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| - A last-minute tip from an undercover agent sent Jensen's strike team racing to Dubai. They hoped to arrest a dangerous arms dealer, yet midway through the operation, gold-masked, augmented mercenaries ambushed everyone.
One week later, Jensen returned to his home base in Prague, arriving alone by train to meet someone in secret. Alex Vega, a member of an International network of activists, hackers, and spies who call themselves the Juggernaut Collective, told him that his team was being manipulated.
She was handing Jensen a listening device to plant in TF29's holographic conferencing system when terrorist bombs exploded...
- Back in Prague, an irate Miller confronted Jensen before taking off for Golem City. His departure offered Jensen the chance to break into Miller's apartment, in order to investigate him.
Finding and stealing Miller's NSN card enabled Jensen to see more of the man's earlier conversation with his boss, Joseph Manderley. But what Jensen saw was shocking: A third conspirator ordering Manderley to kill Rucker using something called "the Orchid."
Jensen told Vega to alert Janus, leader of the Juggernaut Collective, while he continued his TF29 investigation by meeting Smiley...
- TF29's forensic specialist had discovered something new by the time Jensen checked in with him: The mechanism used to detonate the terrorists' bombs came from an analog wrist watch. This pointed to a local watchmaker named Nomad Staněk.
Jensen tracked Staněk to a Red Light District bar and got him to admit that his daughter had made the bombs, but only because she'd been coerced by some "unstable friends."
TF29 was taking Nomad into custody when Vega called with news: the elusive Janus was willing to meet...
- The year is 2029 - two years after a madman's attempt to teach the world a lesson sent millions of mechanically-enhanced people into a killing frenzy.
Tensions between "Augs" and "Naturals" have exploded since then. Extremists in both camps use violence to make their voices heard. Black-market sales of weapons and augments have reached unprecedented heights, while the United Nations debates extreme measures to end the societal divide.
Against the backdrop of chaos, one man will struggle to expose its true source: Adam Jensen, Interpol's newest counter-terrorism agent...
- En route to TF29's offices, Jensen received an urgent call from Vega. The bug he'd placed in the NSN's motherboard had uncovered signs of a conspiracy!
Vega played the recording to Jensen when they met inside an abandoned L.I.M.B. clinic. It sounded as if Miller had received orders to frame ARC for multiple attacks, including a break-in at the pharmaceutical giant, VersaLife. Jensen told Vega to investigate the break-in while he met his boss at TF29's private helipad.
Apparently, Miller wanted Jensen to fly to Golem City to arrest ARC's terrorist leader...
- Jensen had orders to bring Talos Rucker in alive. But the man who'd promised to lead him through ARC headquarters had been arrested in a police raid, forcing Jensen to infiltrate the place on his own.
Halfway there, he encountered Viktor Marchenko, another member of ARC, who claimed Rucker and his group were peaceful - while also making it clear that Jensen would get hurt if he didn't turn around.
Jensen soldiered on regardless, eventually confronting Rucker in person. But just as the doctor-turned-activist was revealing who the real terrorists were, someone - or something - killed him...
- Back in Prague, an irate Miller confronted Jensen before taking off for Golem City. Jensen decided to check in with Smiley, who told him that the mechanism used to detonate the terrorists' bombs had come from an analog wrist watch. This pointed to a local watchmaker, Nomad Staněk.
Jensen tracked Staněk to a Red Light District bar and confronted him. The watchmaker admitted that his daughter had made the bombs, but only because she'd been coerced by "unstable friends."
Leaving Nomad in TF29's custody, Jensen went to search Miller's apartment...
- Having learned that mercenaries planned to frame ARC for another attack, Jensen returned to Prague. He still needed to learn where and when it would take place.
Unfortunately Martial Law was in effect, so getting around Prague wasn't easy. Regardless, he learned what he needed from Dvali gangsters, while Vega uncovered a motive: conspirators wanted the Human Restoration Act to pass, but businessman Nathaniel Brown was lobbying against them.
