The Case of Mr. X

"The Case of Mr. X" is a mission in Saints Row IV.
==Overview==
The Mission begins outside the Broken Shillelagh with Matt Miller and CID, with Playa and Matt discussing Asha's Simulation how Matt is building up the situation and how he's building up a pedestal. After entering the gateway, Playa appears inside the Broken Shillelagh with the suit from Zero Saints Thirty and different facial features. Suddenly Asha bursts through the exit wrestling a Masako guard onto a pool table before shooting him in the head after he insults her. Soon, she and Playa argue about Johnny Gat and self righteousness before the bartender pulls out a knife and tries to attack them, but Playa throws him around the bar and after throwing him at a juke box, the pool table moves back and stairs heading down reveal and Asha motions them to follow her to look for Playa's evil twin.
Playa and Asha have to make their through the facility, eliminating lights and then silently killing off guards under strict protocol measures or risking being detected, something that Playa does not agree with. Along the way, Playa spots a person in a tube and then before they lose their patience with MI6's secrecy, Asha spots more guards and both her and Playa hide in boxes, and Playa decides to eliminate each guard. After getting past the guards and taking a detour through an air duct, Playa starts questioning Asha about her nightmare, in which she brings up Playa's ego into question.
After getting out the air duct, Asha tells Playa that Mr X could be hiding anywhere before Mr X contacts stating them he has no need to hide and says he can kill Asha's friends in front of her. Matt Miller is then brought out before Mr X executes him and them remarks how cold she is in comparison to Johnny Gat, and remarks how he loves it when she talks tough. Playa buts in and visibly agitates Mr X before telling them they are coming.
Playa and Asha makes their way to Mr X's location when they get caught in fight with Masako guards. They make their way to the final room where Mr X sends in more Masako guards. Playa asks more about Asha's nightmare, in which she reveals that failing her missions is her hell. Murderbots are soon sent in to deal with Playa and Asha before they are also defeated. Mr X finally decides to come out and deal with the duo personally with a McManus 2020, calling in more Masako guards and Murderbots, and using generators to heal up, only to have them damaged when used.
Eventually, Mr X is killed and drops to ground level where Playa grabs some cigarettes and sits on some boxes with Asha, remarking how "evil me" was an asshole, before Asha remarks that "good you" is also an asshole. Both eventually decides to shoot Mr X one last time before the mission ends with Asha flicking her cigarette onto the corpse of Mr X.
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==Trivia==
* This mission has many allusions to the franchise:
** One guard says "Yeah, baby, this snake is a hundred percent solid." This is a reference to Solid Snake, the popular character from the series.
** When shooting out a light when instructed the guard underneath has a "WTF!" or "OMG!" above their head with a sharp tone. This references when a guard in Metal Gear Solid sees you and has an exclamation mark (!) above their head with the same sharp tone.
** The section in which Playa and Asha hide under boxes also relates to Snake hiding under boxes to escape enemies.
** The cardboard box is named "Stealth Box 9000". This is a reference to HAL 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film to which the Metal Gear series contains several references.
** The final boss fight combines elements from Sniper Wolf and Vulcan Raven boss fights from Metal Gear Solid. Sniper Wolf shoots Snake with a sniper rifle from a far-away area, switching between cover positions, and Vulcan Raven boss fight area has several large crates that provide cover from enemy fire.
** If the mission is failed, Asha yells: "Boss, Boss, BOOOOSS", which is what happens when Snake is killed, although the same voice clip plays for all mission failures, including manually cancelling the mission.
** Mr X's eye patch is a reference to the character Big Boss in the Metal Gear Solid series. It's also possible that the goatee is a reference to a Star Trek episode, "", in which Evil Spock has a goatee, as this is commonly held to be the origin of the meme/trope of "s" having goatees.
** In , there is a ninja character who uses the name Mr. X.
** Troy Baker, the voice of Male Voice 1, voices Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
** Robin Atkin Downes, the voice of Male Voice 3, voices Kazuhira Miller in several Metal Gear Solid titles.
** At the end of the mission, The Boss takes out some cigarettes. Solid Snake is known in the Metal Gear Solid series for smoking,
* The objective in which the player has to shoot out the light fixtures to progress through the story is a reference to 
* The final confrontation against Mr. X bears a resemblance in dialogue and gameplay to the final confrontation in .
* A guard says that he was instructed by Playa to walk in a pattern, referencing almost all the action games. This may also be a reference to the original Metal Gear Solid, as the game was critisized for the guards repeating the same patterns over and over.
* The name "Mr. X" is used even when Playa is female.
* The quest name "From Asha with Love" is a reference to the James Bond title "".
* Both Asha's Quickshot Pistol in the beginning cutscene and the Heavy Pistol used by the first Masako guard in the first cutscene, Mr X in the second cutscene and Playa in the final cutscene uses the same skin that Playa has selected for the 2 pistols.
* The cigarette pack Playa picks up from Mr. X's corpse has several Saint's fleur-de-lis symbols on it.
* After Asha and Playa duck under the boxes, the first guard whistles "" by , which is played on The Mix 107.77, and during the end credits.
* After the cutscene where Mr. X is introduced, Asha's stance changes to a male stance rather than a female stance, holding her TAC SMG with both hands while instead of holding the gun with the muzzle up (standing still or walking) and firing the gun aiming down sights instead of hip-firing the gun.
* At the end of the first corridor is a Murderbot arms behind glass, which resembles the storage of the recovered Terminator arm in .
* At the entrance to the base is a trapdoor to a ventilation shaft in the floor and just before the door to the fight with Mr. X is what appears to be the exit for it.
* This is the only mission where the TAC SMG is used.
* is commonly used as a pseudonym for someone whose name is secret or unknown. "" is a story regarding an identical version a man.
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