A Traitor Within/Transcript

*[The mission starts inside James’s safehouse, in the bedroom at nighttime. James gets in his bed and goes to sleep. A time lapse of the city is shown going from late night to early morning. We hear an alarm clock beeping and the camera goes back to James, who is rising from bed with his pajamas on.]*

*[We then see James enter another room and then immediately come back out with his normal outfit on. His phone then rings.]*

**JAMES**: Hello?

**JOEY**: Hey, James.

**JAMES**: Joey, what’s up?

**JOEY**: I’m here with Charles on his rooftop patio. Melanie’s at Jack's House watching TV, but Jack isn’t home.

**JAMES**: Okay.

**JOEY**: Anyways, this is where we’ll be set up for a while, at least until Charles's work is done.

**JAMES**: And ours. I still need to follow that signal which was coming from Logan Island.

**JOEY**: Yup, that’s our next goal. Come meet us now at the patio, Charles'll send you the coordinates.

**CHARLES**: Ye!

*[The player must now leave the safehouse and get to the location, which is in northern Augustine. The patio is on the rooftop of the building about four stories up. It is small with some chairs, a table, a radio, old TV, some drinks, and a pizza box. Joey and Charles are sitting at the table.]*

**JAMES**: Hey guys.

**BOTH**: Hey.

**JAMES**: Charles, can you resend the coordinates?

**CHARLES**: Okay, hold on... *[typing on laptop]* There! Now go!

**JAMES**: On it.

*[The player must head to the location, which is a medium-sized house on the west end of Logan Island. When the player reaches the location, it is extremely quiet, with the only noise being a crow in the distance.]*

**JAMES**: Damn, this is extremely eerie.

*[James knocks on the door. No answer. He knocks again. No answer.]*

**JAMES**: I know you’re in there, you better answer!

*[No sound. Finally, James breaks the front window and enters. Inside, the house is dilapidated, the walls are falling apart, there is mold growth, objects and debris lay the floor, and things are knocked over.]*

**JAMES**: Haven’t seen conditions this bad since IC.

*[The player must navigate the house, which has some collectibles in certain rooms. However, the player must reach a room upstairs, which has a single computer in the corner, on a desk. When the player reaches this room, a cutscene will begin.]*

*[James slowly and quietly enters the room, but as soon as he does, we hear a man scream, and the player must tap the A and L keys simultaneously to dodge an attack. We see that Jack was hiding behind the wall, waiting for James to enter, and tried to knock him out by hitting him upside the head with a glass vase.]*

*[If the player fails to press these keys in 2 seconds (1 second on hard difficulty), Jack will succeed with hitting James with the vase, which will knock James out. With James out cold, Jack will pull out a pistol and shoot James in the head multiple times, killing him, and ending the mission in failure.]*

*[When the player successfully presses these keys, time will seem to go into slow motion as James dodges the vase, grabs Jack’s arm and flips him into a desk, breaking the desk. Jack is moaning in pain, but soon gets back up.]*

**JAMES**: What is this?! Now I find you’re betraying me?!

**JACK**: That’s right! How the hell did you find me!

**JAMES**: Not the question. The question is, what the hell are you doing?!

*[James grabs Jack and pins him against the wall. He preps his aura energy within his hands, threatening to kill Jack with this.]*

**JAMES**: Talk now, or you’re dead.

**JACK**: You think death will stop me? If you kill me, you’ll be hated by Melanie, Joey and everyone who’s ever loved you! Think!

*[James grabs Jack’s face and smashes it against his knee, and we hear a loud bone snap. Jack is screaming in absolute pain by this. With Jack down, James now aims his arm loaded with energy at Jack.]*

**JAMES**: How about NOW?!

*[Jack is struggling to speak due to the pain, but tries to get the words out anyway. He is lisping and mumbling, though.]*

**JAMES**: You better be clearer!

**JACK**: *[mumbling]* Alright! I’ll tell you. It was Father Time, he saw what happened after we had that big fight and I kicked you out of my house. He came up to me when no one was around and said that he could give me powers to join him and take you down. I agreed.

