The interactivity knows no end.
Warning: this article includes light spoilers of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Since it dropped on Friday, Dec. 28, Black Mirror's latest installment, the interactive film Bandersnatch, has sparked fervor worldwide, with fans plotting out flowcharts of the narrative branching and sleuthing out easter eggs.
Today, a new report from The Wrap reveals that there is a secret ending that includes a unique ending as well as one big interactive surprise for audiences.
The film has a total of 312 minutes with five different endings -- and in two of them, there's the possibility of unlocking the secret post-credits scene. To be clear, this does not refer to Pearl's resurrection of the Bandersnatch game on "Netflix."
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There's currently no public report on how to trigger this ending, though many have indicated they stumbled on it organically. For those who'd like to get to the ending intentionally, The Wrap -- who were among this group who found it randomly -- listed out a choice-by-choice breakdown of how they arrived there, which has been reposted at the bottom of the article.
In the scene, Stefan (Fionn Whitehead) is back on the bus he rode when originally heading to Tuckersoft at the beginning of the film. Only now, instead of giving users the choice to pick between tapes, Stefan pulls out a tape of his completed game, Bandersnatch. The tape plays a series of high-pitched and garbled sounds (listen here). Eventually, some "enterprising individuals" deduced that the tape is for a ZX Spectrum computer (on which Stefan was making his game), and the sound is in fact data. When run through a ZX Spectrum emulator, the result was a QR code:
Scanning the QR code takes you to a Tuckersoft website that showcases games seen in Bandersnatch (and not) that reference previous Black Mirror episodes.
The Easter egg comes on the "Nohzdyve" page: an accompanying game. Caveat: users will need a ZX Spectrum emulator to play. It's a fairly straightforward arcade game, but deepens the immersive aspect of film.
The Wrap breakdown of how to see the post-credits scene:
Sugar puffs
Thompson twins
Accept
Accept
Go back
Refuse
Yes
No
The Bermuda Triangle
Shout at Dad
Visit Dr. Haynes
Pull Earlobe
Take them
Follow Colin
Yes
Stefan
Go back
Colin
Flush them
Hit desk
Pick up book
PAC
Throw tea over computer
P.A.C.S.
20541
Who’s there?
Netflix
Try to explain
Tell him more
Fuck yeah
Fight her
Kick him in the balls
Who’s there?
White Bear symbol
Back off
Kill dad
Bury body
Yes
He jumped
Chop or bury?
Chop up body
Destroy computer
Pick up photo
White Bear symbol
Chop up body
Destroy computer
Get rabbit from dad
PAX
White Bear symbol
Chop up body
Destroy computer
Get rabbit from dad
Toy
Yes
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