- ❝ In high school Sitara got in trouble for spiking the principal's coffee!❞
- ―Wrench to Marcus
W4TCHED is the ninth story mission of Watch Dogs 2.
Plot[]
Peeping Toms[]
Sitara calls Marcus to come to a seafood restaurant in Sausalito where the whole gang is waiting for him. As Marcus arrives, Miranda Comay sends him the message "You're being followed. A friend of mine is giving this to you at a great risk. Watch your backs. There's a target on you." Josh pulls up photos on his computer taken by the spy, then alerts the group someone is watching them. Afterwards, Marcus goes outside to find whoever is spying on them to find a furtive truck nearby. He finds that there are guys operating the hack from inside a van, and the van is collecting data on them and Wrench. Marcus discovers that the FBI is behind this. After Marcus obtains all the data from the FBI and escapes the heat, Wrench calls him to warn him not to communicate through the DedSec channel, insisting they meet at a coffee shop in San Francisco in person, as the FBI can tap into their network.
Café Culture[]
Marcus and Wrench rendezvous at the coffee shop, where Wrench gives Marcus information about the FBI's main office in Dellums Towers in Oakland, and his worries of them and their repugnance of hackers. He also discloses his untrustworthy views on T-Bone, insisting he had made a deal with the FBI. Instead, Marcus dismisses that idea and plans to pick up Miranda via the Driver SF app she frequently uses.
Cabbie For Hire[]
Marcus picks up Miranda and she is rather surprised. Miranda informs him that the FBI is going hard after hackers in an attempt to obtain all the Zero-days from them. While Marcus is rather ignorant of her remarks, she clarifies that this is a serious manner. After dropping him off, she apprises that he must use the "Moscow rules", using a payphone identifying as "Fred", to deliver messages.
Dellums Towers[]
Marcus heads to Oakland and follows her orders. After now being allowed access, Marcus goes into the FBI building and plants a transceiver on an antenna on the building's roof. After doing so, he proceeds to the FBI's main server room and downloads the spy's data, while evading the FBI officers. While doing so, he happens to be discovered, but manages to escape the building from the FBI, leaving the DedSec mark on the FBI's televisions.
Wrench in the Works[]
Marcus calls Wrench to inform him on his findings, but Wrench informs him that he found a frequency of the location of the spy. But when Marcus heads to a nearby antenna to plant another transceiver, Wrench goes dark and his phone call goes off with the FBI detaining him. After planting the transceiver Josh informs him of Wrench's location, revealing it is a small bunker near the 16th Street Station. Wrench is seen without his mask sitting in a chair being lectured by Carlos Fuentes, a FBI special agent. Moments later, Dušan Nemec walks in, dismissing Carlos. Dušan asks Wrench about Marcus and DedSec, but he is silent. Dušan eventually lets him go, warning him that he must tell DedSec that the FBI are after them. While Wrench approaches his mask, he refuses to let him have it, insisting the world should let him see who he really is.
After the incident, Marcus calls Wrench about his mask. Wrench advises Marcus has better things to do than retrieving his mask, but he refuses to listen. Marcus heads to 16th Street Station to get back the mask and download the FBI's data. Afterwards, Marcus returns Wrench's stuff to him and he puts back on his mask. DedSec later releases a propaganda video exposing the FBI, and the mission ends.
Chapters[]
Peeping Toms[]
- Brief: Sometimes, you have to cut loose, and DedSec needs some R&R.
- Objective:
- Meet DedSec at the Thalassa Bar
- Locate who's spying on DedSec
- Download data from the spy
- Abandon the van
Café Culture[]
- Brief: Wrench has a favorite café? Guess it's a good time to meet him there and formulate a plan.
- Objective:
- Meet Wrench in the café
Cabbie for Hire[]
- Brief: Marcus needs some time away from prying eyes to talk to Miranda. He decides to take her for a pleasant drive.
