Zlatko is the 17th chapter in Detroit Become Human. This walkthrough will guide you through all the choices of the Zlatko level for 100% completion.
This chapter begins after completing Time to Decide.
Zlatko is a very long level – click on these shortcuts to jump to your desired part: Level Start, Escape before Reset, Kara is Reset, Recover Memory, Search for Alice, Alice Found & Chase Started.
Zlatko’s House can be a bit confusing when playing it for the first time – here is a quick rundown of the floors and rooms:
- Upper Floor (walking counterclockwise): All rooms are connected to a corridor and most of them are connected to each other as well
- Workshop (can only be entered, if Kara was reset)
- Storage Room
- Bathroom
- Bedroom
- Big Room (called on prompts)
Main Room (called on Flowchart) - Small Chamber with Alice
- Ground Floor
- Entrance Hall
- Stairs going up (straight ahead)
- Stairs going down (ahead to the right)
- Livingroom (to the left)
- leads to the back door
- Basement
- Corridor with cells alongside
- Laboratory
Flowchart (100%)
Here’s a quick overview of the Flowchart:
Checkpoint: Look for Help
Kara and Alice are walking to a lonely house – presumably, the one that the Trashman-Android in the chapter Fugitives told us about.
For the first bit, simply follow along with the controls, all of the following points are unmissable:
- Reach Zlatko’s House
- Enter the House
- Meet Zlatko
- Follow Zlatko to the Basement
- Alice Attracted by odd Noises
- Climb into the Machine
- Kara is being Reset
Two Paths: Being Reset or Escape
Escape before being Reset / Sneak through House: Once you regain control of Kara, you need to interact with two things (in any order), to stop your memory being wiped out.
- Press
to spot a small red cart, which you can use to knock down a lamp.
Hold
and then 
to push it. - Press
to see two different cables. Pick the green one to knock over a bottle of Vodka.
Mash
and then press 
and 
to tear it down.
When you go upstairs, a 10-minute-timer will start. You have to find Alice in this time, which is more than enough.
If you don’t do anything and let the time run out, you will get the Out of Time / Luther brought Alice to Zlatko-choices.
Here are things you can do along the way:
- Free Monsters: Open the cage-door in the basement, where Alice stopped in front of earlier.
- Enter Storage Room: Enter the second room upstairs.
- Free the Bear: In the corner of this room, there is a cage with an android-polar-bear in it. Open the cage, which will be beneficial later.
- Enter Bathroom: This room can be entered from either the Storage room or the Corridor.
- Bathroom Android is loud: There is an android in the bathtub and he will always notice you.
- Kill: Talk to him and press SHUT DOWN.
- Spare: Talk to him and press SPARE.
- Kill: Talk to him and press
- Bathroom Android is loud: There is an android in the bathtub and he will always notice you.
- Read Magazines: They are located in the Bedroom (the one in the corner of the corridor)
Kara is Reset / Obey your new Master: Let the Reset-progress finish and don’t do anything.
- Go see Luther: Head to the Ground Floor’s Livingroom.
- Bring the Tray to Zlatko: Pick up the tray on the Couchtable where you sat before, head up the stairs and place it on a table behind Zlatko.
- Drop the Android Torso: Pick up the Torso and place it on the table in the adjacent Storage-Room.
In order to regain your memory, you have to interact with certain things to refresh it.
If you don’t do anything and let the 10-minute-timer run out, you will get the Lose too much Time / Luther brought Alice to Zlatko / Kara remained Reset-choices.
Explore the House to Recover Memory
- Recollect enough Memories: The exact number varies each time depending on what you have found. You shouldn’t need more than six. If you got your memory back, you can’t search for more.
- rA9-Symbols: Upper Floor, Storage-Room – in the corner where you have entered it with the Torso. (Only available, if slept in Squat in Fugitives.)
- Todd’s Red Ice Pipe: Upper Floor, Storage-Room – other side of the room, on a shelf between the two doors.
- Escape: Upper Floor, Bedroom – read the Magazine AX400 on the Run (Only available, if escaped stealthily in On the Run).
- Alice’s Book: Upper Floor, Big Room – on a chair next to the fireplace.
- Squat Fireplace: Upper Floor, Big Room – interact with the fireplace. (Only available, if slept in Squat in Fugitives.)
alternatively: Ground Floor, Livingroom – interact with the fireplace. - News Flash of Escape: Upper Floor, Big Room – check the TV in the corner left of the fireplace (Only available, if escaped via Freeway in On the Run).
