Operation: Friendly Skies

**Operation: Friendly Skies** is the first mission in *I Expect You To Die*.

You've covered this in basic training.

## Synopsis

The Handler's briefing of the mission are as follows:

> We're calling this mission, "Operation: Friendly Skies". I hope you like cars, and airplanes, and cars in airplanes. Dr. Zor, corporate billionaire by day, underhanded villain by night, has a cargo plane scheduled to depart for Zanzibar this very evening. We need you to infiltrate the plane before it takes off. Gain access to the vehicle held within, and drive it right off the airplane. Our Intel assures us, Zor's car is equipped to handle a fall from any height, so we're almost positive you won't die.
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The mission opens with the player in the drivers seat of Dr. Zor's car. The player's objective is to drive the car off the plane.

## Walkthrough

Grab the key on the sun visor and put it in the ignition slot on the right side of the steering wheel. Then, the sun vizor will flip down and a retinal scanner will attempt scan you. You can either let it complete the scan or you can choose to dodge it. Either way, a thin laser will target the driver seat. You can choose to either shoot it with the revolver found in the back seat, or you can choose to simply lean out of its way. After you survive it, a bomb with be deployed from a compartment to the right of the pedals. To disable it, grab the knife from inside the glovebox (or the broken champagne shard) and the bomb arming manual from the front right door pocket. Cut the wires in the opposite order from arming; yellow, green, blue. If this is done correctly, the bomb will fall apart into three dynamite sticks.

If you look out the left car door window, you should see a screwdriver. Use the button to flip the window down, grab the screwdriver, and flip the window back up. This must be done quickly due to the poison gas. Unscrew the four screws on the instrument panel in the front center of the car. Pull the panel off and press the master reset button. Press the top left red button and a launcher will unfurl. Take a stick of dynamite from the bomb, load it into the launcher, and pull back the lever. Put the car in drive and press the acceleration pedal to drive out.

## Souvenirs

There are five souvenirs, along with one speedrun for this mission.

### Guns Away

Throw the gun out of the plane. The best way to do this is once you have blown up the door and can see the sky, shoot the windshield and use telekinesis to drop it off before you drive off.

### Make It Rain

Shoot some money from the car cannon. Money can be found in both the glove box and the center console.

## Car's Answering Machine

Zor's Car has a Phone and Answering Machine built into it and has number of recorded Audio Messages.

## Debriefing

The Handler's debriefing is as follows:

> Another successful mission. Now, about that vacation, I'm afraid I lied about that. But, I believe hard work is its own reward, don't you?
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## Trivia

* See Operation: Friendly Skies (Developer Commentary).
* The Zoraxis Model Z was heavily based on the 1925 Rolls Royce Phantom I Jonckheere Coupe.

## Gallery

An image of Operation: Friendly Skies, and the bomb.