SOMBRA

SOMBRA is a global criminal organization featured in Season 3 of Criminal Case. The organization has an evil alignment against The Bureau as the story progresses.

Killing Spring
The Bureau first learned about SOMBRA when Carmen and the player found a wad of cash sent to Hamza Boussefi from "The Sword", Chief Ripley's murderer and who was first discovered in Morocco. As Dupont did not know what "SOMBRA" meant, the team talked to Hamza's wife, Fatima Boussefi, who explained that Hamza had refused to assist The Sword but ended up obeying him due to the money involved. Furthermore, The Sword encouraged him to be a protest leader who would overthrow Sultan Mahmoud of Libya. Not knowing what SOMBRA meant though, Fatima directed the team to the oasis, where Hamza met with The Sword often.

Carmen and the player found another wad of cash from the Sword, with a substance from the Nile River on it. The team departed to Egypt to find out more about SOMBRA and The Sword.

I Spy a Mummy
In Egypt, Jack and the player found the mummified body of Afif Wahab. Later, Agent Asal Hawaa of Mossad said that she was sent to spy on the victim because Mossad believed him to be a SOMBRA agent. After Afif's killer was arrested, Asal was interrogated again about SOMBRA, who did so after the Bureau proved that they could be trusted.

Asal said that SOMBRA was an international crime organization, separated into organized cell groups worldwide, sometimes incorporating existing groups into the organization in order to gain bases on every continent (e.g. the Promethian Cult which operated in Europe). The team then deduced the Sword was uniting the rebels across the Sahara for SOMBRA.

Later, Jonah Karam suggested to the Bureau that they dress up as rebel leaders to get in contact with the SOMBRA weapons dealer, who would then inform The Sword that a new rebel group had formed. Elliot and Jonah then set up the meeting with dealer Seamus Cummings in Dubai, and the team departed to meet up with him.

The Parting Shot
In Dubai, Jack and the player found Seamus shot dead on a golf camp. After arresting the killer, Ingrid told the team that Andrew Stern, Ambassador Jessica Stern's son, had been kidnapped. The team found out that he was kidnapped by the Sword, and Jonah informed them that The Sword's modus operandi involved sending their kidnapped targets away from the country. Later, Dupont and Asal confirmed that Ripley's murder and all subsequent events in the Sahara were all done to lead the Bureau into a trap.

After Carmen and the player returned Jessica's phone to her, Ambassador Stern revealed that her signal had traced Andrew to Iraq. The team went there to save Andrew.

Die by the Sword
In Iraq, Carmen and the player found the body of nomadic leader Anir Aznag, who the team suspected was killed by The Sword. After rescuing Andrew, the team arrested Omar Bahir for Andrew's kidnapping, incitement of violence, and the murders of Chief Ripley and Anir.

Omar revealed that as The Sword, he had been bringing up conflict and extremism in the Sahara and Middle East. When he suspected the Bureau would get him, Omar decided that he would trap the police first. He then tried to escape interrogation using a poison grenade to continue his mission, only to be shot by Jonah from across the street.

It was later revealed that Chief Ripley was, indeed, alive, and she explained to the team that she knew SOMBRA had ordered the hit on her. She had led the organization to believe that she was dead so that the agents could find The Sword and put him away.

After Omar was arrested, Ripley came to the Bureau and revealed that she was alive. She said she had faked her death to make The Sword believe that they were successful and to buy time for the Bureau to arrest The Sword. Later, she hired Jonah to be part of their team. Jonah and the player then received a message from Natasha Romanova, head of COSMORUS in Russia, who suspected her organization of being infiltrated by foreign spies. The Bureau then headed to Moscow in order to see if SOMBRA was involved.

Eurasia—launching a satellite
In Moscow, Jack and the player found COSMORUS employee Darya Chernova murdered. It was revealed that Darya was receiving five million dollars for classified COSMORUS information. Later, the team found out Darya received $1,700,000 over the course of three months from a logistics firm called Global Flux Ltd, which was a SOMBRA alias per Jonah. Later, in Saint Petersburg, the team found out that Global Flux Ltd was making agreements with the Lermontov Estate and that Darya was leaking COSMORUS launch codes to SOMBRA. The launch codes contained coordinates to Siberia as well.

In Siberia, CIA operative Nick Kringle was assassinated by Asal. After the trial, Asal said that Nick was assassinated under the suspicion of being a SOMBRA agent. Later, Marina found out that Nick created Santa Inc, an offshore company to receive payments from Global Flux Ltd and that he had given a hologram/blueprint of a satellite to SOMBRA. Elliot later found out that Global Flux Ltd received money from the Russian ex-president that Marina had exposed for her student project. Furthermore, he traced the company's payments to Mongolia.

On the way to Mongolia in the Trans-Siberian Express, a murder caused the train to stop. The killer, Nikita Rukhin, was interrogated about his smuggling network. He claimed not to know the contents of the things he was smuggling. Later, Carmen and the player found out that SOMBRA was smuggling satellite parts through the Soviets' smuggling network. The train moved again and the team found a tablet which told that SOMBRA was going to launch their own satellite in order to hijack all other satellites and gain control of almost all technology on Earth.

Arriving in Mongolia, Carmen and the player found SOMBRA satellite engineer Andrei Beloglazov dead in Mount Khan, near a statue that was later revealed to be the entrance to SOMBRA's satellite factory. Tsetseg was arrested for his murder, and she explained that SOMBRA hired her to kill him to "tie up loose ends". This implied that the satellite was done. After her trial, the team found counterfeit COSMORUS key cards which were going to be used to gain access to a COSMORUS launch site. Later, they also found out through a delivery slip that SOMBRA had sent the satellite to Kazakhstan.

Upon gaining clearance (thanks to Elliot) and permission from Natasha, Jack and the player found Senator Vitaly Borodin dead in the launch site. Yelena Tereshkova was arrested for the murder, who insisted that she did not know anything of the satellite and that Natasha ordered her to kill him. During her arrest, Natasha launched the satellite. Tipped off by Yelena afterwards, Jonah and the player found Nikolai Sharapov's tablet containing an incomplete code that would override the launched satellite. Intimidated by Jonah, Nikolai gave the missing code to Elliot.

