not sure if this trick is known, but normally he walks in, chokes you, throws you over the counter etc... not anymore

potential skip? if anyone can find a way to load in the next section.

Good find for the cutscene skip. As for the OOB we've tried and it seems like the game will refuse to load things in. Like, we had someone go OOB and the game had the triangle prompt there and nothing. And someone did a checkpoint skip but the game just refuses to allow anything to load in sadly, so we don't know.