Harlan Lloyd was a member of the Outcasts. He was the Strategist of the Outcasts and appeared at the Potomac Event Center. After his apprehension, he was still imprisoned until Black Tusk took him into custody during their attack on the White House.
He wasn't seen again by the Division, until their confrontation with him and his Outcasts in Tidal Basin Manhunt: The Pact.
Biography[]
Before and during the Green Poison outbreak, Lloyd was an ex-political strategist. He was firmly against the JTF's measures in setting up refugee camps and urged civilians to stay in their homes. In the wake of Antwon Ridgeway's atrocities on Roosevelt Island and his formations of the True Sons, Lloyd joined the Outcasts with his moniker "The Strategist" and becoming a member of Emeline Shaw's inner circle.
Lloyd followed his leaders' orders without question and carried them, no matter how abhorrent they were.
In an effort to take direct action against the Outcasts, the Division assaulted the Potomac Event Center to prevent The Strategist's escape and capture him. Despite rallying his Outcasts, the agents managed to prevent his escape. During the fight in the theater, he taunted the agents in an ill-manner from a projector, projecting some confidence. However, he'd crumble when Agent Kelso captured him, begging and promising to tell them everything.
His capture proved vital in decimating the Outcasts.
Months of captivity and later kidnapping[]
Harlan Lloyd was still in captivity on the White House until the Black Tusk's assault on the Base of Operations in an effort to take it over and eliminate the comatose Bardon Schaeffer. Among the civilians who were kidnapped by Black Tusk, Lloyd was also kidnapped alongside Vitaly Tchernenko as revealed in the opening cutscene of Broken Wings when Manny and Wally made count of the civilians kidnapped by Black Tusk.
What Black Tusk intends to do with Harlan Lloyd remains to be seen.
Scratching the surface[]
During the events of First Rogue, Division agents recovered comms from NSA's intel server during their runs across the Descent simulation that involved conversations between Harlan Lloyd and a Hunter named Donovan Tower, where and his cell were infected by a mutated strain of Green Poison during their stay at [Redacted], while they were recovering intel from NSA Databases via the Descent simulation program. These conversations must've taken place between the events of The Division and The Division 2, as Lloyd and the Outcasts took over DCD HQ in Washington, D.C. during the chaos.
Lloyd helped Tower and his team's predicament by suggesting blood tests, so the scientists who were with the Hunter cell can determine what can be done about their infection. (Descent, Comm#68, Mutated) - (Descent, Comm#72, DCD HQ)
Whether Harlan Lloyd is aware that Donovan Tower was a Hunter is unknown.
Furthermore, during the events of Crossroads, the agents recovered more comms from NSA's server across their runs in the Descent simulation, in which a dozen of them involved conversations between Virologist Jessica Kandel and Rogue Agent Theo Parnell. One conversation involved Harlan Lloyd, in which Theo believed he could've been an asset in working with Gordon Amherst's 3D Printer, given his method of extracting blood from an asymptomatic carrier could come in handy for creating BSAVs. But Kandel refused, as she saw that method as both monstrous and idiotic, not wanting to torture people just so she can develop a vaccine. (Descent, Comm#94,The Strategist)
The Pact[]
During his custody with the Black Tusk, Harlan Lloyd met with Natalya Sokolova, who wanted him to join the Summit she's arranging at Tidal Basin. Lloyd was apprehensive, given the shared history between the Outcasts and the True Sons, though Sokolova claimed Anderson's True Sons aren't the same JTF that put him and his fellow Outcasts through that hell at Roosevelt Island.
After she shared him records that her people dug up, Lloyd learned that the quarantine zone orders were carried out by Captain Frederick Lewis and Engineer Candice Wallace. He asked if this is real, and Sokolova assured she'd never lie to him, informing him those two people defected to the Divisions, though Lewis was dead, leaving only Wallace alive.
Lloyd was galvanized when she assured him that by working together, they can bring the people responsible to justice, and ensure that Emeline Shaw's death had some meaning. Needing no further convincing, Lloyd only asked where he could sign up. (Manhunt: The Pact, Comm#13, Quid Pro Quo)
Out of his misery[]
While the Division wreaked havoc at Tidal Basin, they eventually reached the Hovercraft where the Summit was being arranged. Lloyd and his Outcasts were ready to take the fight against the Division, but Mayhem and her Hyenas were first, though they'd all be eliminated. So, Lloyd took the initiative, eager to take revenge against the agents who put him behind bars for months and caused losses to his people and his beloved leader.
But just like with Mayhem, he was put down by the agents who once apprehended him.
Thus, the life of Harlan Lloyd, a paper pusher/bureaucrat turned fanatical/psychotic killer, came to an end.
Combat and Abilities[]
In game, Harlan Lloyd was a unique Outcasts Tank armed with a Flamethrower and Heavy Armor during his final encounter with the Division at Sokolova's Summit.
Personality and Traits[]
Harlan Lloyd projected himself as a confident Outcast with strong convictions and belief. But beneath that façade is a meek and weak man who crumbles under pressure. In the Potomac Event Center, he projected himself as a fanatic with nothing to lose. But as soon Kelso got him cornered, he crumbled and let himself be captured.
This façade also goes further, as Emeline Shaw encouraged him to kill off the civilians they captured to spread fear, despite Lloyd's hesitation at first. Moreover, when he revealed the JTF reports about Ridgeway's arrest to Emeline, she ordered him to burn the reports, and he agreed to it, knowingly that the truth would only weaken their faction unless they controlled the narrative.
Despite that, he believed wholly in the Outcasts and their cause, even maintained a friendship with Emeline as he helped her procure medicine for her nightmares. Furthermore, Emeline entrusted him to galvanize the Outcasts should she die. But due to his capture, that never came to be.
The time he spent imprisoned in the White House and being in Black Tusk's custody changed him, as he became much more fit and muscled, allowing him to wear the armor used by Outcast Tanks. Due to his continued devotion to the Outcasts' cause, he was prone to manipulation, which was exploited by Natalya Sokolova when she showed him records of Fred Lewis and Candice Wallace being the ones who carried out the Quarantine orders that put him and his fellows at Roosevelt Island through so much trauma and misery, to convince him to work with Black Tusk and other factions against the Division.
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Trivia[]
- Given Harlan Lloyd is encountered as a Named Outcast Tank in Tidal Basin Manhunt: The Pact, some might question how he looked different from when he was last seen in Potomac Event Center. As explained by The Pact, (Comm#13, Quid Pro Quo), Harlan spent a lot of time lifting while he was imprisoned in the White House after his capture by the Division.