Meanwhile, Marina and the player found out that Natasha was to hide in the Bayterek Tower until sunrise. Near the Bayterek tower, Agent Anya Ivanova helped the team figure out that Natasha was looking for something near the tower. They found a metal briefcase with money and a note saying that SOMBRA was going to dump Natasha. Upon her arrest, Natasha said that she was promised power. Learning of the note however, Natasha panicked as she believed SOMBRA considered her a loose end.

After all the events, Yelena and Natasha were sentenced to 50 and 75 years in prison respectively, and Elliot was able to gain control of the satellite for the Bureau's use.

Peace and Dead Quiet
After SOMBRA had seemed to be dormant for days, Elliot revealed that Guru Om Padmasana had been making huge donations to a charity called One Mother Milk, and Marina opted to accompany the player to find the guru and question him. Averly Worthington told the team that the guru was not present, but gave them permission to look around the temple where they found a brochure for One Mother Milk. After discovering that the logo for a company called O.M. MediLab was featured on the brochure, Marina sent the brochure to Elliot. Elliot shockingly discovered that O.M. MediLab was actually a SOMBRA front, confirming the Bureau's suspicions that the guru was donating to the criminal organization. Carmen wanted to persuade Averly to help her and the player find the guru, but Averly angrily told them he had already left.

After being told to track Averly due to her connections with the guru, Elliot later discovered that Averly had bought a ticket to Tibet, and Chief Ripley told the player that their next assignment was in Tibet.

Insides Out
Jack and the player found tuk-tuk driver Sandeep Sadhra murdered in a village in Tibet while trying to track Averly and the guru. The team found many clues that could possibly incriminate the guru as Sandeep's killer; however when the team gathered enough evidence, they actually discovered that NGO worker Warren Goodfellow was responsible. Warren admitted that he had tried to frame the guru for the murder and the schemes made by O.M. MediLab, but refused to reveal anything else.

While Carmen apologized to the guru, the team found a laptop that revealed that Warren was the one who had made One Mother Milk, revealing to the Bureau that Warren was working for SOMBRA. When Jack confronted Warren in his cell, the latter told the team that he had used Sandeep to incriminate the guru as the O.M. mastermind, but refused to tell them more, so the player opted to check the village for more clues Sandeep may have left. They found an envelope containing a letter to Warren from a SOMBRA affiliate called "The Head Hunter", but all Jack got out of the letter was that it came from China. After sending the letter to headquarters for analysis, Warren was sentenced to life in prison for his horrendous crimes.

Later on, Lars analyzed the letter further and found traces of Camellia reticulata, a flower native to the Yunnan Province in China, and the player was prompted to head there to discover The Head Hunter's identity.

The Killer in the Rice
Following Warren's arrest in Tibet, the team had decided to look for the Head Hunter in the Yunnan Province of China. Chief Ripley ordered Carmen and the player to start searching in the Yuanyang rice fields where they found the corpse of a teenager named Guo Han with his throat slashed. Han's friend, Zhao Mei was revealed to be his killer. Mei's strange behaviour, including mentioning that the weak must die, baffled the team. Judge Adaku wanted to have Mei receive help from Marina. After talking to Mei, who mentioned giving a gift to Han, the player found a statue with SOMBRA's symbol on it. The SOMBRA statue proved that Mei was somehow connected with SOMBRA and Han was not according to his aunt.

Meanwhile, Jonah had teamed up with the player to investigate the forest where they found a button with Warren's face in a tent. When they found Ronin Ozawa's fingerprints on it, Jonah and the player decided to interrogate him. After further investigation of the rice field, the player found a tracker watch which was used to track Mei with Ronin's DNA on it. Ronin claimed it was to keep track of Mei after she had vanished from the Sichuan Province months prior the events of this case.

Chief Ripley was furious that they could not arrest Ronin despite his potential links with SOMBRA but she had told Elliot to keep an eye on him. She then noted that Mei's actions were more important as if she had fallen into SOMBRA's hands, the same could happen to others. The team decided since Mei had ran away from the Sichuan Province of China, they would investigate there next to pick up the trail.

Dead in the Water
Upon the team's arrival to the Sichuan Province of China, Dupont suggested to Jack and the player that they should visit the Lotus Bridge in Leshan and do some sightseeing. Unfortunately, an adoption agent going by the name of Li Jun was found dead in the water.

After solving her murder, the player went to find Jun's flashdrive at the Lotus Bridge which mentioned the disappearances of Mei and other orphans in the province. The cops went to the victim's daughter, Ying and asked her about Jun's notes, in which Ying suggested them to the restaurant. There, they found evidence that proved there were disappearances in China, Japan, and Korea, along with the mention of SOMBRA. However, the victim did not know who or what SOMBRA was.

After finding Angela's daughter, April, in the panda reserve with SILVERee, a K-pop star, the team headed to the Chinese capital of Beijing as the city had 60 disappearances, the most of the cities Jun investigated.

A Twist of Fate
Once in Beijing, Jack proposed the request of having a night off. Chief Ripley reluctantly agreed, although she would have rather to investigate more about the missing orphans. Another investigation was added to the Bureau's list after the duo discovered pickpocket gang leader Fang Cheng suffocated by a plastic bag.

After arresting the victim's wife, Fang Di Yun, for murder, Carmen wanted to see if Sanjay Korrapati was okay as he was he was a suspect in Cheng's murder. The restaurant's security camera revealed that Sanjay encountered Ronin Ozawa. Sanjay told Carmen and the player that he was perfectly fine and that he was departing for Seoul for greener pastures.

Tsukada Chieko, a waitress for the restaurant and another suspect, requested help with finding her brother, Hiroshi who had vanished prior to the events of the case. She had mentioned that Hiroshi was promised a better future by a mysterious organization. Fearing that SOMBRA was involved, they investigated until they found an application form belonging to another suspect, a street kid named Bai Bai, who said that he applied to escape Cheng's gang but he was denied.

