What Happens in Professor Layton and the Lost Future?

Answer 1

-Layton and Luke go to a time machine demonstration, where a scientist (Dr. Stahngun) and Prime Minister Bill Hawks disappear when the machine explodes.

-Layton gets a letter from "Future Luke".

-The pair go to a clock shop where they are supposedly shot forward ten years into the future.

-They meet Future Luke, who tells them about "Future Layton", the crime boss of Future London...and of course Layton's future self.

-After many puzzles and a lot of talking, they go to confront Future Layton in the Towering Pagoda (by this time, Flora, Inspector Chelmey, and Barton have ended up in Future London; Flora is traveling with Layton, Luke, and Future Luke). They get to the top and Future Layton is revealed to be the scientist who disappeared in the time machine explosion. His real name is Dimitri Allen.

-Layton, Luke, Flora, and Future Luke get trapped in a cage and they see Bill Hawks is also a captive of Dimitri.

-Layton walks into the room, and the Layton in the cage is revealed to be Don Paolo, who is helping them. Don Paolo is found to be Layton's old classmate. Real Layton sets them free and they escape the Pagoda.

-They go after Dimitri, whose headquarters are right across the Thames. Before this, however, Layton sees a woman who looks like his girlfriend, Claire, who had been killed in a lab accident 10 years before. He has some flashbacks that tell us that Claire was the one who gave him the top hat, and that Don Paolo had had a crush on her as well.

-They go to the warehouse across the Thames, but are discovered by Dimitri's men. The same woman who Layton has been seeing rescues them, says she is Claire's sister named Celeste, and tells Layton and co. to meet her at a restaurant along the Thames.

-Inspector Chelmey, Barton, Celeste, Layton, Luke, Future Luke, and Flora meet there and Layton launches into one of his explanations about everything that's happened.

-He says that Future London is really an underground set designed to make Layton and co. believe that they are truly in the future. Dimitri never gave up his dream of building a time machine, so he kidnapped scientists and took them to "Future London" to make them think they were stranded in time and their only hope was completing the time machine.

-He reveals that the bartender in the room with them is actually Dimitri, which proves to be true. Dimitri says that he has set explosives around the room and moving would mean death. Layton proves this false.

-Dimitri explains that he wanted to go back in time to save Claire, who he also had a crush on. He explains that he and Bill Hawks were once lab partners in the field of time travel. They invented a prototype time machine, which they planned to sell for a lot of money. Dimitri noticed a flaw in the machine, but Hawks refused to postpone the experiment. He rushed to the lab, but it was too late; the machine had exploded, injuring Bill Hawks and killing Claire, the test subject. It had taken out most of an apartment, killing nine other people.

-Layton points to Future Luke, saying that he is really a boy named Clive whose parents were killed in the lab accident that took Claire's life. Clive and Dimitri were working together, but Clive had been using Dimitri as a pawn. After his parents' deaths, he had been adopted by Constance Dove, but she died, and he took a job as a reporter. Using the newspaper's resources, he found out who had caused the death of his parents; Bill Hawks and Dimitri Allen. He plotted revenge, and was ready to take action.

-Clive admits this is true, grabs Flora as a hostage, and flees the restaurant. He gets in a boat and sails to a small lighthouse in the middle of the Thames. Suddenly, a huge fortress raises out of the river. It is meant to be used to destroy London; all planned out by Clive.

-Layton and Luke head off to rescue Flora, using the Laytonmobile to get on the fortress. They find and save Flora. Eventually, they find Clive, but he has already started to destroy the city. Celeste shows up and helps them. The four find Bill Hawks and the engine. They rescue Hawks. Celeste suggests they reverse the energy flow of the engine, which they successfully do.

-The fortress starts destroying itself, and Celeste, Layton, Luke, Flora, and Bill Hawks escape in the Laytonmobile, but fall off the edge. The car turns into an airplane and they are saved. Meanwhile, Clive has been knocked unconscious by a wire. Celeste sees him from the plane and insists on rescuing him. Layton drops everyone else off and goes back for her. He saves them just in the nick of time.

-When they land, Clive thanks Layton for talking him down from the edge of insanity again. He says that it had been Layton who had comforted him at the site of explosion ten years back. Clive is arrested.

-Celeste tells Layton that she doesn't have much longer and that she is really Claire.

-There is a tearful cutscene where Layton and Claire say goodbye again. Layton begs Claire to stay, surprising everyone with his line, "You CAN'T go! I don't want to say goodbye again! I can't! I won't!". Claire leaves, and Layton turns around, takes his hat off, and cries.

-In the next scene, Luke moves away.

-Everyone who plays the game either throws their DS across the room, cries, or does both.