Talk:Eminent Domain/@comment-26199726-20200706170557/@comment-26199726-20200716191125

If Rothwild is dead, a loudspeaker announcement at the beginning of the mission will tell you so. This was not the case here (in variant B). And to be honest, I don't read the second one as Rothwild necessarily being dead, only that he's in the dark about what the butchers plan to do. Especially when comparing it to the (much more explicit) dialogue that plays when Rothwild was killed.

And as far as I know, it's impossible for Rothwild to survive the slaughterhouse's destruction. If he isn't dead already when Daud destroys the slaughterhouse, the explosion will kill him.

It seems to me that the Butchers won't show up only if

a) Daud eliminated Rothwild non-lethally,

b) Abigail Ames killed Rothwild, or

c) Rothwild survives without ever being interrogated.

In those cases, the butchers will have no grudge against Daud because either he didn't do anything to Rothwild (b and c) or because they have no knowledge of what he did (a - Rothwild would have just vanished without a trace).