The Manager is a side character and an antagonist in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. He is a man who appears at the beginning of Withdrawal and a second time if you manage to not die as Jake on the 3rd floor of Withdrawal. He is the main antagonist of Jake's storyline.
Background[]
The Manager appears to work in a large lead-lined office building in Miami, seemingly being in charge of the branch. As manager, he cordially welcomes prospective members with a broad smile and has an open ear for any suggestions to help advance their cause. He drops his friendly act however, when pressed about anything relating to odd phone calls or violence, becoming very adamant that their group is pacifist and non-coercive, consistently denying any involvement and claiming to have no idea what Jake is talking about when he unwittingly proposes and describes to him the exact operation they are already running.
The building Jake meets him in is a reinforced 50 Blessings center (which is the setting of The Abyss later), with the implication that he very well could be the leader, or at the very least a high-ranking executive, of the 50 Blessings operation. At the time, it was being run as a non-profit organization as a front, a fact Jake found out by chance and had to pay the price for.
To prevent a potential info leak from Jake after he found out about their secret, despite Jake's loyalty to the movement, the Manager will shoot Jake at the end of Withdrawal if the player clears the 3rd floor without dying.
Appearance[]
The Manager has blonde hair styled into a flattop and light stubble. He wears a beige suit with brown trousers and a pair of light blue Clubmaster glasses, which obscure his eyes, safe for the outlines and eyebrows.
Trivia[]
- The Manager has an unused animation of him walking with a shotgun.
- He is poised to kill Jake on June 3rd, perhaps implying he was the one who personally ordered the death of Jacket in Deadline on June 8th.
- A Phone Hom Van was in police impound for the Fans to capture, possibly indicating that the Manager was connected to the murders and arrested at some point.
- The Janitors in Release use identical verbiage to the Manager, telling Richter they're here as "just a little precaution."
- The Manager's nose shape appears to change between his normal dialogue-sprite, and his happy dialogue-sprite.
Car[]
1975 Cadillac deville, with horns.
Gallery[]
