Mark McKnight

Mark McKnight is a supporting character in the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, appearing in the final 1980s mission "Suffer With Me". He is a U.S. Marine and CIA agent who is assigned to assist Alex Mason, Frank Woods and Jason Hudson in capturing Manuel Noriega during Operation Just Cause by providing cover fire.
He was voiced by Andrew Hawkes.
==Biography==
===Background===
Not much is known of Mark McKnight's past, but he was born in 1950 to unnamed parents, and later joined the United States Marine Corps. At some point during his military career, Mark was assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency and became acquainted with fellow agents Alex Mason and Frank Woods. Around the late nineteen-seventies or early nineteen eighties, Mark met a woman named Jane, whom he later married and had children with. Due to his service in the military, McKnight and his family would move to many countries, with the latest being Fort Clayton, Panama in 1989. McKnight also decided to look old case files on his colleagues, and learned of Mason's history of being brainwashed by the Soviets.
===Black Ops II===
In December of 1989, the Central Intelligence Agency assigned McKnight, Mason, Woods and Jason Hudson to capture Manuel Noriega and destroy his reputation. Despite Mark keeping quiet of the country's upcoming invasion, Jane learned of the situation from other military soldiers' wives in the area. Meeting with Mason and Woods, McKnight informed of their mission to ruin Noriega's reputation while working with the Navy SEALs. During the operation, McKnight provides cover fire from a building while Mason and Woods infiltrated the area to reach Noriega. He communicates with Mason and Woods, telling them that the Navy SEALs were securing the area to prevent Noriega from leaving the country. While providing over watch from a building, Mason asks McKnight if Hudson nixed that plan, but Mark responds that if Jason did, he didn't tell him.
Unbeknownst to McKnight or Mason and Woods, Hudson was forced to betray his allies when Raul Menendez captured him and Alex's son David. The outcome of the mission was mostly a success, as Noriega was arrested due to his reputation being ruined, but Menendez would trick an injured Woods into killing/wounding Mason and killing Hudson. It's unknown if Mark was informed of the incident after the invasion, and his status in present day is unknown as well. When Menendez started his plan to destroy the United States, David spoke with Woods on his encounters with the terrorist, and recalled the 1989 operation.
==Gallery==
Mason and McKnight BOII.png|McKnight with Mason and Woods, discussing the operation.
==Trivia==
*Due to him being able to access classified files on Mason's brainwashing, it's possible that McKnight had a middle or high rank within the CIA.
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