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Persons of Interest
Gordon Amherst
Gordon Amherst
A doctor who is widely believed by the JTF and SHD to be responsible for the creation and spread of the Green Poison.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The Division 2 shows that Amherst was successful in his plan to destroy human civilization; now the survivors have to focus on picking up the pieces and trying to rebuild.
- Dead All Along: For all the time you spent making New York a better place, it turns out he's been dead for a long time.
- Evilutionary Biologist: He was motivated to release Green Poison in order to reduce the human population to more "manageable" levels.
- The Ghost: While central to the game's plot, with him being responsible for the Green Poison as well as one of the targets for the Agent to track down, Amherst is largely absent from the game itself. At the end of the game, you find his corpse, seemingly having died from his own virus, presumably at the beginning of the outbreak.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: At the end of the game you discover him in his apartment/lab, right across the street from the Chelsea pier where you begin the game.
- My Death Is Only The Beginning: In his final audio log, Amherst flat out admits that he's not particularly concerned with whether or not he survives the outbreak, as long as his goal of culling the human race is achieved.
- Villainous Underdog: All it took was a PhD in virology and a CRISPR printer for one man to destroy the world, with zero military or government resources.
- Western Terrorists: An eco-terrorist who wants to protect the Earth from the human populace, who are abusive towards the planet.
Vitaly Tchernenko
Vitaly Tchernenko
A Russian doctor who pioneered in the field of manufacturing viruses. His research inadvertently assists in the creation of the Green Poison.
- The Atoner: Tchernenko is shocked that his research had been used to help create the Green Poison, which is why he is determined to help find a cure for it.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: It's revealed in The Division 2 that Tchernenko is still in Aaron Keener's custody, and the only reason why he isn't dead yet is because he knows how to use Amherst's virus printer.
- Driven to Suicide: In The Division 2, one Coney Island audio log recorded by him has him briefly consider the option of suicide via his own prototype virus to throw a wrench in Keener's plans, but ended up changing his mind somewhere along the way and he curses himself for his cowardice.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: During the mission to rescue him from the Russian Consulate, Tchernenko is kidnapped by Aaron and the LMB before the JTF can reach him.
April Kelleher
April Kelleher
The wife of a biotech scientist, April comes to Manhattan to investigate the murder of her husband but ends up getting trapped on the island due to the quarantine. In order to cope with the crisis, she writes down her experiences in the margins of a copy of a New York survival guide, the pages of which can be found scattered all over the city.
- Action Survivor: Being a civilian trapped in a city full of roving gangs, firebugs and an army will turn anyone who isn't a Division agent into this.
- Cassandra Truth: A bit of a subversion. She tries to tell the police that her husband was murdered, but they don't take her seriously. It's not that they don't believe her, but that they're too busy dealing with the outbreak to worry about anything else.
- Companion Cube: The survival guide becomes something of this to April, since it is one of the last reminders of her husband that she has.
- Damsel in Distress: At one point, she is captured by a group of Rikers who are planning to rape her, but is saved in the nick of time by Doug, a Division Agent and last survivor of Noble Squad.
- Deadpan Snarker: Writes witty comments pointing out the irony (or the cold hard truth) of certain passages in the survival guide.
- Took a Level in Badass: At the end of her subplot, April takes up the fallen Doug's Division gear and heads for the Dark Zone to look for Merch, the author of the survival guide. On the way, she encounters Aaron Keener and isn't even phased by his presence or his veiled threats against her, earning his respect.
