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Instead, he chooses to [[{{Badass}} take out every enemy in the vicinity, including a heavy sentry bot]]. Malik manages to get the systems back online and [[MeaningfulEcho thanks Jensen]] before leaving. He heads to a nearby elevator and exits into the city.
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Instead, he chooses to [[{{Badass}} take out every enemy in the vicinity, including a heavy sentry bot]]. Malik manages to get the systems back online and [[MeaningfulEcho thanks Jensen]] before leaving. He heads to a nearby elevator and exits into the city.
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* AffectionateNickname: Malik begins calling Adam "Spy Boy" before they land at Hengsha. If you manage to save her, Adam returns the favor by calling her "Fly Girl" as she departs.
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* AffectionateNickname: Malik begins calling Adam "Spy Boy" before they land at Hengsha. If you manage to save her, Adam returns the favor by calling her "Fly Girl" "Flygirl" as she departs.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Narhari Khan (if he wasn't killed previously) is the one who kills Malik if the player doesn't intervene.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Malik tells Khan (or the heavy Belltower commando, if he was killed) to "go to hell" before being executed, if the player doesn't save her.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Malik tells Khan (or the heavy Belltower commando, if he was killed) to "go to hell" before being executed, if the player doesn't save her.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Narhari Khan Kahn (if he wasn't killed previously) is the one who kills Malik if the player doesn't intervene.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Malik tellsKhan Kahn (or the heavy Belltower commando, if he was killed) to "go to hell" before being executed, if the player doesn't save her.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Malik tells
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* EvilLaugh: Khan, if he wasn't killed beforehand and murders Malik.
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* EvilLaugh: Khan, Kahn, if he wasn't killed beforehand and murders Malik.
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* ButtMonkey: Khan can become this, depending on whether the player beat him up during all his previous appearances. He can either be left unconscious again or simply killed off.
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* ButtMonkey: Khan Kahn can become this, depending on whether the player beat him up during all his previous appearances. He can either be left unconscious again or simply killed off.
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* AffectionateNickname: Malik begins calling Adam "Spy Boy" before they land at Hengsha.
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* AffectionateNickname: Malik begins calling Adam "Spy Boy" before they land at Hengsha. If you manage to save her, Adam returns the favor by calling her "Fly Girl" as she departs.
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He continues to explore Hengsha and eventually tracks Sevchenko's GPL to a Harvester base. He finds Tong there, who is wearing Sevchenko's augmented arm. Tong chastizes him before revealing that Belltower gave the Harvesters Sevchenko's corpse a few weeks back and he recently had the arm installed. He then tells Adam that he wants to help, but Belltower has captured his son and is using him for leverage to keep the Harvesters in line. Tong begs Adam to free him then come back for more information.
Adam breaks into an old noodle factory and discovers Tong's son. The boy quickly figures out his father sent Adam and refuses to leave because he doesn't think he'll be able to get past the troops. Adam hands him a device given to him beforehand by one of the Harvesters. The boy suddenly changes his mind and asks if they're ready to go, revealing that the item Adam handed over is a cloaking device.
They head back to the Harvester base and Tong thanks Adam for his help. He gives Adam a tip that Belltower often brings in freighters from an unknown location to the docks at Hengsha, and says that one is heading out later that night. He suggests that Adam smuggle away onboard the ship, and the agent asks how he's supposed to do that. Tong tells him to head to the docks and find a package he left for them, before calling with further details.
Adam heads to the Belltower-controlled docks and finds the package, which is revealed to be a bomb. After planting it in the nearby administrator's office, the bomb explodes. At the same time, Tong's son gets is seen getting on a boat (called "[[CallForward The Tracer]]") and slips away away in the chaos.
Adam breaks into an old noodle factory and discovers Tong's son. The boy quickly figures out his father sent Adam and refuses to leave because he doesn't think he'll be able to get past the troops. Adam hands him a device given to him beforehand by one of the Harvesters. The boy suddenly changes his mind and asks if they're ready to go, revealing that the item Adam handed over is a cloaking device.
