Lees Clincial Trial analysis. Upd: 07/12/25
Angel is going through a clinical trial test run for a newly developed ADHD medication, and they'll be getting 1k from it! Yay! Lee is the person who provides them with the dosage and does weekly checkups to see how the new medication is affecting Angel and his other patients. It's a relative slow burn up until week 8, but you do get to see how Angels siblings and friends interact with them—along with their boss. Angel is often late to the appointments because of the fact they don't own a car (or don't at the start of the game), so they have to take a bus and rush over to the clinic every week.
Lee and Angel talk about their interests sometimes, but on week 7, something happens to Angel that we aren't told about until later. Trigger warning for rape/sexual assault, you can skip past the red part! Angel was sexually assaulted and raped by their coworker, Brandon. We aren't shown what happened, but Angel explains everything that happened to Lee. Brandon pressured Angel at their home, and trapped them at their car after work. So he sexually assaulted Angel a total of 2 times within the span of a day. Lee, obviously, seems disturbed and keeps a mental note in the back of his mind. After the clinical trial test run is over, Lee doesn't want Angel to just drop out of his life. So, he invites them over! Yay. They have some relatively sweet moments in the game. Angel cooks for Lee, they watch nature documentaries, Lee gives Angel an extra pair of clothes, they take a bath and sleep in the same bed together—everything seems nice.
This is the part where Lees morality comes into question, because he's clearly unwell and doesn't understand the basic etiquette of romance or respecting a person's boundaries. (Doesn't excuse his actions, but explains them). He made a shrine of Angel in a hidden closet door, and the thing Angel is mostly mad about is their jacket being stolen. They're not neutral because they don't care, they're neutral because they thought Lee was different—but is obviously disappointed with the fact Lee overstepped SO many boundaries. You have the choice to either push him away or forgive him, and it'll determine the ending you get. Kind of. If you reject him, he'll back off and insist on washing your jacket (He does the same if you chose to accept him, but he's a little more panicked if you don't), and then he leaves.
Angel decides to snoop through his closet to find out if he has a router that Angel can connect their phone to, and it turns out that Lee had a cellphone jammer hidden in his closet. And throughout the 3 days Angel had been gone, nobody called or texted them—not even work. Bummer. You'll notice that there's a little entrance down to a basement hidden in the closet, so, you go down it. While using the convenient flashlight you stole, Angel will find that Lee had killed Brandon and left his body in the basement. His spine was drilled into, along with his head. Lee finds Angel down there, and he basically begs for their cooperation to clean up the body. (Hence the video I showed you earlier!)
If you had accepted him earlier, you have the choice to either deny helping him or accept the offer. If you rejected him earlier, you only have the choice to deny what he's asking you. If you reject him, he'll respect your decision and ask you to leave within the next 10 seconds. If you choose to stay, you'll see him killing himself with his drill—if you decide to leave, you'll just walk out the front door and get your ending.
If you decide to accept his offer, you'll get your second ending. Angel helps clean up and hide the body, they end up moving with Lee to a different cabin, and you live in solace. This ending isn't meant to be cute, it's meant to show the dependency that someone like Angel can have on Lee—who showed them the slightest bit of kindness regardless of the lines he crossed.

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Pub: 14 Aug 2021 19:01 UTC

Edit: 08 Dec 2025 12:42 UTC

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