Back in the jail, Richard and Alice discuss the nature of the prison. By watching the television, the player is able to learn that the jail's eventually intended use is as a luxurious underground shelter for when the weather becomes even worse, and that its use as a prison is a trial run to assess its suitability. The jail is part of a wider plan known as the Typhon Project that will house the rich deep underground, away from the dangers outside. Richard and Alice continue to talk, and Alice confirms that she is indeed inside for murder. By exploring optional dialogue choices, the player can learn that Alice has a history of depression, and that she has been provided with medication by the prison guards. Alice continues to tell the story of how she ended up in jail.
In another flashback, Alice and Barney search for shelter, eventually coming across a seemingly abandoned house. They force their way inside, where they find food and clothes, a collapsed staircase, and recent signs of life. Alice finds a keepsake box containing a photo and keys. Opening a locked door with the keys, Alice finds a bathroom covered in dried blood. Elsewhere in the building Alice finds mysterious notes and scraps of information that seem to point to the house being used as a base for suspicious activity, as well as torn military papers belonging to someone named Malcolm York Mosely. Alice and Barney use the clothes they discover as bedding, board up the door, and settle in for the night.
Back in the present day jail scenario, Richard and Alice attempt to lower the temperature in their jail cell by fashioning an implement to adjust the Environmental Control Unit outside their cells. However, the pole snaps and the temperature gets lowered to below freezing. The pair attempt to rectify the situation by sending a support ticket to the prison guards. Alice continues to tell her story.
In a third flashback, Alice takes Barney to visit his father. The pair walk until they find a makeshift graveyard, and Alice and Barney take flowers to the grave. Both Alice and Barney talk to Barney's father, Mark, before leaving.
In the jail, Richard and Alice are becoming increasingly cold, and attempt to send another support ticket, but find the system to be down for maintenance. They discover a user manual that describes how to handle emergency situations by pressing a button hidden behind their bathroom cabinets. The pair both press the button, which beeps, but gives no other indication of help being on the way. Richard fears that he will be given harsher punishments due to the pair's actions, but Alice reassures him that he is unlikely to be punished more than he already has. Alice continues to tell her story.
In the next flashback, time has passed and Barney is unwell. Alice steps outside of the abandoned house, which the pair have settled into, and decides to try to get upstairs, beyond the broken staircase, in the hope that she will find medicine. It is implied that Alice believes Barney has pneumonia, though she reassures her son that it is just a head cold. Alice walks until she finds a church, in which she finds several helpful items. Eventually she finds a way into the upstairs of the house, where she finds numerous dead bodies, as well as a note suggesting they had been held captive in the house ahead of their deaths. Alice learns of medicine in a bunker beneath the church, where she travels with Barney. In the church Barney re-activates an old machine that reads through data related to the weather. Barney insists that Alice write the information down, which she does on the back of an old photograph she finds. Alice makes her way into the church bunker, where she finds another dead body whose identity is hinted at by a note found in the snow. While Alice is in the bunker, two men enter the church and begin speaking with Barney. One of the men becomes noticeably agitated and worries that Barney is the son of one of the Polar Bears, a notorious local gang. The other man asks Barney not to mention that they were there, and the men leave without harming Barney, much to Alice's relief. However, upon searching the bunker, Alice finds that the only medicine present is insulin.
