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Sissel arrives to the Chicken Kitchen after some kind of disaster has occurred there - Lynne is dead again, and so is a man who crashed his van through the restaurant's windows. He travels back to 4 minutes before Lynne's fourth death, and learns that the man died on impact ramming into the Kitchen and that a giant ornamental chicken was knocked loose and fell on Lynne. The waitress turns out to be an undercover detective spying on a man and a woman who were there to meet Sissel; this is why the police have marked it out and why Lynne is interested in the place. She found a note on his corpse about the meeting. The couple are carrying a big red briefcase but Sissel can't open its lock to find out what's inside. They eventually learn that the waitress placed a bug on the couple's meal to spy on them, but the woman found it and burned it with a lighter, causing it to short-circuit and produce a noise so loud it knocked the detective, who was listening to it through headphones, unconscious. Sissel and Lynne untangle the whole disaster by swapping out the bugged chicken for a normal one, so that the detective just hears the cook's singing. While they're together, they talk about how Lynne seems to have shot Sissel, which she denies having any memory of but eventually accepts that she did and apologizes, as well as the case of Detective Jowd, which Lynne is investigating. Jowd is on death row by his own request and is to be executed in about an hour. He's important to her because he saved her life ten years ago, when she was held hostage at the local park. Lynne tells Sissel to go prevent the execution while she goes to appeal to the Justice Minister, who at this point I assume is the man we met earlier whose wife ran out on him.

When Sissel does make it to the jail, the execution has already taken place. The electric chair short-circuited and blew up, but Jowd was so close to it that he still died in the explosion. Sissel goes back in time and turns on the chair while no one is in the room, blowing it up with no deaths, and then helps Jowd escape while the jail's power is out. Jowd starts making use of Sissel's powers by devising a way for them to signal each other from afar and then by calling the prison's phone after his escape to help Sissel get to him. They talk about the painting Jowd was making of Sissel, but the detective refuses to tell him anything except that Lynne's music box has something to do with his memories. He explains that he wanted to be executed due to feelings of guilt for the case at the park, where he had to kill a man in order to save Lynne- and then he gets recaptured by his old friend Cabanela.

I like how the plot is unfolding up to this point. The whole set of reveals with the chicken kitchen were fun and I liked the curveball that Jowd had wanted his own execution. It was interesting meeting him and finding out just how aloof he is now. I'd say it's also an example of a puzzle game that does a good job ramping up the complexity as it goes. That prison escape section was kind of tricky. It was a bit frustrating because of the stealth element to it, at first, but once I got the idea down it wasn't too bad.

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