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You're home alone one night when you hear a knock at the front door.
Curious, you go downstairs and peer through the peephole- but see nothing there.
You open the door and take a quick look outside, but there seems to be no one.
Annoyed at what must be a bunch of kids playing a prank, you close the door when suddenly,
there in the glass reflection of a window you catch sight of him... a tall, bald man
with perfectly shaved head, carefully pulling on a pair of black leather gloves.
With a sinking feeling in your chest, you realize that you've really stepped in it now,
because someone somewhere wants you dead, and they've taken a contract out on you being
serviced by the most legendary hitman of all time- agent 47!
So you've been marked for death by the world's best professional killer, probably for all
that trash talking over Fortnite the other day, and now you're regretting your life choices,
but more importantly: wondering how in the world you're going to win this fight to the
death!
Agent 47 has his origin in the 1950s, when five future criminal masterminds all served
time together in the French Foreign Legion.
Having served his time with the Legion, one of the four men, Doctor Otto Ort-Meyer, started
up a mental institution which he cleverly used to disguise his secret genetic experiments-
often performed with the involuntary aid of his patients.
Promising to greatly increase the lifespan of the other four super-criminals, who collectively
along with the good doctor would come to be known as the Five Fathers, Dr. Ort-Meyer convinced
the other four to fund his secret research, and in turn he would grant them organs harvested
from clone bodies.
Dr. Ort-Meyer's research had but one goal: to create a superhuman who would have increased
strength, intelligence, and reflexes while being free of the burden of a conscience.
He believed that these genetic supermen could take control of humanity and would be the
next evolutionary step forward for the species.
Keeping his ultimate goals a secret from his compatriots, Dr. Ort-Meyer planned to create
an army of these super clones, and when they became suspicious of his plans, Ort-Meyer
deployed one of those super clones, Agent 47, to eliminate the four.
Ultimately the Doctor's greatest creation would be his downfall, as Agent 47 would turn
on Doctor Ort-Meyer upon discovering his plans of world domination and eliminate him.
Genetically superior to normal humans, Agent 47 is faster, stronger, and more intelligent
than the average person.
He stands 6 feet and 2 inches (1.88m) and weighs 187 lbs (85kg), and despite being in
his fifties, he still has the same strength and stamina he had when he was in his twenties.
Thanks to his advanced genetics, Agent 47 is all but immune to disease, and can quickly
recover from most injuries.
Raised in a secret training facility in Romania since childhood, 47 is a master of hand-to-hand
combat, but really excels in marksmanship with firearms, showing a great aptitude with
both rifles and pistols.
Trained to efficiently and silently eliminate his targets, 47 is a master of stealth and
ambush, and clever enough to penetrate even the tightest security in ways that can be
quite unpredictable to his quarry.
So you're up against a super assassin who's not going to quit until the job is done, how
are you going to survive this?
First, you'll have to start thinking like an assassin if you want to survive being,
you know, assassinated.
Key thing to do will be to secure, or at least eliminate, your digital footprint on the internet.
Whether you realize it or not, your day to day digital activity leaves one huge footprint
that any expert assassin would be able to follow.
Surfing the net without a VPN will leave you vulnerable to surveillance, and carelessly
posting on facebook or instagram can easily give away where you physically are.
Putting together hundreds of your different posts, and all the locations you've been tagged
at, will make the job of tracking you down extremely easy, and most important for an
assassin: it'll make pinpointing your schedule just as easy.
Humans are creatures of habit, and if you want to survive being taken out, you're going
to have to break your everyday habits.
For this we can turn to the world of counterterrorism, which has many lessons that can be applied
to staving off your would be assassin.
First, stop posting.
Yes, we mean completely.
Tracking down your IP and thus getting a general location on your whereabouts is incredibly
easy, let alone triangulating a cell phone signal- which yeah, by the way, you're going
to have to ditch that as well.
Second, you're going to want to start varying your daily routines.
Falling into a pattern is an easy way to get killed, because it allows would-be assassins
to accurately predict when and where you'll be each and every day.
