Under the Last Siege

## Information

### Partner(s)

Stephanie Wilcox (Chapter 1 & 2)
Anabel Thompson (Chapter 3)
Darko Yakushev, Jason Leavitt and Kevin McCaskey (Last Hours of Apocalypse 4)
Abraham Fowler, Mingxia Hao and Barry Gates (1 task in Last Hours of Apocalypse 4)

## Progression

### Succeeded by

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(Nothing, last season)

"*This is it, Detectives! The final showdown has arrived… who will stand, and who will fall? Fight against the evil's ambition and stop the virus outbreak across the world to unravel the true mastermind of the World Dominant! Criminal Case has come to save the day!!*"
– Case Teaser

**Under the Last Siege** is a case featured in Criminal Case Third Line: World Dominant as the season finale, appearing as the 60th and final case of the game. It is the fourth and final case set in Antarctica.

## Plot

Soon after the explosion at the Silence Slayer's hideout, Yuila Chadov and Bruno Magro were found dead and Simeon Mezentsev reported missing. With Dominic Chadov-Woodhull's death and mutated Veronaviru outbreak all over the world, the team was assigned to start the evacuation of the stations. A few hours later, Taraji told the team that her facial recognition system had spotted Anabel and Maggie at Ceremony Hall. There, Stephanie and the player found them and arrest Maggie, while Anabel was found safety. But unfortunatly, they found Simeon's body impaled on a statue, with a message from the killer implying that The New Pride had taken control over Dominic's terrorist army.

The five people were labelled as suspects: Abraham Fowler (chief of police), Jason Leavitt (former detective), Anabel Thompson (former trainee), Romano Bautista (Nazario's former bodyguard), Velia Farina (former tech expert), Peter Vasuni (former president), Azza Azami (Egyptian ambassador), Father Fortunato (priest), Abigail Hafner (prime minister), and Henri Leclair (retired tech expert).

Mid-investigation, the team learned that Chief Fowler and former detective Jason Leavitt were been at the crime scene before them, forcing them to flag both as the suspects. Soon after, the new cult followers raided the station, forcing the entire team to leave and establish a temporary base at the raided and abandoned 99th precinct. Meanwhile, a barely alive Anabel and the player headed to a hill at the main research station, where they found Simeon's ripped heart. They also found Peter weak but alive near the hill. Later, while convening at the destroyed dome, Stephanie and the player were caught in an explosion caused by a short circuit or gas leak. As Stephanie was in critical condition, Anabel took over as the player's partner once again. The team soon found out that the new leader had complete control over the world with mutated virus. They then gathered the final evidence needed to incriminate Nazario Sanchez's bodyguard, Romano Bautista, in the murder.

To everyone's amazement, Romano said that the new cults welcomed him as their new leader as he himself was The New Pride. Romano explained that Nazario had him woken up and tested on multiple times throughout his development, with him growing more obedient to his orders. For the final phase of testing, Nazario dared Romano to pass off as his assistant in human form. However, after Nazario's arrest and Dominic's murder, the more aware he became abused by Simeon Mezentsev, who has inflicted on him and his fellow cults with Veronavirus. As the zombies were still fully under Nazario's control, Romano decided to "free" Nazario and his army from Simeon's behaviour. Thus, when Simeon found Romano at ceremony hall and attempt to kill him, he pushed him into the statue's spear and implant it so that Nazario's army would no longer have to bow down to anyone. After his confession, Maggie tries to kill Romano to free the world, but he shoots her to death and escape, much to Anabel's lost.

After Romano's escape, Jason Leavitt and Darko proposed their plan to amplify the vaccine's effects on one person to make them even more powerful than the zombies. They would then gather all of the zombies in one place in order to more easily take them on.

During Last Hours of Apocalypse (4/4), after Jason and the player found a generator for his makeshift lab, Hao was successfully able to make the vaccine. However, Hao said that whoever took it would experience an incredible burst of power for roughly an hour before dying. As Peter had volunteered to take the vaccine, the team talked to him to ensure he was up to the task. Despite his willingness to atone for terrorist's sins, Peter succumbed to the effects of the virus and the explosion and died before their eyes, forcing the team into a dilemma.

Meanwhile, Darko and the player went to the dome to find video footage of Romano, which they promptly sent to Taraji. After Taraji informed the team that Stephanie was awake but in severe pain, she showed them the message she was able to make of Romano urging the cults to gather at the hill. Chief Fowler approved of the use of the message, but he advised the team to go to Ceremonoy Hall to find the access codes they needed to broadcast the message throughout the Slayer's hideout. They found the codes and sent them to Taraji, who was able to prepare everything they needed for the broadcast.

After all the events, Fatiha Jubayr, Jason Leavitt and Velia Farina reunited with the team (including Stephanie after her one arm has amputated from explosion), not wanting to sit out on the team's biggest confrontation. Darko then volunteered to take the Supranova-X Bomb, saying that he was the best candidate to take it given his physical condition and military training, much to his wife's sorrow. The team then executed their plan, with Darko and the player confronting Romano rest of remaining terrorist groups atop the hill. In the middle of the battle, Darko felt the bomb has been overloading and urged the player to run for their life. Soon afterwards, Darko's Supranova-X Bomb caused an explosion, killing Romano and himself as well as all terrorists and zombies. Meanwhile, a traumatized Anabel cried over Maggie and Darko's death, remembering how she become trainee before she and her brother Carl lost their abusive parent. Anabel then hoping to the boat and head back to nowhere unknown, telling Carl to be brave no matter what.