The Great Wall was revealed to be the location where the accepted recruits were picked up. There, they found out SOMBRA was brainwashing children into believing the criminal organization's ideologies and loyalty to them.

After informing Chieko about the organization, she said her brother was seen in Seoul but was gone once again. The team headed to Seoul in hopes of finding Hiroshi, Sanjay and ultimately SOMBRA's schemes.

Oh! Crazy Kill!
The Bureau followed SOMBRA's trail of kidnapped orphans to Seoul, South Korea. Carmen and the player visited the set of popular K-pop children's TV show "Oh! Crazy Kids!" where they found TV producer Gwak Sung-ho crushed under a LED pillar.

The cops were able to incriminate TV presenter Kang Dong-yun as Gwak's killer. After the trial, Jack and the player investigated a karaoke place (disguised as K-pop stars) to find a laptop with SILVERee's videos. Elliot discovered that the videos contained SOMBRA's logo and various subliminal messages and when Jack asked SILVERee about it, the K-Pop star claimed that he did not know about SOMBRA. Meanwhile, Carmen and the player headed off to the TV set to search for Angela and help her with her problems. After Elliot had recognized that Ronin’s photo was taken in a Tokyo arcade, deducing Ronin was in charge of moving the orphans there, the Bureau took a flight to the Japanese capital.

A Death Wish
At the Kabuchiko Game Center in Tokyo, Jack and the player were looking for Ronin when they found Yuto Watanabe, the leader of the Watanabe-gumi yakuza, shot in the head. After putting Sanjay in custody, the street kid escaped.

Soon enough, the cops arrested an English teacher going by the name of Emily Wallace for Yuto’s murder. Emily had plotted her revenge and shot Yuto with Shiro Watanabe's old gun before he could successfully commit seppuku.

After the investigation, Jack and the player looked for Sanjay. They found Suzuki Sakura's camera in the arcade, whose footage revealed that Ronin gave a gun to Sanjay and ordered him to blackmail someone. Ronin said SOMBRA paid the Watanabe-gumi organization to train the recruited orphans but did not reveal anything more.

The cops found a message from Chieko to Sanjay in the yakuza's office telling him to call her via cellphone when he reaches his destination. Chieko said that she gave Sanjay a phone so that he could contact her if he found her brother Hiroshi while he was in Kyushu Island.

Meanwhile, Angela talked to her daughters about tearing Dollie Doll, only for the children to reveal that Chieko taught them to not be weak. After the events, Elliot tracked Sanjay's phone to Kyushu, the southernmost island in Japan. The Bureau took a plane there to find Sanjay and save him from SOMBRA’s hands.

The Murder Games
Following Sanjay to Kyushu, Chieko led Carmen and the player to the body of her brother, Hiroshi, who had an arrow to the back in a temple garden.

Sanjay contacted Carmen and told the cops that SOMBRA ordered the brainwashed orphans to kill one another until only one survived – an event they called "The Hunt". Chieko, Sanjay, SILVERee, and Ronin were all detained for involvement in The Hunt, with Ronin being arrested for weapon and orphan trafficking. Eventually, Obaasan was arrested for Hiroshi's murder.

After denying involvement, Obaasan admitted she shot Hiroshi with a crossbow because she accused him of being weak for refusing to take part in The Hunt. Furthermore, Obaasan believed only SOMBRA could provide the children with a good future. Judge Adaku sentenced her to life in jail for Hiroshi's murder, the abduction and brainwashing of orphans, and obstruction of justice.

Post-trial, SILVERee returned the orphans their most valuable possessions to help them out of their brainwashing. With his and Marina's help, the player restored Sanjay and Chieko's memories of their friends. The cops released the three from detention and offered to get Sanjay and Chieko a family via Spring Angels, in which Chieko thanked the team. However, Sanjay refused to be adopted by strangers, so Carmen agreed in being his legal guardian. Ronin negotiated his freedom with Jonah and the player by helping them track down the orphans who still believed they had to kill one another. Ronin pointed the cops to a command unit in the temple, which Elliot used to stop The Hunt. Ronin then directed the cops to the abandoned classroom for information about SOMBRA's future plans. They found a DVD which contained a prerecorded message with an unknown girl (who was later revealed to be Riaja Somalinggi) telling the sole survivor of The Hunt to go to Bangkok.

Ronin was released for cooperating with the authorities and the triplets were sent home. Chief Ripley sent the Bureau to Bangkok to follow the lead they had found in the classroom.

Death Match
Following the lead Ronin had given them in Kyushu, the Bureau arrived in Bangkok. Local police requested Jack and the player to investigate the death of Muay Thai boxing champion Thanid Tongproh, who was found strangled in a boxing ring. Despite the problems concerning Lars turning blue and the press, the team incriminated bookmaker Chon Sansurin as Thanid’s killer. Getting a tip from an unknown source called X, Elliot advised Jack and the player to investigate Thanid's past. On the boxing ring, they found a photo of a 12-year-old Thanid. Elliot said it was taken in the abandoned classroom the player had found in Kyushu. Believing Thanid had taken part in The Hunt, the team asked his wife, Maniwan, about his childhood.

Maniwan said the only thing he revealed about his infancy was that his parents were killed. She directed the team to the Ayutthaya ruins, where they found a letter from Obaasan addressed to Thanid, telling that it was his last chance to prove he was not weak lest he die. This proved Thanid had indeed taken part in The Hunt, and SOMBRA had been planning that event for longer than the Bureau had thought.

After the player successfully helped Jonah invite Marina to dinner, Elliot received another encrypted message from X, telling the team to meet a woman named Michelle Zuria for more information about SOMBRA’s "next level". The Bureau then caught a plane to Singapore to meet Michelle.

