Jodie Holmes

Jodie Holmes (born September 15, 1989)Jodie's birthdate is given as May 10, 1990 in the user guide for Beyond: Two Souls, but her passport in "Black Sun" lists her birthdate as September 15, 1990. Model data for the same chapter (which takes place in November 2014) indicates that Jodie is 25 years old, making her true birth year 1989. If she was born in 1990, she would only be 24 years old. Additionally, "Like Other Girls" takes place on July 1, 2006, and 16-year old Jodie claims she is "almost" 17 years old. If she was born in May 1989, she would already have turned 17, making September 15, 1989 the correct date. is the primary playable character, and the protagonist of Beyond: Two Souls. The narrative of Beyond: Two Souls follows Jodie through 17 years of her life, from her early childhood to adulthood. She is the biological daughter of Jonathan Nichols and Norah Gray, the adoptive daughter of Philip Holmes and Susan Holmes, and the twin sister of Aiden. As the player experiences the game, they will receive more information about the afterlife and help her with the challenges ahead.
==Background==
Jodie's biological parents, Jonathan Nichols and Norah Gray, were both psychically gifted humans who participated in a research program run by the DPA. When Norah became pregnant, the DPA researchers were excited by the possibility of a child born to two psychics. Jonathan allegedly died of heart failure prior to Jodie's birth; it is suggested that the DPA used this, combined with Norah's relatively young age at the time, to coerce her into giving up her unborn child to be studied by the organization.Jonathan never appears in any of the flashbacks in "Norah," and is not mentioned when Norah is convinced to give up her unborn children. The preceding flashback also only mentions a single child, suggesting that Jonathan's death occurred prior to the discovery that Norah was carrying twins. Later in the pregnancy, it was discovered that Norah was carrying twins. 
Jodie was born at 8:21 a.m.Time of birth can be seen on a clock during a flashback. on September 15, 1989, in a DPA hospital in VirginiaJodie's place of birth is not stated in the game itself, but all of the DPA's known facilities are in this area.. Immediately after her birth, she was taken from her mother, causing Norah to panic and insist that she had changed her mind. Norah became more agitated upon learning that her second child, Aiden, was stillborn due to having strangled on the umbilical cord. Jodie was removed from the delivery room, and Norah was sedated and transferred to Saint John's Hospital, a high-security psychiatric facility. To cover up these events, the DPA falsified the medical records to only mention the stillborn baby, and Norah was administered a neuro-acid which destroyed her abilities and placed her in a catatonic state. Philip and Susan Holmes, a couple who had recently lost their infant child, were assigned as Jodie's adoptive parents and were told to contact the organization if she developed any unusual abilities. Jodie was never told that she was adopted, and was raised to believe that Philip and Susan were her real parents.Mentioned in the user guide. 
According to the removed chapter "First Steps," Jodie's paranormal abilities became apparent while she was still a baby; on one occasion, Susan witnessed all of the furniture in her nursery having been moved by a seemingly invisible force. It is implied that similar incidents occurred throughout Jodie's childhood, causing Philip to become increasingly distant, and he eventually forbids her from leaving the house or interacting with other children. It is unknown whether she ever attended a school on the base or if she received homeschooling, possibly as a result of Aiden's behavior; the fact that her schooling goes unmentioned is likely an indication of the latter. 
As Jodie grows older, her encounters and interactions with Aiden grow increasingly violent and alarming. While there are times when the being seems friendly and playful (animating her toys, sneaking her a cookie from the kitchen, and even pushing her on the swingset), they are cast against times where Jodie is left terrified by strange sounds and sensations in the night that she can only assume to be coming from Aiden, though she eventually learns that he has nothing to do with the monsters that attack her at night. Philip dismisses any evidence of Aiden as "stories" made up by Jodie, and blames her for any mischief or harm Aiden causes. 
==Events of Beyond: Two Souls==
===My Imaginary Friend... - 9 Years Old (1998)===
In late November 1998, Jodie has nothing to do other than mope around the house, since she cannot go anywhere. Susan is busy in the kitchen, while Philip works upstairs. To keep her spirits up, Susan suggests that she go play outside. While in the backyard, she can hear children having a snowball fight on the other side of the fence. Aiden knocks a hole in the wood for Jodie to get through and join in the fun. The fun doesn't last long, as one child she pelts with a snowball comes running up and tackles her in revenge, causing Jodie to scream out in fear. Almost instantly, Aiden descends on the boy and begins to choke him. Jodie manages to make Aiden stop hurting him, but the boy backs away, calling Jodie a "witch".
Philip comes and drags Jodie back into the house. When he nearly hits her in a fit of anger, Aiden frightens him by causing a nearby television to glitch. Philip confines Jodie to her room as punishment, upsetting her. Aiden can eavesdrop on a conversation between Philip and Susan in which Philip claims a demon is living in their home; when Susan tries to defend Jodie, he tells her that they "never agreed to this". They try to get Jodie to a psychiatrist named Dr. Matthews, but it is no help since no one believes Aiden is real.
