Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008 Video Game)
Paul Eiding: Roy Campbell
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Quotes
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Sunny : [during the Act 1 'Mission Briefing,' Sunny is cooking eggs on board the Nomad] O-Only two eggs, today? Solidus must have taken the day off.
[singing]
Sunny : 7892590360...
[humming]
Sunny : ... 3305305...
[continues singing]
Sunny : ... 4882046652...
Colonel Roy Campbell : The Manhattan incident triggered a serious public backlash. Now, the U.S. has to think twice before intervening militarily in other countries' affairs. This has fueled a push towards military privatization, with PMCs at the heart of that movement.
Solid Snake : PMCs... Private Military Companies.
Colonel Roy Campbell : That's right. PMCs have no basis in nations or ideologies. They are private enterprises, driven by profit. In addition to dispatching mercenaries to war zones, they secure weapons and train local soldiers. They're contractors for war itself, and business is good. Their clientele includes developed nations like the U.S., rebel factions looking to seize power by force... Smaller countries lacking armies 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 has spawned a war by proxy, and it's spreading across the globe.
Sunny : [walking downstairs to bring Otacon the eggs she cooked, Sunny begins to stutter] They, they're... re...
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : [typing on his computer] Sunny, we'll eat them later, okay?
Solid Snake : Every age has its mercenary. These PMCs are nothing new. We've been dealing with them since before the turn of the century.
Colonel Roy Campbell : No, Snake. They're nothing like the mercenaries of the past.
Sunny : [walks over to the side and tries again to give Otacon the eggs] Th-They're ready.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : [continues typing] Sorry, I'm a little busy right now.
Colonel Roy Campbell : The Pentagon's new battlefield control system has produced a decisive difference between hired guns and the PMCs of today.
[Sunny walks towards Snake and Campbell]
Colonel Roy Campbell : The system was developed by ArmsTech Security.
Solid Snake : ArmsTech? You mean AT Corp?
Colonel Roy Campbell : Eh. In recent years, AT Corp has shifted focus from weapons development to security tools. And since the establishment of AT Security, business has been booming.
[Sunny, feeling disappointed, starts walking upstairs. Otacon turns around and watches her]
Colonel Roy Campbell : The system makes it possible to integrate not only micro-level information on individual soldiers and units, but also macro-level information about field conditions and order of battle.
Solid Snake : So, they've finally achieved total real-time battlefield control?
Colonel Roy Campbell : That's right, and as a result, the global presence of PMCs has grown explosively. Truth is, the rise of system-controlled PMCs has led to a dramatic decline in civilian casualties and human rights violations on the battlefield.
Solid Snake : A cleaner, safer battlefield.
[grunts]
Solid Snake : Makes for nice propaganda.
Sunny : [drops her two dishes of eggs on top of the stove angrily, looks at an ashtray on the side and a cigarette falls down. Sunny gasps and stomps on the cigarette a few times; she then yells at Snake] Snake! You were smoking again, weren't you? This is a non-smoking fl-flight!
Colonel Roy Campbell : There's more. State governments and rebel groups can't match the maintenance price of standing forces. PMCs, by comparison, are reliable, easy to use.
[while Campbell continues talking, Otacon tests out the Mk.II]
Colonel Roy Campbell : It wasn't long before everybody had them on the payroll... and as a result, regular armies began to decline worldwide.
[fades to an animated cutscene of the world]
Colonel Roy Campbell : It's hard to believe, I know, but PMCs are beginning to overtake conventional armies in terms of scale. Nowadays it's the PMCs who serve as standard battalions. They already make up sixty percent of all combatant forces in zones of conflict.
Solid Snake : Sixty percent...
Colonel Roy Campbell : The fact is the world now depends largely on PMCs for waging its wars.
Solid Snake : I thought it was the U.N. that authorized the PMCs in the first place.
Colonel Roy Campbell : The U.S. abstained from voting on that resolution. In effect, Washington was endorsing PMCs without ever revealing its true intentions. Until they got wind of the uprising, that is.
