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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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Storylines
Part 1 of 7 in Sequence 4: A Quick and Reliable Remedy
Good to know
- Sequence 4, memory 1 of 7; global story order 8; played as Evie Frye, with Jacob taking the reins.
- Target: Lucy Thorne's chest, guarded by Templars and rooftop gunmen.
- You recover a notebook marked with an Assassin insignia.
- Agnes has redecorated the train by the end, with new rugs from Camden Lock.
- Henry briefs Jacob on Soothing Syrup at the start, the drug his thread follows next.
- Previous memory: Freedom of the Press. Next memory: A Spoonful of Syrup, back with Jacob.
Objectives
Watch Thorne's men load the chest from a vantage point; Jacob deals with the rooftop gunmen while you reach the cart. Search the chest, then defend the cart as Jacob drives off with Templar carriages in pursuit. Shoot pursuers from the back until the twins can jump down onto their own train passing below.
Things to notice
Jacob spends the chase taunting the Templars and daring them to shoot Evie, which she does not appreciate. Evie runs out of cartridges partway, and Jacob tosses his across. The title riffs on the film The Great Escape.
What happensSpoilerShow
The chest holds research papers instead of an artefact, and the twins have to abandon it during the jump. Evie keeps the book she pocketed, which turns out to contain information on the Piece of Eden in London.
Before the raid
Henry and Jacob talk about Soothing Syrup, which carries Starrick's own name, while Evie tracks Lucy Thorne. When Jacob finds her reading at the train, she says Thorne is expecting a shipment tonight and is almost certainly receiving the Piece of Eden. Jacob invites himself along and swears to stick to the plan.
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.- 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.
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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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.
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A Room with a View
A Room with a View follows the Kenway clues to the Monument to the Great Fire and then the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, where Evie solves a disc mechanism to find the key to the Shroud's vault. Lucy Thorne is waiting, and the memory ends in a fight with her.
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A Simple Plan
A Simple Plan is Evie Frye's first memory and the second in the story. You ride a supply train into a Templar compound near Croydon, find the hidden laboratory of Sir David Brewster, and kill him to get at the Piece of Eden he is studying.