The Choices We Made in the Beginning and the End is the ninteenth episode of Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-. The Turks are sent to the Shinra Manor to capture Zack Fair and Cloud Strife, but have conflicting feelings about their mission. However, they discover things crucial to their objective to saving Verdot's daughter in the mansion.
The events of the chapter were also depicted in Chapter 9 of Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, featuring Cissnei as the player Turk.
Story[]
Pursuing two escaped research samples that had escaped the Shinra Manor, the Player Turk finds themselves in competition with the Shinra army to locate them. While searching the Nibelheim forest, the Player Turk questions why they are hunting the subjects whom they were partially responsible for imprisoning in the mansion four years previously.
Coming across the escapees on the beach, the Player Turk discovers they were hunting Zack Fair. Conflicted over their feelings, the Player Turk attempts to do their duty and capture him, but after seeing the extent of damage the experiments have done to Cloud Strife, the Player Turk reports Zack is no longer in the forest and allows Zack to escape, while they return to Nibelheim to investigate the mansion and find Verdot poring through the mansion's archives.
Learning that he needs a certain materia to remove the materia from Elfe's body and stop it draining her life, Verdot has been searching for these support materia, learning that the Turks already possess one given to them by Shears during the Corel Reactor incident. The pair search through the mansion and come across clues to another of Professor Hojo's "research subjects", Vincent Valentine, Verdot's old Turk partner, who informs them of the location of such a materia elsewhere in the mansion.
As Avalanche appears also looking for the support materia, the Player Turk and Verdot lose the orb to Fuhito while Scarlet informs President Shinra in Midgar that the Turks are assisting Verdot in spite of their orders to "shoot on sight".