Solid Snake : The U.S. has exported too much military power, and now she's paying the price.
Colonel Roy Campbell : That's exactly it. America has now turned war into a form of economic activity. Analysts are calling it the "war economy," in that it's picking up the slack for the downward-sloping oil market. But I, for one, don't intend to simply stand by and watch it happen. For the PMCs, market expansion entails fanning the flames of war. It means more refugees.
Solid Snake : War orphans, child soldiers.
Colonel Roy Campbell : Yes. Even as PMC soldiers get more specialized, they're also getting younger.
Solid Snake : Mercenaries spun off from state armies, unmanned weapons, child soldiers... Proxy battles in a new Cold War.
Colonel Roy Campbell : There are hundreds of PMCs in business worldwide, and their numbers are growing. Currently, five of them are big enough to be labeled global powers. Two in the U.S., and one each in the U.K., France, and Russia. Reconnaissance has revealed that those five PMCs are run by a dummy corporation that acts as a single mother company. This mother company embodies the five largest PMCs. Her name is 'Outer Heaven.'
Solid Snake : Outer Heaven? You mean...!
Colonel Roy Campbell : That's right. It's Liquid.
Solid Snake : Liquid...
Colonel Roy Campbell : He's taken command of this immense army and is now preparing to unleash an insurrection.
Solid Snake : I watched him die.
Colonel Roy Campbell : His will lives on - in the body of the man once known as Ocelot. He aims to fan the flames of war even higher, to create the perfect world once envisioned by Big Boss.
Solid Snake : The one world in which soldiers will always have a place.
Colonel Roy Campbell : He must be stopped... before it's too late.
[fades back to the Nomad]
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Colonel Roy Campbell : Do you understand, Snake? Any means necessary. Just stop Liquid's insurrection. Even if it means...
Solid Snake : Killing him? You want Liquid dead. Isn't that right, Colonel?
Colonel Roy Campbell : I'm sorry. I know... This isn't justice. It's a covert assignment. A hired hit. A wet works op targeting the head of a major multinational corporation.
Solid Snake : [sighs] Why me?
Colonel Roy Campbell : Because of the military might of the PMCs and the effect they have on the economy. War is to the twenty-first century what oil was to the twentieth: The pillar that supports the global economy. You'll recall a rather alarming report issued by that American think tank during the Cold War. One that described a new model for perpetual war. What we're facing now is a whole new ballgame.
Solid Snake : Iron Mountain's "Delphi Technique"...
Colonel Roy Campbell : That was fiction. It existed only on paper. The reality is far more serious. The global community is concerned, but they're all too afraid of the war economy collapsing to do anything about it. The U.N., too.
Solid Snake : [takes out a cigarette] Sounds pretty self-serving to me.
[Sunny and Otacon both shake their heads]
Colonel Roy Campbell : Snake, this mission isn't an order from Washington, not like the old days. And it's not something the U.N. can officially sanction, either. But, we can't just look the other way while Liquid plots this insurrection. If we fail to act, he'll become the greatest threat the world has ever faced. Snake...
[takes the cigarette from Snake's hand]
Colonel Roy Campbell : ... you're the only man I can trust.
Solid Snake : [takes the cigarette back] Fine. Let's hear it.
Colonel Roy Campbell : [brings up a picture of Liquid a.k.a. Ocelot on-screen] Our intelligence on Liquid's uprising originally comes via reports from U.S. Special Forces, who were mobilized after we at the U.N. reported our findings. They're tracking Liquid's movements. About eighteen hours ago, he was spotted in the Middle East.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : There's a rebel army in the Middle East made up of ethnic minorities, waging civil war against the regime in power.
Colonel Roy Campbell : The core of that regime's army is provided by one of the PMCs under Liquid's control.
Solid Snake : What about the rebels?
Colonel Roy Campbell : The local militias have hired small numbers of operators as trainers and field commanders. And of course, they've got help from the local PMCs.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Right. A proxy war between hired guns.
