RedLight, Greenlight

05:49, 25 December 2024

Hudson: Information from Volkov confirms our worst fears. Perseus smuggled a nuclear device through East Berlin

Adler: We can't be certain of that yet

Hudson: He has it. I'm sure of it

Park: We found encrypted geocoordinates with Volkov's nuclear intel. An unpopulated region within the Soviet republic of Ukraine

Hudson: An aerial recon run revealed this....

(An overhead shot of a building is shown)

Adler: I want to know everything that's going on inside this building. We'll need the others for this one. Mason and Woods will join us from Kiev

(Markings are shown on a map outlining the plan)

Adler: Bell, you'll infil here with Woods. Mason and I will be standing by for an extract. Park will handle comms. We have no idea how large or prepared their forces will be, so use discretion if you have to engage. It's time we took a peek behind the Iron Curtain

(In Ukraine...)

(Bell and Woods are in a forest. A helicopter flies overhead)

Park: I'm not picking up any extra chatter. You're in the clear, Woods

Woods: Copy that, Park. Stay on comms. Keep Mason and Adler on standby

(Bell prepares a tomahawk)

Woods: Let's go

(Bell and Woods move forward, crouching under a log)

Park: The base is just over the next ridge. Get in, learn what you can, and get out

Woods: Shit, Park. I'd planned to stay a while. See the gulag

Park: Do that after we learn what Perseus has planned

(Bell and Woods reach a ridge where they can see the complex ahead)

Woods: Look at that monster. Reds could be hiding anything in there. Snap a picture, Ops will want to see this

(Bell pulls out the camera and snaps a picture of the complex)

Woods: Right. Time to get our hands dirty. I'm seeing guards high and low. Choose your target

(A truck stops at the gate below. Bell starts engaging guards at the gate with his silenced Type 63 rifle. Woods follows suit and begins engaging them as well. Two enemies come out of the truck at the gate)

Woods: Two more out of the truck

(Bell drops both men out of the truck, one with each shot)

Woods: Holy hell. Where did you learn to shoot like that? Take point and head down the slope. I'll hang back and cover

(Bell slides down the slope and enters the guard post)

Woods: Snap pictures of anything that looks important. Maps. Blueprints. Whatever you can find. Just, look for anything that might be useful

(Bell picks the door lock leading inside the base and enters it)

Woods: Find a way into the main building. I'll trail and disable the perimeter alarm

(Bell moves forward. A guard comes out of a building, so Bell silently kills him with his knife and drags his body out of sight)

Woods: Quick thinking. Got you covered

(Bell keeps moving with Woods covering him)

Woods: Shit. A patrol is approaching my position. Bell, find a way in. I'll follow around

Park: Bell, lay low. They're sending a chopper to your position. If you're spotted, it's over. Don't let the chopper find you

(Bell moves through the base towards the main building, maneuvering around the helicopter's spotlight and silently taking out enemy patrols)

Park: The Reds are quiet for now. But I've still no word from Woods. Stay the course and get inside

(Bell moves forward. A BTR drives on the road to the side and shines its searchlight around, forcing Bell to hide)

(After, Bell heads for a guard post leading into the main building. Bell begins picking the lock on the guard post. While picking the lock, a soldier opens the door from the other side)

Soviet Soldier: Huh?!

(Bell grabs the Soviet Soldier by the throat with his metal hand and squeezes, breaking his neck. The sound of his body thudding alerts the other guard in the room. Bell throws his knife and kills him)

(A couple of soviet soldiers walk into the room and are alerted by the bodies. One of them aims his gun at Bell and opens fire)

(Bell puts up his metal hand and blocks the bullets before grabbing the gun and disarming him. Bell draws his pistol and shoots him in the face)

(The other soviet soldier takes aim. Woods enters the building and kicks the soldier's hand, causing him to fire and miss. Woods then grabs the soldier by the throat and snaps his neck)

Woods: You're welcome

(Bell grabs his knife from one of the dead soviet soldiers)

Woods: Park. Bell found us a way inside. But, we don't got a lot of time

Park: Then get moving

Woods: No arguments here

(Woods and Bell move forward into the building. They encounter some Soviet soldiers ahead)

Woods: Guards down below... I'll move to the lower deck and engage on your mark

(Woods moves down the stairs and gets into position)

(Bell fires the first shot, killing a soviet soldier and alerting the others)

Soviet Soldier: Intruder!

