Frozen Tundra/Transcript

== Cutscene ==
The computer screen displays the apartment complex in St. Petersburg and two photos of Andrei Nolan, one of which has him in interrogation.
Laswell: What's the state of play with Nolan?
Gaz: He's less conversational than he was...
Price: More o' the silent type now...
Gaz: They're at war with the world. That's for sure.
Price: He's got blind faith in Makarov.
Vladimir Makarov's mugshot appears.
Laswell: Makarov needs him.
An picture of cell phone texts between Makarov and Nolan is displayed.
Laswell: Been contacting him non-stop. He knows something's wrong.
Gaz: You intercepted their comms...
Laswell: Affirmative.
More texts from Makarov appear asking for Nolan to check in.
Laswell: Nolan got quiet, but his radio and phone speak volumes...
Price: What do we know?
One of the text messages is translated from Russian to English saying, "Convoy leaving in six hours. Rendezvous at the prison.
Laswell: They're delivering someone or something to an abandoned Soviet Prison complex.
A picture of a prison guard tower appears next just as the globe rotates to Siberia and zooms in on the snowy area.
Gaz: Where?
Laswell: Siberia.
Price: When?
Laswell: Tomorrow.
Price: This is our shot at Makarov.
Gaz: No guarantees he's there...
Price: I'll take that chance.
Laswell: I knew you would...
Nikolai's picture is displayed next.
Laswell: Nik can get you in and out.
A tab including Gaz, Soap, and Ghost is shown, along with Farah Karim's picture.
Price: I want everyone on this... Including Farah. Next to Ghost, she's the best sniper I know.
Laswell: You can pick her up on the way. I'll relay.
Images of dry gear and C4 explosives are displayed next.
Price: We'll need C-4 and dry gear.
Gaz: We're gettin' wet...
The screen displays Makarov's mugshot.
Price: So is Makarov...
The scene shifts to the frozen tundra of Siberia as a convoy of four military vehicles crosses a frozen body of water. The camera pulls back to reveal a sniper rifle perched on an overlook above the ice.
Laswell: Watcher to 0-7, gimme a sitrep...
Ghost and Farah are revealed decked in winter gear and holding their sniper rifles while lying prone.
Ghost: 0-7 in position with Kilo. Bravo's in the water.
Laswell: Copy. Where's our incoming?
Farah: Convoy approaching southeast, four vehicles.
Laswell: Any sign of Makarov?
Farah: No PID, but high security on the third vehicle.
Ghost: Ghost to all Bravo, how copy?
Cut to black.
== Gameplay ==
Gaz is seen under the surface in full arctic SCUBA gear, planting C-4 explosives under the ice.
JOHN PRICE - TF-141, CIA
FROZEN TUNDRA
SIBERIA, RUSSIA
14 NOVEMBER 2023, 0930
Soap swims up to Gaz and signals for them both to take up their positions. Price, Soap, and Gaz swim over to some submerged trees and wait until the convoy approaches the detonation zone. Price takes out his detonator.
Gaz: Solid. Here they come...
Gaz counts down with his fingers to one until the convoy is completely over the detonation area. Gaz gives the signal. 
Price: Fire in the hole!
Price detonates the explosives. The ice explodes with a massive boom, causing the trucks to sink beneath the ice.
Soap: All stations-- good effect on target.
Laswell: Rog' go to work - we need him alive...
Price, Gaz, and Soap ready their knives and swim over to the sinking vehicles.
Price: On the move. Soap, Gaz, flank me. Check and clear all vehicles.
Gaz: Target vehicle's takin' on water- let's get this done, Cap.
Price approaches one of the vehicles and sees some Konni soldiers struggling to get free and swim up. The player can choose to kill them or ignore them. If Price deals with the soldiers, he stabs one of them who manages to rip of Price's mask before dying. Price grabs his mask and purges it of all water trapped inside it. 
Gaz: Target's air has gotta be running thin.
Soap: Vehicle's clear. No Makarov. Gotta move on target, Captain. Before he drowns.
Gaz: Vehicle clear. Moving up.
