There were many different paths Lucy's story may have taken that could have proved captivating. Sadly, her death was used in a half-hearted attempt to add greater depth to Desmond's dry personality. A range of possible storylines and three games' worth of character development for Lucy were thrown out the window in Assassin's Creed: Brotherood. Surely her tale deserved a more complex and satisfying conclusion from Ubisoft. Cameron has traded the study of real life for fantasy worlds, and writing long-winded essays for something he actually enjoys.
When not stuck indoors playing video games, Cameron enjoys travelling so long as there isn't an ongoing quarantine. By Cameron Duncan Published May 29, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Even so, when Richard came to kill Lucy, Warren Vidic protected her. When was the last time William Miles had ever stuck his neck out for her?
Above all else, Lucy was a scientist and her scientific skills were being wasted with the Assassins. Hunting down Pieces of Eden was not what made her happy. But constructing an Animus from scratch? Using her research into cognitive neuroscience to create new technology? That was what gave Lucy true fulfilment. At Abstergo, she was a pioneer. With the Assassins, she was simply another body that would eventually be added to the list of the dead.
Sure enough, when Lucy did perish it was under the care of the Assassins, not the Templars. Lucy certainly had her reasons for defecting from the Brotherhood, but were her motives truly so simple? Lucy may be able to hide aspects of herself, but she would have to be a very talented actress to fake her friendship with Rebecca and Shaun. Why would she? If anything, it seems as though Rebecca may have been the one person Lucy had minimal contact with in order to send her blueprints and information about the Animus.
Shaun and Rebecca cared about Lucy. They made that clear. They were not the enemy and Lucy had no intention of hurting them. Then there were her subjects. Lucy knew she was betraying Clay, but she did not want to hurt him. She swore she would continue to protect him, to honour her promise to Bill which is significant as she otherwise refuted everything the Assassins wanted of her.
In fact, Lucy emailed Warren whilst she and the team were living in the Sanctuary to tell him she was afraid that they were pushing Desmond too far. She warned Desmond repeatedly to take more breaks, to stop over exerting himself. Was she simply keeping up appearances or, on some level, did she believe Desmond was right? After all, who knows what the Templar would have done if she had attempted to leave Lucy cared for her friends, she looked out for them, and they never had the chance to hear her side of the story.
We know she was a double agent. She was emailing Warren through a fake name and sneaking away to make phone calls to him — but all the while she was in turmoil over the trauma she was causing Desmond, and blood she still had on her hands from Clay. She was doubting herself and doubting her mission. With Lucy dead, the only word we have about her intentions is that of Juno, undoubtedly the most untrustworthy person in the entire series.
Maybe she was playing everyone. Warren proposed that Ezio's Apple could be attached to one of their satellites, subsequently projecting its power across the globe, and ensuring Templar rule. However, Clay's health was deteriorating, thus Warren realized that they needed a new test subject related to Ezio Auditore. Abstergo managed to gather enough intelligence to learn that Desmond Miles, William Miles' son, was a living descendant of Ezio Auditore.
Clay, still acting on his mission from William, discovered Abstergo's plans, as well as security tapes detailing Lucy's true allegiance. The tapes included Warren's plans for Desmond: Lucy would allow Desmond to see her emails, and would give him access to Abstergo's network in order to gain his trust.
If Desmond began to suffer from the Bleeding Effect , Lucy would help him "escape" the lab and take him back to the Assassins, where he would feel safe. Throughout this, Lucy was also to keep Warren informed of their actions, and was to bring the Apple of Eden back to Abstergo as soon as the Assassins discovered it. Soon thereafter, Clay left clues and messages for his successor in the Animus Project, Subject He programmed clues into the Animus itself, and even used his own blood to write messages on the walls of the facility he was being held in.
His health quickly worsened, and he committed suicide in August Lucy would be haunted by his death for some time afterwards; knowing that she had risked Clay's health by putting him in the Animus for days at a time, a stretch that fragmented Clay's sense of reality with the Bleeding Effect.