(Bell and Woods engage the soldiers together. Bell takes the high ground while Woods sweeps low)

Woods: All clear. Moving up

(Bell takes a picture of a map in a side room)

Woods: Oh yeah. You found another sector. Shit, says this place was built as some kind of early warning system. Missile defense

(Bell and Woods move into a doorway and stack up at a door)

Woods: Be ready. Could be a thousand Reds on the other side of this door... Cover me

Bell: (Nods)

(Woods opens the door and takes down a person on the other side, revealing the person to only be a mannequin)

Bell: (Covers mouth to try and suppress his laughter)

(Woods stops before he hits the mannequin)

Woods: ... Not a fucking word, Bell

(Bell and Woods look around the place, which looks like an American arcade. They look outside a window, which reveals the area as a training course designed after an American town. Soviet soldiers rope down from a helicopter prop)

Bell/Woods: (Visible confusion)

Woods: What the hell is this place? It's a Spetznaz training course! Made to look like Fucking Anytown, USA. Get a picture of that, Bell

(Bell takes some pictures of the soldiers and the training course. The alarm sounds, signaling the start of a training exercise)

Woods: Ah shit - they're starting! Fuck! Let's move!

(Bell and Woods move into another room and climb a catwalk that overlooks a video store. Soldiers enter the store)

Woods: If they want a live fire drill, let's hook these fuckers up!

(Bell and Woods start engaging the soldiers, shooting them up)

Soviet Soldier: Are they part of the drill?

Soviet Soldier: Not part of the drill! Not part of the drill!

Soviet Soldier: We have a security breach!

Woods: Advance!

(Bell and Woods start fighting their way through the town)

(Woods handles most of the straight up fighting while Bell stays mainly on the high ground, swiftly picking off targets)

(A vehicle arrives and more soldiers come out of it)

Woods: Russian vehicle inbound!

(They clear the soldiers in the immediate area. As they're getting out of the vehicle, it's like shooting fish in a barrel)

Woods: Huh. Now where'd those commie fuckers run off too?

(Bell and Woods enter a movie theater)

Woods: Two guys! A thousand Ruskies and a buttload of bullets! What?! They're not fans of fine American cinema!

(Bell and Woods jump info action, opening fire and battling their way past more soviet soldiers)

Woods: Huh. I thought there was more... Where'd they all go?

(More Soviet soldiers come in, with some shooting from the rooftops)

Bell: You had to ask...

Woods: Contact! On the rooftops! Why did I open my fucking mouth?

(They reach a Burger Town. There is a speaking statue of Bubby out front)

Bubby: Hi there! Welcome to Burger Town! How may I serve you?

Woods: What? They got Bubby! They TURNED Bubby! Those damn Commie Bastards! Is nothing sacred?!?!

(Bell and Woods work together to eliminate all the soviet soldiers around the Burger Town. Then they start engaging more enemies around an intersection)

Woods: Bell, push up! Head for that control tower!

(On the way, Bell cuts through a bar)

Woods: God, I could use a drink. You think the taps are working?

Bell: (Shrugs)

(Bell takes a picture of another map in one of the buildings)

Woods: Another sector. Looks like that concrete structure housed a massive radar array. What happened to it?

(Bell and Woods clear the enemies and move towards a control tower. An elevator can be seen ahead)

Woods: That elevator probably leads straight to the control tower

(Bell hops the railing)

Woods: Grenade!

(Bell is stunned by a flashbang. A heavily armored soviet soldier emerges and begins firing a minigun at Bell and Woods)

Woods: Shit! That guy looks like a handful! Find cover!

(Bell and Woods split up and duck into cover, firing at the soviet heavy. Headshots seem to wear him down the fastest)

(Woods shoots the soviet heavy's helmet off, and Bell kills him with a headshot)

Woods: Hell yeah! Timber, motherfucker!

(The elevator comes down and a group of soviet soldiers come out of it)

Woods: Incoming on the elevator!

(Bell tosses a grenade blowing up a few of the soviet soldiers. He and Woods gun down the rest)

Woods: Nowhere to go but up

(Bell and Woods enter the elevator and take it up)

Park: Woods, Bell, I'm picking up a ton of radio chatter. What's your status?

Woods: We got caught up in some kind of live fire drill. Place is crawling with Reds. We're still looking for intel

Park: Bloody hell... I'm putting Mason and Adler on standby for extract

Woods: She sounds mad. Does she sound mad?

Bell: Yeah...