A Stab in the Dark
The team arrived in Singapore to meet lawyer Michelle for information about SOMBRA’s "next level". Before Carmen and the player could speak with her, Michelle received a call from her client, Anbu Devanesan, telling that he had found his girlfriend, Constance Tan, stabbed in the stomach in the Giant Wheel observation cabin. During the investigation, the team found the killer's device which (per Elliot) was encrypted by SOMBRA, proving that Constance was killed by a SOMBRA agent. The killer turned out to be Anbu himself. After Anbu denied involvement, Elliot came in with the finally-decrypted device. He said Anbu was laundering SOMBRA's money in Singapore. Anbu revealed afterward that he stabbed Constance with a parang because she discovered his job in SOMBRA. He then abducted Elliot and escaped.

Jack said he had tailed Anbu and Elliot to the bay gardens before the former shot him in the arm. Investigating there, Carmen and the player found Anbu's bloody tie, with Lars saying that the tie was used to gag Elliot. The two asked Jonah for help, who then advised them to return to the gardens. There, the two found Elliot's broken phone with an unsent message directing them to the docks. Meanwhile, Marina and the player interrogated Michelle. During the interrogation, the team deduced Anbu was funding the "next level" program. Michelle pointed the team to the Giant Wheel. There, they found out Anbu had hidden a document proving SOMBRA had "successfully" experimented with Thanid Tongproh. Sanjay told them there were rumors regarding the recruits being experimented.

Jonah, Carmen, and the player rushed to the docks before Anbu could escape by ship. They found Anbu, who threatened to kill Elliot. Jonah acted quickly by shooting Anbu in the hand, saving Elliot. Judge Adaku sentenced Anbu to life in jail for the murder of Constance, money laundering for SOMBRA, the abduction of a police officer, and failure to cooperate with the authorities. Post-trial, Elliot said he overheard Anbu ordering a boat to Indonesia. The Bureau headed there to dig deeper into SOMBRA's plans.

The Sweet Escape
Overhearing Anbu's plot while being held hostage, Elliot directed the Bureau to Indonesia. Upon arrival, Jack and the player found Riaja, the girl who appeared in the "next level" video the team found in Kyushu, pierced by a spear.

During the investigation, X gave Elliot the coordinates of a SOMBRA camp in the island where they experimented with recruits. Furthermore, the organization started preparing to leave so the team had to hurry the investigation. The team gathered enough evidence to incriminate psychologist Maya Salim in Riaja's murder. After the trial, Carmen and the player investigated SOMBRA’s camp to learn more about the experiments. They found Marshall Metcalf's folder, which (per Elliot’s analysis) showed SOMBRA was genetically improving their recruits’ speed, strength, or intelligence, resulting in yellow eyes as a side effect. Riaja was made faster and Baxter Fraser (the boxer the team met in Bangkok) was made stronger.

Marshall Metcalf was interrogated and said he felt proud of his achievement and stated the subjects volunteered. To calm her down, the player took Carmen to the forest where they found a cellphone with a video of Riaja telling Baxter Fraser to hide with her. However, the video stopped before she could completely say their meeting place.

Meanwhile, Lars and the player helped Jack resolve his problems with Asal. Jack and the player then met with her since she was investigating SOMBRA for Mossad in Indonesia. After all this, Elliot received another message from X with the word "Aotearoa", the Maori name for New Zealand. Deducing that Riaja would have met with Baxter there, the Bureau caught a plane to New Zealand.

Speak, Friend, and Die
The team went to New Zealand to locate Baxter. Presuming he was hiding there, Carmen and the player searched the “The Ringed Lord” set where they found the body of fantasy film director Jackson Peters with a severe head trauma.

The team successfully found Baxter hiding from SOMBRA in a rugby bar. Despite the circumstances of Baxter destroying the set, the team managed to incriminate rugby player Jermaine Waaka as Jackson’s killer.

Post-trial, an agitated Baxter told the team that SOMBRA was involved in the production of “The Ringed Lord”. He also claimed the organization was spying on him. Elliot volunteered to take him to the geyser to help him overcome his trauma. There, they found a radio transmitter. Baxter, emotionally disturbed, stayed in the lab while Elliot tracked its signal to the rugby bar, where he and the player found a hidden microphone. When they took it to Baxter to destroy it, Baxter panicked and fled.

Meanwhile, Jack and the player (disguised as movie elves) headed to the set and interrogated Brett Darby. Brett mentioned that young actors went missing and claimed to have spotted a blue man prowling around the set. Believing that man was Marshall, the team investigated the area. They found a prop book which (per Dupont’s analysis) revealed that the victim’s wife, Bronwyn, received a big sum of money in an account separate from the film's budget.

Bronwyn said she was paid by one of the film´s financial backers to hire young children and buy them plane tickets. The team deduced those children as SOMBRA's recruits and that the financial backers were a SOMBRA front. Bronwyn also said that the children were sent to different continents.

Later, Elliot received another message from X, which told that one of SOMBRA's recruits was spotted at the harbor of Sydney, Australia. The Bureau took a plane to Sydney to follow their new lead.

Six Feet Down Under
Previously, X had informed The Bureau that a SOMBRA recruit was in Sydney. Chief Ripley told Carmen and the player to look out for SOMBRA in the Australia Shines Gala in the Sydney Opera House. There, Veronica Salter told the cops that she and her boss, Rufus Murlock, had been shot, with the latter being dead.

During the investigation, treasure hunter Brice LeBeau was arrested for trespassing on the victim's property to gain access to a shipwreck within it. Elliot found out that the ship sank thirty years prior. Later, X told him that the ship belonged to SOMBRA. With Australia seeking justice for Rufus' murder, the team arrested Veronica, who revealed she was a SOMBRA recruit. She said that she was in Australia for months awaiting SOMBRA's orders. When the order to kill Rufus came, she shot Rufus six times with a pistol and then shot herself in the arm to avoid suspicion. With the arrest, the team deduced that SOMBRA was genetically enhancing their recruits and sending them around the world as assassins.

Post-trial, Carmen and the player interrogated Michelle, the lawyer they met in Singapore, because she had tried to blow up the SOMBRA ship earlier. Michelle refused to say anything helpful before bailing herself out. Taking her statement literally, the cops found a safe in the shipwreck that contained faded SOMBRA documents. Per Lars, Rufus had touched the document, meaning that he was a SOMBRA agent on the ship when it sank.