===First Interview - 9 Years Old (1999)===
As a result, the Holmes contact the DPA and bring Jodie to the lab for an informal interview with Nathan Dawkins, a DPA researcher who studies strange phenomena. Nathan asks Jodie about Aiden, being the first person in her life to believe Aiden is anything other than her imaginary friend.
At Nathan's request, Jodie can ask Aiden to display his psychokinetic abilities by making objects move and lights flicker in his office. If she draws Aiden for him, she depicts him as a mass of scribble lines connected via a tether to a stick figure with long hair (her). She has lived with this entity her entire life, and she wants to not be connected to him anymore.
Nathan examines Jodie, discovering shallow wounds and marks over her arms. He asks if Aiden did this to her, to which Jodie shakes her head. She tells him how, though there are times Aiden gets mad, he did not hurt her. The marks came from "monsters" that attack her in the night. Nathan becomes worried by what Jodie is telling him.
===First Night - 9 Years Old (1999)===
After Jodie is attacked yet again by the "monsters,"Mentioned in a journal entry in the user guide. Susan brings Jodie back to the lab to stay for a few days. Nathan and his assistant, Cole Freeman, are going to run a few tests to determine the nature of Jodie's psychic powers as well as her connection with Aiden. They leave her to get ready for bed. Jodie feels alone in the new, strange place, and so she asks Aiden to tell her a story before she falls asleep. Aiden picks up Jodie's flashlight and proceeds to make shadow puppets on the ceiling.
Jodie awakens in horror as she can sense dark creatures moving like smoky shadows through her room. Jodie lets out a scream as the monsters attack her. Aiden rushes to her aid, using his psychokinetic power to repel them from Jodie. Nathan and Cole come into the room, comforting Jodie after the attack.
:Alternate version: If Aiden (the player) does NOT defend Jodie, the monsters are driven away when Nathan and Cole arrive. Jodie tells Aiden that he must be strong, that he can fight the monsters.
For the first time in her life, Jodie does not wish to be separated from Aiden.
===Alone - 9 Years Old (1999)===
At Nathan's request, and with the approval of the DPA, Jodie is brought to the lab to live with Nathan and Cole indefinitely. Shortly after her arrival at the lab, her parents visit and tell her that they have been transferred and "everyone" has decided it would be best for Jodie to stay at the lab with Nathan and Cole. Jodie's father is openly dismissive and scornful of his wife's tears and concern for Jodie. As the couple leaves, Aiden has an opportunity to violently interact with her father.
Afterwards, Nathan receives funding from the DPA to provide correspondence courses for Jodie's schooling.
===The Experiment - 9 Years Old (1999)===
In one of the first experiments the researchers conduct with Jodie, disaster strikes when Aiden gets out of control and badly terrifies a participating volunteer; the effort to control Aiden results in Jodie's nose bleeding, and her crying.
===Night Session - 9 Years Old (1999)===
Following Jodie's abandonment, she continues to live in the lab and work with Cole and Nathan while attending school in the facility. One evening, she stays up late with Cole and Nathan eating pizza and watching TV. When she finally grows tired, Nathan realizes how late it is and tells her that he's purchased a new book for her. He offers to read it to her after he puts her to bed if she doesn't mind retrieving it. While retrieving the book, she sees the frightening specters of a woman and a girl, older than Jodie, with head injuries. After returning to Nathan and Cole, Jodie doesn't have a chance to reveal her vision before the phone rings bearing the terrible news that Nathan's wife and daughter have been killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver.
===Hauntings - 9 Years Old (1999)===
Roughly three days later (the actual time elapsed is hard to say, though Cole notes that it's been three days since Nathan has left his office), Jodie, unable to sleep, sees the same specter of the bloody headed girl and follows her to Nathan's office. Distraught and unshaven, Nathan is presented with Jodie channeling the spirits of his wife and daughter in an effort to grant him peace.
===The Party - 14 Years Old (2004)===
Some time later, Jodie (as a teenager) is dropped off at a birthday party for the child of a co-worker in the lab. As soon as adult supervision has left, the attendees break out alcohol and marijuana. They then ask Jodie questions. If she tells the truth about her life, the attendees will scoff at her. No matter what though, Jodie is treated unfairly and made fun of, eventually leading to the party attendees turning on her and locking her in a cupboard under a staircase. With Aiden's help, she can either leave or get revenge.
Regardless of her decision, Nathan returns to reclaim her and take her back to the lab.
===Like Other Girls - 16 Years Old (2006)===
Later, somewhat older, Jodie has a massive argument with Nathan and Cole when she is denied permission for a "girls' night out" with "other girls [her] age." (it's not really specified who). Violating the trust placed in her, she can choose to enlist Aiden's help to possess Cole and escape the facility. If she successfully escapes, Aiden takes Cole into the forest off the road and leaves him there, where it is assumed that Cole regains bodily control (in order to later arrive with help, depending on the outcome of this chapter), and Aiden and Jodie head to the agreed-upon meeting place.
When they arrive, to Jodie's dismay, her friends are not there. Depending on how things play out, Aiden may end up angrily killing the bar patrons and the bartender after a patron attempts to sexually assault Jodie on a pool table.
