Double Trouble
Double Trouble begins the finale: after a bitter argument, the twins agree to one last job together, and Jacob has to steal William and Catherine Gladstone's invitations to the Queen's ball. The two split up, so you pickpocket each one in turn.
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Storylines
Part 1 of 4 in Sequence 9: Shall We Dance?
Found in
- Buckingham PalaceBuckingham Palace is Queen Victoria's London home in Westminster and the setting for the climax of Syndicate's story, the Queen's ball. It is also where the Queen hands out the Operation side memories, and it has a viewpoint.
- Victoria stationVictoria station is a Westminster railway terminus south of Buckingham Palace. In Double Trouble, Jacob comes here after Catherine Gladstone, who is under guard, while gathering invitations to the Queen's ball.
Good to know
- Sequence 9, memory 1 of 4; global story order 37; played as Jacob Frye.
- Targets: the ball invitations of William and Catherine Gladstone.
- Optional objectives: don't kill any policemen; do not damage the Gladstones' carriage.
- Henry's spies report that Starrick plans to strike at the palace ball.
- Benjamin Disraeli offers up the Gladstones' cards with some glee.
- Mrs Gladstone is waiting at the station for a Mr James.
Objectives
Go to the Gladstone residence and find it empty. A girl says the couple left in separate carriages; follow her directions to Mr Gladstone's private party and pickpocket his invitation. Then go to Victoria station, where Mrs Gladstone is guarded. Either sit on the bench behind her and lift the card, or follow her into the restroom while she is waiting for a Mr James. Finally steal her carriage without damaging it.
The argument
Evie accuses Jacob of leaving destruction across the city; Jacob says he has been killing Starrick's men while she reads. Evie quotes Plato, and Jacob shouts that their father is dead before Henry steps in. They agree to finish Starrick and then part ways.
Outcome
Jacob drives off with both invitations and the Gladstones' own carriage, and notices a rule that swords must be left at the door.
The Disraelis' visit
Mary Anne arrives on the train hungry for street news. When Evie explains they need to get into the ball, Mary Anne says no cards are left, but her husband offers the Gladstones' if that fool is attending. She is delighted at the idea of pinching them, and Evie volunteers Jacob for the job.
- Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli is the Prime Minister the Templars want dead in Sequence 7. Jacob poses as his bodyguard to save him, and the Disraelis later help the twins steal the Gladstones' invitations to the Buckingham Palace ball.
- 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.
- Mary Anne DisraeliMary Anne Disraeli is the outspoken wife of the Prime Minister. In Driving Mrs. Disraeli she makes Jacob take her slumming in the Devil's Acre, and in return tells him who the mysterious B behind the plot against her husband is.
- William GladstoneWilliam Gladstone is Disraeli's rival and the Templars' preferred Prime Minister. In Double Trouble Jacob steals his and his wife's invitations to the Buckingham Palace ball, along with their carriage.
Related missions
Image: UbisoftStoryA Night to Remember
A Night to Remember is the final main memory: the twins enter the Queen's ball at Buckingham Palace, Evie retrieves the vault plans from the White Drawing Room while Jacob rescues captive Royal Guards on the roofs, and both face Crawford Starrick in the vault below.
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Family Politics
Family Politics has Evie earn the location of the second set of palace plans by driving Duleep Singh around London in a stolen royal carriage, so he can lobby three politicians about the kingdom Britain took from him.
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Playing Politics
Playing Politics opens Sequence 7 at the Sinopean Club, where Jacob watches Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli argue with William Gladstone and looks for the mysterious B who is plotting Disraeli's death. A spy, a rooftop sniper and a chase follow.
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Dress to Impress
Dress to Impress solves the weapons problem for the ball: only Royal Guards carry arms inside, so Jacob takes a guard's uniform for Abberline, who will smuggle the twins' gear into Buckingham Palace.