Prologue

Prologue is a short, cinematic cutscene that marks the beginning of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It is the continuing clip from the mission "Endgame" from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The mission starts out as Captain John Price and Nikolai try to extract Soap to a safehouse located in Northern India, searching for medical help after having been stabbed by General Shepherd. The player takes control of John "Soap" MacTavish.
==Characters==
*John "Soap" MacTavish (playable, W.I.A.)
*John Price
*Nikolai
*The Doctor 
*Imran Zakhaev (flashback, K.I.A.)
*Shepherd (flashback, K.I.A.)
==Plot==
As the player, John "Soap" MacTavish wakes up after his injury caused by General Shepherd back in Afghanistan, he has been brought to a safehouse in Himachal Pradesh, India for medical treatment. Soap wakes up, seeing the propellers of Nikolai's Little Bird as John Price and Nikolai carry Soap on a stretcher to seek him a doctor within the safehouse. As Price and Nikolai try to find medical help, Soap sees many flashbacks from the events of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as he is being carried away.
As Soap is carried underneath an arch moving on a pathway towards the safehouse, he briefly flashbacks to his first mission, where Captain Price is seen smoking a cigar in "Crew Expendable" from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. After being carried past the arch, he flashbacks Price sliding the M1911 towards Soap from the mission "Game Over", and recalls killing Imran Zakhaev. After reaching the safehouse, Soap is being carried through the hallways of the safehouse, as he sees the moment when Price shot down Shepherd's Pave Low in Afghanistan and their falling Zodiac plummeting off of the edge of the waterfall, as seen in "Endgame", from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Price and Nikolai, keeping pressure on Soap's wound, then carry Soap through another hallway. Soap sees the moment where he pulls the knife out of his chest and throws the knife into Shepherd's eye; that too being from "Endgame." As Soap comes back again, he witnesses Price and Nikolai who meet a doctor, as the doctor is told hastily to treat the wound.
Soap begins to black out from blood loss, as Nikolai says, "We're losing him! Charging. Three, two, one. Clear!" The logo of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is seen introducing the game and ending the level.
==Weapon Loadout==
Found in level (unusable)
AK-47 menu icon MW3.png|AK-47
M4A1 menu icon MW3.png|M4A1
M1911 3rd person MW2.png|M1911 .45 - seen during the flashback to Zakhaev's death
==Transcript==
==Achievement/Trophy==
*Back in the Fight (5 / Bronze Trophy ) - Start the Single Player Campaign on any difficulty.
==Gallery==
Soap and Price.png|Captain Price carrying a dying Soap to the safehouse.
Price smoking flashback Prologue MW3.png|Captain Price smoking a cigar in a flashback.
Killing Zakhaev flashback Prologue MW3.png|Soap killing Zakhaev in a flashback.
Chasing Shepherd2 flashback Prologue MW3.png|Soap and Price about to fall down a waterfall in a flashback.
Killing Shepherd flashback Prologue MW3.png|Soap about to kill Shepherd in a flashback.
Soap's headless body Prologue MW3.png|Soap's headless body, seen through noclip.
==Videos==
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - Prologue|Prologue
==Trivia==
*In this mission, Nikolai has a different appearance than he did in "Endgame" from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This is odd because this takes place directly after Modern Warfare 2.
*The geographic coordinates given align with Madhya Pradesh in north-central India which is incorrect since the in-game location is Himachal Pradesh.
*This is the only level in the game in which the player takes control of Soap. He is an NPC for the rest of the game.
*The Wii version of this level is just a video of a pre-rendered version from a different system. This same scenario occurs later in the campaign with the flashback sequence seen in the mission "Blood Brothers".
*There was originally going to be a fifth flashback which showed the end of "Crew Expendable", when Soap jumps into the helicopter. This can be found in the game files, the file name being "india_flashback_5_1.bik"
Unused flashback video Prologue MW3|Fifth unused flashback
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Category:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Single Player Levels