Quincy Durant

Quincy Durant is a mechanically augmented mercenary appearing in the comics series.

Early life
At some point in his life he joined the Detroit Police Department and eventually climbed the ranks to commander of SWAT Team Two. During this time he become a close friend and a mentor of a young Adam Jensen.

In 2020 he and Jensen are sent into the Detroit Motor City Scrapyard Park to capture Tyrell "Tiger" Banks, an Iraq War Veteran and former contender for the Augmented Combat Challenge, a special martial arts competition for augmented people. Tyrell is wanted for the murder of Kery Ryder, a call-girl. During the fight Durant lost his right arm from a car falling on him, and severely injured by Tyrell who was eventually killed by Adam. At the Detroit Receiving Hospital, the doctors told him the full extent of his injuries: a shattered spine, broken neck, fractured skull, loss of sight in left eye and the arm, but he refuses augmentation and asks that Adam "let him die". Adam doesn't kill him and he is eventually augmented which saves his life, but warps him psychologically.

In 2021, during a gunfight in the El Diablo Lapdancing Club, between SWAT agents and the Kowalski 'Brothers 'Gang, a newly augmented Durant killed the entire gang, much to Adam's surprise. By this time, Durant was put in charge of a new SWAT team, but he eventually became corrupted, along with his entire squad. Within two years, they killed half of Detroit's organized crime population, and ran the rest underground.

However, in 2025, he and his team started a riot in Mexicantown and the department sent Jensen's Team Two to stop them. During this, Durant fought Adam inside an old church. With his advanced augmentations, Durant easily overpowered Adam, though at the last moment Jensen launched an EMP grenade which rendered his augmentations inoperative and shot Quincy in the head, supposedly killing him. Unknown to him however, Durant was still alive and was recovered by double agent Jake Dredger. A medical team stabilized him in the church and he was later moved to a secret location where "They" rebuilt him, making him more powerful than ever.

For as of yet unknown reasons, following the events at Mexicantown, Jensen was disgraced and left the Detroit SWAT Team. He would later be hired as a security specialist for Sarif Industries.

2027
He reappears in 2027, during the Humanity Front rally in central Detroit, killing several demonstrators with the recently developed Typhoon Explosive System.

Later, he and a group of augmented mercenaries attack Adam and Katrina Sutherland in her apartment at the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal. When Durant nearly kills Adam with his hidden blade, Katrina shoots him, twice in the chest and once in the head, unmasking him. After a conversation between him and Adam, Durant activates his Typhoon augmentation with a subvocal detonation signal. However when he attempts to kill Adam with a Zenith 10mm pistol, Faridah Malik appears on board her VTOL, and shoots him with the mounted weapons. However, he escapes.

Afterwards he murders Arkady Vransky, Artificial Intelligence Developer, Michael Griffin, Director of Nano-Processing and Anna Perez, Cyber-System Analyst; all of the surviving scientists of the Sarif Industries attack. His next target is Dr. Vera Marcovic, a specialist in Biological Modification for L.I.M.B. International.

Durant arrives shortly after an operation at the L.I.M.B. clinic in Detroit, killing two security guards and abducting Dr. Marcovic, and moves her into an old Delaney Car Plant.

Sneaking into the plant, Adam finds and frees Dr. Marcovic, but he is hit with an electromagnetic pulse from a newly-augmented Durant. Durant had forced the doctor to operate on him, upgrading his enhancements and make him a living weapon. With his new status, Durant confronted Adam, believing that the "Human Revolution begins here", but just before Durant's mercenaries could kill Adam, Katrina killed them with a Longsword Whisperhead, and a group of unmarked gunships destroy the plant. Adam and Dr. Marcovic escape, but Durant disappears again.

The next day, Durant attacks Farida's VTOL carrying David Sarif, CEO of Sarif Industries, and Adam, returning from a meeting with Bill Taggart, Humanity Front leader, and Zhao Yun Ru, CEO of Tai Yong Medical, from London.

Behind the scenes

 * Durant would chant the phrase "Deus Ex" and "Deus Ex Machina".
 * "Deus Ex Machina" means "God from Machine".