Lawrence Barrett

"TELL'EM BARRETT SENT YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL!"

- Lawrence Barrett to Adam Jensen

Lawrence Barrett is one of the game's antagonists in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a member of the black ops team Tyrants and private military contractors Belltower Associates Incorporated.

Early life
A member of the Tyrants, a black ops team made up of multi-national members who work for a mysterious conglomerant of the world's most powerful and wealthy members, Barrett features various augmentations, such as an augmented lower jaw and entirely mechanical arms, one of which conceals a three-barrel minigun. His augmentations are made by Tai Yong Medical.

Lawrence Barrett acquired the scar to his left eye after fighting Ben Saxon in the novel Deus Ex: Icarus Effect. The fight took place en route to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the North Atlantic. Lines by him spoken to Ben Saxon alludes to Barrett having an abusive father.

2027
He was one of the mercenaries in the private military company Belltower deployed in Hengsha and a member of the team which attacked the Sarif Industries research labs, where he is seen killing many scientists. Later, he and Fedorova were tasked with retrieving the Neural Hub from the dead Purity First hacker, but Adam Jensen got to the corpse first. After that, they met up with Jaron Namir in the abandoned bot factory in Highland Park, which in reality was a FEMA internment camp. When Jensen followed them to the lower levels, Barrett managed to ambush him, and was ordered by Namir to eliminate him. However, Jensen proved to be a more competent fighter than anticipated, managing to critically wound Barrett and severely damage his augmentations. As Jensen interrogated the dying mercenary, Barrett told him to go to an apartment building in Hengsha to find the information he was looking for, then grabbed Jensen and activated the grenades strapped to his chest in a last-ditch attempt to kill him. Jensen broke free by fatally stabbing Barrett in the neck with one of his arm blades, and jumped away just as the grenades went off, destroying Barrett's corpse.

Quotes

 * "You like Pineapples kid?"
 * "Time to teach you a lesson boy scout."
 * "You wanna' play dirty, I'll play dirty!"
 * "You don't look so good boy scout."

Tactics
See Barrett Tactics in Following the Clues in Highland Park for tactical suggestions on how to defeat Barrett.

Behind the scenes

 * The name 'Barrett' and the gun inside his arm were thought to be a reference to a character in one of Square Enix's other games, Final Fantasy 7. However, the developers stated that this is merely a coincidence.
 * Barrett's minigun was originally to be added to Team Fortress 2 as a reward for pre-ordering from Steam. Though the minigun itself was unused, it did serve as the basis for the Short Circuit.
 * Barrett hails from the southern United States, evidenced by his accent and a few colorful expressions he uses in an e-mail.