Prologue

05:49, 25 December 2024

Mason: You sure we can trust the police, Adler?

Adler: This guy has done more for less. He'll look the other way

(A lighter is seen being lit. Mason and Adler are seen sitting in a bar and the song "The Stroke" by Billy Squier is heard playing. Mason is holding a burning picture of Qasim Javadi and throws it into an ashtray. A man in a suit with a black trench coat holding a police cap is seen approaching them)

Hans: Adler

Adler: Glad you could join us, Hans. You remember Mason?

Mason: We clear to move on the target?

Hans: Qasim's in his apartment, but he's well protected. I can keep my men out of the area for 15 minutes. I hope you brought an army

Adler: We brought enough. Pleasure doing business with you, Hans

(Hans walks away and heads to the bar counter to ask the bartender to give him a telephone to call someone)

Adler: Come on. Woods is itching for a dust-up. We don't want to let him down

(Mason leaves money on their table)

(Adler and Mason exit the bar. Frank Woods is seen opening the truck of a black car and throws Adler an XM4. Adler grabs the weapon)

Adler: We're on the clock, Woods. Let's not keep Qasim waiting

(Woods grabs an XM4 as well)

Woods: Hey, Mason. Party favors are in the trunk

(Mason grabs a XM4 out of the trunk)

Woods: Dipshit probably thinks he's safe

Adler: That piece of garbage is a lot of things, but safe ain't one of 'em

Woods: Do we really need to take this son of a bitch alive, Adler?

Adler: Qasim has info we need. Everyone else can take a powder. Apartment's just up ahead.

(Mason, Woods, and Adler reach the gate towards the apartment)

Adler: Hans only bought us 15 minutes. We need to hit Qasim hard and fast. Let's go

(Mason, Woods, and Adler walk through the gate and reach the building. Inside the house, some Iranian terrorists are seen watching a soccer game)

Adler: Let's help them ring in the New Year. Light 'em up, Mason

(Mason and the others open fire on them through a sliding glass door. OpFor terrorists scramble to get their weapons to return fire)

Adler: Go! Go! Go!

(Qasim is seen running away)

Adler: There's Qasim!

Woods: Come on, Mason!

(Qasim runs upstairs)

Adler: Qasim's headed up stairs! We need him alive!

(Qasim exits through a window and runs on the roof. One OpFor terrorist charges at Mason. Mason uses him as a human shield and uses his pistol to kill the others. More OpFor terrorists arrive to help Qasim escape)

(Mason, Woods, and Adler chase after Qasim on the rooftops and battle their way to capture him)

Adler: Go, go! Hurry up!

(Woods fires a few rounds at Qasim)

Adler: Watch it, Woods, we need him alive!

Woods: I'm just softening him up a little!

Adler: He's bolting. Keep on him

Woods: Jeez, this guy is fast!

(Qasim jumps off one building and on to another. Mason and the others slide down the roof and use it to leap after Qasim)

(Mason shoots the OpFor terrorists who were waiting for Qasim. Adler shoots and wounds one of the terrorists, leaving Qasim all alone)

Adler: Nowhere left to run, Qasim

Qasim: We can work someth-

(Adler punches Qasim in the nose, causing him to fall on the ground. Qasim is seen clutching his bloody nose)

Adler: You're up, Mason

(Mason grabs Qasim by the jacket and pushes him near the edge of the building and interrogates him)

Qasim: Wait! Wait--No!

Mason: Where's Arash?

Qasim: I... I just handle the money ...I have no idea where Arash is

Adler: I don't think you understand the situation...

(Adler throws the wounded terrorist he shot off the building. The terrorist falls onto a yellow car and dies)

Qasim: You Americans have rules!! You have rules!

Adler: You took hostages. The rules changed

Qasim: W-wait! He's in Turkey! He's meeting someone at Trabzon Airfield tomorrow night!

Mason: Keep talking or you're going over

Qasim: I swear- I swear I don't know! They only communicate with coded messages

Adler: Thank you. Mason? Dispose of him

Qasim: NO-!

(Mason throws Qasim off the building and Adler watches as he falls and splats onto the pavement below)

Adler: No loose ends. One down, one to go

Woods: I ain't scraping him off the pavement

(Woods dials Hudson's phone number on a cell phone and passes it to Adler)

Woods: I get the next one

Adler: Hudson, Arash is in Trabzon, Turkey

Hudson: Qasim is out of the picture

Black: How long before we get Arash?

