Targets and objectives

The ICA analysts homed in on a signal coming from a remote farm in Colorado, USA.  The traces were left by a certain Olivia Hall — a 24-year-old cyberactivist who has been working with the Shadow Client all this time.  Also known under the hacker name “Delriego”, she leads the cyber division.  She was also involved in the Hamsun Oil incident and took out some major corporations back during her college years.  She met the Shadow Client in Sierra Leone in 2002.  His other collaborators include Sean Rose — a radical activist and bomb maker, responsible for several terrorist attacks, raised in a Marxist collective.  As a teenager, Rose fled to Vancouver and was later recruited by The Pristine Army — a terror network committed to fight the spread of civilization.  After a job gone wrong, Rose became a freelancer, and amidst his accomplishments there can be found both the bombing of Hamsun Oil rig and the recent kidnapping of Thomas Cross.  Nowadays, Sean Rose leads a private militia and the remote farm is used as their training grounds.  Besides the Shadow Client, the militia also works closely with the Delgado cartel and there were mentions of CICADA being seen on the perimeter.  Right now, Sean Rose is working on eliminating Simon Devaraux — the CEO of Biosphere.  Devaraux is mentioned to be "exactly like Thomas Cross", meaning impossible to get close to.  The way in is a Link 4-brand smartwatch, armed with a bomb.  Rose is a guy to whom the ends justify the means — the militia is almost scared of him, thinking there is not a job he wouldn't do.  He's also been assembling a huge army mixed and matched from different organizations.  It is presumed that he's cracking under pressure and thus has to be treated by Dr. Oscar Lafayette. 

Sean’s private militia needs bests of the bests.  He recruits a handful of professionals such as Penelope Graves — an Interpol analyst who previously led a manhunt on Sean Rose himself before ultimately joining his side.  According to word of mouth, she has discovered evidence of corruption and abuse of power by the higher levels of the UN and was told to keep quiet by her supervisors, which led her to question the rights and wrongs.  In reality, she is working with the Shadow Client behind the scenes, asking difficult questions and trying to get close to Rose.  Familiar with IAGO and Cobb’s death, she also met Olivia Hall before this undercover mission. 

In turn, everyone who Sean believes is working for him is actually working for the Shadow Client.  Ezra Berg — a former Mossad agent, specializing in interrogation techniques and with a particular interest in experimental hypnosis, psychoactives and subliminal mind control.  His role is getting information out of a man he holds hostage in the basement of the farm — William Candler, one of the Heralds of Providence.  He learns about Providence “Partners” and “Constant” as well as an important yet hidden truth: Providence has their people on every IAGO auction to control what information doesn't get leaked.  They stay in the shadows, they don't intervene, they maintain the order and strike only when absolutely necessary. 

Last but not least, there is Maya Parvati — a former hired killer for the Tamil Tigers.  In turn, this role later granted her the position of the militia training instructor on the Colorado farm.  She got into the Tamil Tigers thanks to her father, who was one of the leaders of the organization.  She grew up raised by soldiers and mercenaries and ended up as a silent infiltrator when she was barely a teenager.  The Tamil Tigers disbanded in 2009 and Parvati embarked on a journey with a pirate called The Maelstrom, known for hijacking a TI-class supertanker back in 2014.  For some, he’s even seen as a legend.  Now, his past has been entirely erased, thanks to the efforts of Olivia Hall.  Parvati herself is also connected to Sean Rose in a different way.  She allegedly lost an arm to a grenade blast during the Hamsun Oil rig explosion.  Both The Maelstrom and Sean Rose were involved in the attack, although it is unknown why she decided to join the terrorist. 

Besides eliminating the targets, the ICA also wants 47 to get access to the basement of the house located on the Colorado farm.  In it, 47 finds out about the underlying conspiracy, all being run by the Shadow Client — his ultimate goal being to destroy Providence.  So far, he’s responsible for the kidnapping of Thomas Cross, murdering Providence’s keyholders, and stealing the intelligence from the organization’s vault in New York.  He’s also been using the Agency to do his dirty work, working closely with the organization’s Erich Soders, as he himself spends that time observing their best man from a distance.  This is also the case in Colorado.  As 47 leaves the mission area, the Shadow Client watches him from afar.  He’s on a line with none other than his companion Olivia Hall and they discuss the current matters.  Olivia’s scared that the ICA is going to continue their pursuit after her but the Shadow Client believes there was additional time bought just by switching the Agency’s attention to Sean Rose and his private militia.  He claims he knows 47 better than anyone, as it is revealed that he’s one of his Romanian “brothers”.  He relays a tale of their upbringings and their escape from the facility that led them to become a short-lived part of a small farming community which, in turn, was then slaughtered by people who came looking for the runaway boys.