Similarly, everyone just sort of forgets that "Alex Mercer" is not actually the sociopathic Dr. Aborted Arc: The foreshadowing from the original game that implies a confrontation between Alex Mercer and PARIAH has no payoff, as PARIAH is completely irrelevant to the plot of the sequel, and is never mentioned outside of a single Freeze-Frame Bonus on a Blackwatch document.Now Heller seeks to use his new-found abilities to destroy the man who made him what he is, the man he holds personally responsible for all his misery: Alex Mercer. Impressed by his resolve, the supposed creator of this new outbreak infects Heller with his own strain of the Blacklight Virus, granting the Sergeant similar near-indestructibility and inhuman powers. Heller thinks he's finally gotten his wish during a mission into the virus-ravaged Red Zone, which leaves his entire unit dead and Heller fighting through hundreds of infected but unfortunately for him, someone has other plans.
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In his rage and grief, James requests to be reassigned to the New York outbreak, and runs a series of high-risk missions in the hope of being reunited with his wife and daughter in death. The 2012 sequel to the 2009 sandbox game, once again taking place in New York Zero, but this time with a new protagonist: former US Marine Sergeant James Heller, who returns from deployment overseas, only to find his wife and child dead, victims of a new outbreak of the Blacklight Virus that has left Manhattan in ruins once more.