whose cuisine reigns supreme

in the not too distant future.on a tired battlefield. war has become routine. war... ...has changed. it's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. it's an endless seriesof proxy battles fought by mercenariesand machines. war,

and its consumption of life, has become a well-oiled machine. war has changed. id-tagged soldierscarry id-tagged weapons, use id-tagged gear. nanomachines inside their bodiesenhance and regulate their abilities. genetic control. information control. emotion control.

battlefield control. everything is monitored and kept under control. the age of deterrencehas become the age of control... all in the name of averting catastrophefrom weapons of mass destruction. and he whocontrols the battlefield... controls history. when the battlefieldis under total control... ...war...

becomes routine. head north. and... try not to run intoany gekko along the way. three days earlier. otacon. even the dead have ears. snake, we've got to go. you've got an old friendwaiting for you.

otacon... the test results... proteome analysis was positive. but the mrna analysisturned up negative. the wrinkled skin,the hardened arteries... your early aging symptomslook like classic werner's syndrome. but none of the tests were ableto pinpoint the cause. so? well...

judging by how rapidlythe aging has progressed, i'd say... a year at best, right? yeah... snake... let's try another doctor. it won't make any difference. i'm not an ordinary manto begin with. not to mention foxdie. you're right.

but we don't knowwhere naomi is... naomi... ah, snake! colonel! good to see you. i'm not a colonel anymore, snake. i figured the only placei'd ever see you dressed like that would be at your daughter's wedding. what are you doing these days?

i'm working for an organizationunder the un security council... ...the analysis and assessment staff of the pmc oversightand inspection committee. i remember the resolutionbeing passed a few years ago. i came across some... ...information in my work. we've found him... in the middle east. what?

only two eggs today? solidus must have taken the day off. 7-8 9-2 5-9-0-3-6-0... 3-3-0 5-3 0-5... 4-8 8-2 0-4-6-6-5-2... act i :liquid sun the manhattan incidenttriggered a serious public backlash. now the us hasto think twice before intervening militarilyin other countries' affairs.

this has fueled a pushtowards military privatization, with pmcs at the heartof that movement. pmcs... private military companies. that's right. pmcs have no basisin nations or ideologies. they are private enterprises,driven by profit. in addition to dispatchingmercenaries to war zones, they secure weaponsand train local soldiers. they're contractors for war itself,

and business is good. their clientele includesdeveloped nations like the us, rebel factions lookingto seize power by force... smaller countries lackingarmies of their own... even terrorist groups. they're in the americas,asia, the south pacific, europe, africa,the middle east... the rise of the pmc hasspawned a war by proxy, and it's spreadingacross the globe.

they, they're re- sunny, we'll eat them later, ok? every age has its mercenary. these pmcs are nothing new - we've been dealing with them sincebefore the turn of the century. no, snake. they're nothing likethe mercenaries of the past. they're ready.

sorry, i'm a littlebusy right now. the pentagon's newbattlefield control system has produceda decisive difference... between hired guns and the pmcs of today. the system was developedby armstech security. armstech? you mean at corp? yeah. in recent years,

at corp has shifted focus from weaponsdevelopment to security tools. and since the establishment of at security, business has been booming. the system makes itpossible to integrate not only micro-level informationon individual soldiers and units, but also macro-level informationabout field conditions and order of battle. so, they've finally achievedtotal real-time battlefield control? that's right. and as a result,

the global presence ofpmcs has grown explosively. truth is, the rise of system-controlled pmcs has led to a dramatic declinein civilian casualties and human rightsviolations on the battlefield. a cleaner, safer battlefield. makes for nice propaganda. s-snake, you were s-smoking again,weren't you?

this is a non-smoking f-f-flight! there's more. state governments and rebel groups can't match the maintenance priceof standing forces. pmcs, by comparison, are reliable, easy to use. it wasn't long before everybodyhad them on the payroll. regular armiesbegan to decline worldwide.

it's hard to believe,i know, but pmcs are beginning to overtakeconventional armies in terms of scale. nowadays it's the pmcs whoserve as standard battalions. they already make up sixty percentof all combatant forces in zones of conflict. sixty percent... the fact is... the world now depends largelyon pmcs for waging its wars. i thought it was the u.n. thatauthorized the pmcs in the first place. the u.s. abstained fromvoting on that resolution.

in effect, washington was endorsing pmcswithout ever revealing its true intentions. until they got windof the uprising, that is. the u.s. has exportedtoo much military power. and now she's paying the price. that's exactly it. america has now turned warinto a form of economic activity. analysts are calling itthe "war economy", in that it's picking up the slackfor the downward-sloping oil market.

but i, for one, don't intend to simplystand by and watch it happen. for the pmcs, market expansion entailsfanning the flames of war... it means more refugees. war orphans. child soldiers. yes. even as pmc soldiersget more specialized,

they're also getting younger. mercenaries spun offfrom state armies, unmanned weapons, child soldiers... proxy battles in a new cold war. there are hundreds of pmcsin business worldwide, and their numbers are growing. currently, five of them are big enoughto be labeled global powers. two in the u.s.,

and one each in the u.k.,france, and russia. reconnaissance has revealed that thosefive pmcs are run by a dummy corporation that acts asa single mother company. this mother company embodiesthe five largest pmcs. her name... ...is "outer heaven". "outer heaven"? you mean...! that's right...

it's liquid. liquid... he's taken commandof this immense army and is now preparingto unleash an insurrection. i watched him die. his will lives on... in the body of the manonce known as ocelot. he aims to fanthe flames of war even higher, to create the perfect worldonce envisioned by big boss.

the one world in which soldierswill always have a place... he must be stopped... before it's too late. the global community is concerned, but they're all too afraid of the war economycollapsing to do anything about it. the u.n., too. sounds pretty self-serving to me. ...snake, this mission isn'tan order from washington...

not like the old days. and it's not something the u.n.can officially sanction, either. but we can't justlook the other way while liquid plots this insurrection. if we fail to act, he'll become the greatest threatthe world has ever faced. you're the only man i can trust. fine. let's hear it.

our intelligence on liquid's uprising originallycomes via reports from u.s. special forces, who were mobilized afterwe at the u.n. reported our findings. they're trackingliquid's movements. about 18 hours ago, he was spotted in the middle east. there's a rebel armythere in the middle east made up of ethnic minorities, waging civil waragainst the regime in power.

the core of that regime's army is provided by one of the pmcsunder liquid's control. what about the rebels? the local militias have hiredsmall numbers of operators as trainers and field commanders. and of course... ...they've got help from the local pmcs. right. a proxy war between hired guns.

pmc versus pmc. a quagmire of war. all-too-typical victimsof the new world economy. you'll be sneaking intothe conflict zone via transport truck... ...disguised as one ofthe rebel army's hired operators. your first objective... ...is to make contact with our informants,rat patrol team zero one (rat pt 01). they'll be expecting you. rat patrol, huh.

they sound sneaky. they're a special forces team assignedto the army's pmc investigation unit, cid. cid (criminal investigation command)... the real rats of the army. no, i can vouch for them personally. friends of yours? ...you could say that. will you do this for me?

will you terminate liquid? i'm not like the pmcs. i don't need your money. ...thank you. but if you're goingto spark something... spark this. i'll start my own fire. this is snake. do you read me?

what's the situation? i'm just inside the city limits. this place is crawling with lizards. ah, at corp's unmannedbipedal weapons. officially designated "irving"by the us military. they've spread like wildfireamong the pmcs. there are more of those thingsnow in service than tanks. they've got tough armor platingand are highly agile to boot. your best bet isto stay out of their sights.

unmanned... pretty soon they'll have putliving, breathing soldiers out of work. even so, that's an awful lotof gekko for this scenario. their numbers exceedthe war price for that region. it must have something to dowith liquid's arrival on the scene. you really think he's here... you'll have to find the army'soperatives and ask them yourself. oh, and snake? i went ahead and used the mk.iito scout out the area before your arrival.

you'll find it up ahead. mk.ii? it's a remote mobile terminal. sunny and i built it. the mk.ii will provide you with a map ofthe area as well as any battle situation data. you should find itbefore you do anything else. ok. got it. the rendezvous pointis marked on your map. i'll be waiting for you there.

it's me, snake. snake, it's me! otacon? sorry to keep you waiting, snake. allow me to introducemetal gear mk.ii. metal gear? but this gear's not a weapon. it's a remote mobile terminal designedto provide you with operational support. where are you?

i'm in the nomad, where else? i had the mk.ii bring you some goodies. starting with this. put it on your left eye. looks like an eye patch. i call it the solid eye. it's an all-purpose goggle that displaysradar images and other data in 3d. you can also switch it overto light-amplifying night vision. an operator...

i installed a suppressor. and here's a tranquilizer gun. how thoughtful. it predates theimplementation of the system. by some miracle,it was never recycled. it's getting tough these days,finding decent guns that aren't controlled. you coming? of course. i'll follow you wherever you go.

like this. i'll activate stealth soit doesn't attract any attention. if you need it, just bring upthe start button menu. got it. the informants who said they saw liquid hereshould be a little further up. head for the rendezvous point. pretty sweet, huh? whoa, hold it! watch where you'repointing that thing.

who are you? neither enemy, nor friend. voila. you're not with the militia,and you're not pmc... i'm a weapons wholesaler:all shapes, all sizes. but there's no need to worry,'cause all my shit's been laundered. laundered? you see, i take id guns like the pmcs useand make some mods.

then you can use 'emwithout having to match ids. in other words,i'm a gun launderer. you can call me drebin. drebin? yeah, they use that for all of us. there are more of you? all over the world. not that i ever metany of 'em personally.

me, i'm drebin number 893. you ain't a registered pmc employee, are ya? you need a guy like me. consider it a welcome gift. take it. the m4. the official carbine modelused by the us army... developed from the m16 service rifle.

this one's a top-of-the-line model. real popular with the big pmcs. high precision, not like that government-issue shit. it's... free-floating, of course. relax, that barrel's clean. is the hider cqc compatible? the beauty of this sucker is thatit's got a lot of customizable parts.

change it up the way you wantto meet your everyday needs. flip-up sight, rail system... not bad. yeah, well, you know, i get a lot of newbs 'round here. and if you need 'em, i got a wide selectionof after-market parts as well. the frame's pretty rigid. no rattle. go ahead,

give her a squeeze. i can't pull the trigger. really? that's weird. what's weird? wait, i got it. i bet you're usingan older generation of nanomachines. older generation? sometimes they don't reallyjibe with the new system.

seriously, who are you? whoa... slow down. my day job's workingat at (armstech) security. i'm in charge ofproduction control... so i get my hands on the id chipsbefore they're even registered. have a sip. it's a side of atthe public don't see. from the looks of it, you ain't withany state army.

but you ain't exactly green, either. you've got last-gen nanomachines. so i'm guessing... former us army? i don't know whatyou're here for. but you'll wanna bewell-equipped, am i right? can we talkbusiness or what? you won't regret it. what's your take on him, otacon?

i don't particularly like the guy, but it looks like we'll needhis help with those id guns. sunny's been doinga little sleuthing for us. drebin. a well-known gun laundererin war economy circles. he's a businessman who dealsmainly in selling black-market firearms to small pmcs and local militia. i share your concern, butwhat if we keep him at arm's length? use him only to get inteland the supplies we need? keep it strictly business.

all right. so... we ready to makea deal, or what? ok, then.let's talk business. to ensure you canuse non-id guns, i'm gonna have to suppressthe old nanomachines you've got in ya. otherwise, they'll interfere with the system. here.

stick yourself with this. it's full of suppressor nanomachines. relax, it won't hurt. you scared of needles or something? what's the shot for ? what's wrong ?you don't like shots ? see? no sweat. now you can usenon-id guns, no problem. there, ya see?

no problem. from now on, when you pick upan id gun that says "locked"... you just let me know. you name it,i can launder it. of course, it'll cost you. the going rate depends onthe war price at the time. man, i gotta givethis shit a rest. looks like you're doingpretty well for yourself. you might say that...

what with the war economy and all... and the system clamping down on things. system codes are the law now... and control's essentially absolute... paving the way for fat profits, if...you're willing to bend the law. demand keeps on growingthanks to the war economy. i sell id guns tothe pmcs and state armies... and naked guns toterrorist groups and paramilitaries. and these id guns can'tbe sold on the black market.

system's practically a licensefor us arms dealers to print money. privatizing the military'smade the pmcs big and bloated. and the fatter the pmcs get, the line between civilian andsoldier is gonna get real blurry. sooner or later, the whole damnhuman race is gonna be green collars. more like, we're all gonna befighting proxy wars. but hey... this war economy putsthe food on my table.

you're a green collar too,aren't ya? yeah, it's in your eyes. you've seen a lot of combat. what makes you thinkyou know me? nothing to be ashamed of. i'm the same way. i grew up here, too. i got no interestin the outside world. all right, then.

if you need me, holler. we specializein speedy service. catch my drift? eye. have. you. drop your weapon! all right... easy now. you haven't even takenthe safety off, rookie. careful, i'm no rookie!i'm a 10-year vet!

how the hell'd youever survive 10 years? don't move! cqc... a real big boss, huh? lower your weapon! slowly now. i wouldn't try anything funnyif i were you. fox...? snake? snake.

meryl? is that you? what happenedto your face? accelerated aging. they don'tknow the cause. oh my god... meryl, you're my informantin the us military? and...

you must be the inspectorsent by the un. this is rat patrolteam zero one. we're with the cid...(criminal investigation command) one of the bodiesinvestigating pmc activity. first hounds,now rats. here, you can have this back. what is your problem? you ok? stomach pains?

diarrhea... it's been four days sinceliquid arrived in the area. and since then, this woman's been with him. she doesn't looklike a combatant. probably some kind of advisor. maybe a scientist. so, you're the commanderof this 01 unit?

why?something wrong with that? here, i'll introduceyou to the team. that's ed,our radio man and sniper. the sleeping giantis jonathan. don't stand behind him. he hates it when peoplego around his back. and finally... johnny. everybody justcalls him akiba.

