Louvre Galleries - Connecting Gallery & Mona Lisa Exhibit

After picking up a guard's LOUVRE LOW SECURITY PASS and examining a display for a notebook entry about an Archaeological Dig Site, detailed in the previous section, Lara enters a small connecting gallery with another security camera.

If you're caught in the red light, an armed guard (8, optional) comes up from behind. To maintain stealth, move toward either side wall as you enter the room. Wait for the red light to sweep away...

...then run into the doorway ahead. Don't rush forward; there's another guard (9) on duty in the next room.

It's possible to sneak up behind him and knock him out. However, you can't use a stealth on a moving target, and he moves around quite a bit. It's safer to just step forward and hit him with the taser.

So, this is where they keep Leonardo's Mona Lisa. She's looking a little worse for wear. A bit like Tomb Raider composer Peter Connelly after a rough night, in fact. ;) The painting is well guarded, with lasers and, in case someone manages to penetrate them, a vent that pumps out poison gas. Avoid it for now.

The large display case in the middle of the room is movable, but Lara lacks the muscle to do it. Go to the smaller case in the far corner beyond the Mona Lisa...

...and slide it out along the wall. This gives Lara a lower-body strength upgrade.

Now she can move the larger case. Push it as far as you can toward the Mona Lisa. It will stop when it reaches the row of small benches.

Return to the corner where the small case was and use the LOUVRE LOW SECURITY PASS at the card reader to temporarily disarm the lasers around the painting. You'll then have a little more than 15 seconds to reach the ledge above the painting before the lasers reactivate.

Here's a timed-run strategy that worked for me:

Swipe the card but don't run yet.

Watch the cutscene.

Wait for the lasers to come back on.

Face the card reader and quick-save. Now, if you make a mistake, you can quick-load and swipe the security pass again without having to wait through the cut scene. (You can also move the small display case a little more if it's in the way.)

When you're ready to go, swipe, roll, and take a running jump over the low benches between the card reader and the display case.

Run around to the left side of the case...

...pull up on top of it...

...and take a running jump to grab the ledge above the painting before the lasers come back on.

If the lasers reactivate while you're hanging, it's OK. Just pull up onto the ledge and crawl into the duct.

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