History Headscratchers / Hitman

*** It is possible Agent 47 genuinely respects Mike Whittier, a man who has spent most of his career fruitlessly chasing a ghost.

!! Hitman: Codename 47

[[folder: Metal Detectors]]
* What bugs me is, in the first game, on the hotel mission, if you have ANYTHING that sets the metal detector off, everybody starts shooting you. "Jesus christ, this guy has KEYS! TAKE HIM DOWN!"
** :D it's fixed in the third game, where you replay the mission.
*** Pops up again in ''Blood Money'', in "Amendment XVI". Granted, it ''is'' the White House, but if you put an object which sets off the metal detector in another tourist's suitcase, they merely take her to the security room. You try the same thing, and they open fire.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Training Level]]
* In the first game's Training, how does 47 slip past the orderly with a PaperThinDisguise and only a few seconds after using a noisy weapon? I'm quite sure the shotgun blast/SMG shots would cause massive suspicion...
** My guess would be that Ort-Meyer TOLD him to play along to allow 47's escape go without a hitch.
** So, the orderly goes up to 47 and politely asks him if he's a murderer. That'd go down well. What probably happened is the orderly knows he'd be unable to do anything, and Ortmeyer had him removed.
[[/folder]]

!! Hitman: Contracts

[[folder: Rotterdam]]
* Why, at the beginning of the "Rendezvous in Rotterdam" mission, 47 says that his weapons haven't arrived yet? After all, he DOES have his trademark Silverballers and fiber wire with himself, so what other weapons might he be referring to?
** I think he might have been planning to snipe the boss of the biker gang, or plant a bomb in the place... in essence, anything that meant he didn't have to actually enter the headquarters of a ruthless biker gang who were at that very moment enthusiastically torturing the last guy who entered those very same headquarters.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Malcolm Sturrock]]
* I'm surprised no one's mentioned Malcom Sturrock the Meat King's Brother. How cold-hearted and apathetic do you have to be to find a girl mutilated beyond all recognition with her arm cut off by a power saw and hung upside by a meat hook and not want to do anything to the sick bastard who did this to her? It bugs me that he doesn't become an objective or AT LEAST a freebie kill. Doesn't help that that scene has given me nightmares to this day.
** You're playing a game called Hitman, where you play as a genetically modified killer for hire with no soul who kills ''anyone'' for the right price and prides himself on professionalism and only killing his intended target, and are complaining about him not killing someone he wasn't hired to kill because apparently you forgot about the "no soul" part? [[GenreBlind Genre blindness at it's finest ladies and gentlemen!]]
** If 47 had been offered a bonus for killing the murderer of the girl (whose death, up until that point, was completely unknown), he would have immediately killed him. He's not paid to feel, he's paid to kill. And he wouldn't have been paid for the death of Malcolm so he wouldn't really care. He KILLS people for a living; another corpse, however mutilated, isn't going to bother him that much.
*** I can understand the logic as to why he didn't, just saying it makes him a bit TOO cold and indifferent. He does have a heart, as seen when he saves the Asian girl (I know that was for a code, but still I'm sure there's a way he could have gotten it from her without too much hassle), might just be a missed "human" moment for 47, but still left a bad taste in this tropers mouth. Oh and also psychological scars too.
*** 47 might go out of his way to avoid killing where it isn't necessary, but that doesn't mean he's going to go killing for revenge on behalf of people he doesn't even know. Killing the Meat King's brother wouldn't bring the dead girl back to life, and leaving another body lying around would have been unprofessional. Besides, who's to say 47 told anyone? The girl's father would've thought her killer got what he deserved regardless.
*** Look at it from his creator's POV: 47 was originally designed to be the perfect assassin - anonymous (albeit, bald), lethally skilled, and most importantly, controllable by his handlers. His creators had no need for a compassionate human being, they wanted a stone-cold killer. That 47 has pangs of conscious was a big show of how his creators couldn't completely stamp humanity out of him, despite his origins.
*** Too bad that side of him disappeared in Blood Money. In any case, Hitman isn't exactly the kind of game you should play if you want to be a hero.
*** He does still have shades of it in Blood Money. He does show a brief look of sadness at having to kill his bird. But at the end of the day he's still been conditioned to be indifferent to death.
*** On another note, ''why did'' the girl die? No seriously. The most we know about her is that her father (The client) is an ICA affiliate who is also wealthy. Clearly Malcolm killed her because he had a worship sacrifice mentality toward her or just pretty young blonde girls in general. Plus she was kidnapped. If this could be compared to real life cases then maybe she saw somehtng she shouldn't have? The Meat King wasn't involved in any other crime (That was worth mentioning anyway. Stick to the mission and don't question the details is what 47 does best apart from killing.)
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!! Hitman: Blood Money

