“ Major Castillo. A civilian turned True Son. Castillo's background is in engineering. He's been taking over radio frequencies and broadcasting these rants that, frankly... if you didn't know better could be quite the recruiting tool. ”
Major Malcolm Castillo is one of Captain Lewis's four lieutenants featured in the Hidden Alliance season.
Biography[]
Malcolm Castillo was the senior engineer at the Pentco Fairview Nuclear Power Plant. When the Green Poison was released, his wife, Sharon Castillo, was five months pregnant with their first child. Sharon had gone to visit her family for one last childless Black Friday shopping spree with her sister, Caroline Owens, in Manhattan. The plan was to spend two weeks bonding with her sister while Malcolm got the baby's room ready. He was very particular about how things should be done and for the sake of their marriage - and to keep both of their stresses low - she knew it was best to stay out of his way. While shopping, she contracted the virus, assumed it was just a seasonal flu, and refused treatment for fear of what it would do to the baby. She died ten days later at a free clinic in Brooklyn.
In his grief, Major Castillo dedicated himself to his work. He moved into the facility to ensure that the plant remained functional. The National Guard was sent to protect perimeter and in order for Castillo to remain onsite, he had to enlist. He had some basic cursory training, but his primary role and objective was as the expert on the plant's operations. After training enough True Sons to run the plant, General Anderson rewarded his dedication by sending him to Washington, D.C. to investigate CERA and The Division's role in his wife's death.
He blames CERA, the JTF, The Division and the government for allowing his wife and unborn child to die. He believes that there is no way they were unaware of Amherst's plans, and they allowed this to happen.
History[]
After his wife and unborn child died to the Green Poison virus, Malcolm Castillo joined the True Sons and trained them on how to run and operate the power plant. His hard work and dedication to the cause earned him General Anderson's favor.
Anderson sent Castillo and his troops to D.C. to investigate the Green Poison crisis, with him being tracked down and eventually confronted by Division agents at the DCD Headquarters, where he would face off against and be eventually killed by The Division, with Alani Kelso commenting that killing Castillo was no satisfaction to her, considering his tragic past.
Abilities[]
In-game, Major Castillo is a unique True Sons Engineer armed with a customized M870 Express shotgun, True Sons Assault Turret, Hunters EMP Drones, B.T.S.U. Support Stations and B.T.S.U. Lethal EMP Jammer Grenades.
He also has a holstered M45A1 in his character model, though is never seen using it in combat.
Propaganda Broadcasts[]
My name is Malcolm Castillo. Senior Engineer and True Sons Major. My wife Sharon Castillo and our unborn daughter died at the hands of CERA and their negligence. The government allowed this to happen and CERA and the Division just made things worse. If it wasn't for their negligence, I would be teaching my daughter to crawl right now. I should be helping her stand and seeing my wife's smile in her face. They should be with me. There is no reason that this should have happened.
And so when a real emergency happened, and we needed the beds for people who were really sick, who really needed treatment and ventilators and isolation, there wasn't enough resources to go around. There weren't enough beds. There weren't enough ventilators. There weren't enough doctors to assess and treat the patients, because idiots with a "tummy ache" or a "sore tooth" or broken finger took up the time and energy and space and the doctors missed the signs that this was small pox until it was too late.
The biggest failing at the beginning of the crisis wasn't the quarantine or the treatments or the "government response". The biggest failing was the sad sorry state of our healthcare system. For decades we have watched as emergency care became the only care.
There is no reason that Amherst should have been allowed to release his poison on the world, other than some idiot with access made a choice and the choice they made was to let my wife, Sharon Castillo and her sister Caroline Owens and my daughter, who we were waiting to meet to name, my child who I will never be able to name because I will never be able to meet her because she was still inside of Sharon when those monsters dumped their bodies into a mass grave in Central Park and set it on fire to "contain the virus". My wife and daughter paid the price for their negligence.
Any asshole with access to the equipment Gordon Amherst used to manufacture his virus can literally print their own apocalypse. The future of biological warfare is open source. A year ago, I would be labelled insane and sent to an asylum, but this isn't a year ago, this is now, and we know, we know that all those people in tin foil hats had the right idea. The isolationist preppers, the homesteaders, the urban farmers, if it wasn't for them, what would be left of humanity? The last two people on earth would be killing each other over last can of beans.
Do not believe their lies. Do not believe that there was nothing they could do. The government was monitoring Gordon Amherst. We found the records. We found the proof. They deemed him "not a credible threat", all of this blood is on their hands. They allowed this to happen. Do not let them get away with this. The True Sons are fighting for your freedom from their tyranny. Do not believe the government's lies.
The Green Poison was just the beginning. This technology. Keener proved it with his Eclipse bullshit. And the Division knew. They knew Keener had access to that equipment this whole time and they did nothing to stop him from creating the Eclipse virus.
What do you think the next person will do with it? How many Rogue Agents do you need before you accept the reality that the Division cannot be trusted with this technology. The Division has not and never will keep you safe.
Before the crisis the grid was unstable. We never had enough money or people to maintain and improve the grid. Public and private blurring together, a jurisdictional nightmare. We built our own instability. And now, we are paying for that. If we couldn't work together when we had money and times were good, how the hell are we supposed to do it now that most of the people who knew how to fix the problem are gone. I cannot be the only person who knows how to run a nuclear power plant.
If the plant has a melt down, that would be the final nail in the coffin of the American experiment. The Division has proven they can't maintain the grid, they can't even maintain their own network.
The Black Tusk? Those nation builders will enslave us all. The only people fighting for stability are the True Sons.
Most of us were already serving our country and keeping you safe before Waller issued Directive 51. We have always been here in the background making sure society functioned. Some of us were soldiers, I kept the lights on. We know how to follow procedure and respect command structure and institutions, but heroes do not blindly follow orders, and that's why Ridgeway left the JTF. That's why General Anderson will lead us to victory.
If you want to get back to "normal", join the True Sons. Abandon the Division agents and their quest for power. They don't care who gets in their way as long as they get an "attaboy", "good work, Agent". All they care about is being seen as a hero, but do they ever act heroic? The True Sons, we know heroes have to make the hard choices.
You know the real problem with the Division? They think too small. They are only focused on the task in front of them. They are so consumed with busy work and little victories that they miss the big picture. They don't see that all these street fights add up to something far more dangerous.
You're so worried about the mugger in front of you with the gun in your face that you don't even see the man behind them murdering your family. You agents never learn from the past. If someone is pulling you to the right, you should look to your left. That's where the real danger is. You're so busy chasing the birds flushed out of the bush that you don't see the wolf ready to pounce.
The True Sons are fighting for the real America. You might think that I'm anti-cop, and anti-big government, if you've been paying attention, but I'm not. I'm antigovernment sanctioned assassins. I'm anti-negligence. I'm pro-responsibility. Pro-accountability. Pro-choice, pro-life. We all have the right to live. We all have inalienable freedoms that the Division takes from us every day.
Trivia[]
- Like with the 3 other sub-targets from Season 9, the EMP Drone that appears during Castillo's boss fight was presumably deployed by either Jack Bonney or his Recruiter Hunter, however, since the drone actually helps him fight the player, it can be considered part of his Abilities kit.
Takeover Bounty[]
- DCD Headquarters: Major Castillo