In September , Desmond Miles was located and transported to the Abstergo research facility in Italy. Lucy was responsible for pulling Desmond out of the Animus after she noticed that his subconscious would not let him view the specific memory Abstergo wanted. As Warren explained to Desmond what the Animus did and what genetic memories were, she explained Abstergo's goal in limited detail. In a seemingly sincere attempt to gain his trust, Lucy talked to Desmond between Animus sessions, asking him questions concerning his past, and trying to answer his questions about Abstergo without revealing too much.
She also stated that he was not the only person Abstergo was detaining, and that she was also an unfortunate captive. She then told him the story of how, in the past, Abstergo had decided to silence her to keep her from speaking about the Animus.
However, before her assailants could eliminate her, they were ordered to stand down by Warren. She claimed that he had saved her life that day and told Desmond not to judge Warren so harshly, seeing as he was under a lot of pressure. As more time passed, Lucy left the door access codes in Desmond's wardrobe so that he could finally leave his room, and she later claimed to have hacked the surveillance feeds to disguise Desmond's wanderings.
This allowed him go through her computer and read her emails. Lucy also left hints for Desmond to gain access to the conference room , and to steal Warren Vidic's access pen, giving him access to the internal Abstergo Email Network. Later, Lucy convinced Desmond that she was also an Assassin and was working undercover to learn more about Abstergo's plans. However, Lucy intervened and convinced them to keep Desmond for more testing, as his memories could still reveal more about the locations of the Pieces of Eden.
A few hours passed after Lucy and Warren left, leaving Desmond trapped in the lab where he had used his new skill to view Clay's hidden messages. Lucy told Desmond that there was no time to waste, and that he had to get into the Animus to retrieve the memory core data.
Lucy wrote the data on a disk and, along with Desmond, fled the laboratory. The two successfully fought their way out of the facility and began their escape.
They eventually found themselves confronted by more Abstergo guards , but Lucy quickly disposed of them. They continued onward through aisles of office blocks and Animi, until they reached another coded door. Unexpectedly, Lucy's access key did not work, but Desmond was able to unlock it through his newly acquired Eagle Vision.
As they entered the parking lot, they were blocked by more Abstergo guards, though the two fought them off and managed to reach Lucy's car. Lucy ordered Desmond to climb into the trunk for "[his] own protection," and when the journey was over, the pair had arrived at the Assassin hideout. There, Lucy told Desmond that she intended to have him train to be an Assassin, using the Animus 2.
As they entered the main room, Lucy's fellow Assassins, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane, introduced themselves to Desmond and began preparations for the sessions. Later that day, Lucy evaluated Desmond's progress by tasking him with setting up the security system. In between sessions, they also discussed issues such as the Templars and the status of other Assassin teams. After Desmond had discovered the Vault in Rome through Ezio's memories, the alarm went off as Abstergo invaded their hideout.
When they encountered Warren Vidic in the warehouse, he reminded Lucy that he had saved her life, before sending some Abstergo guards to try and incapacitate them.
However, both Lucy and Desmond engaged in a fight with the guards, quickly defeating them. With little defense left, Warren climbed into the back of a truck, stating that the attack was only the beginning, before fleeing the hideout. As Desmond started to go after him, Lucy stopped him and said that they would eventually bring Warren to justice for what he had done, and that Abstergo would surely be back with reinforcements if they did not leave.
Following this, Lucy and the others evacuated the hideout, [3] though not before Lucy left behind several important updates on what they had discovered from Desmond, for Warren to find later on. The Assassins left in a van to hide in the mountains, and Desmond prepared to enter the Animus again to continue their search for clues. Meanwhile, Lucy continued to study the session notes to try to figure out what the message Desmond had received from the "goddess" Minerva had meant, telling Desmond that everything she had feared was starting to happen.
After a long drive, the Assassins finally arrived in modern-day Monteriggioni on 16 September, setting up their new hideout in the Sanctuary underneath the Villa Auditore.
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