Faridah Malik

Faridah Malik  is the VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) pilot of Sarif Industries in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Background
Faridah is the current chief pilot for the VTOL at Sarif Industries (replacing the retired pilot Mario Gentile), she is in charge of transport and delivery of Sarif Industries V.I.P.'s for any trips that require air transport. She is noted as a dedicated employee and pilot with sometimes overzealous flight tendencies that have proven her to be among the best in the skies.

According to Sarif Industries human resources, it has been noted that a small altercation occurred between Faridah Malik and Franklin Phillips. The report notes only that Franklin was overseeing Faridah on maintenance for the company's VTOL. A verbal altercation erupted over the choppers balance levels for VTOL lift when Faridah struck Franklin. No charges were filed against Faridah and she was issued a verbal warning from human resources.

Faridah will spend most of her time to simply flying Jensen between places and provides him intelligence advice through Adam's infolink. At Heng Sha (on the first visit), Malik will need Jensen's help to convict the man responsible for her friend, Evelyn Carmichael's murder; thus starting the Shanghai Justice quest.

Upon returning to Heng Sha, Malik will be redirected to another port in Heng Sha and shot down by a Belltower thug wielding a SAM. She will be forced to perform a crash-landing, with Jensen just barely ejecting in time. 5-6 light belltower soldiers, 2 Heavy soldiers, 2 snipers and even an 80-X Boxguard will surround her VTOL and open fire. If Jensen does not kill or disable them in time, the VTOL will sustain too much damage and explode, killing Malik. If Jensen manages to reach the helipad's elevator before the VTOL explodes, the Belltower soldiers will drag Malik out of the aircraft and execute her. See Find Vasili Sevchenko's GPL Device for tactical considerations

If Malik is killed, her corpse can be found in the Harvesters' hideout (presumably Belltower sold them the corpse so they could extract her augmentations, like they did with Sevchenko). If Malik is saved, she will assist later on in the game at the Singapore facility, rescuing the Sarif scientists there as well as dealing with a number of Spec Ops troopers for Jensen.

Behind the scenes

 * Faridah means "unique" or "precious", while Malik means "king".
 * If Malik dies, you can find her body intact, with her eyes open with a bullet hole (or surgical opening) in her forehead. She is on an augmentation operating table in the Harvester hideout, behind a wall that can be broken down right near the room you meet Tong Si Hung.