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    Anna’s grocery

    Jalonsville, New Jersey

    Episode 01

    Anna runs the grocery, and calls Louis from here for the account book she left at home. When he brings it she teases him, and the book turns out to show fifty times more money than the shop should make.

    Episode 03

    With Anna gone, the grocery is locked and dark. Louis has to pick the lock to get in, then the cash register, and searches the storage room behind the shop for anything she left.

    A tape in the shop records someone telling Anna she has no choice, and that “a few hours translates into a few years”, while she asks to say goodbye to “him”.

    Who you’ll find here

    Rooms

    Every scene of the games set here, as shipped, under the game’s own name for it. Where the game has a version of the scene with its characters in it, that is the one shown.

    Episode 01

    Anna’s grocery: Shop
    Shop Grocery

    Episode 03

    Anna’s grocery: Shop
    Shop Grocery
    Anna’s grocery: Storage room
    Storage room GroceryStorage
    Anna’s grocery: The cash register
    The cash register · close-up GroceryCashRegister

    Trivia

    • A poster for “Il castrator del couyo”, the opera Louis and Anna saw on one of their first dates in New York, hangs in the grocery: “Strange we never went back there.”
    • So does an old Illinois licence plate. Louis: “Anna doesn’t have any family in Illinois. Weird.”
    • “Alex was here” is carved on one of the shelves, a mark left by the game’s creator, Alexandre Leboucher.