Hum_Well: You guys couldn't contradict each other more!
PraetorianWolfie, it seems to me that you are correct, but just to confirm with you and nukecoke:
In the indoor market area, the only stalls / people I can find are:
- Izo (the guy you eventually chase inside and down into the basement) and his stall
- the China Bar with its bartender, where all I could ever do was to have a drink
- Kingston, with its Jamaican cook / owner
None of them remind me of Abdul Ben-Hassan.
I'm playing the version I got by installing from GOG, which I think is
not the Restored Content one.
The first time I went to Animoid Row, there was a guy in front of the stand to the right of the dragonfly stand. I think I talked to him once, without learning anything, and then he walked away.
You're correct on all the above.
Hassan is not very important to the story, but in Restored Content mode he does provide closure to a side plot (which is sort of left open in the vanilla mode -- and is basically a reference to the movie). One could argue that talking to Hassan can potentially lead to negative complications to your friendship status with Bullet Bob (...). But that complication, albeit interesting, also does not come into much play in the vanilla mode.
