Pentagon Knife

"Excellent choice for close man-to-man combat - handy and silent, when you wish to avoid detection"

―Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer, commenting the Pentagon Knife, Training

The Pentagon Knife is a melee weapon featured in Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. It is the western counterpart of Oyabun Knife and a specialist army knife. Costing only $50, it is the cheapest weapon in the series and much more useful than Fiber Wire, but eventually it is removed from subsequent games.

Description[]

The blades are 440C high-carbon stainless steel constructed with a traditional style. Unlike Oyabun Knife, the blades are toothed.

Comparisons with Fiber Wire[]

As a bladed weapon, it can be used in two ways, slashing (frontal) and neck slicing (behind), whereas Fiber wire allows only strangulation from behind.
It is much cheaper, costing only $50, whilst Fiber wire costs $110.
The time required to kill a target is significantly lower than the fiber wire.
Being made of metal, it cannot be used in places equipped with metal detectors, such as in "Traditions of the Trade" and "Basement Killing", meanwhile, the fiber wire can pass through without detection.
The fiber wire is more silent as compared to the knife. In Murder at the Bazaar, for example, killing the Colonel with the knife often alerts nearby civilians and a few guards, while the fiber wire never does.

Codename 47[]

It can be bought in any mission from Find the U'wa Tribe to Plutonium Runs Loose. Otherwise, it appears in the following:

Training - In the melee weapons training area.
Say Hello to My Little Friend - In a weapon cache near the beginning of the mission.

Silent Assassin[]

In Silent Assassin, the Pentagon Knife is renamed as Combat Knife, and is one of the games's least common weapons. Aside from a different name, the Combat Knife remains the same as its previous counterpart. It appears only in the following:

Tubeway Torpedo - on primary target Mikhail Bardachenko.

Variants[]

Agency Tanto Knife - An variant of the Tanto knife.
Amputation Knife - A Liston knife, circa 14th Century.
Antique Carved Knife - A knife unlocked by reaching Mumbai Mastery 18.
Barber Razor - A razor typically found in bedrooms and bathrooms.
Burial Dagger - Janus's burial dagger.
Circumcision Knife - An izmel.
Cleaver - A heavy butcher knife found in Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman: Contracts and later entries.
Combat Knife - A knife unlocked by reaching Marrakesh Mastery 5. A version is also included in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Concealable Knife - A knife that can pass frisks.
Eiffel Tower Knife - A knife in Freelancer that can pass frisks.
Filet Knife - A knife in Hitman: Absolution.
Folding Knife - A pocket knife present in the series since Hitman: Absolution.
Glass Shiv - A makeshift glass shiv.
Grape Knife - A knife used to harvest Grapevines.
Hobby Knife - The only knife that is legal to carry in any disguise.
Ice Pick - A generic mountaineering ice pick.
Janbiya - An Arabic dagger unlocked by reaching Marrakesh Mastery 10.
Kitchen Knife - A common knife found in most kitchens throughout the series which is legal to carry with a chef's or waiter's disguise.
Kukri Knife - An Indian machete unlocked by reaching Dartmoor Mastery 13.
Letter Opener - A blunt edged knife designed for opening mail.
Oyabun Knife - Stealth knife featured in Hitman: Codename 47.
Pentagon Knife - Stealth knife featured in Hitman: Codename 47.
Piton - Metal spike used for climbing.
Sacrificial Knife - An exotic, unlockable knife found in The Isle of Sgàil and in a Secret Tunnel in Santa Fortuna.
Scalpel - A knife legal to carry with a doctor's disguise.
Stiletto - Small knife found in Hitman: Blood Money.
Tanto - A small Japanese knife.
The Black Almond's Dagger - A dagger with a single dose of lethal poison.
The Cat's Claw - A dagger unlocked by completing level 1 of the The Envy Contention.
The Splitter Kukri Knife - A variant of the Kukri Knife unlocked by purchasing The Splitter Pack.

Cut items[]

Nail File - Small sharp nail file cut from Hitman: Blood Money.
Knife - Cut beta weapon from Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman: Contracts. Unique as it uses "Caliber" rounds, of which 10 can be used.
Bowie Knife- A large bladed knife cut from Hitman: Blood Money. Completely finished, and even has it's own associated ranking.
Thrower- A small throwing knife cut from Hitman: Blood Money.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

In Training, Dr. Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer refers it as Pentagon/Oyabun knife, even though in the inventory, it is named Pentagon knife.