PART 3- A PRELUDE
Nathan Langdon, Peter's older brother- is the perpetrator of a DUI vehicle crash involving himself and Edward Geedy as well as his younger brother Jonathan Geedy, and this is the primary catalyst that thrusts everything into motion.
Years before the timeline of the games...
Night driving in the countryside are Jonathan and Edward Geedy. Jonathan is in the midst of confessing to his older sibling a sinister revelation-- he has killed a number of women.
Jonathan (later known as Project K) is not entirely at fault for his actions of lunaticism. He is the survivor of a self-inflicted suicide attempt, one that left him mentally disabled with serious neuroticism and OCD-like repercussions that materialize in extremities of personality- from being kind-natured and timid to explosive hysterics. His excessive anxiety disorder that is largely relieved by the pet cat that is always on his side, an animal that is used as a therapeutic instrument by Jonathan's carers to lessen the negative psychological survival trauma and evoke a childlike feeling of security and peace within Jonathan. Edward, upon hearing the confession is frenzied, his mind beset by the thoughts of the many eventualities that will occur once the news gets out, should he let it.
Nathan Langdon, coming in the opposite direction, drinks from an open bottle of Jack Daniels (200cc) resting on the passenger side while driving a second-hand F-Type convertible Jag, opening up in the summer night, murmuring complaints to himself about a former colleague, a comrade who is refusing to conspire with Nathan in accepting bribes and has threatened to blow Nathan's cover. His concentration at an equal deficit to Geedy’s, he
shoots down murky country lanes oblivious and with little care to to his surroundings.
As Nathan switches channels on the radio, a local lady stumbles on the street ahead. In riddles of a fragmented mind, she talks to herself; she has developed dementia and walked away from her place of care. Langdon, who is highly intoxicated by this stage, collides with her, the effect causes his vehicle to zigzag across the lanes in a sine wave. His Jag smashes into the oncoming Land Rover Discovery Sport 2.0 TD4 that Edward and Jonathan are in, fishtailing the Land Rover off the road and flipping it past the side jettison, then catapulting down the 30ft plummet. It appears improbable anybody would survive such a drop, Langdon considers, but as he peers over he sees; a) the life-devoid elderly woman’s body caught in a shrubbery of hawthorn, spilled organs and broken appendages spread at unnatural points and b) the two occupants of the Rover out within the open, slithering in anguish, bloodied and both with serious damage. Jonathan Langdon expires shortly after. His brother Edward reaches out to touch him, but his hand instead falls upon a copy of the book he had that was within the car- "The Island of Dr.Moreau"
Nathan Langdon surges down the bank. His cop instincts kick in to initially rescue the duo, and he tries to awaken Edward. Edward appears to be semi-docile but mute, he gazes at Nathan and blurs out once more. At this point Nathan reconsiders the scene, letting everything sink in. He predicts the catastrophes that would happen for him ought to he call it in and other members of the force come and discover him there intoxicated. And as a figure of authority, he knows it’s a career killer. With this in mind, he makes a choice, putting his foot on the back of Edward's head and forcing it into the slime until he's certain Edward is dead. Nathan then gets back within the car, hurling the bourbon bottle out, foolishly leaving prints on it that are afterward used for identification, and drives off.
Unbeknownst to Langdon, Edward Geedy miraculously survives the accident and the murder attempt. He endures outwardly only physical harm. The irreparable cracks of the neurological mirror will make their appearance later.
“Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
“Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
“Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
“Not to claw the Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
“Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”
Amid the months of recuperation that follows, Geedy becomes exceedingly fixated by his last recollections, a read through of ‘The Island of Dr.Moreau’ - the book he was just wrapping up as Langdon’s car hit his and sent him and his brother off the gorge. Geedy’s harrowed intellect turns profoundly into the morphia, indulging in fantasies of men and beasts grafted together and advanced into more superior, more purer species or “Vivisects”- as they were named within the anecdotal H.G.Well's tale. Edward’s mind obsesses over bringing them to reality.
Nathan Langdon is soon identified by highway camera and affirmed to be at the source of the occurrence through the fingerprints on the bottle. He is forced to hand in his badge, yet his connections keep him out of prison. He becomes unemployed, skeptical, bitter, and self-destructive.
After the events of THE Insanity 1 & 2
It is a mystery how Edward Geedy and his associates were able to vanish after the Wishingtree affair with Peter Langdon, whose remains were also not recovered. Years pass, and the case is dropped. The OR recordings that Geedy famously uploaded stopped abruptly.
Then one day, Nathan Langdon is personally sent a vellum-print letter from Geedy, shedding light on the whole affair.
On the ocean...
Next is the scene of Nathan and another man on a power boat, wrapped up. It’s winter. He pulls out part of a letter he has gotten from Edward Geedy. "Nathan THE CONDEMNED. YOU KNOW WHERE TO Discover ME After You ARE Prepared TO Atone FOR THE Offenses OF THE PAST. COME ALONE, to SEEK REPRIEVE. You KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO NATHAN."
The protected (fictional) Shipman Isles and the main island of Weasel Bog have a modest archaic populace that get by as primitive subsistence ranchers- surviving on an agrarian culture, and are akin to Quakers with little to no utilize for power or present day hardware, and with the Act of 1956[11] that disallows travel to the island and any approach closer than five maritime miles (9.26 km), outsiders are prevented from any contact with the inhabitants in order to terminate the spread of remotely contracted infections, and protect the culture of the islands, in other words, they are totally closed off from the rest of the world. The region is watched by a neighborhood naval force also composed of inhabitants who will oust or even attack interlopers on sight.
Langdon will later discover that Geedy is not merely hidden within the Shipman Isles- the islanders are in truth supporters of Geedy and his despotism, impressed by his success with the operations his doctrines fall closely in line with the chapter of Paganism they mirth themselves in. To them his success with the vivisections shows him nothing short of a revered saint, and evangelist of their belief, a savior, the personification of their prophecies of leaders arrival. Having been contacted, and welcomed to live within the island a long time earlier, Geedy was able to move there and found an HQ, feigning greatness and benefitting from the total support, worship and compliance of his followers, advancing their otherworldly body of religious practices through his own lecturing, expressing his own twisted elucidations of ethical instruction and moral coding, joining them in song and ceremonial event, reflection, transition, and more horrendously, utilizing them as manikins to perform his vivisections on. The honour & blessing of being rendered into a 'totem animal' is seen by the islanders as a prestigious gift to aspire to.
As the ships docks having maintained a strategic distance from the coastguard Nathan disembarks and left alone when the ferryman he believed would take him to Geedy takes off abruptly. It’s daytime but the climate of the Shipman is the same perpetually; dim, overhung, drizzly.
Far away is Geedy, looking through binoculars from a veranda distant within the slopes, he’s been watching all along. We see the shadow of an colossal monster move at the calling of it's master.
Nathan thumbs a Glock 22 Standard, checks extended floor plate (mag), clicks it back in full mag, puts it in a holster on his coat. What Geedy doesn't know is that Langdon himself is more mentally unsteady than ever. He figures it out the tip was a set up and being caught on the cold island with small hope of getting away undetected, continues on a travel to discover his brother and protect him from the hands of the psychopathic host, and he's prepared to dispense with anybody that stands in his way, guiltless or guilty.
This game faces the twin concepts of choices and redemption; will you drive Nathan over the edge of rationality and into the darkness, or discover a way to lead him to the light, and back to the way of the lawful and the good?
