History Recap / DeusExHumanRevolutionMission09TheMissingLink

* RestartAtLevelOne: Adam's augs are disabled at the beginning of the mission, although this is somewhat averted soon after when he finds his harness and a handful of Praxis kits.

* ThatOneAchievement: "Factory Zero", earned by completing the entirety of the mission without using any weapons, mines, grenades, or augmentation upgrades. Rifleman Bank is one of the game's toughest challenges, so this is no mean feat to begin with; what's much worse is that the achievement is bugged, such that it's possible not to earn it ''despite having met all the requirements''. No one is sure why this happens, and the best advice anyone has on avoiding it is just not to pick up anything whose use would break the required conduct. Unfortunately, this requires abandoning your weapons, which you've probably been modding throughout the game.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: "Quinn" (Keitner's informant) turns out to be the supposed connection to Interpol responsible for Adam being set free.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Gary Savage appears for a single scene as a researcher.

* HiddenSupplies: The "Back Stage Pass" achievement involves searching Quinn's workshop for a hidden switch, which opens a secret cache that has another computer (different from the one publicly displayed in his shop) that gives a lot of {{Foreshadowing}} as to his true motives, as well as a pair of weapon upgrades.

** This can also be averted depending on the player's actions. If the stasis pod was repaired, Quinn gives an automatic 25% discount, and if one of the CASIE options (Omega) is chosen, he gives a further 25% discount, making his shop the cheapest place to buy Praxis Kits (2500 each) in the entire game.

** Original (Standalone) Version: Though your mysterious contact gets your default body armor back when you start the mission, you're still far short of the Praxis Kits you came in with, and you'll likely have to scavenge high-end weapons and gear until the end of the mission.

* BlingBlingBang: Burke has a custom-designed revolver with a gold finish, which is admired by other operatives on the ship. The player can steal this weapon during the mission.

** Keitner also acknowledges your actions throughout the Hei Zhen Zhu. If you ran around indiscriminately killing every soldier, she'll chew you out for killing her men. If you preferred non-lethal takedowns, she complains about you putting "contractors in comas", and if you went 100% Ghost, she is impressed.

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: You've given full ''10 minutes'' to take down a few mooks and resolve a SadisticChoice. A skilled player can take down the thugs in less than half of that, and since A) the timer doesn't jump forward once you reach the decision, and B) you can actually back off from the decision after it's given to you, it's pretty obvious that there's a hidden way to save everyone.

* WithThisHerring: Averted. You get all your equipment (including several Praxis Kits and, in the Director's Cut, the weapons you had before you arrived on the ship) soon after you start the mission. Depending on your actions and whether or not you have the CASIE, you can also convince Quinn to give you up to a maximum 50% discount on his wares and open his "special stock" of goods. You can also find two unique weapons throughout the base that are custom-modified.

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerousity: You've given full ''10 minutes'' to take down a few mooks and resolve a SadisticChoice. It's not uncommon for players to take down the thugs in less than half the time the game gives you. The fact that the clock isn't affected and you can back off from the decision after it's given to you makes it pretty obvious that there's a way to save everyone, even if it isn't listed anywhere.

* TheDreaded: Several of the soldiers on the freighter and in the base can be heard talking about how dangerous Adam is, including one who expresses disbelief that he [[{{Badass}} knocked out eight soldiers when they pulled him out of the stasis pod]].

* NoHeroDiscount: Lampshaded by Quinn when Jensen expresses outrage that he has to pay for his purchases. As Quinn points out, he's not a quartermaster with a guaranteed supply of gear, and he's taking a real risk just by dealing with Jensen at all.

* BloodFromTheMouth: Keitner, just before he dies.

In a interrogation room, Commander Pieter beats Adam and tries to find out what he's doing on the freighter. When he doesn't answer, Burke leaves the room and has his lieutenant, Netanya Keitner, continue the questioning. She reveals that Adam is in an EMP-rigged chair that has [[BroughtDownToNormal disabled his augs]] and that the freighter is heading to a prison camp called Rifleman Bank Station.

A mysterious voice is heard over the radio telling him to head to the freighter's command centre. Adam heads through the ship, stopping to fix a malfunctioning stasis pod with a female occupant inside on the way.

He continues through the checkpoint and emerges at the entrance to Rifleman Bank. Following the maintenance tunnel, he emerges in a small room with... Keitner. She holds him at gunpoint while telling him that it wasn't her choice to release him, but that she needs his help. She tells him that Rifleman Bank is the center for Belltower's special operations, and that Megan and the kidnapped Sarif scientists were originally transported there being being shipped off again and that Burke is conducting an unknown operation in the lower levels. She asks Adam to investigate the base and find out what Burke is doing in the detention camp before sending him on his way.

Adam heads down to the detention camp and opens the security mainframe. Keitner calls and tells him to get to the interrogation wing. Adam heads down and finds a female prisoner who reveals that other prisoners have been disappearing and the guards have been raping the women. Adam tells her to stay put until he stops Burke and comes back.

Down the hall, Adam eavesdrops on a conversation between Burke and a young scientist named [[CallForward Gary Savage]]. Burke receives word that Adam escaped, and discuss medical tests on the prisoners before he and Savage leave. Adam relays the information to Keitner, who tells him to follow Burke. Adam replies that he can't do that without passing through a retinal eye scan, and she suggests breaking into his office and finding a new set of augmented eyes that were shipped in for him.

