Critical Incident

"Critical Incident" is the second episode of the VR game Westworld Awakening.
==Summary==
Kate wakes up in a strange place. Brannon is trapped in arrivals. Hank seeks his avenge.
==Plot==
Kate wakes up and finds herself on a stool in a bizarre room. There's a maze on a wall, also a board next to it with notes about Kate's behavior and suggestions for her appearance. Kate stands up and goes outside and enters Mesa's overrun intertwined corridors. She sees a glass room, from which a woman's voice is heard.
On her way to find the entrance, Kate may be hit by electrical wires hanging from the ceiling or by large electrified puddles of water which will hurt her and reduce her HP, which replenishes itself with time. If HP is depleted, Kate will die and the scene will be started from the beginning.
Kate hears distant shooting and sees dead bodies. She opens a door she hasn't seen before and crouches under a furniture. After entering the room, she sees a man murdered with an axe. The voice continues to be emitted from an earpiece on his table. She picks it up. The woman introduces herself as Brannon, asking where Lyle is. Kate answers he's been murdered and Brannon grumbles about his death being so untimely. Kate asks where did she wake up, but Brannon evades her question. She tells Kate she's trapped two floors below at the arrivals and that she may help her.
Kate walks out of the Narrative Offices and tries to find the elevator to help Ms. Brannon after taking a tablet with her to open locked doors. However, the elevator can't be used since the system blocks it because of the electrical hazard. Thus, Kate has to cut the electricity on that level. In her search, Kate notices the people on the floor aren't from Sweetwater. She asks if this place is some kind of purgatory and the tech answers affirmatively. She finds that floor's power supply and Brannon advises not to touch them. The breaker box, however, is located behind a door with a higher security level. Brannon gets upset Kate won't proceed, but quickly realizes the dead bodies can have tablets on them. Brannon also suggests to use the tablet as a scanner of exposed wires which may help Kate locating obscure things. Kate goes and scans the tablet to get higher permission level.
After entering the room with electrical blocks, Kate tells Brannon she can't activate the breaker box. Chelsea says she has to find a utility key shaped like a horseshoe, insert it, then twist, and that it must be in a yellow-striped box. Kate finds it and finally turns the electricity off. Kate escapes the offices by using another utility key to open the next door.
However, she hears a familiar whistle. Hank appears briefly and is preparing to chase Kate just as a door closes on him. He starts to bang on the door when Brannon orders terrified Kate to find some hosts to distract him with. Kate takes right and finds couple of rooms with hosts. In the very last one, she finds two people whom she recognizes - a bounty hunter Houston Hart and a town preacher Emmett Garson. Kate is frightened by the fact they're frozen and Brannon tells her to scan them.
The hosts activate and play their usual narrative where the hunter visits the preacher to confess about his suspicions that her wife behaves unusual because she's visiting the church too often. The preacher says there's no bad about that. They freeze again as Chelsea tells Kate to modify their emotions. Kate lowers Houston's trust, and highers his hostility & suspicion. Then, she brings Emmett's evasiveness down, whereas his jealousy gets brought up. After the changes, the two engage in a fight since Hart realizes his wife cheats on him with Garson, and Hart gets shot but the preacher in chest. Satisfied with the result, Brannon orders Kate to leave since Hank's going to come for the sound. Kate, terrified by what she's done, leaves.
Kate again uses her tablet to find the way out. She finds a room with big pipes and squeezes through them. Another locked door, another utility key to be found. In process, Kate asks Brannon where does she know Hank from, but the technician tells her it's not important now. When Kate opens the final door, white smoke comes down and spreads fast. Kate coughs, which reveals her location to Hank. Hank is equipped with an axe and will swing it if he catches up with Kate, laughing and whistling in process. The chase eventually leads to the elevator, which is closed due to electricity loss. Kate has to find couple of switches, which she can scan, and utility keys to open and activate the elevator while being haunted by Hank. The tablet may be used to find the location of the switches, highlighted with yellow color, or the location of Hank, highlighted with red. If Kate runs, her location will be revealed from any place of the map. If Kate walks normally, she will draw Hank's attention only in his near proximity. If Kate crawls, she won't be spotted by Hank.
When both levers are pulled, the elevator becomes active and Kate can enter it. After she's inside, the cabin gets banged on, and Hank's axe is seen between the doors.
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
*Brina Palencia as Kate
*Morla Gorrondona as Chelsea Brannon
*Noshir Dalal as Hank
==Deaths==
*Kate (Physical Body, Determinant)
*Houston Hart (Physical Body)
==Trivia==
*The title of the episode refers to Chelsea Brannon being trapped, as well as to the whole situtation of Host Uprising.
*There are 10 tablets to be scanned with Kate's tablet.
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==References==
Category:Westworld Awakening episodes