Warning: Failure to sense something wrong in the C.I.A. will lead to the discontinuation of the Complete Ending walkthrough.
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Mission Briefing:
Suffer With Me
Panama 1989
Objective:
Capture Manuel Noriega
Name: Woods, Frank
I.D. # 19680517
Height: 6'
Weight: 190 LBS
Outfit:
Woods C.I.A. Black Ops Uniform (Sandstone Folded Shirt, U.S. Woodland Pants and Kit)
Primary:
MP5 - Rapid Fire
Secondary:
Colt M16A1 - Reflex Sight, Grenade Launcher, Fast Mags, 30-Round Steel STANAG Magazine (No Extended Clip)
Grenades and Equipment:
Frag Grenade
Flashbang
Perks:
Access Kit
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Mason
Outfit:
Mason C.I.A. Black Ops Uniform (Black Long Sleeves and Beanie Hat, U.S. Woodland Pants and Kit)
Primary:
Colt M16A1 - 30-Round Steel STANAG Magazine (No Extended Clip)
Sidearm:
M1911
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13:10:04, Section manages to get permission to go back to The Vault in order to see Woods and get some answers from him about his final mission before getting medically discharged. As he signs in and enters the place, flashbacks of his troubled childhood get longer and clearer.
Section: Commander Mason for Sergeant Woods.
Woods: (flashback) I gotcha, kid. You're okay. (present day) What took you so long? Started thinking you weren't gonna make it.
Section: What the fuck was I doing there?
Woods: The dead don't suffer. That's why you and I are still here.
Menendez: (flashback) You suffer with me.
Woods: He's got a plan for you, kid. He's been working it for 30 years and he's counting on you coming after him.
Section: Wait a minute. Frank, you have intel?
Woods: Remember that pendant? Pfft... disappeared. What do you think, it just sprouted legs and walked away? This guy, he knows every angle, every move you're gonna make. He's gonna take out 20 to 30 million people. As if that's gonna bring her back. It's about his sister.
Section: He killed my father to get to you.
Woods: There's no clean shot with that guy—
Section: Hey! What the fuck happened in Panama?
Woods: I was pretty sure we got him in Nicaragua. About a year later, he shows up in Panama with that piece of shit Noriega. That's the last straw for the C.I.A. The orders come down from George H.W. for a snatch and grab. So, your dad and I, we go in... what a shitshow.
Panama starts in Fort Clayton Army Base, where Woods and Mason see their assigned sniper support and old friend from the height of The First Cold War: Senior Chief Petty Officer Mark McKnight, DEVGRU. From him, instead of Hudson because he is nowhere to be found at the time, they learn some bits about Operation Just Cause before the actual briefing.
After getting a taste of what the locals think of the U.S., the three operators get ready for the real show.
McKnight: (flashback) Dammit!
Panamanian Civilians: (flashback) *cheers*
Mason: (flashback) They're just kids, McKnight. They ain't worth it.
McKnight: (flashback) Yeah, I guess you're right. Welcome to Panama, guys.
As Woods explains the planning phase of the United States invasion of Panama and the capture of Manuel Noriega, now designated as Objective False Profit, he starts expressing his confusion about Hudson's role.
Woods: The mission was good, planning good. The only piece that didn't fit was Hudson, on the comm link running the show. It just felt off, even on the way in... I felt it... you know it was gnawing at me. I just didn't look at it.
He then says that despite the lack of support from their C.I.A. handler, he, Mason and McKnight went in anyway. After helping the U.S. Navy SEALs take the airfield Noriega plans on using to escape, Hudson finally breaks radio silence and gives the Panamanian dictator's location.
With their DEVGRU sniper keeping watch outside, Mason and Woods breach, clear and take Noriega in. But Hudson breaks silence again with other plans.
Mason: (flashback) Secure him.
Woods: (flashback) Give me a reason to blow your head off... come on.
Noriega: (flashback) What are you doing?
Mason: (flashback) Sealing your reputation.
Noriega: (flashback) This is not the deal. Call your boss. *smirks*
punch*
Woods: (flashback) Put your ass in the chair.
