All choices and consequences in Episode 5 of Instruction 8020

Episode five has many consequences for previous actions coming your way The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020But there are still many choices to be made in this episode that will continue to shape the rest of your playthrough.

The lives of two crewmates are on the line when an explosion rocks the Cassiopeia, and whether LaMarcus Williams is free to wander around the ship on his own while Anders hacks into his computer is all up to you. Proceed to investigate the mysterious alien substance aboard the Cassiopeia in the fifth episode of Directive 8020.

Burn – broadcast

The fifth episode of Directive 8020 begins with yet another chase and escape scene, this time with Stafford chasing Eisele through a garbage incinerator. This will happen regardless of whether Stafford is alive or dead in your save, so be prepared Run and hide again To start the episode.

As before, you will be able to Execute a QTE to escape If you get caught a few times, and naturally, depending on how Eisele progresses, here will be deviations:

• If you Try to power up the reactorYou will find that it is, of course, without power. Your goal now is to hide Activate the three panels Nearby, all while searching for Stafford Eisele. After opening each panel, return to the main control panel and Activate the waste management system.

  • It unlocks Temptation A nod to the scene for now.

• If at any point Eisele gets caught As she tries to navigate the waste management system, the scene ends.

After this, you enter hold on Scene for a brief recap of the story so far and what happens next – Cernan is able to try and repair the transmitter so the team can talk to Earth again. Another view is called DrugsWhere you're controlling Cooper again as he and some of the crew look at samples of alien matter, it's an organism whose cellular structure often changes and copies what it touches.

When you gain control of Cooper, you can chat with Williams for a brief scene, but your ultimate goal is to leave. Talk to Anders In another room, who asks Cooper to make a sedative And doesn't explain why. Before you go, though, there are Two mysteries In this scene.

Cooper will return to the room with Williams and try to synthesize the chemicals, but the chemical case is locked, so you need it first. Find the pass code for the chemical cabinetwhich is a three digit code. You'll notice that the chemicals have numbers on the tubes inside, so look around the room and investigate Chemical Structure Poster To see which chemical has a structure, and match the one in the diagram Cooper looked up for the sedative.

You will need Chloroacetyl chloride, ammonia, and Dimethyl sulfate To make a sedative in the fifth episode of director 8020, so enter the code 168 To mix it up and return to Anders. When you give it to him, you'll discuss how Williams might know more about the substance than he's suggesting and hear Anders talking about what's on Williams' computer that he's just gone through.

Cooper has many opportunities to respond differently to influence the conversation with flavor text, but the final split in the scene is called. DoubtsAnd your branch here depends on how you've personified Cooper so far.

• If Cooper is More playfulYou will see evil scene and agrees to help calm Williams down.

• If she is More professionalYou will see Medicine Instead here, and Cooper refuses to help.

Anyway, the scene moves in broadcastingAnd you'll quickly see the effects of your decision to end the scene and move to the next major pivot point. There are two very different outcomes here based on your decisions.

• If you trigger evilThen you will be successful Faint Williams In this scene.

• If you reach Medicine During the previous conversation with Cooper, it is not unconscious.

ICE AND FIRE – MORNING

The next major decisions are just around the corner once you start the Ice and Fire scene in Director 8020, and there are Two possible character deaths That moment ahead will depend on your choices in previous chapters.

Anders is in the lab with an alien sample trying to freeze it, while Mitchell controls the fuel pump. Obstacles arise that cause An explosion in the fuel line Which fills the lab with cold air while the fuel control area explodes in flames, meaning Both Anders and Mitchell are in danger.

The young man arrives at the scene and is told that he cannot save both, so you will need him Choose who to save When she gets there. Who survives the scene will not only depend on the choices you make now, but it will also depend on the choices you made earlier: which system's power to cut in episode two when Young and Eisel have to decide between. Fire control system or Landing computer To help restore power to the ship.

Follow the flow chart below to establish what happens based on your decisions as a youth during this scene.

After you solve the scene, how that happens, you will enter in the morningWhere the crew talks about what happened. The following conversation is lively and depends on what you have done so far. Anyway, the scene ends with a segue into another major exploration scene, Radio Silence.

Radio Silence – Sabotage

As the stakes are established to advance in the morning, the scene switches Radio silencewhich sees Cernan looking around the Cassiopeia for the rest of the crew.

The scene ends when you finally Take the elevator and follow Cooper in the crew lounge, but there are a lot of things to find first if you're looking around to collect secrets on Director 8020.

You will enter the called view Lazarus When you join Cooper in the lounge and find the rest of the crew, where you Search for Williams Waiting for your group. What happens next depends on the decisions you've made up to this point:

• If you successfully Williams drug Created by Shamik Cooper and distributed by Anders, then nosebleeds Unlock the scene.

• Finally, if you Williams did not take medicationAfter that he does not bleed from the nose.

The scene moves vandalismWhere there is another difference in what you see will be decided based on who is alive at the current moment.

Anyway, there it is Some into hydroponicsSo flip between cameras until you return to a series of dialogues with the crew.

• If Stafford is aliveHe then volunteers to go into hydroponics himself.

• But if Stafford is deadThen it is voluntary rather than anyone else.

Now, you will need Decide who to send Down in Hydroponics, you'll make a decision as Eisele that unlocks a major turning point for the story that ends the chapter after you make it.

• If Eisele volunteers himselfThen you will unlock volunteer Nod, and she moves on to hydroponics.

• If Eisele Cernan suggests Instead, then he goes down there.