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Under cover of midnight, I infiltrated the guard station from the rear using glass bottles to distract patrolling guards. After picking Giuseppe's cell lock, I learned about missing printing plates. Then I knocked out an office guard and discovered a safe that might have the printing plates.
Waiting until midnight when guard numbers thinned out, Enzo and Cesare put on their face coverings to begin the break-in.
Following a sudden game crash that bypassed the opening cutscene on restart, the duo immediately jumped into stealth mode outside the guard station.
Recognizing that the main front entrance was far too heavily guarded, Cesare suggested circling around to the back perimeter to find a quieter point of entry.
Creeping along the side path, I carefully tracked the patrol routes of nearby guards.
Spotting a high ledge and ladder leading into the station structure, he noticed a lone guard standing post directly at the base. Drawing a glass bottle from his inventory, I tossed it into the shadows away from his path.
As the guard walked over to investigate the noise, I darted to the ladder, scrambling up to the elevated platform before the sentry returned.
From high above the ground level, I used another glass bottle throw to divert a second set of guards, that granted me a clean window to reach the rear access door.
Slipping inside the guard station interior, I navigated dark hallways filled with active patrols.
Coming across a guard directly blocking the corridor leading to the holding area, I was forced to choke him down to clear the way.
Pressing onward without alerting the rest of the facility, I located the target forger, Giuseppe, inside a cell.
I picked the lock and freed Giuseppe, who immediately asked if Enzo had secured his printing plates. Caught off guard, Enzo admitted nobody had mentioned any plates.
As we prepared to move, a neighboring prisoner began shouting for release, whom I recognized from the rival gang, who fought me in the past. Ignoring the rival's demands to avoid blowing our cover, I left him locked in his cage.
Learning from Giuseppe that the plates were stowed inside his bag within a secure office safe, Enzo instructed the forger to stay hidden while I went to retrieve them.
Infiltrating an adjacent administrative building, I snuck up on a guard examining a statue and took him out with a chokehold, hoping the non-lethal move would just keep him unconscious.
Searching the ground floor for clues, I uncovered a safe repair record left by a technician, which noted that the safe's lock had been reset back to its factory-default combination, leaving me to hunt down the original factory code to open the safe.