They head back to the Harvester base and Tong thanks Adam for his help. He gives Adam a tip that Belltower often brings in freighters from an unknown location to the docks at Hengsha, and says that one is heading out later that night. He suggests that Adam smuggle away onboard the ship, and the agent asks how he's supposed to do that. Tong tells him to head to the docks and find a package he left for them, before calling with further details.
Adam heads to the Belltower-controlled docks and finds the package, which is revealed to be a bomb. After planting it in the nearby administrator's office, the bomb explodes. At the same time, Tong's son gets is seen getting on a boat (called "[[CallForward The Tracer]]") and slips away away in the chaos.
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He continues to explore Hengsha and eventually tracks Sevchenko's GPL to a Harvester base. He finds Tong there, who is wearing Sevchenko's augmented arm. Tong chastizes chastises him before revealing that Belltower gave the Harvesters Sevchenko's corpse a few weeks back and he recently had the arm installed. He then tells Adam that he wants to help, but Belltower has captured his son and is using him for leverage to keep the Harvesters in line. Tong begs Adam to free him then come back for more information.
Adam breaks into an old noodle factory and discovers Tong's son. The boy quickly figures out his father sent Adam and refuses to leave because he doesn't think he'll be able to get past the troops. Adam hands him a device given to him beforehand byone of the Harvesters. The boy suddenly changes his mind and asks if they're ready Harvester who told him where to go, revealing that the item Adam handed over is find Tong's son; it's a handheld version of a cloaking device.
They headimplant, and the young man promptly puts it to use.
Jensen heads back to the Harvesterbase base, and Tong thanks Adam him for his help. He gives Adam a tip that Belltower often brings in freighters from an unknown location to the docks at Hengsha, and says that one is heading out later that night. He suggests that Adam smuggle stow away onboard aboard the ship, and with the agent asks how he's supposed to do that. Tong tells him to head to the docks and find help of a package he left for them, before calling with further details.
Tong has hidden in the dockyard which will help Jensen bypass the heavy security.
Adam heads to the Belltower-controlled docks and finds the package, which is revealed to be a bomb.After planting it in Per Tong's instructions, Jensen plants the nearby bomb on the administrator's office, desk; unfortunately, the bomb explodes. At timer is pre-set for ten seconds, and Jensen barely manages to escape going up with the same time, administration building. Immediately afterward, Tong's son gets is seen getting on a boat (called called "[[CallForward The Tracer]]") Tracer]]", and slips motors away away unnoticed in the general chaos.
Adam breaks into an old noodle factory and discovers Tong's son. The boy quickly figures out his father sent Adam and refuses to leave because he doesn't think he'll be able to get past the troops. Adam hands him a device given to him beforehand by
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** Adam tells Tracer Tong during their first meeting, "The more power you think you have, the more easily it slips through your fingers." Tong promises to remember that phrase, and (chronologically later) references it during his first conversation with JC Denton in Hong Kong.
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** Adam tells Tracer Tong Tong's son during their first meeting, "The more power you think you have, the more easily it slips through your fingers." Tong promises to remember that phrase, and (chronologically later) references it during his first conversation with JC Denton in Hong Kong.
* DirtyCoward: The game goes out of its way to make the player feel ''terrible'' about choosing to abandon Malik.
* EnemyMine: Jensen and Tong continue to collaborate against Belltower, each for reasons of his own.
* EnemyMine: Jensen and Tong continue to collaborate against Belltower, each for reasons of his own.
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* HellishCopterHellishCopter: Suggested, but ultimately averted. It takes an EMP rocket to bring down Malik's tiltjet, which is otherwise every bit as reliable as anyone could ask an aircraft to be. Even after the resulting dead-stick landing, Malik only needs a few minutes to get her ship back in the sky.
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--> '''Adam''': Any time, [[CallBack Fly Girl]].