[[folder: Sauna and Pool Murder]]
* How is it that you can kill someone by pushing them into a pool or sauna? Or down a short flight of stairs that they don't even tumble down? It's like they got Main/SuperDrowningSkills or something, even though those same pools of water you kill them in with a simple push they were swimming graciously through a few minutes ago.
** The stairs one I can't explain, but maybe when you push them into water they knock their head and knock themselves out? Other the the obvious "Programmers couldn't help it" solution.
** Well, it's entirely possible to die by falling down a single step - or even just stumbling over something - if you're unlucky enough to land in just exactly the wrong way. So either 47 uses a special pushing-technique to ensure that they land ''just'' so, or he's a RealityWarper on the low ends of the scale, giving his victims a lethal case of bad luck simply by touching them.
** There's a much cooler way to kill the guy in the hot tub in Blood Money. If you get to a quiet place with a silenced weapon, you can shoot out the glass bottom of the sauna and cackle as your target and his floozies tumble, nigh-naked, to the jagged, freezing rocks below.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Agent 47 and the USA]]
* What this troper didn't get about Blood Money is that, at the end of Contracts, which happens after the mission after Curtains Down (basically, the bits where he is in his room tripping out in the entire Contracts, and then kills the chief), Diane and 47 discuss going to USA like something new, like he hasn't ever been there. Still, in BM, he goes to Maryland, then to South America, then to Italy or wherever, which is when Curtains Down and Contracts happens. So basically, he just went to USA, South America, Europe, and then pretends he's never been to USA.
*** I'm pretty sure those missions aren't in order. If you look at the date, the carnival mission takes place after Curtains Down. It goes Italy, France, Contracts, USA.
*** Hmm, I was sure I checked the dates. Besides, the Notoriety system wouldn't have much sense if the missions weren't in order. 47 has notoriety from the Tutorial mission in the South American mission. It doesn't matter much, it just bugged me, but they generally screwed up with the BM/Contracts cross.
*** She's talking about doing a long series of missions.
** Inevitable continuity snarl. Really, there's a lot of contradictions between Contracts and Blood Money. I'd chalk this up to the fact that they were in development at the same time by two diffrent teams (notehow Contracts looks similar to the previous two, but Blood Money is completely diffrent.)
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Worst bodyguards ever]]
* Ambassador Delahunt in ''Blood Money'' has the worst bodyguards ever. A man has just been shot onstage by a sniper. The sniper has not been caught. They have no idea where the sniper is. For that matter, they don't even know if there's only one sniper. And what do these highly-paid, highly-trained bodyguards do? They let the protectee run onstage and stand completely motionless over the body of the guy who just got shot. [[SarcasmMode Surely, only good things can come of this.]]
** What could possibly bug you about that? It's the limits of the AI. I'm sure they'll let you know when they've invented the kind that emulates exactly how humans would react, but 'til then...
*** Actually, that's ''not'' the limits of the AI. They're actually programmed to do that. It's intended that the only way to get the Silent Assassin is to kill D'Avalde and get Delahunt to run out into an area where you can shoot him or drop something heavy on him. The game is programmed so that your success for the mission depends on his bodyguards being stupid, not you being good at your job.
*** If anything it's a sign of poor level design that you have so few ways to get to the target that they instead programmed him and his bodyguards to be stupid rather than add other ways for you to get to him.
*** Actually you can kill him before he runs out onto the floor, you can snipe him as soon as he reacts to the death on the stage since Delahunt jumps out of his chair with shock. This give you an easy shot if you are on the scaffolding, so its not just due to poor level design.
*** Not to mention the fact that D'Avalde is meant to be killed with the authentic WWI pistol that you can slip to the actor who plays his executioner...
* In "The Murder of Crows," why doesn't the client just go to the cops? He/she knows who's going to try to kill Macklin, they know where, they know when, and they even know the time and location of the handoff of the payment. Why spend a ton of money hiring a very expensive assassin to kill the assassins, when he/she could just have them arrested (or, failing that, get Macklin to cancel his appearance)?
** Ruin their plan once, they'll just come up with another one. Kill the ringleaders and you don't have to worry about it. Although you do have to wonder why they're running around in mascot outfits, since it makes them incredibly conspicuous.
*** It was Mardi Gras. Nothing looks conspicuous during Mardi Gras (Except, apparently, walking into a theme bar without the right costume. Then the bouncer shoots you in the face).
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Albino Assassins]]
* Mark Parchezzi II and III are apparently expert assassins, but they're albinos. Firstly, being albinic generally causes poor eyesight, which would hinder any assassin; and secondly, by my understanding, assassins generally like to blend in and avoid notice, which can be pretty difficult for albinos. Wouldn't it have made sense, when cloning the original Mark, to tweak out the albinism somehow?
** They're so good that even when they should stand out, they don't.
** They're meant to stand out. The public will eventually realize that a group of assassins that are all albinos are clones. Public sentiment would grow towards anti-cloning. With cloning outlawed and 47's DNA Cayne will be the only one able to create perfect clones.
*** Actually, you're both wrong. They're ''flawed'' clones, remember, and that's why they want 47's DNA.
[[/folder]]

