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
SOMBRA was first brought to light when Carmen and the player found a wad of cash sent from an assassin called The Sword, the murderer of the Bureau's Chief Ripley, to Hamza Boussefi, the victim in their recent murder investigation. As Dupont could not figure out what "SOMBRA" meant, the team decided to talk to the victim's wife, Fatima.

Fatima explained that Hamza had refused to help The Sword at first, but ended up obeying orders when the money became tempting. The Sword had encouraged the victim to be a protest leader and use all means necessary to overthrow Sultan Mahmoud I of Libya. Unfortunately, the widow had never heard of SOMBRA, but she had told the team that Hamza used to meet The Sword at the oasis, prompting them to head there.

Carmen and the player found another wad of cash with The Sword's symbol on it, and they collected a grayish substance from the note for more clues. They discovered that the substance came from the Nile River, giving the team the lead that would take them to Egypt to discover more about The Sword and SOMBRA.

I Spy a Mummy
Jack and the player opted to check out a pyramid in Egypt once they arrived to find some more clues about SOMBRA. Instead, they found the mummified body of Afif Wahab. The team found more than meets the eye when they discovered that Asal Hawaa, a Mossad agent disguised as a belly dancer, had been spying on the victim, believing him to be a SOMBRA agent though this was yet to be proven. However, Asal refused to share more information about SOMBRA with the team throughout the remainder of the investigation.

After the killer had been arrested, Ingrid told the team to interrogate Asal and get her to share the information with them about SOMBRA. Asal initially refused, but she was willing to share information if the team passed a trust test – they had to find a gadget of hers that she had left in the tomb.

The team had passed the trust test with help from Elliot, who had identified the spy gear they found to be hers. Asal explained that SOMBRA was an international crime organization, structured in separate cell groups around the globe. They also incorporate existing groups into the organization to strengthen themselves and get branches on every continent. The Bureau had already taken down SOMBRA's European branch, the Promethians. From that information alone, Jack concluded that The Sword had wanted to unite all the rebel leaders together to form a branch in the Sahara Region.

Later, Jonah Karam had entered Bureau Headquarters and helped the team set up a plan to reveal The Sword. The team would dress up as rebels and buy firearms from arms dealer Seamus Cummings, who had ties to SOMBRA. After making the deal, Seamus would inform The Sword of their appearance. Elliot, with Jonah's help, set up the meeting and revealed that the meeting was to take place in Dubai. With that said, the team boarded the plane to head to Dubai to set up the trap.

The Parting Shot
Jack and the player found SOMBRA's weapons dealer Seamus shot in a golf camp in Dubai. After arresting the killer, Ingrid told them that the Ambassador Stern's son, Andrew, had been kidnapped, the team was able to confirm that the kidnapper was indeed The Sword and that the kidnapping, the murder of Chief Ripley in Spain and all that had happened before in the Sahara leading them to there was part of a trap of The Sword to them, they also discovered that The Sword went with the kid to Iraq, so the team went there to save Andrew and stop The Sword once and for all.

Die by the Sword
The Bureau had arrived in Iraq to try to find Andrew, whom was taken by The Sword in their previous investigation in Dubai. Carmen and the player had also found the body of nomadic leader Anir Aznag, and they immediately suspected that The Sword was responsible for the murder as well. After hours of investigating that also endangered the lives of two agents, Omar Bahir was revealed to be The Sword.

Omar revealed that he had worked for SOMBRA and that his goal was to bring up conflict and extremism all over the Sahara region. He had known that the Bureau would get onto him, so he had decided to kill their chief back in Spain and then kidnap a child. Just as Omar was about to put an end to the Bureau by poisoning them, Jonah had taken out Omar from across the street, saving the team's lives.

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.

Shortly after Jonah was hired by the Bureau, the agency received a message from Natasha Romanova, the head of COSMORUS in Russia, who was suspicious of foreign spies infiltrating their satellites. Chief Ripley was prompted to look into this claim to see if SOMBRA would be responsible, and she told the agents that they were to report to Moscow.

