Deus Ex: Mankind Divided storyline

This page outlines the storyline of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by chapter. It only discusses story details from critical missions and ignores player choice, with the exception of detailing the events of both Confronting the Bomb-Maker and The Heist which cannot both happen simultaneously.

It also summarizes some of the events between Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided that occur in tie-in material. This can be found in the background section.

Background
At the end of Human Revolution, in late 2026, a signal broadcast from Panchaea sent millions of augmented people into a killing frenzy, an event that later became known as the Aug Incident. The Aug incident significantly fueled tensions between augmented and non-augmented people. Consequently, terrorism and black-market activity, perpetrated by both augmented and non-augmented people, reached unprecedented heights. Under these circumstances, Interpol forms an anti-terrorism team in 2027 called Task Force 29, who are given unprecedented jurisdiction to act around the world without having to answer to any national government.

Black Light
About a year after the Aug Incident, Adam Jensen wakes up in an Alaska facility. During the time since the Aug Incident, Jensen was considered dead or missing. Jensen eventually escapes the Alaska facility and returns to Detroit but, as a result of the public's new-found hostility towards augmentations, Sarif Industries had gone out of business. Still bent on finding the Illuminati conspirators, Jensen joins the Juggernaut Collective. The Collective, believing Task Force 29 to be a front for the Illuminati, intends to deploy Jensen into the Task Force's Central European Division in Prague, where the Collective believes is the heart of the Illuminati's infiltration of the Task Force. Jensen had just assisted the Task Force in their operations in Detroit, and had also received an informal invitation from the local Task Force commander, Christian Jarreau, to join the Task Force, making Jensen an optimal agent for achieving the Collective's goals.

Between the events of Black Light and Children's Crusade, Jensen joins Task Force 29's North American Division. Shortly afterwards, he is transferred to Task Force 29's Central European Division based in Prague.

Children's Crusade
Shortly after joining the TF29 division in Prague, Jensen goes on his first official mission with the team to rescue kidnapped children. However the team leader, Duncan MacReady, distrusts augs and leaves Jensen to guard the quiet evacuation point, something that does not go unnoticed by Jensen, while the rest head inside and start shooting. Hearing that the fight is increasing, Jensen learns it is not going well for the team, so he rushes in and starts taking out the terrorists, disobeying Miller's orders to stay at the VTOL. During the fight, he encounters an aug with both life-saving and strength enhancement augmentations, but before he can take him out, the aug escapes to another floor. The rest of the fighting over, MacReady starts to tell Jensen off for disobeying orders but the latter retorts there would not have been a team left if he had not helped out.

A quick search of the warehouse reveals many children being held there and MacReady concedes, welcoming Jensen aboard. Jensen then turns his attention back to the escaped aug and runs back up to the roof in time to see the aug break through a window and run down an alleyway. Just as Jensen jumps down to pursue, Miller orders him to stand down and to return to the warehouse because they do not want any TF29 agents being seen by cameras. Titus King, a Picus News reporter who had gotten there before the fighting due to a tip off, takes this chance to try and question Jensen outside the warehouse. However Jensen, ordered by Miller to only say “no comment” unless he wants to be fired, acquiesces and only tells King “no comment” until pressed about his thoughts on Pavel Mikulski, an anti-aug politician. Just as Jensen is about to fall for the bait, a fellow agent, Jana Niemi, runs in and tells King off before she and Jensen head back into the warehouse. MacReady then orders the team to continue looking through the warehouse while, outside, King broadcasts his anti-aug sentiments.

Inside, Niemi has MacReady and Jensen come over to check out a suspiciously secured door. MacReady gets ready to blast it open, but Jensen steps in and hacks it. Inside is a non-augmented woman and an augmented boy, both handcuffed to a bed. Niemi frees them and MacReady notices the boy seems to look pissed rather than scared. Just then, another terrorist appears and Jensen chases him to the warehouse floor when the terrorist realizes Jensen is also augmented. As he begins to ask why Jensen is fighting for Interpol, he is shot from behind by another agent, knocking him out. Meanwhile, Elias Chikane lets Miller know that he is flying off with a load of children and will be back for the team.

MacReady learns from Helena, the woman they just rescued, that the knocked out terrorist is named Bruno, and he starts to question why she was being held there. She explains she was forced to look after the children or else they would kill her daughter, who is being held captive in Glasshütte, an aug ghetto in Dresden. The team finds out her daughter had been augmented as she had been born blind, but the woman could not afford the operation, so she got involved with the wrong crowd who took her daughter when she was unable to pay. Bruno, having come around, brings the team’s attention to Marek, the young boy that was with Helena, revealing she knows why the boy was separated, but her daughter, Emilia, will be killed if she says anything. MacReady punches the terrorist to shut him up, only for Bruno to say to Marek that MacReady “should not take such drastic action, should he?” then repeats “drastic action” an obvious kill phrase. The boy starts to turn red before the warehouse explodes, killing Bruno, Marek, and Niemi.