- See a Kid through the Door Hole: Upper Floor, Corridor – check the last door of the Corridor and peep through it.
- Offering Coat: Ground Floor, Entrance Hall – the coat-rack is located between the Entrance-door and the Livingroom.
- Discussion with Zlatko: Ground Floor, Livingroom – check the table where you sat and picked up the tray.
- Changing Appearance: Ground Floor, Entrance Hall – check the mirror next to the stairs leading to the basement.
- Monster’s Cell: Basement, Corridor – check any cell downstairs.
Thanks to Daniel for some clarifications/conditions here.
If you either regained your Memory or escaped in the first place, there is a few things you can look for, before getting to Alice.
- rA9: Upper Floor, Storage-Room – in the corner adjacent to the Workshop.
- Empty Shotgun: Upper Floor, Bedroom – at the nightstand.
- Fireplace Embers: Upper Floor, Big Room – interact with the fireplace.
- TV: Upper Floor, Big Room – check the TV in the corner left of the fireplace.
Checkpoint: Alice Found
Now where we found Alice, it’s time to get the hell out of this house. Here are all approaches:
Luther goes to collect Alice / Enter Main Room: The Main/Big Room will be our starting point for the escape.
- Hide under Table: is located in the middle of the room.
- Hide in Closet: there are two closets, one on each side of the room – choose any you like.
- Set Fire to House / Burning down the House: pick up a burning ember from the fireplace and choose to burn the house.
- Get Spotted: let Luther spot you – continue with Chase.
- Enter Bedroom: take the left out of the two doors to get to the Bedroom.
- Hide under Bed: get under the bed, before Zlatko comes in.
- Hide in Closet: get into the closet, before Zlatko comes in.
- Get Spotted: don’t hide or leave hideout too early – continue with Chase.
- Go through Corridor: wait for Zlatko to leave the room again.
- Get Spotted: don’t enter the Bathroom quickly enough – continue with Chase.
- Go through Bathroom: quickly press after entering the corridor.
- Bathroom Android alerts Zlatko: if you haven’t killed him earlier, he will alert Zlatko now. Striking a deal with him earlier doesn’t work.
- Kill: Approach and silence him by holding
for a bit, then to finish it. - Spare: Approach him and tip the -button for a split-second. If done correctly, the “silencing” will fail and he is quiet.
- Kill: Approach and silence him by holding
- Sneak through Storage Room: simply proceed through the door.
- Open Bear Cage: only possible, if you haven’t freed the bear before! Hide behind the shelf to the left
and wait a bit to study Zlatko & Luther’s patrol pattern. If you storm to the cage right away, you will get spotted. - Get Spotted: change your hiding spot at a risky time – continue with Chase.
- Zlatko closes in / Leave Hiding Spot: change your hideout to the last table in the room and choose to either throw something at him , push him or make a run for the door .
- Zlatko closes in / Bear attacks Zlatko: only possible, if you have freed the bear before! Stay hidden until he attacks Zlatko.
- Open Bear Cage: only possible, if you haven’t freed the bear before! Hide behind the shelf to the left
- Bathroom Android alerts Zlatko: if you haven’t killed him earlier, he will alert Zlatko now. Striking a deal with him earlier doesn’t work.
- Zlatko killed Kara in the Bathroom: get spotted before / while entering the Bathroom and fail all QTE’s.
- Zlatko killed Kara in the Storage Room: get spotted before / while entering the Storage and fail all QTE’s. Only possible, if you haven’t freed the bear before.
- Bear attacks Zlatko: only possible, if you have freed the bear before.
- Kara reaches the Stairs: if you got spotted and passed all QTE’s, you’ll be here.
- Kara & Alice escape to the Yard: when running down the stairs, choose to go for the back door. The front door is always locked.
- Zlatko catches up: while running in the yard, Alice will fall and Zlatko & Luther will have caught up.
- Luther kills Zlatko: if you haven’t freed the monsters in the basement, Luther will shoot Zlatko.
- The Monsters ambush Zlatko: if you have freed the monsters in the basement, they’ll do the ugly part.
- Luther joins Kara & Alice: the default “happy ending”.
All done! This concludes the Zlatko chapter.