Meanwhile, Marina and the player searched the opera house for something to help them before interrogating Veronica in prison. They found her rosary which Elliot used to find out that Veronica was actually a Slovakian orphan named Katherine Vojtka. Veronica said that she was abused in the orphanage and SOMBRA made her strong, fearless, and powerful after she escaped; hence, she refused to break her allegiance to SOMBRA.

The team reconvened and concluded Rufus' past was the essential lead. Knowing Rufus had done drag shows in the outback to hide from SOMBRA, Carmen and the player interrogated his companion, drag queen Chockas D.Lux. Chockas drove them to the spot where he had dug up Rufus' briefcase of fake passports when he left for Sydney. In the briefcase, they found a SOMBRA map detailing a mysterious island in the Indian Ocean, marked "The Next Level". The map also showed that the program had been going on for at least thirty years already. The Bureau traveled to the SOMBRA base to stop the organization from training assassins once and for all.

Out of the Blue
The Bureau arrived at SOMBRA’s mysterious island with hopes of putting an end to the 'next level' program. Just after disembarking, Jack and the player found the body of Marshall stabbed with a syringe with hydrogen cyanide.

Elliot said that X stopped responding after disembarking. Later, Michelle was discovered that she was working for SOMBRA and Elliot received an emergency call from Ruby Armstrong, the volcanologist. They rescued her, finding a lab inside a volcano. The team found a picture which proved that Marshall was leaking SOMBRA’s information to Asal Hawaa. Furthermore, an eruption threat ensued, prompting the team to hurry the investigation. Eventually, treasure hunter Brice was incriminated as Marshall’s killer.

After the arrest, Ruby told the team that they had two hours to investigate the island before the volcano erupted and the island sinking for good. Jack and the player asked Asal about the information that Marshall leaked her. Asal pointed the team to the SOMBRA’s hideout before breaking up with Jack. They found Marshall’s files, which mentioned a ship carrying assassins away from the island two days before. Unfortunately, Lars could not determine the destination port because the handwriting was incomprehensible.

Meanwhile, Michelle requested to talk to Jack and the player and admitted she was X. As Jack did not believe her, Michelle pointed the team to the lab in the volcano for proof. They found a pendrive, which confirmed that Michelle was indeed X, so the team interrogated her again. Michelle said she helped the Bureau after she learned of the 'next level' program, which was against her morality. She also admitted she was paid by SOMBRA to blow up the shipwreck in Sydney, but she sabotaged the bomb so the team could find Rufus’ documents.

As time was running out, Michelle said that SOMBRA’s assassins boarded the ship on the beach, so the team headed there. Inside Baxter's bag, they found a map which proved that the assassins were sent on a mission to Kenya. Baxter said that he only pretended to join SOMBRA to try to kill Marshall and that his mission was probably assigned to another agent.

The volcano finally erupted and the island sank behind the Bureau’s boat. Taking Michelle with them, the Bureau took a plane to Kenya to follow SOMBRA's recruits.

Crash and Burn
The Bureau's plane crashed in a baobab tree in Madagascar, so the pilot went to the embassy to get help. A few hours later, he did not return so the cops went down from the plane and the tree themselves. They then found him murdered nearby.

During the investigation, the killer shot at the Bureau repeatedly. The killer was later revealed to be Aristide Akintola, who said he wanted to kill the cops before he killed Jakobo. However, his anger had gotten the better of him so he slashed the pilot's throat with a hunting knife. During the trial, Aristide implied that he was hired by someone to kill everyone in the plane.

After the trial, the team (with help from Michelle Zuria and Alex Lange) discovered that SOMBRA had connections with Fabrice Kabila (the foreign minister of Angola), Gordon Davidson, Lavinia De Brills (heiress to the largest diamond company in the entire world), and Terrance Zimmerman.

The team also discovered (with help from Ninah Zafy) that Aristide shot the hydraulic pipes in the plane with a precision rifle, causing its engine to explode and the plane to crash. It was later discovered that SOMBRA had paid him and had sent him punch cards with the classified flight path from Sydney to Kenya. It contained encryption keys which proved that someone within the Bureau was working for SOMBRA. Despite the grave news, the Bureau went to Kenya to chase after Lavinia De Brills.

The Circle of Death
The team was able to find Lavinia apparently before SOMBRA while investigating the murder of her safari guide.

After the investigation, Elliot found out that the mole within the Bureau ripped a part out of the ground control unit used to communicate with their satellite. He suspected that they had sent a message to SOMBRA using the satellite beforehand. When Michelle asked Elliot who last went to the ground control unit, he said that Carmen had gone there looking for Sanjay but said that she was not tech-savvy enough to send a message using the satellite.

Michelle and the player were able to find the missing part in the savanna. Elliot was able to red the message the mole sent using the part. Per Michelle, the first part of the message was the mole's warning to SOMBRA that their cover had been blown.

Meanwhile, Jack and the player found out from Lavinia that there were fewer diamonds being shipped than being produced. The team was able to find her documents where Lavinia had written the name of a certain Prince Abioye, a prince of an obscure principality who was in South Africa. Lavinia said that even though she did not know him, his name kept popping up in her company's documents. However, the team was not able to prove SOMBRA's connection with the theft.

Later on, Michelle and Elliot were able to decode the last part of the mole's message. The mole had told SOMBRA to send an assassin after Prince Abioye because the Bureau was investigating Lavinia. The Bureau then went to South Africa to stop the prince's assassination.

Kicking the Bucket
Jack, Michelle, and the player went to a Zulu village where the prince would be holding a speech, only to find the assassin, Kayla Pieterse, dead after being fished out of a well. During the investigation, relationships among the Bureau deteriorated as many of them kept suspecting one another of being the spy. Meanwhile, they were able to find Prince Abioye. They then put him in protective custody after someone had attempted to shoot him. The Bureau also suspected Jacob Gilbert of being an assassin since he was an orphan and since he supposedly went to Indonesia for rehabilitation for his cocaine addiction despite there being no registered rehab camps there.

