Well, Nicole is where the story begins to fall flat. Whenever I see a "blackmail" or one sided deal scene like this in order to move the story further, I just start to move away from the game. The whole scenario is stupid, Nicole blackmails the MC about the Sequence, I guess it's needed for the plot, but it doesn't even comes up that newsflash, she has the same sequence, she could loose just as much if he gets busted, because he can bust her as well. It's basically a mutually assured destruction scenario, not a one party has the nuke codes only one.