The Rook: Contact/Transcript

==Cutscene==
The scene opens with a journal, a telephone, a stack of chips, a coffee mug, and a stack of folders on the desk.
Marshall: We went through everything inside that box from the casino's Archive Room. Sev and Felix were right.
The scene shifts to a stack of bills being sifted in a money counter.
Marshall: The Luttazzis were moving Pantheon cash through the casino-with a healthy cut in return.
A couple of computer monitors are shown displaying data.
Marshall: We got the breakthrough we needed. Records of wire transfers to a lab in southern Iraq. Directed to Matvey Gusev.
The words "SOUTHERN IRAQ" and "GUSEV" are laid out on the screens.
Marshall: We'll notify Adler so he can take a look on the ground.
The camera pans down to a clock that reads 10:31 and ticking. The clock cover bursts open to reveal a red biohazard symbol.
Marshall: Time is short, but if we can get our hands on the Pantheon's bioweapon expert... We just might break this whole thing open.
The screen cuts to black.
==Gameplay==
The Rook: Contact
William "Case" Calderon
Burgas Province, Bulgaria
February 11, 1991 - 21:36 EET
Case stands with a troubled Felix outside the safe house listening to Woods regaling his stories to Marshall and Sev.
Woods: And I say, "Look, you know you're in D.C., not fuckin' Alaska, all right?"
Marshall and Sev laugh. Case hands Felix a bottle of beer as Russell Adler's voice rings out over the radio.
Adler: Rook, this is Bishop. Pick up.
Marshall: Quiet, quiet.
Felix: When in Rome, I suppose.
Felix takes the bottle and drinks from it.
Adler: Rook, pick up. We have a problem.
Marshall: Case, Felix.
Felix gestures to Case.
Felix: After you.
Case and Felix join Woods, Marshall, and Sev at a burning fuel drum. Marshall holds up a walkie-talkie in his hand.
Marshall: We'll get back to that. It's Adler. Say again.
Adler: Marshall. He's gone.
Marshall: Elaborate.
Adler: The lab's empty. And Gusev fled. 
Woods: So we're fucked.
Woods tosses his beer bottle in the fire.
Adler: Not yet. One scientist was still inside with a canister of the Cradle. Like the one we picked up at the palace.
Sev: And?
Adler: We had a stimulating conversation.
Marshall: How stimulating?
Adler: It's a frame-up. Pantheon's activities will point right to Saddam Hussein. Gusev's heading to the Kuwaiti airport as we speak.
Marshall: Well, that airport's in a warzone. Even if we head your way soon, can we reach it?
Adler: I have a CENTCOM connection in the area. He might be willing to help us.
Marshall: Might, huh. Well, if we leave within the hour, we'll make it by morning. Out.
Marshall switches off the walkie-talkie.
Marshall: Case, let's get ready. We'll get some shuteye on the way.
Woods and Marshall walk back into the safe house. If Case stays outside, he can listen to a conversation between Sev and Felix.
Sev: You were impressive today. Finally, the legendary Felix Neumann in action.
Felix: [chuckles] Yes.
Sev: What's on your mind?
Felix: I need to make a confession.
Sev: [laughs] I'm the furthest thing from a priest, Felix, but speak your peace.
Felix: I am deeply ashamed of my actions in the casino.
Sev: You take this "non-violence" thing seriously.
Felix: Quite. But then, I saw Luttazzi thugs beating a defenseless man. Mercilessly. A senseless act of power.
Sev: No one is innocent in that city.
Felix: Afterwards, when I encountered the guard outside the vault, I lost control. In my eyes, he transformed into the avatar of everything I now reject. So, I punished him.
Sev: Good. It was probably less than what he deserved.
Felix: If I lose myself to this endeavor, I am no better than the very enemy we seek to stop, ja?
Sev: Save your pity for the victims. You did what was needed to be done.
Felix: No. My reaction was catharsis. An indulgence.
Sev: Harrow and the Pantheon won't be stopped with kind words and gentle attitudes.
Sev starts to walk away.
Felix: There is always a choice, Sevati.
Sev: Not always.
At this point, the player is free to do anything else before the next mission.
Case can overhear a conversation between Marshall and Woods.
Marshall: You hear back from Livingstone?
Felix: No. But, Felix sent him everything we know about Harrow and the Pantheon. Harrow might still have his ear. Or she doesn't, but he still doesn't trust us. Who fuckin' knows.
Marshall: He's gotta be rattled either way.
Woods wheels away, leaving Marshall alone.
<tabber>
Marshall=
Marshall: Hey. I'll start packing up soon.
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Woods=
Woods: Hey. What's going on?
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Felix=
If Case interacts with Felix:
Felix: Perhaps, a reevaluation of my priorities is in order.; This team deserves my best efforts.
</tabber>
At this point, the player is free to do anything else before the next mission.
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