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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.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Lambeth
Storylines
Part 7 of 7 in Sequence 4: A Quick and Reliable Remedy
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.
- Lambeth AsylumLambeth Asylum is a fictional mental hospital in Lambeth, funded by the Templars in 1868 and the setting for some of Syndicate's darkest memories. Jacob kills Dr. Elliotson here, Evie and Clara seek a cure here, and the Jack the Ripper story ends here.
Good to know
- Sequence 4, memory 7 of 7; global story order 14; played as Jacob Frye.
- Region: Lambeth, at Lambeth Asylum.
- Target: Dr John Elliotson, who formulated Soothing Syrup.
- Optional objectives: halt the electroconvulsive therapy session; do not fire a single bullet.
- Darwin sees Jacob off outside, and the nurse you free works for Florence Nightingale.
- Next memory: A Room with a View, which opens Sequence 5.
Objectives
Infiltrate the asylum and locate Elliotson, who is lecturing students over a trepanned patient. Explore for opportunities: steal the master key back from the guard who took it from a nurse and unlock her way out; kill the two guards running the electroshock session; then slip into the morgue, hide the cadaver meant for the lecture and take its place on the stretcher. When Elliotson leans over, strike.
Two ways to finish
If you reach the stretcher unseen, Jacob bursts from under the sheet for a clean kill. If Elliotson spots you first, he confronts you and you have to finish him in a fight. Either way, students raise the alarm and you escape the building.
What happensSpoilerShow
Elliotson tells Jacob that killing an old man will not stop the Great Architect's design. Afterwards, Starrick's circle (Twopenny, the Earl of Cardigan and Lucy Thorne) meets over tea, and Thorne promises Evie will be dealt with soon.
Things to notice
A guard sacks a nurse for her ethics and takes her keys, and other guards complain that syrup stocks are low without Elliotson's say-so. Elliotson lectures on phrenology while he waits for the cadaver. The memory switches to Starrick's office at the end, the first time you see the Grand Master's inner circle together.
- 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.
- Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale is stationed at Lambeth Asylum in 1868. In The Lady with the Lamp she treats Clara O'Dea and asks Evie to recover the supplies needed to replace the counterfeit tonics flooding Lambeth after John Elliotson's death.
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.- John ElliotsonDr John Elliotson is the Templar physician behind Starrick's Soothing Syrup, the addictive tonic dulling London's poor. Jacob Frye tracks him down through Sequence 4 with Charles Darwin's help, and he is the target of the memory Overdose at Lambeth Asylum.
- Lucy ThorneLucy 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.
- 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.
- Richard OwenRichard Owen is the naturalist and Darwin rival Jacob chases down in On the Origin of Syrup. Rammed through traffic in his own carriage, he gives up the name of the Syrup's creator: Dr John Elliotson of Lambeth Asylum.
Related missions
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On the Origin of Syrup
On the Origin of Syrup is a carriage interrogation: Darwin points Jacob at his old rival Richard Owen, and you hijack Owen's coach and drive it recklessly until he names the man who created Soothing Syrup.
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The Lady with the Lamp
The Lady with the Lamp brings Evie back to Lambeth after the asylum's closure. When Clara O'Dea collapses at the asylum doors, Florence Nightingale takes her in and gives Evie a list of medicines to fetch from a peddler and a besieged pharmacist.
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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.
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Unnatural Selection
Unnatural Selection takes Jacob into the Starrick Brewing Company's distillery, where he meets Charles Darwin snooping at the window. Together they get inside, and Jacob blows up the tanks that brew Soothing Syrup.