Aiden meets Damien, who is heavily intoxicated, and Damien reveals that there was a third hacker at the Merlaut job, other than Aiden and himself. Damien tells Aiden to meet him before blowing up his apartment. Aiden follows the lead and discovers that his former partner Damien is the one who ordered the harassment of Nicole. Eventually, Clara pinpoints the source of the call to an apartment complex. Clara updates Aiden's profiler with DedSec level system hacks and initiates an official partnership between the two. Aiden agrees and discovers that BadBoy17 is actually Clara Lille, a female French-Canadian hacker masquerading as a male. BadBoy17 soon asks Aiden to meet him in person. Meanwhile, Aiden has his first face-to-face encounter with Lucky Quinn while carrying out a fixer contract for Jordi. He gives the information to his DedSec contact, BadBoy17, in hopes of figuring it out.Īfter Aiden breaks into the CTOS center in the Loop, BadBoy17 is able to begin tracking down the source of the call. Eventually he catches his target and hacks his phone, learning that someone put him up to this. While in pursuit, he gets a call from Nicole, apologizing for her outburst and asks him to come back, and realizing what he's doing, insists that he let it go. Aiden then tracks the number of the prank caller and pursues him. Aiden expressed concern but Nicole tells him that he can't fix everything and orders him to leave. After the call ended, Nicole hastily fastened the locks.
The exchange was relatively amicable, but then Aiden noticed Nicole acting distressed on her phone and hacked it, overhearing someone threatening to break into her house. Aiden then leaves Jordi to take Vega to a secure location while he escapes the stadium.Īfter resting at his motel hideout, Aiden went over to his sister Nicole's house for Jackson's birthday.
He then met with his associate, Jordi Chin, who confesses that he purposely emptied Aiden's clip and had called the police to cover up the deaths of several Black Viceroys. Vega then attempted to attack Aiden, who subdued him with his baton. Aiden then raised his gun to shoot him, but the clip was empty. Vega claimed he didn't know their name and stated that Aiden was walking into something he couldn't handle. This killed Aiden's niece, Lena Pearce, and set him out for revenge.Įleven months later, Aiden had tracked down Vega and interrogated him for the name of his employer. The car drifted, and shortly after, rolled upside-down. While driving with his niece, Aiden Pearce's car tires were shot by Maurice Vega, a hitman hired by the Chicago South Club. He issued hits on Aiden and Damien to scare them into submission. Quinn, otherwise known as "Lucky" Quinn, thought he was being hacked for a video of Chicago's mayor murdering a woman named Rose Washington. In 2012, Aiden Pearce, along with Damien Brenks, hacked into the Merlaut Hotel, owned by Dermot Quinn, in order to siphon peoples' bank accounts. Aiden then vowed to protect his remaining family, using the technology and the CTOS to punish those responsible. Pearce has graduated from adolescent street thug to brilliant hacker his hacking and social engineering skills ensured he made plenty of underworld contacts, while his aptitude for antisocial behavior have driven him towards a multitude of clandestine activities and scams.įormer mistakes he committed in the past costed the life of his six-year old niece Lena Pearce. In the campaign, the player controls a vigilante named Aiden Pearce, who possesses the singular ability to hack into various electronic devices tied to the city's central operating system, the CTOS, through his Smartphone, via an application dubbed the " Profiler". In the game's universe, the Northeast blackout of 2003 was found to be caused by a hacker, prompting the development of CTOS. The city's overarching network controls almost every piece of technology in the city banks, security cameras, traffic lights, communication hubs, and even key data on the city's residents and activities have been complied into the system and can be used for various purposes. In this version of Chicago, everyone and everything is connected. The game is set in a contemporary fictionalized version of Chicago, Illinois, which is one of many cities to feature a supercomputer known as CT OS ( Cen tral Operating System). The storyline of Watch Dogs explores the impact of technology within our society bringing to the forefront the concept of information warfare, data being interconnected, and the world's increasing use of technology - questioning who exactly runs the computers they depend on.