King, who is still around, tries to capture footage of the bodies from the explosion, but Interpol is jamming his feed. Meanwhile, inside the destroyed warehouse, Jensen and MacReady argue over the latter’s suggestion to shoot every aug child to prevent anymore from dying, like Niemi. Miller stops the argument and orders Jensen to take some samples out to Chikane to take back to Smiley.

Outside, King is waiting and confronts Jensen, who does not fall for his antics. King gets more personal in his insults about augs, believing they need to be wiped out, but Jensen merely comments that if he keeps it up, he will arrest the reporter for interfering with police business. He then hands off the samples to Chikane and heads back inside as MacReady and Zoe Beaufort talk about Bruno and his decision to have the bomb inside Marek go off. MacReady then starts questioning Helena, saying that Niemi is dead because she did not say anything, before Jensen tells him to stop. Finishing up at the warehouse, Miller hands Helena off to Prague’s police to be taken to their HQ. Jensen tries to argue that they need to go after Emilia, but Miller says they cannot afford to go on wild goose chases as the team boards a VTOL. MacReady continues to show his resentment against augs until Zoe tells him if it was not for Jensen, more of the team would be dead. Meanwhile, Chang contacts Miller about a sample he just ran. It matched a breakout from Glasshütte and Jensen confirms the pictures match the escaped aug from the warehouse, sending the team to the aug ghetto.

In Dresden, they meet with the, who make it clear they are in charge and TF29 is to follow their rules, having confirmed with Miller’s bosses in Lyon about it beforehand. MacReady notices on a screen King interviewing Mikulski and calls Jensen’s attention to it. The interview is very one-sided, with both men playing off eachother’s anti-aug statements and that naturals need to act first to prevent being wiped out. Zoe comments they are crazy, while MacReady agrees with the men. The team then goes over a plan to find the girl and Miller decides that Jensen should go in solo as he will blend in.

Jensen enters Glasshütte and is informed by Alex Vega to look for the Glassworks, and to act surprised once Chang figures it out. As he nears the building, Chang figures it out and gives Jensen possible entrances to use, but he cannot see inside. Jensen sneaks in and realizes they are hoarding crates of weapons in the building and informs Miller, who tells him his primary objective is to now find out where the supplies are coming from. As he makes his way further inside, he sees the escaped aug talking to another and learns that his name is Sebastian and that a mole inside BPOL has warned them Interpol is waiting to break in. Sebastian orders them to get ready to move the weapons so Jensen takes this chance to act, throwing a concussion grenade into the group and holds Sebastian hostage, an arm blade at his throat. Sebastian calls Jensen a traitor and that the other augs will bring the war the naturals started, before ordering one of his men, Olivier, to tell another, Misha, to kill Emilia. Jensen knocks out Sebastian and kills the rest before chasing after Olivier, knowing he will lead him to the girl, but is losing ground. Alex radios him instructions to catch up, resulting in Jensen crashing through a window where Misha is, and Jensen quickly disposes of him just as Olivier runs in. Jensen swiftly takes him out as well before hearing a voice call out further inside the apartment. He finds Emilia huddled in a corner and carries her out as he lets Miller know he found her.

Sebastian escaped again, so the team flies back to TF29’s HQ and has Emilia put in a separate room while the team talks about the mission. Zoe and MacReady get into another argument over augs while Miller talks to Jensen about how odd it was that he seemed to be able to know where he was going in Dresden, but Jensen plays if off and Miller gathers the team in the briefing room. Miller informs them those in Lyon are helping to come up with a plan, and to concentrate on Sebastian and be careful around any of the rescued children until they can be examined. He then states that Helena and Emilia will be moved once questioned and MacReady makes a remark that leaves Jensen privately thinking if there is a mole, it cannot be MacReady because he is so transparent. Meanwhile, King continues his anti-aug reports where he calls for their massacre, which starts to cause violence in and around Glasshütte. Sebastian, somewhere in the aug ghetto, notices this fighting and says everything is perfect before getting a call that lets him know Emilia will be moved soon.

At TF29 HQ, Miller tasks Jensen with talking to Emilia, hoping to get information out of her. He walks into her room to find King’s report on loop in her room, upsetting her and she starts to become angry. Jensen gets a call from Alex, and he leaves the room as Alex informs him the mole in TF29 knew Marek was going to blow himself up and more calls are going on between Glasshütte and TF29, but no names yet. Jensen finds Miller, who asks how the talk went, but Jensen points out they will have better luck if mother and daughter are reunited. Miller agrees, having just received orders to take the girl to Prague’s police HQ to pick up Helena before heading to a safehouse. Smiley then asks for Jensen to come see something he found.

In Smiley’s lab, he reveals that one of the DNA samples they got at the warehouse is related to Titus King. Jensen asks him how sure he is of the results, and Smiley responds it is real. Jensen heads to his locker to prepare to leave and lets Alex know of the information Smiley just found. Miller shows up to ask if he is ready as the car is outside with the route already programmed in and tells him to make sure to put the girl in the backseat.

