History Recap / DeusExHumanRevolutionMission05Hengsha

* BrokenAesop: The 'best' solution to the "Bar Tab" sidequest is to retrieve the implant from the broker, give it back to Bobby at the Hive and offer to pay off the broker's contract (to the tune of 5,000 credits). The game makes it seem like this is the ultimate act of generosity on Adam's behalf for no reward... until you pay the money and he gives you a Praxis Kit anyway, making it just another way to get an upgrade point. (They cost the same at a LIMB clinic, but each LIMB clinic will only ever sell you two, so this can be a useful way to get an extra one if you need it.)
* ChekhovsGun: The GPL implants (which were referenced in the prologue mission) turn out to be installed in Sarif's kidnapped scientists, eventually allowing them to be tracked and found.

** If the player decides to sneak into the Hive (through the back entrance) before visiting Hengsha Court Gardens for the first time, an alternate cutscene will play where a Belltower operative questions Tong about Van Bruggen's whereabouts.

* TheDragon: Narhari Khan (to Zhao Yun Ru).

* FemmeFatale: Zhao and Fedorova, who are both encountered in the Tai Yong building.

** The codes to the storage pods across the street from Alice Gardens are written on graffiti right next to them, with the necessary digits underlined. Might double as a GuideDangIt, since even most of the development staff didn't notice.

* BiTheWay: An email has Tong giving his troops orders to give Van Bruggen whatever he needs, including male or female prostitutes. On the other hand, Van Bruggen's first words when you find him are "You're not my type", so Tong's more likely indulging in hyperbole in his orders than anticipating Van Bruggen's desires.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything:

* BrokenAesop: The 'best' solution to the "Bar Tab" sidequest is to retrieve the implant from the broker, give it back to Bobby at the Hive and offer to pay off the broker's contract (to the tune of 5,000 credits). The game makes it seem like this is the ultimate act of generosity on Adam's behalf for no reward... until you pay the money and he gives you a Praxis Kit anyway, making it just another way to get an upgrade point.
* ChekhovsGun: The GPL implants (which were referenced in the prologue mission) turn out to be the mechanism which they can be tracked by.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: The player can break up an argument with a john who is pressuring a hooker to get augmentations in order to better satisfy her customers. She later tells him that the girls are "leashed" with augments to make them dependent on neuropyzyne and break their will.

* DrivenToSuicide: One of the rooms in Hengsha Court Gardens has evidence that its occupants was planning to or went through with their suicide attempt.
* EnemyMine: Tong decides to help Adam for little in return. It's revealed after that he did so just to make things a lot more difficult for Belltower.
* FemmeFatale: Zhao and Federova, who are both encountered in the Tai Yong building.

** The codes to the storage pods across the street from Alice Gardens are written on graffiti right next to them.
** Tong is also hidden by pretending to be TheBartender so he can ward off interested parties looking for him.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Mei gets a fair amount of characterization, and her missions involve sending Adam to protect her fellow "girls" by rescuing one from what amounts to forced slavery, and later, either arresting or killing the man responsible for terrorizing the girls.

** Adam stands around like an idiot while Zhao pretends to be a DamselInDistress, and he's unceremoniously shoved out of the room while she locks it behind him. This is after the preceding areas, where he has learned that she's amoral, ruthless and powerful, and he should know a lot better. Sarif rightly calls him out on his stupidity afterward.

** Lee Hong himself gets this when he keeps the weapon he used to kill Evelyn (a broken clock) in his apartment - with the hands set to the exact time she was murdered.

* KarmaHoudini: Van Bruggen apparently gets off scot-free for his actions, regardless of whether the player gives him a weapon or not. If he isn't given one, he simply seals himself up in his pod and never appears again, and if he is, he escapes and wires Adam a large money transfer before disappearing for good.

* KingIncognito: Tong poses as the bartender at VIP Lounge in the Hive so he can ward off questions from interested parties looking for him, under the guise that he is in direct contact with Tong. Adam can [[SpottingTheThread figure out]] that it's really Tong by pointing out the failures in his security detail if he has the social aug.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Tong does this once Adam figures out his identity.

