The Rook: Recovery/Transcript

== Cutscene ==
A film projector is set up by Felix as Woods enters. Felix tilts his head for Woods to turn around. Woods sees Marshall and Sev enter.
Woods: Hey. Something you should see.
Sev: No popcorn?
Woods: I'm serious.
Marshall: All right, you got my attention.
Felix enters the floppy disk recovered from Iraq into the computer and begins playing archival footage just as Marshall sits down.
Marshall: You cracked the disk.
Felix: Indeed.
The footage reveals the date to be December 29, 1990 as Matvey Gusev is seen in a science facility.
Gusev: No. No, no, no. You must make sure-yes, you have it.
The footage zooms in on a human test subject sitting in a holding cell.
Scientist: Ready, Dr. Gusev?
Gusev looks at his watch and nods.
Gusev: Bring her in.
The door to the cell opens and an erratic female prisoner is thrown into the cell next to the male by a masked guard.
Gusev: Test Subject 18 has been infected with the Cradle. She's now in proximity to our control subject. (checks his watch) Transmission should occur momentarily.
Gusev motions with his finger to begin the test. The male prisoner frantically bangs his hands on the cell window.
Control Subject: No, no, please, please! Help! No! No, please-
Marshall: It's a biological weapon. We know this already.
Felix: Keep watching.
Marshall, Sev, and Woods continue to watch the footage as the two prisoners begin to writhe in agony. An offscreen female voice is heard.
Offscreen Voice: Is it faster this time?
Gusev: Faster, yes. And more aggressive-as requested.
The camera footage reveals Jane Harrow as the source of the new voice. Marshall looks on in disbelief.
Harrow: Wonderful.
The two prisoners start physically attacking each other in a primal rage. 
Sev: Isn't that your friend, Harrow?
Woods looks at Sev with a scowl on his face. Felix watches in horror at the experiment being carried out.
Harrow: You did it.
Gusev: Apparently so.
Marshall stands up and flips over his chair.
Marshall: Turn it off.
Felix: There's still a few more-
Marshall: I said turn it off!
Marshall flings the film projector to the ground in rage and storms out of the room, leaving the others alone.
The screen cuts to black.
== Gameplay ==
The Rook: Recovery
William "Case" Calderon
Burgas Province, Bulgaria
February 10, 1991 - 09:15 EET
William "Case" Calderon opens the main door to the safe house and spots Sev hauling a heavy piece of rolled up fabric on his shoulder from the van.
Sev: Need you!
Case holds the door open for Sev until she drops the fabric to the ground.
Sev: Grab the other end, will you?
Case and Sev grab both ends of the fabric and lift it up, carrying it together through the house.
Sev: Good to see you up. I imagine that bender you were on is still taking a toll. And, you know...learning that your friend is a huge bitch. At least, you missed the house collapse last night. Right into the water. I don't know about you, but I might start sleeping outside.
Case and Sev reach the table outside the mission briefing room.
Sev: Let's drop them right here. I don't want to bother Marshall.
Felix: Somebody! So sloppy...
Sev motions for Case to follow her and join Felix inside the mission briefing room.
Sev: What? This again?
Felix: It's near the end of the video. Listen.
Felix plays back the video footage as audio plays out.
Gusev: [GARBLED]-B24, a wire from Fucina.
Sev: Okay...
Felix: Listen. I was able to isolate Gusev's audio: this moment in the background. Now.
Felix plays back the audio clip again with a cleaner background this time.
Gusev: [GARBLED]-B24, a wire from Fucina.
Felix: "B24, a wire from Fucina."
Woods joins in the conversation. Marshall stands off at a distance.
Woods: Who the hell's Fucina?
Felix: I have no idea.
Sev: Not who. What. Fucina is the Casino Luttazzi. Only the Luttazzis and their business partners use that alias. Adler suspected an Avalon faction was connected with the Pantheon. Now we know.
Marshall walks in closer to the gathering.
Marshall: Not bad. What about B24?
Felix: I have done some work for the Luttazzis-regrettable, yet profitable. I have a contact that might be willing to shed light on that. 
Marshall: Woods, help Felix connect the dots here. Sev, you too. We need a plan.
Marshall walks away to work more on repairs to the house. Sev follows after him.
Sev: Marshall.
Sev joins Marshall in his repairs where a huge swath of fabric covers the area where the house collapsed.
Sev: Can I talk to you?
Marshall doesn't respond.
Sev: You're unusually quiet.
Marshall hands Sev a hammer.
Marshall: Give me a hand with this.
Sev: Harrow meant that much to you?
Marshall: We working or we talking?
Sev: Not trying to push. But, it's clear you're taking this pretty hard.
Marshall: Wouldn't you?
Sev: Yes. I suppose I would. And did.
Marshall: Don't.
Sev: What?
Marshall: Don't act you know how I'm feeling.
Sev: Your pain is your own, Marshall. But, I'm no stranger to betrayal.
Marshall stops working and stands up angrily.
Marshall: Yeah? How 'bout when the person you trusted the most turns out to be a supervillain? How 'bout that?
Sev: Tragedy is not a competition.
Marshall: I don't want a pep talk right now.
Sev: I am trying to tell you what you need to hear. Not what you want to hear.
Marshall: And you think that this is what I need right now?
Sev lays down the work hammer.
Sev: I was once like you. Did what I was told. Trusted what the people in my life told me. Know what that got me?
Marshall: A life of crime.
Sev: Loss. The only person real in my life. The only person who saw me, the real me. Gone forever. (voice breaking) And I pulled the trigger.
Marshall: Sev, I-
Sev: The rules have changed! The game hasn't Either accept defeat or take a stand.
Sev walks away and leans against the doorway.
The player can now speak with their teammates.
<tabber>
Marshall=
If Case interacts with Marshall:
Marshall: A broken wall. Just what we needed, right?
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Woods=
Woods: Case. Beginning to think you're invincible.
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Sev=
Sev: Been a day, huh, Case?
{{#tag:tabber|
You okay?=
Sev: The person you trust the most is the one most capable of hurting you. I do feel for Marshall.
The following dialogue can be chosen after asking Sev on how she's feeling.
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Felix=
If Case interacts with Felix:
Felix: No one here believes you're contagious, Case. But a little more space-if you don't mind.
</tabber>
The player is free to do anything else before the next mission.
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