Jensen retrieves Emilia before driving them to the police HQ to pick up Helena. As Jensen drives them to the safehouse, Alex suddenly tells Jensen to get out of the car, but before he can, someone shoots Helena in the head and the car is hit with a small explosion, throwing Jensen out of the vehicle and rendering him unconscious. A vehicle pulls up and several augs get out and retrieve an unconscious Emilia, then ask if they should kill Jensen, but Sebastian tells them no and they leave with the girl. Jensen comes around and checks the ruined vehicle to find Emilia is gone.

TF29 arrives and checks out the crash scene, but so far have no leads and Miller asks for Jensen to run through what happened. Jensen tells him, deducing that the bomb on the vehicle had been just big enough to get him out of the way and keep Emilia alive, leading him to ask how they got a bomb on one of TF29’s vehicles to begin with. Miller tells him it was not one of theirs but one from Interpol itself, and they are investigating on their end. He then sends Jensen home to get some rest. Back home, Alex calls to say she still does not who the mole is, only they set up the ambush, then tells him the Juggernaut Collective know there is a link between the Illuminati and Titus King, so if Jensen wants answers, to search his studio while the reporter is in Dresden. In Glasshütte, Sebastian talks to several augmented children, telling them that the rest of the world will never accept them and to strike back while, outside the ghetto’s walls, King continues to run his broadcast, saying that naturals are at war with augs.

Back at TF29’s HQ, Miller points out that King has refused to move his broadcast, making the rioting worse around Glasshütte and their team is on standby in Prague as the terrorists could strike there. In Glasshütte, Sebastian has the children follow him into a building where a stockpile of weapons are while another places a bomb. Jensen, having broken into King’s studio with Alex’s help, finds and hacks into King’s servers and learns something astonishing: Sebastian is King’s son and was augmented to save his life. However, during the Aug Incident, he lost control and accidentally killed his mother. Jensen begins to download the files to Alex when an explosion goes off along Glasshütte’s border and terrorists pour out, knock out King, and drag him into Glasshütte. Miller informs Jensen the TF29 team is already en route to Dresden but he can catch a ride with Interpol. However Alex, having landed a helicopter on top of the studio, gives Jensen a ride instead. Miller then says Jensen needs to see this and sends him a picture. At first glance, it is just Sebastian and his children soldiers shooting back at the police, but then Jensen realizes one of the children is Emilia.

Alex drops him off outside Glasshütte and he approaches Miller to learn the terrorists will kill King unless their demands are met. As the team discusses tactics and if they will have to shoot children, Miller points out getting King is their priority. Alex then calls Jensen with bad news: the Collective have figured out that Sebastian plans to reveal he is Titus King’s son before blowing both of them up in a live broadcast. As Jensen tries to get Miller’s attention, the team sees that Sebastian has started to broadcast his message worldwide and Alex tells Jensen if he can interface with any of Sebastian’s augmentations, they can use a code to shut down the detonator. On the broadcast, Sebastian reveals that King is his father and his father hates him because he was not perfect, leading King to yell that he hates Sebastian because he killed his mother. As the team watches, Jensen convinces Miller he has a plan so the team gets ready and let Jensen try to do a solo extraction. He sneaks into the Glassworks and Alex lets him know they hacked Sebastian’s feed so Jensen will not be on camera, while also blocking any comms in the building, so TF29 cannot hear inside. Jensen gets Sebastian’s attention and the latter exchanges a few more words with King before Jensen reveals the feed is down. However, Sebastian mocks Jensen and says he has a backup feed, but Alex tells Jensen that the Collective also took those down. This is soon made known to Sebastian, who shrugs it off, then orders Emilia to shoot Jensen if he makes any sudden moves. Sebastian then hugs on Titus, sardonically talking about how they can be a family again.

Meanwhile, Vasquez, who is positioned to take a shot at Sebastian, is given an order from an unknown person to take the shot if he has him in sight. A bullet goes through Sebastian’s head and chaos breaks out, with TF29 storming the building and shooting at the terrorists. Jensen knocks King and Emilia out of the way of fire as MacReady chases several unarmed children, ready to shoot them. Jensen yells at him to stop before he does though and, with the fighting over, Zoe has MacReady help her get King out. Miller then reveals to Jensen that the real plan was to take out Sebastian as he was viewed as too high of a risk as he most likely knew kill phrases to use on the children to make them blow up. Miller then claims the mission a success, though Jensen privately thinks they have not discovered where the weapons or bomb components came from.

Outside, Miller asks Vasquez who gave him the order, with the latter replying that they thought it had been Miller. Miller tells him to forget it and goes over to King and starts offering condolences, but King only asks to be taken to his studio. Elsewhere, Jensen is approached by Emilia, who starts yelling at him, asking why he would save an aug hater who wants to kill augs. Jensen tries to tell her Sebastian wanted to kill her to make a point while King just hated her, but she is too angry and asks who will stand up for augs now before being taken away, leaving Jensen to quietly reflect on this.

