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Lair of the Shadow Broker is a mission available as. This walkthrough was written with Shepard as an Infiltrator, on Veteran difficulty.

When you install Lair of the Shadow Broker, it actually replaces part of the main game. Without the DLC, Liara gives a few low-impact missions that have to do with her information brokerage. Once you're given the option to visit Ilium, you can stop by Liara's office and give her some information from Cerberus regarding the location of the Shadow Broker. When you tell her it's time to go after him, she'll leave her office to go to her apartment. If you still need information from her about Samara or Thane, just use her office terminal. When you're ready to continue the mission, use the taxi stand in southern Ilium to go to Liara's apartment. You spend most of Shadow Broker fighting well-armed mercenaries, so your front-loaded characters are a bit better for it.

Grunt, Garrus, Thane, and Jack have a lot of chances to shine here. After you meet Tela Vasir, search the apartment to find out more about what Liara's been up to for the last two years. To advance the plot, check the picture on her nightstand, then the Prothean relic in the display case at the base of the stairs.

This leads you to an office building elsewhere in Ilium, which, out of sheer terror of Shepard's presence, explodes when you get close. Once you're inside, pick up 3,750 credits from a locker by the stairs, then go up to the second floor. There's a medical station on the first landing, and 2,500 credits in a PDA by the salarians' embassy.

At the top of the stairs on the second floor, hack the ATM for 6,500 credits, then turn right to find a stash of power cells. Baria Frontiers is on the other end of the balcony.

Inside, you get to fight the Shadow Broker's squad of mercenaries. They're all carrying flashbang grenades, which temporarily screw up your vision and hearing if they detonate nearby, and a point-blank explosion will stagger you away from your cover. The mercs are well-supported by heavies and shielded engineers. When you reach the stairs, you'll need to put out the fire before you can continue. Having done so with the suppressant system in the nearby maintenance closet, take 1,500 credits' worth of salvage and 1,000 element zero as a reward for your button-pushing.

You can also grab 3,000 credits off of a terminal in the wrecked office. At the top of the stairs, deal with another ambush by the mercs, then check a nearby research terminal for an upgrade to Heavy Pistol Damage.