That leaves a killer like 47 with a chance to plot the perfect place to ambush you.
So take a different route to work, change up when you go grocery shopping, and where.
Be unpredictable.
Now that you've avoided getting taken out on the way home from work, you're going to
want to make sure that you spend as much time in public as possible.
Here again we can learn a lot from the world of counterterrorism.
Try and stick to large crowds as much as possible, and when entering a facility such as a shopping
center, always stick with large groups of people.
Never take off into a shopping aisle alone, and anywhere you go- always be aware of entrances
and exits.
Always have a plan to get to the nearest exit, and a backup plan to get to the second-nearest
exit.
Sticking close to people will keep you from getting ambushed, but unfortunately it'll
make you vulnerable to 47 getting in close and eliminating you through much more covert
means, such as perhaps a lethal injection- silent and very deadly.
For this reason you'll want to be very observant of the people around you.
Try and look for things about the people that are all around you that seem a little odd
or out of place.
Is someone wearing a bulky coat when it's not that cold outside?
Could be hiding a weapon or explosives under there.
Is someone insisting on always being near you?
Either you have a super fan for all those sick burns you left on some streamer's youtube
comments section, or it's an assassin trying to get close enough to take you out.
People tend to like their personal space, and someone making a point of getting close
to yours should be a dead giveaway.
Of course with 47 on your tail, you're going to be looking for more obvious things, such
as a six-plus foot tall guy in very good shape.
47 can and does use disguises quite frequently, but while a wig can cover up his famous bald
dome, trying to hide his very tall and well-muscled body is going to be quite difficult.
This is the reason why you probably have little to fear from 47 trying to get physically close
to you- he knows that you know he's after you, and he's also very aware of how difficult
it can be for him to blend in effectively.
It's a relief to know that you probably won't be getting stabbed with a lethal injection
in the middle of a crowd, and since you're making sure to stay in public spaces, you
won't be getting garroted in a quiet corner somewhere- but now you have to worry about
something else entirely: if 47 can't get close to you, he'll just reach out and touch you
from far enough away that you'll never see it coming.
Yes, that means getting merc'ed the old-fashioned way: sniper rifle.
Trying to avoid a sniper can be pretty difficult, but you can use some basic counter-sniper
techniques and some personnel protective services- aka bodyguard- techniques to keep your dome
from exploding like an overripe squash in the microwave.
Sticking to crowds is good, but even better will be to make sure that you are constantly
on the move.
You don't want to be a sitting target, so make sure you're constantly in the move- but
more importantly, ensure that you are moving within a group, and never caught on the edges
of one.
You'll also want to always try to be moving along the edges of the environment you are
in- so if you're in a plaza full of people, don't walk through the middle of the plaza,
but rather try to move along the edges of it.
Being in the center of your environment will give a would-be shooter perched somewhere
up high a very favorable angle to fire down on you from, while being closer to the edges
will only give a shooter that same favorable angle from one direction- the one directly
opposite you.
Figuring out where to go and not go though is also pretty important- get in the habit
of surveying your environment.
You'll want to avoid places that are within a few hundred meters of anywhere with a high
vantage point.
So no courtyards or squares with towers or tall parking structures along the perimeter.
You'll also want to make sure that you're aware of the position of the sun at all times,
and use it to your advantage.
When the sun begins to set, make sure it's always behind you- this will help blind a
would-be shooter but also let you spot a tell-tale glint of glass from a shooter's scope if they
are not careful.
Typically in You Versus we teach you how to defeat your enemy in what is always a fight
to the death.
Unfortunately this time we hate to break it to you, but there's no beating Agent 47.
He's a super clone that is the world's greatest assassin- you're lucky to land a small kill
streak in PUBG while wiping Cheetoh dust off your shirt.
This You Versus is definitely not about you defeating 47, but rather about you evading
him.
Using everything we've taught you here, you should be able to get away from 47 long enough
to flee the country.
Move somewhere far, very far away and very, very remote.
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