commander... i've finishedinstalling the sensors. ok, akiba. anyway... you're all grown up. maybe it's becausesomeone taught me well. a certain legendary hero... who suddenly... disappeared?

you quit the unit. me... i never gave up on you... or on foxhound. back then, i just wantedyou to accept me. i wanted you to turn around... and see who i was. but... i've put the past behind.

i'm done playinglittle love games. what are you here for? threat assessment...the pmcs. really. because i heard a rumor there'san assassin out there targeting their leader. well, that's some rumor. i'm only here becausethe un wants me to assess the impact and effects of pmcs on theirrefugee protection efforts. that's all?

more than enoughfor a retired vet like me. i know he's plottingan insurrection. but as long as at security'ssystem is in place, there's no way he'll succeed. how can yoube so sure? they've implemented a systemthat monitors in real-time every single soldierengaged in combat action... whether he's state army or pmc. each individual soldier has beenfully id-tagged with nanomachines

injected into their bodiesfor that purpose. the nanomachines keep track of the soldiersand their real-time personal data 24 hours a day. they monitoreach man's position, movement, speed,reserve ammo, firing accuracy... wounds, rations,water intake and supply... sweat secreted,heart rate, blood pressureand sugar levels, oxygen...

all the data gatheredon body condition. you've got these systemnanomachines in you, too? our unit plays by the rules,same as everybody else. it was creepy at first, knowing you'rebeing watched 24/7... but i've gotten used to it. it gives us a lot ofadvantages in the field, too. we get a clearer pictureof what's going on around us, so there's less confusionduring missions.

and our nanomachines communicatewith each other, making teamwork a lot smoother. and that's not allthe system does for us. it's also a security guaranteeagainst the pmcs. - security guarantee?- that's right. the pmcs are combat groupswithout states or ideologies. they're not fighting out ofnationalism, or for a cause. they don't care whythe war is being fought. they're just bodies,fighting on someone else's behalf. they're mercenaries.a commodity.

so it's easy to imagine thembetraying their clients by joining the enemy, or refusing to fight... or committinghumanitarian atrocities. to keep thesethings in check... they ensured that no onecan use firearms or military vehicles without the proper system id. it's true for every pieceof equipment out there. so even if the pmcs tried to mounta terrorist attack or coup d'etat... their weapons and equipmentwould automatically be locked out.

they wouldn't be able to move,attack, or engage in combat of any kind. and there's more. all the data on their position,personnel and combat strength is leaked to usby the nanomachines. even if they managedto circumvent the system by getting the nanomachinesout of each soldier's body... they'd be losing their idsin the process... so they couldn'tuse their weapons. and the patriotsare behind this?

la li lu le lo?what are you talking about? never mind. so this systemis foolproof, huh? completely. they call it sop. sons of the patriots... the ai that controls itis a tightly guarded secret... both at armstech security, where itwas developed - and at the pentagon. there's no way a third partycould get control of it.

i just met a guy who saidhe could launder id guns. the system does have holes... there can't be more thana few hundred of those gun launderers. it's just agrass-roots movement. it's not like they can affectthe entire pmc war machine. anyway, liquid would've had to registeras a pmc in the system to assemble anarmy that massive. his pmcs might even exceedthe us military in terms of numbers...

but as long asthey're registered, their soldiers' activitiesare constantly being monitored. so long as the us responds immediatelywhen liquid makes his move... we can takethem down by force. by force, huh? when arsoc (army special operations command)heard about liquid's plans... they sent us tosniff around the pmcs. and after three months of searchinggod knows how many battlefields... we've finally tracked him down.

when we reportedthat we'd found liquid... our superiors ordered us to providethe un investigators with intel. but i didn't knowit'd be you. didn't the colonel tell youhe was sending me? colonel? - don't tell me it's campbell.- yeah. he put you up to this? you didn't know? you've got to be kidding!

you expect me towork with my uncle? meryl! this is bullshit! he's not my father! meryl... so... you knew? little violation ofthe need-to-know rule. then... why are you stillcalling him "uncle"?

you're stillcalling him "colonel". he's your father. as far as i'm concerned,we're still uncle and niece. i will never forgive thatwomanizing piece of shit. he... remarried. his new wife's about my age. i hear she's even got a kid. it's as if he's given up onmaking up with his own daughter.

men. selfish, egotistical pigs. commander! what is it? there's 20 of them. and they're not from that pmc,praying mantis, either. it's the frogs. his private troops. oh crap...

this is not good. - were you being followed?- no. akiba! they might have seenthe reflection off my scope lens. oh. w-wait!hang on... you guys thinkit was my fault? it wasn't my fault!i swear! it wasn't my fault! oh man...oh...

look, i... dumbass! we're moving out! meryl, where's liquid? i'll fill you in later... ...if we're still alive. follow me. damn! eye contact!

these guys are withliquid's private army. shoot first, think later. we'll use the stairs and get outthrough the back door on the first floor. we'll change route as necessary. i'm on point. - stay close. got it?- got it. akiba. breathe deep. we've got a real livelegendary hero with us.

try not to choke. move! sharp as ever! clear! commander!i really gotta go... shut up! get down! knock it off! the nanomachine networkinside each unit member's body

lets us shareeach other's senses. they can see what i see. and it helps control pain. is that partof the system, too? with sop, my team canliterally operate as one. except for a certain someonewho's not much of a team player... what do you think? is your ageof heroes finally over? i'm no hero.

never was, never will be. you haven't changed at all snake. your body... are you goingto be all right? this get-up doublesas a muscle suit. i can still get around. liquid's camp is up ahead. - i'll mark it on your map.- thanks.

it's...it's the beast! rage...rage! laugh with me! it can't be... is that...? show me your rage! rage! isn't it funny? liquid!

activate it. jonathan! brother! it's been too long! rejoice! we're not copiesof our father, after all! we are freed ofthe shackles of fate! snake! brother...

we are free! watch... snake... watch... ...as i surpassmy own origin! naomi? if you won't bea prisoner to fate... then go. fulfill your destiny. hey...

hey, are you all right? grab on. 1-1... 2-3... 5-8-13-21... 34... 55... 89... 144...

233... 377... 6-1-0-9-87... 15... 97... 95... 84. uncle hal... the eggs...

they're done. thank you, sunny. so...back from the dead? i don't rememberthe sun being so flat. sorry. i'll dig inright away, sunny. and would you makesome for snake, too? ok. none for me, sunny.

my body... just seized upall of a sudden. this isn't normal. it's not my joints or muscles. you were lucky. some of those guys' heartssimply stopped. she was there... naomi was at liquid's side... otacon, did you see her?

no... but you're right. naomi was there. i found traces of her dnain that syringe you were holding. right after it all happened, i got a video mailfrom naomi. it was sent tomy old address. here you go. thanks, sunny.they're delicious.

but... y-you haven'teven eaten any. we grownups have to watchour caloric intake, you know. but thank you... i was looking for this. y-you're not watchingyour nicotine intake! sunny! you reallyhurt her feelings. yeah? why don't you teach herhow to cook eggs, then?

oh, like i know how to cook! i'll make this quick. i'm in south america. i've been capturedand forced to do research. liquid's goal is toseize control of sop... the sons of the patriots systemthat controls the soldiers. to do that, he needs to analyzethe nanomachines' structure and... find out how they communicatewith one another. liquid's found a loophole he can useto get in to the system.

preparations for his insurrectionare nearly complete. there's no time to waste. hurry! naomi sent her location datain a separate file. it's campbell. as you'll recall, followingthe shadow moses incident nine years ago... naomi was detainedby the authorities. but someone arrangedfor her escape. i suspect itwas actually liquid.

he must have taken her prisoner himselfand forced her to do research at his facilityin south america. colonel... where's meryl? i know she left the middle eastin pursuit of liquid. i'm sure arsoc ison to us by now. we can't chasethat line too far. which leaves naomias our only lead. the location naomi gave us,the pmc's base,

is in a mountainous regionsurrounded by forests. use the 4x4 to get as close as possibleto the pmc's security perimeter. from there on, snake, it'll be a solosneaking mission. roy... thanks. the rebels are still pitchedin battle against the pmcs. the commotion should help youslip into the facility unnoticed. 20 hours until we land. got it.

i'll have a look at the documents. maybe i'll even havea smoke while i still can.... act ii :solid sun colonel, how deeply are theyinvolved in all of this? the patriots, you mean? the data we got fromarsenal gear was a load of crap. twelve founders who've all been dead fora hundred years... give me a break. we know they exist today.

if the purpose of this battlefieldcontrol system is to control ids, it fits in withtheir plans perfectly. seizing control ofthe world's id systems, and then using them to manipulatethe economy and information flow... for the patriots,that's the ultimate prize. you might say the patriots arethe embodiment of the war economy. everything that solidusfeared five years ago... it's all come to pass. the patriots are trying to protecttheir power, their own interests...

by controlling the digitalflow of information. now with the media and global opinionunder complete control... not even the uncan stand up to them. then liquid's insurrection is against them? exactly. it would seem as though liquidhas taken up big boss's cause. an age of persistent,universal warfare. a world where mercenariesare free from domination. in a sense,

the "outer heaven" big bossenvisioned is already a living reality. you mean the pmcs and their war business. right now, liquid is a slaveto the patriots, forced to fighttheir proxy wars for them. he must be dying tobreak free of their spell. beneath the surface, a new cold war is brewingbetween liquid and the patriots

over who will survive. and no matter who wins,the world has no future. until we stop liquid anddestroy the system, we'll never be free. what we call "peace" is an equilibriumkept in check by the war economy. destroying the system meanswiping out the information society... the end of modern civilization. like it or not, we may have no choicebut to protract the system. snake, here's what we knowabout the current battle.

rebel guerilla unitsare advancing on the base of the government pmc troops. that base appears tobe liquid's safe house. according to naomi's data, she's being held prisonerinside the compound. that's where she is? assuming the datais correct. and one more thing... what now?

the government pmc troopshave been operating at high-altitudes. we have reports thatit's starting to upset the balance of thenanomachine control system. meaning? meaning the low blood oxygen content seemsto have an effect on their nanomachines, giving them aslight edge in battle. be careful. steer clear of altitude sickness. vamp!

isn't here. laugh... laugh!go ahead and laugh! beast! leave one. don't forget this face. this is the face... ...of the bastard... who killed your comrades.

more guerillas will be comingto storm the safe house. he must beamong their numbers. sooner or later he will come. don't let down your guard. laugh... laugh! what the hell? that was...vamp! i'm sure of it. i'll neverforget that face.

those were pmc soldiers with him. is he involvedin liquid's plan? we watched himdie in manhattan! damn it, he won'tleave us alone. snake, could vampbe immortal? not a chance. this is the real world,not some fantasy game. i swear, the nexttime he shows up... not now, otacon!

right. i know. according to satellite imageryprocured by mei ling, the facility where naomiis being held is to the north, along a mountain road. i'm sending thelocation to your map. mei ling? what's she up tothese days? taking command ofthe missouri, apparently. the missouri?

that's aworld war ii battleship. the museum contract in hawai'iexpired some time ago. i hear it's now being usedas a virtual training vessel. by the looks of things, they know i'm coming, too. yeah. it could be a trap. stay sharp. snake, there's someonei'd like you to meet, a member of the mission staff,a psychological counselor.

a lot of soldiers can't handlethe stress of battle... end up panicking. she'll be useful in helping youunderstand the mindset of both the pmcand rebel soldiers. she? rosemary! nice to meet you, snake. this is rosemary. she used to work asa data analyst at the pentagon,

but moved to combat supportduring the big shell incident. she was in charge ofjack's files, wasn't she? after that,she studied psychology, and now she'sa counselor with csp, the combat stress platoon. contact me anytime. i'll be standing by hereat home with roy, but i'm on a different circuit. the frequency is 147.79.

by the way, colonel,isn't that your house? well, yes. then the woman you married,the one that meryl was talking about. is rosemary, yes.didn't i tell you before? news to me.what about jack? jack? jack. from foxhound.codename raiden. i seem to remember himbeing engaged to rose. oh. we lost all trace of him.

jack's gone? i used to work with the guy. he saved sunnyfrom the patriots. he disappeared soon after that. what about you? jack disappeared, andyou just moved in on rose? i was consolingher over her loss, and one thing justled to another... she's young enoughto be your daughter.

yeah. lucky me, huh? now i see why merylwas so disgusted. meryl said something about me? yeah, i believe her words were, "i'll never forgive thatwomanizing piece of shit". i see. colonel, you knew she was ourinformant in the middle east, didn't you? was it you whoput her up to it? i used my connectionsin the army to get meryl the job.

you wanted your daughter someplacewhere you could keep an eye on her. look, everybody involved in the incident atshadow moses either lost their job and status or, in the case of meryland mei ling, got brushed aside. meryl wanted to make acomeback, a difference. we can't all be asstrong as you, snake. some of us can't bearliving like pariahs. since shadow moses,i've been branded a criminal. i think of it as my own small wayof making it up to my daughter,

my own flesh and blood. in any case, call rosemaryif you ever need advice. yo! over here. you... come on, hop in. it's gettingrough out there. i don't think so. we meet again. you've beenfollowing me?

you seemed likean interesting guy, so i decided tocheck you out. sit down. lot of legends about youout there in the intel community. especially in the... especially in the cia. you know those nanomachinesi injected you with back in the middle east? they let metrack your location. figures...the b&bs are here.

things are aboutto get hairy. b&bs? you've neverheard of 'em? they're beauty and the beast. together they're called the b&b corps. they're a squad of enhancedfemale soldiers... belong to the pmcs. any time there's a messthat needs cleaning up, they're on the sceneleading the elites. that's a female?

probably freelancershired by the pmcs. they're run out of aseparate parent organization. guess it's time for good ol' drebinto let you in on a few things... word on the street saysthat beneath those ugly-ass suits, the b&bsare real babes... drop-dead gorgeous. they also say each one of them'sbeen traumatized by war. badly. they weren't even soldiersto begin with, you know.