(The elevator reaches the top. Woods and Bell exit the elevator. Soviet soldiers come out of the control tower)

Soviet Soldier: Come quickly! The intruders are here!

(Bell and Woods quickly clear the room and start looking around)

Woods: Looks like their command center. C'mon

(Bell and Woods enter the control tower and find a computer room)

Woods: Jackpot! Computer central. Let's see what the Reds are really up to... Bell, hop on that terminal. Start poking around

(Bell accesses a computer. Everything's in Russian, but he can translate it since he's ex-KGB)

Computer: Welcome to the Soviet People's Warfare Analysis Archive... Tactical urban combat statistics... Restricted Access

Woods: That's kid's stuff. Keep looking

Computer: KGB daily reports... Restricted Access

Woods: Boring. What else is there?

Computer: Operation Greenlight... Restricted Access

Woods: What the fuck is Operation Greenlight? Bell, can you hack into that?

(Bell tries entering the file, but it's blocked by a password)

Woods: Of course there's a password. Look around. These Reds ain't that smart. Maybe there's something on the desk

(Bell and Woods look around to find a possible password to enter. The password is written on a sticky note. It says "SOCHI")

Woods: Nice

(The computer displays details of Operation Greenlight, with diagrams of a nuke. There are communication logs between Jason Hudson and Emerson Black)

Hudson: We confirmed it. The nuke smuggled out of Berlin is a Greenlight asset. It's one of ours

Black: If that gets out...

Hudson: No one will know. not even Adler's team. The stakes are too high

Black: High is an understatement. We're talking about an American nuke hidden beneath Berlin. I want to make sure you're committed, Hudson...

Hudson: The play has been called. The ball is in motion

Black: Well, if the asset learns the truth...

Hudson: You're worried about truth now?

Black: I'm concerned about control... of the asset

Hudson: If we can't control the asset, we end the asset. Game over

(Once Bell is done, he prints the details of Operation Greenlight)

Woods: I'm grabbing a copy!

(Woods takes the printout from the printer and reads it)

Woods: The fuck? This doesn't make any goddamn sense! Perseus infiltrated a CIA nuke program codenamed Operation Greenlight. Run by Hudson!

(Woods kicks the printer)

Woods: The stolen nuke is American! And Hudson fucking knew!

(Bell's gaze lingers on the phrase "If we can't control the asset, we end the asset")

Bell: The asset?... The asset... What does that mean?

(Suddenly, an alarm starts blaring)

Woods: Shit! Time to go!

Computer: UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

(Bell leaves the computer and leaves the room with Woods)

Woods: I can't fucking believe it! Park, come in! Hudson lied to us! He fucking lied to us!

Park: Woods? What are you talking about?

Woods: I'm talking about Operation Greenlight! That's what Perseus is after and Hudson has his fingerprints all over it!

Park: Woods, you're breaking up! Just get the hell out of there!

(Bell and Woods exit the control tower by going down some stairs and go into a hallway with a view of another training area. An APC fires at Woods and Bell)

Woods: Oh shit! That APC is gonna tear us apart!

(Woods and Bell run through the hallway while avoiding APC fire)

Woods: Use the facades as cover! Don't stop or we're dead!

(Woods and Bell get past the hallway and encounter enemies ahead)

Woods: Up ahead! They're trying to cut us off!

(Bell quickly takes a picture of another map in the room)

Woods: Look! You found where the Reds store the array. They had to relocate it when they gutted the main building for training

(Woods and Bell move forward. The APC fires at them again)

Park: Woods? Bell? What's your status?

Woods: It just went from bad to worse! Just make sure Adler and Mason are ready to extract at the exfil! We've got to reach that exit!

(Bell and Woods reach a shutter door)

Woods: Bastards are blocking the exit. We're gonna have to punch through them!

(Bell opens the shutter. Trucks drive in and enemy troops emerge. Bell surprises a soldier that was guarding the shutters with his knife)

Soviet Soldier: I need backup!

(Another heavy soldier starts firing at Bell and Woods)

Woods: Fuck me. They got another heavy

(Bell and Woods engage the soviet soldiers and the heavy)

Woods: Remember. Aim for the head

(Bell prioritizes taking out the heavy while Woods keeps the other soviet soldiers off of him. The two of them win the gunfight with teamwork)

Woods: Nice work, Bell!

(Most of the soviet soldiers in the area are dead, but the door shuts)

Woods: Shit! The doors are closing!