===The Condenser - 16 Years Old (2006)===
Nathan reluctantly agrees to allow Jodie to attempt to shut down a project that has gone terribly wrong. Another research facility has created a condenser and opened a rift between our world of the living and the Infraworld of the dead and worse things like the violent entities that had plagued Jodie's childhood. Teams sent in to evacuate and shut down the condenser failed to return. Jodie, possibly somewhat naïve but fully aware she is the only one who may be able to stop the slow motion disaster as the effect of the condenser is spreading, agrees. She manages to navigate the complex and shut down the condenser with Aiden's help, then collapses in Nathan's arms outside. He apologizes for forcing her into the situation. She warns him to never let them build another condenser or "there'll be nothing left."
===Separation - 17 Years Old (2007)===
In the spring of 2007, Jodie is forcefully recruited to the CIA when Nathan drags his feet on giving her the good news. Ryan Clayton, her recruiter, is initially scornful of what he considers teenage whining. Tearful and heartbroken, she eventually acquiesces and leaves the lab.
===Welcome to the CIA / Advanced Experiments - 17-19 Years Old (2007-2010)===
The training is grueling and covers everything from complicated equations to black ops combat tactics. At the completion of her final training exercise, Clayton greets her with a drawn weapon and scorns her achievement. She blows him off and points out that Aiden is right behind him controlling a possessed combatant armed with an assault rifle. She passes.
===The Embassy - 20 Years Old (2010)===
Her first field assignment is to utilize Aiden's unique skills to allow them to copy sensitive data from a locked safe. Depending on the success of the mission, she either succeeds and evades notice entirely or is left staggering and loopy from the effort and accompanying nosebleed.
===The Dinner - 22 Years Old (2012)===
Jodie has recently moved into a very nice apartment courtesy of the CIA. Clayton calls her to ask about a dinner invitation he had sent via email, after which Jodie discovers Aiden had destroyed her computer. Rather than miss out on the date, Jodie suggests they meet at her new apartment in an hour for dinner.
===The Mission - 23 Years Old (2012)===
Roughly a bit over three years after her CIA training began, Jodie is again working in the field with Clayton. This time, her assignment is the assassination of a warlord. She is under orders to not be seen and warned against direct action against local forces and advised there will be no rescue. She eventually succeeds with the assassination with the assistance of a local boy (after she enlists Aiden's help to heal his gunshot wound). Unfortunately, one of the members of the war lord's staff turns out to be the child's father. Her stealthy retreat ruined by the child's grief and subsequent attempt to kill her, an angry mob traps Jodie. Contrary to the previous warnings, she is rescued by helicopter after Clayton and two others rappel down to retrieve her.
Once patched up, Jodie and Clayton depart on an extremely fancy helicopter, which he notes was loaned out by a high ranking member of the CIA. He attempts to comfort her and congratulate her on a job well done. Still rattled by the gruesome turn of events, she dismisses him and turns on the news, only to learn that the "warlord" was actually the democratically elected president of his nation and their best hope for peace in years.
Enraged, Jodie and Aiden nearly cause the chopper to crash before Jodie jumps from the craft. She survives easily thanks to Aiden and stops only to call Nathan in order to relay a warning to the CIA before doing her best to vanish. Her warning states they are to leave her alone or she will kill them.
===Hunted - 23 Years Old (2012)===
After the events of the previous chapter, Jodie has boarded a train, hoping to escape notice by the CIA. However, the train is stopped en route to Greenwood, PennsylvaniaLocation confirmed by a police officer on the train. and inspected by police, exposing her and forcing her to flee. She engages a group of police officers in and on top of the still-moving train before jumping off and fleeing through the forest with officers and police dogs in hot pursuit, then stealing a motorbike and breaking through a police blockade.
While Jodie is pinned down by gunfire and approaching SWAT officers in Bakertown, Aiden springs into action. He possesses a sniper and takes out several approaching officers via friendly fire. He blows up several vehicles and structures. In the end, the only way he can save Jodie is by possessing a helicopter pilot and crashing the craft into the middle of the street.
Before disappearing into the night, Jodie warns the SWAT commander, T. Clieford, that if they do not leave her alone, next time she'll "kill everyone".
===Homeless - 23 Years Old (2012)===
By winter, Jodie has reached the streets of Seattle.Location confirmed by street names (Western Avenue and Aurora Avenue North) visible on the overpass in this chapter. She is again hounded by entities from the Infraworld (a world beyond ours after death); these same entities are the ones she called "monsters" as a child, and which Aiden defended her from. On the thin edge of survival, she breaks down and calls Nathan, but she doesn't give him her location before hanging up. She doesn't make it much farther; overcome by bitter cold, hunger, and despair, she collapses on a snowy sidewalk.
Aiden saves her by enlisting the assistance of Stan, a kind-hearted homeless man. Jodie wakes some days later to find herself in a homeless camp under an overpass in Stan's care. The other denizens are Tuesday, Jimmy, and Walter. Shortly after awakening, she attempts to kill herself (she is able to choose to cut her wrists or throw herself from a great height). Aiden intervenes and she rages at him before Stan gently asks if she'd like to know how their little community works.