Soap: Actual, love to let him drown, but we gotta get him out now.
Gaz and Soap reach the target vehicle and notice a hooded prisoner inside.
Gaz: Cap, we got a problem.
Soap: No Makarov, just a prisoner.
Price: Pull him. Let's go.
Soap: Rog'.
(If Price hurries over to the target vehicle before Gaz and Soap do...)
Price: Negative on target- No Makarov. Just a prisoner. Let's pull him.
Soap: Rog'.
Price uses the pommel of his knife to break the glass window, causing more water to enter the vehicle. Price and Soap use their torches to cut open the door hinges. Price rips off the door, allowing water to completely fill in the vehicle's inside. Soap moves in and cuts the struggling prisoner's zip tie off, allowing Price and Soap to help him out of the vehicle.
Price: Prisoner secure. Moving to surface.
Laswell: Standing by.
Price, Gaz, and Soap swim up to the surface with the prisoner in tow.
Fade to white.
The scene shifts to above the ice as Gaz pulls Price out of the water. Price gets on the comms to Laswell.
Price: [Grunt]...Six to Watcher, no Makarov. Target was not in the convoy. Prisoner has been intercepted and secured.
Laswell: Can you ID?
Price: Stand by...
Soap removes the prisoner's hood, revealing him to be none other than General Shepherd who hacks and coughs out loud.
Soap: (seething) Steamin' Jesus...!?
Shepherd: MacTavish... What the fuck...? Captain...
Price seethes and growls with rage as he hauls Shepherd up to his feet.
Price: Fuck...Is there a single shit-show that you are not a part of...?
Soap: Ghost, you seein' this?
Ghost looks through his sniper scope.
Ghost: In my sights.
Soap takes out his COR-45 pistol.
Soap: Let's smoke him and call it a day.
Laswell: Six- who do you have...?
Price: Gold-fucking-Eagle-Actual...
Laswell: Shepherd?
Soap: In the cold flesh.
Laswell: Holy shit.
Gaz: Cap, we're sitting ducks out here.
Price thinks for a second.
Price: Then, let's move him.
Price, Gaz, and Soap move Shepherd away from the ice. Soap pins Shepherd to a tree.
Price: Why are you here?
Shepherd: They're hunting us, John... The found me first...
Price: What did you trade for your life?
Shepherd: Not a damn thing--
Price: Bollocks.
Price: I'm a four star United States general.
Soap: And they kept you alive? Let's toss this fucker back in the lake...!
Shepherd: I know Makarov's next target.
Price: You didn't even know you were the fucking target.
Shepherd: Ah, you were chasing your own tail before I stepped in!
Soap leans in threateningly.
Soap: Give it to us, then...
Shepherd: You get me outta here first.
Laswell: All stations, I'm tracking helos inbound north 10 clicks out.
Price: Rog.
Farah: What's the call, Bravo?
Price hesitates and thinks for a moment. Gaz steps in and whispers to him.
Gaz: The oligarch intel was solid. Even if he is lying now, we can still use him. We dump him, we're walking away with nothing.
Price looks at Shepherd and then at Gaz before nodding.
Gaz: Ghost, Farah, push to the exfil.
Ghost: Rog.
Gaz: Watcher, tell Nik we're plus one.
Shepherd removes Soap's grip on him.
Shepherd: That's more like it. Now... how 'bout a jacket and a gun?
Price, Soap: No.
Gaz: Let's add the gun. We could use the help.
Price: Alright, give him a thermal and a sidearm.
Gaz gives Price an X12 pistol to give to Shepherd. Price turns to Shepherd.
Price: You stick with Gaz. One wrong move, and I'll put a hole through you.
Price gives Shepherd his sidearm and turns away with a look of apprehension on his face, before rejoining his team as they make their way through the forest. Price readies his PDSW 528.
Price: Six to Watcher...
Laswell: Send traffic, Bravo...
Price: Plan is to hoof it to transport and drive to the LZ for extraction.
Laswell: I think your guest may slow you down- watch your back. Out here.
Soap: Laswell's right.