Hudson: The team arrived in Turkey a few hours ago... they should be in position shortly

(A map of Turkey and a picture of Arash is shown. Trabzon, Turkey is shown circled in blue)

(Transition to Trabzon Airfield in Turkey. Mason, Woods, and Adler are seen near a small building near the airfield)

(Mason is seen cleaning blood off his knife after killing a OpFor terrorist and the bodies of other OpFor terrorists who were killed by Woods and Adler is also shown)

(A wounded OpFor terrorist in a pickup truck is seen trying to move, but Adler drags him out of the truck and shoots him)

Woods: Airfield is just up ahead... Let's go find this shithead

Adler: Priority is to ID Arash before things go hot

(The group heads up a hill that overlooks the airfield and a cargo plane is seen on the runway as OpFor terrorists are seen loading crates on the plane)

Adler: Mason, check it out

(Mason gets his binoculars to scan for Arash)

Adler: Any sign of Arash?

Mason: Not yet

(A SUV truck is seen entering the airfield)

Woods: Incoming truck. Left side

Adler: Arash might be in the truck

(The truck stops near the cargo plane)

Woods: I can't make out his face yet

(In the truck, the driver is pulling in while Arash talks to a former US operative named William Bell, who defected to the KGB)

Arash: When the plane leaves Trabazon, it's stopping in Duga. This you know. Here's what you don't know. Perseus won't be there. None of these hired guns are going to leave Duga alive. We'll dump their bodies in the forest. Then we will move the weapons to Volkov in Berlin ourselves. From there, we fly to Solovetsky

Bell: (Nods)

(Arash hands Bell a folder of intel)

(The truck stops, and Arash gets out, holding a remote)

Arash: But I have other plans for you. Perseus thinks too highly of you... I don't want the competition

C4: (Beep)

Bell: (Confused screaming)

(Bell quickly tries to get out of the truck, but he and the driver are caught in the explosion. Bell's left arm flies off, separated from his body, and the driver is blown to pieces)

Woods: The fuck! He just iced everyone in the truck! That's gotta be Arash!

Adler: Hold fire, we need a positive ID

(Arash stops to talk to an associate of his on the cargo plane and Adler gets a positive ID on Arash)

Adler: That's our man, take him out

(Mason pulls out his Pelington 703 sniper rifle and fires a shot. The shot hits Arash's associate instead of Arash. Arash and the other OpFor terrorists realize that they are under attack)

Woods: Shit, we missed him! We can't let him get away!

(The cargo plane is seen starting up)

Mason: Ah shit

Adler: We have to stop that plane!

Woods: Quick, before the plane takes off! Get to that truck!

(Mason, Woods, and Adler rush to a pickup truck that is parked on the runway)

Woods: Hop in!

(Mason jumps in the back of the truck)

(Adler gets in and taps on the window to tell Woods to get going)

Adler: Go! Go!

(Woods floors the gas pedal. Terrorists in trucks pursue after them and open fire. Mason returns fire at the terrorists with his XM4. Adler points out trucks approaching them)

Adler: Truck to the left!

(The occupants of the trucks engage in a mobile gunfight. The plane is too far away from them and is almost ready to take off)

Woods: Damn it! They're getting away!

Adler: We're not done yet. Mason, deploy the RC

(Mason pulls out an RC controller and Adler places the RC-XD car on the ground)

Mason: On the ground!

(Mason guides the RC car to the plane)

Adler: Take out the landing gear!

(Mason detonates the RC car under the landing gear. The cargo plane loses control and crashes to the ground)

(A SUV crashes into them and launches over them before dropping back down to the ground)

(Another truck rams them and Woods shoots the driver of the SUV with his M1911 pistol. Their truck spins out of control, causing Adler and Mason to fall out of the truck and roll on the tarmac)

(One of the plane's wings is about to fall on Mason, forcing Mason to shield himself with his arms)

(Mason manages to survive and regains his bearings. Adler rushes over to Mason and helps him up)

Adler: We've got Arash

(Wood is seen dragging a wounded Arash out of the plane wreckage)

Woods: You should have freed the hostages when you had the chance!

Arash: Hostages!? It was never about the hostages!

(Arash pulls out his M1911 and attempts to shoot Woods, but Woods kicks it out of his hands)

Arash: His plan is already underway! You won't be able to stop him this time

Woods: Stop who?

Arash: Perseus

Adler: Bullshit. Perseus is dead

(Adler checks his M1911 to see if it's loaded)