Taking Brown out by attacking his convention in London could kill two birds with one stone. Unless Jensen and TF29 stepped in.
- Jensen returned to Růžička Station as ordered, only to discover that State Police had forcibly ejected TF29's forensic specialist from the scene. Apparently, Smiley had spotted evidence they didn't want the Task Force to see.
Jensen acquired the device anyway and was bringing it to TF29 for analysis when Miller called with a new lead. One that would put Jensen inside Golem City, Prague's notorious Aug ghetto.
Before he could get anywhere, however, TF29's new psychologist had to clear him for active duty...
- Shocking evidence stored inside the VersaLife vault revealed more twists than Jensen expected: his ex-girlfriend, Megan Reed, may have created the poison that killed Rucker! A voice recording between Megan and Page implied that samples of a highly unstable experimental drug had been shipped to a Swiss Alps facility named GARM.
- After checking in at work, Jensen planted Vega's listening device inside the NSN's motherboard, despite the fact that his boss, Jim Miller, was using the holographic system. Miller then order Jensen to his office and told him to look into the train station attack.
Doing so wouldn't be easy. State Police were claiming jurisdiction - playing politics and getting in the way. They believed an organization named the Augmented Rights Coalition had orchestrated the attack, but Miller needed Jensen to prove it.
To Do so, he'd have to return to the scene of the crime...
- Jensen's augmentations had been damaged during the bombing and he needed a specialist to fix them. But what should have been a quick detour turned into a lot more when he found Dvali gangsters in Koller's shop.
Koller did get Jensen's augments back on line, though - and in the process, discovered some highly eperimental augments hidden inside the agent's systems. using them could be dangerous, unless Jensen retrieved a neuroplasticity calibrator from elsewhere in the city...
- A panicked call from a desperate father sent Jensen to a rundown housing complex. There, he found Allison Staněk, founder of a tech religious cult, preparing to lead her followers in an "Ascension" ritual.
When confronted, Allison freely admitted making the bombs that blew up Růžička Station - as a favor for Viktor Marchenko. She also said she'd sent hundreds more bombs to Marchenko's Swiss Alps base.
Luckily, Jensen convinced her to delay her Ascension, anticipating that it would kill her, and had TF29 agents arrest her...
- Jensen's meeting with Janus didn't go as planned: the hacker identified Bob Page, the CEO of VersaLife, as the third NSN conspirator and was urging Jensen to break into a VersaLife vault when security drones arrived, forcing Jensen to flee.
He'd barely escaped the ambush when a frantic Nomad Staněk got in touch with him. The watchmaker had discovered that his daughters life was in jeopardy. Jensen needed to come now to save her!
Before he could though, Vega called in. VersaLife was moving crucial evidence out of Prague's Property Bank tonight. Jensen needed to acquire it before that happened, but unfortunately, he couldn't do both missions...
- In 2025, GARM had been an alpine geological research facility. Now Jensen believed it might be harboring terrorists. He convinced Miller to send him and Chikane on a recon mission to find out, but somehow, the terrorists learned he was coming. Gold-masked shadow operatives watched in curiosity as Viktor Marchenko injected him with the Orchid and left him to die.
Except, Jensen didn't die.
Escaping the base several hours later and reconnecting with Chikane, he raced back to Prague, positive that another attack was coming...
- Miller’s departure from Prague offered the perfect chance to investigate him – which Jensen did by breaking into his apartment. Turns out, Miller had a secret room. And he’d left his NSN card inside it.
Using the card enabled Jensen to see more of Miller’s earlier conversation with his boss, Joseph Manderley. But what Jensen saw next was shocking enough to require a meeting with Janus, leader of the Juggernaut Collective.
Seems a third conspirator ordered Manderley to kill Rucker using something called “the Orchid…”
- Janus then revealed that GARM was owned by Belltower Associates, a private military company that went bankrupt during the Aug Incident. No doubt the gold-masked shadow operatives who had ambushed TF29 in Dubai would be there...
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