"Déjà Vu All Over Again!" is a job for the Cooper Gang, including the ancestors, in the epilogue of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. It was the final job of the game.
Description[]
Sly has to save Carmelita and defeat Cyrille Le Paradox. Also Bentley and Murray round up the 5 ancestors that they have visited throughout time to recover their stolen canes.
Synopsis[]
Family Misfortunes[]
When the gang get back home to Paris, they have come back to a place they hardly recognize, since Le Paradox has cover his face in the city like a rash. The only positive outcome is that Bentley has found a lot of infomation on Le Paradox, including the fact he comes from a clan of thieves himself! Upon further investigation, the gang find a major discovery.
Sly already knows that his dad, Conner Cooper, stole the world's largest diamond is what made him a legendary thief. However, what Sly never knew that Le Paradox's father planned to steal it first, and frame Conner for the crime. However, he was a little too slow and ended up getting arrested instead. With his father gone, Le Paradox had nobody to teach him and after a string of failed heists, he ended up in prison as well. Ironically, it was in prison is where Le Paradox finally got his criminal education. After his release from prison, Le Paradox maintains the appearance of a law-abating citizen with the front of a billionaire art collector. In reality, he is using his prison connections to form his own syndicate and began masterminding heists worldwide, while trafficking priceless stolen treasures.
It is clear that Le Paradox blames the Coopers for his family's past misfortunes and his goal is to wipe the Coopers from history completely. Sly is determined to stop Le Paradox, but first he has to rescue Carmelita.
Mission[]
Sly tries to rescue Carmelita, but to no avail, and gets captured by Le Paradox in his machine, holding them in a glass container.
After this, Bentley and Murray round up the five ancestors that they have visited throughout time and recover their stolen canes, starting with Rioichi needing to get his own cane. After this, Rioichi must then get Bob's cane. After he does this, Bentley notices there is an energy field shift that is centered on Rioichi. Realizing he is being sent back to Feudal Japan, he says his good byes and disappears. Bentley notices that the temporal abnormality is correcting itself. Bob must then get Salim's cane, which he is successful in, and is sent back to the Ice Age. Salim is then assigned to recover Sir Galleth's cane, and is then sent back to Arabia. Galleth then needs to recover Tennessee Kid's cane by using his Catapult Crash Technique to break through circuits and recover the cane. Tennessee is then tasked with making it through the interior of the blimp by shooting timers and then using using Crackshot to crack the code of one of Le Paradox's doors. After this is complete, a cutscene shows Sly and Carmelita trapped and Le Paradox introducing them to his time tunnel, something that Penelope made for him before her "unfortunate" capture, which would bounce them through time at Le Paradox's command. However just as they are about to go through the time tunnel, Tennessee shots the container holding Sly and Carmelita and freeing them. After this Tennessee says "Reckon my time here is up", and goes back to the Old West.
After Bentley, Murray, and Carmelita escape, Sly and Le Paradox battle in the climax of the game. The battle in the time tunnel room, in the time tunnel, and as it is on fire, the edge of the blimp's exterior means Sly is able to defeat Le Paradox. During the fight, Le Paradox reveals his intentions to become the greatest thief ever and believes he did so by going back in time and stealing the Cooper Family's canes. Sly calls him an idiot for believing this and informs him that he could have been the greatest thief of all time, but instead gave into his enormous ego and blew his own cover as a black market art dealer to INTERPOL. Furthermore, Le Paradox cannot take the credit for stealing the canes since he used his hired help to do all the real work. Le Paradox considers Sly's words and realizes he's right, but still wants to fight Sly to the death. However, Le Paradox, holding on to the blimp's main rod for dear life, asks Sly to help him up because he "doesn't wish to die." Sly says he won't do much harm from behind a prison cell, but after helping him up, Le Paradox steals Sly's paraglider, and says "As I said, so predictable." He paraglides off the blimp, but then smashes into the tail of a passing plane, sending him into a body of water, while Sly is left stranded on the doomed blimp.
Where is Sly?[]
Bentley narrates that it has been a while since that fateful night, but still no sign of Sly or the time-traveling blimp. Le Paradox was alive, but hanging on to a piece wreckage. He was happy when the police picked him up, getting him locked up in solitary confinement. Both Paris and the Thievius Raccoonus are back to normal, but that doesn't make the gang feel any better. The gang wait at first, assuming Sly will show up like always. However, as time passes, the gang has to accept the fact that their leader is truly lost. The gang has stopped talking about Sly, but knows very well that's all they think about.
Murray seems like his cheerful self, but Bentley knows there is a layer of seriousness underneath it all. Recently, Murray has joined the pro wrestling circuit to keep his fighting skills sharp and wants to be ready the moment the gang locates Sly.
Carmelita returns to Interpol, where she throws herself into her work and arresting criminals at a record pace. She has started her own private investigation into Sly's whereabouts. Bentley states that out of everyone, Carmelita has taken Sly's disappearance the hardest, even if she doesn't publicly show it.
As for Bentley, he continues to search. Despite using all his technology, he has not found any clues. The time machine is of no help since they need to know where Sly is for it to work. Bentley expresses his frustrations about the setbacks, but vows to never give up. The gang knows that Sly is out there and wherever or whenever he is, they will find him.
Trivia[]
- "Déjà vu all over again" is a phrase taken from a famous (attributed) quotation from Yogi Berra: "It's like déjà vu all over again."