Mission 13:
Hunting Down The Final Clues
The VTOL passes over downtown Prague as sentry bots and police officers patrol the streets. Adam asks what's happening, and Chikane says that the police instituted martial law due to riots in Golem City spilling out across the country. He tells Adam that no one but the State Police are allowed out on the streets, and that they have itchy trigger-fingers.
He tells Adam that Miller is waiting for him at the office, but that he'll probably get shot if he tries to go out alone on the streets.
After disembarking at the helipad, Adam asks Vega to meet at the abandoned LIMB clinic where they met before. As he exits out into the street, a pair of officers gun down a citizen. After examining his body, they realize that he's not augmented and promptly freak out before their superior orders them to throw the body in the truck. He sneaks past armed officers, bots and vehicles occupying the city streets and eventually finds the clinic.
Inside, he gives her the Orchid sample and asks her to analyze it while wondering why it didn't effect him. She says she'll get some of the Collective's researchers to take a look at it, and says that they're also analyzing the information he retrieved from the Palisade Bank. Alex tells him that things are going to get much worse, and says that the end result will be augs getting thrown into ghetto cities like Golem. Adam responds that if that happens, it will make Nathaniel Brown rich. Vega asks what Brown has to do with things, and Adam brings up the coincidental mentions of Brown that Page made in the NSN server, and that Marchenko made at the G.A.R.M. facility. Vega says that it must be connected, and that Brown's next step to promote his "Safe Harbor Initiative" will be in London.
Adam says that he has a contact who may be able to give him more information, but that he needs to talk to Miller first. Vega warns him to be careful, pointing out that he could be walking into another trap before he leaves.
As he heads out of the clinic, Adam receives an SOS signal from the Samizdat newspaper. When he ventures down to the sewers to check it out, he finds from some of the journalists that their leaders, K and Bones, were caught by the police and are being held at a police station at the northern end of the city. Adam is forced to walk through the subway line due to no trains running, and eventually reaches the station. He busts both men out of their cells and gets them to safety at a nearby building, and they tell him after that they're planning to flee the country immediately.
Adam also takes the time to head back to Koller's safehouse at the Time Machine, and the doctor agrees to install the neuroplasticity calibrator. Now armed with systems that are fully upgraded and not suffering from power loss, Adam continues on to TF29. Inside, he finds Auzenne, who asks him what's happening. He tells her that she should be home, and she says that she was just trying to help. After telling him a story about a female augmented girl who attacked her during the Incident and subsequently jumped out a window, he tells her to watch out for herself and stay safe.
He reports to Miller's office afterwards, and the latter expresses relief that he's okay. He tells Adam that he's been on the phone trying to clear him for safe passage, and that whatever he stumbled onto at G.A.R.M. is huge. Adam accuses him of tipping off his presence to Marchenko and the mercenaries, causing Miller to react in anger. Miller tells him that he's out of line, and that he sent Adam after ARC because they were viable suspects.
Miller tells him that he's an "insubordinate cock-up", and inadvertantly reveals that Manderley was the one who signed the transfer papers to put Adam on TF29 in the first place. He also tells him that he sent a strike team to the facility after Adam left, and that the mercs had cleared out and trashed the place. Adam tells him about Marchenko's conversation that he overheard, and how the leader was finalizing a deal with the Dvali. Miller orders him to investigate the Dvali's stronghold in their territory, an old movie theater, and talk to Radich Nikoladze in order to ascertain what Marchenko has planned.
Adam heads out of the and towards the Dvali area. As he gets close, he notices a massive police blockade set up near the theater. The original Eliza contacts him and says that she is aware how bad things are on the streets. She says that she is going to help him, and blows up a nearby circuit box so he can slip in unnoticed. She tells him that she doesn't want to lose him again before hanging up.
He heads through a Dvali-owned apartment complex and eventually reaches the theater. After sneaking inside, Adam finds Nikoladze and Otar Botkeveli arguing about the former's agreement with Marchenko. Otar tries to reason with Radich to think about what's good for business, and says that poisoning the delegates at London's Apex Convention Centre with the Orchid isn't good for their reputation. In response, Radich tells him to get out of his office.
Adam quickly radios Miller and reveals what Marchenko's plan is for Brown and the other delegates supporting the Safe Harbor Initiative. Miller promises to ready a team and warn the convention centre. After he hangs up, Adam calls Vega and reveals the same information to her. She realizes that Brown is the real target, and he tells her to go to his apartment so they can talk in person.
He sneaks back out of the theater and heads back to his apartment, where he finds Vega waiting for him. She tells him that they got everything wrong, and that Brown's plan to pass the Human Restoration Act won't make him rich, but will instead make him lose trillions of dollars. They realize that millions of Augs would be sent to places like Ra'biah, which would subsequently collapse (along with the Santeau Group) as a result, leaving the Illuminati free to continue their plans unopposed. He tells her that they'll have to act fast to save Brown and the other delegates from the Illuminati.