more like... victims of war. they suffered shell-shockon the battlefield... post-traumatic. it damaged their mindspretty much beyond repair... so the only way they couldcope with the reality of battle was to becomewar machines themselves. the remnants of their human sideare buried deep within. the beast... that's what you seeon the outside.

war transforms us,snake... into beasts. war transforms us... but deepwithin that shell, something human survives. a fragile, scarred heart. without a shellto protect it, it's like the yolkof an egg. word going around is...

their natural, flesh-and-blood bodies can'tsurvive in the open for more than a few minutes. and they'vebeen convinced... ...that by killing snake, their minds willbe cleansed. they think it's gonnafree them from all the pain... and all the fury... and all the sorrow. which makes these babespretty much obsessed... with killing you.

four b&bs havebeen identified so far. the one you just sawwas raging raven. there's alsolaughing octopus, a master of mimicry... and crying wolf... she runs on four legs. and finally, the mistressof mind control... screaming mantis.

mantis...? there used to be a guyby that name in the us military. a russian psychic, he could controlpeople's minds. i guess sheinherited the title. she keeps the other b&bs mindsin check with her powers. octopus, raven, wolf,

mantis... you got it. they're the snakehound unit, and they've gotyou in their sights. shit... i'd hate tobe in your shoes. drebin... i thought no one was supposedto be able to hack into the system. are you with the patriots? no sir.

i ain't no la li lu le... i mean... i'm no patriot. you can say "patriot". i guess that meansyou're clean, right? the nanomachines i got in meare different from the military kind. no speechrestrictions for me. what the hellare these patriots? are they human?

not anymore they ain't. they're the lawof this world, created overthe course of history. they're what holdsthis world together... keeps this wholemess in check. we are formless. we are the very discipline and lawthat americans invoke so often. the patriots are america, the world'sgreatest military power.

they are the war economy. which makes you and me justcogs in a much grander schematic. i mean, someone obviously had to startthe whole thing at the beginning. but now their law hastaken on a life of its own. a life of its own? yup. the country...the war economy... it ain't run by people. it's run by the system.

no need for high-leveldecision-making authority. it's all handled by a massive yet simpleinformation processing system. an ai. it works justlike natural law. the world's a much simpler placethan most folks realize. every aspect of the patriots' systemis closely monitored by three peripheral ais and a core ai that tiesthem all together. the sop systemis one part of that. it's all backed up bya foolproof control system.

so not even yours truly cansneak inside the patriots' ais. what if, hypothetically, someone found a way? if they could fool the ids...(intrusion detection system) i guess they could use itas a haven to lay low. haven? you know,like a tax haven. in the internet society,we have net havens, data havens... a haven...

...is someplace where social conventionsand the rules of the net don't apply. back in the 20th century, the super-rich would open bank accountsin countries without income tax laws... not a bad wayto evade paying taxes. now we've got us a society whereeverybody's dna and personal info is totally controlled bythe nanomachines inside their bodies. won't be long beforepeople start using havens to escape from id control. i guess you could say my gun launderingkind of borrows from the haven concept,

after a fashion. even so, good luck finding a way to accessthe patriots' ais from the outside. it's absolutely impossible.no chance in hell. like i said, there's no breakinginto those ais... from the outside. but liquid's gotsomething in mind. you sure there's no way?

i'm just a gun launderer. only reasoni'm interested in you... ...is 'cause youstart a lot of fires. all right then. you need me, just give me a ring. go on. get your ass back inside! now!

when the government neededcontrol restored to this sector, they knew who to call. snake, can you hear me? this is jack, isn't it? i am raiden.jack is no more. where are you now? i'm right beside you. raiden, where have youbeen all this time? what have you been doing?

on a mission,finding something... for someone. finding what? the corpse of big boss. i was asked to do thisin exchange for sunny's location. liquid? no. the leader of asmall resistance group. her followerscall her matka pluku.

matka pluku...big mama. we'll finish this later. i'll follow your trailand catch up with you. wait! what aboutbig boss's body? it's with her now. her? what's going on, snake? rose, i just gota call from raiden. it sounds likehe's close by.

did... did he seem ok? yeah, as far asi could tell from his voice. really? that's great. snake, i havea favor to ask. don't let him knowi'm involved in this operation, ok? i think it would be bestto just leave him alone for now. what happenedbetween you and jack? after the big shell incident,he became unstable. memories began toresurface from his childhood,

when he fought for solidusin the liberian civil war. and in the midstof all that... the baby we had together... it hadn't even been born yet. jack slowly stoppedcoming home. and when he did,he'd be dead drunk, sometimes coveredin cuts and bruises. roy was worried.he was jack's commanding officer, but jack just avoided him.

i was all alone. and roy was so kind to me. he's the one who encouragedme to become a counselor. i know it sounds like i'm making excuses,but i needed to get over it, to move on with my life. i'm worried about him,of course, but... i'm also afraid of him. i'll keep my mouth shut. thank you, snake.

naomi's lab is somewhereinside those mansion grounds. proceed immediately... infiltrate the placeand find out where she is. yes, the next test. and things on your end? we're on schedulehere as well. i know. me, too. until then...

naomi. i knew you'd come... you and i... neither of us canescape our fate. i haven't seen yousince shadow moses. how long? ten years? nine. and dr. emmerich?is he with you? why?

i thought he'd be the only oneable to open the mail i sent. not many people could recognize4d sound data in a soliton radar file. how is the good doctor? otacon's fine.he's the same as ever. i see... who were youjust talking to? liquid. although i supposehe's really ocelot... from a medical standpoint.

i thought he was here. he's not...at the moment... where are all the guards? they know i won't escape. i'm powerless to resist. i have no choicebut to cooperate. what happenedin the middle east? what you saw wasthe soldiers' emotions run amok. another productof the system?

you don't trust me? i'm not sure yet. and if i answer your question? let's hear it first. we... thought the sopwas an id control system designed primarily to maintainorder and control in battle. and we were right. but only partially. sop had another function...

to control people's senses. the goal was to release thesoldiers' nanomachines from the system. but we didn't knowabout the mental control. and the nanomachineswent berserk? our test was a success. at least, it confirmed ourhypothesis at the time. just as we predicted,the nanomachines stopped functioning, and the pmc soldiers were freedfrom the grips of the system. but the momentthe system stopped...

all the pain, and fury,and sorrow... all the trauma and stress,all the hatred, regret, guilt... all the sensationsthat had been suppressed were unleashedwithin their hearts. their memories, unliketheir senses, weren't erased. each enemy soldier they'd killed,each lost comrade... each threat of violenceagainst the innocent... every act of war they'd committedwas etched firmly in their hearts. in suppressingthe user's mind,

the nanomachines exacta heavy burden on his heart. the user's bodyrejects the nanomachines; this reaction must thenbe suppressed with drugs. before the user knows it,his mind is in complete shambles. remember frank? frank jaeger... gray fox. they twisted his bodyfor their experiments and nullified his brokenheart with nanomachines.

sop has taken iteven further and applied it toliving human beings. the sins of war these soldierscarried inside them returned to assaultthem in the form of... unimaginable shell shock. the meaning and the systemmay have changed... but the battlefield hasn't. until that point,war was like a game to them. and then, suddenly,

reality camecrashing down. ordinarily, our hearts arehardened through experience. even the most grizzled veteranslive with an inescapable guilt they've had to overcomebit by bit through the years. and even then,it never truly goes away. for a mind lackingthat essential experience, it was simplytoo much to bear. but what about me? i've never beenunder the system's control.

that's why i wantto examine your body. you need to know, too. all right, snake... undress. what's gotten into you? hurry up. oh my god.... all right, let's justget this over with. yes...

i'm sorry. so does the aging havesomething to do with foxdie, too? your telomeres wereintentionally set up to be short, regardless of the ageof the original. one of the genes that inhibitreproduction and aging, the klotho gene,was intentionally mutated as well. but more importantly,your chromosomes, like liquid's, were provided with terminatorgenes to prevent them from making copies. you're clones, createdfor one purpose: war.

and so, in order to prevent you from beingabused by clients or stolen by the enemy... they shortened your lifespanand removed your ability to reproduce. it was a safety deviceto ensure that the seed of big boss didn't end up inthe hands of others. the reason you're agingso rapidly isn't because of disease, or faulty research,or foxdie. it's how you were born. it's your natural lifespan. the truth, naomi.

how long is my bodygoing to hold out? your cells, blood, organs,nerves, skeletal system, muscle tissue... every part of your bodyis aging rapidly. how long do i have? ...half a year. don't. there's somethingi have to tell you. now what?

you and i both knowyour body is approaching its limit. when i said half a year, i wasn't talkingabout your lifespan. what do you mean? we can't get rid of the foxdiein your body completely. foxdie only kills its victims whenthe infected person's genetic code fully matches the genetic sequenceprogrammed into the virus's receptors. in other words... it only attacks targetswith specific genes.

the receptors on the foxdieinside your body are breaking down. the rapid aging process is changingthe environment within your body. as a result, the virusis starting to mutate. the viruses on the left arefoxdie in its original form. the ones on the righti took from your body. they're already mutated. the receptors,they're wearing down. this mutated versionof foxdie could activate even if the infectedperson's genetic pattern

doesn't perfectlymatch the receptors. which means the virus is becomingindiscriminate about what type of target it kills. however, if the receptorscontinue to wear down... it'll become a killer virus thatattacks untold numbers of victims. what if we kill them all,remove them from the body? there are no antibodies, either. i don't know what percentageof the receptors have to break down, or how many people will betargeted when that happens. what is certain is that peoplewill begin to catch foxdie

through airborne transmission. it'll start withthose closest to you... then, one by one, they'll lose their lives. the part of the virus that distinguishes betweenindividuals will start to break down in about... half a year. three months at the most. three months! ironic, isn't it?

you've spent your entire lifesaving the world from metal gear, from nuclear annihilation. and now... you're becoming adoomsday device yourself. i can't predict exactly howdevastating the epidemic will be. whether just one percent of the human racecould unlock the broken receptors... or whether we all can. in either case, three months from nowyou'll be a walking biological weapon. if it were up to me,you'd be quarantined already.

it's not over yet. you still havea job to do. you have three months. still enough time to thinkonce all of this is done with. and if i choosedeath first...? will that stop foxdiefrom spreading? when the host dies... the virus dies with it. tell me one more thing.

have you beento a hospital lately? while you were there,did they give you an injection? don't they always? take a look at this. these came outof your body as well. it's a new strain of foxdie...one i've never seen. someone must haveput them in you recently. do you haveany idea who? him!

the new foxdie strainis starting to multiply rapidly. what's in it? i can't say for sure. i'll need to dosome more tests. here, take this. it contains the same substancethe soldiers' nanomachines secrete inside their bodies. it's a drug that inhibits the nanomachines'ability to regulate the senses.

the nanomachines insidethe body malfunction when the systeminterferes with them. it triggers a reaction in the body,which is why you're having the seizures. give yourself a shotwhenever they get bad. it's potent, so use it sparingly... unless you want toend up an invalid. i've been a fool. i let myself drown in my nanomachines,and now i'm trapped by them.

you said yourself we mustn'tallow ourselves to be chained to fate. i can't slip free. then i'll free us both. where's liquid? i can't tell you yet. not until you free me. do you even know? liquid left here last night. where was he headed?

those are my terms. i can't leave this placeof my own will. what are you talking about? i'm being... watched. liquid has altered his plan. removing the system will only causehis army to collapse from within. so he's chosen toseize control instead. liquid's objective isto hijack the sop system.

he'll use it to createthe ultimate army of perfect soldiers and launch his insurrectionagainst the patriots. there's a name for his new plan. he calls it"guns of the patriots". guns of the patriots... this place isn't safe.come with us. this way. octocamo.... my prey.

come on! laugh, while you can! there's noescape from here! laugh yourself to death! what a riot... people suffering... people hurting... people dying... it's all sofucking hysterical!

laugh. just you tryand find me! snake, look up above... notice anything strange? i'm over here! i am an octopus... an eight-legged beast. these tentacles... are beyond my control.

their will... is the willof the battlefield. funny... so funny... it's all so funny. it's not funny. nothing is funny. i shouldn't be laughing. i can't...

the truth is... i'm not laughing. not laughing at all. i'm scared. i'm really scared. so sorry i laughed. i'm sorry... i won't laugh any more. i can't.

i don't want to. yo snake!looking good today. a certain virus wasdetected in my body. are you saying it wasn't inthe nanomachines you injected? virus? you do know there are other folkswho could've done this to you. and besides, what would i gainfrom infecting you? better for me that you'reout there kicking ass on the battlefield.

i was watching you, snake. you're a real piece of work. never thoughti'd meet the man who could take downlaughing octopus single-handedly. she just kept on laughing. now why do you suppose that is? something in her past? you got it.she's from a village in scandinavia, little seaside hamlet knownto all the locals as the devil's village.

place wasn't knownfor devils, though. it was knownfor octopus. see, this was one ofthe few places in europe where they ateoctopus customarily. anyway, there's this cult of crazieswho for some reason hate the village, with a passion. then, when she wasjust a teenager, things get bad. these nutcases get their hands onsome weapons and attack the village.

overnight, her sleepy littlefishing town becomes a war zone. they round up all the villagersand execute them one by one. except for that girl. they had somethingelse planned for her, something a whole lotworse than dying. calling her the devil's child, they forced her to do the kind of thingyou'd expect from one of lucifer's own. after they made hertorture her family and friends, they made her kill 'em.

the whole time they were forcing herto laugh, howl like some sort of demon. like she was enjoying it. what was shegonna do, say no? they'd kill her, too. so she let feartake control, and did exactlyas they told her. she butchered the bodiesof the ones she loved, and laughedwhile she did it. and as she bathedin their blood,

it gradually turnedfrom deep red to jet black. to her, it looked likethe ink of an octopus. the experiencescarred her deep. ever since then,she hasn't stopped laughing. only, that ain'treally laughter. why are youtelling me this? you expect meto feel sorry for her? nah. i know you got no roomfor that stuff in your world.

and besides,this is war... right? in a way, though, i guessit was the right thing to do. what was? fighting youcleansed her mind. all right,enough chit-chat. there's other beastsout there in them woods. watch your back. snake, have you lostsight of the target?

whenever something moves,it leaves a trail behind. track and findnaomi's trail. you think thatcould be naomi's ? do it now, beforewe're interrupted again. we don't know what will happen.remember the last time... i'm willing to makea few sacrifices. as you wish.we'll begin shortly. we've got the go-ahead. begin.

we'll use his blood.it could get intense... brace yourselves. - shots, all of you.- yes, sir. i'll be taking a nap... the syringe! it's not working... the emotional controlsaren't stable enough yet. need a lift? drebin!

get in already! snake, i'm bringing the chopper to theother side of the market up ahead. that's as closeas i can get. you've got to make itto the market somehow ! hang on!it's gonna get bumpy! up front! here they come! ah shit. raiden.

go on, get outta here! - can you move?- yes. let's go. it's my turnto protect you. i'm setting the chopperdown at the market square. i'm a little busyright now. thank you! don't forget the mk. ii! - naomi, take care of this.- all right.

otacon,get us out of here! where's raiden? still fighting. raiden! yet again,our paths cross. you, too...immortal? i just don't fear death. could you be the oneto finally finish me? you're...

boss, she got away. are you sure about this? it's all part of the plan. the test was a failure.even with his code. as i feared.it's not pure enough. we need all of him. the pmcs we deployedhave suffered brain damage. nothing salvageable remains. our only remaining optionis to secure the original.

i know that. it's only amatter of time. we're working as fast as we canto find their hiding place. i need you here too, vamp. hang in there! vamp... he's got to be immortal. no. he's notimmortal at all. it was my design that causedhis body to be like that.

the nanomachines in his bodycause his wounds to close and heal at anaccelerated rate. someone took the basic nanomachinetechnology i once researched and perfected it. in a sense,i'm responsible for vamp. he's one of my sins. does your body havethe same nanomachines? i brought a monsterinto this world... i, too, am....

