Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Walkthrough Part 4: Penthouse
2Soon after Sam's mission in Panama, it becomes obvious that both Morgenholt and Zherkezhi were some of the few people to see Masse algorithms in action due to their work on Project Watson and that the latter is currently both the only of them alive and that he is in contact with someone named Dvorak. As Fisher, Lambert and Grimsdottir discuss the developments, both Tokyo and New York City are simultaneously hit by an total blackout as all powered infrastructure ceases to function and plunges both cities into total darkness. Aware that simultaneous total power outages in some of the largest cities in the world are not a coincidence, Lambert makes an executive decision to dispatch Sam to New York City in order to use the chaos caused by the power outages to infiltrate Zherkezhi's penthouse in Manhattan and find any information that would point towards Dvorak's identity and his relationship with Zherkezhi. Once in the field, Sam navigates past the US National Guard corpsmen dispatched to keep the order in blackout-stricken city and upon making it into the building housing Zherkezhi's penthouse, discovers that he is guarded by Displace International PMC, same company ran by Sam's old friend, Douglas Shetland whose members helped Sam a year prior during infiltration into Darah Dan Doa's training camp in Indonesia and whose mercenaries ran private security for Morgenholt prior to his kidnapping and murder, with Sam realizing that they carry same weapons and gear as Lacerda's men, implying that Peruvian guerillas somehow got a hold of Displace's surplus, likely through an internal traitor who in addition to funneling equipment to Lacerda may have handed over Morgenholt to him. Due to that, as Sam enters the penthouse patrolled by Displace mercenaries and series of security cameras installed due to Zherkhezhi's paranoia, he wiretaps the cameras in order to allow Third Echelon to keep an eye on absent Zherkhezhi and interrogates one of the present mercenaries, discovering that the contractor for Displace's VIP protection jobs is the Bosnian man named Milan Nedich who is not present in Third Echelon's database but remains most likely suspect for facilitating deals with Lacerda and likely other rogue actors using Displace as cover. Afterwards, Sam returns to tracking Dvorak and, with his location having been pinpointed to another building that can be accessed from the balcony of Zherkhezhi's penthouse, makes his way there. As he enters the derelict apartment within the building, Sam quickly discovers that Dvorak is not an physical person but rather an vintage infinite-state learning machine with only other occupant of the apartment being an elderly engineer tasked with maintaining the machine, explaining the mysterious data fragments sent by Dvorak and intercepted by Sam in Panama City as Zherkhezhi was using Dvorak's computing abilities to conduct additional research on Masse Kernels. With Sam requiring an physical printout of Dvorak's data for analysis, he utilizes the help of Dvorak's engineer in order to initialize the massive computer and ultimately gets the data printout before extracting...