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>It's strongly implied that the US military concealed their backgrounds of both Axel and the assassin
Axel was just a prison guinea pig
It's implied the "assassin" has had no contact with INSOC prior to this point. If he had, why would they need to send an entire squad for him to string up?
>but it was covered up by the government during a court hearing
There was news coverage of the helicopter in the river. Also the scale of a small high profile party being crashed, which ended in capture of a high profile "super hakker" and a tanker crashing into a decommissioned oil rig with a facility on it that "doesn't exist" are wildly different from some dude dropping a dozen grenades into moving traffic.
>The main rule of the Lazarus universe is that the government is powerful enough to get away with committing high scale crimes in public
...No? Where the literal fuck is this even coming from. What kind of dumb bullshit headcanon are you even making up?
>It's an action movie trope where the bad guy plays with his equal in order to learn about him
That wasn't even what was happening at all. There was no "I acknowledge you, now let's fight like men" scene. The guy was just going full retard, using grenades when he should have used a gun and not using anything at all when, again, he should've just used a fucking gun.
Further, this is a fucking assassin. You don't get that trope to actually work without developing a relationship between the two characters. That just didn't happen here.
>We're going to learn more about Axel's background, I am guessing that he was involved in glowie shit and they were trying to kill him to cover it up.
Did you just not pay attention to ANY of the exposition for setting up why the assassin is after him in the first place?
It's tying up loose ends on government testing. "Best case" is that he's got some pre-baked cure injected into his ass and this is all some dumb play on the "great reset" conspiracy and they want to hide it.
