chronically-illustrated:

Wait wait wait wait wait.

Jack mentioned the movie The Thing, which stood out to me because that’s my favorite scary movie, but you know what the whole premise of The Thing is?

A creature consuming people and creating copies that look exactly like them, but are actually extensions of the creature. This creature can infect someone through blood contact…like through an open wound.

This goes right along with my theory that who we’re seeing right now is not Jack, but a replacement, while the real Jack is trapped somewhere. My working theory has been that his body was infected and overtaken and he’s trapped in his own mind. Additional evidence includes the weird moments in Monster Prom and Bendy Chapter 4 where he talks about his brain switching off, him not recognizing Dr. Scheeplestein, the image of him trapped in the computer, the scenes in the bathroom, and the Morse code saying, “Where am I?” 

Now throw in Chase saying, “You need to wake up.” At one point in the video, he asked, “Am I in a coma?” That seems to connect directly with Chase saying he needs to wake up. It could be that the state of being trapped inside his own head is similar to being in a coma, the difference being that his body is in use by someone else.

This is all very rough, but my thoughts right now are as follows:

I think the egos know he’s trapped and they’re showing up to try to help. First Schneep comes in and instead of treating the person in the chair as his “dear friend” Jack, he has a sort of anxious and angry look when he says, “That is MY chair.” We don’t know what happened directly after that confrontation, but if Schneep knows Jack has been taken over and replaced, he may have tried to subdue “Jack.” Then we had the door to the recording room open again, but we didn’t see who came in – we just saw Jack’s scared face on the computer screen. Now Chase is trying to contact the real Jack and tell him he needs to wake up, which may follow Schneep subduing the impostor. 

I don’t actually have enough information to create a fully-fledged theory right now. There are so many ways all these pieces might fit together, and these are just my very first thoughts following what we saw today, so my mind is almost certainly going to change about what’s going on as I read others’ reactions and as we get more information. We know Jack loves horror and sci-fi movies, so I’m on the lookout for nods to the conventions of these genres to give clues about what’s going on.