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The Body Politic was a virtual representation of one of Arno Dorian's genetic memories, relived by a Helix initiate in 2014 through the Helix Navigator.

Clues[]

Dining Room[]

  • Man's body – Michel Hennebert: A man in his thirties, slumped at the dining table. Traces of blood dripping from the mouth indicating internal hemorrhage.
  • Necklace – A broken necklace made of glass beads. One appears to be missing.
  • Victim's wine glass – Partially filled. A powdery residue along the rim appears to be powdered glass.
  • Statement of Antoine Gerard – Antoine Gerard (dinner guest): "Political opponent" of the victim. Noted one of the victim's servants now missing.
  • Statement of Madeleine Gerard – Madeleine Gerard (dinner guest): Missing necklace. Claims it was broken.
  • Statement of Mme Hennebert – Mme Hennebert (wife of the victim): Feared something like this. Previous attempts on husband's life. Husband hired Armand to protect self.
  • Statement of Olivier Gedet – Olivier Gedet (dinner guest): Arranged the dinner to bridge political divisions. Hennebert fell choking to the ground immediately after all the guests drank a toast.

André's House[]

  • Bottle – Has a crude drawing of a skull and bones on it, indicating poison.

Note for André

André, you are to go to the glazier at 31 Blvd Monmartre to order a replacement window. – Alicia


  • Statement of the Old Woman – Old Woman: Claims her son is at the apothecary shop near the Post Office.

Apothecary[]

  • Statement of André – André (servant): Poured wine and left room. Told that his mother very ill, he ran home.

Black Office[]

Agent list

Egalité

Vertu

Liberté

Patriot

Le Peuple


Note from chemist

13 Floréal
The liquid is quite robust and can endure the high temperature of the glass seal that you describe. A second hand has scrawled across the bottom the following: Everything looks good. Use our usual glassmaker to put this in place.


Note to agent

12 Floréal
We've gulled Gedet into arranging a dinner at Hennebert's home. Please move forward with the plan.


Report

10 Floréal
We have put the target in fear of his life—a sharpshooter put a hole in a window at his domicile. We believe he will be amenable to a meeting to cool passions and, at that point, will be vulnerable.



Glassmaker's[]

List of accounts

Citizen Hennebert: replacement window pane.

Mme LeMasse: large mirror.

"Patriot": glass beads for necklace, including one PR drop.

Mlle Bazette: set of wine glasses.

Mlle Lenormand: crystal sphere.


  • Glass bead – A teardrop shaped glass bead. Very resilient, yet curiously when the glass tail is broken off, the entire bead bursts into powder.
  • Statement of the Glassmaker – Robert the Glassmaker: Does a lot of work for politicians. Uncooperative.

Kitchen[]

Note to Alicia

Alicia, tell André to order a new window from the glazier.


  • Window pane – A cracked window pane with a bullet hole.
  • Statement of Alicia – Alicia (maid): André brought in the wine. Armand tasted it and André poured wine for everyone. Hennebert fell dead. André disappeared immediately thereafter. André's address: 21 rue Ville l'Eveque.
  • Statement of Armand – Armand (bodyguard): Very upset. Searched all guests. Tasted wine before poured by André. Suggests empty glass could have held poison prior to pouring.

Office[]

Feuillant letter

Take care, my friend. We suspect that the Montagnard radicals have established links to the Black Office, operating out of the Office of the Post. Your every move is being watched. – Adrien Duport. Proud member of the Feuillants and friend of the Constitution


Note from Gedet

Citizen Hennebert, the incident of the bullet through the window is the final straw. I'm sure you, as the target, are more cognizant than I that we cannot allow your life to be put in constant danger. The precautions you have taken do not appear to be adequate. As a result, the other leaders and I believe that we must bridge the chasm with the Montagnards. I advise you to invite Citizen Gerard and his wife to our weekly dinner. I will attend as well. It's a purely social gathering to help clear the air, no discussion of politics will be allowed.