He takes her to a nearby street and advises her they need to make $5 to get any hot food. After a while, she wanders off, telling Stan she doesn't think it makes sense for both of them to be begging in the same spot. She is propositioned by a stranger for $10 (if she accepts, Aiden will attack the man and they can steal his money). She can also steal money from an ATM with help from Aiden or borrow a guitar from another homeless person too cold to busk.
Once she has earned at least $10, Stan takes their collected earnings and heads into a supermarket for supplies. As he leaves, he is waylaid and accosted by a gang of four youths who videotape the encounter. Jodie fights them off and they return to the camp.
Once at the camp, Jodie will be able to learn more about her companions including how and why they're on the streets. She will also be able to reassure Tuesday that her baby is okay, ease Jimmy's withdrawal pain, and channel Stan's dead wife. Later that day, Tuesday goes into early labor. She is adamant that they not take her to a hospital because they'll take her baby (she is also on the run from an abusive partner). Stan launches into action, assigning each member a duty while he and Jodie try to get supplies.
Once outside, Stan admits he doesn't know how they're going to get any supplies but he wants Tuesday's child to have what any other child would have. Having earned Stan's trust earlier, she then uses Aiden to bypass security at the same supermarket where Stan was attacked and they get supplies. Jodie helps Tuesday deliver her baby, Zoey.
That night, the same gang of youths set fire to the building the group had broken into so Tuesday could have Zoey in a real shelter. Jodie manages to use Aiden to save her new friends but is not so lucky herself. If she manages to escape the fire, she is attacked in the parking lot by the same gang. If Jodie doesn't survive the fire, Stan runs in and takes her out to try to save her, but Jodie stops breathing, and the gang never shows up. Either way she ends up in a coma.
On waking, she has contact based visions from gifts and newspaper articles that tell her that she's been in a coma for at least three months, Stan cleaned up and found work, Tuesday — actually Elisa — and Zoey were doing well and the gang was captured the same night of their attack thanks to reeking of gasoline. She manages to escape from her 5th story room as CIA agents arrive to take custody of her due to her treason charges.
Walking down a lonely road, she is picked up by Lt. J. Sherman, a local sheriff.
===Broken - 23 Years Old (2013)===
Jodie is questioned by Lt. Sherman, who tries desperately to figure out who she is. Jodie, still fazed from her experiences, says nothing, no matter how much he presses her to give him some information. She won't even answer him about the scar on the back of her head she received from the fire and the gang attack. Aiden, however, makes himself known by flinging the sheriff's coffee mug against the wall.
The SWAT team from a few months ago is called back in to hunt Jodie down. The last scene of them is when they order the sheriff to open the door to his office.
Nathan shows up shortly after the SWAT team, but it is too late. Going inside, he discovers a warzone. The inside of the Kyel County Sheriff's Office has been completely demolished and is littered with the bodies of SWAT team members. The only one left alive is Lt. Sherman, who stares around in shocked disbelief. Jodie is nowhere to be seen.
===Navajo - 23 Years Old (2013)===
After once again slipping away from pursuing forces, Jodie ends up hitchhiking through Monument Valley. Unable to catch a ride, exhausted, and desperately thirsty, Jodie is directed to the only settlement for miles by Aiden. She knocks on the door of the main building and asks to stay the night. Jay, who originally answered the door at first, refuses to let her stay even after she offers to sleep in the barn. His father, Paul, and Jay have a short conversation in (Navajo) and Paul overrides his son. He agrees to let Jodie stay and invites her to share their evening meal as well. Paul introduces Cory and Shimasani.
To Jodie's confusion and surprise, the men rise and insert premade boarding on their windows and bid a hasty good night, advising Jodie not to leave her room no matter what she heard. That night, Jodie disobeys her host's orders and leaves her room. She opens the front door and sees an apparition, a male dressed in ceremonial garments and wearing a mask. Before she can interact with the figure, the door is slammed closed by a member of the family and locked.
The next day, she is invited to stay on by Paul to assist with the ranch in return for room and board. Jay initially maintains his defensive hostility though Cory is more open to Jodie. After Jay watches Jodie and Aiden calm and befriend one of his more stubborn horses, he begins to think differently about her. It is possible for Jay to become a romantic interest for Jodie.
That night, Jodie leaves the home and is nearly killed by a fearsome entity born in the nightly dust storm. She survives and the next day manages to discover more about the nature of the entity, including that it was originally released by Shimasani's ancestors. With Aiden's help, she recovers four talismans and learns the ritual originally used to release the entity. Shimasani is stirred from her apparent vegetative state and gives Jodie the fifth talisman. Later that day, Paul is attacked by the entity in daylight (Jodie has the opportunity to save Paul, using Aiden, if she interacts with him before interacting with Shimasani inside the house). As the storm returns, Shimasani and Jodie prepare to re-enact the ritual. If the ritual is successful, the entity is banished. If it fails, the entity evades capture. Either way Shimasani and, if not saved, Paul die though neither Cory nor Jay blame Jodie. Instead, they thank her for trying and gift her a motorcycle to use to continue her journey.