* MuggingTheMonster: One of the civlians in Lower Hengsha attempts to blackmail Adam by insinuating that he will yell out for Belltower if Adam doesn't bribe him. Once Adam makes it clear that he has ways of shutting him up ''permanently'', the civilian freaks out and backs down, realizing that Adam is a lot taller than he is.
* MythologyGag: Tracer Tong can be heard humming the theme from the original game if the player sneaks up to his cell during the rescue mission at the noodle factory.
* MuggingTheMonster: One of the civlians in Lower Hengsha attempts to blackmail Adam by insinuating that he will yell out for Belltower if Adam doesn't bribe him. Once Adam makes it clear that he has ways of shutting him up ''permanently'', the civilian freaks out and backs down, realizing that Adam is a lot taller than he is.
* MythologyGag: Tracer Tong can be heard humming the theme from the original game if the player sneaks up to his cell during the rescue mission at the noodle factory.
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--> '''Adam''': Any time, [[CallBack Fly Girl]].
Flygirl]].
* MuggingTheMonster: One of the civlians in Lower Hengsha attempts to blackmail Adam by insinuating that he will yell out for Belltower if Adam doesn't bribe him.Once Adam makes it clear Instead of doing so, Jensen has the option of pointing out that he has ways of shutting it'd be quite easy for him up ''permanently'', the civilian freaks out and to permanently silence his would-be blackmailer, who on hearing this wisely backs down, realizing that Adam is a lot taller than he is.
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* MythologyGag: Tracer Tong can be heardhumming whistling the theme from the original game if the player sneaks up to his cell during the rescue mission at the noodle factory.
* MuggingTheMonster: One of the civlians in Lower Hengsha attempts to blackmail Adam by insinuating that he will yell out for Belltower if Adam doesn't bribe him.
* MythologyGag: Tracer Tong can be heard
* PlayerPunch: Malik's body being worked on in the Harvester base, if she was left behind and killed by Belltower. It's the second likeliest cause of a suddenly abandoned pacifist run. For the likeliest cause, see below.
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* SchmuckBait: The biochip. Considering that it's the exact thing the conspiracy members were talking about in the prologue cutscene...
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* SchmuckBait: The new biochip. Considering that it's the exact thing the conspiracy members were talking about in the prologue cutscene...
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* SpottingTheThread: One of the ambient radio channels has a host expressing doubt as to why biochips all around the world would suddenly fail at the exact same time, and why the LIMB Clinic would be handing out new ones for free.
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* SpottingTheThread: One of Lazarus, the ambient radio channels has a host expressing doubt as to why Alex Jones expy who can be heard on radios throughout the game, finds it incredible that biochips all around the world would suddenly should just ''happen'' to fail at simultaneously all over the exact same time, world, and why questions who's paying for the free replacements being given out at LIMB Clinic would be handing out new ones for free.clinics.
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* SuperWindowJump: Adam cannonballs himself through a window just as Tong's bomb explodes in order to escape the blast.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Both Darrow and Tong have free access to contact Adam without his giving consent. Lampshaded in the case of the latter.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Both Darrow and Tong have free access to contact Adam without his giving consent. Lampshaded in the case of the latter.
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* SuperWindowJump: Adam cannonballs himself Zig-zagged in Adam's escape from the administrator's office. The window is too tough to jump through directly, so Jensen hits it with a window just as Tong's bomb explodes in order chair to escape weaken it, then times his jump so the blast.
bomb's blast wave pushes him through it.
* SwissCheeseSecurity:Both Neither Darrow and nor Tong seems to have free access to contact Adam without his giving consent.any trouble getting the confidential frequency for Adam's infolink. Lampshaded in the case of the latter.
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* WhamShot: Malik's body being worked on in the Harvester base, if she was left behind and killed by Belltower.
