“ And last, but not least, is Captain Lewis. We haven't actually seen him in D.C. yet, but we have intercepted comms that imply he and General Anderson are planning something big. ”
Captain Lewis was a high-ranking Captain within the True Sons' ranks, entrusted by General Anderson himself to move forward with a yet unknown plan in Washington, D.C.. Lewis is the Prime-Target featured in Season 9, Hidden Alliance.
Biography[]
Fredrick Lewis grew up on the ocean. He spent his summers on his pappy's fishing boat rescuing tourists who had gotten themselves in trouble off the coast of North Carolina. Those summers shaped the man he would become. Lewis saw himself as a savior. The one person who could defeat the sea and to bring a lost soul home. He joined the Coast Guard fresh out of high school and worked his way up to the prestigious Search and Rescue team.
His wife wanted him to move to Kentucky to build a homestead. The property value on their old fishing shack ballooned to the point that they could trade their shack on the beach for forty acres and a cow. Fred gave in to his wife's reasonable dreams and they moved to Kentucky.
A year later, he was bored of pretending to be a farmer and joined the Kentucky National Guard. Two years later, his wife had an affair with the young man they hired to help around the farm. When Lewis found out, he got eerily quiet, packed a bag, got in his truck with his dog, Ransom; and drove back to North Carolina and moved in with his pappy. He rejoined the Coast Guard, tried to rebuild his life, then the Green Poison was released, and he was called to support the Joint Task Force effort in Washington, D.C. He had a lot of anger, pain, and resentment from his failed marriage and instead of dealing with that pain and trauma he decided to pass it on to other people he was tasked to lead and care for.
History[]
After the death of former Division commander Faye Lau at Camp White Oak, Captain Lewis was ordered by General Anderson to send his specialized team to Washington, D.C., with a yet-to-be known objective.
After advancing on D.C. with his armored convoy and encountering unusual drone activity near roadblocks, Captain Lewis eventually entered Jefferson Trade Center as per General Anderson's orders. There, Lewis and his team were ambushed by and faced with heavy Black Tusk resistance, eventually, all of his men were gone at the hands of the B.T.S.U., the Captain being the only one left to defend himself. After clearing out some of the Black Tusk forces near the entrance, Lewis contacted the arriving Division agents (who were there to apprehend him) requesting their help to fight the Black Tusk. Although initially distrusting, the agents, per Kelso's request, agreed to help him, as long he helped them too by defending the SHD Node from any possible threats. Before leaving for the Node, Lewis warns the agents that the B.T.S.U. were not the biggest threat present on-site, and tells them to watch out for the "recruiter" (A.K.A the Hunter that was present on-site to watch over Jack Bonney and test him for recruitment process into the Hunters).
After doing so, Lewis escaped through unknown means, however, as a man of his word, Lewis would still aid The Division even after leaving, just as he agreed to. As the agents arrive at the final portion of Jefferson Trade Center and prepare to face off against B.T.S.U. Operative and Hunter in-training Jack Bonney, Lewis provides air support by air raiding the battlefield with DC-62 airstrikes, much to Kelso's disliking. The agents eventually take down Bonney and his Black Tusk forces, soon realizing he had an Agent Watch with him, with ISAC detecting Bonney had Agent Status, much to their confusion. Kelso tries to ask Lewis what the meaning of this was, but the Captain wasn't quite sure either, only telling her that if she was ever to find out what was truly going on there, she should find him and request his support again.
After the incident at Jefferson Trade Center, General Anderson began attempting to make an alliance with the Black Tusk once again, which left Lewis questioning his loyalty to the True Sons' cause. It was around this time that Lewis started to recruit more of his fellow True Sons to his side in secret, creating a rogue branch that would go against the Black Tusk and Natalya Sokolova. Lewis would eventually contact Manny Ortega of the JTF, who had once been his colleague and close friend before Ridgeway's defection.
Though initially rough at first, the duo's interactions eventually became calmer, as they began to plot a way for Frederick's rogue True Sons to switch over to the Division's side, though Manny was still worried that Anderson might find out. The General eventually did find out their plot, as Sokolova was able to intercept and record their conversation. Anderson would imprison Lewis and his fellow rogues, executing some of them in the process. Imprisoned at the Pentco Fairview Power Plant, same place where Anderson and Sokolova would meet up in person, Lewis was eventually rescued again by the very same Division agents. He would then attempt to go after Anderson to take him as a prisoner, but to no avail.
In the extraction chopper, the Captain would brief Agent Kelso on Sokolova.
After failing to recruit Zachary Beattie and during the attack on White House, Lewis had managed to buy Manny some time to escort Bardon Schaeffer into the panic room, while repelling the Black Tusk wave, but he was later killed by a Hunter who was under Sokolova's order.
Legacy[]
Ransom was given with Lewis' dog tag as a token to remember by Manny himself.
Abilities[]
In-game, Captain Frederick Lewis is a friendly True Sons Assault armed with a Custom P416 G3 assault rifle.
He can also be seen wielding a Police M4 by the end of Season 10's final mission, during the extraction phase.
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Trivia[]
- Captain Lewis is the first ever Manhunt Target to not engage the player in combat during the final mission (Aaron Keener, Jupiter, Hornet, Schaeffer and Faye Lau all face the player as boss fights by the end of their Manhunt Missions, while Lewis becomes an ally right at the start of his mission).
- Despite not using it in-game, in both his character artwork and the in-game briefing video, Lewis is depicted as using the Military variant of the P416 instead of the Custom variant.
- Additionally, in the CGI trailer for Season 10, Lewis is instead shown using a Black Market AK-M.
- His dog, Ransom will behave similar to the puppy that resided in New York Safe Haven, allowing players/agent to interact with, during the launch of Season 11 and rebuild Castle Settlement.
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