Elusive Target #20: THE REVOLUTIONARY (Year 5: 11 - 20 April 2025)

The ultimate way is to poison him, but already did that so had to come up with something different this time. SA/SO, but technically not NKO as the camera guy likely received a concussion.

Fun fact: that camera shake after the blast is actually me flinching from it.

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100% pure Colombian
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Blew him up in the 2nd-floor guard house (or w/e). PT + Remote Micro Electric thingy. Used fart-box to get rid of one guard and camera guy, and set the briefcase down to make the other guard go away.

Detonated RME, then shot recorder from Hippy’s hostel Rm.

Gripe: So this guy is bugged in that he only gives his speech once (if at all). Blowing him up while on camera and being televised is what I’ll consider to be the ā€˜Holy Grail’ moment/kill opportunity for this ET. :persevere:

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A very precise operation.

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I blew myself up by accident.

That’s it, that’s my part against the Elusive Target that is the Revolutionary.

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How? The guy drinks wine in the one map with the most number of poison options in the whole series? Explosions shouldn’t even come into it.

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I already did SA as an ET so i tried to set some trap that backfired. It’s completely fine.

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Am i the only one who sees Heidern?

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Drop some propane near him when he’s in the house near with the balcony, drop a briefcase with a breaching charge in it right next to the propane, run away fast and hit the detonator, that’s my default strategy for that guy. Technically it could blow up in my face if I forget the ā€œrun away fastā€ part. I don’t think I’ve ever used poison on him.

That C4 setup a couple of posts back seems interesting though, I might have to look into that.

He’s such a funny guy, out of touch fascist revolutionary, who thinks will take over world, yet only person who cares about him is one who contacted ICA to assassinate him.

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If the default strategy for this Elusive Target involves using explosives, I’m sorry, you’re making it far more complicated than it needs to be. All anyone needs to bring into this particular mission is one non-consumable emetic (syringe, Sieker, throwing canister, whatever) and a lockpick. The map provides everything else you need and no explosions are required. If you’re going for something special, ok, play at your risk, but if you just intend to kill the guy and get SA ranking, those items and switching the satellite uplink off 3 times is all the strategy you need to make the dream work.

turns out 47 was the revolutionary all along.

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There’s no risk involved (unless you stand too close to the explosion) and it takes like 3 minutes to get SA with this method, so it’s not like it’s particularly complicated :x

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Scenario posed, scenario answered, one sentence. Nice.

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Isn’t experimenting the whole point of this Hitman trilogy after all?

Che 47 seems legit to me.

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Gave me a hearty chuckle :joy:

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Yes, but more importantly, succeeding is the point of this Hitman trilogy. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

I always said replayability, replayability is the whole point of the trilogy

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Done, again. Nothing fancy, no accident kill like I’d been doing with the other ETs this time around, with an exception for The Undying for personal reasons. I’ve never been able to arrange an accident with The Revolutionary that I’ve been satisfied with, so I didn’t bother, and of all the ETs, this one is the one I most enjoy poisoning. While I usually restart until he populates in the little shack or the house on the river, this time I took him out while he was on the second floor of the Sicario hideout. I’ve only ever killed him here two times, and both times I had to cause an explosion and trigger an evacuation in order to get in, but not this time. This time, playing it very carefully, using distractions, lures, and shutting off the camera feed, I actually managed to KO enough guards and one construction worker to be able to sneak in while Murillo was smoking, and spike his drink with a lethal poison flower. After the one remaining guard took his body away, I then got back out again; the camera man doesn’t care about you, so long as you do nothing illegal.

I have to admit, despite being so simple and straightforward, The Revolutionary is my favorite H2 ET. I like it for several reasons: First, I like the backstory and the reason for the contract. It’s got a little bit of everything you expect for a Hitman contract: terrorism, intelligence agencies making shady deals with despots, attempts to keep secrets from becoming public, torture, murder, even drug gangs are involved. It really leans into the spy side of 47’s work, feeling like a mission James Bond would be sent on. Indeed, Murillo actually makes me think of General Medrano from Quantum of Solace.

Therein lies the second reason why I like it; the target himself. Yeah, his gimmick of appearing in one of three different places but otherwise going nowhere is a bit annoying, but everything else about him makes me excited to take him out each time. His backstory as a Bolivian, as well as his design as a heavyset older man in army clothes, I believe is actually meant to evoke Medrano. I like the fact that he’s still in military garb, his eyepatch and facial scars are also a nice touch, they stand out more than other targets with facial disfigurements, excluding Dragon Eye from the Hantu Port sniper mission.

And thirdly, the fact that the most clear way of dealing with him is poisoning his wine glass, which is the whole reason Diana brought it up in the first place. Considering the reason for the contract, it really seems appropriate. Referring back to reason one again, the fact that Diana mentions the client as a well-known government agency who wants to cover up any connection they have with using Murillo to fight the Cold War for them in South America, it means a cloak and dagger organization like the CIA or MI6 or possibly even Mossad may have been the client, and using poison to kill Murillo quietly, but still clearly a direct murder, sends a message to anyone else like him to stay in hiding. Using the poison flowers or frogs on the map instead of lethal pills is just a bonus, because any examination of the wine will reveal the presence of natural toxins found in the area, leaving it just questionable enough of whether Murillo put it in his own wine, not knowing it was lethal, but still more likely that someone got close enough to him to douse him with toxins found onsite, especially with the KOed guards taken into consideration.

I just love the whole thing. Not the best ET by any means, but the one I most prefer from the H2 batch due to its political intrigue, making it the H2 equivalent of The Fugitive for me.

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