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Hearing a bang coming from behind the door, Elsie shoots the lock off and goes inside with Bernard. Inside, they discover the lab containing the scarred malfunctioning human-host hybrid of [[James Delos]]. The hybrid attempts to attack Elsie, but Bernard incapacitates it. The two leave the chamber and Elsie turns on a terminal which incinerates the chamber and the hybrid with it.
Elsie decides to go back to the Mesa, and Bernard offers to help her, claiming that he is no longer under Ford's influence. Remarking that she trusts code more than people, Elsie agrees, but demands that there would be no lies between them and that Bernard would never hurt her again. The two leave the lab.
==="[[Phase Space]]"===
While approaching the Hub by way of the train tracks, Elsie informs Bernard that Ford's quarantine notices are still being sent out: Bernard compliments her work, which she acceps with a smile. They reach the [[Monorail Terminal|monorail terminal]] and notice that [[Quality Assurance]] has been through due to several dead hosts. Arriving in the control room, Elsie determines that QA has been trying to undo Ford's changes but all attempts have been undone by the [[Cradle]], improvising responses to every hack the QA throws at it. Bernard realizes the Cradle cannot make changes to hosts' narratives itself as it is supposed to be a backup, and that someone is in fact actively altering the Cradle's codes. To find out what is happening, they will need to access it in person.
The two make their way past the carnage to the Cradle, but Elsie finds that she cannot access it via terminal either: she can see responses being issued but cannot find out where they are coming from. Bernard volunteers to directly interface with it and figure out the problem, against Elsie's protests that it will be excruciatingly painful for him. She watches with discomfort as he begins the auto-extraction.
While waiting for Bernard to finish up in the Cradle, Elsie heard a loud crash coming from somewhere in the facility.
==="[[Les Ecorches]]"===
Learning over radio chatter that the crash was the hosts invading the Hub, and that they had murdered a PMC team specifically summoned to stop them, Elsie urged Bernard to hurry up. Eventually, the system appeared to unclog and he disconnected from the Cradle, although he appeared dazed. She informed him of the situation and led him out of the Cradle. As they worked their way through the Hub, she asked Bernard about their next move. After some hesitation, Bernard told her that he had found out about Ford's "Valley Beyond" and that they would need to get there. Elsie replied that she would find some better weapons before quickly leaving, unaware that Bernard was, in fact, [[Robert Ford|misleading her]].
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