*** Pops up again in ''Blood Money'', in "Amendment XVI". Granted, it ''is'' the White House, but if you put an object which sets off the metal detector in another tourist's suitcase, they merely take her to the security room. You try the same thing, and they open fire.[[/folder]]

** I think he might have been planning to snipe the boss of the biker gang, or plant a bomb in the place... in essence, anything that meant he didn't have to actually enter the headquarters of a ruthless biker gang who were at that very moment enthusiastically torturing the last guy who entered those very same headquarters.[[/folder]]

** There's a much cooler way to kill the guy in the hot tub in Blood Money. If you get to a quiet place with a silenced weapon, you can shoot out the glass bottom of the sauna and cackle as your target and his floozies tumble, nigh-naked, to the jagged, freezing rocks below.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Agent 47 and the USA]]* What this troper didn't get about Blood Money is that, at the end of Contracts, which happens after the mission after Curtains Down (basically, the bits where he is in his room tripping out in the entire Contracts, and then kills the chief), Diane and 47 discuss going to USA like something new, like he hasn't ever been there. Still, in BM, he goes to Maryland, then to South America, then to Italy or wherever, which is when Curtains Down and Contracts happens. So basically, he just went to USA, South America, Europe, and then pretends he's never been to USA.

** Inevitable continuity snarl. Really, there's a lot of contradictions between Contracts and Blood Money. I'd chalk this up to the fact that they were in development at the same time by two diffrent teams (notehow Contracts looks similar to the previous two, but Blood Money is completely diffrent.)[[/folder]]

*** It was Mardi Gras. Nothing looks conspicuous during Mardi Gras (Except, apparently, walking into a theme bar without the right costume. Then the bouncer shoots you in the face).[[/folder]]

*** It is possible Agent 47 genuinely respects Mike Whittier, a man who has spent most of his career fruitlessly chasing a ghost.[[/folder]]

*** It's also possible that he keeps his head uncovered to feed into his own myth. Not because he is an egotist, but because he is an urban legend, on the likes of Springheel Jack. Anyone who is asked to provide a statement would probably be dismissed for being a crank or believe themselves to be mistaken, in addition to the people who simply haven't seen him. "It can't be the Hitman, he's just a myth".[[/folder]]

** A good example is say a certain website owner leaking information (military wise) about the Chinese military and they want him dead.[[/folder]

** Absolution implies that he has money stored away at various safe houses. Also it seems that he keeps money on him for possible expenses. Couple examples: 1) He tried to give money to the nuns at Rosewood for taking in Victoria. 2) He has the money to pay for the room overlooking Rosewood. 3) He must have stopped for gas at various points in the game (Chicago to Hope, South Dakota). 4) He dropped $100 to pay for the room at the motel. 5) Paid off his tailor for a new suit on his way to Blackwater Park. [[/folder]]

