Perfect Dark Zero - Plot

Plot

Perfect Dark Zero is set in the year 2020, three years prior to the events of the original Perfect Dark. The protagonist, Joanna Dark, is a bounty hunter working with her father, Jack Dark, and a computer hacker named Chandra Sekhar. On their first mission, they are commissioned to rescue an independent researcher named Nathan Zeigler, who has been captured by a triad gang in Hong Kong. Due to his injuries sustained by the gang, Zeigler dies shortly after the rescue. Before dying, Zeigler uses a neurodrive on Jack to implant important information to his subconscious as his own "insurance policy."

While escaping from their enemy forces, Jack is captured by dataDyne, the world's biggest corporation. Joanna learns that her father has been taken to a dataDyne facility located in a mountainous region of China and sets to rescue him. Jack is later killed by Mai-Hem, whose father, Zhang Li, is dataDyne's founder. Alone with only Chandra looking out for her, Joanna is then sent on a mission to find Dr. Eustace Caroll, who then uses the same neurodrive technology to extract any memory of the words her father said to her concerning Ziegler's secrets. Dr. Caroll is then killed by Chandra, who was secretly employed by dataDyne. However, Joanna is rescued by agents from an agency known as Carrington Institute, whom she agrees to join in order to stop dataDyne.

Zhang Li and Mai-Hem are searching for an ancient artifact, which acts as a power-source for the Graal, a device which endows individuals with superhuman powers, hinted to have been built by the Maians, extraterrestrials encountered in the original Perfect Dark. Travelling to Africa, Joanna rescues prisoners including Jonathan Steinberg, an undercover agent of the Carrington Institute, and several other soldiers, before running into Mai-Hem again. Joanna avenges her father's death and kills Mai-Hem and the party is air-lifted out. The Carrington Institute plans an offensive on dataDyne forces with the battle taking place on a large bridge. Joanna infiltrates an arena and faces off against Zhang Li, on the Graal after he dispatches Chandra. Defeating the seemingly invincible power-hungry genius, Joanna is met by Jonathan and Carrington Institute founder Daniel Carrington. When Joanna asks, "How did I do, boss?" Carrington replies, "Perfect."