In this guide, you’ll find all the hints and solutions for the Behind Bars in The Rise of the Golden Idol.
The Rise of the Golden Idol: Behind Bars Walkthrough
Chapter 2 – The Pursuit: Scenario 2
Behind Bars: An Alarming Incident at Sternwall Prison
Scene 1, Cells
- Left Cell:
- Cache beneath desk: Glue, Clay, Scissors, Sculpture
- Left Cell Desk, Letter: Alfred, Bradley, Steven, Aria
- Board Between Left and Middle Cell: Pakenham, Utley, Beswick, Blythe, Henry
- Middle Cell Barred Window: Window, Bars
- Cache under bed: Sheets, Kempton, Sainsbury
- Left Guard: Over, Gun
- Right Guard: Kendal, Smith, Gun
- Notebook on Right Guard: Julia, Patrick, Climbed, Percy
Scene 2, Outside:
- Chalk Message on left: Jeremy
- Window above prisoners, office cork board: Jason, Robert, Jimmy, Arthur, Daniel, Racketeering, Murder, Kidnapping, Homicide
- Leftmost inmate: Over
- Scarred inmate: Dug, Under,
- Rightmost inmate: Gun
- Guard: Utley, Gun
- Drainpipe: Drainpipe, Saw Blade
- Custodian at fence: Pliers, Wire Cutters, Henry, Wakefield
Hints:
- According to the map, this floor has 5 cells, but we only see 3 of them.
- The custodian outside is holding pliers, but there’s 2 empty spaces in the Sternwall toolkit he’s holding. It looks to be a similar shape to a wire cutter or pliers. Where’d it go?
- Looking at the outside of the building, it appears that every cell has a barred window. If we can’t see a window in the cell, it must be covered by a poster or something similar
- The window with the sawn through bars must be the one the escaped prisoner had
- The escaped prisoner, of course, isn’t here, so we don’t have a face to put his name to
- To escape, the missing convict needed three tools and three people needed to bring them to him
- One of the inmates outside has a note telling him to forget “what you think you heard.”’ Has anyone reported hearing worrying sounds?
- The cell poster has a group of numbered colored drowning and then a bunch of symbols with exactly the same color. We could turn a line of numbers into colors then symbols, if we only had a number
- The list of prisoners in the office gives first names to faces, crimes, and prison sentence lengths.
- If we can nail down the location of the prisoners and get one of their names, we can use the cell name list to name the other 4.
- The leftmost prisoner says he’ll be out in a year, which means he isn’t in prison for life.
- The journal says that Kempton likely cheats at gambling. He likely has some sort of rigged game of chance on his person or in his belongings
- Common sense check: a prison guard, no matter how trusting, is not going to bring an inmate a saw blade. He might bring something a little safer, though
- We just heard about the Harmony Foundation, so it’s funny that a book donated by them shows up in a cell.
- The redhead prisoner is neighbors with Utley, the prisoner being mocked by the guard outside
- The Message scroll is throwing you a massive bone – the secret message is six numbers long.
- The cell on the left and the middle have matching teacups. It’s nice to think that they’re sharing, but it might be quid pro quo
- The book the Harmony foundation sent isn’t in the best shape; it’s spine is practically falling off