Vega also tells him that the researchers analyzing the Orchid have revealed that it's not a bioweapon, but a gene-altering drug that was originally intended to stop aug rejection symptoms, but that its current form is unstable and kills anyone who is injected with it. Adam asks her to stay at the apartment while he goes to London and tries to enact a rescue plan. He calls Miller after, who tells him that MacReady is mobilizing a team at the airfield and to meet him there.
When Adam arrives at the airfield, he instead finds Chikane, who says that Miller went on ahead with MacReady to mobilize their teams and for him to meet them there. He asks if Adam is ready to go.
Adam replies in the affirmative, and they set out to save Brown and the delegates...
Tropes:
- Chekhov's Gun: If both of the secondary objectives were completed during the prologue mission (disable the signal jammer/save Singh), the Jinn will fill up a storage container located at the end of the pedestrian bridge near the Prague Police Station. Looting it will net you a ton of items, including a Lancer and other consumables.
- Chekhov's Gunman: If Eliza was helped during the "01011000" sidequest, she will cause a distraction so that Adam can get into Dvali territory unnoticed.
- Continuity Nod: Depending on certain sidequests that have been completed before coming back to Prague for the third time (namely, The Golden Ticket and Cult of Personality), several of the people involved in those quests will appear when you visit the sewers during the Samizdat SOS sidequest.
- Developer's Foresight:
- Depending on how you handled the Dvalis earlier in the game, the cutscene that plays when you get to Radich's office changes. It even acknowledges if you took out Radich before leaving Prague for the second time, and if you did that and satisfied all of Otar's requests, he will be very friendly towards you.
- Conversely, killing both Radich and Otar before you arrive in Prague for the third time changes a number of ambient conversations and situations in the gameworld. Going to the Red Queen nightclub reveals that there's a power vacuum in Prague(and it is suggested that Masa Sedlak, if she's still alive, has taken over the Dvali family), which is also acknowledged by part of Eliza Cassan's newscast in the game's ending. Even better, if you go to the theatre before heading to TF29 and getting the briefing from Miller, and if Otar and Radich are dead, the dialogue when Adam accesses the latter's computer and reports back to base are different. Adam allays Miller's concerns by saying he was following up on a lead, and immediately tells him about the plan to attack the Safe Harbor summit in London. When Miller reacts in shock and asks he didn't say anything before, Adam claims that he's been running on little sleep trying to find leads for the case.
- Despite the fact that the Palisade Bank's front doors are permanently locked, it is possible to get back into the bank through the corporate vaults (accessed through the garage). Doing so reveals a unique set of obstacles (multiple security robots and laser grids set-up).
- Driven to Suicide: Auzenne tells Adam that a female augmented patient she was trying to help leaped out of the office window to her death after going berserk and attacking her.
- Heel–Face Turn: If you won the social battle against Otar early in the game and did all of his associated tasks for him (as well as knocked out or killed Radich before visiting Prague for the third time), he'll welcome you in with open arms and tell you everything about what Radich did with the shipment.
- Meaningful Background Event: Madame Photographe (The Dragon to Elizabeth DuClare, and the assailant who murdered G.A.R.M. scientist Vadim Orlov on her orders) can be seen staring at Adam and Vega
from a passageway when they meet inside the LIMB Clinic just after he arrives back in Prague, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it event. - My Greatest Failure: Dr. Auzenne regards her failure to help an augmented girl who went berserk during the Aug Incident (and jumped out a window right afterwards) as this.
- Not So Stoic: Miller finally loses his cool and accuses Adam of being an "insubordinate cock-up" who's only present on the team because his superior officers ordered it. He finally cools down after realizing what he said.
- Plotline Death: If the player doesn't follow through on the end of the deal with Otar earlier in the game, Koller will be found dead in his workshop, with a broken mirror with the blood-smeared words "HE HAD A DEAL" stuck to his chest.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Otar opposes the plan to smuggle the Orchid for Marchenko not due to any moral convictions, but because aiding terrorism is bad for business.
- The Reveal:
- Adam discovers that his presence on Task Force 29 was not as cut-and-dry as he thought, and that Manderley was the one who authorized his addition to the team in the first place. It's also the first indication Adam has that the Illuminati aren't just pulling TF29's strings, but his as well.
- The true extent of the Illuminati's plan is revealed, in that they're going to poison Brown and the other delegates supporting the Safe Harbor Initiative with the Orchid so that the Human Restoration Act will pass, thus driving all augs into ghettos and eliminating any threats to their power.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: K and Bones (the heads of Samizdat newspaper) indicate that they're all planning to flee Prague and set up an office in another country.
- A Storm Is Coming: Adam indicates to Vega that things are about to get much worse due to ARC being framed.
