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Bradley Paine is the target in "The Vector", the third mission of HITMAN: Patient Zero. He is an expert virologist, medical doctor and the sleeper agent of the doomsday cult Liberation.
However, according to a leaked list of unused Elusive Targets on Reddit, as well as a leaked unused briefing video, it is revealed that Paine's concept was originally conceived as an Elusive Target in a mission known as "The Conditioner", which was never meant to be a sniper mission like that in Patient Zero.
Notably, Paine is one of the five unused Elusive Targets that later got reused and became mission targets in Patient Zero, alongside Oybek Nabazov, Craig Black, Brother Akram and Owen Cage.
Biography[]
Nothing is known about the past of Paine's original version, nor any similarities between it and his finalized version in the Patient Zero campaign.
According to the leaked briefings, Paine was originally set to be a hired asset for the Private Militia, who was hired by Sean Rose to be field psychiatrist for militia troops. In this unused Elusive Target mission, 47 need to eliminate Paine and four militia soldiers he had talked with, all of them being random choices by the AI.
In the final version in Patient Zero, Paine had become a target of what akin to sniper assassin mission, and the said four soldiers became the four patients that were infected by Oybek Nabazov's virus.
Trivia[]
- On the terms of location, the context of the original Elusive Target mission made more sense that Paine's death happened in the Private Militia's occupied apricot farm in Colorado, considerably much more sensible than the finalized Patient Zero version, which reused the same farm's models as its location without further explanation.
- The campaign's story is comfirmed to be canonical and (probably) happened after the deaths of Sean Rose, Penelope Graves, Erza Berg and Maya Parvati at Agent 47's hands. As a result of this, the remaining Private Militia members had retreated from the apricot farm soon afterwards, making it impossible for the militia to occupy the farm after their retreat from the place, nor having any soldier to remain for Paine to experiment on.
- Canonically, the finalized version in Patient Zero might happened in another Colorado farm that was similar to the militia's farm.
- Arguably, like Craig Black, Paine's unused version was much less evil than his Patient Zero finalized version, since in this Elusive Target mission, he was just a simple psychiatrist working for Sean Rose and the Private Militia. There were no indication that Paine was involved in Nabazov's conspiracy to create an apocalyptic plague, much less any intent of hindering CDC's intent to control Nabazov virus.
- Since the unused version was an Elusive Target, the players would have been expected to hear Paine talking to his patients during the mission, something which was completely impossible in a sniper assassin mission because of the long distance.
- Whilst the finalized version in Patient Zero was involved in a story arc and had become a sniper mission, some elements and requirements of the unused Elusive Target mission did carried themselves to its finalized version, especially the elimination of four secondary targets besides Paine, randomly appearing among the soldiers on the ground.
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External links[]
- Bradley Paine on Villains Wiki - Paine's finalized version
- Bradley Paine on Hitman Wiki