Return to the diner area and move south towards Town Square. Inch your way through the narrow passage and past the Gene Bank, keeping Telekinesis and the Shotgun on the ready. A Brute Splicer soon appears and hurls the giant crown from atop the King Pawn store at you—catch it and throw it back. Continue to use Telekinesis to throw things at him—anything—to break him out of his shoulder charge. The Brute Splicer next breaks through the wall on the right to reveal a hidden Vita-Chamber; take this time to hack the Health Station so he can’t revitalize himself. Switch to Electro Bolt and finish him off with the always reliable stun-and-blast technique!
Sinclair says the Research Camera is inside the pawn shop, but the shop is chained shut. Use the keycode you found in the diner—0047—to unlock the door to the clinic and head upstairs to the rooftops. You can drop through a hole in the floor to enter the pawn shop from the second floor.
Head up the stairs inside the clinic and hack the Security Camera on the wall. Instead of going directly left towards the pawn shop, cross the walkway to the north to find a Power to the People machine. Ascend the stairs there to the upper level, and search the offices upstairs for an Audio Diary and the Shorten Alarms tonic. Continue south on this uppermost floor to another cultist ceremony. Hurl a couple fireballs at them from afar, then pick up the other Audio Diary and proceed west, past the Security Camera and down the stairs to the roof of the pawn shop.
Circle around to the right, past the hole in the roof and the Turret, and gather up the loot in the examination room across the bridge, then double-back and cross the bridge to the north to explore the apartment with the safe. Finally, once you’re done searching these upper areas, drop through the hole into the pawn shop.
Safe
Contents: 25 Armor-Piercing Rounds, 45 Anti-Personnel Rounds, 6 Heavy Rivets.
The safe is on the wall behind the upturned mattress and bed frame in the apartment directly across from the pawn shop’s second floor. There are five stages to this hack, and the zones get smaller with each successive stage. Because a Thuggish Splicer attacks as soon as you are done with the hack, consider setting up some Trap Rivets to protect your flank, just in case!
Drop through the hole in the floor to enter the pawn shop and take the Research Camera off the counter. Approach the locked front door with the Research Camera in hand and press the Fire button while looking through the door at the Thuggish Splicer outside. The Thuggish Splicer then opens the door to attack—zap him with Electro Bolt before hitting him with a Drill Swing to finish him off. You’ll most likely earn enough Research Points to obtain the first Research Bonus for Thuggish Splicers.
First Research
Equip the Research Camera and begin filming the Thuggish Splicer outside the door. Hit the Fire Weapon button while aiming the viewfinder at the Splicer, then battle the Splicer as you normally would. The Research Camera records the action and assigns a grade. It doesn’t matter what your grade is for this bonus—you just need to get the camera rolling with a Splicer on-screen for this Achievement/Trophy.
Safe
Contents: 40 Armor-Piercing Rounds, 2 EVE Hypos, 10 Trap Rivets.
This safe is in a secret room inside the pawn shop. Drop through the hole in the second level floor to enter the pawn shop, then crouch behind the counter and locate the small red button beneath the cash register. Press it to reveal a secret room with the safe. The safe has five stages, but no enemies attack you here unless you have opened the front door to the pawn shop.
Research Brute Splicers
You must learn some new moves from Grace’s Brute Splicers to bust your way into the Sinclair Deluxe Hotel. Photograph Brute Splicers with the Research Camera, then use any of your Plasmids and weapons against them to gain Research Points and earn a Research Reward.
Safe
First Research
Safe
