The Rook: Reconciliation/Transcript

== Cutscene ==
Lights activate to reveal a desk with a pistol, a telephone, a floppy disk, dog tags, and an open journal laid out with the word "IRAQ" over it. More shots of the journal's pages are revealed, including documents from the USSR and Matvey Gusev's profile.
Marshall: The Pantheon has a biological weapon. The papers we found in that bunker, they had a name attached: Matvey Guzev, a Soviet weapons scientist.
A close up of a petri dish is shown with a growing virus inside it, until the camera zooms in on the dish and it turns into the map of Iraq with dotted lines and circles being drawn on it.
Marshall: We think he's still in Iraq. Somewhere. Adler's volunteered to stay behind and track his ass down.
A film reel with images of the cradle program is displayed.
Marshall: I'll have Felix examine the disk we found while the rest of us investigate the origin of the Cradle. If Adler's right, this thing may have come from a research facility on American soil.
A document from an American research facility with black ink crossed over parts of the text is shown next along with other documents.
Marshall: A Soviet scientist and an American bioweapon... What the hell are getting into?
The screen fades to black.
== Gameplay ==
The Rook: Reconciliation
William "Case" Calderon
Burgas Province, Bulgaria
February 6th, 1991 - 13:04 EET
Sev and Marshall are looking out the windows with Case in one of the safehouse's hallways.
Sev: You've asked Harrow about this supposed research facility?
Marshall: She's not picking up. I told her to look into Livingston.
Sev: You think something's happened to her.
Marshall: If it has, it's my fault.
Sev: [sighs] The weight of the world on your shoulders. We know the risks.
Marshall: Yeah, well... this isn't exactly what I imagined.
Sev: Because it's not just about you.
Marshall: How'd you feel about coming with me and Case stateside?
Sev: I'd consider it.
Marshall and Sev start walking towards the kitchen, where Felix is cooking up a pot full of food.
Marshall: Felix still in the kitchen?
Sev: Don't complain. We ate well while you were off wandering the desert.
Marshall: He should be decrypting the disk Adler found. We need whatever's on it.
Marshall and Sev enter the kitchen.
Marshall: Hey, chef, you cracked that disk yet?
Felix: Patience, please. Cryptography is like preparing pufferfish. Rush through it and risk losing everything.
Marshall: Okay.
Sev: Is he planning to serve us pufferfish?
Marshall and Sev leave the kitchen.
Marshall: You said no complaining.
Sev: I did, didn't I? Let me know when we're close to leaving.
The player can now roam around the safehouse and speak with his teammates.
If Case goes to see Woods, the latter will be seen trying to move a TV monitor on his lap while on his wheelchair. Unfortunately, the monitor falls out of his lap and drops to the floor, breaking the screen in the process.
Woods: Fuck me!
Marshall: Yo. Ask for help, man.
Woods: Fuck you too.
Marshall: Fine. Have fun.
Woods: Does it look like I'm havin' fun?
Marshall: No... That's not what I meant. You got dealt a bad hand.
Woods: You're gonna get dealt bad hands, kid. With us, the stakes are high.
Marshall walks over to pick up the TV monitor and puts it back on the desk.
Marshall: To be honest, I don't think I coulda done it. Come back home after what happened in Panama. Trusted anyone again.
Woods: You keep believing' in the ones who got your back, go to battle for you. Adler was one of those. When those records turned up after Panama, wore transfers to Adler from Raul Menendez - two-bit dope slinger... I smelled bullshit. Adler? Turn against his brothers for cash? Are you kidding me?
Marshall: Those threads he loves, they ain't cheap now.
Woods: Listen, I know he can be a damn psychopath, I get it. But, he's on our side. He's just got his own way of doin' things.
Marshall: I don't know what the rules are anymore.
Woods: You're figuring' it out, kid. Handling things, makin' calls. I just wish I was out there kickin' ass with you. Kills me to be in this thing.
Marshall: Well, hold on now... You're essential, man, all right? Chair or no chair, I know you can't get around the way you used to, but this? [points to his head] This is strong. Maybe you were... maybe you were Captain America before, and now. Now you're like... Professor X.
Woods: Who? Get outta my face, man.
Marshall shrugs and walks away.
<tabber>
Marshall=
If Case interacts with Marshall:
Marshall: Hey. Do me a favor and check on Felix, will you?
If Case interacts with Marshall again:
Marshall: We'll bust out of here soon. Everything's on the board when you're ready.
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Woods=
If Case interacts with Woods:
Woods: Not in the mood right now.
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Sev=
If Case interacts with Sev:
Sev: Case. Need something before we go?
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Felix=
Felix: I'm afraid I'll need a little more time. Unless you've come to help?
</tabber>The player is free to do anything else before starting the next mission.
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