The Motorcade Interception is the 15th mission in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, set in Nuristan (Afghanistan). It is the 2nd of the 3 part mission on the cargo retrieval.
Objectives:
- Find your contact — get the weapons
- Kill the local Khan
- Spare the UN-troops
Mission briefing[]
47-. Your target is a local khan, Abdul Bismillah Malik. You won't have any trouble recognising him — his picture is on posters all over the city.
He's currently trying to sell the cargo to the UN which is here to checkout the goods later today.
The khan is returning to his palace together with a contigency of UN troops. They will arrive from the east along the road.
Eliminate him before he reaches his palace — but without harming any of the UN soldiers. It would be detrimental to the business, 47 — so keep it clean!
The villagers are a bit edgy if they catch a foreigner carrying big guns around within their perimeter — so watch your move.Maps[]
Miscellaneous[]
Weapons[]
- AK-74 - Carried by all of the guards.
- MI95 Sniper - Found at your contact.
- M4 - Carried by most of the UN soldiers.
- M60 Light Machine Gun - Carried by the UN soldiers on the jeeps.
Disguises[]
- Civilian: Default disguise. Arouses zero suspicion.
- Soldier: Allowed to carry weapons but arouses suspicion.
- UN Soldier: It is easily possible to get a UN disguise by killing the target with FireAxe or Sword, then waiting for enough time until the soldiers freeze in animation. You can then kill them using fibre wire or knife. It is not possible to harm them anaesthetic as it fails the mission. But wearing such disguise will make most of the guards suspicious towards you.
Allies[]
The contact
Others[]
Villagers
Enemies[]
Trivia[]
- Unless you climb upstairs on any of the buildings, the motorcade will never arrive.
- In the Steam version, it will eventually arrive regardless if you take too long.
- Even if you kill the contact, he is shown to be alive in the next mission.
- If the guards see the heavy sniper rifle, they will walk up to it and turn around in circles with a panicked expression.
- It is weird to note that killing the limo driver won't count in the results screen until you kill both the limo driver and the UN Ambassador, whereas killing just the UN Ambassador will show as normal.
- The area outside the compound, on which the motorcade arrives, is completely solid and can be walked on as normal. An invisible wall prevents you from falling off the maps edge.
- 47 can be seen wearing the suit in the title card, but 47 cannot wear it in this mission. The same applies for the other missions in Afghanistan as well.
- Killing the UN soldiers or the ambassador indirectly doesn't fail the mission, for example with the bomb cheat.
- Despite the blue icon on the Map screen, the UN Ambassador is counted as Innocent on the results screen.
- At one point in the beta, this mission's name was "The Escort", but it's title card reads "Turban Legend Take-Out".
- There are also a few ways to kill the target without the MI95 rifle.
- Using a glitch it is possible to kill him with a Katana/Fire Axe/Golf Club/Fiber wire through the window of his limo. Anaesthetic can also be used like this, which for some reason kills him instead of just keeping him unconscious.
- He can also be killed with firearms other than the MI95 by shooting one of the UN cars to make the whole motorcade stop, and make the driver run away from the scene. The short window of opportunity when the driver's door is opened while getting out of the car can be used to shoot the khan.
- The IOIER(bomb) cheat can be used as well to shoot the khan. Even if the UN ambassador dies, which normally fails the mission, killing him indirectly like this doesn't seem to effect anything.
- Despite the fact that UN troops carry weapons openly, 47 cannot open carry weapons disguised as a UN troop.
- The mosque inside the village is incorrectly oriented; in the Islamic tradition, every mosque needs to be oriented towards the Kaaba for prayer, which is in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. This mission takes place in Afghanistan, and the mosque is pointing south; Saudi Arabia is located south-west of Afghanistan.[1]
- It is possible to kill everyone in this mission, even the UN troops and the UN Ambassador by using fibre wire or knife. You have to wait until they freeze in animation, and getting close to them will make them unfreeze again. Then you can lure them far away from others and kill them easily.
| Missions in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin | ||
|---|---|---|
| Prologue (Sicily) | The Gontranno Sanctuary - Anathema | |
| Russia | St. Petersburg Stakeout - Kirov Park Meeting - Tubeway Torpedo - Invitation to a Party | |
| Japan | Tracking Hayamoto - Hidden Valley - At the Gates - Shogun Showdown | |
| Malaysia | Basement Killing - The Graveyard Shift - The Jacuzzi Job | |
| Afghanistan | Murder at the Bazaar - The Motorcade Interception - Tunnel Rat | |
| India | Temple City Ambush - The Death of Hannelore - Terminal Hospitality | |
| Epilogue (Russia & Sicily) | St. Petersburg Revisited - Redemption at Gontranno | |