Gaz: Usually is...
Soap: Fog's rolling in.
Gaz: Good time for thermal, Six...
Price equips his weapon with a thermal-imaging scope.
Price: On thermal./Thermal up./Using thermal.
Shepherd: I'm freezing my ass off here.
Soap: Slight case o' hypothermia, you'll live...
Shepherd: You need a discipline adjustment, Sergeant...
Price: I wouldn't push him, General- This will end... unpleasantly.
Price and his team make their way through the forest with Shepherd. A Konni helicopter flies overhead.
Soap: Konni helo dropped in some shooters. Got 'em on thermal. 11 o'clock.
Price spots enemy troops patrolling the forest through his scope. He and his team find a hiding spot in the trees and get low.
Shepherd: They're looking for me.
Price: Got half a mind to let 'em find you...
The Konni soldiers get closer to Price and his team's location.
Shepherd: We should take 'em out now.
Soap: You should shut the hell up...
Gaz: Either way, we need a call now, Captain./What's the call, Captain?
Price: We can stay low, let 'em pass.
(If Price and his team engage the enemy patrol...)
Price: Weapons free!
The team eliminates the patrol.
Soap: Enemy's down. Could be more ahead.
Price: Can you still shoot, General?
Shepherd: Does a polar bear shit in the snow...?
Price: Make sure you aim straight.
Shepherd: I got this.
If Price and his team choose to remain in hiding, they wait while the Konni patrol moves past them, oblivious to TF-141's presence.
Konni Soldier: They must be here. Keep looking.
Konni Soldier: Hard to find anything in this haze.
Konni Soldier: Let's move further east.
Shepherd: Should've engaged already.
Price: Put a cork in it, General.../Zip it, Shepherd...
Konni Soldier: No movement yet, Actual.
Konni Soldier: Copy. Moving east.
The Konni patrol moves further away from Price's team's location. Soap spots a second group of enemies approaching.
Soap: Got another squad closing.
Price and his team relocate with Shepherd to another part of the forest.
Price: On me!
They hide and wait until the enemy patrol moves past them.
Soap: They're moving on. We clear?
Price: Clear.
Price and his team continue on through the forest.
Shepherd: Should've killed them when we had the chance, John.
Price: If I want your advice, I'll ask. Let's not forget-- We wouldn't be here if you hadn't been caught-
Shepherd: I got caught because I was getting close...
Gaz: Wouldn't be too proud o' that, General.
Soap: Idea is to get close without getting caught.
Shepherd: How far is the transport?
A bullet narrowly misses Price.
Price: Sniper!
The team takes cover.
Price: Take cover! Came from the trees dead ahead!
(If the team didn't engage the earlier patrols. the shots alert them to TF-141's presence.)
Gaz: Konni's punching up behind us.
TF-141 and Shepherd work together to eliminate the patrols, which they eventually do.
Gaz: Anyone have visual?
Soap: Negative.
Gaz: Nothing on thermals.
Soap: Using thermal cams...
Price: Gaz, watch Shepherd. Soap and I'll take the sniper.
Gaz: Roger that. On me, General.
Gaz and Shepherd remain behind while Price and Soap search the forest for the sniper.
Price: Any movement, Sergeant?
Soap: Negative, looking...
Price spots the sniper through his thermal scope.
Price: I see him./Visual on the sniper.
Price kills the sniper.
Price: Sniper down. We're clear.
Soap: Nice work, Captain.
Price: Gaz, regroup on me.
Gaz: Rog.
Gaz and Shepherd move up to reunite with Price and Soap.
Soap: This is a fuckin' shit-sandwich... Your intel better be good, General.
Shepherd: My intel's always good, Soap. You'll get it when I'm out of here.
Price, his team, and Shepherd reach a field in the forest ahead. In the clearing ahead is a cabin and a truck being watched by another Konni team compromised of assault soldiers.
Gaz: Eyes on our truck ahead. Appears we do have some admirers...
Soap: Affirm. Assault team.
Price: Six to Farah and Ghost-- Our transport's compromised.
