Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationNo screenshot of Making Contact yet. This one shows Sarah Whitaker (Bend Studio / PlayStation).
Making Contact
You have spotted a NERO landing zone and want answers. You sneak in, follow the agent O'Brian away from his team and confront him about the night Sarah left on his helicopter.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Cascade
- Rewards
- 3,000 XP
Storylines
Part 5 of 13 in Finding NERO
Part 6 of 27 in I Remember
Good to know
- It is the first time Deacon has seen O'Brian since the night in Farewell.
- Researcher Field Note 2006 becomes collectible after this mission.
- Stay out of sight inside the landing zone until you reach O'Brian.
What happensSpoilerShow
O'Brian remembers the night in Farewell. He says the helicopter was sent south, so it never reached the refugee camp before it fell. He does not know whether Sarah lived, but agrees to look into it.
Objectives
1. Ride to the location. 2. Sneak into the NERO landing zone. 3. Follow O'Brian. 4. Confront him.
- James O'BrianJames O'Brian is the NERO volunteer who loaded Sarah onto an evacuation helicopter when the outbreak began. Deacon finds him again two years later as a NERO lieutenant in the Finding NERO storyline. He becomes Deacon's only inside source on NERO and on what happened to Sarah.
Sarah WhitakerSarah Whitaker is Deacon's wife, a botanist with two PhDs who studied rare plants at Cloverdale's Iron Butte lab. You get to know her through flashback missions in the I Remember storyline. Deacon believes she was lost in the first days of the outbreak.
Related missions
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationStoryThey're Not Sleeping
A NERO helicopter has landed in the Cascade region. You sneak into the landing zone, tail a NERO researcher into a cave and listen in on what they are doing, then get back to your bike.
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It's On A Mission
O'Brian sends you after another NERO field research team near Lost Lake. You ride out and listen in while a researcher studies the Freakers.
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationStoryYou Could Have Done More
O'Brian wants another meeting, so you ride out in Lost Lake to hear what he has found out about Sarah. Boozer comes along and waits at the bike while you talk.
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There's Nothing You Can Do
The secret ending. After the credits, O'Brian gets in touch and asks to meet you in person at a NERO landing zone by the Pioneer Cemetery. You ride out to hear what he has to say.