(3) Aggressive solution: Finding Declan Faherty Deus Ex: HR Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Note! Three scientists located by Pritchard can be reached in any order and this has no influence on further course of the quest. Here's my suggested order:

1) Declan Faherty - Declan stays in the basement of the western Bio-Mech building.

2) Nia Colvin - Nia is located in the second floor of the northeastern Micro-Gen building.

3) Eric Koss - Eric can be found on the last, third floor of the northeastern Micro-Gen building.

Map legend: 1 - Main entrance to the Bio-Mech Lab building; 2 - Entrance to the air vent.

Declan Faherty stays in the basement of the western Bio-Mech Lab building and the easiest way leads through the main entrance (screen above). It is located west from the main square and you do not have any problems getting there, because all enemies here are dead by now.

Go through the reception room, choosing the only available corridor #1. Stop after reaching the place, where lab employees are decontaminated #2. Activate this process and do not worry - you won't alarm any enemies.

Now approach the audience room and shoot at two enemies there (screen above). I suggest finding a good cover (a wall preferable) and being very careful, because one of your opponents is a Sneaker, so he can freely use a camouflage.

After killing both enemies stay here, because there are three more guards in the Bio-Mech Lab building. It would be best to wait until they emerge in the audience room (screen above) and then shoot at them before they can take positions suitable to attack you. After the fight examine soldiers' corpses, finding an EMP grenade and Typhoon ammo.

Head now the northwestern part of the first building floor. You should find a laser barrier here #1, however do not worry about it, because you've probably triggered an alarm already. So go through the barrier and call an elevator #2. It will take you to the basement.

Start exploring the basement - fortunately there are no more opponents there. Eventually you need to get to the central part of the basement and locate the door leading to the lab, where Declan Faherty works (screen above).

Enter the lab, walk to Declan and start the conversation. Its course may slightly differ, depending on the fact if he is first scientist you're talking to or you have previously talked to Nia or Eric. If he is the first scientist you meet, he'll tell you that Megan Reed is kept in highly guarded lab and in order to get an access to that place, you need to arrange some kind of diversion with help of all three scientists.

Reward: 250 experience points.

Note! A description of further actions can be found in the description of Step 4 (Finding Nia Colvin).