Silent Hill Townfall: How to Get the Flashlight and Batteries

The Flashlight in Silent Hill: Townfall is the item that turns Zoe’s House from a series of dark shapes into a room you can actually search. It arrives in two pieces, and plenty of players walk out with only one of them. The housing sits downstairs, the power source sits upstairs, and neither does anything until you put them together in the inventory.

Quick answer: Take the Flashlight (No Batteries) from the kitchen drawer beside the washing machine, grab the AA Batteries from the upstairs bedroom nightstand, then combine the two in your inventory.

Flashlight and AA Batteries locations in Zoe’s House

Both halves live inside the same building, a couple of rooms apart.

Item	Floor	Exact spot
Flashlight (No Batteries)	Ground floor	Counter drawer beside the washing machine, in the kitchen
AA Batteries	Upstairs	Nightstand drawer in the bedroom on the left

The flashlight’s description reads “A small pocket flashlight – requires batteries,” which is the game telling you not to bother trying to equip it yet. The batteries come as a pair, listed as two AA batteries used to power devices.

Getting to Zoe’s House after the Otherworld

Once you escape the Otherworld and land back in the town square, open the map of St. Amelia’s Shorefront. Zoe’s House is the building opposite the “2” marker, west of the square, reached through the alleyway and rear courtyard. Climb the outdoor metal stairway and let yourself into apartment 2A — the front door is already unlocked.

Shorefront map location — The Shorefront map of St. Amelia, with the marker you use to find Zoe's House. Shown at 00:22 in Ghosts of Reykjavik’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Collect the Flashlight (No Batteries) in the kitchen

Follow the hallway from the front door into the kitchen on the ground floor. You’ll pass the locked organ transport cooler sitting on the table — leave it for now.

Entering the apartment — The ground-floor kitchen in apartment 2A, where the flashlight housing is stored. Shown at 00:06 in Ghosts of Reykjavik’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Go to the run of counter drawers next to the washing machine and open them. One holds the Flashlight (No Batteries).

Find the flashlight — The drawer beside the washing machine holds the Flashlight (No Batteries). Shown at 00:21 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Take the item and check it in the inventory if you like. It sits there inert until you find a power source, so head for the stairs.

Collect Flashlight (No Batteries) — The pickup screen for the Flashlight (No Batteries). Shown at 00:22 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Find the AA Batteries in the upstairs bedroom

Take the staircase to the second-floor landing. There’s a framed Photo of Simon on the landing table worth examining on the way past, since Simon reacts to it.

Enter the bedroom on the left and look at the small nightstand against the back wall. Open its wooden drawer to take the AA Batteries.

This is the step most players skip. Only the flashlight body is in the kitchen, so if the light won’t turn on, it’s almost always because the bedroom drawer is still shut.

How to combine the batteries and the flashlight

Go into the inventory, then select the Key Items tab. The first time you have two matching parts, a Combining Items prompt usually appears.

Highlight the AA Batteries and press X/A on a controller, or the Space button on keyboard, then pick Combine.

Choose the Flashlight (No Batteries) as the second item. The two merge into a working Flashlight that moves to your Equipment as a wearable light.

Combine the batteries and flashlight — After combining, the finished Flashlight appears as wearable equipment. Shown at 00:44 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Screen Burn

Press R3 to toggle the beam. You’ll know the combine worked when the item is listed under Equipment as “Flashlight” and the light actually switches on and off in the world.

How the Flashlight works for the rest of the game

It is a permanent item. There are no spare batteries to hunt down later.
On most difficulty settings, enemies cannot see the beam, so you can leave it on while exploring.
On Nightmare difficulty, turning it on may give nearby enemies your location.
The beam exposes collectibles and puzzle notes that are invisible in unlit rooms.

Put it to work before leaving the apartment. Sweeping the storage closet under the staircase turns up the CEG Electricard Credit Guide sitting on a cardboard box next to the dead meter cabinet, and the upstairs bathroom has an Organ Transplant Card lying on the floor by the shower. Both feed directly into restoring the power and opening the cooler in the kitchen, so the dark rooms you just lit are the ones the rest of the chapter runs through.