The Subway key is one of the Items found in Stray. It is given to the Cat by Clementine at the end of Chapter 11: Jail, on entering the Midtown Subway Station.
The ingame purpose of the key is to start the Subway train, to get to the Control Room.
The game-design purpose of Clementine having this key is as a gating mechanism, to ensure the Cat returns to Clementine's apartment rather than simply placing the Atomic Battery into the Subway and taking it directly to the Control Room, skipping whole the Nightclub and Jail section entirely.
That Clementine was able to keep the key while in Jail is a bit strange, but then, a search with a metal detector wouldn't work so well on a Companion. The Atomic Battery also does not disappear from B-12 inventory there, but the rest of the items that he may have (Antvillage flowers or Worker Keys) disappear.
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| Items | |
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| Inventory Items | Atomic Battery • Broken Tracker • Fixed Tracker • Cassette Tape • Clementine's Picture • Contact Message • Electric Cable • Energy Drink • Fuse • Jacket • Keys (B-12 Flat) • Keys (Library) • Lever Handle • Music Sheets • Mysterious Message • Poncho • Postcard • Purple Plant • Red Plant • Yellow Plant • Safe's Mysterious Password • Strange Drink • Subway key • Super Spirit Detergent • Transceiver • Worker Hat • Worker Keys |
| Non-Inventory Items | Ancient Relic • Backpack • Book: Volume 42 • Boxes • Bucket Pulley • Bucket-Zip-Line • Cat toys • Defluxor • Devices • Electrical Box • Gravity book • How to be a Ninja • Keys (Jail) • Paint Bucket • Paper Bags • Radio • Sarcophagus • Small Bucket • Vinyl record |
| Notebooks | Clementine's Notebook • Doc's Notebook • Momo's Notebook • Zbaltazar's Notebook |
| Badges | Music Badge • Outsider Badge • Plant Badge • Cat Badge • Police Badge • Neco Badge |
| Collectables | Memories |