Farah: Ghost is securing the LZ. I'll meet you at the lumber mill. Cut through the ridge past the field on foot.
Price: Copy. With our luck, we'll find more visitors on the way.
Soap: Transport's got more ammo and supplies. We should grab 'em.
Gaz: We could slip by if we hug the tree-line.
Soap: What's the plan, Captain?
Price: Move quick and quiet.
Shepherd: Smart move, son.
Soap: Quiet...
Price and the team sneak up as they overhear a Konni soldier reporting over the radio.
Konni Soldier: Patrol/Control, we've located a vehicle. No sign of them. Searching... Find anything? Just weapons. They're not here. Destroy the truck. We'll keep searching for them.
Price gets close enough and takes the enemy by surprise with one kill.
Gaz: Good kill, Captain. The rest scattered.
(If Price and his team give away their position prematurely...)
Gaz: Shit! We're compromised!
Price: Open fire!
Soap: Grenade! Stand clear!
If Price and his team choose to engage, the enemy snipers will run away to find a sniping spot.
Gaz: Good effect- Snipers are treating.
Price: Spread out. General, you're with me- keep your head down and don't speak.
Farah: Let's circle up at the mill. Cut through the ridge past the field on foot.
Price and Shepherd move up through the field, engaging any snipers they find.
Soap: Heads up, snipers are still active, sir.../Snipers could be anywhere. Stay sharp!
Price and the team reach the truck and see that it no longer functions.
Soap: The engine's grilled...
Gaz: Supplies inside are still viable.
Soap: Deploying stun grenade!
(If Konni destroys the team's vehicle...)
Gaz: Vehicle destroyed- there goes our ride outta here...
(Every time Price or Gaz calls out a sniper position...)
Price/Gaz: Sniper's lying prone.; Sniper's behind the fallen tree.; Eyes on sniper, far side of the field.
Price kills a sniper.
Price: Sniper down./Konni sniper eliminated!
(If there are still snipers out there...)
Gaz: Stay focused, Actual, snipers are alive and kickin'-!
(Every time an enemy sniper fires off a shot...)
Soap: Flash out!
Price finishes off another sniper.
Price: Shooter neutralized.
Price kills another sniper.
Gaz: Good kill, Sir- One left./One X-ray left.
Price kills the last sniper.
Price: We're clear. Good work.
Shepherd: Expected nothing less. Pleasure watching you boys work.
Price: Truck's dead. We hoof it to the LZ.
Gaz: We'll rally up with Farah at the mill and lay waste to all movers.
Soap: Speakin' my language, Gaz... River'll lead us straight to the mill.
Price, his team, and Shepherd proceed out of the field and on to the next objective. 
Soap: Soap to Ghost- we're a few mikes out.
Ghost: Copy. LZ is secure- will relay any changes. Out here.
An explosion is heard in the distance.
Soap: Hear that?
Gaz: Came from the lumber mill. Farah's there now.
Soap: Come in, Kilo.
Farah: Konni patrols surrounding the lumber mill!
Soap: Let's join the fight, Captain.
Price and his team sprint with Shepherd through the forest to reach the lumber mill. They reach a pass overlooking the lumber mill and see it is under attack by Konni Group.
Gaz: Farah, what's your status?
Farah: Taking enemy fire. Far side of the mill. Could use support!
Price: Copy- Hold your position, Kilo. We'll move to flank.
Farah: Copy that. 
(If Price doesn't move immediately...)
Soap: We're not effective from here! Gotta move in!; Bravo-6, advise taking the left path. Farah's counting on us. 
Farah: More Konni incoming, Bravo!
Gaz: Copy! Approaching. We'll hit 'em from the rear.
Price: Konni's everywhere. Farah, what's your position?
Farah: On the rooftop! Keep pushing in. I'll cover you from here.
Price: Gaz, take Shepherd and find cover. Soap, on me!
Soap: Aye!
Shepherd will run inside a building with a supply cache.
Shepherd: Gear up in here./Got weapons here, John.
Price can resupply inside the cache.
Shepherd: I don't need a fuckin' chaperone, John.
