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| - The mission starts with Agent 47 on the pier. Head towards the two guards standing outside the elevator. Make sure to hug the wall as you approach the elevator, otherwise you will be caught on the security camera. Enter the elevator and ride up to the party floor. Head past the waiter and around the balcony. Go past the spas (you'll notice the target Chad Bingham in one of the spas here) and into the little cavern with the big pool. Sometimes there is a guard standing at his post in front of the door, sometimes there isn't. If there is, drop a coin somewhere nearby to get him distracted. Run through the door and take a right. Follow the corridor around through the double doors. There will be a couple making out here, but they will not be alarmed that you are in a restricted area. They will stop kissing when you arrive and the woman will gesture for you to follow her. Ignore her, as she is the ? person from the loading screen: the "best Agent" mentioned in the opening cut-scene by Alexander Cayne. If you do follow her, she will attempt to kill you. If you wait until she attacks and then dispose of her, she counts as one of the targets and you receive a $100,000 bonus. If you kill her right as she enters the nearby room, she counts as a civilian and no bonus is received (check the ? wiki page for more details). It is entirely possible to complete the mission without killing her, however, as she won't attack you in an open space. She will walk through the doorway into the sitting room, shutting the door behind her and staying in the room for the rest of the level. Further down the hallway, there is a single door. Check the map; if a guard is through the next door, then wait in the room next to you for him to leave or take him out. If you check the map and a guard is approaching around the corridor, hide in the same room and avoid him (or come up behind him as he passes by for a disguise). Once the path is clear, go through the single door at the end and down the long staircase. You'll come out to a small balcony and a massive rock outcropping. If you look up, you can see the glass bottom of the spa that your target is relaxing in. Since there are no guards that check you for weapons, you can bring your Silverballer (with a silencer) or some other silent weapon and take out the glass bottom (use a silenced SLP .40 if you need a lot of ammunition). A few innocents will be notched onto your rating at the end but it is a fairly easy method for taking out Bingham (this method will not block you from getting Silent Assassin rating, but you might earn less money due to the damage control). One drawback to this method is that often the guards below on the pier will investigate the balcony area. If this happens, you are at risk. To be safe, get a good disguise, observe, do it when no one is looking and leave ASAP once you are done. There is another method, that gets you a guard disguise more easily: At the beginning, go right into the Pier Inside. Enter the room ahead of you in sneak mode. Sneak up behind the Christmas guard (this guard does not have peripheral vision, so he won't see you) and sedate / human shield and K.O. him. Now take his disguise and dump the body over the rail. Turn off the laser sensor before you go to the staff elevator. In the staff floor, get out of the elevator and go into the room right of you. Close the door, sedate the bodyguard and take his clothes (nobody will find him, as long as you don't retrace your path). Now go to the staff terrace. Shoot the bottom of the spa and get back in. Take the stairs to the second floor and proceed with the rest of the mission. Alternately, you can skip the shooting part and deal with Lorne de Havilland and the female assassin first, and then kill Bingham by the method below. On the second floor, collect the security tape before doing anything else, then you won't have to worry about CCTV. In the room with the security tape, ensure that there is only one guard; if not, harass the guard closest to you to make him go away. Now switch off the light. When the guard goes to turn on the light, quickly steal the CCTV tape and move away. The guard will start shooting you if you run or are late by even a fraction of a second. If killing innocents isn't your thing, there is a much easier and quieter way to dispose of Bingham. Instead of going down the stairs and shooting out the jacuzzi, enter the main party room and speak with the Bartender. He will give you a bottle of an aphrodisiac which you can use to spike Bingham's martini sitting on the bar. Don't use your sedative/poison syringe, as this is impossible to do so without getting your cover blown. The aphrodisiac won't attract too much attention, considering this is a soirée held at a porn tycoon's house (a bottle of the same aphrodisiac is also available in the room in between the bar and the kitchen, you may need disguise to freely access these areas, you can drug this one, add to Chad's drink and your job is done). Eventually the waiter in the white tuxedo jacket will bring the martini to Bingham and he will promptly drink it. From time to time, a woman in a red bikini will sit down next to Bingham and flirt with him. If he hasn't taken the aphrodisiac, he will hit her and she will get up and leave only to come back not long afterwards. If he has taken it, he and the woman will go into the back hallway into a bedroom for some privacy. After a VERY long lap dance, the woman will return to the party while Bingham will go down the long staircase to the cliff side balcony to have a cigarette. This is an ideal place to kill him, as there is no one around to witness the crime. The patrolling guard doesn't travel far in his rounds and he only stops at the top of the staircase. Eliminate Bingham in whatever way you see fit, as long as his body doesn't go over the railing. Leaving his corpse on the balcony all but assures that it will remain undiscovered. It's possible to make his death look like an accident by pushing or throwing him over the railing, because civilians below will detect the body above the ice and alert the guards, thus resulting in a deduction of rating.
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