Cuba Briefing/Transcript

==Cutscene==
=== TWO DAYS LATER ===
Hudson's voice can be heard talking to Black over the recovered sleeper agent files.
Hudson: It's about time. Been waiting for your call.
Black: They caused a hell of a mess in Moscow. Was it worth it?
Hudson: Adler managed to get the list of sleeper agent names, despite himself. He's got balls, I'll give him that.
Black: Bell did well.
Hudson: Seemingly. But, I think that team is getting too comfortable. They're acting like they know who they're dealing with.
Black: Perhaps.
Two TV monitors show a nuclear facility in operation and being manned by scientists.
Hudson: Turns out one of those sleeper agents is tied to Operation Greenlight. Theodore Hastings. He's a nuclear engineer based out of Salt Lake City.
A photograph of Theodore Hastings is being developed in a darkroom.
Black: And you believe Hastings is the one he'll activate?
Hudson: Exactly. Total surveillance is already underway. It's only a matter of time before he leads us straight to Perseus.
Cut to black.
===CIA SAFEHOUSE E9, "DIE LANDEBAHN"===
"Bell", MI6/CIA/KGB/Classfied
52.5200 N, 13.4050 E, West Berlin
March 12, 1981
The CIA Black Ops team is assembled in the CIA safe house with Adler in front of the evidence board.
Adler: This is it. The recent movements of Theodore Hastings has led us here.
Adler points to a spot on the evidence board.
Adler: Cuba. Right in our backyard.
Park: A vacant government facility in the Cuban countryside has become a hub of activity for Perseus. And the likely location of the stolen nuke.
Lazar: No doubt Castro allowed it.
Woods: Twenty bucks to anyone who can bring him down before me.
Lazar: Who, Castro or Perseus?
Woods: Whoever.
Mason, Woods, and Lazar bump fists.
Hudson: We are not gonna let him move this nuke inside the States. It's time to take down Perseus once and for all. Team wrap up any unfinished business. Once we strike, there's no turning back.
The team disperses to conduct their business. Hudson walks up to Woods.
Hudson: Woods. Don't get any bright ideas over there.
Woods: Yeah. You've got my "sure as shit" guarantee, Hudson!
Park walks up to Adler.
Park: May I have a word?
Adler: What's up?
Park: I need a few minutes of your time to discuss something. In private.
Adler: Let's talk.
Adler and Park walk into a room.
Park: I can pass easily in Spain. In Havana, they'll identify me as a gringa as soon as I open my mouth.
Adler and Park close the door and close the window blinds.
Sims and Lazar inspect a deadly-looking sniper rifle.
Sims: Decked out with all my specifications?
Lazar: Mmm hmm. Won't find half-baked rigs here.
Sims: Feels nice. I think I'm ready to ruin someone's day.
Lazar: How 'bout we grab a bite to eat on the way out, eh? Get properly fueled up.
Sims: Food before a fight? Nah. Come morning of the attack, I need to be hungry, like a predator. C'mon. Let's get this baby sighted in.
Lazar: Fella's gotta eat.
Sims: Hey, I like the bladed marksman trigger. Nice touch.
Lazar: Two and a quarter pound pull. Just how you like it. I could go for two quarter pound hamburgers right now...
[Mason and Woods]
Woods: Look alive, it's Adler's protege.
Mason: Bell.
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Is there some history between you and Fidel Castro?=
Woods: Are you fuckin' serious right now?
Mason: Don't get him started...
Woods holds up a hand.
Woods: Nah nahnah hold on, lemme set the record straight.
Mason: Here we go...
Woods: So yeah - Castro and I have some history between us. I had the opportunity to off the man but our intel was flubbed. That sent a tidal wave of shit all the way up to DC! So, if I find out that Perseus is in cahoots with Castro - and - Hudson happens to find one of my bullets in Fidel's head, well... I say chalk it up to collateral damage.
Mason: Huh. Kept it under five minutes. I was expecting a diatribe.
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Were you hunting Perseus in Vietnam too?=
Mason: Nah, we were after a different spy in Khe Sanh. That's right. Our team was right next to Adler's when we touched down in Hue City.
Woods: That's also the first time I had the misfortune of meeting Hudson. In all those years, nothing's changed. He still has the personality of a wet fuckin' blanket.
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You guys are legends. It's an honor to serve with you two.=
Mason: (laughs) You here that? We're fucking legends.
Woods: Yeah. Wherever we go, we bring the thunder. Man, get the fuck outta here with that shit. You seemed pretty unimpressed over in Faketown, USA. Or are you talking about Mason right now?
Mason: (mock salute) As I live and breathe.
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Woods, Hudson seems concerned about you.=
Woods: You got a point in saying that?
Mason: (glaringly) You sound concerned too. If you're trying to be friendly, this is the dumbest way to go about it.
Mason and Woods crack a smile.
Woods: We're just fuckin' with ya! (serious) He should be concerned.
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You seem calm, considering the gravity of this mission.=
Woods: Yeah, well you just snuck into the KGB with Adler, hacked their database and got out in one piece. And I'll be going in with my boy here. If I were Perseus, I'd be running for the hills!
Mason: And I'd be calling in a mortar strike on that hill.
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Feels like this Perseus mission began a lifetime ago.=
Mason: For Adler, it's a culmination of three decades of meticulous tracking. He'll probably be extra pissy on this mission. I advise you to stay focused and drop the nostalgia.
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I am focused. This is for Sims and Adler. And for me.=
Mason: Good. Then you're ready.
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I hope we have the manpower to pull this off.=
Woods: Look. You better buck up, buddy. Adler's gonna want you more committed than a grenade without its pin.
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[Exit] Later.=
Woods: Yep.
Mason: Later, Bell.
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[Hudson]
Hudson is on the phone talking to one of his contacts.
Hudson: (on phone Hold on. (to Bell) Make it quick. I'm busy.
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Infiltrating Lubyanka went well.=
Hudson: Indeed it did. Our insider delivered in a big way. As for you, the baseline expectation around here is to surpass every expectation. So, from the bottom of my ass, welcome to the team. 
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Are you concerned about Woods on this mission?=
Hudson: I'm not in the business of discussing my personal views on team members to subordinates. Anything else?
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What if we find a live nuke in Cuba?=
Hudson: Plan A is Agent Azoulay. We didn't pick Lazar for his charisma. He's an expert in bomb defusal. If it's live and he can't disarm it, you're still gonna get that nuke out of there. Bring a change of pants.
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Shouldn't we have a larger strike team?=
Hudson: Negative. Even at this size, Perseus could catch our scent on the wind and try to relocate. In this scenario, less is more.
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With a nuclear war at stake, our intel better be solid.=
Hudson: It's as good as it's gonna get. The intelligence community has spent years trying to track Perseus to a concrete location. This guy lives between the lines of recorded history. Nothing would put a bigger smile on my face than you personally putting him down.
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[Exit] Thanks for your time.=
Hudson: The projector's in the back corner if you need to go over any details from the briefing.
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Bell walks over to the evidence board to begin the mission.
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