- raiden!- hold him down! he's losingtoo much blood. - can you save him?- i don't know. he needs a blood transfusion... no, an infusionof artificial blood... - snake...- raiden! europe... go meet... big mama.

argon... boron... silicon and neon... erbium... fermium... plutonium... chlorine... fluorine... gallium and xenon... thallium, strontium...

the trick is tokeep the lid on. now, let it cookfor one minute. you like cooking,don't you? good for you. this is my sunny-side-upfortune telling. when it turns out good, it meanssomething good is gonna happen. so that's why you don'tcook them over easy. but the secretto good cooking is to keep who'sgoing to eat it in mind.

oh... is this your mother? she's really beautiful. that tune youwere humming... it's from theperiodic table, isn't it? thorium, protactinium, uranium,neptunium, plutonium, americium... americium... - curium!- curium! curium.

that's it.curium! oh, this? may i? there. see sunny? us girls haveto look our best. was olga. my mother. it's going to burn.

hold on. done! th-thanks... we did a great job. dr. emmerich... liquid is in eastern europe. he's after thecorpse of big boss. huh? what for? it's the final key he needsto gain access to sop.

the keys to the system arebig boss's genetic code and biometric data. without them, there'sno way to gain access. wait. what's liquidbeen doing all this time? he's beenperforming tests. two tests... the first, using the genetic codefrom liquid's dna chip. in his second attempt, he used the dna code and biometric dataextracted from snake's blood. what's the need for the originalif a substitute works just as well?

neither your genetic patternnor liquid's genetic pattern is a 100% matchfor big boss's. what do you meanwe don't match? both you and liquid are as similarto big boss as you could possibly be. but you're still different. different? so that's what liquidwas talking about? which is whythey created solidus. i can't believe this.

snake and big boss don't havethe same genetic code? strictly speaking, snake and liquidaren't the same, either. which is why foxdie onlyaffected liquid at shadow moses... and spared you. let's put it this way... if liquid usesbig boss's genetic code... the original... he'll have the systemcompletely under his control. i thought havinghis code wasn't enough.

you need his biometric dataat the same time, don't you? that's right! and big bossis already dead. he's alive. big boss is... alive? his body is. or rather... his cells.

that's impossible! big boss survivesas a biomort... a brain-dead shellsustained in a lab. if liquid obtains the body, he'll be primed tomake his final move. allowing him totalcontrol of the system. it's there... in europe... eastern europe.

they have equipmentthat can heal me there. where? the same place liquid went? dr. madnar. he saved my life. i've heard of him. a world-renownedcybernetics expert. strictly underground, though. we're in luck, then.

it's settled. we must head for europe. oh... snake?where're you going? i'm gonna be spewing outpoison soon enough anyway. what's one moresmoke gonna hurt? this is a no-smoking flight! who is this? oh, her? that's my sister.

i never knewyou had a sister. for a moment i thoughtshe might have been your girlfriend. no! i-i don't have a... emma was abrilliant programmer. she wrote the worm thatdestroyed the arsenal gear ai. vamp killed her. - i'm so sorry.- no! there's nothingfor you to be sorry for. or me.

i never evenimagined that science... that my own research...could cause so much misery. it's not like us science-holicsare satanists or anything. even when we've gotthe best of intentions... we end up beingused by others for evil. dr. emmerich... i... you see this? sunny helped me build it. to tell you the truth,i think she's better at it than i am.

but she's just a child. she cracked theprotection on your mail. wow. i... ...assumed it was you. sunny was taken by the patriotsright after she was born. she never evenmet her parents. she's spent her entirechildhood inside the net. that's why she hastrouble speaking...

her home isin the computer. she can only seethe outside from the inside. she's always in there... searching for herself... searching for her family. she's trying tofind out who she is... and where she's going. and her family... she believes she can findthe answers inside a machine

hooked up to the world. she spends every dayinside the net, exploring. for sunny, this is home. no. it shouldn'tbe like that. it's time youlet her go outside. what are youtalking about? she hasn't evenbeen born yet. she's still in the womb.

she needs tolive a real life. sunny's never shown anyinterest in leaving the nomad. frankly, i'm worried aboutletting her go out there. i have a feelingshe'll do just fine. you... really thinkshe'll be ok going outside? that's not what i meant... i think she's got a goodhandle on her science. sorry. go on. you were aboutto say something.

right... would you mind ifi help sunny with her cooking? of course not.go ahead... about all we've got on boardbesides military rations are eggs. leave them off. it makes you look handsome. you think so? dr. emmerich? is it ok tosleep in there?

excuse me? well, dr. emmerich... i know it's easy to forget sometimes,but i am a woman... you understand. i know it's selfishof me, but... i'd like to bealone for a while. i understand. i'll show you in. thank you.

good night, dr. emmerich. if you get uncomfortableor anything, just let me know. i'll be out there working. yes? call me hal. good night. good night, hal. act iii : third sun a national state ofemergency has been declared

in an effort to root outthe local resistance. the hunt is being carried outby us-based pmc raven sword... one of the companiesunder outer heaven's control. which means that liquid's lurkingsomewhere behind the scenes. and at the top of the target listis the paradise lost army, the resistance groupled by big mama. you'll be infiltratingthe region where they are believed tohouse their base of operations. it looks as if thepmcs moved swiftly,

cutting off big mama andcompany's escape routes. they should still be hidingsomewhere in that area. big boss's corpse isbound to be with them. you've been addedto the pmcs' blacklist, so you're going to haveto lie about your identity to get in. i've provided you witha way to evade the checkpoints. make contactwith the resistance and find big mama. this is our last chance.

we must reach big boss's bodybefore they do. next. i said next! you. get your assin the machine! hey, are you deaf? take him away. you're coming with me. i said over here!

that's enough. i'll take him from here. but! we've beenlooking for this man. yes, ma'am. come with me. you're looking younger. what's your secret? facecamo.

a little presentfrom tentacles. the pmc's sure seemto know you well enough. you may not believe it, but i'm in chargeof overseeing all pmc activity. listen to me, snake. after reporting what happened in themiddle east to my superiors, i wrote upa threat assessment. the president's finally realized the dangerliquid's little rebellion poses, and has called forimmediate action. now i've got more bodiesthan i know what to do with.

you're planning totake him by force? that's crazy. look... things aren't that simple. listen, old man. i don't take orders from you,or from your colonel campbell. it's gonna be the middle eastall over again. no, it won't. if things get out of hand, we can puta total lock-down on the pmcs' weapons...

they won't beable to fight back. don't forget:we control the system. i wouldn't rely too muchon the system if i were you. we've got them beatin sheer numbers. - meryl...- look, snake... just leave this to me. there's no need for youto put yourself in harm's way. don't risk your lifefor no reason. what you're trying to do...

it's not a mission. it's not justice. it's a hired hit. if you know, then... our ways of thinkingmight be different, but to me, you're stilla legend... a hero. i know all about the thingsyou did when you were young. it was whatkept me going. i can't bear to watch you dieover something so pointless.

don't worry about me. old soldiers never die. your cause is our cause now. you don't have to do this. i'm no hero... never was. i'm just an old killer... hired to do some wet work. then we'll justhave to catch him...

before you do. i may haveloved you once... but now you're just toodamn senile to face the truth. wake up and face reality... old snake. and stay out of our way. the resistance members are scheduledto convene at big mama's hideout. so our best course of actionis to follow their lead. when you findthe resistance, tail them.

let them leadyou to big mama. oh, and snake, i think we've founda way to treat raiden. yeah. we got in touchwith dr. madnar. naomi and sunny areon their way now. they'll be all righton their own? it's a non-combat zone,so there won't be any checkpoints. it'll take some time, but i think he'll be ok.

good. who's there? i'm here to see big mama. is this the guy? what do you think? i didn't hear him coming at all.he's gotta be the one. yeah, but look at him, he's ancient. very impressive cqc, snake.

no doubt about it.he is the legendary soldier. call me mama... i need to talk to you. raiden sent me. my, how you've grown... david. it was you, not i, who wascreated from the rib of man. but i gave you life. i am your mother.

les enfants terribles. you can't growa human being in a test tube... not even a clone. you need a woman's bodyto give it life. you mean... a surrogate mother? that's an awfullycold way to put it. i gave birth... for the patriots.

gave... birth? the forbidden fruit. appropriate... no? i'll explain everything. the man who wantsme dead... is liquid. your twin. you think you know him,but i know him better.

he was once ocelot... but liquid has takencontrol of his soul. and now he's locked ina bitter struggle with zero. "zero"? the founder of the patriots. founder? when did this happen? 40 years ago. during the cold war, when the united statesand the soviet union were still at odds.

it was in that chaotic erathat the patriots were born. and i played my part. i was one of the... founding members. you? zero created the patriots to manageand control the american state. that control enduredlong after the cold war ended. the organization becamean empty shell, continuing to functionthrough ais.

those ais are responsible forthe creation of the war economy... and they gave rise to thesons of the patriots system. but i am partly to blame. i bear some of the guiltfor creating the organization. it was right afteri first met your father... big boss. back in 1964, i was ordered to take part ina cia op called operation snake eater which concerned a new weaponthe soviets were developing at the time.

my mission was tosupport a certain agent. that agent laterbecame big boss... but i knew himas snake. - snake?- yes. naked snake. that was his code nameat the time. a name he wouldgive to you... his son. the commander of thismission was a man called zero,

the head ofspecial forces unit fox. back then, i was working as adouble agent for the chinese. my objective was to securethe location of the philosophers' legacy, a massive cacheof hidden wealth, and report it to beijing. i was to acquire a microfilmshowing the location of secret funds, funds amassed by the allied powersduring world war ii. but i failedin my mission,

and was expelled from china. i took the applefrom the snake... and wascast out of eden. after years on the runi ended up in hanoi, that's wherei met him again. it was around then thatzero used the massive funds, contained in the philosophers' legacy,to start a new organization, the patriots, which would carry out the final wishesof a certain legendary hero.

the initial membershipconsisted of big boss, sigint, para-medic, and theircommander, zero. oh, and there was one morewho we mustn't forget. he stayed behind in the soviet unionto support the group as an informant. ocelot... who is now liquid. after your fatherrescued me in hanoi, i went to america andjoined their organization. zero's goal was to achievea unity of thought and awareness.

he believed that waswhat the boss wanted... and the rest of thepatriots followed his lead. the boss? the boss was a legendary herofrom the second world war known as the motherof special forces. she had an almostoverwhelming charisma about her. the cia feared this, so they hadher eliminated. if she had survived,

the world of the 21st century mighthave been a very different place. we were all influencedby the boss's will. it was what drove usto create this organization, to be closer to that spirit. zero decided thatin order to lead the people, we needed aspecial kind of icon. so we turnedto big boss, the last son of the boss. he shared more ofher life than anyone else.

it was big boss,the true heir to her legacy, who was best suitedto play this role. as the times andcurrents of politics changed, so too did zero. eventually, he became a prisonerof his own lust for power, sparking friction betweenhim and big boss, who resentedplaying the puppet. with big boss drifting away, zero realized hewould need insurance.

something that wouldperpetuate the existence of big boss, their organization's icon. and so, zero secretlyembarked on a new project: its goal was to createa clone of big boss, the ultimate soldier. the project wasled by dr. clark, known at the timeas para-medic. after dozens of failures, they finally,miraculously,

succeeded in producinga fertilized egg. the egg used in thesuccessful in vitro fertilization came from dr. clark's assistant...a heathly japanese woman. blood from the eastflows within your veins... "give birth to big boss." to realize this, i asked to serveas the surrogate mother... and was more than happyto carry you in my womb. i loved him.

nine months later, i gave birth totwo big bosses, you, and liquid. it didn't matterthat you were clones, or that they hadmanipulated your dna. you were born the same wayas any other normal child, from your mother's womb. but les enfants terribles proved to bethe final straw for zero and big boss. determined to opposezero and his plans,

big boss broke awayfrom the patriots. he left the states, createdhis own mercenary company, and driftedaround the world. your fathernever wanted you. human life isn't meantto be manipulated like that. i knew that. but i wanted you. after big boss left,zero really lost control. what zero wantedwas an orderly world,

one governed by rules. his fortune grewthrough countless wars, and his words influenced decision-makingall the way up to the oval office. as the world saw the riseof digital technology, it, the internet,and genetics, the patriots' powergrew immense. their roots spread andtook hold throughout the globe. in time, they began to dictate the fateof entire nations from the shadows.