Price: You're lucky you're not in zip ties...
(If Price stays in the supply cache.)
Shepherd: I'm not going anywhere, John. Give 'em all you got, Cap'n./Soap's waiting on you out there, Cap'n./Resupply and get back out there, John- call me if you need me...
Price and his teammates reach the lumber mill and engage Konni soldiers.
Konni Soldier: Enemy reinforcements arrived!; Target has explosives. Find cover!; Don't let them trap us!; We're flanked!; Disperse! Focus fire on the roof.; Take her down before backup arrives!
Soap: Got rounds comin' from the warehouse!
Price: Shoot anything that moves, Sergeant!
Price and his team move the mill.
Price: Head on a swivel- this is a target rich environment.
Soap: Affirmative, sir- Let's give 'em heat!
Farah: Captain, got two snipers in the warehouse, second floor!
Price: Copy- I'll take it to 'em.
Konni Soldier: Hostiles behind us!
Soap: More hostiles ahead!
Price enters one of the buildings..
Soap: Pushing up on you, sir!
Price and Soap make their way to the second level.
Price: Moving to second deck.
Price notices dead enemy snipers.
Price: Snipers neutralized.
Price kills more enemy soldiers until Konni sends in a vehicle filled with reinforcements.
Soap: Got an enemy vehicle inbound!
Farah: Copy, I see it! More Konni coming your way.
Soap: Makarov's got manpower, I'll give him that!
Konni reinforcements deploy from the vehicle and attack TF-141. Price destroys the vehicle and any Konni troops caught in the explosion.
Farah: Good work, Bravo.
Soap: Good hit, Six!
Eventually, Price and his teammates take down the last of the enemy soldiers in the area.
Soap: Clear-- Area secured!
Farah: Good work, Bravo.
Soap: You too, Kilo...
Farah: Circle up, behind the sawmill.
Price: Copy, rear of the sawmill.
(If Price doesn't move immediately...)
Soap: Let's regroup with Kilo, Captain. Back of the mill.
Farah: Captain, waitin' on you, rear of the sawmill.
Price and the team rally behind the sawmill. Farah appears above them.
Farah: Check fire... Descending!
Farah rappels down from above.
Farah: Exfil is just below this cliffside. Ghost is posted.
Price: Let's get to him.
Price and his team, Farah, and Shepherd exit the lumber mill and make their way to the extraction point.
Shepherd: You're a long way from home, Kilo.
Farah: So are you, Gold Eagle...
Shepherd: I'm glad to see you, Farah.
Farah: Stay sharp and try not to slow us down...
Shepherd: Farah, I have always ha----
Farah: --There's a time and place for everything, General. Now- is neither.
The team passes through a canyon and the wind begins to pick up speed, blowing snow everywhere.
Gaz: Wind's picking up snow.
The team passes under a bridge as they reach a frozen port with ships stranded throughout. Konni troops are spotted in the distance.
Soap: Looks like Konni dropped in on ya, eh Ghost?
Ghost: Wasn't in the mood for visitors...
Farah: Got movement ahead.
Shepherd: Likely an ambush.
Gaz: Not an ambush if we hit them first...
Price: Good call, Gaz- Farah and Soap, keep left. Gaz, go right with Shepherd.
Soap: On the move. Wind's picking up.
Farah: Snow incoming.
Shepherd: Feels good to be behind the barrel again./Everybody ready?
Soap: Somebody tape his mouth shut.
Price and his team move up close enough to attack Konni.
Shepherd: Got the upper hand now...
Soap: Shhhhh...
Gaz: Shhhhh...
Price: Shhhhh...
Gaz: Just point and shoot when the time is right, General.
Price and his team engage the enemy.
Konni Soldier: Open fire!
Price: Slot 'em!
The enemy soldiers engage with their reinforcements.
(Every time Price and his team use the snow for cover...)
Soap: Crack in the ice could make for good cover.
Farah: They can't see us through the snow either. Use it.
Konni Soldier: Don't lose visual!; Target's obscured by the snow.