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* WhamShot: Malik's body ThatOneLevel: For pacifist players, rescuing Malik from Belltower. Better hope you've got plenty of candy bars and stun gun charges, because non-lethal takedowns and stun shots are the only chance you've got of being worked able to deal with all the attackers before they kill Malik; they're too widely dispersed for gas grenades to be much use, and the tranq rifle is ''far'' too slow to do any good. Oh, and if you don't have a couple of EMP grenades on hand to deal with the Boxguards that get dropped in halfway through, you're going to wish you did; if you dropped the heavies first like you should've done, you ''might'' be able to scoop up a heavy rifle and enough ammo to wreck the bots in time, but you'll have to be very lucky, as well as very good, in order to manage it.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Pacifist players ill-equipped to save Malik without killing anyone will often choose to break pacifist conduct rather than letting her die. Considering that the encounter comes late in theHarvester base, if she was left behind game, and killed by Belltower.killing the attackers necessitates an entire additional playthrough to obtain the achievement, it's an impressive demonstration of the trope.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: Pacifist players ill-equipped to save Malik without killing anyone will often choose to break pacifist conduct rather than letting her die. Considering that the encounter comes late in the
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Pritchard calls to ask what's happening. Adam sneaks into a cargo container with a cryopod inside, then tells him that he'll be going off the grid for a while as a commander nearby orders all the containers loaded onto the boat. Adam tells Pritchard that he has no idea where he's going...
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Pritchard calls to ask what's happening. Adam sneaks into a cargo container with a cryopod stasis pod inside, then tells him that he'll be going off the grid for a while as a commander nearby orders all the containers loaded onto the boat. Adam tells Pritchard that he has no idea where he's going...
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* PlayerPunch: Discovering Malik's body in the Harvester base, if she wasn't saved beforehand.
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'''Mission 8:'''
!Return to Hengsha
As Malik's VTOL enters Hengsha airspace, she tells Adam that they've been rerouted from their original landing zone by the government. Adam doesn't like the change, but Malik tells him there's nothing she can do.
A man with a rocket launcher suddenly appears on top of a building and fires a missile at the VTOL. The missile blast causes an EMP pulse that disables the helicopter's systems. She orders him to jump out, and he does so just before she crashes. Down below, he sees Belltower troops entering the area and warns Malik to fly away. She tells him that her systems are damaged and will require time to get back online. He offers to cover her, and she tells him to make a run for it.
Instead, he chooses to [[{{Badass}} take out every enemy in the vicinity, including a heavy sentry bot]]. Malik manages to get the systems back online and [[MeaningfulEcho thanks Jensen]] before leaving. He heads to a nearby elevator and exits into the city.
Adam suffers from another bout of glitching, and Pritchard contacts him to inform that the World Health Organization is advising all [[CallBack augmented people to get a new biochip]], and that he should [[SchmuckBait consider upgrading]]. Adam pledges to keep it in mind, but decides not to get it.
He continues to explore Hengsha and eventually tracks Sevchenko's GPL to a Harvester base. He finds Tong there, who is wearing Sevchenko's augmented arm. Tong chastizes him before revealing that Belltower gave the Harvesters Sevchenko's corpse a few weeks back and he recently had the arm installed. He then tells Adam that he wants to help, but Belltower has captured his son and is using him for leverage to keep the Harvesters in line. Tong begs Adam to free him then come back for more information.
Adam breaks into an old noodle factory and discovers Tong's son. The boy quickly figures out his father sent Adam and refuses to leave because he doesn't think he'll be able to get past the troops. Adam hands him a device given to him beforehand by one of the Harvesters. The boy suddenly changes his mind and asks if they're ready to go, revealing that the item Adam handed over is a cloaking device.
They head back to the Harvester base and Tong thanks Adam for his help. He gives Adam a tip that Belltower often brings in freighters from an unknown location to the docks at Hengsha, and says that one is heading out later that night. He suggests that Adam smuggle away onboard the ship, and the agent asks how he's supposed to do that. Tong tells him to head to the docks and find a package he left for them, before calling with further details.
Adam heads to the Belltower-controlled docks and finds the package, which is revealed to be a bomb. After planting it in the nearby administrator's office, the bomb explodes. At the same time, Tong's son gets is seen getting on a boat (called "[[CallForward The Tracer]]") and slips away away in the chaos.