and beforewe knew it... the patriots, the proudpolice of the world, started bringing an entireplanet under their control. their intentions were fair. but their executionwas flawed. zero developed weapons,amassed armies... used informationfor extortion, all in order to gain more wealth. he was obsessed withcontrolling awareness on the inside

from the outside. i cannot imagine that's what the bosswould have wanted. they bothmisinterpreted her will. and their absolute reverencefor her drove them apart. so began the warbetween zero and big boss. opposing interpretations... each striving torealize the boss's will. everything you see todaystems from their cold war.

differences in race... in religion... in ideology. this war they've caused is no different from any otherhuman error in history. it all started witha tiny fork in the path... and grew intoa great rift. there was nothing left ofthe boss's noble will in their struggle. all that remainedwas hatred,

a passion todestroy one another. big boss returned to the uswith a plan in mind, and once again assumedcommand of foxhound. in outer heaven,and then zanzibarland, big boss plottedcoups d'etat against zero. but you, solid snake,his own clone, foiled his effortsboth times. big boss and gray fox,frank jaeger, were left near death.

zero recoveredtheir bodies. frank jaeger's entire body was reconstructedthrough surgery, and he was rebornas the cyborg ninja. big boss,now a vegetable, became a prisonerof zero even in death. for zero,more than anyone else, your father was anirreplaceable icon. no, the truth is,for zero,

he was anirreplaceable friend. after big boss's betrayal, zero could no longer believein something so uncertain as life. he lost his beliefin everything: nations,organizations, individuals. zero was no longer willingto place his organization in the hands ofthe next generation. instead, he set up anetwork of ais,

a decision-making systemformed from all the information he had accumulated. he built four ais... gw, tj, al, and tr, as sort of a digitalmount rushmore. and one core artificial intelligenceto unite them: john doe. gw? the same gw wedestroyed five years ago? the same.

ever since gwwas cut off, jd and the other three ais have controlled all informationon every aspect of global society... economics, politics, law,morals and culture. the war economyis no exception. in the shadow of the system andits complete control over the world, big boss isn'tallowed to live or die. he's trapped for eternityin a brain dead prison. to bind himselfto his friend,

to ensure his ruleover the world, zero transformedbig boss into an icon, neither living nor dead. sounds almostlike a religion. naturally, ocelot and i planned tofree him from zero's prison. we enlisted naomi hunter, an authority in the fieldof nanomachine research, into our organization.

and we usedfrank jaeger to kill dr. clark. ocelot tortured the darpa chief,donald anderson, also known as sigint,to death, and made it looklike an accident. the shadow moses incident... with para-medicand sigint dead, zero was theonly one left. but we, too,paid a price. i lost ocelot.

ocelot wasn't fighting forthe pentagon, or the russians, and certainlynot for zero. he was fightingfor big boss. he idolized him. when ocelot graftedliquid's right arm to his own, his body was taken over byliquid's thoughts and spirit. he may be ocelot in physical form,but his mind is liquid's. i was the last one. and then, someoneappeared to help me.

raiden... it was when i met him that i finally discoveredthe location of big boss. it was in the datahe obtained from gw. together, he andi retrieved big boss. but big bosswas still asleep, as zero had left him. this is his pyx. his holy ark.

his body is alive, but his consciousness islocked away by nanomachines. so technically speaking, he's not reallybrain dead. we can't allow liquid to inheritthe same sins that corrupted zero... manipulating people's mindsfor the sake of his own ego. - snake, it's naomi...!- what happpened? she's gone. she's notin the nomad anymore. when?

less than an hour ago. she disappeared right after she andsunny got back from dr. madnar's place. why weren't youwatching her? i... uhm... i didn't havemy glasses on. naomi said it herself: the experimentcan't succeed without her. you think shewent back to liquid. what about raiden? good news on that front.

we managed to get our hands on adialysis machine and set up an icu. we just started him on dialysisand treatment for his wounds. - will he live?- yeah, no worries there. sunny's taken overfor naomi. but his treatment's probablygoing to take 48 hours. until then,raiden can't move. hey you! come here! what the hell is that?

scarabs... unmanned scouts. they've found us. we're moving out. snake, the pmcs areconverging on your location. damn it!they're sending in gekko! they'll be on you inless than five minutes! are they ready? we'll escape through the canalroute using the real van.

- get it ready. hurry!- yes, ma'am. snake, over here. we've got decoy vans set todraw some of our pursuers away. all of these childrenwere orphans. they work in arms factories, and when they grow up,they want to join a pmc. they seek revengeon other companies, pmcs that killedtheir parents and use their earningsto support their younger siblings.

there are countless child soldierslike these in the pmcs. nowadays, anyone with a computercan get combat training. the fps gamesthese children love are distributed for freeby these companies. of course, it's alljust virtual training. it's so easy for them to getabsorbed by these war games. and before they know it, they're in the pmcsholding real guns.

these kids end up fightingin proxy wars that have nothing to do with their own lives. they think it's coolto fight like this. they think thatcombat is life. they don't needa reason to fight. after all, for them, it's only a game. zero is the cause of all this. defeating liquidwon't change things.

unless we stopthe patriots' system, the cycle willgo unbroken. hop on. hold on to me. with so manywars being waged, oil and biofuel have becomeas precious as diamonds. it's been a whilesince i went out for a ride. i only get off my bikewhen i fall in love... or fall dead.

big mama... call me eva. here we go! we have to keep big boss's bodyout of enemy hands, no matter what. get the body safely tothe canal escape point! gekko! there you are, snake! where's your anger?! more incoming!

i've got bad news... the decoy vans haveall bitten the dust. which means the enemywill be focusing on you now. i just need you to holdthem off a little longer. rage ! there it is! are you ok? big mama,come on... stay with me.

eva... i need you. a mother's workis never done... big mama! where's the van? over there. the children...? i'm so sorry... she'll be comingto search the van.

i'll take care of it. you stay here,keep watch. i'll contact the children. take this. come back in one piece. i will. promise me. give me your anger, snake! let it boil to the surface!

let your furyflow freely! anger begets anger! come on,show me your rage! rage! rage! ready yourself! here i come! you bastards... i'll never forgive you... never!

i can feel the angerbuilding up inside... eating away at me. i'll never forgive myself. i don't wantto be angry. i don't need anger. i'm not angry. i'm scared! help me! the birds arepecking at my flesh! and my soul! please, pleasemake them stop!

i don't need more hate! i've had enough! help! let me outof this cage. i don't need these wings. i don't need this rage. come. let your anger flow. way to bringthat bird down, snake.

and you got yourselfa souvenir, too. a grenade launcher. nice! that's a realuser-friendly weapon. not much use to mewithout an id, though. i'll launder his onefree of charge. what's the catch? only that you give it to mewhen you're done with it. a weapon with that manydecades of rage stored up inside it... now that's acollector's item.

how old was she? i'd say about 20. but she had years of soldiers' ragehidden away in that youthful body of hers. soldiers? yeah.the soldiers of aceh, a place that hasn't seenpeace in a long, long time. she was capturedby one side or another, and kept caged uplike an animal along with god knowshow many other kids.

anonymous violence. it's unknown whether her captorswere with the government or the rebels. in any case, they got their kicks by abusing thesehelpless little kids day after day after day. that constant barrage, that battlefield rage,slowly built up inside their bodies... their minds. the kids tried to keepeach others' spirits up, always clinging to the hope thatsomeone would come to their rescue, barely survivingoff scraps of food.

but those soldiers didn't stop. they called the kidsparasites and shit-eating ravens. beat 'emeven harder. then one morning,the soldiers just up and left, leaving the surviving kidsto be eaten alive by the birds. almost like one ofthose sky burials. one by one, their bodieswere picked apart by ravens' beaks, until finally the flockcame for her. but by some miracle,their beaks cut her bonds instead.

and like that,she was liberated. in that instant, she was filled with an uncontrollable rage,and it smothered her soul. she ripped the ravenspecking at her to pieces and then wentafter the soldiers. and when she finallycaught up with them, she waited until nightfalllike a hunter awaiting its prey. they say that whena raven cries, a man dies. and that's exactlywhat happened that night.

screeching and cawing, she killedevery last living being in the camp, both the soldiers andthe civilians they'd enslaved. in her eyes, there wasno longer a difference. the cruelty herfriends had suffered, the pain and humiliationshe'd endured... hers was the distillation of the rage thatdecades of war had imparted on those soldiers. it was her strength,and her greatest weakness. you're something else, snake. you managed to cleanseraven of her rage.

no, seriously. you're the seed of war. in fact, i'd say youmight even be war itself. maybe it's stilltoo early to tell. you've still got halfthe bb corps ahead of you. keep your eyeon the ball, pal. i have to apologize. the three vans thatcame out with us were decoys. the real one is floatingdown the river,

headed downstream. i managed to getin touch with the children... the pyx is safe. we're going to rendezvouson the riverbank downstream. land and air routesare cut off... but there's a cruiserwaiting for us. the volta river isour only chance of escape. let's get out of here... hurry...

good thinking. this way... i don't need tofeel the wind anymore. there's no need tokeep lying to myself. i only get off my bike... when i fall in love... or... give me a hand. the underground aqueduct...

leads to the river. there should befewer of them down there. where's the pyx? that no longer matters. where is it? is that it...? naomi told me everything. and now, thanks to her, i finally have it.

the thing i've soughtfor so long... nice try... but when it comes to cqc, i've got the upper hand. even if you do geta hold of the system, you'll only have one partof the patriots' ai... the military part. what of it, brother? it's only a matter of timebefore i have everything.

remember gw? the ai they think they lost? it's mine, and a part of my army. impossible! we destroyed it! your worm only managedto cut gw into little pieces... pieces we were ableto reconstruct. and then we stowed itaway inside jd's network.

this man's bodyhas served me well, allowing me to pass every securitybarrier between me and gw. after all, the patriots' system isnothing more than a machine. now that gw is aspook inside the network, there's no way jd wouldrecognize it as an external threat. once i destroy jdwith a nuclear strike, the patriots'network will be mine. and then, i'll build my haven,

free from allforms of control. i'll cast asidemy old identity, and take my ownname for the first time. liquid, you're planningto recreate the patriots? snake, we werecreated by the patriots. we're not men. we're shadowsin the shape of men. we're freaks whonever should have existed! we're a system,

insurance that futuregenerations never prosper. the patriots saw fitto create us, and in doing so becameour only raison d'etre. i won't fightmy fate any longer. i'll kill zero and big boss, and become a patriot myself. it all began withzero and big boss. our purpose in life isto fulfill our destinies. and once all isreturned to zero,

the world can be reborn. adam... so long as we both live, the world will notknow an age of light. if we're to pass the batonto the next generation, the only choice leftto us is death. boss... the players haveall assembled, snake. the time has comefor you to witness...

witness ourmoment of triumph! go! hold it right there,liquid! drop your weaponsand stand down. now! all of you, drop your weaponsand put your hands up! aim! liquid! stop! fire! the system is mine!

your guns and your weaponsare no longer your own! behold... guns of the patriots. bang! shit! ed! akiba... you're ok? yeah... i'm fine.

but why...? look out! do you see this, zero? we are victorious! behold! guns of the patriots! out of my way! let them have it. we don't need it anymore.

so long, snake! otacon! jonathan... ed... you and me... we were great partners. great friends. don't give up on me. don't go...

i... i... it's... it's not, i mean.... thank you, akiba. you ok, meryl? if it's all right... call me johnny. you and the beastsare no different...

scorched shadowsborn to the world. when a beaststeps into the light... unless the lightis put out... the shadows cannot be erased. so long asthere is light... there is shadow. to return everythingto normal... the light mustbe extinguished. and when that happens...

will be... too. kawanishi-noseguchi... kinunobebashi,takiyama... uguisunomori,tsuzumigataki, tada, hirano. ichinotorii,uneno... yamashita, sasabe... kofudai, tokiwadai,myokenguchi... we'll launch a stealthnuclear warhead at jd.

i thought you couldn'tcontrol a nuke with gw. we can't. that's whererex comes in. i know where to findnukes they don't control. now go. prepare our haven. yes, boss. what the devilis this...?! the video feed fromthe mk.ii cuts off here.

in the beginning, the patriots' systemwas controlled by four ais, with jd at the top. one of those ais was gw. the patriots thoughtit had been destroyed, but liquid was ableto use it as cover to slip inside the system. gw... i knew i'd heardthat name before. yeah, gw was oneof the patriots' cell ais.

it was installedon arsenal gear. emma's worm should haveput it permanently out of commission, but liquid somehowrecovered and repaired it. i'm guessing jd must beunable to recognize gw even though it'sinside the patriots' system. it's a blind spot. gw was written off as lostwhile it was still tied in. using it let liquid interferewith the ai from the inside. where is this haven?

where is their base? don't worry. mei ling is using the positionof the mk.ii's last transmission to predict the courseof liquid's ship. the us military's systems are all in liquid'shands now. the regional systemshave all been shut down. guns are fallingsilent across the earth. it's the first totalcease-fire in human history.

supreme authoritystill resides with jd which the patriots still command. which is why liquid plans to launch a nuclear strikeon jd in its orbit. but liquid only controls sop, and sop only controlsguns and small firearms. if liquid can'tuse the nukes... then... then what's his plan? that's it!

he's going to use rex! rex was scrapped beforethe sons of the patriots system was implemented. of course... the rail gun. campbell, where's rex now? i think you know. a long-forgotten base,

in us territory,outside the patriots' control... the place where liquidmade his debut... his monument. off the alaskan coast, in the fox archipelago... shadow moses island. if liquid destroys jd, and his gw assumes totalcontrol over the system... he'll have the worldat his fingertips.

and no one will beable to stop him. not even the patriots. enough is enough, snake. you can't takeany more of this. i'm not dead yet. that's not what i mean. you can't beat liquid. he's got the patriots'own control system on his side. not only areweapons useless,

but the us militaryis in shambles. and even if it weren't, liquid's got enough menand machines to match it. things can't get any worse. face it, snake... we've lost. otacon...! we never stood a chance. it's not aboutwinning or losing.

we started this. and it's our dutyto finish it. - sunny...- no ! jack can't go. he's not ready yet. he needs to rest! let me go, sunny. your dialysis isn't done yet. i'll be fine.

from now on... i'm living my life by my own will. i won't livea proxy life... a slave to someone else's will. i'm a shadow. one that no lightwill shine on. as long as you follow me, you'll never see the day.