In King’s studio, Titus plays up on the events, using what happened as an excuse for why nobody should get augmented and that in wars, sons will die. Elsewhere, Mikulski stands in an Illuminati meeting, surrounded by large screens of their silhouettes. They say that things are running smoothly, having given just enough weapons to Sebastian to light the fuse, and now they just need to time the explosion right. They then discuss whether to announce their initiative, which they have named the Human Restoration Act.

The Dawning Darkness
Shortly prior to the events of Mankind Divided, Miller and his TF29 team in Prague receive orders to deploy in Dubai. Interpol agent Arun Singh, who is undercover in the Jinn smuggling cartel, had just set up a deal for the Jinn to purchase weapons and military-grade augmentations from a black-market arms dealer. The purchase is to take place at an abandoned hotel in Dubai. Singh alerted the TF29 unit in Oman to intercept the purchase to capture the arms dealer. Although the Oman team is close by and can reach Dubai in two hours, TF29 director Joseph Manderley orders Miller's Prague team to deploy instead of the Oman team. Jensen expresses reservations about why their team is being sent in lieu of the much closer Oman team, but Miller tells Jensen not to question the orders. Miller then orders his team to move out to Dubai.

Welcome to the Divided World
In 2029, six months after Jensen joins TF29's Prague division, the team is mobilized to Dubai to capture the black-market arm dealer known as Sheppard. Miller briefs his team that Interpol agent Arun Singh, who has spent 3 years undercover with the Jinn, has arranged for the Jinn to purchase black-market weapons and augmentations from Sheppard. The meeting for the arms deal is to take place the atrium of an abandoned resort hotel. Miller tasks Jensen with going in solo from the roof to cut off any Jinn members from accessing to the hotel's atrium. Jensen lands on the hotel and proceeds to disable the only door from the penthouses to atrium, thus keeping Jinn reinforcements from interfering. The TF29 team takes position in the atrium as Sheppard arrives by a helicopter to meet the Jinn members. However, gold-mask mercenaries suddenly attack, killing Sheppard and shooting at the Jinn and Singh. The gold-mask mercenaries then attempt to move the black-market augmentations onto the helicopter for extraction. Miller orders Jensen to quickly disable the helicopter to prevent the gold-mask mercenaries from getting away with the shipment. In one possible outcome, Jensen pulls out the battery of the helicopter, preventing the mercenaries from extracting the shipment.

In a subsequent scene, the Illuminati's ruling Council of Five, along with Morgan Everett's protégée, Bob Page, hold a secret meeting using Neural SubNet (NSN) to discuss the events in Dubai. The conversation reveals that the gold-mask mercenaries who attacked in Dubai are Illuminati "assets" and have suffered heavy losses as a result of the Dubai operation. Despite the losses, Bob Page insists that the mission was a success. One council member, Volkard Rand, remarks that the erratic nature of the attack will cause Interpol to be confused for weeks, a state of confusion that the council can use to their advantage. Lucius DeBeers, leader of the Illuminati, reminds the group that their long-term goal of maintaining order and stability has veered off-course as a result of the societal schism caused by the Aug Incident. DeBeers then demands that the disruptive elements must be excised.

The Council of Five then discuss the Human Restoration Act, which the United Nations is set to vote on soon. Rand states that he will go to New York to rally support for the passage of the Act. DeBeers agrees, and tells Stanton Dowd, another council member, to accompany Rand. Rand, Dowd, and Elizabeth DuClare log off from the meeting, leaving DeBeers with Morgan Everett and Page. Everett argues that Rand and Dowd won't succeed in getting the Act to pass, and notes that Nathaniel Brown (the CEO of the Santeau Group, a corporation currently building a safe-haven for the augmented) is an unknown factor in this scenario. DeBeers acknowledges this, and tells Everett that they are already proceeding with implementing the alternate strategy and that "Dubai laid the foundations," suggesting that having Jensen's TF29 team witness the attack by the gold-mask mercenaries was part of the plan. DeBeers then states that it is now time to "get everyone's attention" and instructs Page to "activate the sleeper cell," presumably referring to the deployment of a group tasked with causing an incident.

One week later, Jensen is traveling by train to Růžička Station in Prague to secretly meet up with his Juggernaut Collective contact, Alex Vega. They discuss the events that occurred in Dubai, particularly the suspicious circumstances of why TF29 sent their Prague division even though a much closer team stationed in Oman was available. As they talk, they come to the conclusion that Jensen's team was meant to see the attack, but they cannot figure out who the gold-mask mercenaries were or why his team in particular was meant to see it. Alex then gives him a whisper-chip, a device that Janus, the Juggernaut Collective leader, created to listen in on conversations communicated through the Neural SubNet terminal in TF29's Prague headquarters.

Just as Jensen and Alex near the exit of the station, bombs go off, destroying the station. Jensen tries to help a young boy save his mother, who had been crushed by cement rubble, but she dies as he tries to get her out.