Pritchard calls to ask what's happening. Adam sneaks into a cargo container with a cryopod inside, then tells him that he'll be going off the grid for a while as a commander nearby orders all the containers loaded onto the boat. Adam tells Pritchard that he has no idea where he's going...
!Tropes:
* AffectionateNickname: Malik begins calling Adam "Spy Boy" before they land at Hengsha.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: If the player chooses to break into the Harvester base and assault Tong's soldiers in the process.
--> '''Tong''': You disappoint me, Jensen. I thought we were friends. But then my hacker goes missing, you break into my place of business, half my men end up dead, and you don't even have the manners to knock when you enter a room.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Zelazny quotes passages from the Bible, as part of his reformation after leaving Belltower.
* BigDamnHeroes: The player can choose to do this by rescuing Malik after the helicopter is shot down.
* ButtMonkey: Khan can become this, depending on whether the player beat him up during all his previous appearances. He can either be left unconscious again or simply killed off.
* CallForward:
** Adam tells Tracer Tong during their first meeting, "The more power you think you have, the more easily it slips through your fingers." Tong promises to remember that phrase, and (chronologically later) references it during his first conversation with JC Denton in Hong Kong.
** Tong's son escapes on a boat called "The Tracer", in a blink-and-you-miss-it shot.
* ChekhovsGunman: Narhari Khan (if he wasn't killed previously) is the one who kills Malik if the player doesn't intervene.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Malik tells Khan (or the heavy Belltower commando, if he was killed) to "go to hell" before being executed, if the player doesn't save her.
* EvilLaugh: Khan, if he wasn't killed beforehand and murders Malik.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: If the CASIE is used, Mengyao can be convinced to reveal that the data chip she was bargaining for concerns part of Panchaea called "the Hyron Project", which she says is 'similar to a computer'. Afterwards, Darrow says that Adam might even be able to visit Panchaea one day...
* HellishCopter
* HeroicSacrifice: Malik pulls one by telling Adam to make a run for it while she draws enemy fire. Of course, this can be subverted if the player decides to take out all the enemies and save her instead.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Son]]: Belltower is holding Tong's son hostage, which leads him to enlist Adam's help under the guise of getting him to the cryopod onboard the freighter. Subverted in the bonus mission, when you find out that the son surrendered himself to Belltower's custody because he didn't agree with his father's involvement with augmentations and wanted to force his hand so he could be rescued and sent away from Hengsha.
* InterfaceScrew: Adam continues to suffer from glitches in his programming, prompting the LIMB Clinic in Hengsha to offer [[SchmuckBait a new biochip that will fix the issue]].
* MeaningfulEcho: If Malik is saved.
--> '''Malik''': Get on with the damn mission, [[AffectionateNickname Spy Boy]].
--> '''Adam''': Any time, [[CallBack Fly Girl]].
* MuggingTheMonster: One of the civlians in Lower Hengsha attempts to blackmail Adam by insinuating that he will yell out for Belltower if Adam doesn't bribe him. Once Adam makes it clear that he has ways of shutting him up ''permanently'', the civilian freaks out and backs down, realizing that Adam is a lot taller than he is.
* MythologyGag: Tracer Tong can be heard humming the theme from the original game if the player sneaks up to his cell during the rescue mission at the noodle factory.
* OhCrap: Adam, once he realizes that the bomb Tong gave him only has a 10-second timer.
* PlayerPunch: Discovering Malik's body in the Harvester base, if she wasn't saved beforehand.
* PreOrderBonus: The "Tong's Rescue" mission (initially a bonus for pre-ordering/buying the "Explosive Mission" pack, and later included proper in the Director's Cut).
* SayMyName: Adam yells out Faridah's name if she's killed.
* SchmuckBait: The biochip. Considering that it's the exact thing the conspiracy members were talking about in the prologue cutscene...
* ShoutOut: Zelazny mentions that his project director quoted ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' to him when confronted over the morality of the super soldier program.
* SpottingTheThread: One of the ambient radio channels has a host expressing doubt as to why biochips all around the world would suddenly fail at the exact same time, and why the LIMB Clinic would be handing out new ones for free.
