Control Resonant: How to Find and Answer Mila’s Payphone Call in The Last Taxi

Every stop in The Last Taxi side story runs the same way. Once one of the anomalous cabs pulls Dylan into a fog-covered version of Manhattan, a payphone starts ringing in a side alley, and answering it puts a trapped civilian named Mila on the line. That call is what wakes up the taxis on the street, so you cannot skip it.

Quick answer: Enter an anomalous taxi to reach the Threshold, sprint straight down the road, turn right into the side alley, and press F on the ringing payphone to talk to Mila.

Reach the Threshold first through the Central 7 taxi

You can only reach Mila from inside a Threshold, and you enter a Threshold by climbing into one of the strange cabs scattered across the city. The easiest one to demonstrate this on sits in Central 7, just north of the Dig Site Threshold and west of the Patterned Factory.

Open your map in Central 7 and set a marker on the taxi icon northwest of the Dig Site Threshold. Walk up to the yellow cab parked in the alley and use the E prompt to enter it. The moment you get in, Dylan is teleported into a deserted, amber-lit copy of the city.

Entering First Taxi — Interact with the open taxi in the alley to drop into the Threshold. Shown at 00:10 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Find and answer Mila’s payphone

The routine below is identical at every taxi, so once you learn it here you can repeat it in any zone. Listen for the ringing as soon as you arrive.

When you spawn on the empty, yellow-lit street, run straight ahead down the road. There is no one else around, so keep moving forward until the buildings open up.

Turn right into the covered sidewalk alley. A glowing payphone booth sits partway down it, and you can hear it ringing over everything else.

Locating Payphone — Follow the ringing into the side alley to the lit payphone booth. Shown at 00:34 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Stand at the booth and press F to answer. Dylan picks up, and Mila explains that she is stuck in the same twisted dimension.

The taxis out on the main street do nothing until this call is finished, so answer the phone before you bother inspecting any cab.

Pick a reply to end the conversation

Mila asks what is happening out in the city, and you are given two dialogue options. You can choose “The city’s… fine” or “There was an evacuation”. Either one closes out the call and moves the side story forward, so there is no wrong pick here.

Once the exchange ends, hang up and head back the way you came. Answering the phone is what activates the puzzle, so you will know it worked because the cabs lining the street are now live and ready to interact with.

After the call: work back through the taxi loops

After exiting the alley, get back onto the main road and climb into the yellow taxi beside the sidewalk. Choosing the correct cab triggers a brief cutscene showing a traffic light change to green, then takes Dylan farther along the foggy avenue to the next group of taxis.

Exiting Alley & Entering Return Taxi — Head back to the street and enter the parked cab once the call ends. Shown at 01:06 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Each correct pick spawns you a little further along, next to another cab with an Enter Taxi prompt waiting. Keep taking the right one through each loop transition.

First Taxi Loop Transition — Each green-light cutscene drops you next to the following cab and its Enter Taxi prompt. Shown at 01:27 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

Between transitions you will keep running forward down the street to reach the next set of cabs before making your choice.

Second Taxi Loop Transition — Sprint down the avenue to reach the next line of taxis. Shown at 02:04 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

The final cab of the sequence sits at the street corner. Entering it sends Dylan back to the normal daytime city, where alert drones circle overhead and he notes he will need to find another taxi to reach Mila again.

Third Taxi Loop — The last cab at the corner returns Dylan to the daylight streets. Shown at 02:11 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment

From there, the loop repeats at the next taxi you track down elsewhere in the city, always starting with the same ringing payphone and the same call to Mila.