My guess is that it was Jack who boarded the Elizabeth Dane and slaughtered the crew (He supposedly was a pirate in life after all!) and then replaced Messerach with the C4.
Backing this up with:
The sarcophagus has not been opened after we've seen it. The museum personel would have "discovered" the C4, the police would have as well. The bloody handprints on the sarcophagus were probably Jack's doing to add more scare to the whole thing!
Therefore the C4 had been planted on Elizabeth Dane. Remember, the key was gone before the Sarcophagus, so Jack could not have planted the bomb inside the Sarcophagus while it was at either Giovanni mansion or Ventrue tower. It had had to be planted the night the crew was killed as it's highly unlikely someone managed to do that after the massacre of the crew with all the policemen were around.
It's also Jack that had Messerach around, so he had opened it at some point.
Now that's said, here we go with speculation.
Jack's intentions are most unclear here. He couldn't know for certain who would get the sarcophagus. However he knew from Cabbie that everyone would be after the Sarcophagus and Jack probably felt like getting rid of either LaCroix or the Kuei Jin. As it plays out in every ending but the Kuei Jin one, he's getting both done.
Now for the last part I don't understand myself
Why was the key stolen seperatly? Johansen knew it was the key to the Sarcophagus, so it was probably stored right next to it on the Dane. So who stole it? The KJ are the only faction we know to have possessed it. The KJ stealing it themselves doesn't make sense because they would have taken the Sarcophagus as well. In fact, the Chang brothers were sent by Ming Xiao to retreive the Sarcophagus. We know the key was stolen from the Elizabeth Dane. Which leaves us with 1 clue. Jack was on the E.D.
Now the only hypothesis I have here is that Jack wanted the KJ wiped out by any means necessary, so he gave Ming Xiao the key so she'd become a target of the Camarilla. The only flaw here is that nobody knew who had the key until MX approaches you after Hollowbrook Hotel and tells you.
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I hope there will be another Word of Darkness game at least approaching the quality of this one in the near future. When one gets into it, it's quite absorbing.
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I'm not getting my hopes up though. EA just sacked the last company capable of developing decent story-driven RPGs. We may enter a World of Darkness regarding video games for a couple of years until some upcoming studio pulls off a Baldur's Gate and revives the genre.