Mission Four: Flatline

Objectives

• Find Agent
• Identify Target
• Smuggle Out Agent
• Escape

Intel

• Admission papers are required to check-in. Future patients often wait in the park outside.
• Troublesome patients are often confined to the medical wing.
• The brochure lists some interesting facilities such as a library, a gymnasium, and a large spa area.
• Therapists occasionally get contacted for private sessions.
• Some guests hide stashes of alcohol in quiet places. Let's hope they don't get alcohol poisoning.
• Weight lifting can be fatal.
• Some guests cheat on the spa's strict diet by smuggling camping stoves into their rooms. Sounds dangerous!
• Deceased patients are taken straight from the medical wing to the morgue.

The Setup

Your goal here is to infiltrate a rehabilitation spa, find out where the spa is keeping your fellow agent, learn from him the identity of the target you're supposed to hit, then kill the target and smuggle your comrade out of the facility via the oldest trick in the book: faking his death with chemicals and reviving him later. Simple!

Well, not really. The spa has surprisingly good security, mostly due to the presence of a few VIP guests. You're going to need to undergo a few costume changes to get to where you need to be, but luckily for you, you can probably get through the entire level without bringing in any of your customizable weapons. All you'll need are your poisons and fiberwire, assuming you're attempting to take a stealthy approach to the level.

Entrance

Your first goal is to enter the spa itself, which is only accessible to members, security guards, and the medical staff, of which you are none. Thus, in order to enter, you'll need to either grab a security guard or patient outfit, or steal a set of admission papers.

By far the easiest task here is to steal the admission papers. Just to the north of the security guard station, there's a little observation platform with a couple of benches on it, one of which contains the admission papers. If you can observe the movement patterns of the guards, you should be able to sneak up behind the smoker here and take the papers (while remaining crouched to prevent him from turning around), and be on your way.

(Alternately, you can attempt to kill one of the patients hiding by the dumpsters and steal his robe, or take the uniform from one of the meandering cops, but it'll be difficult to do either of these without either getting caught or being forced to leave the body in a conspicuous place.)

With the admission papers in hand, head towards the main entrance of the building and walk up to the nurse at the main counter. You'll get a prompt to place the admission papers on the desk, after which the nurse will escort you to a changing room. Trade in your suit for the patient's robe on the floor, get frisked by the guard at the door (drop any handguns or other weapons you're carrying in the changing room), and you'll be inside. Time to start causing some mayhem...

Video Walk-through

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Alternate Entrance Procedure

If you don't want to go through the hullabaloo of entering the spa in this method, you can also try a more forceful approach. If you can ensure that none of the guards are watching you, you can climb one of the water pipes on the outside of the building, preferably the one further to the west, near the ICA marker on your map. You'll have to sneak underneath the ledge of the balcony above, lest someone spots you, but when you're on the north side of the building, you can drop down into the courtyard there. (you can also head through the locked doors in the middle of the extended hallway here.) Looking around will let you spot a breaker box on the wall, which is key to obtaining your security uniform here. You can either pop the box and lure the guard outside to kill him, or simply sneak into the security office and sedate him to obtain his uniform.

Inside

Now that you're inside the spa, you need to find out where the agent is being held. The main spa area features plenty of security guards, patients, nurses, doctors, and quite a few completely inconspicuous private security agents dressed up in robes and sunglasses, but none of them are who you're looking for. (Although a few of them are potential targets.)

In order to find the agent, you have to penetrate into the medical wing to the west, but doing so will be difficult while you're still in the patient robe. There are two passages, one involving a pair of keycard-locked doors, and another heading through the basement of the building. Both are going to be overwatched by security guards and white-clad orderlies, who'll order you out if they spot you roaming around. The key here lies in finding an orderly's outfit to wear; doing so will get you into the medical wing, and will thus be the last outfit that you're really required to find. Even therapists aren't allowed entrance to the white padded cell area, so the orderly uniform is key here.