Von Croy's Apartment - Enter The Cleaner

When you're ready to confront The Cleaner (1), move around behind the overturned chair in the living room, near where you started. Equip the Rigg 09.

Then open your Inventory to Items, select and use the JACKAL WALKING STICK.

The boss's health bar appears, and the man himself comes through the doorway from the FOYER soon after. You can get in a few shots as he crosses the room...

...and takes cover behind the kitchen counter.

At this point, he'll start firing, so you'll need to crouch down behind the chair. Just take care to crouch a little to the left of the gap between the chair and the brick column, since he can shoot through that gap.

When he stops firing, stand up and get a few more hits in. Crouch if he starts shooting again.

NOTE: You probably won't need it, but if you do happen to run out of Rigg ammunition while fighting The Cleaner, the clip near the brick column respawns so you can pick it up again.

When his health is reduced to half, The Cleaner will flee. You can't target him while he's retreating, so don't waste ammo. Now you can finish searching the apartment if you missed anything.

When you're ready, follow him into the booby-trapped hallway. He's disarmed the laser tripwires in the FOYER...

...but set others out in the hallway of the apartment building. These prevent you from going left.

So turn right and move to end of the hall.

Break through the red emergency door. (If you try this before getting the upgrade, Lara will tell you she's not strong enough.)

Enter carefully; there are more lasers to the left. Pick up another Rigg clip (22) and a small medipack (23). Return to the hallway.

Go through the open door on the right.

Pick up the Rigg ammo (24) on the floor among the newspapers.

Then get the second Rigg clip (25) behind the loveseat.

When you do this, The Cleaner (1) uses a machine gun to cut his way in through a wall.

He then switches to dual handguns and starts shooting. Lara can crouch behind the loveseat for cover...

...or crawl around the wall near the entrance and stand.

But she can't target The Cleaner from here using the stealth lean. Her shots just hit the wall above his head.

So you're probably better off just quick-saving then running up to him...

...and doing as much damage as possible, as fast as possible. If you're lucky, he won't get too many hits in. But you can pause to heal if necessary. Once his health is reduced to about 10%, he'll run off again.

Follow him through the hole in the wall. Get the chocolate bar (26) on the table and The Cleaner's VIPER SMG (27) and 2 clips (28-29) on the floor. Then step cautiously into the hallway.

NOTE: This is chocolate 14/20 for the "Chocollection" achievement/trophy.

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