* SuperSoldier: Zelazny, who was augmented with special devices by Belltower, and whom a doctor at the LIMB Clinic asks Adam to take down.
* SuperWindowJump: Adam cannonballs himself through a window just as Tong's bomb explodes in order to escape the blast.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Both Darrow and Tong have free access to contact Adam without his giving consent. Lampshaded in the case of the latter.
--> '''Adam:''' Tong? How did you get this frequency?
--> '''Tong:''' Ancient Chinese secret.
* WhamShot: Malik's body being worked on in the Harvester base, if she was left behind and killed by Belltower.
* YouBastard: Adam says this verbatim if Malik is killed.
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!Return to Hengsha
As Malik's VTOL enters Hengsha airspace, she tells Adam that they've been rerouted from their original landing zone by the government. Adam doesn't like the change, but Malik tells him there's nothing she can do.
A man with a rocket launcher suddenly appears on top of a building and fires a missile at the VTOL. The missile blast causes an EMP pulse that disables the helicopter's systems. She orders him to jump out, and he does so just before she crashes. Down below, he sees Belltower troops entering the area and warns Malik to fly away. She tells him that her systems are damaged and will require time to get back online. He offers to cover her, and she tells him to make a run for it.
Instead, he chooses to [[{{Badass}} take out every enemy in the vicinity, including a heavy sentry bot]]. Malik manages to get the systems back online and [[MeaningfulEcho thanks Jensen]] before leaving. He heads to a nearby elevator and exits into the city.
Adam suffers from another bout of glitching, and Pritchard contacts him to inform that the World Health Organization is advising all [[CallBack augmented people to get a new biochip]], and that he should [[SchmuckBait consider upgrading]]. Adam pledges to keep it in mind, but decides not to get it.
He continues to explore Hengsha and eventually tracks Sevchenko's GPL to a Harvester base. He finds Tong there, who is wearing Sevchenko's augmented arm. Tong chastizes him before revealing that Belltower gave the Harvesters Sevchenko's corpse a few weeks back and he recently had the arm installed. He then tells Adam that he wants to help, but Belltower has captured his son and is using him for leverage to keep the Harvesters in line. Tong begs Adam to free him then come back for more information.
Adam breaks into an old noodle factory and discovers Tong's son. The boy quickly figures out his father sent Adam and refuses to leave because he doesn't think he'll be able to get past the troops. Adam hands him a device given to him beforehand by one of the Harvesters. The boy suddenly changes his mind and asks if they're ready to go, revealing that the item Adam handed over is a cloaking device.
They head back to the Harvester base and Tong thanks Adam for his help. He gives Adam a tip that Belltower often brings in freighters from an unknown location to the docks at Hengsha, and says that one is heading out later that night. He suggests that Adam smuggle away onboard the ship, and the agent asks how he's supposed to do that. Tong tells him to head to the docks and find a package he left for them, before calling with further details.
Adam heads to the Belltower-controlled docks and finds the package, which is revealed to be a bomb. After planting it in the nearby administrator's office, the bomb explodes. At the same time, Tong's son gets is seen getting on a boat (called "[[CallForward The Tracer]]") and slips away away in the chaos.
Pritchard calls to ask what's happening. Adam sneaks into a cargo container with a cryopod inside, then tells him that he'll be going off the grid for a while as a commander nearby orders all the containers loaded onto the boat. Adam tells Pritchard that he has no idea where he's going...
!Tropes:
* AffectionateNickname: Malik begins calling Adam "Spy Boy" before they land at Hengsha.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: If the player chooses to break into the Harvester base and assault Tong's soldiers in the process.
--> '''Tong''': You disappoint me, Jensen. I thought we were friends. But then my hacker goes missing, you break into my place of business, half my men end up dead, and you don't even have the manners to knock when you enter a room.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Zelazny quotes passages from the Bible, as part of his reformation after leaving Belltower.
* BigDamnHeroes: The player can choose to do this by rescuing Malik after the helicopter is shot down.
