The mission's journal entry is acquired after entering the target casino.
Walkthrough[]
Silver Coast Casino Floor[]
Brooks is required for this mission, EDI is not allowed into the casino because she's a mech/AI, so pick one of any other team mates. Since there's no shooting or fighting in this one, pick anyone you fancy, because their role is to distract the security at your call, or provide some comedic banter along the way.
Shepard and the team get the red carpet treatment upon arriving and they just smile and wave. The dialogue here will vary depending on certain factors, including Shepard's gender, who you have with you, if you're currently romancing the person you brought with you, and if you had your scars healed or left unhealed.
Once you are inside, move up the stairs and onto the casino floor. You will only have control of your other squadmate as Brooks will head directly for the shaft. Mingle with the guests for a little bit. Brooks will eventually call you up because there is a problem. Head up the stairs and to the shaft.
Tip: There are several more periods during this mission where you are waiting for Brooks to contact you to continue. If for any reason you want to speed through, saving then reloading the save should skip the waits.
Once you find Brooks, she mentions there is an alarm on the grate. Brooks gives Shepard a pair of resonance emitter lenses, provided by Liara, which allows Shepard to see and follow underground circuits. These lenses cause Shepard's eyes to appear yellow for the remainder of the mission. Also, if Shepard is an Engineer, Brooks will comment on this and your technical expertise.
Be careful when in visual range of guards or cameras as your security threat will rise if you make it too obvious what you are doing. Follow the blue wiring. The junction box is at the other end of the upper level guarded by a camera. Liara will upload a program to bypass the camera, but once you start don’t take too long as it doesn’t last very long. Bypass the box and Brooks will get in. Since this could take a while, mingle a bit more.
After mingling a bit more, Brooks runs into another problem: there is a guard right beneath her. Distract him for a bit to allow her to pass. Shepard will tell the guard there is a red sand user in the bathroom and he will move to confront them. Brooks will radio she is clear, so back to mingling. Be careful to avoid setting things off. There are two ATMs on the ground floor you can get at for 3000 credits each and some Renegade points, but you have to bypass the respective cameras to do so.
When Brooks contacts you again, she has run into two problems. EDI and Liara come up with a solution, this time requiring you to follow red wiring. They lead to opposite sides of the casino: a terminal near the roulette tables, and another near the varren race tables. On the left is the pressure pad. You have to distract a guard and a camera. Send your squadmate to distract the guard, bypass the camera, then the security device. You have now two problems, two guards. Send your squadmate to distract one, the stationary one, and watch the patrolling one for the right moment. Be careful when you try and go, because if you get seen, you become suspected. Mingle immediately or it will be critical mission failure.
After bypassing them both, Brooks says that she is at the panic room and will be bypassing the lock. However, she misses one of the security devices and gets caught. EDI tells Shepard that she can call the guard to tell them it is a false alarm, but you need to reach him before that happens. It is the same guard that you talked to earlier. Once that is over, Brooks will radio she is clear so get back to talking and playing games if you feel like it.
Brooks will finally radio she is in and now you need to meet her. There is one camera that you need to take care of, yellow wiring this time. This area is filled with two guards and two cameras. You can’t do anything about the patrolling guard, but you need to do something about the stationary one. Just keep an eye on the former. You have to be fast.
Once the patrolling guard turns away from the first camera junction box, move. Send your squadmate to distract the stationary guard, then bypass the first and second boxes, while keeping an eye on the patrolling guard. Then hurry and bypass the camera box while ensuring you are out of visual range of both guards. Once you are done, you are inside.
Safe Room[]
Once inside the safe room Shepard tells Khan they are going to have a talk, except Khan can’t talk because he is dead. Brooks manages to get into the terminal, but finds a deletion order on it. Brooks starts to beat herself up but Shepard calms her and then examines the terminal for mistakes. Bingo. They wiped the terminal but not the comm. Shepard activates the comm and a face appears on the screen over the mantel, distorted beyond recognition through signal degradation.
Follow the conversation. Eventually the figure says that they will take everything that Shepard is and everything they own. As the conversation cuts, Brooks says she couldn't trace the call. Shepard orders them to remove the drives and get them back so EDI can analyze them.
Mingle Dialogue[]
Shepard can interact with various personalities in the casino, either on a purely conversational basis or to evade the notice of patrolling guards.
Announcer: Attention--bets are locked. Attention! All bets are locked. Good luck, ladies and gentlemen.
First conversation:
Gambler: Come on, Tiger Bite! Bring it home!
Shepard: You got a lot riding on him?
Gambler: He's my boy. Picked him up at a shelter. Whoever let him go had no eye for racers.
Gambler: He can outrun anything he can't outfight, and outfight anything he can't outrun.
Shepard: What are the odds on him?
Gambler: Enough to pay for my kid's tuition.
Second conversation:
Shepard: So these holos aren't just holos, right? Real varren are racing somewhere?
Gambler: Oh, yeah. They set up a track. Our pups eat, they bark, they need cleaning up.
Shepard: What's a pro racer eat?
Gambler: A special diet based on what they'd get in the wild, minus the radioactive crap.
Shepard: So, what, raw krogan leg?
Gambler: Oh, man, my dogs would love that. Kind of illegal, though.
Third conversation:
Shepard: Are there a lot of fights in varren races?
Gambler: Only if something goes wrong. But I don't call my boy "Tiger Bite" for nothing.
Gambler: They throat each other. You know, they grab and hold for dominance but they don't actually break the skin.
Shepard: Sounds like quite a trick.
Gambler: Yeah, if I had teeth like that, I'd poke somebody's eye out. Evolution's a pretty amazing thing.
Trivia[]
Despite Liara mentioning that Khan's fundraiser is a black tie event, bow ties, or ties of any kind, are absent from the dress outfits of Shepard and company.