Up Next: Russian Roulette
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I think you should point out that the rA9 symbols and the fireplace memories are only available when you go the squat in Fugitives
Good point, will do!
Thanks 🙂
Oh another thing I discovered when it comes to the newsflash it will only appear if you either robbed the supermarket or crossed the freeway, if you did neither it would just show some normal channel.
Not true. I definitely didn’t go to the squat and rA9 was there
Sorry, I don’t know what happened with my last comment. So I can’t unlock the spare node (bathroom android) no matter how hard I try. No luck if i just press the R1 or holding it for long. What am I doing wrong?
Did you proceed to the next room, the Storage?
For me, the node only unlocked when I headed next door. It was still locked in the Bathroom, too!
This is how it looked when I finally got it: youtu.be/babVSh5-okc
Yup, I did.
I starting to lose my patience. No matter what I do, it’s not unlocking.
Fail R1 command and fail to open the door. It should work
If you only fail to open the door to the storage it also should work.
I struggled for ages before I figured it out. In the end I ignored the android and then failed the qte on the door. The node will then unlock, allowing you to carry on as normal. I hope this helps.
Thanks WayneHatred. It worked! First need to ignore him, then fail to open door, then fail to kill him, then proceed to corridor.
Damn it, I can’t spare while running away the bathroom android either, what did I do wrong?
Update: I finally made it!
I just did exactly the same steps which was shown on the flowchart
Spearing the android doesn’t work for me either, I fail to kill him then he becomes quiet. Then I go in the storage room and it doesn’t count that I’ve speared him. What am I doing wrong?
you need to fail the r1 command prompt then fail opening the door to the storage room
Okay, I managed to unlock the spare node during the chase phase. I think the key is to not start the chapter via the chapeter select, start the Time to Decide instead and progress through it.
Umm… Doesen’t it working to me.
I need help.
I’ve tried every possibility but the spare node won’t unlock
There must be a bug
For those struggling to get the spare node you need to fail to silence him then fail to open the door to the next room once, then proceed to that door and it should unlock.
That’s it! Thanks man! Finally got it.
Oh. My. God. Why did that work. Days of not being able to spare the damn android and this is the answer.
Oh that’s fracking annoying….but thank you for that.
THANK YOU.
I’ve been trying to get this to unlock for so long, it makes no sense that you need to fail the door as well for it to unlock!
Yes!! Thank you!! I finally got it! (And I failed opening the next door twice!)
So to be clear, the steps I need to take are:
1) Fail the R1 prompt
2) Start to open the door, but stop before it opens
3) Enter the door normally, don’t fail opening it
right?
I couldn’t open the bear cage (during the chase) no matter how hard I tried. Please help.
Oh. I got it from several tries haha
Anyone know how to pick up Alice’s book? I can’t do it.
You should include that you need to pick up Alice in Wonderland earlier
in order to interact with them he book.
Did you actually look at her book in A New Home?
You can only recall it if you looked at it on the floor of her room during “a new home”. Where Kara says “Alice in Wonderland, of course”. Might be worth adding that note to the text above.
Did you look at the book in ‘A New Home’ in Alice’s bedroom? I think you need to ensure you do that before you can observe the book in Zlatko’s mansion, just like with the rA9 Symbols require you to look at the ones Ralph is making in the Squat.
I wasn’t able to hide under the bed or in the closet in the bedroom 🙁
I’m having issue getting an icon to appear for the option to hide under the bed in the bedroom. I’ve been able to hide in the closet and all the other places in the other rooms, just the bed not giving me an option to hide.
Go around to the far right side of the bed. It shouls pop up thete.
One thing not mentioned here – if you manage to halt the reset process by short-circuiting the equipment, then head upstairs and look and Luther for a few moments, he will say “I’m sorry… about the little one” and his LED will flash yellow briefly before returning to its default blue.
not possible to start the fire first and then fail everything else?
Just gonna leave my comment on this cause it was honestly complete BULLS*** with the amount of tries I needed to get this.
First, stay hidden and go through the chase to the storage (Big Room > hide in Bedroom > Corridor > Bathroom > Storage)
THEN, look all the way to the left and press Square to hide when Zlatko says “table”.
THEN, press square again when Zlatko says “…alright, I’ll help you”
THEN, wait a while and until Zlatko yells at Luther for not finding Kara, then press Square again to unlock the cage.
This was so ridiculous, from the stupid angles that you couldn’t see Luther to the fact that it took me so many tries to even notice the first Square option.
