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|image = TheProject-MH2-Logo.png
|name = 
|type = Conglomerate<br/>Secret Organization
|ceo = [[Doctor Pickman]] {{Status|D1=y}}
|appearances = ''[[Manhunt 2]]''
|locations = [[Cottonmouth]]
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'''The Project''', also referred to as '''The Pickman Project'''<ref>[[File:PromotionalWebsite-MH2-Information.png|200px]]</ref>, is a top secret organization in ''[[Manhunt 2]]''. They are funded by the United States government for defensive biological weapons development, hiding behind the guise of a powerful conglomerate and pharmaceutical corporation that manufactures a wide array of medications. They control several areas of [[Cottonmouth]] in the Southeastern United States.

==Description==
Little is known about The Project's background. Dialogue from [[Leo Kasper]]'s therapy sessions conducted by Dr. [[Laura Whyte]] indicates that The Project is an assume name for a secret intelligence branch of a unidentified government agency. <ref>{{DialogueNew|p1=Leo Kasper|d1=Oh, we're the good guys? Right, I forgot. We're the good clandestine government agency that slithers its way in every facet of American life, right, okay, got it.. You see, good and evil are for those wage slaves out there that you control. But no one controls me.|quotedetail=Leo Kasper mocking The Project and its acts. ([[Manhunt2.com/Leo Transcript]])}}</ref> In-game files also mentions the {{GTA|Central Intelligence Agency|Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)}} for provisional episode titles<ref>"<code>A06_CIA_Trap</code>" - PC/Wii file name for the episode [[Most Wanted]]</ref>; however, it is never specified through in-game dialogue if this is true to the established lore.

The head scientist for The Project is [[Doctor Pickman]], known for his [[Pickman Bridge]] invention.
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==Project Creations==
===Medications===
*[[Cortexa]] – Brain stimulant created by Daniel Lamb. Not released for market purposes.
*[[Vitamin X]] – Health supplement created in 1984.
*[[H4PP1]] – Anti-depressants.
*[[Hingmyralgan]] – Painkillers.
*[[Chill Pills]] – Anxiety drug.

===Inventions===
*[[Pickman Bridge]] – Brain personality implant.
*[[Mk-Cut-N-Shut]] – "Search and destroy" brain tool

==Project Properties==
*[[Project Laboratories]] – Main research facility.
*[[Dixmor Hospital for the Criminally Insane]] – Mental asylum for failed experiment subjects.
*[[Le Papillon Rouge]] – Recruitment area.
*[[Bright Shire Alliance]] – Offices desguised as an insurance company headquarters
*[[Cortex Storage]] – Warehouses
*[[TV-MK Studios]] – TV station used as a cover for research projects, including the Pickman Bridge experiment.

==History==
===Events of ''Manhunt 2''===
====Before the Incident====
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danny joins after 1989, after working as a lab technician at Green and Becker Pharmaceuticals

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====Circa 2001====
{{Main|Pickman Bridge#Malfunction}}
====Circa 2007====
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==Inspiration==
The Project appears to be inspired by the real-life {{WP|CIA}}'s defunct {{WP|Office of Scientific Intelligence}} division, while The Project's background appear to be inspired by the {{WP|MKUltra|Project MKUltra}}, a code name for a mind-control research and illegal human experimentation program conducted by the aforementioned CIA division that began in the 1950s.

The organization also share some similiarities with the fictional Parallax Corporation from the 1974 American political thriller film ''{{WP|The Parallax View}}'', whose business is political assassination. A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWzZorPyhg scene of the same movie] appears to have inspired Daniel Lamb's mind control session scene.

==Known Experiments and Tests==
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Archived files from the promotional website, containing information on six previous experiments conducted by The Project.
{{Main|Manhunt2.com#Patient Files}}
===FR32===
{{Main|FR32}}
===Cavus===
{{Main|Cavus}}
===Eminus===
{{Main|Eminus}}
===Milton IV===
{{Main|Milton IV}}
===Pravitas===
{{Main|Pravitas}}
===Revera 7===
{{Main|Revera 7}}

==Trivia==
*The Project bears some similarities with the both the {{GTA|Zaibatsu Corporation}} and {{GTA|Scientists|Sex and Reproductive Systems (SRS)}} from the {{GTA|2D Universe}} canon of the ''{{GTA|Grand Theft Auto}}'' series. 
**The Zaibatsu Corporation is a powerful conglomerate who controls most of {{GTA|Anywhere City}} including radio stations, also involved with manufacturing drugs and medications.
**The SRS Scientists are involved with illegal human experiments and human cloning.

==References==
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[[Category:Businesses in Manhunt 2]]