Two weeks after the battle, the world was in the middle of its restoration: the citizens had returned to their homes, mayoral elections had been scheduled, N.A.R.A. was helping the cities around the world clear the former fortress site, while Jennifer Sagett — who had succeeded Dominic as N.A.R.A. head — had been trying to restore the public's faith in N.A.R.A. The team then headed to Darko's memorial ceremony, where Chief Flower honored Darko's sacrifice and announced that a memorial would be erected at the former fortress site to commemorate Darko. After everyone leaved, Carl tried to find Anabel everywhere until he found the message from his sister, telling him that she quited from job and wants him to take her place as officer trainee.

After the events, the team (alongside Fatiha and Jason) became guests of honor at a special assembly held by the USD. At the assembly, Stanly Nashville said that the border wall with Mexico and the exit from the USD were all done on Nazario's discretion and that he would reverse these decisions, while also admitting that he too was at fault. Azza Azami then awarded the player with the US Peace Award. After being shown the prize, Fowler said that he glad that Fatiha was released from jail and they're resume their date at Bahama. Meanwhile, Nazario and the rest of his cult following were already to face the death penalty to put everything in peace, for long last.

Five months after the ceremony, the Bureau recounted how far they had come since the player's arrival in the city: a still-grieving Natalya was slowly recovering, engaged to Kevin; Hisao and Sonia had grown closer from all the strife and were expecting their first child since after a month of their wedding. They then went to Hao and Abel's wedding, officiated by Shaheen. After wedding, all of team members from Liberty Secret Investigation Agency and Azure Peak Police Department joined the Bureau to take the group photo of memorial with the player, wishing the player to good luck with brand new journey. Carl takes the player to move to Liberty Town to start training as police officer one day.

Conclusion (Note: if the player fully completed achievements, time attacks, elite mode and collecting stickers, the secret final scene will unlocked): After credit roll, five years has been passed since the world has regained peace at last, all the police teams were resumed their work on duties normally. Fowler and Fatiha were finally married and have their first child, Velia and Mandy were expecting their third child, Kevin and Natalya were greeting to their new daughter as they have the picnic with Colin and Anatolii. Colin is now the soldier and Anatolii start to making new friends. And Rusamond became the grandmother to Hao and Abel's son while Stephanie has getting started the new life as writer after losing her one arm.

Meanwhile at Liberty Town, a still-traumatized Anabel moved with her new husband and two children to the new house as she saw Carl in police suit. Carl saw his sister, now married and have two kids, and reunite with her. But suddenly, Anabel begin to have hallucination of the family's bloodbath, zombie-looking people and Maggie's horrifying death. All haunted events five years ago caused Anabel to gasps in horror, but one of her children asked what's wrong. But she calm down and introduces her brother to them as their uncle. After that. Carl begin to move with his sister and her new family into new home for long last. After all events, Chief Fowler and the rest of all police teams thanked the player for all the memories they had created and wish them a good luck.

"Good luck, my friend! Thank you for playing!"

"The End!"

## Suspects

**Abraham Fowler**
Chief
 **Blood** | O+

**Suspect's Profile**

**Jason Leavitt**
Former Detective
 **Blood** | A-

**Suspect's Profile**

**Anabel Thompson**
Ex-Officer Trainee
 **Blood** | A+

**Suspect's Profile**

**Romano Bautista**
Nazario's Former Bodyguard
 **Blood** | A+

**Suspect's Profile**

**Velia Farina**
Former Tech Expert
 **Blood** | AB+

**Suspect's Profile**

**Peter Vasuni**
Former President
 **Blood** | O+

**Suspect's Profile**

**Azza Azami**
Egyptian Ambassador
 **Blood** | B+

**Suspect's Profile**

**Father Fortunato**
Priest
 **Blood** | A-

**Suspect's Profile**

**Abigail Hafner**
Prime Minister
 **Blood** | B-

**Suspect's Profile**

**Henri Leclair**
Tech Expert
 **Blood** | B+

**Suspect's Profile**

## Quasi-suspect(s)

**Mingxia Hao**
Lab Chief
 **Blood** | O-

**Darko Yakushev**
Weapon Expert
 **Blood** | B+

## Killer's Profile

* The killer is right-handed.
* The killer has watched *Juco*.
* The killer inhales amyl poppers.
* The killer has green eyes.
* The killer is male.

## Trivia

* This is one of the cases of the game in which has more than one main character were flagged as a suspect for plausible reasons.
* This case is the only cases in third season where have ten suspects more than usual five have appeared previously.
* This is one of the cases in which the killer has to be interrogated once again during the Additional Investigation.
* Due to the story's canon, Judge Dave Palamo does not make an appearance in this case.
	+ Furthermore, this is also the only case in Third Line where he does not appear.
* *Juco* is a parody of the psychological horror novel *Cujo* by Stephen King and its film adaption.