**JAMES**: Yeah?! What else?!

**JACK**: And I accepted! He was about to give me powers though, using that power device he created, but then you came and fucked everything up!

**JAMES**: So you were the one tracking me, using this computer here!

*[James approaches the computer, sits down, and accesses it. On it, he sees a folder entitled “FT\_files.jpex”. He clicks on it, and it opens a window which requires a passcode and ID number. He searches the drawers below the desk in which the computer is on, and finds a small, dusty paper. James blows the dust off the paper and on it, he sees a passcode “JX892IA0G21” and ID number “0091669162197”. He enters these, and the screen appears to glitch out for a second, but the program is accessed now.]*

*[All of a sudden, Jack gets up again, grabs an object on the floor, and dashes at James. The player must press the X and I keys simultaneously to make James turn around and punch Jack square in the face before Jack even got to James. This knocks Jack out. James sits back down and gets to work on the computer. He clicks some things and discovers a video file named “FT20180904.mp4”. He clicks the play button, and it begins to play.]*

**JACK**: Tell me what’s going on. Why did you bring me here?

**NICK**: Shush, Jack. We’ve much to discuss.

**JACK**: No, I wanna know now!

**NICK**: This tension will get us nowhere. Now sit down and be quiet. I’ve brought you here because I know you have potential. That is, a hatred for James Derettas.

**JACK**: I do. Since day one I was afraid of him. And since the day he showed up at my doorstep here in Atlantic City I hated him.

**NICK**: Well now you’ll get your shot at revenge. See, I created this.

**JACK**: What is that?

**NICK**: This little device? This is a little something I like to call the Power Elapser. I created it myself, after about three years of hard work.

**JACK**: And what does it do?

**NICK**: Well, you get a sample of power, like James’s Aura Manipulation, for example. You load that sample in the glass area in here, let it do its magic, and then, inject it in someone. In no time, they’ll have the same power.

**JAMES**: That’s it! Nick created a device that can clone powers! How the hell?...

**JACK**: How the hell did you make that?

**NICK**: It’s just a little something called dedication. Now, I have a sample of Light Manipulation here, that I created. I already injected this in someone else, and it worked, so I can do the same for you, and together, we can eliminate James Derettas from this Earth.

**JACK**: I accept.

**NICK**: Good. But before I do that, I’ll be back. Stay here.

*[We hear footsteps, and a door closing.]*

**JACK**: I can’t stay here.

*[We hear Jack open a window, climb out, and close the window behind him. The video ends.]*

**JAMES**: I can’t believe this! What a breakthrough.

*[James calls Charles.]*

**CHARLES**: Find anything?

**JAMES**: Yes, actually. Something BIG. Looks like we had a traitor within after all. Can you hack this computer and download the file? It’s called “FT20180904.mp4”, it’s a video file.

**CHARLES**: Alright. I’m starting the download.

*[The download appears on the screen, starting at 0%.]*

**CHARLES**: Uh, oh.

**JAMES**: What’s “uh oh”?

**CHARLES**: Someone must’ve noticed you tampering with the files, because there are mercenaries heading your way.

**JAMES**: Damn, better get out of here.

**CHARLES**: No, not yet! You can’t leave until the file’s downloaded. For now you’ll have to defend the computer until the download is complete.

**JAMES**: Yeah, I’ve done this before. Go ahead.

*[The player must now stay near the computer, making sure it does not break. If it does, the mission ends in failure and the download will reset to 0%. Enemies will show up at the house and the player must fend them off until the download reaches 100%. When it reaches 50%, Charles calls.]*

**JAMES**: Charles, kinda busy here!

**CHARLES**: Alright, well listen to this: when I started downloading that video, all the other files on the computer started coming in, too! We got it all baby!

**JAMES**: There was probably more evidence on the computer that I didn’t get to see, but now we’ll be able too. This is good, Charles.

*[Once the download gets to 100%, the player can choose to fight off the remaining enemies, or escape the area. Either one results in a mission success.]*