintings as mentioned by Heartman - was Amelie’s idea. This allowed him to take it to her beach and try to kill her (usually you get stripped of any items when you jump.) This hologram recording is actually happening before, and explaining, the scene where we saw Clifford rise from the beach and greet Bridget and Die-Hardman. He brings a gun with him, loaded with Hematic Rounds made from anti-BT Sam’s blood which connects the trio. Die-Hardman then relays that Bridget was diagnosed with uterine cancer in her 20s and therefore can’t have kids, so Amelie can’t be her daughter as the game made us believe.ĭie-Hardman then alleges that Amelie/Bridget’s separation must be the cause of the Death Stranding and accepts an invitation from her to her Beach. This meant she spent her childhood in the hospital before learning to jump between the afterlife and the real world when she was in her 20s. Her soul or Ha remained there whilst her physical body, her Ka, came to the real world. Deadman says that this is correct, but the meetings took place on Amelie’s Beach, not the real world.Īmelie was born on the Beach (Death Stranding’s version of a personal afterlife, remember). Sam counter this noting that he’s touched her and met her lots of times when he was a child. He then shows Sam a video of Die-Hardman “for BRIDGES eyes only” where he points out that nobody has met Amelie in person. Deadman notes that this is impossible because Cliff would be too old for that. Sam lands back in the real world and in the Private Room and tells Deadman that he thinks his BB, that he's calling Lou, is Cliff’s child. In these flashbacks, we’ve also seen an unmasked Die-Hardman trying to help Cliff save BB and his comatose wife. Remember that throughout the game we’ve been drip-fed BB’s memories of Cliff and given the knowledge that there were unethical experiments conducted by President Bridget Strand to create Bridge Babies to try and understand the BTs that arose from the Death Stranding.