Dialogue[]

Dining Room[]

  • Monsieur Gerard (Deputy of the Assembly): Citizen Hennebert was a political opponent, but he certainly had my respect and my wife and I were delighted to accept his invitation. I understand that one of his servants has gone missing. That seems odd, indeed.
  • Madame Gerard (Wife of Deputy Gerard): I am Madame Gerard. My husband and I were invited to dine, and I was looking forward to a lovely evening. The Henneberts are known as a delightful couple.
  • Madame Hennebert (The victim's wife): I've feared just such an event for weeks! My husband has endured many death threats ever since his vote to spare the king. He even took the extraordinary precaution of hiring Armand to protect himself.
  • Olivier Gedet (Deputy of the Assembly): I hope I'm not to blame in any respect. It was I who advised Hennebert to invite the Gerards. I hoped to calm the murderous political situation. The wine was poured and we all drank a toast to letting bygones be bygones. Hennebert immediately fell choking to the ground.

André's House[]

  • Old Woman (Mother of André): My son ran to the apothecary. The one near the post office.

Apothecary[]

  • André (The victim's servant): I didn't know anything happened to Monsieur Hennebert. After I poured the wine, I stepped back to the servant's area. A messenger came to tell me that my sainted mother had taken a turn for the worse. I ran home, then rushed here to buy her some medicine. The only unusual thing about the evening was that just before the wine was served, Madame Gerard's necklace broke. Monsieur Gerard tried to fix it at the table.

Glassmaker's[]

  • Robert (Glassmaker): I do a lot of work for important politicians. I don't much like folks nosing about. Get on out of here.

Kitchen[]

  • Alicia (The victim's maid): André brought in the wine. Armand here tasted it and André poured everyone a glass. They toasted and right away Monsieur looked all queer. Then he fell dead! I am worried about André, though. He's completely disappeared. Here, I'll give you his address, he might know something.
  • Armand (The victim's bodyguard): It's my job to protect Monsieur Hennebert. I search everyone who enters this house for weapons or vials of poison. I also taste his food and wine before he has any. But I failed. I tasted the wine just before it was served by André. Like an idiot, I didn't taste it directly from his glass. A guest could have slipped poison into his empty glass long before the wine was poured.

Conclusion[]

Spoiler

The murderer was Monsieur Antoine Gerard, an agent of the Black Office known by the alias "Patriot".

Case Summary

Deputy Hennebert was targeted by the extreme left for being far too conservative an assemblyman. An attempt on his life lead him to hire Armand to protect him. A Black Office agent shot a hole in Hennebert's window as a way to prompt him to seek a reconciliation. The Black Office then used a hapless Gedet as a go-between to arrange an innocent-looking dinner party with Assemblyman Gerard, also known as Black Office agent "Patriot". The Black Office further used its knowledge of Prince Rupert drops to embed a poison in Mme Gerard's necklace. By this means, the Gerards were able to evade Armand's scrutiny. Mme Gerard pretended to break her necklace and Gerard pretended to try and fix it, while in actuality breaking the tail of the Prince Rupert drop, releasing the poison into Hennebert's empty wine glass.

Gallery[]

References[]

