Greenhouse | 1: Personal Contract Hitman: Absolution Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
General objectives of the stage: Greenhouse is the second part of Personal Contract mission. Also this stage acts as a tutorial, trying to familiarize the player with disguises mechanism. Your goal is to walk through the greenhouse and approach the main part of the mansion.
Right after beginning of this stage, cover behind the nearest table (the one with filet knife). There should be two guards in the area and after a while one of them will start walking towards you. Eventually both of them should stop at railings and now you have to decide how to act. You can sneak past them or get each of them from behind. If you plan to use the second method, I suggest stunning at least one of them to get mansion exterior guard disguise. If you do not mind force solution, you can also push both guards, leading to their rapid death.
Move towards the greenhouse. If you have a guard disguise, you can continue right away. Otherwise I suggest looking around along your way for a gardener disguise shown on the above screen.
Approach the greenhouse. Prepare for a short test of using a disguise, because you have to remember that you can be exposed by people using the same elements of clothing. In this case you can be exposed by gardeners if you're disguised as one of them or by guards of you're wearing the guard's disguise. In order to stay camouflaged, press and hold Intuition key/button. Do not release it until you enter the green house and move away from them (this is very important on higher difficulty levels because enemies are then more sensitive to your actions).
The next step is to walk through the greenhouse. If you're disguised as a guard, move to the left, walking past gardeners. If you're wearing gardener's clothes, move to the right, approaching guards.
Stop after reaching the greenhouse exit. Do not approach talking guards but just interact with a valve shown on the above screen. Wait until irritated guards leave the greenhouse and follow them.
Carefully approach guards standing next to the cliff. I strongly recommend not attacking them, especially that you can't push them as easily as previous enemies. So the best solution is to sneak past them, keeping on the right side of the stairs.
Move to the building edge shown on the above screen and press Interact key/button in order to "stick" to the wall. Move to the left and then lower down. You'll start the next part of the mission automatically (without entering the new location).