Richard Perkins

"Looks like you really fucked up, Markus."

- Perkins, before killing Markus and North, in one of the possible scenes in the game.

FBI Special Agent Richard Perkins is arguably the secondary antagonist of the 2018 interactive neo-noir thriller video game Detroit: Become Human. Being sent on a mission to handle deviant androids, Perkins escalates the mission.

He was portrayed by David Coburn.

Biography
Richard Perkins is introduced late in the game, "Public Enemy", where he appears on a news station. He arrogantly tells Hank and Connor "not to fuck up his crime scene". In "Last Chance, Connor", Perkins has taken the investigation from Hank and Connor, which causes both of them to be angry. If Connor has a bad relationship with Hank, he will quit the job as a detective and remove Hank's ID Card, and then help a prisoner go free. If they have a good relationship, however, they will try to go into the evidence room and steal evidence, while Hank pretends to get into a fight with Perkins, as a distraction. Perkins threatens to get Hank fired.

Im "Crossroads", Perkins does his first truly villainous act. As the case is his now, Perkins decides to send a bunch of field agents to go on a shootout in Jericho, killing any deviants, even if they surrender. If Jericho blows up here, the field agents will slowly walk out. In "Battle for Detroit", Perkins will come and negotiate with Markus. He will tell him that he is unarmed, and just wants to talk. Perkins tells Markus that they will be doing an attack during Markus' demonstration, and either he will die with his people, or he surrenders and is spared. If Markus chooses to say that he isn't scared of death, Perkins will start commenting about North, Markus' love interest, and threatens to kill her.

If the deal is accepted, Perkins will send a bunch of military trucks to pick the androids up. When Markus meets Perkins, Markus will tell Perkins about that he did everything he wanted him to do. Perkins smugly tells Markus that he was never planning on sparing any of them, and proceeds to kill North and then Markus, before telling his henchmen to clean up everything for him. If the deal isn't accepted, Perkins will order his henchmen to throw grenades at the androids during the demonstration.

Trivia

 * Different from most villains, Like Todd, who can die at the beginning of the game, Daniel, who will die eitherway, or Zlatko, who almost always dies during his chapter, there is no comeuppance shown for Perkins, and the closest bad thing that happens to Perkins is possibly when he gets beat up by Hank, which in itself is very much optional.