!! Hitman: Absolution

[[folder: Why just 10 million?]]
* Why would Blake Dexter ask for a mere $10million for Victoria? I say "mere" because, well... did you see the ''size'' of his factory? The scale of products he has for sale? Between anti-theft systems, arms-dealing and genetic experimentation, Dexter Industries probably makes that much a ''month'', maybe even more. And yet he goes toe-to-toe with a notoriously dangerous and vengeful cartel of assassins for a (comparative) pittance. Granted he doesn't seem like the most stable person in the world, but still...
** One of the doctors in the know actually complains about this (Alexander, I think), saying that he's only in for the short term profit without the long term prospects. He can't see how much value Victoria could have to the human race, not just a practical Sanchez.
*** Dr Ashford (close!), who yes does say in his video log how she's a scientific marvel, but just knows how Dexter will "sell her off to the highest bidder" instead of investing in further study, because all he wants is quick money instead of long term profit.
** A possible explanation: Blake Dexter didn't want to keep Victoria because he knew the ICA would send the private army it apparently has to come and take her by force; he couldn't hand her over for free (because that would make him look like a coward) but he has to ask for less than the Black Ops Military Action route would cost the ICA.
*** By this time, Dexter has already lost his ''son'' to the whole Victoria business. It's entirely possible he's really just sick of it.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Why doesn't 47 cover his face?]]
* OK, one of the things that really drove me batty in ''Absolution'' was that 47 never covered his face when he had the chance. Many enemies throughout the game had ski/medical/gas masks of some kind, and yet he ''never uses them''. Why?!
** Aye, I know what you mean. Other than a set of tinted ballistic goggles or whatever, he'll forgo a perfectly serviceable balaclava for no apparent reason. You can't really argue that 47 is germophobic, seeing as he's willing to put on an outfit worn by a guy he was taking a piss when 47 knocks him out. At the very least, he'll keep the headwear to cover that highly obvious barcode on the back of his head...
** There are a few disguise that allow 47 to cover his face. If he, for example, takes out a killer with a hockey and a stocking mask on the Rosewood level he wears both. Funny enough the guards still seem to know that he’s none of them. [[/folder]]
[[folder: The Frame-Up Job]]
* In Absolution, when Blake Dexter first captures 47, what the hell is his plan? Is it entirely to throw him off Blake's trail while he flees a burning building and a murder scene? How exactly is that better than slitting his throat and disposing of the body?
** This drove me crazy, too. The real kicker? ''He controls the hotel!'' Maybe not owns it, but his goons are on every level and his word there is law. It would have been easier ''and'' more efficient to have Sanchez stomp on 47's head (You don't even need to use your spiffy knife, Blakey! Just have Thugo Grande stomp him!) and smuggle his corpse out into an alley. And the whole "frame 47 for murder" idea? He's a ''hitman'', dude. No, scratch that, as ''you said'', he's '''''The''' Hitman''. He's ''already'' wanted for murders!
** Canon-wise, he's not already wanted for murders, as no one really knows (or can prove) he exists (ie. the ShroudedInMyth thing he'd got going on). As for why Blake didn't just have his Dragon stomp 47 into mush though...yeaahh...he...liked 47's suit?
** As has been shown later in the game, Dexter is extremely impulsive and not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. He probably just thought it would be really fun.
*** Well, it's important to remember the Hitman is a contractor for the ICA. He may wrongly believe the ICA is sending him rather than the Hitman acting alone. As a result, he might just be trying to make such a cluster-fuck it becomes impossible to interfere with his business. Wrong but understandable.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Why are the police so determined?]]
* Similar to the above - why were the police so ''incredibly'' keen on getting 47 in "Run For Your Life"? Yes, the point is meant to be he's framed for the murder of that maid, and [[CaptainObvious murder is bad]], but from the Police's perspective all they saw to cast guilt on him was 47 in a room (that was on fire, filled with smoke) with the deceased maid in it. Yet they had half the Police force out immediately to try and catch him/gun him down. Blake framed him, but were there any hints that he pressured them (don't recall any)? It made for a great couple of levels, just felt odd.
** Possibly a mix of post-9/11 paranoia and the opportunity to catch the mythical Hitman. As the scenes with Detective Faulkner show, the police are aware of his existence.
*** Easy enough answer. The hotel was ''full of people.'' Dexter doesn't just frame 47 for a woman's death, he potentially frames them for however many people people are killed during his act of arson. Also, depending on your playstyle, 47 may end up killing cops on the way out.]]
** Also, the police really are that bad. Any cop like the ones in the game would quickly be kicked out. Most are shown to be on the take and involved in things like The Vixen Club, ignore the missing women and children involved, and are JerkAss in general. Faulkner's scenes are the best example of how police should be but he is driven by an obsession with stopping 47.
[[folder: Penalties for murder]]
* Okay, admittedly I don't go for Silent Assassin unless I'm going for [[HundredPercentCompletion 100% Completion]], but in Absolution why can't I ever eliminate a lone guard or two far out of earshot range of any witnesses without severe rating penalties if they see me? As long as I eliminate them before they can talk, it shouldn't matter. And sure, you can sneak up behind them and garrote them, or even pop their heads with no penalties except the loss of the silent assassin rank ''as long as they're facing the other direction'', but if they see you for even just a split second, even if you end them before they can finish saying [[OhCrap Oh Crap]], the game just screams at you "NO! Bad player! That's not how you're supposed to do it!"
** Because that's not how you're supposed to do it. A Silent Assassin is ''not'' seen and does ''not'' leave witnesses ''or'' corpses other than the one he came to create.
*** Also, the point system is probably how 47 rates HIMSELF.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Elimination of coins]]
* In Absolution, they eliminated the coins you can throw as a distraction. Fair enough, but why are you always limited to three or four throwable objects in the entire friggin' level? Need to distract a guard for a second? Sorry, can't just throw any old loose object. You'll have to backtrack and scour the whole level to find some wrench or liquor bottle the developers arbitrarily placed. Particularly jarring was when I figured out one of the few throwable items is a book, but when I had to escape a LIBRARY I couldn't find a throwable book anywhere!