Just by the way, that comment was in order to unlock the “Open Bear Cage” thing while Kara is being chased in the Storage Room.
Thank you so much for this, seriously. The flowchart cues in this sequence are so incredibly touchy.
Just to be ultra specific, the last cue (open the cage) is when Zlatko says “Well get moving, you idiot”.
Woah huge THANK YOU!!! I couldn’t unlock the cage, I had tried so many times that it was starting to drive me insane, and after following your advice it worked at once! Thaaaaanks! :))
I can’t unlock “Leave Hiding Spot”, every time I sneak around the storage room, just as I hit the bear cage I only have the option to open it. Is there a way you can sneak around where you don’t open the cage at all or am i missing something?
This comment was from a while ago, but yes, you need to take a different path in order to get “Leave Hiding Spot”. At the very beginning of the Storage Room section, instead of going to the dressers to the left (I believe it’s the ‘Square’ button), look more to the right toward the table next to yours (I believe it’s a ‘Triangle’ button). From there, you can go straight to the last table and get “Leave Hiding Spot”. Be careful to time it properly, but don’t take too long. As soon as Luther starts inspecting the dressers to the left, you should have plenty of opening to run to the last table.
This guide should have a more detailed note of how to get “Leave Hiding Spot”. I had to figure it out on my own.
Thanks so much for this! I’ve been trying to get this node for quite some time!
I can’t unlock “Leave Hiding Spot”, what should I do?
OMG THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS! This nod almost drove me crazy until I see your post :P
Did you still free the bear though?
I could get 100% on this level due to the android ‘spare’ node. I got this off another site and it worked for me.
“Unlocking the “spare” option requires failing the “kill android” QTE by quickly tapping R1 when facing the android, then failing the “open door” QTE by pushing up on the right stick and not completing the rotation.”
Can you please update this site to reflect this?
The way to unlock Sparing the Android in the bathtub is to press R1 for a split second and then fail to go to the Storage Room once. After that you can go to the Storage Room again.
Quite frankly this is a ridiculous approach.
THANK YOU to the people in the comments for the workaround to the bugged spare the android node — oh my god, I must have tried everything in the book to get it to work, that was the only thing that finally got it to trigger. By failing to go through the door. Which has no relevance whatsoever to killing or sparing an android’s life. Jesus.
Some other things of note:
Alice’s book is only available if you looked at the Alice in Wonderland book when tidying her room.
If you take the squat route, you can’t the AX400 magazine. Not getting caught by Connor apparently doesn’t count as a stealthy escape, even though you technically vanished and were not spotted by the police. I was so mad, I replayed through that entire chapter again just now because I had to get something else (forgot to not ask Hank about his dog so I could rile Sumo up in the next chapter) and now I’ll have to do it yet again….
Zlatko closes in / Bear attacks Zlatko
I have the cage open but the bear doesn’t attack. Do I have to be hidden in a specific area or do I just need to just stay hidden for a certain amount of time?
For the bear to attack you have to be caught as the animal creates a short diversion. Try to make a mistake while hiding/crossing between the last two tables. It should work.
I’m just wondering how you freed the bear and still got “Leave Hiding Spot”.
For recovering Karas memories, the unknown node is if you evade police in On the Run. If you get to the train safely (having stayed in the car or motel/not found by Connor in motel) then that node unlocks when you read the second page of the magazine in the bedroom. Its another “AX400 on the run” one
I’m struggling with the option to hit or push zlatko option. When I get over to the last table, he then automatically closes in and then bear attacks. That is the scenario where I go in and free him before I hide. I’ve also done the scenario where I free him while I’m hiding and I still cannot reach the last table to get the option to hit or push him. Any idea of what I’m doing wrong?
At 98% I just needed to unlock the Recall Escape while Exploring the House. I will keep this as simple as possible:
– When Exploring the House to Recover Memory the Escape node written in this walkthrough is right on spot but in my case I also had to Examine the book near Fireplace (which can be unlocked if you checked the book in A New Home when Kara goes to clean Alice’s room). *** Please note Examine the Book might be optional for others ***
– News Flash of Escape (Only available, if escaped via Highway in On the Run). When I escaped stealthily there was just a documentary on the TV.
Everyone who is struggling to spare the android. You must fail to kill him and fail to open the door before leaving.
