The conclusion — the multiple threads resolving into the outcomes the accumulated choices produced. Jay in prison or in Canada, Sharon in paradise or in custody, Zoe still carrying the Desert Dream's weight in 2012. The cop and the past running simultaneously is the game's final statement about what the Holt family has been doing since 1998: the literal law enforcement and the internal reckoning, both in pursuit, neither quite caught. The various endings are the game's honest acknowledgment that some people escape both and some escape neither and some escape one at the cost of the other.

Jim's secret — the undisclosed past in Two Rock — sits in the epilogue as the reminder that the game's structure is the structure of all family histories: the things nobody told anyone, the secrets that will eventually find a way to scream, the motel that never lets you leave.