The team arrested Kwanele Mthembu for the murder. Kwanele said that he wanted to be a recruit of SOMBRA as their recruits exhibited superintelligence. He then killed Kayla and tried to kill Prince Abioye later to prove his worth to the criminal organization.

After the trial, the team was finally able to get Prince Abioye talking about why SOMBRA wanted him dead. He said that SOMBRA was using his nation, Mazunda, to smuggle diamonds. He tried fighting the illegal diamond trade but the criminal organization threatened his people. He then fled from Mazunda in order to protect his people.

Diamond in the Rough
The Bureau went to the largest diamond mine of the De Brills Company, only to find photojournalist and smuggler Jude Connelly dead.

After Carmen and the player arrested his killer, they arrested Frida Cruz before she could make her escape. Frida said she wanted to run away to stay away from SOMBRA, who was also involved in the diamond smuggling. She directed them to the mine, where they found a briefcase with an apple-sized diamond inside. Upon interrogation, Clayton said that their surveillance cameras caught a woman with blonde hair sneaking in to try to steal it. They interrogated Jonah's half-sister Lily Karam (who fit the profile) about the theft. Lily said that one of her sponsors in the 3R race asked her to take the briefcase to the finish line and that she did not know about the diamond in it.

Meanwhile, Michelle and the player found out from Goodwill Ngele that someone in a raincoat tried to throw files into the Victoria Falls. They found a file folder belonging to the Bureau, which meant that the mole tried to throw files in the falls. Elliot said that the file folder contained internal information dating back to the team's missions in Europe. It also contained dossiers on every team member except Marina, who subsequently denied being the mole.

Elliot later said that the 3R racers were heading to Mazunda for the finish line. Deducing that one of the race's sponsors was a SOMBRA front, the Bureau headed to Mazunda.

Going the Distance
The Bureau later went to Mazunda to chase down the smugglers. Carmen and the player had to investigate the murder of Nomena Leroy, who was holding diamonds in her hand at the time of her death.

Ninah, the victim's close friend, confirmed that Nomena was smuggling diamonds for SOMBRA during the race and that she tried to pay her for her silence, which Ninah subsequently refused. Later on, the diamond heiress Lavinia De Brills was arrested for Nomena's murder. Lavinia admitted that she was illegally smuggling diamonds for years to avoid boredom and that she was also smuggling for SOMBRA. She said that she killed Nomena because she felt offended that the victim threatened to tell the police about her smuggling scheme if she did not provide her her own racing team. Lavinia was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

After the trial, Jack and the player talked to Ninah about the missing diamonds. Initially angry over the fact that Lavinia killed her best friend, she calmed down enough to say that the diamonds might be in the pit stop. They only found an empty briefcase with diamond dust in it. After Lars confirmed that the diamonds that used to be in the briefcase were the ones being smuggled by Nomena, Michelle requested to talk to the player about help she can provide. Michelle said that the diamonds were close by and that she would read up on Mazundan police files in order to deduce where the diamonds were dropped.

Later, Michelle was able to find out the diamonds were dropped in the art gallery. She and the player went to the gallery and found a hollow African mask with diamonds inside it. They found rally racer Thomas Moulin's sweat on the mask, so they talked to him. Faced with the threat of arrest, Thomas said that he did not know about the diamonds until Lavinia told him to keep them secure until her contact within the Bureau came to pick them up. Michelle and the player rushed back to headquarters so they could talk to Lavinia about the Bureau mole.

In headquarters, Ingrid said that she kept Lavinia in the Bureau's custody as she knew that they would want to talk to her again. Carmen later came in and said that Lavinia had been murdered already.

In Plain Sight
To investigate Lavinia's murder, Ingrid promoted Michelle to a full-fledged member of the Bureau. Michelle and the player then proceeded to label many of the Bureau's members as suspects for being the killer and for being the mole. This included Carmen, Elliot, Jack, Angela, and Chief Ripley.

Elliot revealed that he was sending coded messages to SOMBRA to fully figure out their encryption system. Later on, the mole freed Aristide Akintola, the gunman hired by SOMBRA to kill the people in the plane to Kenya, who proceeded to kidnap Carmen and use her as bait to lure the player into a trap. Fortunately, Jonah was able to kill Aristide before anyone got hurt. Later, Chief Ripley said that she met with Lavinia before to make arrangements, but Lavinia refused to talk. Throughout the investigation, relationships within the Bureau began deteriorating until Michelle and the player were able to arrest Angela for the murder.

Angela tried denying being the mole, but was cornered when Michelle brought up Aristide. Angela said that she had been SOMBRA even before she joined the Bureau and that no one knew about it, not even her own husband. Angela said that she genuinely helped the Bureau while providing SOMBRA with the information they needed. However, Angela suspected that SOMBRA wanted her dead after Aristide tried to shoot down the plane because they thought she was too loyal to the Bureau. She hired Lavinia to orchestrate a diamond smuggling operation to prove her value.

In her trial, Judge Adaku confirmed that Angela had helped Lavinia kill Nomena Leroy by providing details about the rhino viper, the murder weapon. Angela said she did not regret her actions, that she was doing what she thought was right and what she thought would make a better world for her children. She was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Lavinia De Brills, being an accomplice in Nomena Leroy's murder, conspiracy with a terrorist organization, and abusing her powers as a member of the Bureau.

Later, Lars talked to Angela in jail about her reasons for being the mole. Angela said that she was raised by SOMBRA with their ideals since she was orphaned at eight years old. In return for their loyalty however, Angela told Lars and the player that she had noticed microchips under the assassins' skin when she autopsied them. She said that when she suspected SOMBRA could not help her any further, she took a microchip and hid it in Lavinia's hotel room. There, Lars and the player found a microchip which Elliot used to track down the sleeper agents in Africa and alert the authorities in order to save or restrain them before they could do any harm.