Adam finds a bouncer, Chuanti, down the street who knows Ning's location, and forces him to give up the information. Soon after, he dispatches several thugs and rescues the grateful Ning, who thanks him and says she owes him her life before leaving.

Adam finds the Hive and sneaks in through a back entrance. Inside, he finds a bartender in the VIP Lounge and asks where Tong is. The bartender plays dumb and tries to insult Adam for being an outsider, and an argument ensures. Adam eventually ascertains that the bartender ''is'' Tong, and convinces him that they could do a lot by pooling their information and helping him find the location of Van Bruggen. Tong tells him to come down to his office so they can talk further.

Downstairs, Tong mocks Adam for his association with Sarif Industries, who he claims are one of many biotech firms failing with their investments in augmentations. Tong tells him that Van Bruggen is at the Alice Garden Pods and sends him on his way.

Adam heads to Alice Gardens and finds Van Bruggen's pod. He confronts the hacker over his involvement in the hack during the Sarif attack, and Van Bruggen readily admits that it was him, and that doing so was the worst thing to happen to him because he's now on the run from Belltower. The hacker says that he was ordered to hack Sarif by Zhao Yun Ru, the woman who runs Tai Yong Medical.

When Adam points out that Tai Yong is Sarif's biggest competitor, Van Bruggen explains that Zhao doesn't like competition and resorts to any means necessary to destablize her opponents. He tells Adam to obtain a keycard for the Tai Yong Tower, where he can find a surveillance recording on their servers. Adam obtains a keycard from a corrupt guard in the Hung Hua Hotel and returns to Van Bruggen, who recodes the card to recognize Adam's biometrics.

He accesses Van Bruggen's surveillance and sees a startling video - Zhao and the leader of the mercenaries/Tyrants, Jaron Namir, are discussing the situation in Detroit. Zhao says that [[TheReveal Megan and the other Sarif scientists had GPL implants, meaning they'll be tracked]]. Namir counters that [[{{Foreshadowing}} Eliza in Montreal]] took care of the situation.

* BadBoss: Zhao is revealed to be this. Not only does she have a HairTriggerTemper against anyone who doubts Tai Yong Medical, but she's nearly homicidal in her regard for the safety of her workers.

* BilingualBonus: Seen often. The ambient conversations are only heard in Mandarin Chinese, and the graffiti and posters are also written this way (although they're often not spelled correctly).
* BiTheWay: An email has Tong giving his troops orders to give Van Bruggen whatever he needs, including male or female prostitutes.

After exiting on the roof of the Hung Hua Hotel, Adam heads inside and finds a hooker arguing with her john. He breaks up the argument simply by walking in and the john walks off. The grateful woman, Mei, thanks Adam for his help and says that the john has been forcing girls to get augments so they will become dependent on neuropyzyne and not complain. Mei asks him to rescue a fellow prostitute named Ning who has disappeared in the Daigong District, and he agrees to help.

Suddenly, Belltower mercs crash through the roof and begin shooting everything in sight. Van Bruggen freaks out and asks Adam to give him a weapon for protection. Adam gives him his sidearm and the hacker flees, then dispatches several Belltower troops on his way out.

Adam infiltrates the the maintenance tunnels of the Lower City and heads towards upwards, stopping on the way to help an employee who was trapped by a toxic gas leak. He eventually finds a freight elevator that leads him straight into the Tai Yong Building. While heading up, Pritchard contacts him and says that the surveillance footage is likely stored in the Data Core room, and to head there. Adam heads through the Lee Geng research wing and eventually reaches the data core.

* CrazyPrepared: Van Bruggen's computer in Hengsha Court Gardens implies that he has a large amount of surveillance on everyone (including a transcript of the ''Illuminati conversation from the prologue''!), as well as a copy of a [[419Scam scam email]]. It's suggested that he is able to monitor everyone and anyone's communications for his own means.