| 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. |