** Presumably you can do the whole thing without needing to throw more than one or two items.[[/folder]]
[[folder: 47's Tailor]]
* Why is 47's tailor in Chicago? Shouldn't he be somewhere in Europe?
** Perhaps that's not the only tailor he uses.
** It's also probably pretty convenient to know a blind tailor when you're an international fugitive from justice with a taste for expensive suits.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Diana's mansion]]
* If Diana was trying to hide from the Agency, why did she buy a giant mansion in viewing distance of Chicago?
** I got the impression Diana knew she couldn't hide from the Agency forever, so her plan was ''always'' to get Victoria into 47's hands. My guess is she still had some contacts in the Agency, and when she found out 47 was the one coming after her, she moved into the mansion to lure him there.
*** Also, she's a Baronet. She's accustomed to a certain lifestyle.[[/folder]]
[[folder: What happened to the Franchise?]]
* What happened to that other company Diana was working for at the end of ''Blood Money''?
** Wasn't she working for the reformed ICA at the end of ''Blood Money''? If you mean the one she supposedly betrayed 47 for (the Franchise, I think), presumably it folded after 47 killed the boss and all their assassins.
** This also begs the question, why did Diana leave the Agency in control of such an obviously incompetent and unprofessional person? Even if she resigned control of the Agency in the intervening time between games (for whatever reason she'd want to do such a thing), it was HER organization at that point. The least she could do was retain some sort of executive veto power. I have trouble believing that she was, say, unaware of how terrible a choice Travis is to lead the Agency and/or her considerable influence waned so quickly as to allow him to ascend to power.
*** The farthest up the chain that Diana ever got was "Tetra", which is one below "Head" (as far as we know), so she never owned ICA. Best guess is that their division of ICA went under and she gained ownership of that. However, the wider ICA was relatively stable until she drained ICA's accounts and revealed ICA's existence (before the events of Absolution). Also, Travis was not in charge of ICA, he was running one of it's branches and under ICA management's nose. The wider ICA had no clue what was going on and Travis' branch was working as a rogue element that was totally independent of the wider ICA.
*** Diana reformed the ICA but then betrayed it because of its experiments. I imagine that had a lot to do with how she was treated. New-Founding member or not.[[/folder]]
[[folder: 47's Tailor part II]]
* It's glaringly obvious that Tom, 47's tailor, is blind. How did he know that it was 47 who walked through the door and not someone else?
** His other senses are heightened. It's been known that this kind of compensation is TruthInTelevision.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Missing Saint]]
* In the official picture of the Saints (which can be seen in the "Objectives" section of the notebook), you can easily count eight of them in the picture, but you only see/kill seven of them in ''Absolution''. What happened to the eighth Saint?
** [[http://hitman.wikia.com/wiki/Boo Boo]] is established to have been killed on a job in Spain prior to the events of the game.[[/folder]]
[[folder: The uselessness of disguises]]
* Why is it that enemies can always see through your disguise if you are masquerading as one of them? Why can't 47 just tell them "I'm new on the job." or some variation of that sentence?
** The fact that this was "not" implemented in other games actually bothered me. A lot of times, the people would actually know the new guy ahead of time. The most obvious example would be the very first mission where the mansion has an extremely tight security team. Those guys would have been monitoring security closely enough that they would have been introduced to each other and told "If you see anyone dressed like us and he's not at this meeting, then he's an imposter." The flip side of this is in Blood Money, when you have to sneak into a guy's house who's under witness protection. Once you get the FBI suite, no one looks twice at you. "We're getting paid to be as paranoid as possible, and I've never seen you before. Oh, wait, you're wearing an FBI suit? Here, I'll hold the door open for you."
** If the guards in the Hitman series would act like real guards the disguise system would be almost pointless. Not only would the guards know each other they also remember that the janitor/ cook/ butler/ local drug dealer isn’t a bald dude with a barcode tattoo. The developers focus is to create a fun, challenging game not a uber-realistic one that makes every player bit in his keyboard out of frustration. Of course, they can’t make it to easy. If 47 could just put one a guard uniform and walk past the next 20 guards by telling them “I’m the new guy.” every mission without a target (Run For Your Life, Rosewood, Skurky's Law…) would be a walk in the park.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Operation: Sledgehammer]] * When the Agency is sweeping through the city in Operation Sledgehammer, where are the police? Right after 47 escapes the jail, the Agency shows up right outside the police building, and no cops are seen.[[/folder]]
[[folder: Open Carry Laws]]* Why do police in Hope try to arrest 47 immediately for having a weapon out? I can understand doing it inside a courthouse, however, open carry is permitted in South Dakota, and most cases of the police confronting an open carrier don't involve guns being drawn by the police to avoid escalating the situation.
** The town is under the thumb of Dexter and his corrupt hicks. They might be on the lookout for any strangers wielding weapons.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Penalties for murder]]* Okay, admittedly I don't go for Silent Assassin unless I'm going for [[HundredPercentCompletion 100% Completion]], but in Absolution why can't I ever eliminate a lone guard or two far out of earshot range of any witnesses without severe rating penalties if they see me? As long as I eliminate them before they can talk, it shouldn't matter. And sure, you can sneak up behind them and garrote them, or even pop their heads with no penalties except the loss of the silent assassin rank ''as long as they're facing the other direction'', but if they see you for even just a split second, even if you end them before they can finish saying [[OhCrap Oh Crap]], the game just screams at you "NO! Bad player! That's not how you're supposed to do it!"