Spies and Double Agents
The next day, Jensen wakes up to find his augmentations malfunctioning and heads to Václav Koller's workshop to get them fixed. Koller reveals that someone gave Jensen mysterious augs but does not know who could have done it or where they came from, though by his guess, they were added in the last 1-2 years, suggesting it was during a time Jensen was unconscious in the Alaska facility.

Backstreet Bargains
With his augments now stable, Jensen then heads to the shop Praha Dovoz, which is a front to hide TF29's office. He gets into the server rooms and installs the whisper-chip while Miller is using the NSN, resulting in Alex getting a snippet of his conversation. Miller, unaware of what Jensen just did, gets out and orders Jensen to meet him in his office. He informs Jensen that he wants him on the Růžička case and to find their forensics technician, Daniel "Smiley" Fletcher, who was sent earlier to the station but has not returned. However, the Czech State Police do not enjoy TF29 in their backyard and and are claiming the bombing was homegrown terrorism, meaning they have jurisdiction over the investigation and not TF29. Due to this, Miller informs Jensen to head to one of the stations and he will call to have a train take him to Růžička Station. As Jensen leaves the office, Alex informs him she did get some information from the call but Janus used the wrong algorithm so it will take some time to figure out what was said. With that, Jensen heads out to Růžička Station.

Conflicts of Interest
When he arrives, Fletcher is startled by Jensen’s presence and explains he was in the middle of gathering evidence and close to what he thinks would have been the breakthrough the case needed when the State Police came in and chased him off. He then asks Jensen to recover the evidence, which is on a digital storage device (DSD). Jensen successfully recovers it and brings it back to the lab for Fletcher to analyze when Miller contacts him and says he has a new lead on the bombing and will be sending Jensen to Golem City.

Circumventing Evidence
Before Jensen can be sent out on another mission though, he needs to get checked out first by TF29's new psychiatrist, Dr. Delara Auzenne, who must clear all agents for active duty. She discusses with Jensen his background and if he has any conflicting emotions over hunting down augmented people, then clears him for the field.

As he leaves the office, Alex contacts Jensen about the information she got from the NSN conversation, saying he really needs to hear it and to meet her at the abandoned LIMB clinic. Once there, she plays the partial conversation where Miller is told by his boss, Joseph Manderley, to pin Dubai, the station bombing, and an unheard of VersaLife attack on the Augmented Rights Coalition (ARC), who are based out of Golem City. With that in mind, Jensen goes to the helipad to meet Miller and his VTOL pilot, Elias Chikane. At the helipad, Miller informs Jensen that earlier in the morning, state police had dropped off Intellicam footage taken at Růžička Station. The Intellicam footage is badly corrupted, but Chang was able to extract images showing an unidentified Aug in a yellow hoodie dropping bags where each bomb went off. Miller states that the bags are the same as those used by Talos Rucker, the leader of ARC, and his aid workers in Golem City. Miller assigns Jensen the task of bringing Rucker in for questioning. Miller tells Jensen to look for an informant in Golem City named Tibor Sokol, who can help him get into ARC territory so that Jensen can reach Rucker. Jensen then boards the VTOL and Chikane flies him to Golem City.

Whispers from the Shadows
Chikane drops Jensen off near the informant's living quarters and Jensen gets a firsthand glimpse of the horrible conditions in the ghetto. He eventually enters Tibor's housing to find a frustrated woman, Adéla Sokol, who explains that because Tibor is an ARC member, the police came and took him and his brother, Dušan. She will point Jensen towards the police outpost in a place called The Narrows, where Tibor is being held. However, when Jensen gets there, Tibor backs out of the deal as he is worried about his family, but does give a couple workarounds. With this in mind, Jensen makes his way deeper into Golem City and gains access to The Throat, which leads into ARC territory.

Here he meets Viktor Marchenko, a high ranking ARC member who seems to have a lot of respect for Rucker. He warns Jensen that The Throat is no place for "a shiny wrench" and to turn back before Marchenko leaves with fellow ARC members. Not deterred, Jensen radios Chikane and Miller to have the latter run a search for any information on Marchenko while he continues to makes his way through The Throat and into ARC territory.

ARC territory though is crawling with guards, and is not helped when Tibor breaks and warns fellow ARC members that Interpol is somewhere, most likely looking for Rucker. This does not stop Jensen as he makes his way through the area and eventually gets to Rucker's office to confront him on the Růžička Station bombing. During his conversation with Jensen, Rucker explains that a power struggle is going on within ARC and he suspects it is connected to whoever did the bombing and that the person could be within ARC, actively trying to undermine their peaceful approach. He further explains he has evidence to prove his suspicions but, before he can continue, Rucker dies suddenly from unnatural causes. With Rucker now dead, Jensen has no choice but to head to the extraction point and to explain to Miller later on what happened. Shots are fired after Jensen as he boards the VTOL before suddenly stopping, and Jensen turns to sees ARC members and Marchenko have arrived, with the latter smirking as he watches Jensen fly away.

