Chapter 4: Safe Haven

Jack Ayers

The chapter opens with the Doey the Doughman Commercial VHS. A toy commercial cuts to home video of a boy, Jack Ayers, getting a Doey toy at Christmas 1992. On a factory tour on January 22, 1993, he falls into a dough vat.

Poppy rides the lift down with the Player, then goes back up to help Kissy Missy. She tells the Player to follow the Red Smoke and find their allies below.

The Shelf

The Player crosses Loading Bay 1E and Caves 1C and hears Kissy scream. They burn the chains off a door with the Flare Hand and enter the Toy Graveyard, where piles of dead toys lie outside the prison. Nightmare Critters and Mini Huggies attack and are driven off with flares.

At the train station Ollie calls and warns that the prison is worse than Poppy knows. The Player finds Riley's body with a key on it, unlocks a room and powers the train. The Doctor appears on the train monitor, says he will make a game of the Player, and crashes the train into the Shelf East Block. The Player wakes in a cell.

In the East Block the Player takes a Red Hand from a dead guard. The Doctor opens the cells and sends Nightmare Critters and Mini Huggies at the Player as a test, then calls them off. Past a corridor of dead guards is the Northwest Block, which the Doctor floods with Red Smoke. The Player fits a valve, reaches the control room and enters a code to clear it.

In the Containment Zone the Doctor names the experiments the Player has beaten, 1170, 1188 and 1222, and releases Yarnaby. An unseen helper unlocks a door, lights a match to distract Yarnaby and shuts a door on him.

Doey

The Player crosses the Archives Room and falls into Pianosaurus' Enclosure. Pianosaurus charges. Stretched dough arms catch him, smash him against the walls and drag him away. Doey the Doughman steps out and introduces himself.

Doey leads the Player through the Interrogation Rooms, a cave and the Prison Utility Zone. On the way he describes how the guards starved prisoners in the yard and watched them fight over food.

Safe Haven

Near Safe Haven, Poppy and a badly hurt Kissy pull the Player into hiding while the metal legs of the Prototype pass. They enter Safe Haven through the showers, and the gate is locked behind them.

Poppy explains her plan. The orphans were taken during the Hour of Joy and are asleep in the Labs with the Prototype. The Foundation will be filled with Red Smoke and lined with old mining charges. After the orphans are freed, the toys will blow the factory up.

In the generator room Doey says the Doctor is Dr. Harley Sawyer, and that he controls everything with an Omni-Hand. He asks the Player to take it, so the failing generator can be repaired. He also asks the Player to think about what Poppy's plan would waste.

The Player leaves through the Infirmary and the sewers and overhears Doey and Poppy arguing. Doey says she disappeared and left them. Poppy says she had no choice.

The Doctor

In No Man's Land Yarnaby hunts the Player by sound. The Player powers three machine stations and opens the exit. In the last chase Yarnaby is caught on a chain hook over a pit of molten material, falls in and burns.

The Player meets Doey collecting generator parts. A pipe bursts and freezes him with liquid nitrogen, and the Player turns valves to free him.

The Doctor speaks again. He says the Player is what the Prototype fears, and claims Poppy knew the Hour of Joy was coming. In Cold Storage a trap freezes the Player's Blue Hand to a scanner. The Player gets loose and freezes the Doctor's lungs.

In the Secondary Lab the Player wears a Broken Gas Mask in the Red Smoke, reads experiment numbers off dead toys to work out a keypad code, and destroys the Doctor's liver. A Touille then steals the mask.

The Doctor breaks the Player's Purple Hand and drops them into the Holding Area. A large Baba Chops hunts the Player while they collect batteries from cages and route power to the exit. In the next room the Doctor says the door will open only if the Player kills a trapped Simon Smoke toy. The Player can shock the toy or climb out through a hole in the ceiling, and the Doctor has something to say about either choice.

In the Doctor's Headquarters the Player sees his brain in a tank. A robot body throws the Player down a trapdoor into a dark server maze full of his bodies. The Player powers the terminals with batteries, climbs back and removes the Omni-Chip. The tank implodes and the Doctor dies.

The Foundation

The Player uses the Omni-Chip to turn the Red Hand into the Omni-Hand and rides a cable car back. Ollie calls to say the Doctor is dead and only the Prototype is left.