Afterwards, Angela said she helped them locate the recruits as she disapproved of the usage of children in operations because she feared for her kids' lives. When Lars thought that Angela was only lying as part of her cover-up for SOMBRA, Angela revealed that marrying Lars was the first time she disobeyed SOMBRA's orders. She insisted that she had always loved her family despite her loyalty to SOMBRA before bidding them her final farewell.

Ice Rage
After arresting Julia Lloyd's killer in Antarctica, the Bureau could not leave immediately to follow SOMBRA due to a snowstorm. Fortunately, Michelle said that she had read some case files about SOMBRA's previous expeditions to the South Pole during her time with them and that they could investigate while waiting for communication to be restored. She and the player found a computer with information about SOMBRA's expeditions to Antarctica around the year 1970, led by Eduardo Ruiz, a high-ranked operative. According to Michelle, Eduardo had died prior to the events of the case, presumably of a heart attack.

Michelle and the player asked Dr. Ernest Emerson about Eduardo, and he claimed to have met him a handful of times. Ernest also mentioned that Eduardo and his colleagues had been working on a project they had set in Antarctica since around the year 1950 (twenty years before the electronic database's records). Michelle and the player investigated the penguin research lab and found a newspaper article saying that the Argentine government had cancelled one of SOMBRA's expeditions, forcing them to return to the country. That led the Bureau to go to Argentina to investigate SOMBRA's origins.

Murder, He Wrote
Michelle, Dupont, and the player headed to the Biblioteca Gran Adán in Argentina to find old documents in their archives pertaining to the SOMBRA expedition. There however, they found author Ernesto Cárpena stabbed and tortured to death.

During the investigation, the team found out Ernesto was writing about a mythical treasure of the conquistadors. With the help of Dupont and Elliot, Michelle and the player found the treasure, which turned out to be a SOMBRA cache. However, only the murder weapon was hidden there. In the mountains, they also found old Spanish doubloons belonging to antiquarian Ignacio Muñoz. According to Michelle, Ignacio worked with anyone, including SOMBRA, as long as he was paid in antiques.

Librarian Lorena Pratx was then arrested for the murder. After denying involvement, Lorena dropped her façade as a harmless librarian and revealed that she was a SOMBRA agent. She knew that the SOMBRA cache full of documents was hidden in the vicinity. When Ernesto stumbled upon it, Lorena tried to delay or stop him. When he would not stop, Lorena decided to torture Ernesto to gain the information and stab him 23 times with a facón. She then hid the documents somewhere else and hid the murder weapon in the cache. In court, Judge Adaku sentenced her to 40 years in jail.

Post-trial, Jack and the player went to the library to find clues on the SOMBRA cache. There, they found Lorena's laptop and a newspaper clipping mentioning the failed SOMBRA expedition in Antarctica and Captain Alejandro Pratx. The two interrogated Lorena in jail, where she said that the Argentine government had kicked the explorers out of their mandated territories. She also said that the explorers, including Alejandro. The two searched the library again, where they found Lorena's birth certificate. Dupont said that it was a Luzaguayan birth certificate, meaning that Alejandro moved to Luzaguay before Lorena was born.

Meanwhile, Elliot's analysis of the laptop turned up a weather forecast video, which in truth was a coded instruction to Lorena to burn the SOMBRA cache. Jack and the player interrogated Ignacio, who said that Lorena told him that the documents never reached the city. They then searched the mountains, where they found a pile of ashes. Fortunately, a message mentioning a certain "El Rey" was intact. The two interrogated Michelle about El Rey. She said that El Rey was supposedly the supreme leader of SOMBRA and that many agents believed him to be a myth because no one had ever seen him and because a single leader of SOMBRA would be too dangerous to the whole organization.

Later, Elliot confirmed SOMBRA activity in Luzaguay by saying that the weather report came from Luzaguay. With this information, the Bureau went to Luzaguay to go in deeper into SOMBRA's past.

Shadow Nation
The Bureau went to Luzaguay, only for Carmen and the player to find President Adolfo Herrera's corpse in the city hall, shot in the head with a rifle.

During the investigation, rebel Sebastian Morales sent a message to Elliot, saying that SOMBRA was behind the Luzaguayan government. Later on, Dupont analyzed a threat from the killer to the president. He said that the text was not in English and was written in a new language in order to form a new order. He determined that it was a constitution which said "The smart rule, the strong command, the fast work, the weak die", reflecting both "The Hunt" and "The Next Level" programs. This meant that SOMBRA had so much control over the government that they wrote its constitution. With Vice President Valentina Silva arrested for the murder, the SOMBRA-controlled regime had ended.

To ensure that SOMBRA was entirely removed, Michelle and the player asked the president's butler and friend, Francisco Ramirez, to find out about his rise to power. Francisco said that President Herrera was an ambitious politician who came to power due to SOMBRA backing his campaign. They searched Herrera's office, where they found his tablet which (per Elliot) contained all of his communications with SOMBRA. He said that Luzaguay was SOMBRA's only attempt in controlling a country. Because of the importance of this experiment, they sent a SOMBRA agent to him every two months and made him meet up with agents all the other times. He then determined that Herrera was to meet up with an agent in Machu Picchu in two days.

Elliot contacted SOMBRA and confirmed the meeting since they had no idea that President Herrera was dead. The Bureau then went to Peru in order to intercept the SOMBRA agent.

Total Eclipse of the Heart
The player accompanied Jack, disguised as President Herrera, to Machu Picchu in order to meet with the SOMBRA agent. During an eclipse there, SOMBRA agent Zoila Huanca approached Jack and told him that "the condor greets the sun with a radiant heart". When Jack failed to answer to the message correctly, Zoila began suspecting him of not being the real president. When the eclipse began taking its full effect however, a tumi was thrown into her heart, killing her.

During the investigation, it was revealed that Agent Asal Hawaa of Mossad was sent to keep tabs on Zoila and Agent Jorge Precio (real name: George Pryce) of MI6 was sent to kidnap President Herrera during his rendezvous with Zoila. Elliot also found Hacienda del Rey, which belonged to El Rey before it was turned to a bed and breakfast. Later, Claudio Aguirre was found guilty of the murder.