Moscow Mole
Natasha agreed to accompany Jack and the player to the Red Square to "find their feet" when the group found the body of Darya Chernova, a COSMORUS employee. As the investigation went on, the team found an email Darya had received from an unidentified source. She was to receive a sum of five million dollars in exchange for classified information. The team would not know what information was leaked and to whom it was leaked until after they arrested Liam Hall for the murder.

After Liam told them of the briefcase he was supposed to deliver in the Red Square, the team decided to head there to try to find it. However, they found a keycard with Darya's name on it and sent it to Elliot for analysis. Elliot discovered that Darya had been paid a total of 1,700,000 dollars from Global Flux Ltd for leaking information from COSMORUS. Jonah later helped the tech expert and told the team that Global Flux Ltd was one of SOMBRA's aliases. Jonah opted to help the player interrogate COSMORUS scientist Nikolai Sharapov about the information that Darya sold, but the latter claimed to know nothing about the information.

Only Truth Remains
SOMBRA did not play a huge role in this case. After solving the murder of a civil notary, Carmen and the player found a COSMORUS document with a lot of numbers, signed by Darya, on the Lermontov estate. As this was the information Darya sold to SOMBRA, the team was prompted to talk to Natasha about the document. Natasha panicked and only told them that the numbers were launch codes. With the Bureau not knowing where to head next, Elliot found a COSMORUS outpost in Siberia.

O Deadly Night
COSMORUS employee Nick Kringle was assassinated, and Mossad agent Asal Hawaa was incriminated for it, though she was granted immunity from the crime. Marina later interrogated Asal on why Nick had to die, and Asal explained that Nick was also working as a CIA operative. However, she suspected Nick of foul play.

Asal then told the team to head to Santa's house to find a clue, which was revealed to be a check for a company called Santa Inc. Elliot revealed that Santa Inc was a company set up by Nick, and he received payments from Global Flux Ltd, meaning Nick had betrayed the CIA to work for SOMBRA. Marina and the player later found Nick's phone in Lake Baikal, thanks to a lead from Forrest Sugarcrystal. Nick's phone contained a folder called "Darkness Descends", and Elliot explained that it contained a satellite hologram, which was sold to SOMBRA. The tech expert also revealed that the satellite corresponded with the launch codes that Darya had given to the organization.

Chief Ripley was wondering where SOMBRA had gotten the money to build the satellite when Elliot revealed that SOMBRA had been given money from different organizations and important people dating years back – including the Russian president who had ordered Marina to be killed for his scandal. Elliot had traced some of Global Flux's payments to Mongolia, so the Bureau prepared themselves to go on the train to Mongolia.

Fast Track to Murder
The train stopped as diamond magnate Ilya Tretyakov was found murdered in the lounge, and ticket inspector Nikita Rukhin was responsible for the crime. After the trial, which was done over Carmen's phone, Chief Ripley wanted more information on Nikita, whom the MGB was watching due to the network of smugglers he belonged to. Nikita claimed to only smuggle Soviet memorabilia in the ice cave.

Carmen and the player took a look in the ice cave and found at trash bag full of Soviet memorabilia like Nikita had claimed. The player dug further to find a COSMORUS circuit board. The team took the circuit board to Natasha, who was also taking the train to Mongolia, for her to explain what it was for. Natasha told them that it was the motherboard of the satellite SOMBRA had planned to build. When Carmen asked her how it fell into the wrong hands, however, Natasha exploded, telling them that they needed to work harder to prevent further breaches in COSMORUS.

After Chief Ripley ordered the train to leave, the team was ordered to search the lounge for any clues that could lead to SOMBRA and the satellite. They found a tablet with a satellite on the screen, and it was sent to Elliot. Elliot found out that SOMBRA had planned to launch their satellite and take over space by hijacking the satellites already in orbit. With one push of a button, SOMBRA could possibly bring the world to the dark ages if the Bureau failed to stop them. Carmen felt that she had to tell Natasha about SOMBRA's plan, and she explained how the launch codes Darya had stolen and the motherboard smuggled by Nikita had pieced everything together. Unfortunately for the Bureau, Natasha refused to help them any longer, calling them amateurs.

