Booker's intervention - the journey players undertake from the opening moments of the game - is designed by the Luteces to stop this. In 1984, an aged Elizabeth - broken by torture and bent to Comstock's beliefs - would have overseen Columbia attacking New York, raining down fire and setting the city ablaze. Towards the end of the game, players get a glimpse at how Comstock's universe could continue. The priest who baptises Booker on his entry into Columbia is the same man who baptised Booker/Comstock in the past. She is the heir Comstock never had, and able to naturally navigate the multiverse after a last-minute change of heart from Booker sees the tip of her finger left behind when making the jump between realities. Acting through the male Robert Lutece in Booker's universe, Comstock wipes away his debts in payment for his daughter. Pained by these memories and the recent death of his wife during childbirth, he is a man ruined by drink and gambling debts. Never baptised, he has lived with his sins for several years. Prematurely aged and sterile due to his frequent abuses of the tear technology, the only thing Comstock wants for is an heir. Audio diaries describe how he sees other races as The White Man's Burden, with the fantastically-designed Hall of Heroes level a monument to his racist and jingoistic beliefs. Buoyed by the fame and wealth generated by his borrowed accomplishments, Comstock arms Columbia as an airborne military might, seceding from the United States as his actions become more extreme. Ironically, it is this baptised version of Booker which does not repent for his actions. He styles himself a prophet, and builds Columbia with himself as its figurehead. Armed with her technology, he is able to create "tears" through into other universes and glimpse potential futures. In one branch of realities he does, growing rich and funding the research of physicist Rosalind Lutece. It begins and ends with a baptism of Booker DeWitt: his rebirth in one set of timelines as antagonist Zachary Comstock, and in another, his eventual realisation that he must sacrifice his life to stop the former event from ever happening.Īfter his part in the horrific Wounded Knee Massacre, DeWitt is given the choice to have his sins washed away and be baptised as a new man. Like a ride on one of its soaring skylines, the latter half of BioShock Infinite's narrative is a twisted and breath-taking race through the city of Columbia and beyond, moving on to expand the series' scope to a dizzying scale. WARNING: One more time, this ending analysis of BioShock Infinite discusses the game's ending.
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