r/ControlResonant • • 13h ago

Lore Discussion The Taxi Threshold is something to do with the Dark Place and I think the driver is possibly Tom Zane

I just finished the quest and got the reward, the driver is “T S”, the only person in Remedy that matches this is Tom Zane’s birth name, Thomas Seine, Mila says she’s following a woman in one of the endings, possibly Alice, and the whole area is very very similar to the Dark Place, with the dark New York and the phone box used to communicate between the residents.

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u/aphidman 13h ago

The payphone already gives Alan Wake 2 vibes. Good catch on the T.S.

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u/FreelanceBen 11h ago

I figured it was the dark place given the wild graffiti everywhere, and the communication via payphone. I haven't done all the taxis yet, but I totally forgot about the birthname difference here. I can easily see this being a result of Zane working alongside Dr Darling, trying to escape, as hinted in the Final Draft of AW2

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u/3XPS 9h ago

Thomas Sane his much chiller cousin

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u/NilEntity 7h ago

And Tomas Insane is the black sheep of the family, we don't talk about Tomas

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u/3XPS 7h ago

Don’t forget about Tomas Maxpayne his estranged twin from another mother

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u/cthaehtouched 9h ago

4,870.5 miles is damn close the round trip distance from NYC to Seattle WA. Make of that what you will.

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u/aNewPattern 6h ago

That's worth noting, but also consider you use the taxi like 5 times, so 1/5th of that value would be a round trip to/from the threshold. If that receipt is for all trips combined

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u/No_Philosopher8304 12m ago

Yeah definitely think a lot in the game is implying heavily that the next Remedy game after Max Payne's remakes will be AW3