Escape! is the fourth and last chapter of Part I of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. This is the conclusion of the escape of Castle Wolfenstein and presents in person the characters of Ludwig Kessler and Annette Krause. Also shares the first boss fight in game if we don't count the encounter with the supersoldat at the beginning of chapter 3 or the combat with the panzerhund moments before the boss fight.

Storyline

Blazkowicz is back at the cableway station. There was a transport recently parked but the main entry to the castle was closed too. All he had to do was access to the control room and open it. The noise of the gates opening alarmed to the near soldiers and forced him to fight until it opens completely. Didn't take much time and managed to reach the cablecar and moving it out of the castle.

Outside in cableway, a guard alerted to everyone about the flee of the prisoner and a new cablecar was sent from the other line to attack him. Both stopped in middle of the way when power was shut down. Blazkowicz needed to restore it somehow but the generator was at the cableway outpost. Using his pipe, slipped by the cable to reach the tower, kicking a soldier that tried to catch him inside of a parked cablecar in process. The few guards there couldn't stop him from restoring the energy and the reinforcements from another cablecar were too late to stop B.J. Unfortunately, just some meters before reaching the bridge, energy was shut down again and cablecar stopped in middle of bulletstorm. Blazko tried to improvise another way out but a drone showed up and shoot to the cable. He couldn't hold from cablecar and fell into the river, and some seconds later, the cablecar fell on him.

Miraculously he survived and swam across the debris. He was stuck in a cavern that was being explored by the nazis. At least noone known that he was there. The only way out was going up, so he had to explore the caves looking for an exit. After taking an elevator back to the surface, he was down the bridge on its west side. Nobody could expect him coming from there after the fall of the cablecar but unfortunately, stealth wasn't an option due to the lack of covertures in the platforms and had to pass as fast as he could. There wasn't time to call the elevator, he simply forced the door and jumped into the hole without checking if cabin was already going up. Had to think fast. Blazko opened the trapdoor on the roof, get inside before it crushed him and kill the guard inside.

No time to rest, more Nazis were waiting for him at the checkpoint. On his way to Paderborn, he was received by marksmen, heavy soldiers, drones, supersoldat... Even a panzerhund, but nothing stopped him. He managed to get inside the village and find Kessler's tavern without been detected, except by a homeless drunk that was yelling about the "wolves" were coming. In the backdoor, Blazko was received by Annette Krause, Kessler's protégé, and both met with him while he was placing planks in the hall. There B.J. told him the bad news about Agent One's death, when noise was heard coming from the square.

The three of them approached to the windows to hear better, unexpecting a kampfhund would jump and attack Annette on her arm. Nazis have found them. Kessler took the girl to the basement, asking to Blazko open the trapdoor and defend the tavern. Nazi trucks parked outside and reinforcements tried to breach in the building. They didn't stop coming, like an infinite wave of soldiers sent to kill just one man. Until they stopped for no reason. Blazko went to the trapdoor to tell Kessler that the hall was clear. But just before ending his sentence, someone yelled for him.

The main doors were demolished and Rudi Jäger dressed with an experimental power armor breached looking for vengeance. Even armed with two MG-46s, Blazko managed to dismantle parts of his armor to shoot at his body, making him put on his knees due to his wounded chest. After executing him, a self-destructing device turned on and he ran back to the basement seconds before the explosion. The calm came back came back for a moment. However, the mission wasn't over yet. Kessler's new info said that Helga Von Schabbs took the folder with Deathshead's compound location with her to the excavations she led since almost 2 months ago. They prepared for the trip and took the boat on the river down the tavern. Their next stop: Wulfburg.

Walkthrough

Main objective

Escape!

Wesley's dead. Just me left now. Need to find a way out and reach the village. Kessler should be in the tavern. Seems like he knows something. I need his help finding a way to steal that document folder from Helga.

Specific objective

Escape in a cable car

Need to get the main gates open. Should be a room somewhere. Then I can hitch a ride in one of those cable cars and make a break for it.

Restore the power

Nazis shut down the power to the cable car. Must be a switch in the control tower.

Reach the bridge

Okay, power's back up. Gotta get back in the cable car and reach the bridge.

Find another way to the bridge

This isn't working. Fucking Nazis still shutting the power down. Need to find another way to the bridge.

Exit the caves

What is this place? What are the Nazis doing in these caves? Need to find a way out of here and reach the village.

Locate the village tavern

Finally out of the caves. Gotta find a way to the other side of bridge. Get into the village and reach the tavern where Kessler should be.

Follow Kessler

Rudi Jäger's dead. Still need to track down Helga and the document folder. Should follow Kessler down into his underground hide-out.

Weapons

• Handgun 1946 (held by Commanders)
• Assault Rifle 46-T (held by German soldiers)
• Bombenschuss (held by Marksmen)
• Schockhammer (held by Heavy Soldier)
• Kampfpistole
• MG-46 (held by Supersoldaten)

Notable loot

• 8 Gold pieces
• 5 Concept art
• 4 Characters
• 1 Letter
• 73 Old silvers

Trivia

• When you arrive to the cableway outpost, theres a window on the second floor. If you throw a hand grenade over there, the explosion will kill the commander in the control room and reduce the combat to just one wave.
  • After pulling the level, another cablecar with reinforcements will arrive. You can jump by the same window to dodge the upcoming guards and active the first cablecar before they get to you.
• On the same outpost, theres a poster theres a poster paroding Bert the Turtle, a character from the short film Duck and Cover (1952). The german version in game, Schunke die Schildkröte, repeat almost the same main message from the original advice.
• The two Horten Ho 229 that appear on the second half of the route can't be taken down with any weapon.
• In tavern, when Kessler and Annette try to hear the noise from the square, the scripted kampfhund won't show up if you don't move out of the windows.
• In boss fight with Rudi Jäger, Kessler will often slightly open the basement trapdoor to give you a small medkit.
• Before taking the boat to end the chapter, you can take a bag that belongs to Annette. If you take it, a variant of the cutscene will play where she will thank you for bringing her things. Also, the bag will appear at the beginning of next chapter.