Mason: (flashback) Hudson, it's Mason.
Hudson: (flashback) Go ahead, Mason.
Mason: (flashback) False Profit secure. Moving to extract.
Hudson: (flashback) No, negative. Stand by for new tasking. Objective False Profit has intel on a priority Nexus target. Escort him as PC (Precious Cargo) to alternate location for prisoner exchange. More to follow. Hudson, out.
Mason: (flashback) Precious cargo, my ass.
Woods: (flashback) Nexus target? Who's more important than this asshole?
Mason: (flashback) I don't like it either, but let's just get this done. We're burning too much time.
Kravchenko: (flashback) He even has people in the C.I.A. *chuckles*
Woods: (flashback) Fucking Kravchenko. Remember what he said in Afghanistan?
Mason: (flashback) *nods* What about the C.I.A. memo in Menendez' compound? There's something else going on here, Woods.
The Sergeant then starts sharing regrets and things he wishes he should have done back then.
Woods: The mission was snatch and grab. Then fucking Hudson gets on the radio, says that Noriega is not the mission. He's a hand off. He's a prisoner swap. And right fucking then I should have known. Right then and there! I should have known right then and there! Like, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?! What the fuck?!
Section: Frank, just take it easy. Just take it easy.
Woods: Fucking Hudson. I should have smoked him in 'Nam!
He goes to the part where he and Mason had to escort Noriega to the U.S. Army Checkpoint beyond the slums, where they will be directed to the Nexus prisoner exchange site. With the two always keeping an eye on him because Hudson insists on giving him way too much freedom.
After getting through the slums with some help from the U.S. Army and Air Force, the two C.I.A. operatives and their PC are now close. Section then starts wondering how his father died again, even jumping into the thought of Noriega killing him.
Section: Did he go out like a soldier? Don't you tell me that fat fucking slob took him out. Don't you tell me that!
Woods: It didn't go down like that, kid. Noriega was a puppet. We're all just puppets.
Woods then tells him that he, Mason and Noriega did get to the Army Checkpoint, but not before nearly getting killed by friendly fire first due to the Panamanian dictator's sheer stupidity. From there, Hudson breaks radio silence once again to check in.
So Mason tries to get some real answers from him. But the C.I.A. handler just keeps being vague and trying to get his team to play along as he goes dark again.
Woods: I may have questioned orders, but I never questioned motives. You take care of your unit, you get your guys home safe.
Section: Roger that, Frank.
Woods: That's not how it is. Chain of command's fucked. I'm a soldier. A marine. I take orders and I get shit done.
At last, he gets to the part in the Nexus prisoner exchange site, a port outside of town, where he looses radio contact with Mason. Not even McKnight or the U.S. forces in the city can be reached.
While setting up the Barrett M82A1 next to the PDF sniper who gets killed by Noriega, Woods gets real suspicious with the Panamanian dictator knowing more than he is letting on. So he tries to reach Hudson for something that can clarify things.
Noriega: (flashback) No one must know I betrayed him.
Woods: (flashback) Him? Hudson, who is Nexus target? Hudson?
Hudson: (flashback) It's him, Woods. Nexus target is... Raul Menendez.
Woods: (flashback) You should have told us, Hudson. You should have told us.
Noriega: (flashback) We are ready. Bring him out.
Woods: (flashback) They're bringing the son of a bitch out.
Hudson: (flashback) Confirm visual.
Woods: (flashback) Confirmed.
Kravchenko: (flashback) He even has people in the C.I.A. *chuckles*
Mason: (flashback) What about the C.I.A. memo in Menendez' compound? There's something else going on here, Woods.
But as he remembers what Kravchenko and Mason told him, he starts having doubts about whether or not the man in his scope really is Menendez. So, he disobeys Hudson's direct order by shooting "Menendez" in the thighs instead of the head.
Hudson: (flashback) End this now, Woods. Take the headshot! That is a direct order!!
bang*
Hudson: (flashback) SHOOT HIM IN THE FUCKING HEAD!
Noriega: (flashback) Now, Woods! NOW!!
bang*
After making his decision, he takes his earpiece off and heads down to confirm the body.
