This prompts a quote the wife cites earlier, which alludes to finding zen through mindfulness (aka living in the present moment). The only true ending without a return to the apartment is the ending where players click on the book their wife was reading that's on the bookcase in the discussion scene. The pocket watch is still there though, which means he can return to the conversation with the father. If the husband agrees to leave his wife now and never tell her the truth, he ends up alone in the same apartment. That's because this scene isn't a flashback, it's the present. In the two endings that cause the credits to roll, the husband once again has a flashback to a discussion with the father, but this time the father is bald and the setting is different. In 12 Minutes, Dafoe's cop and the father are in fact one and the same. Dafoe has a pretty impressive amount of video game experience already, providing his voice and likeness for several games, and even motion capture for Beyond: Two Souls. Like in the plot twist for Metal Gear Solid V,voice actors are always an important clue. However, to make sense of the different endings a key piece of information is required, which is the answer to who exactly is Dafoe voicing? If the player chooses to stay with the wife or tell her the truth, then the time loop continues to repeat. The details between endings may seem minute, with the big choices being to stay with your wife and not tell her, to reveal the truth, or to agree to leave and never see her again. There are essentially five different endings to 12 Minutes, all resulting in an achievement unlocking but not all causing the credits to roll. It is a dark twist, but it also poses a big question: how did the husband forget that his wife is his sister? Especially considering the clue that leads to this is the discovery that the nanny's name is Dahlia, as is the husband's mother's. This means that the protagonists have been unknowingly been committing incest and will soon produce a child of that incest. Joining these two is the four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe ( Spider-Man, The Lighthouse ) who will be playing the role of 'the intruder.' The end of the trailer also gives fans an update. It turns out 12 Minutes' protagonist is the killer all along, but that truth is largely overshadowed by the fact that it's been established the wife's half-brother, the product of an affair between her father and her nanny, is the killer. 12 Minutes then transforms into a dark and shocking story designed to make the player feel uncomfortable. The clues feel like pieces of a jigsaw fitting together until the big twist at the end and suddenly nothing makes sense. The main goal of the game then is to repeat the loop, using clues and environmental factors (such as the light switch electrocuting anyone that turns it on for a second time) to uncover the mystery.
Not long into the game, it is revealed that the wife's father has been killed, and the cop is seeking revenge.