At Safe Haven Ollie shouts that the Prototype is outside. Poppy sends Doey to lead him away, and Ollie talks the Player through the generator repair with the Omni-Hand.

Poppy sends the Player on to the Foundation. The Player collects four explosives from the mines, plants them in the gas room, redirects the gas and starts the overflow. Nightmare Critters chase them out.

Doey's end

The Player meets Doey, who lost the Prototype in the tunnels. An explosion hits Safe Haven. Doey rushes back and the Player follows.

Safe Haven is destroyed and its toys are dead. Doey grieves, then blames the Player and Poppy, and says they jumpstarted the generator. Rubble falls on him, and he rises in an enraged form with three figures in his mouth.

He chases the Player through the Construction Tunnels to the Mining Pit. The Player freezes him with liquid nitrogen canisters and cuts him with saws, three times. He attacks once more. The Player freezes him and pulls a machine down onto him. He says he is sorry, and he dies.

Time to come home

The Player finds Poppy and Kissy in Shelf Ventilation Block B6. Poppy blames the Player. Then the phone rings. Ollie's voice changes, and the Prototype says the charade is over.

He says there was an Ollie, a very long time ago. He took the explosives from the Foundation. It is time for Poppy to come home. Poppy says she cannot go back in the case, and she flees.

The floor explodes. Kissy grabs the Player and holds the ledge, but her injured arm tears off and the Player falls.

The Player wakes near Kissy's arm outside the Labs, walks past a garden of poppy flowers and plays a tape. Leith Pierre's recording says the tape has set off an alarm. A wounded Huggy Wuggy charges the locked door as Red Smoke fills the room.

How it ends

The Player is locked in the Labs Entrance at the bottom of the factory. Huggy Wuggy, alive and injured, pounds on the door while Red Smoke fills the room. Poppy has fled. Kissy Missy has lost an arm and is left above. Doey and the Safe Haven toys are dead, and the Prototype has dropped the Ollie disguise.

What it reveals

• The phone voice called Ollie is the Prototype. It comes out on the phone in the Shelf's vents, after Doey dies. Ollie's voice changes mid sentence, Poppy asks who is speaking, and it is the Prototype.
• A real Ollie once existed. On the same call, Poppy asks if there ever was an Ollie. The Prototype says there was, a very long time ago.
• The Doctor is Dr. Harley Sawyer, turned into Experiment 1354 and kept alive as a brain in a tank. Doey names him in the generator room at Safe Haven. The Experiment #1354 tape shows him waking up, and the brain tank sits in the Doctor's Headquarters.
• Leith Pierre ordered the procedure on Sawyer. Pierre says so himself on the Experiment #1354 tape.
• Doey is made from three boys: Jack Ayers, Kevin Barnes and Matthew Hallard. Jack is in the Doey the Doughman commercial that opens the chapter. The rest comes from the 1322 Report: Kevin and 1322 Report: Jack tapes and the Subject 1322C Report.
• Poppy says the Playcare orphans are alive and asleep in the Labs with the Prototype. She says it beside Kissy's tent in Safe Haven. It is only her word. The orphans are never seen in Chapter 4.
• The Doctor claims Poppy knew the Hour of Joy was coming. He says it while the Player is trapped in Cold Storage. On the Untitled Tape, Poppy says she thought they were going to leave the factory.
• The Doctor got his Omni-Hand from the prison Warden during the Hour of Joy. It is on the Warden Office 8/8/1995 tape.
• The Prototype spared the Doctor because he was useful, and refused him access to the Labs. From the Time tape, found in Sawyer's Office.
• Safe Haven was destroyed through the generator repair that Ollie walked the Player through. Doey says it in the ruins: they jumpstarted the generator.
• The Prototype took the mining charges the Player planted and used them to collapse the floor under the Player and Kissy. The Prototype says so in the Shelf's vents, right before the explosion.
• Huggy Wuggy survived his fall in Chapter 1. He shows up in the last scene, at the Labs Entrance.
• The prison is called the Shelf and was planned after the 1993 Theater Incident. From the '93 Theater Incident and Construction Plans: The Shelf tapes.
• In the 'Untitled Tape' Poppy speaks to her dad and says he used to run the place. On the Untitled Tape, found during the Doey chase.