Watch Dogs Walkthrough: Act 1 They Can’t Hide – Exit Motel Room, Investigate Criminals

How to profile people and search the crime area.

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Mission: They Can’t Hide 

Objective: Go to sleep.

At this point, you need to go to sleep to continue the story. However, before you do, you can look around your hideout. There are some electronic parts on the table next to the bed, and a system key that can be hacked next to the computer in the middle of the room. You can also access your laptop to hear you own audio files. When you’re ready, move to the bed and go to sleep. Set your wake up time for the morning hours. The default is 6:00 AM. 

Objective: Exit your motel room.

Objective: Profile people for potential crimes near your hideout. 

Head out the door to your hideout, then walk around the motel examining the people you come across. Interact with every person you can, whether it’s hacking into someone’s bank account or listening in on his or her conversation to prevent a crime. To the right and just around the corner near the stairs is a person on their cell phone. Listen in to get clued in on a crime. 

Objective: Investigate the potential crime area.

Objective: Watch for criminal behavior. 

Take one of the vehicles in the parking lot and head to the waypoint on the map. Move toward the waypoint and around to the back side of the building to find the criminal (yellow marker). Be careful not to get spotted and remember that you can use security cameras to aid you. Keep an eye on the person of interest until the indicator turns red and you’re instructed to take action.

Run up to the individual and use a takedown before he escapes. If you kill him, you won’t earn as many points, so make sure you use a takedown instead of simply shooting him. 

Shortly after taking down the criminal, you will receive a phone call. At this point, the Big Brother waypoint appears on the main map, north of your location (yellow marker). Mark it for GPS purposes, jump in a car and head to the waypoint. 

Get out of your car and access the mission marker to begin the next mission.

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Bryan Dawson has an extensive background in the gaming industry, having worked as a journalist for various publications for nearly 20 years and participating in a multitude of competitive fighting game events. He has authored over a dozen strategy guides for Prima Games, worked as a consultant on numerous gaming-related TV and web shows and was the Operations Manager for the fighting game division of the IGN Pro League.