(Bell hops into a Russian APC. He's familiar with how to drive it due to his KGB training)

Woods: Good idea. I'll shoot!

(Bell drives the APC full speed ahead while Woods uses the turret to clear the remaining soviet forces)

Woods: Eat this, fuckers!

(While Woods blasts away, Bell purposefully crashes the APC through some metal doors into a training area. They come across another soviet APC, but Bell maneuvers around to avoid enemy fire while letting Woods take out the opposition)

Woods: Bell, watch that fucker coming up on our right!

(Woods fires at the APC. The enemy APC rams Bell's APC)

Woods: God dammit! It's called urban renewal, you assholes!

(Bell drives around a park. The enemy APC tries to block their exit, but Woods fires at it and destroys it)

Woods: Yeah! Fuck that guy

(Bell drives towards the exit. Woods fires at more enemies along the way)

Woods: Keep looking for an exit! Would it have killed them to put in some damn street signs?

(Bell keeps driving and Woods keeps blasting. They reach a street and see the exit ahead)

Woods: There! I can see the exit!

(More enemies and two APCs block their way)

Bell: Focus fire on those APCs. I'm gonna floor it

Woods: Hell yeah!

(Bell crashes through the APCs and drives through the exit before the shutters close)

Woods: WHOOO! That's what I'm talking about!

(Bell and Woods exit the facility in the APC and begin leaving the area)

Park: Woods? Bell? What's your status?

Bell: Acquired enemy transport. Leaving the AO as we speak

Woods: Gather everyone, Park! The whole team! Hudson has a shit ton of explaining to do!

(Later...)

(Hudson stands outside a building on the phone)

Hudson: Yes sir. I'm on it

(Hudson ends the call. Bell, Lazar, Park, Adler, Woods, and Mason arrive in a van)

(They get out of the van. Woods approaches Hudson and punches him. Woods pins Hudson to the wall)

Woods: You knew the nuke was from Greenlight and didn't tell us! What else are you hiding? Maybe I can knock the truth out of you

Hudson: You might want to rethink that, Woods

(The camera pans down, showing Hudson pointing his M1911 at Woods' chest)

Adler: Everybody stand down. This little pissing match isn't gonna help us catch Perseus

(Woods lets go of Hudson)

Mason: Why didn't you tell us it was an American nuke?

Woods: He needed us to clean up his mess. The bastard's been lying to us all along

(Hudson readjusts his shades and puts away his gun)

Hudson: It's not a lie. It's an omission of fact

Mason: That's what you do best, isn't it, Hudson? Manipulate people... tell them your own version of the truth

Hudson: There is no truth, only who you choose to believe. Adler knows all about that. Don't you, Russ?

(Everyone looks at Adler. Adler throws away his cigarette)

Adler: Operation Greenlight. What is it? Tell us everything

Hudson: Back in '58 the arms race was in full swing. Eisenhower was convinced that if the Reds moved on Europe, we couldn't respond quick enough. So he authorized Operation Greenlight. A top secret program that placed nuclear bombs in every major European city. The ultimate countermeasure to a Soviet invasion. In '74 the bombs were upgraded to high yield neutron bombs, capable of terminating personnel without damaging infrastructure

Woods: Thousands dying in a flash and you're talking about fucking infrastructure?

Mason: How's that for civilized? We kill the people but preserve the buildings...

Hudson: We're trying to preserve our way of life

Adler: How long have you known about the missing nuke?

Hudson: One of the Greenlight nukes went offline eight weeks ago. We suspected it was Perseus but couldn't confirm it until we saw the photos you brought back from East Berlin

Adler: So, there's an American-made nuke in the wild and once Perseus detonates it... the United States becomes global enemy number one

Hudson: We wouldn't have this problem if you'd done your job and killed Perseus in Vietnam

Bell: (Tightly clenches his metal fist)

(Woods is about to step forward, but Adler stops him)

Adler: Careful, Hudson. Next time I might not stop Woods

(Hudson wipes the blood from his nose. Everyone else enters the safehouse)

Adler: We need to know what Perseus is planning for that nuke. Park, anything else in that printout Bell and Woods pulled from the base?

Park: There's mention of an excavation taking place in the Ural Mountains. Yamantau. Our insider within the KGB confirmed an active operation

Woods: Yamantau... I thought Hudson and Weaver buried that place years ago

Hudson: We did

Park: Perseus wants to salvage the old mainframe

Woods: Dragovich and Steiner must have left some good shit behind