Philip Twopenny
Philip Twopenny is the Governor of the Bank of England and the Templar banker known as Plutus, who has his men rob the bank's own vaults for the Order. Jacob Frye unmasks him in Sequence 6 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and he is the target of the memory A Bad Penny.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Templars
Good to know
- Voiced by Clive Walton.
- Born on 25 January 1827; educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, then served one term as a Tory MP.
- Shared the governorship with Thomas Newman Hunt, but ran the bank day to day.
- Staged a robbery of a bank branch every fiscal quarter.
- Appears beside Cardigan in Starrick's office after Elliotson's death.
Finding Plutus
In A Case of Identity Jacob kidnaps a banker who turns out to be Sergeant Abberline in disguise, and learns of a planned robbery. In A Spot of Tea he trails a Cockham Merchants weapons shipment to its buyer and finds that Plutus is Twopenny. A Bad Penny's optional objectives include finding the vault's secret passage.
His deathSpoilerShow
During another heist Jacob hides behind a painting in the vault and stabs through the canvas when Twopenny inspects it. Twopenny dies insisting only Templars know how to invest in progress, and Jacob leaves a coin on him.
AftermathSpoilerShow
The theft of the printing plates sets off inflation and riots, and Evie recovers the plates and burns the forgeries in Unbreaking the Bank.
OverdoseOverdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.- A Case of IdentityA Case of Identity opens Sequence 6 with Jacob chasing a name in a letter: Plutus, Starrick's banker, and a meddler called Mr Dredge. You infiltrate the Royal Exchange to kidnap Dredge and find out what he knows.
- A Spot of TeaA Spot of Tea is a tailing mission: Abberline needs to know which shipment carries the Cockham Merchants' weapons, so Jacob searches carts at the Thames docks, marks the right one and follows it through foggy streets to the man behind the robbery plan.
- A Bad PennyA Bad Penny ends Sequence 6 inside the Bank of England. Jacob joins a guided tour, interrogates the guard captain and bank manager, and reaches Philip Twopenny in the vault before his men can finish the robbery.
- Unbreaking the BankUnbreaking the Bank cleans up after Jacob's work in the Bank of England: counterfeiters stole the printing plates in the chaos, and Abberline asks Evie to burn their fake notes and sneak the plates back into the bank before trust in the pound collapses.
Related characters
- Antagonist
Crawford Starrick
Crawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
- Supporting
Frederick Abberline
Frederick Abberline is the Metropolitan Police officer who works with the Frye twins in 1868 and leads the Whitechapel murder inquiry in the Jack the Ripper expansion. In the main game he gives you Bounty Hunts, sending you after Blighter leaders to bring back alive.
- Antagonist
Lucy Thorne
Lucy Thorne is Crawford Starrick's second-in-command and the Templars' expert on Pieces of Eden in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is Evie Frye's rival through the search for the Shroud of Eden and the target of the memory A Thorne in the Side, set in the Tower of London.
- Antagonist
Earl of Cardigan
The Earl of Cardigan, James Brudenell, is the Templar politician behind the plot to kill Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Sequence 7 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Known in Templar letters only as B, he is the target of the memory Motion to Impeach at the Palace of Westminster.