How to open the cabinet in the Library in Chapter 1 of Life is Strange: Double Exposure

Max Caulfield is back in Life is Strange: Double Exposure, and you can bet that wherever she goes, weirdness is bound to follow. In this case, a fellow faculty member at Caledon needs a book, and to get it, Max needs to do some lock-picking. 

The events we’re about to cover won’t happen until late in Chapter 1 of Double Exposure, so you’ve got a while to get familiar with your surroundings on campus before you reach this point. After certain tragic events occur, you’ll need to go and talk to Yasmin in her office in the Admin Building, but you’ll need to wait before she’s ready for you. 

One of the side tasks you need to undertake before you can get in to see Yasmin is helping Gwen in the Library. She wants a book from a locked cabinet, and with Max’s breaking and entering skills, it’s up to us to get it for her. 

How to get Gwen’s book in Life is Strange: Double Exposure

After Vanh tells you to wait for a while before entering Yasmin’s office, you’ll hear Gwen shouting expletives in the Library. You’ve likely explored the building before heading for Yasmin’s office, but just in case, the Library can be found across the hall and to the right from the waiting area. 

Talk to Gwen, and she’ll ask you to break into the cabinet to get the book, then interact with the book and inspect it to find a copy of the same book from Shelf 12 in the same Library. 

Shelf 12 is located to the right of where Gwen is currently standing if you’re looking at her from behind, so you can go and retrieve the book if you want, although this step is optional because the book isn’t good enough for Gwen. She will only accept the one from the cabinet.

There are three possible tools for this that can be interacted with, and they’re dotted around the Admin Building, but only one of them is the tool you need to get into the cabinet. 

Here are the two items you can interact with, although you can skip this step if you want to go straight to getting the book:

• Ink Pen
  • Located on the table close to Shelf 12 in the Library
• Scissors
  • Located in the office opposite the entrance to the Library, on the desk in front of you as you enter the room

If you want to kill two birds with one stone, you can also pick up the package for Vanh in the room where the scissors can be found. It’s in a box on the lower shelf to your left as you enter the room. 

The tool that you actually need is, bizarrely, a spoon. This spoon can be found back in the waiting room for Yasmin’s office, next to the Coffee Machine. Interact with it to inspect it, and then pick it up and return it to the Library. 

Interact with the cabinet and select the “Pick” option, and you’ll successfully get Gwen’s book out of the cabinet.