The last survivor of an ill-fated deep-sea salvage operation, Paladin Velasquez has been driven mad by telepathic squid. Any semblance of the hardened soldier Velasquez once was is long gone, and all that remains is fear. The player is initially seen as just another hallucination triggered by the squid and will have to talk fast to convince Velasquez not to set off demolition charges and kill them both.