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North America is the ninth and final region investigated in Criminal Case: World Edition.
Encompassing the countries of Mexico, Canada, and the United States of America, North America focuses on the Bureau's efforts to prove the world about SOMBRA's existence while trying to discover the identity of the new El Rey. At the same time, it also deals with the political tensions building up inside of the United States, as the country has been divided on a debate whether they should remain or leave the Unified Nations, with SOMBRA planning to take advantage of said tensions for their own agenda.
Cases Set in North America
- Day of the Dead: A project coordinator for a wall is beaten to death like a piñata in Tijuana, Mexico.
- Up in Smoke: A campaign leader is killed by an explosion in the city of San Francisco, USA.
- Lifeless in Seattle: A reporter is stabbed in the neck inside of a bus in the city of Seattle, USA.
- Double Trouble: An Unified Nations representative is shot with a remote rifle in Alaska, USA.
- Politically Incorrect: A Secret Service Agent is shot with a hunting rifle near a lake at Mount Rushmore.
- Operation Spyfall: A French spy is stabbed in the back at a satellite crash site near Quebec, Canada.
- Down to the Wire: The Prime Minister of Canada is strangled to death during a hockey match in Montreal.
- The Darkest Hour: A former space agency head has her throat slashed in New York City, USA.
Tropes:
- Arc Villain: Hector Montoya, Arsenio Castillo's successor and the new El Rey who has been leading SOMBRA for the past decade while making them grow even stronger, making him the Big Bad of the season. For her part, Vice President Sarah Bennett serves as his Dragon and the one behind the rising political tensions between the United States and the Unified Nations, and becomes the Final Boss of the season after Hector's arrest in the penultimate case, conducting his plan of kidnapping the President of the United States to lead the country in a war against Russia and the rest of the world.
- Bittersweet Ending: President James Hewett is rescued unscathed, which prompts him to tear down the wall with Mexico, rejoin the United States to the Unified Nations, and prevent World War III from happening, and SOMBRA is defeated for good after an entire season of struggle when Elliot recovers a list of every agent scattered around the world. However, Dupont performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save the player's life and isn't able to see the change he helped create, not to mention Michelle's death and Angela's betrayal still being a sore spot for the team. Finally, the Bureau splits apart at the end of the case due to SOMBRA no longer posing a threat, putting everyone on their own path for the time being.
- Fallen States of America: One of the region's focuses is dealing with the United States being on the brink of falling apart due to a growing internal debate whether the country should leave on remain in the Unified Nations and all the conflicts surging from it, such as political assassinations against campaign leaders or SOMBRA's involvement in the whole ordeal.
- Prevent the War: The region's climax has the Bureau preventing World War III from happening, as the President of the United States gets kidnapped by SOMBRA who in return pins the blame on Russia.
- Recurring Character: The main recurring characters for North America are Hector Montoya, President James Hewett, Vice President Sarah Bennett, Niilo Virtanen, First Lady Olivia Hewett, Leila Malak, and to a lesser extent Asal Hawaa.
- Season Finale: For World Edition.
- We Need to Get Proof: A big part of the region has the Bureau trying to prove SOMBRA's existence to the world leaders and the Unified Nations, who mostly believe SOMBRA is just another conspiracy theory being used to divert the blame of what's happening around the world to a fictional boogeyman.
