Proof, in one character, that the hospital's screening system already failed once — and that the failure had a face polite enough to call you "friend."
A white rabbit-like creature — black slit eyes, a mustache, a brown hat, plaid brown pants. He's unfailingly polite, calls the player "friend," and makes a string of small, harmless-sounding requests across five visits: coffee, a briefcase to hold, a photograph, and finally, a place to hide.
The game's own scanner reads him as green — not an anomaly— the entire time. That's the whole point of him.
The photograph he asks you to take reveals his true form: a wide, sharp-toothed mouth and hollow black eyes. He's confirmed to be both an anomaly and a serial killer — one who eventually incapacitates a police officer with a knife. Tasers and guns do nothing to him.
A "neutral" anomaly that reads clean on every scan is a harder problem than anything else the detection system is built to catch — which is presumably why he got this far in the first place.
Stay silent when Officer Duckman comes asking (~30 seconds) and he leaves peacefully. Barney rewards you with his briefcase: a second coffee machine, 300-second cooldown.
Duckman tries to arrest him, gets stabbed and knocked out. Barney destroys a CCTV camera and escapes. Duckman later shows up as a patient you have to treat. No reward.
Neither ending changes the shifts that follow. The choice resolves Barney's arc, not the game.
Barney's reveal, in order alongside every other Animal Corp clue.
View the Timeline →Yes — a neutral anomaly, meaning the game's own scanner reads him as green (not anomalous) despite his true form being a wide, sharp-toothed mouth with hollow eyes. He's also confirmed to be a serial killer.
Hide him from Officer Duckman and he rewards you with a second coffee machine (300-second cooldown). Turn him in and Duckman gets stabbed and knocked out while Barney escapes — no reward either way for the outcome of the choice itself.
For the full step-by-step request chain, see the main wiki. Last checked: July 12, 2026.