Soap: They're pushing up with reinforcements!
A Konni sniper opens fire on the team from the top of the crane.
Price: Sniper on the crane!
Soap: Use the snow for cover.
Farah: Enemies spotted on the cargo ship!
Price kills the sniper.
Gaz: They'll lose us in the flurries- take advantage of it.
(Every time Price kills an enemy soldier...)
Price: Downed him.; Got him!; Dispatched!; Dropped him for you!; You're welcome.; Took another out!; Good bloody effect on target.; Don't mind if I do...
Gaz: Thermals up...!
Farah: Switching to thermals.
An enemy vehicle appears in the area.
Gaz: Heads up! Enemy vehicle at the docks!
Soap: Roger, thermals.
Gaz: Taking effective fire at the docks!
Soap: Takin' heat from the cargo ship!
(If Price runs low on ammo...)
Price: Almost out!; Low ammo!
Soap: I have ammo here!
Konni soldiers deploy RPGs in the area.
Soap: RPGs up ahead!
Gaz: RPG reloading, take him out!
Price shoots down the RPG soldiers.
Price: RPGs down!
Price and his team reduce the enemy ranks to a small group.
Soap: Their ranks are thinning.
Gaz: Keep pushing them back.
Eventually, all the Konni soldiers are eliminated.
Farah: Shipyard's all clear!
Price: Good guns, Bravo- Solid shots, Farah...
Shepherd: This isn't over until we're on that bird.
Price: Ghost, we're coming to you.
Ghost: Roping LZ near the boat now. Form up on my mark- AO is hot.
(If Price doesn't move immediately...)
Price: Move to the mark, Price.
Price and his team make their way through the shipyard to Ghost's location. They spot more Konni soldiers firing on Ghost.
Soap: Spotted- Eyes on, L.T.
Farah: On you, Captain- Exfil is marked.
Gaz: Exil point ahead- On you, Six. 
Soap: Ready when you are, sir. 
Price and his team assist Ghost in killing the remaining enemy soldiers in the area.
Gaz: All clear.
Ghost: This way, Bravo.
Price and his teammates rally up with Ghost.
Laswell: Watcher to Bravo-6. What's your status, John?/John, what's the sitrep?
Price: At the LZ. Need to hold position until Nik's on station with the helo./LZ is hot. Get Nik inbound but hold him off until we're clear.
Ghost: Gear up. There'll be more of 'em here soon.
Price and his team acquire weapons and ammo as they prepare for the final enemy onslaught.
Farah: Konni reinforcements heading our way!
Price and his team fight off the infantry until all the soldiers are dead.
Ghost: Konni vehicles incoming.
Shepherd: They sent a whole damn company after us!
Price: Keep laying down fire! We can't leave until they're clear.
Konni armored vehicles arrive on the scene and attack TF-141. Price helps his teammates to dispatch the vehicles and soldiers manning them.
(Every time Price destroys an enemy vehicle or kills a Konni soldier...)
Price: Eliminated.; Threat neutralized.
Ghost/Soap: Nice one.; Quick and dirty, Captain!; Nice work!
Another wave of Konni reinforcements arrive.
Ghost: More Konni vehicles incoming.
The enemy reinforcements try to outmaneuver TF-141.
Gaz: They're flanking us!
Price: Bravo- Shift left! 
Ghost: Lay down fire!
Eventually, the last of the Konni reinforcements have been eliminated.
Price: Bravo, we clear?
Ghost: All clear.
Price: Nik, what's your ETA?
Nikolai: Touching down in thirty.
Price: LZ's clear!
Nikolai: Copy-- Approaching now, Captain.
Nikolai arrives and lands his helicopter on the frozen ice.
Nikolai: Touch down! Ready when you are, Captain!
Price opens the helicopter door. He and all of TF-141, along with Shepherd, get onboard.
Nikolai: All in?!
Price: Affirm- get her up!
Nikolai's helicopter takes off and flies away from the battlefield.
Nikolai: Laswell, six on deck- we're RTB.
Laswell: Copy that. Fly safe...
The level ends.
Cut to black.
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