Who is the Recruiter? || The Division 2

Who is the Hunter Recruiter?
Agent Johnson?
Manny?
Keener?

With the announcement of year 5 season 2, and the accompanying trailer, we were shown what this season was going to be all about.

Same as the last, there are another 4 people for us to rescue… However the final is a target that we need to hunt down… and it just so happens to be the Recruiter itself.

In this video I want to discuss who the Recruiter could actually be, based on all of the current characters in the story right now.
Yes, it could be someone completely new that we haven’t been introduced to, but there are certainly a few others that we DO know, that could comfortably fit into that role…

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EXTREMIS MALIS - Part 1

[NGN]

For what it's worth (if we find out at all), I'd put money on it being someone who has just suddenly shown up this season.
I hope I'm wrong, but he feels the most likely at this stage.

[sharknizer]

the recruiter is the our division 1 agent

[bashseak]

8:22 did we not realize the recruiter has a watch just like the division? This could be mcmanus because he wanted a watch to acess the three ai systems without a brick. This is all major speculation tho.

[JonathanHotard]

I’d put Agent Johnson as the number 1 suspect, but it’s still extremely early to speculate. Heck Agent Johnson could get killed in the prime target mission by the Recruiter and then it turns into a boss fight. Also am I the only one who noticed that the guy who gave Mari the division comms last season sounds EXTREMELY similar to Agent Johnson? Idk probably just me but who knows. The theory of more than one Recruiter is mind blowing and could be possible as well.

[thedudeabides]

“So by this theory, I am The Recruiter”…..NGN being The Recruiter would be THE plot twist of my gaming life.

[samh-]

It’d be awesome to get the recruiters armor to wear

[edwardmartin]

I think the Recruiter is the first Hunter we encountered in the mission Agent Edwards missing

[lvlrrx]

I haaave a suspicions but, maybe just maybe the recruiter was a former First or Second Wave Division Agent.
Based on the reveal The Recruiter has a Division watch colored "Orange" so it means it is an active agent or a newly activated one, but i would say the later since for you to be a recruiter you need to be a veteran or someone who's already defied and hunted the odds.

For someone to know the key persons in Manny's Circle is the hint we can prove that his Hunter knows everyone
Pretty sure the same Hunter who tomahawked Lewis in the White House Siege
Who? let's just say she/he someone we knew, but who knows? I mean someone is being MIA or assumed KIA
Its model is like the Covert Hunter with typical ballistic armor except it has a cloak with Hunter Insignia

Also this is the First Hunter who's voice can be identified, since most of the hunters are either "growling or jammed voice" like on Schaffer's Manhunt.
But seriously Schaffer need to effing wake up haha

[shinvelcro]

I really don't think its Cindy. She has been there since the start when her name in the subtitles was just "Drone operator" before they gave her a name back around WONY. Maybe it was even the coney island missions just before as Cindy is the guide for there. Kelso... much as I hope they still have big things for her, she seems pretty spent now after Lau.

[thomasloeffler]

I think it could be really interesting. The recruiter isn’t just one person but the head of a particular operation or branch.

[railie]

I’m thinking Agent Johnson gets killed by the recruiter or Johnson is secretly the recruiter.

Either way the recruiter’s identity will keep us guessing until that mask is removed.

Also fingers crossed 🤞 that the recruiter’s outfit becomes available to rock.

[dronn_]

Just wanna let you guys know if you replay Lewis and Mari manhunt, the recruiter is changed to the current model

[TheStoryMode]

(Quick tip of the hat to Rob ) I don’t know who the Recruiter is but I’m gonna spend this season blaming everyone. Don’t trust anybody. The Ortiz speculation is a great guess though, as it reconciles the visual differences from the original recruiter sighting and it provides the Descent comms even more relevance. Great vid. I have a few questions I’m pondering, are the Asset and the Recruiter the same thing? Manny at least seems to recognize Johnson’s voice, can our Division-like tech mimic voices? Is the Hunter that killed Captain Lewis of any importance? Why do I hate Manny so much?

[snoogle]

My money’s been on Mitchell Billings since the day we got his audio logs. The doctor Manny’s trusted to counsel and evaluate his people (including Manny himself) is in the exact best position to gauge who might be be recruitable, to manipulate on behalf of the enemies and to navigate the trickiness of undercover work.

