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Alice Liddell finds herself in an alternate version of Moorfields Street, filled with shadows of the orphans from Houndsditch, identifiable only by their plaques. Black smoke is coming out of the subway station. She descends to the platform, where she encounters Dr. Bumby. [START OF CUTSCENE].
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| Alice
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You oozing sore of depravity... children wearing their names around their necks, as if they're breeding livestock!
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| Dr. Bumby
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A declaration of their pedigree. You could use one, they're proud to display their provenance. Hahaha!
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| Alice
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You brute! They can't remember who they are or where they're from. How many minds have you twisted into forgetfulness?
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| Dr. Bumby
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Not enough. Yours would have been a triumph. Still, you're an insane wreck. My work is done.
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Switches to Wonderland where Alice breaks free from the doll body she had been trapped in. [END OF CUTSCENE]. Now on the Infernal Train, she walks into one of the carriages, where she meets the Hatter. [START OF CUTSCENE].
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| Alice
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Hatter, I must stop this Infernal Train and the evil force that drives it!
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| Hatter
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Everything's a nail, is it, Miss Hammerhead? First it was your search, freighted with fear and fragmented memories. Now it's the train! Never time for tea. While your brain's on holiday, we're out ruined! Now we're all mad here and that's a good excuse for going to hell in a teapot, but not for forgetting what your senses saw. Forgetting is just forgetting, except when it's not. Then they call it something else. I'd like to forget what you did. I tried, but I can't.
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Switches back to London where Alice is still confronting Dr. Bumby.
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| Alice
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You've used me, and abused me, but you will not destroy me!
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| Dr. Bumby
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No? The damage is done. The old Alice and her Wonderland retreat are demolished. You can't even recognize what's happened, and you're powerless to change it or move against me. I've made certain of that.
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Switches back to Wonderland where Alice meets the Caterpillar in the next carriage.
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| Caterpillar
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Come to receive your punishment then?
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| Alice
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I know I'm guilty of something, but punishment never suits the victims of the crime.
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| Caterpillar
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Abuse is a crime the strong visit on the weak. And you're right, Abusers are insufficiently punished for the damage they do. Those who witness abuse without seeking retribution for the harmed, pay a penalty. Your own pain mitigates your failure to act earlier, but you may not have paid enough for witnessing the pain of others!
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Switches back to London.
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| Alice
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You corrupted my memories, but you failed to make me forget.
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| Dr. Bumby
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I could've made you into a tasty bit. Clients out the door waiting for a piece from a raving delusional beauty, with no memory of the past, or no sense of the future. But you wouldn't forget; you insisted on holding on to your fantasies. You're mad. Like your sister.
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| Alice
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Don't you speak of her! You didn't know her...
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| Dr. Bumby
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Your sister was a tease. Pretended to despise me. She got what she wanted... in the end.
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Switches back to Wonderland where Alice meets Queen of Hearts.
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| Alice
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My Lizzie... What is this Train's destination?
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| Queen of Hearts
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Madness and destruction. You shouldn't ask questions you know the answer to, it's not polite. And that noise wasn't Lizzie talking in her sleep.
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| Alice
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Oh no! Poor Lizzie...
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| Queen of Hearts
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And there are no centaurs in Oxford. Make your survival mean something, or we are all doomed!
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[END OF CUTSCENE]. Still in Wonderland, Alice makes her way towards the Train's engine, where the Dollmaker is waiting for her.
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| Dollmaker
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Hahaha! Hide in your sham!
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She defeats the creature's left hand.
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| Dollmaker
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The past must be paid for.
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She defeats the creature's right hand.
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| Dollmaker
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Roahhh! Make believe avenger!
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Alice is able to kill the monster responsible for corrupting Wonderland.
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| Dollmaker
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[Gurgles and dies].
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Switches to London. [START OF CUTSCENE].
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| Alice
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I'll see you charged. In prison, some half-wit bruiser will make you his sweetheart... and then you'll hang!
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| Dr. Bumby
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Indeed? A hysterical woman, former lunatic, roaring outrageous accusations against a respectable social architect and scientist. My god, Alice, who would believe you? I scarcely believe it myself.
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| Alice
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You monstrous creature! Such evil, will be punished!
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| Dr. Bumby
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By whom? By what? Psychotic, silly bitch. Your madness will be punished. Now leave. I'm expecting your replacement.
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Alice shoves Bumby into oncoming train after taking back Lizzie's key and changing into her Wonderland form. Alice slowly walks out of the train station and sees that Moorfields Street had changed drastically. Alice walks down the street as the camera pans out to show Londerland.
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| Cheshire
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Ah, Alice, we can't go home again. No surprise, really. Only a very few find the way; and most of them don't recognize it when they do. Delusions, too, die hard. Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as the measure of worth. Forgetting pain is convenient. Remembering it, agonizing. But recovering the truth is worth the suffering. And our Wonderland, though damaged, is safe in memory... for now.
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[END OF CUTSCENE AND GAME]. Fade to credits.
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