| “ | I was in a dark place, and there was a dark man there. His name was Mr. Door, and he told me that there are many worlds - side-by-side, on top of each other, some inside of others. In one world, there was a writer who wrote a story about a cop. In another world, the cop was real. Door said he himself was in all of them at the same time, endlessly shifting between them. | ” |
Mr. Door is a being whom Dylan Faden claimed to encounter in his dreams. Mr. Door explained to him the existence of the multiverse, including myriad worlds connected with one another in various ways. According to Mr. Door, he himself existed in all worlds simultaneously, endlessly "shifting" between them. Among these worlds were implicitly the universes of Alan Wake and his character, Alex Casey. Mr. Door was unwilling to help Dylan spread the Hiss to these worlds, to the latter's frustration.
Mr. Door appeared in the Remedy Entertainment game Alan Wake II, which takes place in a shared universe with Control. Throughout the game, Mr. Door hosts a late-night talk show in the Dark Place, called In Between with Mr. Door. Alan Wake is a regular guest on the show along with the Old Gods of Asgard.
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- Mr. Door is possibly an allusion to the character Martin Hatch from Quantum Break, who is himself a "shifter" who moves between parallel timelines. An Untitled Note from Quantum Break partly reads "I stand in between. I don't see myself as a gate. I remain humble. I'm something smaller. A hatch." This choice of synonym reflects again with Dylan's use of "Mr. Door."
- The world where the cop was real may refer instead to Max Payne (or Alex Casey in Alan Wake 2). Just as Max Payne (both the character and the franchise) is owned by Rockstar Entertainment, and so Alex Casey is a version of Max Payne that Remedy was free to use, so too are Quantum Break and Martin Hatch owned by Microsoft. Mr. Door may be a renamed version of Martin Hatch that Remedy can freely use.
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