A Lethal Obsession

> A former USIA analyst has a warrant for his arrest over the suspected murder of five police officers in Makade County, Greater Los Suenos. Gerard Scott, 55, waited out the front of East Makade Police Department with a loaded Mini-14 after setting a car alight on the street in front of the department. He then shot at officers while they attempted to extinguish the alighted vehicle. Witnesses on the street reported his vehicle as he drove away.
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> Description of "A Lethal Obsession"

## Sullivan's Slope

### Time

1425

**A Lethal Obsession** is the fifth mission in *Ready or Not*. A former USIA analyst has a warrant for his arrest over the murder of five police officers.

## Mission Brief

*Alright, boys, listen up. We all heard about the shooting down at the Makade precinct. We've got three officers fighting for their lives and three who have already lost theirs. But, we have something else too. We've got the name and probable location of the son-of-a-bitch who did this. We've also got the pleasure of being the ones who get to get him.*

(Murmurs)

*Settle down. What we know about the events earlier today is that Gerard Scott set up an ambush by lighting a car on fire near the Makade station. He lay in wait, and when the police arrived, he opened fire on them with a rifle. Scott then fled the scene in an RV. A member of the public who was nearby when the shooting started got the license plate, which we've traced to a compound up on Sullivan's Slope. Scott's details are coming through to your tablets. We don't know much about this guy. He used to work for the USIA in an office-based role. He has no family, no friends, and apparently, no known acquaintances. He wasn't even known to us until today. We've got nothing to work with. No motive no history with law enforcement. All we know is that this guy likes to keep to himself. He's already shown he's not afraid to shoot at cops, so I doubt he's going to welcome up with open arms. Be careful up there. I do not want to be responsible for the Chaplain showing up at anyone else's wife's door today.*

*I understand that emotions are going to be, but we do not know what we are walking into. I want us to be swift and sensible. He's shown that he has serious firepower, and we need to be ready for anything. Something triggered him, and that makes him a very dangerous individual.*

*Now, gear up and report back to your Element Leaders in the garage in 5 minutes.*

## Objectives

### Main Objectives

**Bring Order to Chaos**

* Arrest or neutralize any contact at the scene.

**Arrest Gerard Scott**

* Apprehend and secure the prime suspect, Gerard Scott, who remains at large. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous.

## The Map

The level is small, taking place exclusively in Gerard's cabin. The cabin is three-stories tall, featuring at least four different entrances: the front door, the ground floor, the lower backyard, and the upper backyard. The place is messy and unorganized, featuring nondescript drawings and writings on the walls, corkboards with various connections, papers tossed everywhere, and ricin experiments on the ground floor.

The drawings on the wall, as well as one of the tapes found next to a bed indicate that Gerard Scott suffers from intense paranoia, if not full psychosis or even schizophrenia, as the drawings mainly depict several conspiracy theories, ranging from the injection of "slime" into the eyeballs of the general population, programs of mass populational surveillance, and even police and federal agents being mind controlled by a secretive, satanic upper echelon of the U.S government.

However, the drawings on the walls and boards around the house also highlight Gerard Scott's intellect, as they showcase complex mathematical equations and chemical formulas, normally reserved to higher academic and professional environments.

Gerard Scott and his assistant's equipment, which consist of an improvised ghillie camouflage hood and an automatic assault rifle for Gerard and an automatic submachine gun for his accomplice, as well as the paintings on the walls also hint at him having some form of recreational hunting, military and/or law enforcement training, experienced with the gear utilized, he knows where the LSPD SWAT and normal police officers are more vulnerable to be shot at, as well as the quality of their ballistic armour and their available gear. These paintings also hint at him having done other types of work for the USIA beyond analysis, most likely on the field or in logistics.

One of the tapes found close to a computer on the upper floor also hint at Gerard Scott knowing D Platoon member Judge to some extent, as he claims to have seen his methodology and training, as well as claiming to "know what kind of man he is", thinking that both he and Judge are "part of the cycle....in a never-ending game". This could also hint at Gerard Scott being a former LSPD SWAT Officer, or at the very least hinting at him serving with Judge in the LSPD.

The writings on the ground floor lab's whiteboard indicate that Gerard and his accomplice were working on a type of aerosol bomb, which would be either remote controlled or timed. However, by the time the SWAT Team raids the cabin, they had been unable to confirm the ricin's effect on humans, but had already tested the ricin on local fauna, indicated by the whiteboard writings and reinforced by the presence of empty animal cages near the lab.

## Trivia

* The map is internally known as "Ridgeline" and referred to as such in the game files.