... are both just pawnsin this proxy war. but once this is over, we will have our freedom. i'll release you. it's the only wayi'll ever be free. five years ago... that's not what i meant. i've got nothing to lose. don't be an idiot.

you know you've gotsomeone to protect. it was never goingto work out for me. it even rainedthe day i was born. you've got it all wrong. you were the lightningin that rain. you can still shinethrough the darkness. the lightning... look at me. do you see this?

i have no future. in a few months, i'm going to be a weaponof mass destruction. you have a family. i have no family! i have nothing! i have always been alone. always. don't leave me here...

alone. this is my fight. my destiny. mei ling. i got the results back. it's official.he's on shadow moses island. we lost metal gear mk.ii'ssignal along the way, but the ship was headed inthe direction of shadow moses. this is a picture of the islandtaken by a civilian imagery satellite.

the sea line is risingdue to global warming. have you heard thatthe entire fox archipelago is about to slipinto the ocean? the surrounding islandshave already been evacuated. then what about rex? what did washingtondo with it? the nuclear disposalfacility on shadow moses hasn't been touchedsince the incident. that was nine years ago.

the president of armstechand the darpa chief were killed, and the secretary ofdefense was arrested... by the time the shadowmoses incident was over, there wasn't a single person leftthere who knew what took place. it was as if nothinghad ever happened. the data was eitherfalsified or erased so no traceswould be left behind. we were exiled to desk jobsfor the same reason. rex and the nukes should still bewhere they were nine years ago,

untouched. i thoughti'd never go back. it'll take me a whileto get there, but i'll be backing you upfrom aboard the missouri. she's the only shipin the fleet still able to move, since it was decomissionedbefore the system was put in place. and hawai'i is notthat far away. you're not wearingyour glasses anymore? oh, i... yeah.

i switched to contacts. we rendezvousat shadow moses. he who submitsto heaven shall live... he who defies heavenshall perish. i have to atonefor my past, too. rex is a beast born from my research. shadow moses awaits. everything all right, snake?

i was... having that dream again. we're here. shadow moses. act 4:twin suns are you all right? yeah.i just slipped a little. have to hurry... not much time left.

meet the mk.iii. it's our last replacement,so try not to break it. who, me? never. one more thing... i don't see anybody around, but there are unmannedsentries patrolling the area. be careful out there. it's snake. i'm in front ofthe disposal facility. excellent, snake.

how's that sneakingsuit working out? i'm nice and dry,but it's a little hard to move. bare with it. it's designedto prevent hypothermia. this is alaska you know. a hind-d? what's a russiangunship doing here? you must be crazy to flya hind in this kind of weather. who's that? nice to meet you snake.

it's an honor to speakto a living legend like yourself. what's wrong? a surveillance camera? this is mcdonell miller. campbell told meabout the situation here. i thought i mightbe of some use. there's no one i'd ratherhave in a foxhole than you. well, i knowlots about survival... snake, that door is locked.

how do i open it? security isshut down altogether. you can't release the lockwithout activating it. you'll have to golog in somewhere. i've got it, snake.my old office is close by. with the power on, you shouldbe able to unlock the door from there. and if you checkthe facility records, we can find out rex's statusand who's been in and out. you rememberwhere it is, snake?

i'm not senile yet. just to be safe,i'm marking it on your map. you old geezer. this version is totally obsolete. it's going totake a little work. this is the roomwhere we first met, huh? yep. it's not conjuring up anyunpleasant memories, is it? i was being attackedby frank jaeger.

i remember. if you hadn't shown upwhen you did... it gives me the shiversjust thinking about it. you saved my life. naomi hated them forwhat they did to frank's body... but it was me thatcrippled him in the first place. she must havehated me, too. we shouldn't havebeen so trusting. i blame myself, too.

i helped develop rex. that's why it was so easy for meto believe her feelings were genuine. but she was only using usto atone for her sins. so what? what did she do to us? you forgot already? she betrayed you!she stole your blood! if that was all, it should have been overand done with in south america.

why'd she join usafterward? well, i... she has us come rescue her and then she turns aroundand goes straight back to liquid. why would she do that? i don't know, snake. it looks likeshe's still with him. i just had a look atthe security access logs... as i thought, there's peoplecoming and going at frequent intervals.

in fact, the records showsome recent activity. look at this. it's an image taken a few hours agoby a surveillance camera up ahead. and vamp. the beauty and the beast. they've beenthrough here. and from what we've gleanedfrom the security records, it can onlymean one thing... they're headed for rex'sold underground hangar.

i finished rebooting securityand released the locks. the door on the first floorought to open for you now. amazing. almost makes me nostalgic for the dayswhen you needed a keycard for every door. it's been nine years. all you really have to do is reinterpretthe old technology in terms of the new. getting old isn't allthat bad, you know. let's get going, snake. found you.

cry... cry for me. go on... let me hear you cry! come... show me your tears. let them flow! until your eyes run red! sad...

so sad... so very, very sad... so sad i could die! i hear them... i hear the cries... the cries of babies. stop it! stop crying! please!

please, stop crying! no, wolf... go away. don't come any closer. i was so scared. forgive me. you can cryif you want to. cry if you need to.

i don't needtears anymore. i've cried myself dry. so cry... as much as you like. will be there to listen. yo, snake. i finished laundering thatrail gun you picked up just now. knock yourself out.it's on the house. time for anotherbedtime story, snake.

this one's about crying wolf. you don't need me to tell youthere's whole nations in africa tearing themselves apartin the name of ethnic cleansing. well, she was borninto that environment. when she was a little girl, her village was attackedby rival armed factions. her parents and siblingswere slaughtered, and she wasleft a refugee. she took herlast surviving relative,

her baby brother, and ran as far as she couldaway from the war zone. one day, they cameacross an enemy unit, so she took her brotherand hid in an abandoned shack. and then her brotherstarted to cry... she knew that ifthe soldiers heard the noise, they would find themand kill them both. so she wrapped her handsas tight as she could around his mouth. as the footstepsgradually went away,

she came back to her senses. her brother wasn'tcrying anymore. horrified, she pulledher hand away, covered in sweat and spit. he wasn't breathing. they say wolves eattheir own pups when they die. she was spotted wanderingthrough the thick of battle carrying her dead brotherin her arms. she had visions, too:

a wolf walking alongside her. every night, the wolfwould howl and cry, just like herbrother did that day. eventually, she made it to agovernment-run refugee camp. but by then, her brother's bodyhad rotted away. the camp was crowdedwith refugees like herself, and little childrenlike her brother.

day and night she wastormented by the cries of babies. the wolf that followed her heard her sorrowfulscreams and answered. he made his wayaround the camp. and one by one... he silenced the children. she tried to stop it, but she was powerlessto stop the wolf. a few days passed,

and on the eveof the enemy's raid, there wasn't a child left. the adults who survivedwere torn up pretty bad. of course, there neverwas any wolf in that camp. she was the onewho killed those babies. but she couldn'tbring herself to admit it. she couldn't bear the thought ofherself going from one baby to the next, howling like a wolf,snuffing out their little lives. and she never did,even as crying wolf,

a lonely beast foreverstalking the battlefield. fighting with you made wolffinally accept what she'd done. she was cleansed by you. if the cries she heard of childrenon the battlefield have been silenced, it's because of you. you ought to be proud. three down, one to go. all that's left is mantis. but you should know, snake,

she's been controllingall the other beasts. she's the beast of beasts. don't let herget her hooks in you. i won't. see you around, snake. welcome home... wolf. i've got something to tell youabout naomi hunter. what about her?

she might be a spy! to kill me? is that all youcared about? frank jaeger, the man who you destroyed,was my brother and my only family. gray fox? you killed my benefactor and sent my brotherhome a cripple. i vowed revenge.

but i can't go yet. i still have a job to do. i vowed revenge... rex is on the floor above you. use the lift. hop on, snake. i'll send 'er up. rex! look!the rail gun's been removed!

liquid doesn't need thewhole rex to launch his nuke, he only needsthe rail gun. damn it!has it already been shipped? hang on, i'll check. i'm afraid so. unfortunately for you, the rail gun isno longer here. naomi! this place will beyour grave,

as my queen wishes. the suicide gekkoare on their way. soon, there'll be nothingleft of this place. we've been had... snake, i think i mightbe able to get it working. i just need some time! i'll leave the rest to you. excellent...

you'll amuse meuntil they arrive. make him pay, snake! do it for me!for emma! what does it taketo kill this guy? i've done enough damage to finishhim but he's just bouncing back. remember what naomi said afterraiden fought him in south america? the nanomachines inside his body arehelping him heal at an accelerated rate. so conventional attackswon't do any good! i don't know...

but for now just give himeverything you've got! yes! you did it, snake! that's it... what have you done? there... now you're a mere mortal,like the rest of us. clever... but can you killthis mere mortal? snake! look out!

they're riggedto self-destruct! sorry to havekept you all waiting. you ready for this? sunny gave methe go-ahead. how about it,undying man? care to die, too? sorry... but i can't die just yet. then kill me.

this one is mine. you keep thosegekko at bay. we're gonna buyyou some time. i'll do my best! wait... you're a scout, too,are you not? then let usduel with blades. damn, herethey come again! hang in there snake!don't give up!

above you! they're comingfrom above! watch out snake! good, snake! in front! just like that, snake! snake, get out of the way! this thing mightcome in handy after all. he was never immortal.

his natural healing abilitieswere enhanced by the nanomachinesinside his body. after so many battles... he's finally reached his limit. doctor... ease my pain. sunny asked meto tell you something. "i cooked them right." good for you, sunny.

you finally did it. i can't save you. you have to trust me,dr. emmerich. give this to him. not for revenge, but to end his suffering. now you can returnto your true self. you can be at peace. i can... die?

this doesn'tchange anything. we can't... erase the past. nor... can we forgive it. and so the only thingwe can do... is end it. liquid's down below us. he's stolenthe patriots' system,

slipped out of their sight, and taken their ark. ark? a warship... unfettered by land... law... country... or network. the only place where they are trulyreleased from the shackles of the patriots...

the place wherethey can be free. outer haven. outer haven...? liquid plans to launchthe nuke from that ship. you have been given life so thatyou may fulfill your purpose. when all of this is over, you'll have no choicebut to accept death. we are given life only so thatwe can atone for our sins. your life was createdfor that very purpose.

we all must atonefor our own sins. we must not pass themon to the next generation. we must not leavethem for the future. that is your true fate... one that even youcannot defy. vamp and i... we are the same. we're living corpses... our bodies...

kept barely aliveby nanomachines. then you... cancer. i shouldn't evenbe alive right now. the nanomachines havekept it from progressing... but there's nothingmore they can do. with the nanomachines gone... time will unfreezeand begin to flow again. what are you saying?

goodbye... hal. don't! give... my best... to sunny. naomi, don't do it... are you crying...? for me?

naomi... why? you have... such beautiful eyes. i'm sorry for everything. now go! let's get moving.- why does it always end this way? - come on! pull yourself together!- why does it always end this way? they're coming! i haven't losteverything yet.

i've still got a job to do. that's right.we need you. i'm done crying. i don't haveany more tears to shed. we have toget out of here. any ideas? time's running short,so i'll explain as we go. pay close attention. i'm listening!

promise... promise me... you'll carry on... our will. i've got your back. they self-destructed! what's that...? ray! it's not over!

not yet. moses, whereour fates were born. and whereyours ends, snake! let's finish this, snake! ray may have beendesigned as a rex killer, but you've got meon your side. you can't lose! crush ray,and liquid with it! snake, behind you!

fox... die! think again! sorry, but thatwon't work this time. this is the libertywe've won for ourselves! outer haven! and with this weapon, i will destroy jd! then,

everything ends,and everything begins! but as for you,brother, you'll stay here to markthis island's watery grave! die, snake! sunny... no! - rose!- no! jack, do you rememberthe day we met?

it was in frontof federal hall... there were allthese tourists around you. they were asking me which building it wasthat king kong was climbing in the movie. i said it was probablythe chrysler building. and then you showed upand started mouthing off. you were like,"no, it's the empire state." i said the chrysler buildingwas in godzilla. we started arguing, and i forgot allabout the tourists.

the next thing we knew,the tourists had gone away. and a week later, i found you again bycoincidence out in the base corridor. an amazing coincidence... that night, we went up to the topof the empire state building. it was so beautiful. i didn't care anymorewho was right. and that wasour first date.

we watched king kong in your apartmenta bunch of times that night... didn't sleep till morning. worthless fossil! haven is headed southwardthrough the pacific at a speedof 33 knots. the missouri isfalling behind at a rate of about twonautical miles every hour. can't this thinggo any faster? i'm afraid not.

this is as fastas she'll go. the nukes firedby rex's rail gun have a damage radius ofapproximately 300 meters. the target isa moving satellite that's travelling at10 kilometers per second. to get theprecision they need, they have to getas close as they possibly can. liquid won't launch his nukeuntil jd is at perigee. the missouri can usethat time to catch up.

haven is goingto use a rail gun mounted on the bridgeto destroy jd. they'll need to openthe cover to launch the nuke. that's our one andonly chance to get inside. inside? why can't weattack it from here? it wouldn't do any good. as long as liquidhas control of the system, physically destroying gw would stillleave supreme authority in his hands...