Horseback Mountain
Satellite engineer Andrei Beloglazov was found murdered near the SOMBRA satellite facility on Mount Khan. While Chief Ripley kept demanding to know what had happened to the satellite, Carmen and the player focused on finding Andrei's killer, who was revealed to be Tsetseg. Tsetseg explained to Carmen and the player that she was hired by SOMBRA to carry out a hit on the satellite engineer to "tie up loose ends", giving the team a clue that the satellite had been finished.

Shortly after Tsetseg was given her prison sentence, Chief Ripley told the team to head back to the factory to find out where the satellite was going to be launched from, they found COSMORUS swipe cards in a safe. Elliot was given the cards to analyze only to find out that the cards were counterfeit. The information alone revealed that a SOMBRA agent was trying to launch the satellite disguised as a COSMORUS employee. The team decided to ask Yelena about where the launch sites were located. The cosmonaut remembered Andrei fighting with someone over a shipment in front of Mount Khan, prompting Carmen and the player to head there.

The team found a torn piece of paper which was revealed to be a delivery statement of the satellite, and they read on to find out that the satellite was being launched in Kazakhstan. Both Carmen and Chief Ripley tried to call Natasha to warn her, but Natasha did not answer her phone, prompting Carmen to convince Elliot to give them security clearance into the launch site.

Countdown to Murder
Jack and the player arrived at the launch site in Kazakhstan only to be stopped by Natasha. They were able to convince her to lead them to the control room only to find Senator Vitaly Borodin killed with a laser torch. The evidence eventually pointed to COSMORUS cosmonaut Yelena Tereshkova as the senator's killer, but the cosmonaut told the team that Natasha had told her to kill him. Just as Yelena confessed that she knew nothing of a satellite, Natasha had launched the rocket holding the satellite in the control room. Jack and the player hurried there to confront her only for the latter to escape.

After Yelena told Chief Ripley and the player that Nikolai was talking about SOMBRA and typing it on his tablet, Jonah offered to accompany the player to head back to the launch site to find Nikolai's tablet, which was containing a piece of the code Elliot was looking for to take control of the satellite.

Meanwhile, Marina accompanied the player to the launch control room to retrace her mother's steps, and they found her phone. The profiler was able to hack into her mother's phone to discover a text message telling her to "hide in the egg until sunrise." Dupont was able to solve the riddle, referring the egg to Bayterek tower, and the team was prompted to head there. They ran into Jack and MGB agent Anya Ivanova, and they combined all their clues together to try to find Natasha. Anya had witnessed Natasha searching for something important in a garbage can, but she was unable to find it. However, Marina was able to find a briefcase with a note saying "So long and thanks for the fish." Just as the team realized that SOMBRA had intended to eliminate the head of COSMORUS, Natasha arrived on the scene, prompting Marina to pull out her gun.

Natasha explained that she had joined SOMBRA for power – the criminal organization had promised her the control of Russia if she had launched the satellite. When Marina revealed the message SOMBRA had sent her, Natasha panicked, asking the player for protection. Marina shipped her mother to trial after promising her protection in prison.

Natasha was sentenced to 75 years in a maximum security facility for betraying the entire planet while Yelena was sentenced 50 years for the murder of Vitaly Borodin. Shortly after the trial, Elliot was able to override SOMBRA's controls, giving the Bureau control of the satellite, which would help the agency hunt for crimes all over the world. Later, Ingrid reported that the satellite detected a major earthquake in New Delhi, prompting the player to head there for their next assignment.

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 Korean 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'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. 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.

Brice admitted that he was scuba diving on the island when an insane Marshall approached him at the beach and tried to inject him with his syringe. Brice panicked and injected Marshall with it in self-defense. Judge Adaku authorized Brice’s extradition to France to be tried and sentenced.

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. During the investigation, 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.

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.
 * 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.