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A Bad Penny
A 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.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Frederick Abberline
- Region
- City of London
Storylines
Part 5 of 5 in Sequence 6: A Run on the Bank
Found in
- Bank of EnglandThe Bank of England is the City of London's central bank and the target of Sequence 6, A Run on the Bank, where Jacob tracks a Templar robbing its branches. You return to its vault twice more: once for the stolen printing plates and once in The Last Maharaja.
- City of LondonThe City of London is the borough of banks, trading halls and tall stone offices on the north bank of the Thames. In 1868 the Templar Bloody Nora runs it through the Blighters, and you take it from her by clearing her lieutenants, strongholds and factories before a final gang war.
- Mansion HouseMansion House is the Lord Mayor of London's official residence. Its rooftop is where Jacob meets Abberline at the start of A Bad Penny, before the Bank of England heist.
Good to know
- Sequence 6, memory 5 of 5; global story order 26; played as Jacob Frye.
- Region: City of London, starting on the roof of Mansion House.
- Target: Philip Twopenny, Governor of the Bank of England.
- Giver: Sergeant Frederick Abberline.
- Optional objective: find the secret passage.
- Jacob uses his kukri to slash through the painting Twopenny stands before.
Objectives
Meet Abberline on the Mansion House roof; he suggests Mr Howard, Twopenny's guard captain, can help. Enter the bank, join the tour and peel away to follow manager Osborne. Grab Howard to learn Twopenny is in the vault admiring paintings, then take Osborne hostage and make him open the vault. Hide behind the painting Twopenny walks over to inspect.
The kill
When Twopenny stops in front of the painting, Jacob slashes through the canvas with his kukri and stabs him. Abberline warns that only Osborne may enter the vault freely and that a guard watching its door will seal it if he sees you, so stay out of sight until Osborne is in your grip.
What happensSpoilerShow
Jacob leaves a coin in Twopenny's hand for the path of the dead. Abberline's police arrest the fleeing robbers. Starrick then berates the Earl of Cardigan and demands the Corrupt Practices bill be killed in Parliament, which sets up Sequence 7.
Inside the bank
An eager employee runs a public tour, which gets you past the entrance before you slip away. Osborne reassures a nervous customer about the bank's Irish interests, and a guard grumbles that Twopenny should go home and leave the work to professionals. Howard, cornered, says he has a family and gives Twopenny up straight away.
- Crawford StarrickCrawford 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.
- Earl of CardiganThe 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.
Jacob FryeJacob Frye is one of the two playable Assassins in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the brawler of the Frye twins. In 1868 he founds the Rooks gang, fights the Blighters for every borough and goes after Crawford Starrick's inner circle one Templar at a time, from Rupert Ferris in Croydon to the Earl of Cardigan in Parliament.- Philip TwopennyPhilip 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.
Related missions
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Overdose
Overdose 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.
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Unbreaking the Bank
Unbreaking 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.
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A Case of Identity
A 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.
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Motion to Impeach
Motion to Impeach is the assassination of the Earl of Cardigan inside the Palace of Westminster. Jacob steals a password, takes a policeman hostage to walk into Westminster Hall, and has an opposing MP lead him straight to Cardigan's office.