sons of the patriots. dr. emmerich is right. that's why we needto destroy gw from the inside before attacking haven itself. liquid's very own death star... all right everybody,here's the plan... we know haven will haveto surface in order to fire the rail gun. when it does,the missouri will see it. we'll make a quick approachand deliver a strike team.

our goal is twofold... prevent that nukefrom launching, and wipe outgw's programming. we'll launch the striketeam from catapults at the exact momenthaven's armored cover opens. they'll then penetrategw's physical server room and infect it with a worm cluster. but what if they shut down gwbefore we get in there? liquid is already entrenchedwithin the patriots' network.

he needs to stay there, or destroying jdwon't serve him any purpose. they can't affordto have gw shut down. and let's not forget, liquid will throw everythinghe's got at stopping the strike team. the corridor leading to gw is defendedby directed-energy weapons that emit certaintypes of microwaves. did you say...microwaves? and at that frequency,

the waves will start to evaporateany living person within range. a giant microwave oven. you'd have to havea death wish to go in there. sounds like theperfect job for me. snake, this isn't the timefor your stupid jokes. outside the corridor, liquid's soldiers willbe out in full force. inside, there'll be unmannedweapons waiting for us.

where are you gettingall this information? you really think there'sa way to destroy gw? yes, i do. she... left us something that'llpoint us in the right direction. naomi helped with the preparationsto stop haven's launch. all of our internal dataon haven came from her. the reason she got on the nomadwith us in the first place... was to get close to me.

she ended upturning to sunny instead. she left her planin sunny's hands. this entire operation isbased on the data she left us. whose side wasshe on, anyway? we'll never know exactlywhat her true intentions were... but one thing's for sure: she was determinedto stop liquid. our will... come on guys.somebody say something positive.

anything. attention! listen up! a wise man once wrote... "the tongues of dying menenforce attention, like deep harmony." "where words are spent," "they are seldomspent in vain." any other questions? yes? snake?

anybody got a smoke? so this program... you're sayingsunny wrote it? actually, only abouta third of it is her work. naomi was working ona program to destroy gw, but she couldn'tquite finish it. so she handed itover to sunny. sunny went fishingin my library to see if there was any sourcecode she could use to complete it.

eventually, she found some... it was emma's worm cluster. she took my sister's code andworked it into naomi's program. i didn't have time to lookover every single line of code... but what i did see... reminded me of emma. it was like she left tracesof herself behind in the structure. but this worm clusterthat sunny created... it's even betterthan emma's.

sunny's worm destroysthe ai's intellect by triggeringapoptosis in the cells. once uploaded into gw, it should dosome real damage. you ever thinkabout quiting? it's not like i've gotmy health to worry about. are you tryingto kill yourself? so, you're dead set ongoing to haven yourself... why don't we getsomebody else to go?

there's no needfor you to do it. i still havethings left to do... besides smoke. why don't you jumpoff the ship with me? i've still gotthings to do myself. and i don't even smoke. act 5:old sun how is he? he'll live,

but he's inno shape to fight. best to let him rest. without the system to protect them,everybody's losing their nerve. they say sop's aftereffects are so badthat a lot of soldiers are deserting. the only people i have leftto rely on are meryl and... him. kind of an unknownquantity, isn't he? i hooked him upwith a non-id m82. fancy meetin' you here.

business has been slow ever sinceliquid got his hands on the system... his extra ordersstopped coming in. now that all the weaponsall over the world are locked, the only ones still lookin'to fight would be you n' yours. drebin, do you have even theslightest idea what's going on here? 'course i do. enjoy it... could be your last. it is.

i'm all out. looks like that last smokewill have to wait after all. later. oh, thanks. you're over there. there! liquid's warship,outer haven, is a modified version of anarsenal gear model stolen from the patriots. inside, it's crawling with irvingand other unmanned weapons.

haven is crewed by abattalion of enhanced soldiers, each culled from thebest the pmcs have to offer. if liquid succeedsin destroying jd and gaining controlof the patriots' system... he'll make havenhis flagship, and his pmcs will spreadlike wildfire across the globe. mankind's armedsubjugation will begin. captain, haven sighted. prepare to fire main gun!

listen closely... this is our last chance to stopliquid from enslaving the planet. can you hear me? it's time... time to do your duty. remember... no matter what happens... i'll be with youtill the very end. are my pride and joy.

rail gun is exposed. there it is: a naked nuke. let's finish it, snake. let this be our last battle. if we're responsiblefor liquid's sins... then the onusis ours to bear. enemy moving to intercept! maintain full speed! failure will spell doomfor the human race.

you've got to stop themfrom using that rail gun... then annihilate gw. target hit! light damage! the enemy is returning fire. all hands,prepare for impact. brace yourselves! sorry...it's my ankle. can you walk?

i think so. hurts a hell of a lotmore without sop. makes you feel alive, doesn't it?what about akiba? he fell into the ocean. snake, i'll catch up soon. you go ahead! sorry to keep you waiting. the corridor leading to gwis defended by directed-energy weapons did you say... microwaves?

meryl...? run! i know your wavelength... it brings back memories... meryl, don't...! johnny...! wait! akiba! it has beena long time, snake. psycho mantis...?

no, that was another me. can you hear the screams? they cry for battle! let me hear you scream! howl! roar! from the very depthsof your soul! what's this...? blackout! well done! excellent!

my doll! mantis! sorrow! my doll! take that! mantis is dropping her puppet. without it, she can'tcontrol her victims. snake, go grabthat puppet! i hear them in my head... the screams! make them stop!

i don't want to hearthem anymore! i'm scared... i'm so scared. my head hurts...it hurts! i'm sorry! have mercy! let me out of here! i can't breathe! now...

get out of my body. set me free! excellent, snake! psycho mantis? you don't seem tobelieve your own eyes. very well... i'll show you the power of the world'sgreatest mind reader and psychokineticist! i'll start by readingyour personality. or rather,your past.

this is no trick. it's true power. ...what?! where is your data... where is it saved?! there's no memory card! damn! your skillshave improved. or rather,your hardware... how about this, then?!

witness mypsychokinesis... put your controlleron the floor. put it downas flat as you can... that's good. now i will move your controllerby the power of my will alone! vibration is back. the spirit of the warriorwill always be with you. so, you bestedthe last beast. that doll you just picked up lets you manipulateanybody who's got nanomachines in 'em.

sounds like somethingthe devil's cooked up, if you ask me. mantis camefrom south america. she was born and raised in a countrywracked by never-ending civil wars. her village was attacked byenemy forces and burned to the ground. this was whenshe was still a little girl. hunted by enemydeath squads, she was separatedfrom her family. she barely managedto escape with her life... ended up in the basementof this one building.

it was full of corpsesthat had been dumped there. almost all of them hadbeen tortured to death. she was petrified with fear. and then she heard the sound ofheavy boots on the floor above her, followed by shrieking screams, the kind that would make every hairon your body stand straight up. she had stumbled acrossa makeshift torture chamber. somebody had locked the door,and she was trapped. it was dark.it was dank.

and it was full of awretched stench. she couldn't sleep with the screams oftorture victims all around her. all she could do was sit curled upin one corner of the room, trembling. a week passed,then ten days. she managed to keep hydrated by drinkingthe filthy water pooled up on the floor, but there was no food. being trapped in that kind of place,half-crazy from hunger, did a serious numberon her mind.

did you know femalemantises eat their mates? the screams went onday and night. she covered her earsbut it didn't help. and then,she was saved... by a little black mantis, that taught herhow to block out the screams, how to plug upher inner ears. what the hell areyou talking about? i'm saying, snake,

that when she couldn'tstand the hunger any longer, she started feedingon the corpses... but only the male ones. she didn't realizewho was doing it. in her mind,it was a female mantis, devouring her mates. it was like one big,twisted waking dream. there was no mantis,of course. it was alla hallucination.

nothing more than some story spunby another person she'd created inside. her unstable mind waswhat made her so vulnerable. later they ripped out what was leftof her psyche with drugs and hypnosis, and implantedthe persona of psycho mantis. it wasn't her willthat controlled the bbs. it was psycho mantis,half-assimilated into her soul, pulling the strings. screaming mantis wasjust another puppet. anyway, she survived severalweeks down in that hellhole

and finally got backto the surface. but the screamsin her head didn't subside. they wouldalways be with her... only this time,they weren't real. the inner earplugsdidn't work anymore. the black mantishad disappeared. there was no placeleft to escape. which is why she wasalways screaming: to drown out the onesin her own head.

but it's over now. you freed mantis fromthat dark nightmare. the last of the beasts. you got it, pal. well, i'm done playingstoryteller for a while. now get going.gw is waiting. and this time, you getto make up the ending. where's johnny? they're here.

go on without me! this time,i'll protect you. go. destroy gwwhile there's still time. while i'm still alive. snake, the corridor aheadis full of microwaves. no way i'm gettingthrough there uncooked. i'm sorry you gotdragged into this. this time...

we'll meet again... on the other side... you were the lightning in that rain. go! hurry! i'm... sorry you gotdragged into this... it's time.time to do your duty. last mag. come on, snake.i can't hold out much longer. damn it!

i can't protect anyone! johnny! johnny,you're all right! trying to make upfor being late? i'll never leaveyou alone again. cover! ready! who needs nanomachines,anyway... right, johnny?

tell me something. how come mantiscouldn't control you? i figured... she probably used people's nanomachinesto manipulate their behavior. no nanomachines,no control. but, don't you...? i don't have anynanomachines in me. every time we hadmandatory shots, i ducked out. don't tell me you knewthis was going to happen?

nah... i just hate needles! so that's why you werealways out of sync with the team? i tried to keep track ofeverybody's data on my wearable, but i could never keep up. and why you weren'taffected in europe... on the volta! - yep.- asshole! johnny, i'm running low. don't worry.i got these from drebin.

johnny,i never knew... all those horriblethings i said. forget it. all those stomachaches, was that because the nanomachinesweren't there to suppress them? but if you're afraid of shots,why'd you join my team? i wanted tobe near you... to protect you. - johnny...?- meryl...

i've always loved you. ever since shadow moses, when i firstlaid eyes on you. meryl, marry me! you've got a hellof a sense of timing. what do you say? i'd have to say... no. you'd rather stay single? ok. we don't haveto make it official.

well, how about we justmove in together, then? nope. is there somethingwrong with me? i'd just ratherdo things my way. johnny... marry me. i'll say it again... sure.it'd be my pleasure. and don't even thinkabout cheating on me.

i wouldn't dare. and i wanta real wedding... with flowers and a cake. it's been my dreamsince i was a little girl. i want to be a bride. take me home, johnny. the shots... they're not working. get up!

on your feet, snake! i am lightning... the rain transformed. leave this to me. i'll go to the server room. the corridor'sfull of microwaves. one of us is enough. my body is a machine.i can take it. your body maybe a machine...

but your heart... ...is human. you've got a lifeto go back to. she meansnothing to me now. raiden, look at me. you still have your youth. don't waste it. you can start over.

from here on, this is my fight. we tore the world apart... made your lifea living hell. it's my duty... to put an endto all of this. i'll make surethey don't get through. stay with me, snake. hold on untilwe insert the virus.

lock itfrom the inside. done. thank you... snake, that place issaturated with microwaves. the longer you stay in there,the greater the damage you'll take. get through thereas quickly as possible! are you alright? don't give up on me snake! move.

we're running out of time. you've gotto keep moving! get up snake! so this is gw... it's like a graveyard in here. can you do it? leave it to me. we did it! it's over.

they did it. wait a minute... the worm is still spreading. and it's not stopping at gw. is it removingthe other clones...? wait. i don't believe this! what is it? jd is being erased!

it's you, isn't it? i hope you're listening. the virus you uploadedis using gw as a conduit to annihilatethe entire ai network. it's set to destroyall four ais along with jd, the corethat tied them all together. i've set this video toplay back once they're all gone. sons of the patriots wasonly the beginning. the patriots were planning to usenanomachines to implement the system

over the entire population. i had an obligationto stop it. with a littlehelp from sunny. she helped me... she believed her talentscould help you all put gw to rest. what she createdwas an anti-ai foxdie. but this virus's name... ...is foxalive. the conceptual opposite...

