User blog:Testxyz/21

Besides the test someone did by being killed where you allegedly 'brain' Ryan with the golfclub and wound up being resurrected back in the Rapture Central Control area's Vita Chamber (as Ryan would eventually have been after he was 'killed'). WIth the Vita Chamber in Ryans office off, you merely get scooped up by the next nearest one (I recall jumping back to the one in Point Prometheus from the other end of the complex -- a much further distance and it worked just fine).

Anyway ...

Heres a picture of what can only be an Animatronic Ryan blithely playing golf while on fire in his Office.

It only makes sense that after Ryan figured out what was going on (WYK Room pix) and who Jack was that he would turn the tables on Atlas/Fontaine and fake his own death (animatronics from Ryan Amusements) and then launch Jack at Fontaine and follow up with 100 Spliicer myrmidons and an armada of  flybot if needed once Jack had bird-dogged Fontaine.

You dont seriously think Ryan would botch destroying Rapture if he intended to, or having any chance of control of HIS city falling into Fontaine/Atlas's hands, do you?

No he wanted Fontaine /Atlas out of the way so that he could rebuild Rapture.