Dr. Blackburne is an Obscuris scientist who is working under Fontana during the Willamette outbreak. She eventually leaves Obscuris and offers information to you about how the current Willamette outbreak started.

After discovering the Exo zombies in the sewers after pursuing Calder in Case 3, Dr. Blackburne contacts you over the radio and asks you to meet her in West Ridge. She offers information in exchange for an extraction out of Willamette.