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WARNING: One more time, this ending analysis of BioShock Infinite discusses the game's ending. Like a ride on one of its soaring skylines, the latter half of BioShock Infinite's narrative is a twisted and breath-taking race through the city of Columbia and beyond, moving on to expand the series' scope to a dizzying scale. It begins and ends with a baptism of Booker DeWitt: his rebirth in one set of timelines as antagonist Zachary Comstock, and in another, his eventual realisation that he must sacrifice his life to stop the former event from ever happening.
After his part in the horrific Wounded Knee Massacre, DeWitt is given the choice to have his sins washed away and be baptised as a new man. In one branch of realities he does, growing rich and funding the research of physicist Rosalind Lutece. Armed with her technology, he is able to create "tears" through into other universes and glimpse potential futures. He styles himself a prophet, and builds Columbia with himself as its figurehead.
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