

He has augmentation marks on his forehead, hinting that he has cerebral implants.There are also some notes with the " Forever Alone" face drawn on them, along with the name Rachel and a phone number. Examples include "Buy broccoli and lube", "Call mom" and notes written in 8-bit binary code. The hidden room in his apartment is festooned with many, many strange notes to himself.The handle "Windmill" is an obvious joke about his Dutch nationality.If the player is not carrying any lethal weapons, the game will default to a refusal, and Jensen will say "Sorry, seems I'm not carrying a spare." The player cannot provide van Bruggen with a nonlethal weapon, like a stun gun or P.E.P.S.

If Jensen is fast enough, he can kill or knock out van Bruggen and take 500 credits from his body. It is later revealed by Tong Si Hung that van Bruggen was killed by Belltower.

Even if Jensen were to safely take out all the guards in the Alice Garden Pods, he cannot interact with van Bruggen's pod and does not hear from him the rest of the game. If Jensen refused to give away a weapon, van Bruggen curses Jensen and runs back in to hide in his pod. As a sign of his gratitude, van Bruggen hacks and adds 2000 credits to Jensen's bank account. If Jensen gave van Bruggen a weapon as requested, the hacker survives the attack and later contacts Jensen at Tai Yong Medical. The frightened hacker then asks Jensen for a weapon before hiding. He creates a fake ID for Jensen to infiltrate the facility, but before he and Jensen can part ways, Belltower troopers arrive at the Pods, looking for van Bruggen. The evidence is still at Tai Yong Medical, but van Bruggen assures Jensen that it has the information he is looking for. Being a cautious man, van Bruggen secretly recorded and hid a video of Zhao to use as an insurance policy, but he was unable to secure the footage before he had to escape from the company's headquarters. He tells Jensen to go after his employer Zhao Yun Ru of Tai Yong Medical to find answers. Though it is true that Arie van Bruggen was hacking Sarif Industries remotely via Yune, he was only a hired hand and has no idea what is really going on. He is being hidden by a local triad called the Harvesters in the Alice Garden Pods. Van Bruggen is hiding out in Hengsha since the attack on Sarif Industries did not go as planned. After recovering the dead man's neural hub, Jensen learns that the man was being remotely accessed by another hacker, who turns out to be van Bruggen. He does freelance work for the highest bidder, and many could use work of his level in the world of corporate warfare.įollowing an attack on the Sarif Manufacturing Plant, Adam Jensen confronts the hacker Yune, but the augmented mole is forced to kill himself rather than be taken alive. The hacker known mostly as Windmill is one of the most infamous and skilled hackers in the world, with a reputation for being brilliant but high-strung.