===Old Friends - 25 Years Old (2014)===
Later, Jodie reaches out to Cole in an attempt to verify the information she dreamed of (or possibly hallucinated) while comatose in the hospital. She meets Cole in a park, and he reveals that she was taken from her birth mother, Norah. The people she had grown up believing to be her parents were given custody of her as part of an agreement with the DPA. Cole further explains that Jodie's father allegedly died before she was born, but her mother had been committed to an asylum also run by the DPA. Jodie insists on meeting her, but Cole attempts to caution her that there may be nothing to see or find if she has truly succumbed to mental illness. When Jodie refuses to relent, he then insists on accompanying her.
===Norah - 25 Years Old (2014)===
The hospital is largely deserted when they arrive. With Aiden's help, they manage to find Norah's location and evade security. Cole waits outside Norah's room while Jodie enters. Norah is propped in a chair, eyes partially open with an IV attached to her arm. She is wholly unresponsive to Jodie's attempts to rouse her. With Aiden's help, Jodie sees a vision of her birth. Again with Aiden's help, she sees her mother and manages to free her from her strange malaise long enough to speak. They seem to be in an unknown plane or dimension inside Norah's mind. Norah explains that it's too late for her and tells Jodie she loves her before the drugs trap her in limbo once again.
When the encounter ends, Aiden may peacefully end Norah's suffering. If he does so, she dies with a smile. Jodie retrieves a locket from Norah and leaves, only to be ambushed in the hallway by armed soldiers. Cole, too, is taken prisoner.
===Briefing - 25 Years Old (2014)===
Jodie awakens in an opulent office. After exploring, she realizes the office must be Nathan Dawkins', as the familiar photo of his wife and child from her days with him at the lab is perched on his enormous desk, along with his snow globe. She and Nathan are reunited. He apologizes for her treatment and promises Cole will not be punished for assisting her. He explains that the CIA has a deal for her, one last mission for her freedom. The complex housing Nathan's office contains a massive new condenser safely housed in an enormous containment field to prevent a similar disaster to the one from years previous.
Another nation has discovered the Infraworld and the CIA ostensibly want Jodie to destroy their research and any advanced technology to secure the CIA's secure and primary access and prevent a disaster like the one from Jodie's youth with worldwide consequences. Jodie reluctantly agrees, realizing the potential danger and eager to stop being hunted. She is informed she will be working with a team. When she asks for clarification, Ryan Clayton and her firearms and hand-to-hand combat instructors from the CIA are ushered in.
===Dragon's Hideout - 25 Years Old (2014)===
They successfully infiltrate the enemy location hidden in a dilapidated and snow locked fishing village only to find that what they thought was the base was a submarine hangar. The quartet infiltrates the hangar after Aiden wipes out the guards within. Clayton and Jodie steal a submarine and manage to infiltrate the underwater installation below them. They make excellent progress until Jodie encounters a containment field that traps Aiden, causing her great pain and blowing their cover. She and Clayton are then captured and tortured. Aiden manages to kill several guards and destroy the equipment maintaining the containment field. He rescues and heals Jodie, who frees Clayton and retrieves the explosives needed to destroy the enemy condenser.
Clayton tries to argue that their work is done and they should flee while they can. Jodie refuses and tells him to head to the submarine and wait for her for 15 minutes. She insists it's the only way as the rift and condenser still exist, bringing more entities into our world. Clayton reluctantly agrees. Jodie and Aiden manage to navigate their way to a diving bay where she dons deep pressure gear and plants explosives to the pylons energizing the condenser. On returning to the bay, she is viciously attacked by the general who had interrogated her and Clayton via torture. Once he lies dead, she and Aiden race through the entity-infested flooded facility to reach the submarine pen.
Initially, Clayton appears to have left with the last sub. Moments later, the craft surfaces and Jodie races aboard. They manage to flee the installation to avoid being killed in the underwater blast from the planted explosives. However, the hydraulic shock wave from the blast knocks out their boosters, stranding the submarine below surface level in arctic water. Desperate, Jodie suggests they attempt to swim as they're not too far below the surface. With no other options, Clayton agrees. If Jodie doesn't swim, she dies and Ryan brings her to land. After CPR he gives up and Jodie seems to die. They surface on an ice shelf and huddle together for warmth. If Jodie tells him she is no longer angry with him and they were previously romantically involved, Clayton will admit he loves her and ask her if she loves him. She can agree and request a frozen kiss. They are rescued at the last moment by the other two members of their team in a stolen military arctic transport.
===Black Sun - 25 Years Old (2014)===
After recovering from the arctic ordeal, she then sits in a briefing of sorts and observes an army general raving about the opportunities the Infraworld presents for resources and conquest. Sickened by him and the futility of her previous heroics in the face of such mania, she leaves and meets Cole, who escorts her to Nathan's office.
