Bishop Takes Rook/Transcript

== Intro ==
Scene of the U.S. Capitol Building being projected on the wall with the year 1989 before switching to some guns falling on top of its stockpile.
Reagan: Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.
Scene of The Washington Telegraph publishing the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Reagan: ...an entire class of US-Soviet nuclear missiles is eliminated.
Scene of VHS tapes shown and a television showing a man talking on the phone and a container truck driving in a populated area filled with citizens and cars before switching and first introducing Troy Marshall.
Gorbachev: ...means that... the era of nuclear disarmament has begun.
Scene of a newspaper publishing the end of the Cold War and showing Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev shaking hands before switching and introducing Jane Harrow.
Bush: ...forced the world into war. We will stay the course, and we will succeed.
Scene of a newspaper publishing about President George H. W. Bush and the Nuclear Arms Reduction before switching and introducing Sevati Dumas, Felix Neumann, and Frank Woods.
Bush: There can be no pause now...
A television showing breaking news about U.S. troops being deployed to Iraq.
Bush: And there can be no doubt Operation Desert Storm is working.
Scene of a television with fire and smoke in the background before several newspapers cover it and show the year 1991 before reintroducing the cast, showing the title - Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - and fading to black.
== Cutscene ==
Livingstone: Are you denying that?
Harrow: We have discussed it already-
Marshall: What more do you want, Livingstone?
Livingstone: Enough!
Cutscene shows the interrogation room, with Daniel Livingstone slamming a file onto the table as he conducts the investigation.
Livingstone: You disobeyed a direct order, Mr. Marshall, when it was clear your op was compromised.
Marshall: With all due respect, sir - you weren't there.
Livingstone: And the group that compromised you, the... Pantheon. You sure that's who they were?
Woods: That's what Alawi called 'em. When are you gonna tell us what's really goin' on here?
Cutscene shows Woods in a wheelchair going for a cigarette, lighting and smoking it.
Livingstone: I'm asking the questions, Mr. Woods.
Harrow: Sir, if you read the report-
Livingstone: I read your report, Ms. Harrow. Some of it I still find hard to believe. That's why we're going to go over events again. Only this time... I want to hear it from Marshall. From the beginning.
Marshall and Woods glance over each other before the former takes off his glasses.
Marshall: We were in position near the Iraq-Kuwait border. Small team. Me, Harrow, and Case.
The cutscene cuts to black.
Kuwait 1991
An overview of the land with fires coming from a dozen towns before switching to a view of a convoy.
Harrow: Heh. Alawi is ahead of schedule.
Scene shows Harrow and Marshall observing the convoy.
Marshall: Whoever he's meeting won't wait around for long.
Harrow: No. Not if it's a smuggler. I'm sure Alawi's paid top dollar to get himself out of the Middle East.
Marshall: Guess it doesn't really matter. He's coming with us.
Marshall flips his cap backwards and gets on his scope.
Marshall: Outlaw 42, we've got our eyes on the convoy. Painting the target. Over.
Scene shows Outlaw 42's jet and pilot.
USAF Pilot: Roger, Ground. Target confirmed. Waiting on your go. Over.
Scene switches back to Harrow and Marshall.
Harrow: Do it.
Marshall: Outlaw 42, you're clear to engage. Out.
Harrow readies her gun.
Harrow: Let's go get him.
Scene switches back to Outlaw 42.
USAF Pilot: Copy, Ground. Engaging and out. Here comes the traffic jam.
Outlaw 42 drops two bombs at the convoy, causing some vehicles to get destroyed and flipped while the rest of the convoy comes to a halt.
== Gameplay ==
Bishop Takes Rook
William "Case" Calderon
Kuwait, Al-Jahra
January 23, 1991 - 05:20 AST
The team in the truck drives up towards the convoy.
Harrow: He'll be in the middle of the convoy. And remember, Livingstone wants Alawi alive.
Marshall: Noted. Faraj, straight to the exfil point.
Faraj: Yes, yes. Do not concern.
Marshall: Five minutes.
Harrow, Marshall, and Case exit the truck.
Harrow: Alawi is a Minister of Defense and close to Saddam. His guys will be well-trained and heavily armed.
Marshall: Movement. Truck doors.
Harrow: Got it.
Harrow: There's that shooting I remember. (If Case shoots at the two hostiles.)
Marshall: Two targets down.
Harrow: More to come. Keep pushing into the smoke.
An enemy screams while on fire before Marshall kills him.
Marshall: And another one.
Harrow: They'll know we're here soon. Be ready.
Marshall: Threats ahead.
The team spotted the enemies at the convoy and begin firing.
Marshall: Let's do this!
Harrow: Engaging.
Harrow: Alawi's in a black truck. Clear the road, let's find him fast!
Marshall: Copy, black truck!
Marshall: Keep pushing up, Case. Find Alawi!
The team searches for the black truck while they neutralize the threats.
Harrow: Use the vehicles for cover!
Marshall: Black truck, we gotta get eyes on it!
Marshall: By the fence!
Harrow: Got one in the road!
Harrow/Marshall: Behind the truck!
