will finally pay off.

Complete guide to Heavy Rain's 'The Rat' chapter. Learn about the poison trial, trophies like Sacrifice and Trial Master, and how to find Shaun's location.

This chapter will not take place if Ethan was arrested in Chapter 41.

Ethan will find himself in a long hallway leading to a white room with the final trial. Walk into the room, and touch the video screen. This trial is simultaneously the simplest and the most difficult: to get the final letters, Ethan must drink a vial of poison that will kill him in one hour. That's enough time to save Shaun, but not to do much else. And of course, after that hour you'll be dead, and Shaun will lose his father forever.

This trial raises a host of questions: How do you know the Origami Killer is telling the truth? What if he's bluffing, and the poison will kill you right away? Do you even have to take that chance, or can you figure out Shaun's location without taking the poison? And, most importantly of all: Does it make sense that you should die so that your son can live? Walk around the room, look over Ethan's thoughts, and decide for yourself whether it's worth it. Then either drink the poison and receive the last set of letters, or walk out without drinking it. (Drinking it earns you the "Sacrifice" Trophy, though you can get a different one if you don't take it.)

If you've completed all five trials to the Origami Killer's specifications, you will receive the "Trial Master" Trophy along with the complete address, allowing you to go there immediately. (Needless to say, the poison is not instant death. That's good, at least.) If you completed two or fewer trials, Ethan will be unable to find him. If you completed three or four trials, however, Ethan will be able to guess Shaun's location from a list of possible addresses. Pretty much your only hint, besides the letters, comes from Ethan's phone. Listen to it, and you will hear two distinctive sounds which should tell you where Shaun is. If you head to the right address, the game will cut immediately to Jayden's story. (If you found the right address AND avoided drinking the poison, you receive the "Clever Dad" Trophy.) If you head to the wrong address, you'll get a brief scene showing where you accidentally ended up.

That said, there is still a chance for Ethan to rescue his son even if he screws the address up. You just have to depend on Madison to find the address for you in a later chapter.

The two sounds mentioned above are, respectively, the horn of a barge and the cawing of seagulls. From this, you can gather that Shaun is being held somewhere near water. By consulting the GPS you'll find that the only location which is near a waterway is 852 Theodore Roosevelt Road, next to the