Nathan presents Jodie with a new passport created by the CIA, advising that Jodie Holmes no longer exists and a check for $500,000 for "services rendered." As she tries to leave, Nathan stops her. He reveals that he has used his time to research a method to see his family in the Infraworld. He demonstrates it for Jodie and she sees the frightened reaching silhouettes of the familiar figures from her childhood haunting and the photo on Nathan's desk. Their mouths are open as though pleading or shouting. Nathan begs Jodie to help him in his research so he can hear their voices for the first time in fifteen years. She refuses, then with Aiden's help, reluctantly channels Nathan's wife. She is in furious agony and begs him to allow herself and their daughter to die. Horrified, Jodie breaks the trance and tells Nathan he is torturing them, that they're being torn apart by two worlds. Upset, she leaves Nathan.
McGrath, the general from the previous briefing, secretly captures Jodie and drugs her. Barely conscious, she struggles to stay awake as he reveals that he is going to administer the same neuro-acid to her as the one given to her mother and for much the same reasons. She is too dangerous to be killed since her potential influence on the Infraworld is unknown but cannot be allowed to leave. Later through the same fog, Nathan visits and reveals that he is going to cheat death by disabling the containment field and allowing our world and the Infraworld to mix. Desperate, Aiden tries to stop the chemical being pumped into Jodie after Nathan leaves but he's too weak. Jodie orders him to get help.
After her meeting with Nathan, Cole had asked Clayton to join him for a drink in his office. Aiden hurries there and manages to harass the men into realizing he's there and following his signals to Jodie's location. Aiden helps them pass through security and Jodie is freed. She reveals Nathan's insanity and the quartet set out to stop him, only to discover they're too late. They manage to fight against the flow of panicked people and ravenous entities to reach the containment field control room but can't shut down the condenser or reactivate the field. In a desperate bid, Cole equips himself with a portable belt-based containment field and says he has to get to the black sun at the heart of the condenser and activate the self-destruct to stop the carnage. Barely hesitating, Jodie joins him, followed by a frightened but determined Clayton who jokes he always knew he'd die a hero. Then Cole reveals that the delay between triggering the self-destruct and the blast will be almost instantaneous and they're going to die.
They manage to infiltrate the condenser before Cole is badly, possibly mortally, wounded. If Aiden heals Cole as much as possible, he may survive. The duo keeps going, reluctantly leaving Cole behind. As they grow closer to the Black Sun, they encounter lost souls shrieking their regrets and Jodie catches glimpses of her mother and others. Clayton and Jodie are temporarily separated and Jodie encounters Nathan equipped with a belt, desperately searching for his family and carrying a handgun. Jodie speaks with him and tells him she is determined to stop the mingling of worlds. Depending on the course of the conversation, Nathan may shoot himself and be reunited with his family. He will ask Jodie to stop the condenser for him. If the conversation goes wrong Nathan will shoot Jodie then Aiden will kill Nathan or Ryan will wrestle with Nathan and both will be killed.
They're assaulted by a vicious entity and Jodie's field fails. Clayton desperately tries to think of a solution and failing, demands Jodie take his still working belt. She is reluctant but knowing what is at stake doesn't hesitate for long.
She continues on and enters the Black Sun. Once inside, she is shown a new vision of her mother giving birth; this time, it is revealed that Jodie had a twin brother who died after strangling on his umbilical cord. Tearfully, she encounters a specter of Aiden in a beautiful field; she realizes he couldn't leave after the death of his body because he was part of her and she loves him. As she reaches for him, he disintegrates and drifts away on the wind.
She is given a choice between going beyond and being reunited with the people she has lost in her journey or returning to our world and continuing to suffer as well as love and live. If she returns to our world, she races to find Clayton (if he is alive) and embraces him moments before the condenser explodes. They both survive.
===Epilogue - 25 Years Old (2016)===
If Jodie chooses to live, she retreats to an isolated cabin in a beautiful forest on the banks of a river in Alaska. If Cole and/or Ryan died, she is seen mourning at their grave(s) in the cemetery. She reveals that her memories are disintegrating due to spending too long in the Infraworld, leading her to write down her life story in hopes of putting the events in the proper order. She continues to deeply mourn Aiden. Months later, she recovers and begins to heal, and is given several choices on how to continue her life. She can choose to return to Ryan (if he is alive), share a life with Jay on his father's ranch, seek out baby Zoey and her mother, or live alone.
Whatever her decision, it is revealed that Aiden is not truly gone and continues to look after Jodie untethered. Jodie also states that she has terrible dreams of a bleak future with an out of control condenser. She states, "I've died twice already, I'm not afraid of death anymore."
===The Future===
Even though she destroyed both condensers, Jodie always knew they would try again to reach the Infraworld and use it to their own ends. Once Pandora's Box had been opened, it could never be closed again. At some point, an unknown group builds another condenser on the order of the one built by the DPA. However, they lose control of it, and the resulting rift grows to enormous proportions, with the Infraworld spreading across the planet. Jodie and/or Zoey stand against the Infraworld's progression, fighting to protect the world from what lies Beyond.
==Personality==
Jodie is normally reserved and shy, but generally good-hearted and selfless. Orphaned at an early age and having spent part of her life in a government facility, she has never known a true home or family. This has given her a great deal of empathy towards the other downtrodden of the world, and Jodie will usually do what she can to help others in need. Jodie also doesn't take kindly to betrayal or being taken advantage of. Upon learning she helped the CIA assassinate the democratically-elected president of a third-world nation, Jodie was immediately enraged and promptly distanced herself from the organization.
