Independence Day is the ninth episode of the single-player campaign of Battlefield Hardline.[1] With the Brute safely at hand, the group returns to Miami to carry out their heist at last.[2]
Synopsis[]
Finalising plans for their heist at Preferred Outcomes's HQ, the group do a final sweep before leaving their hideout. Stoddard and two henchmen ambush them, holding Tyson at gunpoint. Nick kills the two henchmen, but his 45T jams before he can kill Stoddard. Stoddard, about to kill Nick, is stopped by Khai, who attacks him with a plank of wood. Boomer throws Nick his gun, and Nick then kills Stoddard.
Captain Dawes calls Stoddard's phone, and Nick sends him photos of Stoddard's corpse. The group than leave their hideout, and make it to the HQ on the 4th of July. Nick, Khai and Boomer wait for Tyson to get to the building's elevated water storage stabilizer tank, Tyson confirms he is ready, and the trio make it to their van.
Tyson throws a zipline rope down, while Nick and Khai sneak into the building, making it to the elevator and heading to the 20th floor, where Tyson is waiting outside on a window-washing unit. They hand Tyson a slab of C4 from Boomer, and he heads upwards on the unit, and places the C4 around the watertank.
Nick and Khai then break into Dawes's private elevator, and Nick detonates the C4 remotely. Water pours down and fills the elevator shaft, and Nick and Khai open the elevator hatch, and then swim up to the top of the shaft, getting out at Dawes's apartment.
Nick lets Tyson , who is waiting outside on the window washing unit, inside as they try to find the safe for the Brute to hack.
Nick finds the safe concealed behind the fireplace, accessed after pushing a button concealed within a bust of Dawes, Tyson arranges the Brute on the safe, and begins the cracking process, waiting for it to finish. Boomer contacts them to warn them that Preferred Outcomes's Security is coming, and the gang have to battle them to survive, even when the guards cut off power to the building and everyone has to fight in darkness.
Although the Brute successfully cracks the vault, Dawes has rigged it with Sabotage, and it explodes, seriously injuring Tyson. Nick goes into the vault, which is completely empty barring a desk. At the desk in a drawer, Khai's phone - which Nick had placed in a case of dirty money in Glass Houses - is ringing.
Nick answers it to hear Dawes on the end of the line. Dawes tells Nick that he's hard to kill, and he is waiting for Nick at Santa Rosita island, off Miami's coast. Nick leaves enraged and frustrated.
The group escape by zipline, but a further wave of security guards cut the zipline as Nick and Khai are escaping and a helicopter also catches the line, sending Nick and Khai flying through the air. Making it to the ground at last, they defeat further waves of Preferred Outcomes guards, and escape with Boomer on the boat.
Related Achievements and Trophies[]
The following achievements/trophies can be completed on this mission.
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Some Damn Fine Fireworks | Complete Episode 9: Independence Day | 20 | 
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Real Action Hero | Kill a Criminal in Independence Day from mid-air after escaping the penthouse | 25 | 
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Trivia[]
Dead Space Extraction
- The comic Dead Space: Extraction can be found on a table in Dawes' Penthouse.
- One of the computers in the office level below Dawes' penthouse has EA Origin on the desktop, alongside a YouTube cat video.
- At the beginning of the episode, no matter which sidearm the player has equipped, Nick will always be armed with the 45T when Stoddard and his men ambush them.
- When standing on the terrace outside the penthouse, one skyscraper has a billboard advertising a show called “The Dead Rise”, a spoof of the real-life TV show “The Walking Dead”. A similar advertisement is found on a wall in the map Black Friday, and on a wall in the multiplayer level Downtown.[3] [4]
- During the last section of the escape, after Nick has shot the guards in the two vans, he runs past a store called Ishimura, a reference to the USG Ishimura, the setting of the first Dead Space game. This store also appears in Black Friday and Downtown.
- When Nick falls down the skyscraper and flies into office full of PO operatives, if the player uses FREEZE, Nick to show his police badge say "Freeze?" before being pulled back out of the room.
- This is despite Nick not having a police badge at all in this episode, which has instead been replaced with him pointing at the target starting from Gauntlet
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