Escher

Lieutenant Escher is part of the New Amsterdam Police. He is a cyberhead sniper who plays a short yet significant role in the story, mostly due to his actions against the Bomb Rush Crew. 
==Role in the Story==
BRC first encounters Escher at Brink Terminal. After the crew beats Eclipse's challenges around the terminal, Escher tracks them down as suspects, having been informed that they are armed and use of deadly force has been authorized. Escher thus opens fire on them. This results in actually getting a headshot on Red in particular, but the shot seems to just bounce off his cyberhead with no apparent damage.
Red and the rest of BRC attempt to escape the terminal, but end up fighting Escher instead, reaching him on one of the roofs of the bus stations around the terminal. At one point, Escher tells Red to drop his "weapon", but Red just drops a spraycan he was holding.
Realizing that Red might not actually have a weapon, Escher then asks him what he wants. Red mentions wanting to find his old head, to which Escher points out that for a cyberhead, finding their old head would mean effectively killing themselves if they put it back on their body. This is because a cyberhead is meant to be a copy of the old head already, so there's no need to go back to the original, if that even manages to be an option in the first place.
Escher also emphasizes that people like him and Red should not be tied down by their roots (i.e. who or where they came from), but instead judged by their actions as people separate from their old heads. Red then questions why Escher is trying to fight him anyways, to which Escher responds that he simply has his orders. More specifically, he is to arrest BRC and confiscate a body that was reported stolen, referring to Red's own body.
Once Escher is defeated, he and Red end up on a rooftop on the far side of the terminal. Escher asks Red if he or his crew had a gun on them at all. Red doesn't respond, but while he's distracted by Tryce and Bel calling out to him, Escher manages to escape.
After BRC beat Eclipse and Red goes through another dream stage, a cutscene plays showing Escher and Berlage back at the police bureau. Escher reports that he and the other snipers found the suspects (i.e. BRC), but failed to capture them. He also points out that they weren't hostile unless provoked, but Berlage interrupts him to insist that the "field test" was still successful.
He has Escher follow him to the Project Algo control room to explain further. Essentially, the implication is that the project, being a breakthrough in crime prediction, had predicted that the suspects would be armed and dangerous, and thus the police were directed to act accordingly.
Berlage has Escher interface with the project, meaning connecting his cyberhead to Project Algo itself. Escher's eyes turn red, which from hints later in the game indicates that he has now been taken over by the project. He receives info from Project Algo on how to track down the suspects he failed to arrest back at Brink Terminal.
Later in the game, after BRC have defeated DOT EXE and are back at the hideout, Escher appears. He runs up to Red and shoots him in the head at pointblank range with his sniper rifle. Escher looks like he's about to shoot Red again, but he then gets knocked out from a skateboard to the head, courtesy of Vinyl.
==Boss Fight==
Escher is fought while the crew are in Brink Terminal during chapter 2. After the cutscene with Escher firing on BRC, the player has to then navigate onto one of the nearby station roofs to get to him. After hitting him once, Escher will then question Red about his motives.
The boss fight against Escher continues after that short cutscene, with Escher moving to other raised spots around the terminal. Other police snipers also join in to help Escher against Red, meaning the player has to fight them off as well.
Whenever the player lands a hit on Escher, he leaps away to another spot in the terminal, while the regular snipers are taken out in one hit. It takes three hits during this fight to finally defeat him.
==Gallery==
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File:EscherCutscene19.jpg|Memento mori to you too, good sir!
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==Trivia==
* He shares the same voice actor as Berlage and Boombap, as well as Grid from Lethal League Blaze, another game by Team Reptile.
* It is unknown what happened to Escher after being knocked out by Vinyl, as he is never seen again after that point.
* The game files refer to his texture as "sniperCaptainDark" and his model as just "SniperCaptain", implying that "Captain" might have been his rank in the police force at one point in development before being switched to lieutenant.
* There is an additional model labeled "sniperCaptainPlayer", which could imply he might have been planned to be playable at some point during development.
* Escher is possibly named after M.C. Escher, a famous Dutch artist who was inspired by mathematical concepts for most of his works.
==References==
Category:New Amsterdam Police
Category:Bosses