==Powers and Abilities==
Thanks to her connection to Aiden, Jodie possesses various supernatural talents. These include:
Telekinesis: Jodie occasionally displays the ability to telekinetically affect objects without Aiden's help. She can forcibly open her apartment door in "The Dinner" if Aiden locks her out. However, the effort required to do so gives her a nosebleed.
Telepathy: Jodie can read and experience the memories of others. On several occasions, she uses this ability to see a deceased person’s last moments. While visiting Norah at the DPA hospital, she is able to view glimpses of her memories and temporarily enter her mind with help from Aiden. The nature of their tether also allows her to communicate mentally with Aiden.
Clairvoyance: Jodie can observe the world through Aiden's eyes and obtain visual information about an object by touching it. In "My Imaginary Friend...," she describes feeling a vibrating sensation from objects with significant memories attached to them. In "The Embassy," she uses this ability to copy classified documents while inside the embassy. In "Homeless," she can optionally use it to see Zoey inside of Tuesday’s womb.
Mediumship: Jodie can see, communicate with and channel spirits to allow them to speak with others through her. Doing so causes her eyes to roll back, and her voice becomes that of the person she is channeling. She typically requires physical contact with someone connected to the spirit she is trying to channel.
Precognition and Retrocognition: Jodie can experience visions of future or past events. In "Homeless," she sees glimpses of the burning abandoned building the homeless group later has to escape from, and while comatose in the hospital she witnesses a memory of her own birth and a vision of herself facing the threat of another rift to the Infraworld. The latter visions are shown in the form of television screens.
Omnipresence: If Jodie chooses to enter the Beyond, she becomes an incorporeal presence with the ability to be everywhere and nowhere.
In addition to her paranormal abilities, Jodie also acquires several skills throughout the game. These include:
Martial Arts: After being recruited by the CIA, Jodie quickly learns hand-to-hand combat and other self-defense techniques. She uses these skills in the field during her missions, and later puts them to use against the gang attacking her and the other homeless. In the future, she is armed with a knife in addition to her rifle, implying she is also proficient with bladed weapons.Not visible during normal gameplay, but can be seen using a freecam.
Marksmanship: Jodie's CIA training has made her proficient with firearms and an accomplished markswoman. When the Infraworld takes over in the epilogue, Jodie is seen observing the chaos armed with an assault rifle.
Infiltration, Espionage, and Evasion: As part of her CIA training, Jodie is trained in stealth, espionage, and infiltration techniques. She uses these in the field during her missions, and later to evade the authorities.
Equestrian: During her stay at the ranch, Jodie learns how to ride a horse.
Motorcyclist: Jodie steals a motorcycle during her escape from the authorities, and is gifted another one by Jay's family. Depending on the chosen ending, she returns to the ranch using the same motorcycle.
Submarine Pilot: As part of her CIA training, Jodie knows how to operate a submersible, having practiced with a simulator.
Mechanical Skill: If Jodie finds the motorcycle in the barn, she can fix it herself.
Guitarist: Jodie shows an interest in playing guitar at an early age. In "Like Other Girls," she is able to play the electric guitar, and in "Homeless," she can sing and play a guitar for money.
Cooking: As a bachelorette, Jodie is more than capable of cooking for herself, shown when she has the option to cook either chicken curry or Asian beef for her date with Clayton.
==Trivia==
* The identity the CIA gives her is "Elizabeth North" (spelled "Elisabeth" on her passport). She uses this identity in "The Embassy," and is given a new passport bearing the name in "Black Sun".
* The address to her apartment is 6192 Columbus Street, 9th floor, as seen in "The Dinner".Seen when Jodie orders pizza for dinner. YouTube.com.
* During the ending of Beyond: Two Souls, Jodie and/or Zoey stand atop a cliff overlooking a city being overrun with denizens from the Infraworld, which may be hinting towards a possible sequel. During a November 2015 Q&A session, David Cage stated that Quantic Dream had no such plans, although he later lauded Beyond: Two Souls as being "perhaps the most important game in [his] career as a writer/director."https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/11/30/quantic-dream-no-plan-beyond-two-souls-sequel-dont-want-make-game-ten-times/https://www.dualshockers.com/beyond-two-souls-david-cage-most-important-game/
* It is unknown how long the future apocalypse occurs after the epilogue, as the game files do not indicate an age attached to Jodie's future model.
* Jodie has several scars in the future cutscenes: one on her left eyebrow, another on the bridge of her nose, and a third on her cheek.
* The rifle she carries in the future sports an energy indicator similar to the one on her containment belt, implying it is not a normal assault rifle but rather some form of energized weapon.
* Although it is never stated whether Jodie can only perform supernatural feats because she is tied to Aiden or if she has paranormal abilities of her own, the game implies that it is the latter.
