Zach narrates how he and his alternate personality York, created from his childhood trauma, came to Le Carré to investigate the connections between the murder and an addictive street drug, Saint Rouge.ĭuring his investigation in Le Carré, York is periodically aided by riddles from the supernatural entity Houngan and Patricia 'Patti' Woods ( Cassandra Lee Morris), the young daughter of the town's sheriff Melvin Woods ( Ogie Banks). There, FBI Special Agent Aaliyah Davis ( Mela Lee) and her partner Simon Jones ( Christopher Corey Smith) interrogate a sickly Zach (Jeff Kramer) over his involvement in a murder case of sixteen-year-old Lise Clarkson, the granddaughter of the influential Clarkson family, in Le Carré. The frame story of Deadly Premonition 2 takes place in Francis Zach Morgan's apartment in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2019, a decade after the events of Deadly Premonition. In the second, the player guides a younger Francis York Morgan through the fictional American town of Le Carré, Louisiana, fourteen years prior, as he investigates that case and its connection to a drug ring.

In the first, the player assumes the role of FBI Agent Aaliyah Davis, who interrogates Francis Zach Morgan in his apartment about his handling of a case involving the murder of a teenage girl. A screenshot of York and Patti in Le Carréĭeadly Premonition 2 divides its gameplay between two sections.