Noriega: (flashback) What are you doing, Woods?! We have him!
Woods: (flashback) I'm going there to confirm him, you piece of shit!
Noriega: (flashback) What if he will get away?!
Woods: (flashback) You think he can walk away from THAT!? And you. What are you looking so smug about?
No reply.
Woods: (flashback) The fuck is going on?!
Still no reply.
Woods: (flashback) What's going on here?!
Woods then starts running towards the body.
Woods: (flashback) No... no, no, no, no, no.
He takes the bag off.
Woods: (flashback) Mason! ALEX! NOOOOOOO!
Noriega: (flashback) Fool.
Woods: (flashback) YOU BASTARD!
bang*
He tries to kill Noriega, but then he gets ambushed and shot in the right knee.
Woods: (flashback) *heavy breathing* FUCK! MENENDEZ!
With a strong urge to rip the drug kingpin apart, Woods tries to go for the M1911 he dropped when he fell. Only to have Menendez completely kneecap and kidnap him, all while the Panamanian dictator watches in delight.
After revealing the secret he has been hiding for nearly 36 years, Section is in mental disarray. While utterly awestruck, he and Woods remember their views of that night as the Sergeant finally shares the details.
In a furnace room not far from the port, Menendez has Woods crippled, Mason possibly dead, Hudson tied to a chair and young David Mason under anesthesia.
Menendez: (flashback) Your best friend, Alex Mason is dead... by your own hand. Do you understand why?
Hudson: (flashback) He was gonna kill David.
Menendez: (flashback) BECAUSE YOU MUST SUFFER AS I HAVE SUFFERED! Now one more must die. You, Woods or David. Make your decision now or in ten seconds you're all dead.
At first, Hudson does not want to die. But immediately, he remembers that this is his fault and now he has to keep Woods and David from paying for his mistakes.
Hudson: (flashback) Woods... I can't... I have two kids... they...
shotgun cocks*
Hudson: (flashback) Fuck! Okay, ME! Do it! DO IT!!
Then he gets kneecapped by Menendez. As he sobs in pain, he gets brutally and ritualistically murdered by the drug kingpin with Josefina's pendant.
Menendez: (flashback) Your life will be consumed by absolute loss. Then and only then, will you understand what you have done to me.
Then Menendez turns to David and tells his plan for him as Woods tries to stop him with whatever strength he has left.
Menendez: (flashback) I will not kill you, boy. Now like Woods, you suffer with me. And then one day. You will see this pendant again. And you will remember everything you saw and felt tonight. You will remember all the years of anger and pain. And when you do, David, please, come to me.
David Mason: (flashback) Dad! No! DAD! *crying*
After his speech, he gives David a shot of adrenaline to wake him up. The young Mason cries for his father, and with Woods fading away, he searches for help.
Thus running into McKnight and his DEVGRU team. Who were just outside the furnace room looking for Mason, Woods and Hudson.
Then the Senior Chief Petty Officer calls in emergency extraction and gets the four out of Panama. Back in the present day, even though Woods himself pulled the trigger, Section does not blame him.
Instead, he felt sorry for him since he just realized that the Sergeant, his uncle, had to live with that deed for the past 30 plus years. The guilt has probably eaten him alive.
Section: There's nothing you could have done, Frank. It wasn't your fault.
Woods: Me and your old man, we were the best... and we still couldn't stop him.
Section: Times have changed, old man. He's going down.
Upon returning to the Obama's Team Room, he requests the C.I.A. to send the debrief of his father's op in Panama immediately, kindly tells Harper, Salazar and even Crosby to receive the file the moment it arrives, goes to his bunk and lays there. Collecting his thoughts while staring at the ceiling until he falls asleep.
Career Record:
Menendez does not completely succeed in manipulating Woods.
The Suffer With Me intel (if all are collected by the player) shows the DEVGRU file of Senior Chief Petty Officer Mark McKnight, the background and result of Operation Just Cause, and the dossiers of Manuel Noriega and the PDF. As well as an old news report about Hudson's entire family being found stripped and murdered in their home in Langley, Virginia during Christmas 1989.