Melanie Lemay
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Melanie Lemay is a high-ranking employee at Abstergo Entertainment, a subsidiary of Abstergo Industries, and the Sample 17 Project Supervisor.
On 29 October 2013, Melanie inducted a new employee into the company, and introduced them to the company's CEO - Olivier Garneau.
Not long after this, Olivier went missing while en-route to a shareholder's meeting with Laetitia England at Abstergo Industires, and Melanie was forced to assume control in his stead. Simultaneously, Melanie found herself dealing with a spat of hackings across the company's servers, security systems and Animi. All the evidence seemed to suggest that the recently inducted employee was responsible.
Eventually, the hacking go to such a level of severity that Melanie was forced to isolate the entire Sample 17 team in the Bunker; a basement level at the Montreal facility that would allow the researchers to continue their work without compromising the rest of the facility.
Eventually, the decision was made to detain the suspect hacker, and Melanie, escorted by armed security, made her way to the analysts room. Inside, they saw John from IT attempting to, the believe, murder their suspect; he was subsequently shot and killed. Melanie later apologized for suspecting the analyst, reasoning that John had been solely responsible for the hackings all along. She then rewarded the analyst with a sneak-peek of the trailer for the company's latest product;Pirates of Nightmares.
Melanie had a great-great-grandfather who fought in the American Civil War; he was noted to have met President Abraham Lincoln a few times.
Personality and charateristics
Although a high-ranking employee at Abstergo Entertainment, Melanie was apparently not a member of the Templar Order, nor was she aware of the existence.
A fair, cheerful and amiable woman, Melanie was quite good-natured and genuinely cared for those working under her. She argued several times with Olivier Garneau about the pressure that Abstergo Industries had put on them, and their high priority in locating the Observatory. Following Garneau's disappearance, Melanie was reluctant to use the full extent of her powers to isolate the Project team, noting that although she had the contractual right to detain them indefinitely, she would rather not.
She often became genuinely concerned when any of her employees were subjected to harm or duress, as demonstrated when the newly recruited research analyst ran into trouble in several instances.
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