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Cable News
Cable News is a short side trip for Alexander Graham Bell: his telegraph cables never arrived, and an intercepted wire says the cargo is held at College Wharf. Bell also fits your gauntlet with a dart launcher for a hallucinogenic serum before you go.
- Type
- Story
- Given by
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Region
- Southwark
- Rewards
- Hallucinogenic dart launcher
Storylines
Part 5 of 7 in Sequence 4: A Quick and Reliable Remedy
Found in
- College WharfCollege Wharf is a Southwark loading dock on the Thames. You go there for Alexander Graham Bell in Cable News, freeing his crew and recovering seized cable reels, and later return to help set an ambush on Templar dynamite smugglers.
- SouthwarkSouthwark is Syndicate's industrial heart: factories, docks and rows of brick workers' housing on the south bank. The Templar Octavia Plumb oversees it in 1868, and its riverside wharves and Waterloo station are the stage for several key memories.
Good to know
- Sequence 4, memory 5 of 7; global story order 12; played as Jacob or Evie.
- Giver: Alexander Graham Bell.
- Reward: the hallucinogenic dart launcher.
- Optional objective: use darts on fire sources near enemies 9 times.
- Location: College Wharf, on the Thames in Southwark.
- Sits between On the Origin of Syrup and Playing It by Ear in the memory list.
Objectives
Go to College Wharf and free the captured crew who were running Bell's shipment, then recover the cable lines the Blighters have taken. When the Blighters' cargo ship sails past, board it and open the crate on deck. Return to Bell's workshop to finish.
Tips
Bell explains that the serum turns into a gas when heated, which is what the optional objective tests: shoot darts into braziers and fires near groups of guards to affect several at once.
Outcome
The crate releases poison gas, which both twins want Bell to analyse. The freed crew take the ship back, and word arrives from Greenwich that the cable shipment is safe. Bell warns that Starrick's poison is now loose on the open market.
Why it matters
Bell has been reading Starrick's newspaper and is fed up with its lies. The intercepted wire about the serum shows Starrick is moving into poisons as well as syrup, which Bell confirms at the end. Evie answers that if Starrick thinks poison will stop them, he is wrong.
Back at Bell's
When the twins return, Bell nearly hurts himself in a chemistry experiment. He already knows the job went well, because a wire from Greenwich has confirmed the shipment arrived, which he credits to the new age of communication.
- Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell is the twins' inventor in Syndicate. He turns a broken grappling pistol into the rope launcher, adds hallucinogenic darts to their gauntlets and builds voltaic bombs, all while fighting Starrick's grip on the telegraph.
- Evie FryeEvie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.
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.
Related missions
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Freedom of the Press
Freedom of the Press introduces Alexander Graham Bell, who turns Kaylock's broken launcher into the rope launcher on your gauntlet. As Evie you then test it on Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster, fitting fuses for Bell's independent telegraph line.
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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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The Crate Escape
The Crate Escape is Evie's first lead on the Templars' new Piece of Eden: Lucy Thorne is expecting a shipment at the docks, so you raid her cart, open the chest and flee in a carriage chase while Jacob drives badly on purpose.
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Playing It by Ear
Playing It by Ear sends Evie and Henry into the Kenway Mansion, now a Templar house, following Eagle Vision clues in Thorne's notebook. You hunt for Edward Kenway's keepsakes and solve a piano puzzle that opens a secret room.