- Objective:
- Select "Cabbie for Hire" in the Driver SF App
- Acquire this vehicle to pick up Miranda
- Pick up Miranda
- Drive Miranda to her mother's house
Dellums Towers[]
- Brief: DedSec wants to learn about FBI surveillance starting with the HQ in Dellums Towers, so reach the mysterious contact using a pay phone.
- Objective:
- Gain access to Dellums Towers
- Investigate the FBI
- Reach the FBI floor
- Plant a transceiver on the antenna
- Download spying post data from FBI server
- Leave the FBI building
Wrench in the Works[]
- Brief: DedSec is on the trail of the not-so-secret FBI surveillance center by using radio triangulation. You and Wrench are all about disrupting FBI activities.
- Objective:
- Reach the antenna
- Plant a transceiver on the antenna
- Infiltrate the FBI hideout
- Retrieve Wrench's mask
- Download the FBI data
- Leave the FBI Hideout
- Return mask to Wrench
Audio Files[]
There are three audio files which can be found during the mission. The audio files are all located on the FBI floor of the Dellum Towers, in three separate FBI servers, in three different rooms.
The Man in the Mask #1[]
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Name: The Man in the Mask #1 Author: Unknown |
| The suspect is remarkable in that he wears a mask at all times. The mask prevents our facial recognition software from determining his identity. We have also run several vocal passes, the results are indeterminate as to region and upbringing. His work is that of a high-level, albeit self-taught, hacker whose calling card often involves crude jokes left encoded into his target's core program. |
The Man in the Mask #2[]
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Name: The Man in the Mask #2 Author: Unknown |
| Previous to his DedSec involvement, the subject known as Wrench mostly pursued cyber-attacks of dubious humoristic value. Changing website text to scatological verbiage, often using bathroom humor. This sort of adolescent acting-out has transformed as he has become more deeply involved in DedSec. He now operates within a team, generally pursuing either corporate or political targets. The subject is considered dangerous. |
The Man in the Mask #3[]
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Name: The Man in the Mask #3 Author: Unknown |
| As for DedSec member Wrench. Surveillance indicates that he is awkward around the opposite sex and uses his mask as a deflecting device. A psych analysis postulates a disrupted childhood along with possible debilitating shyness. Subject copes with this using a mask which he has programmed to reflect his emotions as a sort of electronic billboard. Within the world in which the subject operates, this solution is considered ingenious. |
Intercepted Text[]
There is one text message which can be found during this mission. The text message is obtained by hacking an FBI agent in 16th Street Station.
 CHAT
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| Keep track of that mask. |
| Mask? |
| We can use it for barter. It's like a totem to that guy. |
| Oh, that. Got it. Sure |
E-mails[]
There are three e-mails which can be found during this mission.
- E-mail #1 is carried by a person on the FBI floor in the meeting room.
- E-mail #2 is found on a laptop on the FBI floor.
- E-mail #3 is found on a laptop at 16th Street Station, in the main hall.
E-mail #1[]
Subject:
Unknown
E-mail #2[]
Subject:
Unknown
E-mail #3[]
Subject:
Unknown
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The name of the final chapter of this mission, "Wrench in the Works", could be a reference to the 11th story mission in the first Watch Dogs, which is entitled "A Wrench in the Works".
- The song that Sitara sings in the intro cutscene is Miss Me Blind by Culture Club. The song can be heard on Bay City Pop KBY-FM.
- This mission is the only point of the game where Wrench's face is exposed.
- Based on what camera Marcus is using at the end of Wrench’s interrogation, Dušan will have a different way of showing his awareness of Marcus’s “presence”. If it’s the overhead camera, Dušan will turn back and perform the “finger-gun” hand sign at the camera. If it’s the camera in front of Wrench, Dušan will slightly crouch and wave at the camera. If it’s the camera to Wrench’s left, Dušan will sit down on the cinderblocks next to it and say “What am I gonna do with you Marcus? What am I gonna do with you?” while leering at the camera.