I hadn’t seen any Trilogy (as a whole) dedicated thread and I’ve encountered some members of the community that had some major mistakes with the game’s lore and I want to explain it in the best way possible.
Paris:
The link between Grey and Viktor was simply that Viktor hired him to eliminate Nicholai Kamarov, an FSB agent that was mounting a case against Viktor and IAGO. Rather than paying Grey with money for completing the assassination and wiping all traces of the case Kamarov was working on, the payment was a copy of the NOC list. There was no blackmail, it was just the transaction that was mutually agreed upon previously as Viktor was obviously not wanting to be exposed.
Grey sends a text during the cutscene. It goes something like “Leak the names. No loose ends”. Its implied “the names” are Viktor and Dalia as it gets sent after the “I’m sure it’s the one you’ll be remembered for” line.
Sapienza:
The point of Sapienza was to lure the key bearer out so that Grey could obtain the second key he needed for the vault - though it had the bonus of Ether having Providence ties.
Silvio and Franny were just Ether workers with no straight connection to Providence
Marrakesh:
Both Claus and Reza are Providence, and we know that because of “Providence is Under Attack” there is a mention of “The Marrakesh Coup” by Edwards himself, and we know that they are a part of Providence because of the Tornado Shelter.
Bangkok:
Ooooohh this is the juice, I don’t want even to explain how we know that they are both Providence, some of the most important ones, they are both mentioned multiple times as Providence related characters, either by Thomas Cross or Don Yates, not knowing they are Providence is not paying attention to the simplest conversations.
Grey didn't hid his path greatly enough:
After the ICA understood that someone was behind all of the contracts, they were like “Fuck, we gotta figure this out and get rid of these assholes” the ICA managed to track down Olivia in Colorado and sent 47 to his hardest contract in the trilogy, and even though the ICA were fine enough with the death of the 4, Diana wanted to find out the fuck has been going on.
Colorado:
Yeah, both ICA and Diana thought Sean Rose was the Shadow Client, yeah aight, they were incredibly wrong, only after 47 killed the 4 goons and witnessed Grey’s “Great Walls of Secret Stuff” they found out that the providence is real! What a shock!, and they saw plenty of Providence related goons on the walls, but there was one rich scum that caught Diana’s eye, our buddy Soders, since Soders is ICA, ICA is Neutral, and Soders clearly isn’t, he needs to be eliminated.
Hokkaido:
We found out that Soders is a herald in Colorado and Diana says in the Mission Briefing that Yuki is a herald as well, the reason we kill Yuki as well is that Soders gave her access to ICAs network, compromising it.
And if you didn’t read the Colorado explanation:
since Soders is ICA, ICA is Neutral, and Soders clearly isn’t, he needs to be eliminated.
In the “Partners, Then?” cutscene, Edwards is getting pissed at Diana for taking out Soders and Yuki, asking her for help to take down his enemy, but since she is neutral she doesn’t give him a positive answer, he gets cocky, blah blah blah.
Hawkes Bay:
The ICA analysts tracked down another militia member, Alma, requested to take her out too, but 47 and Diana seek information on the shadow client instead, and find leads to Kronstadt, both Sierra and Robert.
Miami:
47 kills both Heralds, Sierra and Robert, this is a part of 47 and Diana’s fight against Providence, but not only Providence, Robert and Sierra have also made deals with the Miltia and asisted them with the attack on Tungan Valley, in order to escape the fate of being their next targets, and avoiding their deaths, yea, that shit didn’t worked.
Constant refers to Robert as a traitor aswell, he is sensitive as shit.
Santa Fortuna - Mumbai:
Diana and 47 now know that Lucas Grey is the Shadow Client.
The Santa Fortuna Trio are all Providence and work with Grey as well.
The Mumbai Trio are all working with Grey and have no connection to Providence, Wazir was specifically Grey’s employee, he was Militia by all means.
Fuck it I’m going to sleep, I’ll continue this tommorw, this is enough for now.