Richter is (at first optionally, later canonically) the second victim that Jacket has spared so far in the first game, the first being The Girl. Before they leave their encampment, Beard’s superior officer staggers drunk and demented out of a tent wearing a dead panther’s head as a mask.
Towards the end of Hotline 2, Beard and his spec ops team The Ghost Wolves go on a suicide mission to a Hawaiian power plant that has been seized by Russians.