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Locate and reset network hub
1 of 24: In the large room you start in, look around to find all the doors you can.
2 of 24: You'll find one grate-like door firmly closed and locked and another one malfunctioning and going up and down. Near the malfunctioning one is a short hallway with a blocked door at the end of it.
3 of 24: You need to find a way to get to the other side of the malfunctioning up-and-down door.
4 of 24: There's nothing interesting in the few rooms near the malfunctioning door (except the remote bomb that's next to the dead body), so move on to where some super-speedy creature throws a dead security guard through a window and then runs through a window itself.
5 of 24: If you're fast enough in following it, you can see it escape through the ceiling in a side room.
6 of 24: That was your first real glimpse of an Assassin, a new enemy you'll be seeing a lot more of very soon.
7 of 24: Go into the room he broke out of and find the doors in the back that lead to an empty-looking lobby.
8 of 24: As soon as you enter the lobby, a grate-like door will close and lock behind you!
9 of 24: Take a left after leaving the office with the first Assassin in it and move ahead, ready for an Assassin to leap out of an office on the left.
10 of 24: After you assassinate the Assassin in the back office, too, you'll need to find a way to get past the locked grate-like door that's to the right of that office.
13 of 24: Quicksave as soon as you drop down through the ceiling tiles, then move a short way down the hall to get one Assassin to drop from the ceiling to the floor ahead of you.
14 of 24: Quickly turn on SlowMo and shoot him down, then watch for the one that comes out of the office on the right.
15 of 24: It's hard to kill both without getting hit even once, so just do the best you can.
16 of 24: Move on to find a laptop on a couch that you can use for more info, then explore around until you find Norton Mapes.
17 of 24: After the local security system is down, backtrack all the way back to the room where you first met Mapes.
18 of 24: NOTE: You can take a shortcut by going through the now-open grate door in the room where you shot down several Replicas from above.
19 of 24: When you get back to where Mapes was, you'll find three Replicas entering the area from the opposite end. (If not, hide and wait a few seconds.) It should be easy to go into SlowMo and shoot them all through the window to the right of the door.
20 of 24: As you move on, be ready for three more Replicas after you pass by the equipment cart and make a left.
21 of 24: Just past them is a newly opened grate door with a "server room" sign to the left of it, so go that way next.
22 of 24: Exploring the area, you'll find a locked door and a large room with lots of computer banks in it.
23 of 24: TIP: Set a couple of prox grenades and/or remote bombs near the locked door before you go into the server room, since Replicas are going to be coming through that door soon.
24 of 24: In the server room, find the one on the left end that has a blue "activate" screen and use it.
