Mission 2: Cargo Ship

Primary Objectives

Eliminate Hugo Lacerda

Secondary Objectives

Find the Name of Lacerda's Panamanian Contact

Opportunity Objectives

Place Tracking Devices On Any Illegal Weapons Crates

Getting Inside

There are four soldiers located before the first door here. You don't have to eliminate them all, but you're going to need to take down at least a couple of them if you want to traverse the deck safely. There are two near your starting point, with one that stands upright near the southern set of steps and another that will patrol over to the north. The latter should be your first drop. If you can sneak up behind him and grab him, then you can walk over to the railing and push him overboard by facing the railing and pressing your primary attack button. No bodies means no bodies to be found, obviously enough.

This soldier won't move, but be careful; the guard in the hallway below might see you grab him if you don't time your kill right.

The guard by the steps will soon be joined by another guard for a bit of chat. The second guard here has a wide patrol lane that takes him up and down both of the lower railings of the ship, so after offing the guard by the steps, you can either wait for him to walk by to eliminate him as well, or just wait for him to patrol the northern side of the ship and bypass him entirely.

As you walk down the southern side of the ship (use your zoom view to get a compass), you'll come to a set of steps leading down. Depending on the amount of noise you've made thus far, the guard here will either be walking around, or asleep in his chair. If he walks up the steps, he'll usually turn around and head east, allowing you to sneak up behind him and throw him overboard, but if he's asleep, you may need to plug him in the head.

The Cargo

You'll need to tag multiple crates if you want to nab your full mission success bonus.

Head through the door near the last guard to reach cargo room S2-A. Don't worry about the lights or noise; there aren't any guards around. If you can find the gap in the wall near the rear of the room, you'll be able to slide through to S2-B, where the first weapons crate can be found. You don't want to scan these, though; your goal is to place tracking devices on them so that your handlers can trace whom they're being sold to. It all boils down to the same button pushes, though, so get up close and use the crate before climbing the ladder to the door nearby.

As you leave the hold, you'll be radioed with some information. Apparently the Maria Narcissa is taking on water, or has at least developed a problem involving flooding in the lower compartments, and, like all ships carrying weapons and terrorists, has sent out a call for an escort. Makes perfect sense. In order to get into and search the compartments, you'll need to activate the bilge pump in the lower machine room. To reach it, head down to the end of the hall, where you can hear some kind of machinery working, then slide open the door and eliminate the worker inside before crawling through the crawlspace on the wall. You'll wind up in the machine room.

Bilge and Purge

Video Walk-through

Eliminating these guards isn't too tough, if you take advantage of the structural features of the room.

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There are two soldiers in the machine room, with one on the upper railing and one trying to get the pump to work. They're going to engage in a little conversation, so you'll want to wait until it's over before you work on taking them out. We found it easiest to jump up onto the pipe, then crawl along until Sam is hanging over the soldier on the walkway. When the soldier below says "Easy for you to say," you can grab the upper soldier and knock him out by using the Grab Character interaction, then quickly drop down to the walkway and jump over to the railing to knock out the soldier below while he's examining the pump. Like buttah.

Retrieve the Bill of Lading for Lacerda's Arms Shipments

After you've activated the bilge pump and it's done its job, you can slide the door open and move on. Your goal is to find the bill of lading on one of the crates in the first cargo hold you come across, on the right side of the hall. Grab them, then quickly return to the corridor and resume your trip.