The Splitter

The Splitter is the nineth Elusive Target Mission in HITMAN™ III, and the forty-third overall, and tasks you with eliminating Max Valliant, along with all thirteen of his clones.

• Objectives
• Briefing
• Outro

Targets[]

	Eliminate Max Valliant.
	Eliminate Max Valliant's clones. (13)

Objectives[]

Exfiltrate[]

Locate the exit

The Splitter[]

Diana Burnwood (VO): "Good afternoon, 47. Your target is Max Valliant. Ex-ICA Assassin and a legend within the firm.

This one is personal for ICA. We are dealing with a very dangerous man. Agent Valliant used to be one of our top assets, before you came along. However, we became aware that he was playing multiple sides, and we couldn't afford to having him leaking knowledge to unwanted parties. So, we have to deal with him, the only way possible. We presumed he was dead for years... until now. He's taken control of our facility in Chongqing and has demanded a meeting. We do not know his agenda, but we fear the worst. So, we are sending you undercover, to escort our board member Mr. Pritchard who will be represnting us. Be careful. Valliant is brilliant and calculating. We need to finish what we started years ago. Good luck 47.

― Mission Briefing

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― Outro

Appearance[]

HITMAN™ III[]

Elusive Target Arcade[]

Mission Stories[]

Meet Your Brother

Challenges[]

Mastery[]

Disguises[]

• Street Guard (starting disguise)
• Block Guard
• Dumpling Cook
• Facility Analyst
• Facility Engineer
• Facility Guard (Masked)
• Homeless Person
• Perfect Test Subject
• Researcher (Block and Facility)
• The Board Member (Angus Pritchard)

Note: Facility Guard (Masked) does not count towards the Chameleon challenge. The Facility version of the Researcher disguise also does not count towards the Chameleon challenge, but the Block version does.

Weapons[]

Trivia[]

• This mission has the highest target count in the franchise, with 14 targets including Max Valliant and 13 clones of himself.
  • Unlike in Apex Predator, where the targets (ICA agents, specifically) will attempt to evacuate and can be optional (you only need to kill 5 mandatory targets of your choice), you'll have to eliminate every targets in this mission before you can exfiltrate the map.
  • Note that this doesn't account for special missions like Patient Zero and The Dexter Discordance, where optional targets can be added during playthrough by various circumstances (infecting/trespassing...)
• During the mission briefing, the agent who assassinates Valliant is strangely dressed up as a Homeless Person.
  • Along with that, several propane tanks appear on the Arcade's table, presumably placed there to make the explosion bigger than what an explosive device would produce.
• This mission has went under heavy NPCs modification, notably removing most of NPCs at The Block apartments
• This is the only mission in the franchise that lets you start with a disguise (Street Guard) by default. Players also don't get any optional starting location, making this mission technically impossible to do suit only. It was also modified so that they can be used to navigate the first or second floor of the ICA facility.
• All the targets in the mission except the dancing clone, compactor clone and incubation tube clones have guard AI, meaning they'll be able to fight back 47 and can do some basic guards' activities like investigating commotion, picking up firearms, etc.
  • They also lacks most of non mission-specific dialogue lines, even those of the generic guards, associated with them. Most of the times, they'll just react to commotions or 47's actions silently and don't say anything. The only unique line they have, recorded by Van Damme, is when they're investigating a noise.
• When the objective updates to say that 47 needs to kills all of Max Valliant's clones, players can't restart or replan the mission anymore, even when they haven't eliminated any target yet.
  • This is due to the mission containing two separate objectives to eliminate Max Valliant - one that hides him while using instinct and one that doesn't. The objective that hides him in instinct completes when the clones are revealed, meaning that the player has completed an objective - which historically has always locked a player into the Elusive Target mission.
• This is the second mission in the World of Assassination trilogy to feature immobilized targets (6 clones in the lowest level of the lab and the clone in the compactor). The first one is Situs Inversus, which has Erich Soders.
• If 47 heats up the lab equipment at where the 6 clones are being raised, the nearby lab worker will investigate that, trying to revert the process. Knocking him down or keeping him at bay long enough will ensure success of the process.
• The golf balls' basket in the shooting range doesn't have a tee nearby, and it's the only one in World of Assassination that's not used for playing golf. Instead Max Valliant or his clones will hold the ball as a practice target. Players can put a explosive one in the basket, setting up an accident.
  • After the accident has happened, the player will not be able to place another Explosive Golfball in the basket.

• Despite the Chameleon challenge being available during the mission, it is not possible to complete it without playing another mission since both the Facility Guard and Facility Security disguises are removed.
• The initial activation is the first ever Elusive Target where some players have been able to attempt it twice. Bugs in the game that were causing players to unfairly fail the mission were fixed in an unscheduled patch released on December 20^th, 2024, which also reset the Elusive Target mission for all players that had previously failed it.
• This is the first Elusive Target mission to have all the targets highlighted on the map and in Instinct Mode, however this only happens after the objective to eliminate all of the clones pops up.
  • Additionally, if Valliant is eliminated before the objective to eliminate all of the clones pops up, his body will still be highlighted.
• The mission story for the mission, "Meet Your Brother", is a direct reference to the Codename 47 mission Meet Your Brother, where 47 confronts Dr. Ort-Meyer and the series of 48 clones.
• Should Max Valliant himself be killed before his clones are, the two shooting range clones will go to the upstairs locker room and will begin to silently weep, doing crying animations and so forth, this may suggest that the clones see Valliant as a father figure, much like 47 and Ort-Meyer.
• Strangely, Jean-Claude Van Damme and The Splitter are not listed in the credits, despite other celebrity elusive targets like The Drop and The Disruptor being listed.