...of the nanomachines thati created all those years ago. we wished to freethe captured foxes... to let them runfree in the wild. by the time you hear this, i'm afraid i'll be gone. this is a strange feeling... leaving a message to bedelivered after you've died. hal... if you're listening...

sorry i deceived you. it hurt me morethan anything else, lying to you like that. i wanted to apologizeto you before... but i never got the chance. and yet, in the end... you helped mefeel the joy... ...of living.

thank you, hal. hear me. our country... ...is an innocent childonce more. a new dawn is rising. she can build a newdestiny for herself. the time has come. you've earned your rest. the rose petalis about to fall...

snake?! wait here. i'll get a medic. enough! stop this pointless fighting! this is no war! rise and shine, snake. look. the war is over.

you... you couldhave stopped us. stopped you? why would iwant to do that? this is just as i'd hopedthings would end. back before father's time... before zero gavebirth to the patriots... the us, china, and the soviet union,formed a secret pact. the organization they createdwas called the philosophers.

through two world wars, it spreadits roots and extended its reach. after that,the philosophers splintered, and factions began to squabbleover the fortune they'd amassed. they called itthe "philosophers' legacy", a massive cache of funds that would later providethe foundation for zero's patriots. zero sought to use his richesto achieve world domination. our father, big boss, sought to free himselffrom that chokehold.

his dream was to createan army of free citizens, one that answeredto no government... outer heaven. but he failed,because of you. nine years ago, i tried to free usfrom the control of our genes. four years later,our dear brother, solidus, sought to free us fromthe control of the patriots' memes. all of that, all of it, was nothing more thana process of trial and error...

the end result of whichis outer haven, to be free fromsons of the patriots, the ultimate form of external controlimposed on the patriots' soldiers. free from foxdie... free from the system... free from id control. our minds freefrom their prisons. that is the haveni've yearned for. this is it, brother.

our final moment. the battle has ended... but we are not yet free. the war is over... we still havea score to settle. show me whatyou've got, snake! take this! time to die! what the--?!

splendid, brother! it's not over yet! this is onlythe beginning, snake. america will descendinto chaos... it'll be the wild westall over again. no law, no order. fire will spreadacross the world. the people will fight... and through... battle...

they will knowthe fullness of life. at last... our father's will... his outer heaven... is complete. somewhere out there... i know he's laughing. we are beasts created by man.

the shadowscannot be erased. erasing shadowswill do no good. i am liquid'sdoppelganger. and you are his. just like your father. you're pretty good. sunny's programdestroyed jd's brain, but left the brainstem intact. she analyzednaomi's black box

and separated the patriots' control systemfrom the vital lifelines of society. water... air... electricity... food... medicine, communication,transportation... she cut offthe patriots' control while preservingmodern civilization. maybe... it was her way ofavenging olga... her mother. or maybe she wanted to shapethe future into her own ideal image.

it was just onebig defragmentation. foxalive... the ai is trulya living thing. the patriots' reignhas crumbled away. and still, our civilization... a civilization that has thrivedon war since the dawn of time... lives on. i wonder if wedid the right thing.

what did we lose? what did we save? epilogue:naked sin look amazing! congratulations. colonel. going to walk medown the aisle. you're notangry anymore? oh, i'm still mad.

but now... you've got a chanceto win me over. we have plentyof time now. you look beautiful. way to go! - you're gonna make her real happy.- i hope so... dearly beloved... we are gathered here todayto join these two in holy matrimony. let us give thanks for the lifethey will soon share...

and pray... they have love everlasting. now, let's all send this new teamon their first mission. hey. go on! do it! just in time. drebin.

and i brought gifts. a shower of flowers,compliments of drebins. a little somethingextra from me. the bouquet! hey! where's snake? who knows? that guy alwayskeeps you waiting. sunny, come on.

jack, how are you feeling? do you mind if i sit down? jack... don't shut me out.i need you to listen to me. what do you want? come to laugh at me? look at the boy. cute. - campbell's kid?- no!

he's yours. i don't have any kids. he's your son! you said... miscarriage... i lied. i had a healthy baby boy. roy pretendedto be my husband... to protect me...

and our son. only until you'dcompleted your mission. to shield usfrom patriot eyes. he didn't even tell meryl. he sacrificed everything... even his family... to protect us. i don't believe it. i'm sorry, jack.i wanted to tell you.

so he's really...? john... aren't yougoing to say hello? my son... little john. scared of me, huh? i don't blame you. it's ok. i'm not scared.

i think you're cool,kinda like a comic book superhero. rose... i'm done running. and i'm... no longer afraid. like a scene frombeauty and the beast. don't say that. you're no beast. you're my husband.

and his father. and me... i'm going to domy very best... to be the wife and motherthis family deserves. has changed. our time has ended. our war is over. but there's one morething i must do... one last punishmenti must endure.

erase my genes... wipe this memefrom the face of the earth. this... is my final mission. nothing beatsa stiff drink, huh? i didn't know you drank. i thought it wasstrictly soda for you. not like i nevertouch the stuff. soda just agreedwith the nanos better.

the nanomachinesbreak down alcohol before it has a chanceto get you drunk. so that explains it. no need to holdback anymore, huh? yeah, well, it ain't allsunshine and rainbows. lotta folks lost their entire senseof being the moment sop went offline. you mean sops? i heard some people aregoing through withdrawals...

sop syndrome. sop kept more thanjust alcohol under control. those poor slobs arevirtually naked now. from what i hear, over 10 percentare showing symptoms. i guess getting rid of the patriots won'tsolve all our problems overnight. you probably alreadysuspected this, but... i'm not actuallyan employee of at security. the patriots raised me... to be a gun launderer.

the patriots? my earliest memories are ofthe lra (lord's resistance army)... they kidnapped me... forced me to fight. you're staring ata former child soldier. my parents,brothers and sisters... all killed in the war. guess that makes mewhat you'd call a war orphan. after that, the patriots picked me upand brought me into the family business.

i was drebin...number 893. there's a whole lotta pawnslike me all over the world. how you suppose ilaundered guns like i did? 'cause they let me. in fact... i was under strict orders toback you guys from the start. you what? hey man, don't take it personal.

i wasn't the only oneunder their orders. meryl and...? they probably neverrealized it themselves, but... rat patrol team 01... voila! patriot! played like a violin. but... why? obviously, liquid's plotwas a threat to the patriots.

so they planned to haveyou guys take care of it. didn't turn out quite howthey planned, though, did it? yeah, well... i don't think they expected youto crash their system and wipe them out. so does that meanyou're out of a job now? are you kiddin'? i got the drebins. all the drebins in theworld are in on it. from now on,

we're in businessfor ourselves. we are pawns no more. easy there. the white house might'velost its taste for unilateralism, started to rebuild, but there's a lot offailed states out there that went bankruptfrom their pmc habits... and they owe ashit load of money. only question is...

who's gonnapick up the tab? i'm sure these new governmentswill try and keep it under control with pmc corporate reform laws... but it ain't gonnabe good enough. they're all sunk up to theireyeballs in the war economy. might not be anew world order... but the old order underthe war economy's gone for good. i'm guessin' the un is gonna bemore important than ever, what withmultilateralism and all.

a certain president said it bestback during the cold war... "for in the development of this organizationrests the only true alternative to war." then again, the un itself's justan old 20th-century relic. and if you think about it... when you lookat its history... it ain't that differentfrom the patriots. the nanomachinesused to keep you sober. crush.

mix. burn. repeat. hey, uncle hal, can i give him the mk.iii? he's kinda... a new friend! he lives near here. we can't understand each other'slanguage, but we're having fun.

he's my veryfirst outside friend. that's great. it's ok if you wantto live outside now. it's your life. there are otherhavens out there. the sun... looks so pretty. i like it outside. when is snake coming back?

is sick. so he went on a tripto help him get better. we're not going with him? he needs to be alone. i wonder if i'llever see him again. had a hard life. he needs some time to rest. are you...crying, uncle hal? i'm not crying.

no need for youto go just yet. it's been a long time... big boss? debriefing:naked son let it go... my son. i'm not here to fight. or should i call you... brother?

time for you toput aside the gun... and live. it all began witha bunch of old fools. they've all passed away. their era of folly is over. i'm the only one left, and soon... i'll be gone, too. how can you still be alive?

that body... liquid burned on the volta... wasn't mine. that was the body... of a clone. solidus. he was a perfect clone. zero, and the proxy aisthat came after him, were convincedthat solidus was me.

i was implantedwith nanomachines... kept in a stateof eternal sleep... by jd the proxy ai. they had mesealed away completely... not only physical body,but my will, too. the technology wassimilar to what they used to restrain the b&bmembers you encountered. for me to wake again... the systemhad to be destroyed...

one way or another. ocelot and evawanted two things... to bring me back to life, and to end the patriots. that meant destroying the aiand killing the man... jd and zero. right before you uploadedthe virus into gw... the way to jd was opened, but only through thephysical manifestation of gw.

that's when we finally learnedthe location of this man... zero. for me, and for them... for naomi... nothing was more important. and it was for that they puttheir grand scheme into motion. eva stole mybody from them and reconstructed it by replacingthe missing parts with pieces

from liquid and solidus. and ocelot... in order tofool the system... used nanomachines and psychotherapy to transplantliquid's personality onto his own. he used hypnotic suggestion to turn himselfinto liquid's mental doppelganger. for all our advancesin nanotechnology, information andgenetic control, they've never managedto control people at will...

let alone turnone person totally into another. under certain conditions, someone can be madeto play a specific role... act like someone else. cats... do love toplay as snakes. it all started with him... zero grew old, and by the end, his patriots were beingrun by a network without shape or form.

what do you meanwithout shape or form? the proxies were only one small partof the vast cycle that zero created. the corporations,for-profits, and research institutions thatcomprise the military-industrial complex were part of it, too. they operated on budgets automaticallyallotted to them by the proxies... accounts maintainedby the patriots. the network covered everythingfrom weapons r&d and investment to production and marketing.

it encompassed the people, the companies...even the laws that protect them. politics and economics becamenothing more than iterations of the same oppressivelyuniform system. i don't think anyone realized that it was all a setup... a mere set of norms. the patriotswere those norms. a neural network reducedto its simplest form. that's what theyreally represented...

uniformity withoutindividual will, without change. but then one day, those norms suddenlydeviated from that pattern, and underwent a mutation. it was like the birthof a new life form... the system founda new way to propagate itself... war. the norms the patriots hadcrafted for their unified state

quickly became dependenton a single business... the war economy. meanwhile, the political cause of creatinga "cleaner, safer battlefield" provided aconvenient catalyst. by then, the system was no longerbeing steered by zero's will... or anyone else's. it was thenthat the norms, manifested as ais,the inheritors of zero's will,

began to reproduce andtake on a life of their own. zero's original intentwas to carry on the boss's will and establish aunified world state... an inside world. but his successors failed to carry on his will. eventually,jd became the very age itself, propagating its willas it pleased. and this age chose to act througheconomics instead of nation-states.

powered by the industrial and digitalrevolutions that came before it, this age gave birth to atwisted economic revolution: a battlefield revolution. it created a new worldwithout substance. in this new world, there wereno ideologies, no principles, no ideals... not even the thingshe treasured most, loyalty. there was onlythe war economy. it was a colossal error in judgment,one zero couldn't possibly have forseen.

with the american systemin a state of collapse... the patriots' societyhas reverted to a blank slate. this man... ...was the source of it all. and he doesn't even realize it. he's completely unaware of the factthat he led the world... to the brink of ruin. even with so muchbad blood between us...

it's funny... now that i'm actuallyface to face with him again... the hatred is gone. all i feel is adeep sense of longing. and pity. did zero really hate me? did he fear me? it's too lateto ask him now. the original members...

para-medic... sigint... ocelot. they've all passed on. only zero is left. everything hasits beginning... but it doesn'tstart at "one." it starts longbefore that... in chaos.

the world is born... from zero. the moment zerobecomes one is the moment the worldsprings to life. one becomes two... two becomes 10... 10 becomes 100. taking it all back to one... ...solves nothing.

so long as zero remains... one... will eventuallygrow to 100 again. and so... our goal... was to erase zero. even the mighty patriots... ...began with a single man. that one man'sdesires grew huge...

bloated. absorbed technology... ...began to manipulatethe economy. we realized too late... that we hadcreated a beast. we had helped turn zero... into 100. his sin... was ours.

and for that reason... i'm taking it upon myself... ...to send zero... back to nothing. you going backto zero, as well? you erased metwo times before. today... will mark the third. the foxdie...

zero planted in you... it's already begun eating away at my body. truth is... the foxdie in you... is what killed eva... and ocelot. she told me... everything.

they did it again. they used you... ...to kill me. the patriots. their proxies... in order to bury us... in the end, they'reno more than a program. all they can do... is repeat the same patternover and over again.

do me a favor, will you? take me over to her. there's one more thing... ...naomi wanted meto tell you. about the... old foxdie in your body... the only that mutated. the new foxdie inside you... ...continues to multiply.

at the same time... it is preventing the old... mutated foxdie... ...from reproducing. the new foxdie... ...is uprooting the old. naomi confirmed it in her follow-up. the mutants are receding.

before long, they'll be gone entirely. does that mean... the mutant strainwon't cause an epidemic? it will only live... ...as long as you do. but even then... the process will justrepeat itself. one day,

the new foxdie, too, will start to mutate... ...become a new threat. but that is, if you manageto live that long. am i going to die? everyone dies. you can't stop it. you can't run away from it.

let me tell you something... don't... don't waste the life... ...you have left... ...fighting. i've never thought of you... as a son. i've always respected you... ...as a soldier.

...as a man. if you'd beenin my place back then... maybe you wouldn't have madethe same mistakes that i did. ever since the day... ...i killed the boss... with my own hands... ...was already dead. you were right. it's not aboutchanging the world.

it's about doingour best to leave... ...the world... the way it is. it's about... ...respecting... ...the will of others... and believingin your own. isn't that... what you fought for?

i understand themeaning behind... ...what you did. i understand... the truthbehind your courage. it's almost timefor me to go. and with me... the last ember ofthis fruitless war dies out. and at last... ...those old evilswill be gone.

once the source of evilreturns to zero... a new one... a new future... will be born. that new world... is yours to live in. not as a snake... as a man. know this...

zero and i... liquid and solidus... we all fought a long,bloody war for our liberty. we fought to freeourselves from nations... and systems...and norms, and ages. no matter how hard we tried,the only liberty we found... was on the inside... trapped within those limits.

the boss and i may havechosen different paths... but in the end, we were both trappedinside the same cage... liberty. but you... you have been given freedom. freedom to be... outside. you are nobody's tool now...

no one's toy. you are no longera prisoner of fate. you are no longer... ...a seed of war. it's time for you to see... ...the outside world... ...with your own eyes. and your soul... are your own.

forget about us. live... for yourself. and find... a new lease on life. you only need one snake. the world wouldbe better off... ...without snakes. this is good...

isn't it? snake, wait up! you forgot these... no thanks. i'm quitting. these things will kill ya. where will you go...? our fight is finished. there's nothingleft for us to do.

there's one thingi still have to do. i have to seethis age off... see what the future brings. sounds good to me. i'll go with you. i'm gonna be dead soon. you don't have to come. you said it yourself, snake. there's nothing inside you canpass on to the next generation.

no genes, no memes... you're man-made... you're a beast. i know... a blue rose. there won't be any happy"beauty and the beast" ending for me. what little time i have leftwill be spent living... as a beast.

a shadow of the inside... of the old age. that's why you need me. as a witness. a witness? someone on the outsideto bear witness to your final days. someone topass on your story... not that i'mthe only witness. but i'll remembereverything you were...

and stick with youto the end. besides, you wouldn't let me suffersunny's eggs alone, would you? come quick!they're ready! they look... yummy. sorta like the sun... it's rising again. subtitles by julien strong

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