Murky Waters
After getting back to Prague, Jensen informs his boss on what happened to Rucker, and Miller, frustrated at the turn of events and with not much to go on other than Jensen's gut feelings, tells him to go see Fletcher to see what he got off the DSD before flying out with Chikane to deal with the Czech State Police.

Jensen makes his way to TF29's office to see the forensic specialist, who informs him his hunch was correct. The evidence recovered shows that it was the timing mechanism of one of the bombs and from a locally made Staněk wristwatch. As the shop is closed for the day, Fletcher finds Nomad Staněk's address and Jensen leaves to find him. However, just as he steps out of Praha Dovoz, an explosion a few blocks away goes off and Jensen sees that the Staněk shop was targeted. He makes his way to Nomad's apartment to find further evidence someone is out to get the clock maker: his apartment has been broken into, but nobody is home. Searching the apartment, Jensen finds a secret room with a terminal. After reading the e-mails to see that Nomad is waiting for his daughter at the Irish Stool, a video message plays on the monitors showing Radich Nikoladze, the leader of the Dvali, saying goodbye to his "friend" and that it was just business before the room is sealed and toxic gas pours in. Jensen is able to escape the trap and tracks down Nomad at the bar, where two fellow TF29 agents are holding him. When Jensen reveals that he found bomb making equipment in the apartment, Nomad blurts that it is not his and was about to say who when he quickly changes his mind and says that he made the bombs. Knowing better, Jensen quickly deduces that the bomb maker is actually his daughter, Allison Staněk. Nomad reveals she used to be in the military and did EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) and was augmented before she started to suffer hallucinations and was dishonorably discharged. Becoming depressed, she made friends with people Nomad says are using her and keeping her away from him. With that in mind, Jensen heads out while the other agents take Nomad in for further questioning.

Chasing Down the Clues
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Finished Tracking Down the Real Terrorists first:Finished Checking Out the Men in Charge first:Alex, still believing Miller could be actively helping the Illuminati, tells Jensen they need to find out, one way or another. As his boss had just flown out, Jensen responds that now is probably the best chance they have so he makes his way to Miller's apartment. He finds nothing on Miller's terminal, but does find a secret room with another terminal. However, there is nothing incriminating on it and it looks like Miller himself is looking for answers on the recent events. Jensen notices that Miller left his NSN key card here and while he debates over using it to access the full conversation, Alex wants to meet him as she found some interesting information.

They meet near TF29 and she reveals a file Janus found: a similar incident to Rucker’s poisoning happened at VersaLife's Roccasecca Beach facility where a woman, Anneke Norstadt, was poisoned. However, the reports were buried and merely labeled as an “industrial accident” making Janus and Alex believe it could be a bioweapon. Jensen notes to Alex that he finds it odd that Janus can find this information so easily when others cannot, but relents. With this new information, he points out Miller’s card would allow them to know for certain if it really is a bioweapon being used by VersaLife and TF29 as NSN conversations are stored on the system’s cloud memory, allowing them to see the full conversation when accessed. However, this is risky as it means Jensen will have to access the machine directly so someone could catch him using it.

Deciding the answers outweigh the risk, Jensen heads into TF29 to use the NSN. He plugs in and recovers the data to see the first part of the conversation he had already heard with Alex. After Miller logged off, Manderley calls up Bob Page to discuss the fake break-in that is supposed to happen any day on VersaLife's San Francisco facility and needing a report to give to Miller to make him believe it really happened, proving to Jensen that Miller has no clue about his boss being a member of the Illuminati. They go on to reveal that there is an inside man within ARC that poisoned Rucker with something called the Orchid, with Page stating Rucker's death will push Nathaniel Brown to make his move, before ending the call. Having the answers they need and then some, Jensen exits the machine and asks Alex to set up a meeting between him and Janus.

Wrapping Up the Case
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Finished Checking Out the Men in Charge last:Finished Tracking Down the Real Terrorists last: Jensen then makes his way to an abandoned tourist office to meet Janus. However, to keep his identity a secret, Janus uses an ever changing human face while talking to Jensen via monitors. While Jensen’s evidence does implicate Manderley and Page with conspiracy to commit murder, Janus points out the evidence was illegally obtained and will not hold up in court. However, on the Orchid, there could be a way to find answers. Janus suggests for Jensen to break into VersaLife’s vault at Palisade Property Bank, as Page owns VersaLife and will most likely have any sensitive information on the Orchid within the secure vault. Janus also notes Brown stands to earn trillions if the Human Restoration Act passes but, before he can continue, the signal is abruptly cut and Alex contacts Jensen, telling him he needs to get out of there as sentry drones are detected in the area. Jensen successfully evades the drones when he is contacted by Nomad, who frantically begs for Jensen's help. Nomad had slipped away from the TF29 agents and followed some of Allison's friends to a place in southern Prague, only to learn they plan to kill her that night. As Jensen heads to the nearest station to get to Nomad, Alex contacts Jensen, saying Janus learned VersaLife is closing their account at Palisade Property Bank and clearing out their vault that night, meaning if he wants to recover any possible information on the Orchid, he has to do it now, leaving Allison to her fate.