Harrow: Troy, do you have visual on the truck?
Marshall: Negative!
Harrow: Alawi was in the middle of the convoy! Keep pushing up the road!
Marshall: Copy, we'll find him!
The team spots the black truck.
Harrow: I got eyes on Alawi's truck. Middle of the road.
Marshall: With you.
Harrow: Case, take the door.
(If Case doesn't immediately move...)
Marshall: She's waiting on you.
Case opens the door...
Alawi: !لا (No!)
...with Alawi jumping and grabbing Case.
Harrow: Alawi!
Harrow hits Alawi on his head with the butt of her rifle.
Marshall: I got it.
Marshall and Case grab Alawi.
Marshall: Stay calm! We're not here to hurt you.
Alawi: CIA? We had a deal!
Marshall: A deal? Not with us. Where you headed?
Alawi: كل خرا (Eat shit), you lie! Your man was getting me out!
Marshall: Our man? Who exactly-
A few helicopters fly by the team.
Marshall: That us?
Harrow: No. It's not Iraqi either.
Alawi: Pantheon.
Marshall: Pantheon?
Alawi: We need to leave. You won't stand a chance against them.
Harrow: They haven't spotted us. Let's keep it that way. Come on.
Case helps Alawi up as the two, Marshall, and Harrow start walking before the screen fades to black.
== Cutscene #2 ==
Present Day
Livingstone: Let me get this straight, Mr. Marshall. The group you claim to be the Pantheon... was a "multinational, heavily armed paramilitary force" that showed up out of the blue.
Livingstone closes the file and drops it on the table.
Livingstone: At this point, you're told to wait for backup, but you decide to play cowboy instead.
Marshall: We had to act fast. Our window was-
Livingstone: Ms. Harrow, did he or did he not disobey your order?
Harrow: Yes, sir. But the accelerated timetable-
Livingstone: That's what I thought. I've come to expect this from you.
Livingstone points his finger to Marshall.
Livingstone: But not from you.
Livingstone now pointing at Harrow.
Harrow: Sir, our objective was to recover Alawi by any means necessary-
Livingstone: Oh, I'm aware. So, care to explain why he's on a slab in the morgue right now?
Marshall: Things got... complicated.
The cutscene cuts to black.
== Gameplay #2 ==
Kuwait
The team and Alawi oversee some choppers unloading their soldiers.
Marshall: Who are these people?
Alawi: The Pantheon is composed of former European and US operatives. I don't know who leads them.
Harrow: They're blocking our exfil. We call in reinforcements and wait.
Marshall: Wait? The hell with that. Faraj, come in. We're headed your way.
Harrow: No, we're compromised. Alawi will slow us down.
Marshall: Alawi, you going with us or the Pantheon?
Alawi: I'm going with you.
Marshall takes out his pistol and hands it to Alawi.
Harrow: Dammit, Troy.
Marshall: Smart man. Case, let's start by softening 'em up.
Case selects an RC-XD car from his backpack.
Marshall: Let's get to work, Case.
Case deploys an RC-XD car and uses it to detonate near the Pantheon soldiers, killing them.
Marshall: That's our opening!
Harrow: Let's punch through it!
The team and Alawi engage the enemies while moving forward.
Harrow: These Pantheon boys can fight!
Marshall: Keep moving to the rally point! South of the convoy!
Harrow: Keep pushing to the RP!
Alawi: (His name turns yellow) In the bushes!
Alawi: They are behind cover!; That one is taking cover!; Up ahead!
The team kills all Pantheon soldiers and they move up.
Marshall: Rally point's through that canyon!
Alawi: You could be leading us into an ambush!
Harrow: It's the only way out.
Marshall: Faraj, we're getting close.
Faraj doesn't respond.
Marshall: Faraj, come in!
Alawi: Are you sure he'll be there?
Harrow: You just worry about not slowing us down. 
The team starts to move through the canyon.
Harrow: We're open targets down here. Pantheon could pick us apart...
While proceeding forward, Pantheon soldiers come by and start firing at the team.
Marshall: Contact! Pantheon has the high ground!
Alawi: You cannot let them take me!
The team moves up with more Pantheon soldiers waiting for them.
Marshall: We're almost to the RP, Case. Keep pushing!
Alawi: Up ahead!
Alawi: That one is taking cover!
Alawi: Behind the trucks!
The team clears out all threats.
Harrow: Clear!
Marshall: Rally point's to the west! Go! Why the hell do these guys want you so bad, Alawi!?
Alawi: Get me out of here and I will tell you everything I know.
Marshall: Damn right you will!
Harrow: Or I'll kill you myself!
Marshall: Faraj will meet us at the bottom.
The team jumps down towards the rally point just as their truck arrives.
Marshall: Faraj! Think we're good.
Harrow: Everyone all right?
Case helps Alawi up and starts escorting him to the truck.
Alawi: Is this your-
The scene starts to move in slow-motion before the driver is revealed to be Russell Adler - armed with a pistol - as he walk towards Saeed Alawi...
Alawi: No, no, no, no-
...and shoots him in the head, killing him, before resuming back to normal.
