Jesse Butler

Jesse Butler is a Lambeth bounty hunt for a newly rich heir who squeezes rent out of the borough's poor for Cletus Strain's foremen. Kidnap him from his Blighter crew and take him to Abberline alive.

Type: Activity
Given by: Frederick Abberline
Region: Lambeth

Part of

Bounty HuntsBounty hunts are borough activities in Assassin's Creed Syndicate where Sergeant Frederick Abberline names a wanted criminal and you bring that person to him, ideally alive. Clearing them is one of the ways Jacob and Evie Frye weaken the Blighters' hold on a borough before its gang war.

Found in

LambethLambeth is the quietest of Syndicate's boroughs, a stretch of low houses, markets and works on the south bank across from Westminster. The Templar Cletus Strain runs it in 1868, and it is home to Lambeth Palace and the Lambeth Asylum, where several major memories take place.

Good to know

Borough: Lambeth.
Target: Jesse Butler, heir to a Lambeth nouveau riche family.
Full sync: deliver Butler to Abberline alive.
He has two Blighters with him when you arrive.
Bringing Butler in alive is one of the three live deliveries the Thieftaker achievement needs.

Background

After his parents died, Butler set out to keep a firm grip on Lambeth and live up to the family name. When you find him he is ordering his men to collect rent from tenants who have nothing, on word that Strain's funds are running low.

The capture

He claims friends in high places and later tries to buy his way out. Abberline asks whether he felt a little entitled; deliver him dead and Abberline wonders what to do with him now.

Lambeth context

Butler's orders come down from Cletus Strain's foremen, which ties him directly to the borough's Templar leader. His fellow Lambeth bounties are Leopold Bacchus and Mildred Graves. Strain's other assets in the borough include the Templars Martin Church, the Lambeth Bullies and the Fletchers, the strongholds at Battersea Bellows and Echostreet Alley, and the Strain & Boil factory.

The crew

One of his two Blighters, Jamie, turns up late and gets blamed for being distracted, and the other objects that the tenants have nothing left to pay. Butler sends them off to collect anyway and heads out for house calls himself, which is your chance to take him away from his men.

Full-sync notes

If he breaks free he yells for Jamie, so it pays to deal with or avoid the Blighters first. Recaptured, he offers you his money; turn it down and carry on to the carriage. Only a live delivery meets the full-sync condition.

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