Also, he’s in suspiciously good shape. And that thick accent? Great way to throw people off of your real voice if overheard as The Recruiter.

[rob]

Firstly, I'm flattered. Thanks so much, mate. And yes, we absolutely need to do some gaming. Very soon!

As usual, love the theories. But what I particularly like is the possibility that there is more than one Recruiter. As you say, the model that we've seen in the previous seasons looks nothing like the one that we have for the manhunt target this year. Which absolutely bears credence to the possibility that there could be more than one. As for it being the Ortiz couple, that would make PERFECT sense. Because, unlike virtually any other Hunter in the game, the Recruiter we've seen has been hanging back and just observing. The one we ran into during the Schaeffer manhunt was trying to kill us. As has every other Hunter - except for the ones that occasionally stalk you through the open world at night. Which is interesting. I was always told that "you were being stalked by a Hunter", but I wonder if this has been all part of the observation that the Recruiter (albeit unnamed for much of that process) has been doing since way back when.

And as you can now see clearly from the legacy manhunt menus, the events we've been going through have actually been very close on top of each other. We started in DC in the summer, and the events of WONY were in the August timeframe, but then the activities have been coming thick and fast. The Jupiter manhunt tool place on August 20th, the Hornet manhunt on the 23rd, Schaeffer was the 27th, Faye Lau was August 30th, and then there was a bit of a break. Captain Lewis picked up on September 30th, General Anderson was October 1st, Stovepipe was October 15th, Mari Singh was October 16th, and the current season is probably only a day or so later. So while many days, months, and even years have passed in-game in the context of the day and night cycle, on the game timeline things have been moving very quickly. So when Kelso disappears to NYC it's probably in that period between August and September. And she might have been there a couple of weeks at most. Also have to wonder how this aligns with the timeline that you have been keeping in your notes, because having actual dates on some of these activities does make it very interesting - and so much more detailed.

Based on your run through, I agree that most of the characters we've seen don't make any sense as the Recruiter. Although I really would like for it to be someone that hasn't just somehow appeared out of nowhere a la Agent Anderson. That guy is completely out of left field, although I guess we have to trust that Manny knows him. (I always think it's Captain Lewis speaking, even though I know he's dead, so I'm wondering if it's the same voice actor.) It's not Manny. He's a loser. It's not Kelso. Doesn't fit her profile. Even if she potentially had the opportunity. And it really doesn't seem to be any of the minor characters. They're just too not there from a story standpoint. So it will be very interesting as the season progresses to figure out who actually is the recruiter. And you know that I'll be speculating both here and in your DMs. 😁😇

[Patrick-jqlw]

Thank you knowing the back story has got me playing Division 2 again

[RogueWill]

I'm a little behind in the lore of the game (took a break after WONY launched), so my first sighting of the "Recruiter" was after rescuing Mari. It seems this character prefers to watch rather than get involved directly. That takes a very specific personality type (one that most of the other known characters lack)
Since it's pretty much established that the people behind the Division, BT, Hunters, etc, don't trust each other, perhaps someone is looking for allies.
Just a random thought, but what happened to our Div 1 character? I mean, everyone just assumes they're running around Manhattan, but what if that's not the case? Our character just kinda drops off the map.
As far as I know, the only one that was in charge of the Division in Manhattan was Fae. What if Kelso left DC to run things, and fill the void Fae left, after she went Rogue.

[aLlawleit]

I remember watching the Y5 S2 livestream and the hosts saying that the recruiter is someone we already know, alot of people have speculated that he is Kelso, or one of the hostages from Season 1. Personally I like seeing a story wrapped up nicely and would love to see it be the Hunter we encountered in the beginning of the story, that optional mission before going to the campus settlement. The biggest push back against this is that hey that was just one of the hunters that we took down in the same complex but the idea that it was our original test much like Bonney's to take out already established hunters, it would also make our killing of the 12 DC hunters cannon to the story.

[youtubeuser]

You were right about Johnson! Good job. The sniper decal was probably just over looked because that is Johnson's rifle.

[sdx]

All i know for sure is that if this hunter starts talking in actual words and not robotic animal noises and mumbling like Deceit the entire community is gonna go ballistic.