A Case of Identity
A Case of Identity opens Sequence 6 with Jacob chasing a name in a letter: Plutus, Starrick's banker, and a meddler called Mr Dredge. You infiltrate the Royal Exchange to kidnap Dredge and find out what he knows.
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Storylines
Part 1 of 5 in Sequence 6: A Run on the Bank
Good to know
- Sequence 6, memory 1 of 5; global story order 22; played as Jacob Frye.
- Location: the Royal Exchange.
- Optional objective: do not kill any policemen.
- A banker you pass on the way, Philip Twopenny, kicks away a beggar's coins.
- The title borrows a Sherlock Holmes story name by Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Placed after End of the Line, with One Good Deed as the following memory.
Objectives
Read the letter on the train, then head for the exchange. A paperboy shouts about the bus feud. Slip past the well-paid guards, find Dredge asking people about the vault next door, and grab him from behind. Walk him out of the building, keeping police clear of your detection ring.
Before you go
Evie and Jacob trade barbs: she asks him not to wreck medicine or transport this time, and he reminds her she let Lucy Thorne escape. That exchange sets up her hunt in A Thorne in the Side.
What happensSpoilerShow
Dredge is Abberline in disguise, working undercover. He says a robbery of the Bank of England is coming adding that every quarter a different branch is robbed by thieves armed by Cockham Merchants. That lead becomes A Spot of Tea.
Tips
The exchange is full of guards Jacob jokes are the best money can buy. Avoid killing the police who patrol nearby, and walk Dredge out slowly rather than running, so the detection ring around you stays small.
Jacob and AbberlineSpoilerShow
Abberline objects to being called Freddy and insists on his rank, but Jacob talks him into sharing details by imagining headlines about thieves caught in the vault. Abberline leaves warning Jacob that he is keeping an eye on him.
- Crawford StarrickCrawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
- Evie FryeEvie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.
- Frederick AbberlineFrederick Abberline is the Metropolitan Police officer who works with the Frye twins in 1868 and leads the Whitechapel murder inquiry in the Jack the Ripper expansion. In the main game he gives you Bounty Hunts, sending you after Blighter leaders to bring back alive.
- Lucy ThorneLucy Thorne is Crawford Starrick's second-in-command and the Templars' expert on Pieces of Eden in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is Evie Frye's rival through the search for the Shroud of Eden and the target of the memory A Thorne in the Side, set in the Tower of London.
- Philip TwopennyPhilip Twopenny is the Governor of the Bank of England and the Templar banker known as Plutus, who has his men rob the bank's own vaults for the Order. Jacob Frye unmasks him in Sequence 6 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and he is the target of the memory A Bad Penny.
Related missions
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A Thorne in the Side
A Thorne in the Side sends Evie into the Tower of London, where Lucy Thorne and Templars disguised as Royal Guards are hunting for the Queen's casket that her stolen key opens. You can rally loyal guards, free a jailed constable and walk in as a fake prisoner to get close to Thorne.
Image: UbisoftStoryA Bad Penny
A Bad Penny ends Sequence 6 inside the Bank of England. Jacob joins a guided tour, interrogates the guard captain and bank manager, and reaches Philip Twopenny in the vault before his men can finish the robbery.
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Overdose
Overdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.
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A Spot of Tea
A Spot of Tea is a tailing mission: Abberline needs to know which shipment carries the Cockham Merchants' weapons, so Jacob searches carts at the Thames docks, marks the right one and follows it through foggy streets to the man behind the robbery plan.