Confronting the Bomb-Maker
Deciding Allison's life and finding out what she knows about the bombing is more important, Jensen heads out to meet Nomad near a rundown apartment building. Nomad explains he learned Allison is on the top floor of the building, but nobody is allowed up there, and that the cultists are going to kill her in something called the "Ascension."

Jensen makes his way up to the top floor and enters the room where Allison is only for her to initially confront him before quickly changing her mind and believing he is there as a sign. As she continues to talk, she reveals that she is actually the leader of the cultists and that Marchenko asked her to build some bombs for him which she willingly obliged, seeing violence as the answer against the "flesh flawed." After Rucker was killed, she learned Marchenko moved his operations to G.A.R.M., a facility in the Swiss Alps. When she realizes Jensen is actually fighting against Marchenko and just needed to know where to look to stop him, she becomes bitter and angrily asks why would Jensen side with "their" enemies. Eventually she reveals that she made enough bombs for Marchenko to destroy an entire city before showing Jensen what the Ascension is: a computerized tower with others connected to it in hopes of becoming one mind, the singularity.

The Heist
Deciding that any information on the Orchid is worth the loss of the bomb-maker, Jensen makes his way to Palisade Property Bank and retrieves a package Janus had waiting for him, containing a data rod and a blank keycard. As only those with the right biometrics can call corporate vaults, Jensen has to break into the CEO's office to use their keycard machine. Once the right biometrics are copied over to the keycard, Jensen was then able to access VersaLife's vault.

When Adam opens the vault, Janus uses the data rod to access the files, copying over anything flagged as “the Orchid.” As he goes about this, Jensen sees an audio file pop up on the screen and opens it. A conversation plays out with Megan Reed talking to Page about a facility she was unaware of called G.A.R.M.. She goes on to mention a scientist there wanted to know more on the Orchid, which Megan is working on, and she stresses to Page how dangerous it is and to keep the neutralizing enzyme on site until she can stabilize it. There appears to be sadness in her voice, indicating she may know that Anneke Norstadt died from it. Page reassures her, stating her research is so important, he is keeping a copy of all her data, including a cure, at the VersaLife vault. Janus, having already started looking into G.A.R.M. when Megan first mentioned it, found out it used to be a Belltower facility in the Swiss Alps but was not listed on their balance sheet when they declared bankruptcy. Janus finishes gathering the data and Jensen decides he needs to get to G.A.R.M. to find answers.

Aiding and Abetting
This one has 2 different summaries and images depending on which mission you did, but the only change in the story is how Miller reacts to Jensen's lead.

Confronting the Bomb-Maker version:The Heist version: Jensen heads to the helipad, where Miller is waiting for his report. With new information on hand about the terrorists' connection to G.A.R.M., Jensen is able to convince Miller that the answers they are looking for regarding Rucker's death and the attack on Růžička Station and in Dubai is at this facility, so Miller clears him to fly out there to see what he can dig up. Chikane drops Jensen off near one of the entrances but as soon as Jensen goes to open the door he is ambushed by none other than Marchenko and the shadow operatives, with the former injecting Jensen with a dose of the Orchid. As Jensen fades in and out of consciousness, he overhears Marchenko talking to the shadow operatives that they were expecting Jensen and that Marchenko is heading out to meet with the Dvali to make sure they smuggle something for him, stating that Brown confirmed date and time with Picus. He then leaves and the shadow operatives dump Jensen’s body in another area to let the Orchid finish him off.

However, the Orchid does not kill him and Jensen wakes up several hours later and radios for help. Realizing that the shadow operatives think he is dead, Jensen takes this time to scout throughout the facility before finding his way to the helipad where he is able to get a hold of Chikane, who picks him up and heads back to Prague.

Flowers, But No Funeral
Back in Prague, Jensen finds the whole city is under Martial Law due to rioting in Golem City. Despite this, Jensen is able to meet with Alex and gives her the Orchid sample so the Juggernaut Collective can look into it. He also informs her what he overheard at G.A.R.M.: that Brown has something to do with this and Marchenko knows the date and time. This confirms that ARC is being set up to take the fall for the upcoming attack, which would ensure the Human Restoration Act would pass. Alex notes it is odd as Brown would not attack himself if that is the case.

With nothing else to go on, Jensen makes his way to Miller’s office to fill him in on G.A.R.M.. Seeing as only a select few knew about the mission, and knowing someone tipped off Marchenko, Jensen all but accuses Miller about it only for Miller to deny such allegations, stating that he sent Jensen there because he had viable information on it and he is also looking for much needed answers. Miller also reveals that it was Manderley who signed off on assigning Jensen to TF29’s Prague Division. Putting allegations aside, Jensen asks him if they found anything at the G.A.R.M. facility, but within the hour it took for some of TF29’s agents to get there after Jensen left, the shadow operatives had all but cleared out, taking anything useful with them. However, not all is lost as Jensen reveals he learned Marchenko has some kind of connection to the Dvali, so Miller orders him to get to the Red Light District to find out more.