Harrow: Adler!
Marshall: Stand down!
Adler starts fighting against Harrow and Marshall before the two manage to apprehend him, with Marshall holding Adler around his neck, while Case moves a deceased Alawi out of the way and gets up.
Marshall: Wait 'til Woods gets a load of this. Goddamn Russell Adler. CIA traitor. You been on the run, what, ten months?
Adler: Marshall, huh. Woods's new project. You can ease up, son. I'm all done here.
Marshall lets go of Adler before the former puts the latter's hands behind his back and ties them up.
Adler: Jane.
Harrow: You just killed a high value target in cold blood.
Harrow aims her pistol at Adler.
Harrow: AND put our national security at risk.
Adler: Alawi can't fall into the Pantheon's hands. Or Langley's. The CIA is compromised. But it's not me. I'm just the fall guy.
Marshall: You expect us to believe that? Hey, Jane, you wanna tape his mouth shut for me?
Harrow: Yes.
Adler: Wait. I got a message for Woods.
Marshall: Oh yeah?
Adler: Tell him - "Bishop takes Rook".
Marshall: The hell's that supposed to mean?
A helicopter is heard nearby.
Harrow: Time to go.
Marshall: In the truck.
The chopper starts firing at the team as they hop in the truck with a restrained Adler and start driving away.
Harrow: Case, you got the launcher. We'll shoot him down.
Case grabs the CIGMA 2B launcher.
Harrow: There! On our six!
Adler: You can't outrun this!
Harrow: Take him out!
Marshall: Swat that bird out of the sky, Case!
Case fires a missile at the chopper, but it deploys flares and evades the missile.
Adler: What the hell are you waiting for!?
Harrow: We to hit him with a rocket!
Case fires again, but the chopper deploys flares and evades the missile again before it fires its own missile towards the truck.
Harrow: INCOMING!
The missile nearly hits the truck.
Marshall: Hold on!
Marshall manages to rebalance the truck.
Marshall: Everybody good?
Harrow: We're solid.
Adler: For now.
Harrow: Come on, Case! I need you!
Case fires again and successfully hits the chopper.
Harrow: Bullseye!
However, the chopper crash-lands in front of the truck's path.
Harrow: Wait, Troy, look out!
Marshall: Fasten your seatbelts!
The debris of the destroyed chopper rains down near the truck.
Adler: Oh, shit-!
Marshall manages to avoid the debris and escape with his team and Adler.
Marshall: Woo! That's how you drive!
Harrow: No visible threats in the airspace. We're clear. Now to face the music on Alawi...
Adler: Good luck with that.
The screen fades to black.
== Cutscene #3 ==
Present Day
Livingstone: Anything else to add?
Harrow: Sir, despite breach of conduct and losing Alawi, apprehending Russell Adler is a categorical windfall.
Livingstone: [sarcastically] Yes, Ms. Harrow. Bringing in a rogue operative is certainly a win. 
Livingstone: Russell Adler. The mole who betrayed us in Panama. The man responsible for your current... condition, Mr. Woods. So why was he trying to tell you something in Kuwait? "Bishop takes Rook". Any idea what that means?
Woods takes one final smoke from his cigarette before putting it out on the ashtray.
Woods: No clue.
Livingstone: Okay then. Based on Harrow's reluctant report-
Livingstone: And the withholding of critical information regarding Russell Adler-
Livingstone: Your team is suspended.
Marshall: Are you for real?
Woods: This is bullshit.
Livingstone: As for you, Ms. Harrow, consider yourself on very, very thin ice.
Woods: People like me and Adler are the reason we ain't speakin' Russian right now.
Livingstone: The Cold War is over, Mr. Woods. That makes you and Russell Adler the last global gunslingers of a bygone era. Take this time to reflect on that. Dismissed. All of you.
Woods grabs his cigarette case and leaves.
Harrow: [To Marshall] My office in five.
Harrow proceeds to leave.
Livingstone: I'd advise you not to pursue this further, Marshall.
Marshall stares at Livingstone before he gets up and leaves the interrogation room before the screen cuts to black. 
In Harrow's office, Marshall is observing a picture on the wall before Harrow comes by and opens a can beverage.
Harrow: Heh. Are you admiring your own work?
Marshall: Can't believe you kept it.
The cutscene reveals a sketched drawing of Jane Harrow created by Troy Marshall.
Harrow: Not all reminders need to be scars.
While the two have a moment, Woods interrupts them.
Woods: Why are we here, Harrow?
Harrow: Because you know something. Care to tell me what it is you're up to?
Harrow sits down at her desk.
Woods: Me and the kids just need some time away. You know, take a little trip. Reflect a little.
Harrow: Look, I can cover your asses on my end best I can, but if things go sideways again, you're on your own.
Woods: Copy that.
Woods proceeds to leave.
Marshall: Owe you one.
Harrow: One? Yeah, try a dozen. Do me a favor, Troy -- don't get yourself killed.
Marshall: I'll see what I can do.
Marshall leaves Harrow's office before the screen cuts to black and the mission ends.
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