Claudio revealed that he was formerly a SOMBRA agent who left the organization when he found their ideals too weak or too bad. Claudio felt that he was the "Wrath of God" who was going to take over the world by himself, but Zoila was in the way of his mutiny against SOMBRA. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

After the trial, Jack and the player used a microchip they had placed on Asal to track her to the bus stop. There, she said that she was looking for El Rey. As Jack wanted to find him before Mossad did, they searched the hacienda and found a letter to El Rey from 1957. Per Dupont, it proved that El Rey had founded SOMBRA as an ideological club where he could share his own ideas and beliefs and that the sender of the letter believed in those ideas as well.

Michelle and the player also found a T-shirt proving Luzaguay's participation in the Olympic Games in the ruins. The team interrogated the shirt's owner, Amaru Condor, who said that he wanted to sell the shirts during the games because he thought the Luzaguayan team were "athletic machines".

Not trusting Luzaguay to be able to participate in the Olympics without SOMBRA's help, the Bureau headed to Brazil to protect the Olympics against SOMBRA's plans.

Cheaters Never Win
Upon arriving in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro to patrol the Olympic Parade, Michelle and the player found gold medalist Oscar Rojas dead with a syringe to his neck. His yellow eyes, various suspect testimonies, and a urine sample confirmed that Oscar was genetically enhanced by SOMBRA to perform better in the games.

Later, Brazilian runner Edson Caetano was arrested for the murder. Edson said that he wanted to get Oscar out of the way because he knew that he was "doping" to get the edge. Some men approached him in the favela bar and gave him a syringe with a small dose of ayahuasca that he should use to get Oscar too high to compete in the race. However, upon injecting Oscar with the drug, he was killed because of amounts of brugmansia that caused poisoning within Oscar. Edson was then sentenced to 5 years in prison.

After the investigation, Michelle, Carmen, and the player talked to Edson about the mysterious men who approached him. Insisting that he did not know them, the three investigated the bar, where they found a bag of ayahuasca for Edson and an old document. Michelle and the player sent the bag to the lab, which led them to Mãe Janaína de Iemanjá, who said that she saw the men approaching Edson in the stadium. There, they found a keychain coming from "Medicinal Biotech". Per his analysis, Elliot found out that the company was an Amazon Forest-based subsidiary of O.M. MediLab, the South Asian front for SOMBRA. From this, they concluded that SOMBRA killed Oscar.

Meanwhile, Carmen and the player unraveled the document, which was a revolutionary flyer dating back to March 1956. Hector Montoya then approached the two of them, looking for the flyer. Before leaving with the flyer, Hector said that the flyer was from a group of intellectuals from the town of Campanilla in Colombia. After concluding that SOMBRA killed Oscar to cause chaos in the Olympics, the Bureau went to Campanilla in order to attack SOMBRA from their roots.

Known agents

 * Note: Only confirmed members of SOMBRA are considered "agents".

Known affiliates

 * Note: "Affiliates" are characters who are not SOMBRA agents but willingly helped the organization anyway.

Known associates

 * Note: "Associates" are characters who willingly committed crimes that helped SOMBRA further their plans, although nothing suggests they were aware of SOMBRA's existence.

Recruits

 * Note: "Recruits" are orphans recruited and brainwashed by SOMBRA for "the Hunt" and "the next level" programs.

Murders committed

 * All murders committed by the Promethian Cult.
 * Prince Albert – Enid Grimshaw was blackmailed into killing the prince to get the people of London to vote "YES" in the referendum for the unification of Europe, given Albert was against it.
 * Annette Sommeur – Constantin Perrier was paid into murdering Sommeur to retrieve the Promethian manuscript she was holding.
 * Hans Vogel – Johan Schnee was manipulated into killing Hans since the movie star wanted to leave the cult, not to mention he recorded a public message about them.
 * Pietro Agnelli – Klaus Weissmann killed him as the cult wanted Cardinal Salieri to become the next pope instead of him as he was against the unification of Europe.
 * Jacqueline Proust – The Promethians' very own leader killed her to silence her from telling the Bureau about the detonator and for betraying the cult.
 * Adam Hassan – The Sword manipulated Christy Mathis by providing her the murder weapon via Rafid Habadi.
 * Anir Aznag – The Sword murdered him after he fulfilled his orders by bringing Andrew Stern.
 * Andrei Beloglazov – SOMBRA hired Tsetseg to murder the victim after he finished working on SOMBRA's satellite, as he was considered a loose end.
 * Vitaly Borodin – The head of COSMORUS manipulated Yelena Tereshkova into killing the victim.
 * Sandeep Sadhra – Warren Goodfellow killed him so Om Padmasana would be framed; The Head Hunter ordered him dead to tie up loose ends.
 * Tsukada Hiroshi – Obaasan murdered him because she believed that he was weak after he refused to take part in the Hunt.
 * Constance Tan – Anbu Devanesan murdered her after she discovered that he was involved in illegal business with the organization.
 * Riaja Somalinggi – Maya Salim killed her while she was trying to escape from SOMBRA's experiments.
 * Rufus Murlock – Veronica Salter was ordered to kill him because he had fled from SOMBRA and taken a folder with important documents about the organization thirty years prior.
 * Jakobo Nkosi – SOMBRA hired Aristide Akintola to kill him and all the other people in the plane but due to personal reasons Aristide decided to kill Jakobo first.
 * Nomena Leroy – Lavinia De Brills killed her after Nomena blackmailed her about the diamonds she was smuggling.
 * Lavinia De Brills – Angela Douglas killed her to prevent her from revealing that she was the mole within the Bureau.
 * Ernesto Cárpena – Lorena Pratx killed him in order to gain information on a SOMBRA cache full of documents, which she was ordered to burn.
 * Oscar Rojas – Edson Caetano was tricked into killing him with a poisonous syringe for unknown reasons.

Trivia

 * The word sombra translates to "shadow" in Spanish and Portuguese.