Jensen is able to successfully enter the Dvali Theater, where Nikoladze keeps his office, and finds out that Marchenko plans to attack Brown’s Safe Harbour Convention in London. He immediately radios Miller and then Alex with this information, to which Alex says they need to meet as she found new information on Brown. Jensen tells her to meet him at his apartment while Miller is setting up a mobilization plan with Duncan MacReady.

When he meets Alex, she reveals that Brown will actually lose trillions if the Human Restoration Act passes, as he would not be able to sustain the influx of augmented people to Rabi’ah. Thus, Brown has actually been campaigning against the Act and, unlike Rucker, has the power and money to go against it, making him a formidable opposition to the Illuminati conspirators’ plans. If Marchenko succeeds and kills Brown, then it will guarantee the Act passes, sealing the fate for all augmented people.

Alex also states the Orchid is not a bioweapon, at least not intentionally. Rather, it is a genome-editing drug that affects the gene that causes Darrow Deficiency Syndrome, which is why it did not kill Jensen. In its finished state, it is meant to allow one’s body to accept augmentations, but until Megan completes it, it causes the opposite effect, killing the person instead.

Jensen then calls Miller to tell him he has more information and to check on the status of the plans. As time is limited, Miller tells him to get to the helipad and he can brief him on the way to London.

Closer to the Precipice
Two days later in London, TF29’s Prague Division is heading to London’s Apex Centre. Miller has Jensen go with him to the rooftop where they meet Brown to discuss the threat at hand and hope he will call off the convention. Brown explains that the London Division had already done a check and found nothing, and that he brought in extra security from Tarvos Security Services and even had the food and beverages replaced to show he was taking the threat seriously. However, he refuses to cancel the event as he is hoping to persuade the UN delegates that are there to oppose the Act. Resigned to this, Miller says he will check the conference room himself and assigns Jensen to check in with Tarvos to help out, while the rest of the team re-examines the place.

As Jensen heads down to meet Liam Slater, the one in charge of the convention's security, he gives Alex a heads up that some of the UN delegates are there, only for Janus to butt into the conversation. Janus stresses that if anything should happen, the UN delegates are the number one priority as they cannot afford for the Human Restoration Act to pass and Alex agrees. When Jensen reaches the security floor, he makes his way to the security officer on duty, telling him he is there to see Slater. However, something feels off and the guard states Slater is busy with an urgent matter, even though Jensen is the reason for the matter at hand. Making his way through the area, Jensen confirms his suspicions when he finds gold masks and dead bodies of the real Tarvos guards, causing him to immediately radio Miller to let him know security has been compromised. Miller then orders Jensen to get to the override switch as MacReady's team is locked out, and when Jensen accesses it, he sees on the monitors that the terrorists are getting in through a back door in the catering area. However, there is a small problem: many of the fake guards are among the party guests and to enter the catering area, one needs the appropriate keycard.

Jensen is able to find a catering keycard and enter the area, only to find Miller badly injured. Miller says to forget about him and explains that Jensen needs to get to Brown and the delegates as he found out the shadow operatives tainted the champagne with the Orchid and will be serving it to them soon. Miller had tried to stop them but they overpowered him before forcing him to drink the Orchid. Just as Jensen lets MacReady know what is going on, his Infolink is intercepted by Marchenko, who says Jensen should be dead. As he is not, Marchenko has had to adapt to the situation at hand by placing bombs in the surrounding towers that will kill hundreds of people if Jensen does not go to meet him in the exhibition hall. MacReady, having overheard the conversation, sets out to find the bombs, but is not sure he will be able to take care of them in time. Jensen makes his decision on which group to save, hoping his choice does not send the world into further chaos.

Ending
One week later, Jensen is back at his apartment with Alex as they watch the news unfold about what happened in London. As it finishes up, they discuss it between themselves and what Janus has learned about the Act's status. Jensen reveals it is not over yet though, as he is still set on finding the conspirators behind it all. However, he also wants to find out who Janus really is, and tells Alex that Janus can either set up a meeting face to face, or Jensen will find him himself.

Mid-Credits Scene
Volkard Rand, Morgan Everett, Lucius DeBeers, Bob Page, and Elizabeth DuClare appear in a brief NSN meeting discussing the London events, with Rand in particular upset about any changes that occurred in the plan. Everett will then point out that Interpol was more capable than expected and has a new augmented agent, Adam Jensen, who appears to have gotten outside help, possibly from the Juggernaut Collective and Janus. DeBeers waves this off though as speculation and says they will reconvene later in the week. Everyone but DeBeers and DuClare then log off, and DuClare's avatar changes to Delara Auzenne, saying that Elizabeth sends her regards. She will then report that the subject (Adam Jensen) is well-adjusted and remarkably stable, and that his memories are still consistent with the program. DeBeers will then ask how close Jensen is to Janus and Delara replies "very." Satisfied with this answer, DeBeers states "then it's only a matter of time" before the two log off.