I’m not getting the kill/spare option when I walk into the bathroom before getting my memory back. Please help!
Never mind, figured it out!
(I opened the monsters door first after I got reset)What I did, I got Alice, hid in the big room under the table, waited until Luther left, set a fire, ran in the bedroom, ran in the corridor, made hell to the stairs, ran to the big door, it was locked succeeded in all the button prompts to dodge, made hell for the back door, again, succeeded with all the button prompts and there was the cutscene, which could have killed Luther but I let the monsters out and I escaped successfully.
This was still very stress-induced and I freaked out during the memory reset and took too long and also freaked out during the ten minute timer.
In order to “Spare” the Bathtub Android, simply pressing R1 for a split second is not enough to unlock it on the flowchart, you also have to fail the QTE to open the door out of the bathroom afterword. Otherwise, it doesn’t work, I know, I’ve tried. So, that part of the guide should be corrected. :-)
This was so helpful I finally finish the flowchart 100% only because of you thank you so much ??
Stuck on how to get the “Out of Time” and “Luther Brought Alice to Zlatko” nodes? I’ve tried twice now to stand there and do nothing after bringing Zlatko his dinner but the only nodes that unlock are the ones beneath it “Lose too much time” “Luther brings Alice to Zlatko” “Kara remained reset” Ending. Am I missing something?
When you say you served dinner it means you were reset. The point is you have to escape before resetting and then when going upstairs the 10 minute timer starts not to collect memories but just to find Alice, that’s where you have to let it run out and get those two nodes
Make sure to end the chapter with Monsters killing Zlatko.
“Free Monsters” will help to unlock a node in Battle for Detroit – Kara => Talk to Scarred Android: if you have freed the “Monsters” in Zlatko‘s basement, you can talk to one and ask for a diversion.
N.B: Better to add this as a [CROSS CHAPTER]. Helps a lot when attempting to finish 100% Walkthrough.
Sneak Through Storage Room ―> Get Spotted ―> Chase Started ―> Bear Attacks Zlatko and Protects Kara
I need help in unlocking this node. After unlocking the bear cage, Kara and Alice does not get spotted by Zlatko and Luther. Instead, the bear attacks only when Zlatko automatically closes in (Zlatko Closes In ―> Bear Attacks Zlatko and Protects Kara) and not upon getting spotted by both Zlatko and Luther after freeing the bear.
Even if I press the “Hide” button prompt at a wrong time, Zlatko and Luther does not spot Kara and Alice even when Luther’s flashlight in hand shines towards the way Kara and Alice were going towards. Am I missing something?
Nevermind, I had to unlock the cage and free the bear first at the storage room before it attacks Zlatko during his chase with Alice and Kara.
I don’t think there’s a way to open the bear cage unless you do it before “Alice Found”.
Might want to add that turning on the TV during the “Find Alice” section results in a small decrease in public opinion.
This thing probably isn’t even moderated any more, I just realized most of the comments are from 4-5 yrs ago lol, but if so, I was wondering… the “Free Monsters” unlock has a yellow CROSS-CHAPTER IMPACT flag on the flowchart, just wondering what that impact might be. I thought it might be for the monsters killing Zlatko later in the chapter but that’s not it. Thanks
If you free the monsters here, later in the recycling plant in “Battle for Detroit” you have the option to speak to a scarred android
Just a big FYI:
If you choose to let Alice get reset, you only have up to 3 objects to look at before she regains her memory, so you will definitely have to do do multiple runs to get all her relevant nodes.
Also, DO NOT look at any objects UNTIL she drops off the Android Torso in the adjacent workshop room.
If you look at objects ahead of time (like the coat rack area, or magazine), it will NOT count!
I got a really weird glitch. Latest patch PS4 disc version on PS5.
If you choose to let Alice get reset, and after dropping off the Android Torso, go back down to the living room area. Look at the fireplace that Luther was tending to. You should be able to unlock the fireplace mode, but also, for some reason, the cutscene hangs for 20 seconds, so it might seem your PlayStation crashed.
I can’t figure out how to get killed on the bathroom after the chase starts. Can anyone help? From the storage room I don’t have the option to go back to the bathroom (or I can’t figure it out).
THERE’S A BEAR?
I definitely do not understand the issues getting spare android to pop either. By ignoring it completely you’ve spared it and nothing else at all should be required, yet here we are for some reason.
Why can’t I go to the bathroom to sneak out?