The Devil in Me is the newest game in The Dark Pictures Anthology series. In it, Supermassive Games has mostly moved away from monsters and demons to focus on a serial killer with more historical roots. The murderer in The Devil in Me is based on the real-life killer named H.H. Holmes, most remembered for his "murder hotel" that he built during the Chicago's World's Fair to prey on visitors.
Players will come across a bunch of clues that give some hints about the killer's real identity. But with the sheer amount of hidden secrets to find in The Devil in Me, some players may have missed a few important clues to figure out everything that is happening. Also, if players lost a character or two during their playthrough, they may have even missed entire chapters of the game.
Spoilers ahead.
7 The Story of Connie the Dog
Connie is a pit bull that has a big part to play in this game. There is a choice to either kill or save this dog in The Devil in Me as Jamie, and this pooch is important to the final part of the game as well. But some players may be wondering how or why this fuzzy friend is on the island to start with.
While looking around the suite in the Morello's chapter, players will get to see hints of the family that was killed before they arrived. The man who brought them to the island is not Du'Met; Kate discovers a picture of him labeled Joseph Morello. This man is a true-crime writer, and he was chosen by Du'Met as someone who was looking for sources for his latest novel. The subject of it was the very Manny Sherman that converted the FBI Agent Munday, who turned him into the serial killer Du'Met.
In the next room, though, players find another weird little detail; the Morellos brought a pet with them. There is a bowl on the ground with the name Connie painted on it. Connie is an odd name for a male dog, but it makes sense to anyone who is a fan of the series: Connie was also a nickname for Conrad in Man of Medan. Like Connie the dog, Conrad also escaped death off of a speed boat. Connie is the only one of the Morellos to survive Du'Met's clutches if players don't make bad choices in The Devil in Me.
6 The Victims of Du'Met Are Numbered
When checking out the Spa location as either Jamie in the Theatrical Cat or Mark in The Devil in Me's Curator's Cut, players will come across some of the KD Builders contractor mannequins and their work IDs. Each ID has a number on it as well as a name in Du'Met's handwriting. Jesse Clark, the foreman is listed as number 11, while Natalie Morello's body is labeled as kill number 176.
This, coupled with the kill count in the lobby on the wall that keeps going up as people die, players must know that Du'Met has killed at least 180 people.
5 There Are Most Likely Two Killers
Throughout the whole six hours of The Devil in Me, Du'Met always seems to be wherever the players are. He's in the limo that brings them there but then wanders around as the groundskeeper. He's downstairs with Mark in his workshop while also in the interview room where Jamie is watching. The game is very good at letting players know exactly what time it is in each chapter, so anyone willing to put in the work can make a pretty accurate timeline of where Du'Met must be during each chapter. To those that do, The Devil in Me makes it fairly obvious that even with control of the Director's Suite, Du'Met could not be everywhere he is during the game.
There are also a few hints that there are two men with two different modus operandi. One seems to be devoted to preserving his kills, while the other wants to destroy his victims completely. If the killer was all about using the curing factory to freeze, mummify, and preserve his victims, why did he try to burn Charlie to a crisp? A burned body wouldn't be great to make into one of his gruesome animatronics.
Hector Munday, the FBI agent who would become Du'Met was into mutilating his victims. The evidence of his first kills, as the Shoestring killer, show him stabbing the victims many times before removing their teeth and one of their ears. Also, in the curing factory, there is a newspaper with an article about Hector Munday catching a killer that was trying to preserve his kills, called the Imaginary Killer, who made animatronics out of his kills. Two different killers with two different ways of doing things is the only way that some of Du'Met's kills make any sense.
This also explains the happy ending of The Devil in Me where Du'Met is killed on the boat. Mark throws a hook into Du'Met's chest, and he is dragged into a boat's propeller. The boat then crashes into some rocks and explodes. There's no way a person could have survived, so the easiest answer is that he didn't survive at all. Instead, the person at the end that picks the mask up off of the rocks is a different Du'Met than the one that was killed.
One of the other details that points to Du'Met being two different people is at the end of the "happier" endings. Players watch as the Curator angrily crosses Hector Munday's name off of the list of people who have died but leaves Grantham Du'Met's name uncrossed. This means of the four listed, only three of them are dead. Since Hector and Du'Met can't be dead at the same time if they are the same person, that means they are most likely two people.
Also, Du'Met's eye color seems to change between scenes, going from a deep brown in the boat scene during the happier ending to a paler, bluer color in the worst ending. While this at first might seem to be the effect of lighting, players can tell from the two different endings, both of which have the same eerie green-blue lighting, the eye colors appear to be completely different between the two men. While it might seem weird that the two men could be similar enough height, weight, and build to pass as each other, it makes sense if players believe that Munday was looking for someone with a specific look while he was chasing serial killers as an FBI agent.
