Rest and Relaxation

"Rest and Relaxation" is a bonus level in the award-winning video game The Operative: No One Lives Forever. It is an exclusive features as part of the Game of the Year (GotY) edition of the game and is not available as an add-on for prior releases.

Mission Briefing
We're sending you to a remote island paradise for a well-deserved vacation.

''You'll have plenty of peace and quiet without distractions. In fact we can't contact you even if we want to. The only communication to the outside world is through the weekly boat that brings supplies and vacationers from the mainland.''

Enjoy yourself Cate, you've earned it.

Scene 1

 * 4:00pm, October 1
 * Somewhere in the South Pacific

After thwarting H.A.R.M.'s plot to hold the world at ransom, Cate Archer spends a well-deserved vacation on a remote island in the South Pacific. She relaxes on the beach, commenting on how much she is enjoying her time off.


 * 1 hour later
 * Cate's Room

A monkey suddenly enters her room and steals her Shepherd Arms 9mm pistol. She pursues the primate until it flees into a restricted area under the hotel. Taking another way around, she stumbles upon an area filled with hostile guards and containers labeled "H.A.R.M.".

Scene 2
The hidden basement leads outside where Archer acquires a motorcycle and follows the trail through the jungle, as well as some ancient ruins. She encounters heavy resistance along the way, including several guards who wear Monkey Masks, possibly as a disguise. The trail leads her to a large daunting monkey-themed temple inside a volcano.

Scene 3
The temple turns out to be a secret H.A.R.M. facility which is ran by scientists and heavily guarded. Archer makes her way to the main control system and turns off the lava flow mechanism. The pressure builds, causing the facility to start crashing down upon her.

Scene 4
The temple is being destroyed by the lava and the pressure and Archer has less than five minutes to get out of there alive. In a long hallway, a scientist beats her to the elevator but it collapses once he gets inside. Archer uses the maintenance ladder to climb up the shaft and escapes just in time before the facility explodes and the volcano inside which it was based erupts.

Exhausted from the ordeal, Archer passes out on the beach only to be disturbed by the monkey from earlier. She is last seen taking after it as the volcano spews lava into the ocean.

Memorable quotes
Martha: "Does this dress make me look fat?" Clark: "Um, fat, like how?" Martha: "Fat, fat! I've been eating so much here. My dress feels too tight." Clark: "Well, you don't look fat from where I'm standing." Martha: "So you're saying I'm fat from behind." Clark: "I didn't say that!" Martha: "Not in so many words, but you meant it."

Archer: "That monkey needs a good spanking. Come back here, little monkey!"

Trivia

 * Unique to all other non-tutorial missions, Rest & Relaxation starts immediately without the option to select equipment. Archer is stuck to the default gears she brought along on this trip: Coin, Cigarette Lighter, Barrette, which must be collected before leaving her hotel room.
 * An intelligence item found in the bar gives another chapter in the tale of Martha and Clark. Abigail is responding to Martha's correspondence found in Morocco.  Apparently Abigail is unaware of the news regarding Clark's betrayal.
 * There is a theme where H.A.R.M. employees are not being paid and the organization is fighting off rumors of it's demise.
 * Apart from Misfortune in Morocco and Rescue Attempt, this is the only mission-level to feature monkeys and motorcycles respectively.
 * In Scene 2, Cate can be seen leaning out from behind a crate while crouching. The player did not have the ability to lean in NOLF.
 * The level features a unique soundtrack not played in any of the other levels.
 * It is unclear what the motive behind wearing the monkey-masks is but adds another unique and humorous touch to the level.
 * Even though they work for H.A.R.M. and it was permissible in other levels, killing the scientists counts as an "Unacceptable Civilian Casualty" and fails the mission.
 * The hotel caretaker in Scene 1 wears overalls labeled "Dumas", although this most likely a case of recycling old models as opposed to designing a completely new one for the purpose of this bonus level.