- Prerequisites: Liberate Mastodon Geothermal Park
- Rewards: Medium Resistance (Henbane River)
- Details: Dr. Charles Lindsey is working on a bait formula to draw the Angels.
MISSION Commencement
While visiting the Mastodon Geothermal Park, you must rid the area of cultists, just as you would normally while liberating the residences of this region. Be aware of a VIP and a flamethrower; the latter is on the platform near the two mammoths near the VIP (who is speaking over the loudspeakers), and he can really roast the area.
Remove both the VIP and flamethrower with strangulation tactics, or coax them toward the mammoths and away from where Dr. Charles Lindsey is standing. With the six or so foes defeated, speak to the doctor.
GET the Doctor’s Bag SECURE the Area
The bag is easy to grab—just swim out so you’re directly above the bag’s location, and dive down to get it. Swim back to the central island with the mammoths. A cult helicopter is strafing the water. Quickly aim up and slay the pilot, then deal with two marauding Angels and two quad-riding foes. Keep moving and firing, and you should easily secure the area.
GET 1 Black Bear Skin (1)
GET 2 Deer Skins (2)
Return to the doctor, who’s grateful for the return of his bag. He’s part of the Resistance fighters with a base to the south of here, at Hope County Jail. He’s heading back there, and leaving you to finish collecting ingredients for his bait.
Time to hunt: Bring up your world map and locate an area of wilderness where black bears, white-tailed deer, or pronghorn deer are active. One example location is the hills just west of Hope County Jail (black bear and white-tailed deer). Another is the railroad banks south of Baron Lumber Mill in Whitetail Mountains (pronghorn). Sometimes, as the previous picture indicates, you find both animals at the same spot!
Remember you can craft specific bait and increase the chances of spotting a specific animal. Consult the Training section on hunting for more information.
REACH Dr. Charles Lindsey’s Lab
TALK to Dr. Charles Lindsey
Loot each animal, and when you have the three necessary skins, head to the Hope County Jail. If you haven’t been here yet and met Sheriff Earl Whitehorse, Virgil Minkler, or Tracey Lader, the place is under attack and must be liberated with your help. Tactical advice for helping the resistance is in the Sheriff’s Missions section of this guide.
With the cult attack negated, head into the jail and seek out the Doctor’s Office (it’s literally named this, with a flag above the door). Speak to Lindsey, who’s grateful you gathered the ingredients. Now he needs time to concoct the special bait. The mission concludes.
Be sure to return to Hope County Jail and commence the last of the Doctor’s missions: Story Mission: Clinical Study.