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I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with BP...
How can you be sure? Have you ever tried to look into the code of TS and/or BP? And I am pretty sure the problem is the animation conflict between BP and TS.
Regarding your questiion of skipping areas using debugging tools such as CLUAConsole, if you know what you do and how to update the rest of variables you are free to do this. Otherwise, I am sure you'll collect more and more bugs until you won't be able to proceed further in your game.
As I said, good luck!