** Her biological parents both had psychic powers, and the game hints that these powers are hereditary.
** If Aiden locks her out of her apartment in "The Dinner," she can force the door open herself. Evidence of this can be seen if the chapter is played in Duo Mode; the player controlling Jodie must complete the interaction to open the door rather than the player controlling Aiden.
** Jodie also continues to receive premonitions and see spirits after she is no longer tethered to Aiden, as seen in the endings.
** Jodie also appears to be able to enhance Aiden's power. Whenever Aiden is forced to act alone, he has very limited control unless he is possessing someone; with Jodie directing him, he is able to break open metal doors and even flip cars, among other feats.
* Jodie was featured on one of the covers for the November 2012 issue of Game Informer.
* Jodie is one of the characters included in the Beyond: Two Souls costume pack for the series, alongside Ryan (as he appears in "The Embassy"), Nathan, and Cole.https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP9000-BCUS98245_00-LBPDLCSONYCK0008https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP9000-BCUS98245_00-LBPDLCSONYCO0039
* The "Gifted Soul" cameo character in is based on Jodie's appearance in "Hunted". Its description reads "Has a not-so-imaginary friend."
* Jodie appears to have a fondness for motorcycles and cars. If she finds the motorcycle at the ranch, she is capable of fixing it unassisted, and she has a magazine about them on her desk in her cabin.
==Gallery==
===Concept Art===
Jodieyoung.jpg|Concept art by Julie Gibert
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Jodiestealth.jpg|Concept art by Florent Auguy
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Jodiestealth3.jpg|Concept art by Florent Auguy
Beyond Two Souls Concept Art FA-MA01.jpg|Concept art by Florent Auguy
Jconcept7.jpg|Concept art by Julie Gibert
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Jodiedinnerconcept.jpg|Concept art by Florent Auguy
Jconceptresearch.jpg|Concept art by Julie Gibert
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Jodienavajoconcept.jpg|Concept art by Julie Gibert
Jodiehorseback.webp|Concept art of Jodie and Ashkii by Julie Gibert
Jodiebike.webp|Concept art by Julie Gibert
Jnorahconcept.jpeg|Concept art by Julie Gibert
Jnorahclose.webp|Concept art by Julie Gibert
Jodiehurtconcept.webp|Concept art by Julie Gibert
Jconcept24.jpg|Concept art by Julie Gibert
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Jodiefuture.jpg|Concept art by Julie Gibert
Afonsojfinal.jpg|Concept art by José Afonso
Japocdetails.webp|Concept art by Julie Gibert
===Behind the Scenes===
Thumbnail 2 e5bc5ee2 v1.jpg|Behind the scenes on the process and details
Beyond-Two-Souls-2.jpg|Elliot Page wearing a motion capture suit
Beyond-capture.jpg|Kadeem Hardison, Caroline Wolfson and Willem Dafoe
IrjouJGje1FI4.gif|Mo-cap of Elliot Page sharing a toast with Ryan
BeyondTwoSoulsTribeca12.jpg|Mo-cap of Elliot Page playing 's ""
Jodie.jpg|Jodie in the E3 trailer
Beyond Two Souls Ellen Page Game.jpg|Jodie in the E3 Gameplay Video
Beyond-E3-Media.jpg|An injured Jodie in the E3 Gameplay Video
===Promotional Artwork===
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Jrender2.jpg|CG of Jodie as she appears in "Broken"
Jrender3.jpg|CG of Jodie as she appears in "Broken"
Jrender4.jpg|CG of Jodie as she appears in "Hunted"
Jrender5.jpg|CG of Jodie as she appears in "Hunted"
Jrender6.jpg|CG of Jodie as she appears in "Hunted" (injured)
Jodie-edge.png|Jodie featured on the cover of EDGE magazine
Jodie-gi.jpg|Jodie featured on the cover of Game Informer magazine
===Finished Game===
Catalog1.png|Menu catalog of a baby Jodie, intended for use in the deleted chapter "First Steps"
An 8-year old Jodie in a lab test.jpg|A 9-year-old Jodie in a lab test, played by Caroline Wolfson
An 8-year old Jodie meeting Dawkins for the first time.jpg|A 9-year-old Jodie, meeting Nathan Dawkins for the first time
BEYOND TWO SOULS234541.jpg|Adult Jodie's models
Ps3-game-6099-ss5.jpg|Jodie in her newly bought apartment
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1363881225-8.jpg|A homeless Jodie out on the streets during winter
1363876463-3.jpg|A homeless Jodie out on the streets during winter
1363875922-3.jpg|A homeless Jodie preparing to jump off a bridge
1363875918-1.jpg|Jodie passed out on the streets after trying to make some money by begging to buy some food
Beyond-Two-Souls-2-1280x720.jpg|Jodie during the chapter "The Embassy," recovering from exerting herself with Aiden
Beyond-Two-Souls-3-1280x720.jpg|A young Jodie, solemn
Beyond-Two-Souls-4 (1).jpg|A young Jodie, frightened by wayward spirits
Beyond-Two-Souls-8-1280x720.jpg|Jodie saying goodbye to Salim
Beyond-Two-Souls new-23.jpg|Jodie busking on the street for money
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==Videos==
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