Reyes Vidal - No longer A Mystery (Official Thread)

Adam rescues Sarif's niece Nina Freeman from being kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel and Russian mafia enforcers. This happens shortly after you kill Barrett, before going to Hengsha. They cut off some of her fingers. He kills some guys and she is terrified, they fly back to Detroit. She and her mother Natalie, Sarif's sister, are against augmentations and don't want anything to do with him. The mother is VP and in charge of PR for Humanity Front.

Then Taggart gives a speech and someone in the crowd uses an aug modeled after the Typhoon, there are many casualities. The attacker says Deus Ex and paints a target symbol with blood. Jensen investigates the scene and runs into FBI agent Dredger, an old acquaintance, there. Later Jensen, Sarif and Pritchard watch footage of the incident and the symbol reminds Adam of his SWAT tattoo he got in 2018, everyone in his unit had one. After that Zhao calls and invites Sarif to a meeting with biotech companies and Taggart in London.

Then it cuts to Jensen infiltrating a hotel in Montreal where Pritchard followed the signal of the data-stream of the stolen Typhoon plans to. There he is attacked out of the shower by his would-be gf with the augmented boobs, arms and legs, Lady Katrina Sutherland from Britannia Resolutions, her own little security corporation (she's the only employee). She worked for Belltower before. They get shot at and flee together, then they are attacked by Quincy Durant, Jensen's former SWAT commander. He's also the one who attacked the crowd earlier. He got heavily injured in 2020 by an augmented criminal named Tyrell Banks, who Adam killed afterwards. He received augs but told Adam he should have let him die, he was not fond of them. Malik comes to the rescue, shoots at him with the chopper and he flees.

Back in Detroit Sutherland receives repairs and upgrades from Sarif. They talk about why the data led to her: Sutherland is pursuing a rogue squad of augmented mercenaries and they paid the hacker Windmill to redirect the search to her in hopes Jensen would kill her or vice versa. The mercs stole a lot of firepower from Sharp Edge, a PMC, and their leader is Durant. There's a flashback to 2021, Jensen was the team leader then, when Durant came in as back-up, now fully augmented and just killed everyone like mad. Durant got his own team and they got bad, killed half of Detroit's gangsters and pretty much ran the underworld. In the aftermath of the Mexican Town riots the teams had a shootout which was covered up to save the department embarassement and Jensen resigned. (The game never mentions Durant, only that Jensen left after he refused to kill the augmented kid, even though he was ordered to and Haas took the shot. Durant mentions this unwillingness in a flashback but says nothing about Haas.) Jensen thought he killed him.

Jensen invites Sutherland to his apartment and they have a drink and chat how she got into the work. She had a riding accident but the insurance didn't pay because she drank alcohol before the race. An MI-5 agent visited her in the hospital, apparently they had their eye on her for a while, and she became a field agent. She did that for 10 years, then worked 18 months for Belltower but didn't like their methods and quit. They are about to kiss when Pritchard calls because of an emergency.

Three scientists from Sarif Industries were killed. They were housed in secure locations after the attack 6 months ago to continue their research. They get the rest to safety and think Dr. Marcovic might be in danger as well. Two people are sent to her clinic to escort her but are killed by Durant. Jensen and Sutherland go there as well but she's been kidnapped. Pritchard tells that homeland security commandeered the investigation when Jensen was out of action from Detroit PD. They assumed protection for the scientists and knew about the safe houses. The data was downloaded from a terminal in their Detroit offices 1 week ago, before Durant's attacks. The information was accessed by FBI agent Dredger. He was internal affairs and Jensen told him about Durant back in SWAT.
Two days after Mexican Town Durant tried to kill him, Jensen was sure Dredger had set him up but had no proof. They find him and Sutherland makes him talk by dangling him from a skysraper roof. Dredger and other parties used Durant in black ops, made everyone believe he was dead after Jensen dealt with him. He was supposed to do industrial espionage on Sarif Industries but started killing everything that moves, was unstable. Jensen asks Dredger who he works for, he says the rulers of the world and then dies due to a Dragon-Fire implant. Sutherland has seen it before, it's used by intelligence agencies to keep informers and double-agents in check.

They go to the Delaney Car Plant and rescue Marcovic. She was made to upgrade Durant's augs. He surprises them and tells Adam that both of them are not human anymore but deus ex machina. He says that nobody is controlling him anymore thanks to the doc and people are afraid of augmented ones because they make them obsolete and if they can't control augs they have to destroy them - it's the begin of the human revolution. Shooting erupts, unmarked gunships arrive and Adam gets Marcovic to safety.

Back in his apartment he talks to Sarif over vidcom. Homeland security ordered a media blackout and want to speak to Jensen but Sarif told them it will only be possible after they return from London. Since he has friends at Picus and could let easily slip the department had been infiltrated they agreed. Jensen takes a shower while Sutherland talks to Sarif, then joins him. She will fly with them to London tomorrow, Jensens says they should make the good-bye a long one and they have sex. In the meantime the car plant is investigated, Durant is still alive and kills the agents.

In London Sarif talks with Zhao and Taggart. They want to convince him to work together to control the augmentation development. Sarif disagrees and points out that they seem to know a lot about his recent problems and their causes. Katrina and Adam are outside and talk. Sarif was impressed with her and offered her a job. She declined but asks if Adam wants to join her company, he declines as well because he wants to find the killers of Megan and the others first, maybe after that he'd be willing but doesn't expect her to wait around for him. Sarif comes out and tells Adam they're leaving, she says she might make an exception and be patient. Malik flies them back, she briefly talks about how Sutherland was into him but knows he blew it, Adam replies sometimes these things just don't work out and then someone hacks into their systems and fires at them. It's Durant and Jensen jumps on his plane, Durant taunts him that Sarif turned him into his own killing machine and they crash. They're still in London, Zhao gets informed of the attack but says Sarif didn't want to be a part of their revolution and sends no help. Pritchard calls Jensen and tells him that homeland security was attacked at the car plant but didn't tell anybody, that the airship he just crashed was reported missing and tracks down Durant to an old power station.

There they fight, Durant tells Jensen to kill him and he discovers Sutherland. She's bound and has a lot of frag mines slung around her. Durant kidnapped her after they had left. They kiss and she tells him that the device is motion-sensitive and highly protected. If she moves or he tries to defuse it, it'll blow up. It is also linked to Durant's neural network, detonated with a single thought. If he dies she dies too. He tells Jensen to put the gun to his own head and maybe he'll let her live. She tells him not to but he does it. Durant commands him to pull the trigger and then she jumps free of her chains towards him and explodes. The last thing Durant says is "What is it with you and women, Jensen? You just can't keep them..." Then he is finished off by Jensen. Malik arrives and urges Jensen to leave before the authorities come.

Back in Detroit Sarif tells Adam it's just the beginning, he still has to find out who killed Megan and her team and track down the rest of the mercs. Malik and Jensen look at the police clearing up Durant's damage, people protest against augs. He muses if this will be how everything will end, in blood and deaths. Malik tells him he as to stop hit, he has to make the right choices. He says back on the flight from Mexico she told him he was a man, not a machine. She says he still is and Adam replies maybe it would be easier if he wasn't.