Assassin's Creed: Unity memories
Main memories
Prologue
The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay
Sequence 1
Memories of Versailles - The Estates General - High Society
Sequence 2
Imprisoned - Rebirth
Sequence 3
Graduation - Confession - Fin de Siecle
Sequence 4
The Kingdom of Beggars - Le Roi Est Mort
Sequence 5
The Silversmith - La Halle aux Blés - The Prophet
Sequence 6
The Jacobin Club - Templar Ambush
Sequence 7
A Cautious Alliance - Meeting with Mirabeau - Confrontation - The Resistance
Sequence 8
The King's Correspondence - September Massacres
Sequence 9
Starving Times - Hoarders - The Escape
Sequence 10
A Dinner Engagement - The Execution
Sequence 11
Bottom of the Barrel - Rise of the Assassin - The Bastille
Sequence 12
The Supreme Being - The Fall of Robespierre - The Temple
Cooperative missions
Women's March - The Food Chain - The Austrian Conspiracy - Political Persecution - The Tournament - Heads Will Roll - Les Enragés - Danton's Sacrifice - Moving Mirabeau - Jacobin Raid - The Infernal Machine
Heists
Tithing Templars - Catacomb Raider - The Party Palace - Royals, Guns and Money - Smuggler's Paradise - Ancient History - It Belongs in a Museum
Paris stories
Tall, Dark Strangers - Flamel's Secret: The Monks - Flamel's Secret: Denis Molinier - Flamel's Secret: The Elixir of Life - Using the Ol' Noggins - Waxworks - Sewer Rat - À la Lanterne! - The Great Escapist - Critical Comedown - Scene Stealer - Devilishly Tricky - My Kingdom For Some Whores - De Sade's Reprieve - Sadistic Blackmail - The Cult of Baphomet - The Ritual of Baphomet - La Bande Noire - Iscariotte, the Giant - Headlining the Guillotine - A Fistful of Duelers - The League of the Crimson Rose - Return of the Crimson Rose - Crimson Sunset - Flying Boy - Carmalite Nuns - Stop the Presses! - Encyclopédie Diderot - Désirée Desired - Désirée Dismayed - Désirée Delighted - French Crown Jewels - Coat of Arms - Swiss Stash - Vicious Verses - Arm the People - "Escort" Mission - Cassini's Constellations - The Condorcet Method - A Romantic Stroll - Signaling Officer Murat - A Nice Chappe - Precious Correspondence - Constructing a "Close Shave" - Up in Arms - Marianne Returns Home - The Little Prince - Turtle, Snake, Bear, Paper, Scissors - Tapestry Thief - Cartouche's Memoirs
Café Théâtre missions
Explore the Café Théâtre - Auto-Da-Fé - Colette - Damsel in Seamstress - The Queen's Necklace - Foxy Renard
Social Club missions
Bridge Brigands - Marat's Missive - Let Them Eat Hay - Cat Food on a Hot Tin Roof - Hoarding Hostages - Café Procope - Roux's Remains - An Engaging Egyptologist - Artful Dodger - A Dramatic Exit - Breaking the Habit - Extortion Contortion - Chouan Riddles - Bara's Funeral - Retribution for a Rabble-Rouser - The Black Office - Betrayer of the Queen - Spiked Bourbon - Special Delivery - Smoky Yet Robust
Murder mysteries
Murder Foretold - Barber of Seville - The Body in the Brothel - Ancestral Vengeance - The Body Politic - Bones of Contention - The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat - Hot Chocolate to Die For - The Hand of Science - The Decapitated Warden - The Death of Philibert Aspairt - The Red Ghost of the Tuileries - Cut the Middle Man - A Dash of Poison
Nostradamus Enigmas
Mercurius - Venus - Terra - Mars - Jupiter - Saturnus - Aries - Taurus - Gemini - Cancer - Virgo - Leo - Libra - Scorpio - Sagittarius - Capricorn - Aquarius - Pisces
DLC
American Prisoner - The Chemical Revolution - Killed by Science
Dead Kings
Sequence 13
Buried Words - The Book Thief - A Shadow from the Past - Raising the Dead - Under Lock and Key - A Crown of Thorns
Cooperative and heist missions
Last Rites - Holy High Rollers
Stories of Franciade
Last Will - A Royal Hide - The Unopened Rose - The Eyes of the King
Murder mysteries
Blind Justice - Equal Justice
Suger's Legacy
I - Nativitatis Et Mortis - II - Morbum - III - Diabolus - IV - Natura - V - Crux - VI - Noctis - VII - Dies
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