Plot hole in Watch_Dogs – did I miss something? (Possible Spoilers)

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I'm enjoying Watch_Dogs and the main story picked up a bit after the first few missions.

Anyway, I'm now in Act IV and I can't help wondering if I missed something in a previous act.

Early on in the game, the main antagonist, Damien, kidnaps Aidan's sister. Aidan spends most of the rest of the game brutally slaughtering various gang members in order to get her back. Not only that, he traces phone-calls and hunts people down via the ctOS network on several occasions throughout the main campaign and in various side missions.

Did I miss something here? Why doesn't Aidan simply

Trace Damien's calls in the same way and hunt down the location he's holding his sister? He handled an entire apartment block full of Iraq's goons with relative ease and from what I can gather, Damien does not have anywhere near as many resources as Iraq (at least in the early game).

Does this get explained anywhere, or are we left to simply make assumptions that, for example

Aidan is worried if he makes a direct attack, Damien will simply kill his sister?

If that's the case, why, at the beginning of Act IV, does Aidan

Call Damien's bluff by telling him to kill his sister? Surely if he thought Damien was bluffing, he would have made a positive move against Damien to retrieve her, rather than the passive move he made.

Best Answer

First of all

Aiden could have killed Damian when he told him he had kidnapped his sister, but that would not help him to reveal her location. Damian also would probably have a failsafe in place (like "If you don't hear from me every hour, kill the girl).

On the other hand, Damian would not be so stupid

to call him from the place where he kept his sister, as he probably knows what Aiden is capable of. So he only made his move once he also had some leverage on Damian. Damian could not kill his sister, because then he would never get the data and Blume would kill him, because he had no leverage on them.

So in short, Aiden did the only thing possible to him.

Edit: As Philipp pointed out, in the end

Aiden finds the location of his sister trough a mistake made by Damian. This also shows that it was not possible for Aiden to find out the location of his sister before that point.