brutal pipe murder except everything’s the exact same but on his way out, elias slips comically on a puddle of blood and accidentally hits himself with the pipe. he doesn’t die or anything but he gets a mild nosebleed and the eye starts laughing at him
yknow what. yeah. and it would even make sense lore-wise because he’s literally inside someone else’s body AND brain, like that’s gotta fuck with your sense of balance and direction at least a bit. the real reason he shot gertrude was because she saw him walk right into the doorframe of his own office or stumble over misplaced boxes in the archives one too many times