* ButtMonkey: Khan can become this, depending on whether the player beat him up during all his previous appearances. He can either be left unconscious again or simply killed off.
* CallForward:
** Adam tells Tracer Tong during their first meeting, "The more power you think you have, the more easily it slips through your fingers." Tong promises to remember that phrase, and (chronologically later) references it during his first conversation with JC Denton in Hong Kong.
** Tong's son escapes on a boat called "The Tracer", in a blink-and-you-miss-it shot.
* ChekhovsGunman: Narhari Khan (if he wasn't killed previously) is the one who kills Malik if the player doesn't intervene.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Malik tells Khan (or the heavy Belltower commando, if he was killed) to "go to hell" before being executed, if the player doesn't save her.
* EvilLaugh: Khan, if he wasn't killed beforehand and murders Malik.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: If the CASIE is used, Mengyao can be convinced to reveal that the data chip she was bargaining for concerns part of Panchaea called "the Hyron Project", which she says is 'similar to a computer'. Afterwards, Darrow says that Adam might even be able to visit Panchaea one day...
* HellishCopter
* HeroicSacrifice: Malik pulls one by telling Adam to make a run for it while she draws enemy fire. Of course, this can be subverted if the player decides to take out all the enemies and save her instead.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Son]]: Belltower is holding Tong's son hostage, which leads him to enlist Adam's help under the guise of getting him to the cryopod onboard the freighter. Subverted in the bonus mission, when you find out that the son surrendered himself to Belltower's custody because he didn't agree with his father's involvement with augmentations and wanted to force his hand so he could be rescued and sent away from Hengsha.
* InterfaceScrew: Adam continues to suffer from glitches in his programming, prompting the LIMB Clinic in Hengsha to offer [[SchmuckBait a new biochip that will fix the issue]].
* MeaningfulEcho: If Malik is saved.
--> '''Malik''': Get on with the damn mission, [[AffectionateNickname Spy Boy]].
--> '''Adam''': Any time, [[CallBack Fly Girl]].
* MuggingTheMonster: One of the civlians in Lower Hengsha attempts to blackmail Adam by insinuating that he will yell out for Belltower if Adam doesn't bribe him. Once Adam makes it clear that he has ways of shutting him up ''permanently'', the civilian freaks out and backs down, realizing that Adam is a lot taller than he is.
* MythologyGag: Tracer Tong can be heard humming the theme from the original game if the player sneaks up to his cell during the rescue mission at the noodle factory.
* OhCrap: Adam, once he realizes that the bomb Tong gave him only has a 10-second timer.
* PlayerPunch: Discovering Malik's body in the Harvester base, if she wasn't saved beforehand.
* PreOrderBonus: The "Tong's Rescue" mission (initially a bonus for pre-ordering/buying the "Explosive Mission" pack, and later included proper in the Director's Cut).
* SayMyName: Adam yells out Faridah's name if she's killed.
* SchmuckBait: The biochip. Considering that it's the exact thing the conspiracy members were talking about in the prologue cutscene...
* ShoutOut: Zelazny mentions that his project director quoted ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' to him when confronted over the morality of the super soldier program.
* SpottingTheThread: One of the ambient radio channels has a host expressing doubt as to why biochips all around the world would suddenly fail at the exact same time, and why the LIMB Clinic would be handing out new ones for free.
* SuperSoldier: Zelazny, who was augmented with special devices by Belltower, and whom a doctor at the LIMB Clinic asks Adam to take down.
* SuperWindowJump: Adam cannonballs himself through a window just as Tong's bomb explodes in order to escape the blast.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: Both Darrow and Tong have free access to contact Adam without his giving consent. Lampshaded in the case of the latter.
--> '''Adam:''' Tong? How did you get this frequency?
--> '''Tong:''' Ancient Chinese secret.
* WhamShot: Malik's body being worked on in the Harvester base, if she was left behind and killed by Belltower.
* YouBastard: Adam says this verbatim if Malik is killed.
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