4 How Du'Met Gets New Victims
If players haven't gotten the worst possible ending, where the only The Devil in Me characters still alive are Mark and Kate, they may be wondering how Du'Met lures new victims to the island. He is a master manipulator, and he knows when and how people are vulnerable. He can see people who are desperately looking for something, and he uses this against them to create situations where they ignore all intuition and visit the island. Most likely, this people-reading is a skill earned in his years as an FBI agent profiling serial killers.
In the Director's Suite, Kate, Erin, and Jamie find a book of their profiles written by Du'Met. In the book, Mark's profile is marked as "FERRY MAN," which might have been a confusing clue at the time. But even before Charlie and the gang got to the island, Du'Met had already hand-picked Mark as the one he would use to get new people to come to the island. He threatens Kate's life, and in exchange, Mark has to make some phone calls to Du'Met's next chosen: the Collins family. Either he helps out the serial killer, or he has to watch as Kate is killed.
A montage during the worst ending shows Mark helping Du'Met by bringing people across on the ferry, saying that he is Du'Met, just as Joseph Morello had done before to get his daughter back.
3 Du'Met's Riches Came From "Friends"
During the chapter Staff Only, Jamie wanders around in the dark, looking for a fusebox to turn the lights back on. In a back office just off the lobby, she finds a printed letter in a desk drawer. It looks as though a couple changed their will to make Du'Met, under a pseudonym, their only heir. From the paper, it looks like this couple owned the house and a lot of the surrounding area it, all of it along the lake's perimeter. The couple most likely had quite a bit of money to own so much land, and it seems Du'Met used his people manipulation skills to not only get the couple to sign over everything to him but perhaps to kill them as well.
It looks like Du'Met began his design to rebuild H.H. Holmes' murder house by getting his hands on other people's money, much in the way that Holmes himself did.
2 All the Horror References
The Devil in Me pays homage to many horror movies during the course of the game. There are references to The Shining and the Saw movies as well. Here are some of these Easter eggs players may have missed.
- Like The Shining, Joseph Morello is a writer who comes to a hotel in the middle of nowhere to help complete his writing.
- Du'Met has his mother's body preserved like many of the murder victims as an animatronic in The Devil in Me. This is similar to Norma Bates in Psycho.
- Many of the "games" the crew has to play to get out alive are similar to the Saw titles, like the Breathless room, where Jamie and Mark have to choose which of their friends to kill.
- The scene when Du'Met axes the door feels a lot like The Shining as well.
- In the chapter Director's Suite, Kate finds some notes handwritten by Du'Met about killing a woman in the shower. This also has some Psycho vibes.
1 All the Curator's Secret Appearances
In every The Dark Pictures game, the Curator appears the background, usually when a character can die. He appears several times in this survival horror game, hidden in the background for eagle-eyed players to find him.
- In the first chapter, when Jeff and Marie check into H.H. Holmes' murder castle, the Curator can be seen in the reflection of the mirror behind Marie when she is in the bathroom getting ready for her bath.
- In the Silver Ash Institute, when Erin is listening to Jamie's voice through the speaker, the Curator will appear behind one of the privacy screens behind her.
- When Charlie is trying to survive the furnace room in The Devil in Me, after the mannequin comes up through the floor, the camera cuts back to Charlie. Charlie will say, "No. What are you doing?" And the Curator can be seen over his shoulder. After the room is on fire and Charlie pulls off his coat, the Curator will still be there.
- The chapter Breathless has Jamie and Mark choose whether to kill Kate or Erin in The Devil in Me; the Curator can be seen behind Jamie when she says, "If we don't do something, both of them will die, Mark."
- When Charlie is trying to escape the trash room, the camera cuts to Du'Met opening the door and putting the chute that Charlie just came through into view. The Curator will be on the other side of the trash belt, in the room Charlie just came from.
- If players lose Erin by not taking the inhaler, she will be found later with her heart hooked to a monitor. When the camera pans back to Jamie's face, the Curator will be behind the curtain on the right side of the screen.
- When Jamie is trying to trap Du'Met in the chapter Director's Suite, she has to pass some QTE to run through the rooms quickly while Du'Met chases her. The Curator is watching from one of the hallways.
- When Kate and the killer are fighting on the roof, Du'Met keeps Kate from falling from the roof. When the camera points over the edge and looks down to the ground where Kate could fall, the Curator is standing in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
- The Curator can be found in the stables when Kate, Erin, and Jamie run through them.
- As Mark and Charlie go to hide in the freezers in the Curing Factory before Du'Met catches them, the Curator can be seen over the edge of the freezers when Charlie goes to open his.
- Right before choosing to kill or keep the dog alive in Homestead, Jamie will look at the broken bottle; then, it will cut back to Du'Met. The Curator is standing next to Du'Met to his left.
- The Curator is on the docks as the crew zooms away in the speed boat in Lake.
- If players end up with the worst ending in The Devil in Me, where Mark helps Du'Met bring in more victims, the Curator is looking at him from a hidden corner.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.