The Project Scientists

HUNTERS

**The Project Scientists** are a hunter group in *Manhunt 2*

## Description

The scientists works at Project Laboratories in Cottonmouth. Their job is to work on Dr. Pickman's projects and test subjects, including animals, like monkeys and actual humans.

## History

### Background

There is not much known about the scientists, since they are the smallest group of hunters in the game, composing of only three known members. One of the scientists claims he has been hired to work somewhere before the year 2012 at a lab about veterinary.

### History of *Manhunt 2*

*Main article: Origins*
Crawling through the vents that go through the dangerous veterinary lab, Danny can hear a Project nurse and a pompous scientist having a conversation about his arrival to the lab, the latter explaining that it is causing them to feel edgy. The former is curious about how Lamb could cause them so much trouble and mentions that he heard of his mental breakdown before, and asks if he was dangerous as they say and if he was familiar with him. The scientist tells him that he has never met Lamb in his career due to different working positions and tells him to stop asking questions as the Project can punish them for that by cutting off their pay. They can only know what Pickman wants them to know.

Another conversation can be heard with the surgeon and Dr. Pickman who are doing experiments on a pair of monkeys with the Pickman Bridge. The latter walks into the surgeon's lab as the former gives him a report on the experiment, saying that “Subject A” has become too dominant. He insists against removing the Bridge now as it will cause the latent personality to be lost forever. Insulted by him implying that he knows not about what he invented, he rejects the results and urges him to shut it down. The surgeon reminds him that the results have been the same since Lamb's experiment, whose mentioned name angers Pickman, who asserts that he's in control of the situation before claiming that they will succeed and leaving the lab.

Once Daniel falls through the vent doors, he can find the nurse and the surgeon he saw earlier while he was still crawling through the vents. Daniel has to kill any of these two and decapitate them to take their head, so that he can use it on the retinal scanner on the door on the other side of the veterinary lab to pursue Pickman who is in the fire exit beyond the veterinary lab's doors.

In the flashback scene triggered in the auditorium through a projector, a surgeon can be seen behind Daniel and a Project nurse is seen watching him from the back of the seats as Daniel is undergoing conditioning for the Pickman Bridge experiment through watching a series of images being flashed with corresponding words that eventually become mismatched before concluding with an image of Leo Kasper.

After being afflicted with a “deep hypnotic state” by Pickman who recites a sentence from the poem *The Tempest* over a loudspeaker, a Watchdog watches over Daniel who comes to inside the operating room. The Watchdog is then called by a scientist in the next room for a brief talk. Without being caught moving towards the Watchdog, Daniel murders him with a pen in the room, although he may also be slain or evaded with unorthodox methods. That being said, the scientist he was talking to can be seen scared and may be killed with the player's choice. Nevertheless, his fate has no impact on the story.

Once Daniel corners Dr. Pickman in the auditorium, a Project nurse with a Tranquilizer Gun is seen coming from the stairs of the projector room to protect Pickman by attempting to tranquilize Daniel. He is killed by Danny for his gun, which he uses to knock out Pickman before he can recite the failsafe phrase to incapacitate him while wiping his memory clean.

## Episodes of Appearances

Along with the Cottonmouth S.W.A.T. and the Security Guards, The Project Scientists have the least amount of appearances, starring only in one episode:
the "Origins".

## References

1. ↑ Speech folder name. (`audio/PC/Speech/Surgeon_1`)