Adam eventually finds the office and takes the eyes. She tells him to bring the eyes to her associate Quinn, who can fool the retinal scanner to think the eyes are connected to an optic nerve.

On the lower deck, Adam meets Quinn, who [[ChekhovsGun thanks him for fixing the malfunctioning pod]] and fixes the eyes to work with the scanner. Adam heads back to the scanner and uses the eye, which allows him to pass through.

He heads down an elevator and Keitner tells him that she needs proof of Belltower's atrocities to take to Interpol. He passes through the restricted wing and finds barely-coherent female test subjects before stumbling upon Savage's assistant Tiffany Kavanaugh, who is working in the laboratory. Adam confronts her with Burke's actions, and she reveals that she didn't know what she was getting into when she joined. He asks her to help him shut the project down, and she reluctantly agrees if he helps her escape on a submersible. He tells her to carry as much evidence as she can carry while he unlocks the sub from the camp control centre.

On the way back up, the elevator stops and Keitner reveals that Burke has discovered his location. He accesses a hatch in the roof just before her comms fail, and he heads back to her control room. He makes it back and discovers that she was mortally wounded after taking out a group of Burke's men. She tells him that Burke is cleaning house and is planning to flood the prisoner cells and the lab. She begs him to help Kavanaugh escape and take the evidence to Interpol before she passes away.

Adam makes it to the command centre and, through some creativity, [[TakeAThirdOption manages to cutoff the flow of the gas into the cells and lab]] before unlocking the sub for Kavanaugh. The mysterious voice contacts him and expresses surprise and admiration for his solution, then tells him to go after Burke, who has returned to the main base.

Burke radios Adam and reveals that he knows who he is. He goads the agent with Keitner's death and dares him to attack. Quinn then calls to reveal that he's getting out of the area but wishes him luck. Adam sneaks past more troops on his way to the cargo bay.

Once there, he makes his way to the upper level and takes out [[ShutUpHannibal the ranting Burke]] and the other enemies in the room.

The mysterious voice tells him to return to Docking Bay 2, and says it ordered the other soldiers away. It tells him that another boat is heading to the location where Megan was sent and to get there immediately. Adam makes it to the bay, where he finds out that Quinn is the mysterious voice. The mechanic tells him that Quinn is just an alias, and that he was manipulating Keitner to help Adam.

He tells the agent that he did a great thing helping Kavanuagh get out, and then explains that a large group of detainees is being sent to another black ops site where Megan is likely to be. Quinn tells Adam to get into another stasis pod and then explains that another helicopter will be coming to pick the pod up under the guise of another detainee.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Keitner's troops were green, while Burke's group wears red-and-black uniforms.

* DownloadableContent

* EarlyBirdCameo: Gary Savage appears for a single scene as a researcher

* InterserviceRivalry: Between the rank-and-file Belltower soldiers and the more heavily agumented Spec-Ops troops on the Rifleman Bank Station, as a reflection of the tensions between Keitner and Burke.

* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Two of the soldiers in the base mention this verbatim in regards to the Hung Hua Hotel in Hengsha, which offers "full-service girls... if you know what I mean."

* PacifistRun: It's possible to complete the mission without killing anyone (or upgrading your augs).
* PragmaticVillainy: When informed that some of the soldiers on base are raping the women prisoners, Burke orders a complete stop and promises to make examples of those who don't comply. He only does this because the trauma of sexual assault might be one of the variables that makes said women incompatible with Hyron.
* PrisonRape: The soldiers in Rifleman Bank have been subjecting the detainees to this.
* RestartAtLevelOne: Adam's augs are disabled at the beginning of the mission, although this averted soon after when he finds his harness and a handful of Praxis kits. There's even an achievement for forgoing the usage of any upgrades ("Factory Zero").

* ShutUpHannibal: Burke's rant to Adam can be interrupted by knocking him out or killing him.

* TotallyRadical: PlayedWith. Quinn/the mysterious voice refers to Adam as "bratan" and "chuvak", the Russian slang words for "bro" and "dude" respectively.

* VerbalTic: Quinn often refers to Adam (and presumably others) by the term "bratan". However, this is also a subversion - he only does this when his voice is masked and after Adam has discovered who he really is at the end of the mission, so as not to spoil his identity.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Gary Savage believes that Bob Page will put an end to the human experimentation in Rifleman Bank Station when he hears it, not knowing that Page is indirectly behind the whole project to begin with.

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: An email can be found from the (enemy) base chaplain, which reveals that many rank-and-file troopers have been coming to him with ethical concerns about what they've seen and done.

* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Two of the soldiers in the base mention this verbatim in regards to the Heng Hua Hotel in Hengsha, which offers "full-service girls... if you know what I mean."

As the helicopter delivers the stasis pod to the departing ship, Quinn and a mysterious voice ([[Recap/DeusExIcarusEffect referred to as Janus]]) have a conversation about Adam's actions. [[SequelHook They consider his value for the "oncoming storm", and Janus says that Janus will know how to find him if he followed Quinn's instructions...]]

He tells the agent has done a great thing helping Kavanuagh get out, and tells Adam that a large group of detainees is being sent to another black ops site where Megan is likely to be. Quinn tells Adam to get another stasis pod and says another helicopter will be coming to pick him up under the guise of another detainee.