[[folder: What does 47 spend his money on?]]* ''What'' does 47 spend all his money on? Hell, why is he so willing to do anything for money? He even specifically says in ''Blood Money'' "I can do whatever I'm paid to do" - except it says ''in the damn manual'' that an assassin has to live frugally in order to avoid drawing attention, and even in Video Game Land there's only so many times a guy can upgrade his weapons. So what use does a guy like 47 have for all that extra cash? Considering how little he's able to spend, he could probably retire in a year or two.

* Why does 47 wear a fancy italian suit and use weaponry and items with his insignia emblazoned on it? Heck, it's not even his insignia, it's Ort-Meyers. I'd imagine he'd be a little bit more low-key than that, being an assassin and all.

[[folder: Pay Evil Unti Evil]]

[[folder: Wigs]]* If 47 is such a master of disguise, shouldn't he consider investing in a couple of nice expensive wigs? Seriously, isn't there possibly going to come a day when some guard or other will stop and realise, "You know, I probably would have noticed by now if one of the guys was completely bald with a big ol' barcode on the back of his head"?

[[folder: Why just 10 million?]]* Why would Blake Dexter ask for a mere $10million for Victoria? I say "mere" because, well... did you see the ''size'' of his factory? The scale of products he has for sale? Between anti-theft systems, arms-dealing and genetic experimentation, Dexter Industries probably makes that much a ''month'', maybe even more. And yet he goes toe-to-toe with a notoriously dangerous and vengeful cartel of assassins for a (comparative) pittance. Granted he doesn't seem like the most stable person in the world, but still...