Colonel Roy Campbell : Eh. PMC versus PMC. A quagmire of war. All too-typical victims of the new world economy. Snake, you'll be sneaking into the conflict zone via transport truck disguised as one of the rebel army's hired operators. Your first objective is to make contact with our informants, Rat Patrol Team Zero One. They'll be expecting you.
Solid Snake : Rat Patrol, huh. They sound sneaky.
Colonel Roy Campbell : They're a Special Forces team assigned to the Army's PMC investigation unit, CID.
Solid Snake : CID... The real rats of the Army.
Colonel Roy Campbell : No, I can vouch for them personally.
Solid Snake : Friends of yours?
Colonel Roy Campbell : You could say that. Transportation to the area will be provided under cover of a U.N. humanitarian aid mission with support from the U.S. military.
[Sunny walks downstairs again]
Colonel Roy Campbell : From there on, though, you'll get no protection and no guarantees from anyone. And you must not leave behind any evidence of your involvement in the area, let alone that of the U.N.
[Otacon turns Sunny around, taps her on the shoulders and she starts walking back up the stairs]
Colonel Roy Campbell : If word of this ever leaked out, it would spark a global firestorm. Snake... will you do this for me? Will you terminate Liquid?
Solid Snake : [after a brief moment of silence] I'm not like the PMCs. I don't need your money.
Colonel Roy Campbell : Thank you.
Solid Snake : But, if you're going to spark something, spark this.
[holds up his cigarette and both Campbell and Otacon shake their heads in dismay]
Solid Snake : Fine. I'll start my own fire.
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[from trailer]
Colonel Roy Campbell : War is to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th; the pillar that supports the global economy.
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Solid Snake : [act 2 Mission Briefing continued] Or it could be a trap.
Colonel Roy Campbell : True, but even so, the payoff would greatly aid our efforts.
[Rosemary gives him a cup and begins to drink it]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : I had Sunny trace the origin of Naomi's mail. The address is fake, but Sunny was able to track the message back through its proxies based on access date/time stamps and data transfer volumes. Apparently, the message originated from a server in South America. I wouldn't exactly call it a hundred percent credible, though.
Solid Snake : Colonel, where's Meryl?
Colonel Roy Campbell : I know she left the Middle East in pursuit of Liquid. I'm sure ARSOC is on to us by now. We can't chase that line too far.
Solid Snake : Huh. Which leaves Naomi as our only lead.
Colonel Roy Campbell : I've secured you landing clearance at El Dorado International Airport. You'll be acting as a U.N. inspector.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : South America... That's about twenty hours from here. Then, what's the plan?
Colonel Roy Campbell : I'll arrange for them to get you a 4x4. The location Naomi gave us, the PMC's base, is in a mountainous region surrounded by forests. Use the 4x4 to get as close as possible to the PMC's security perimeter. From there on, Snake, it'll be a solo sneaking mission.
Rosemary : Roy...
[gives him a plate of food]
Colonel Roy Campbell : Heh. Thanks. The rebels are still pitched in battle against the PMCs. The commotion should help you slip into the facility unnoticed.
Solid Snake : Twenty hours until we land. Got it. I'll have a look at the documents.
[Otacon nods]
Solid Snake : Maybe I'll even have a smoke while I still can.
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Sunny : [during the Act 2 'Mission Briefing,' Sunny, once again, is cooking eggs on board the Nomad and begins to sing] 11... 23... 581321... 34... 55... 89... 144... 233... 377... 610987... 15... 97... 95... 84.
[humming]
Sunny : 34... 55... 89... 144.
[having finished the eggs, Sunny heads down and grunts as she's walking down the steps. She approaches Otacon and gives him the eggs]
Sunny : Um... Uncle Hal... Th-The eggs... They're done.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Thank you, Sunny.
Sunny : [gasps when Snake begins to wake up] Snake!
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : So, back from the dead?
Solid Snake : [turns and looks at Sunny's burnt eggs] I don't remember the sun being so flat.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : [Sunny, feeling insulted, turns away] Sorry. I'll dig in right away, Sunny.
[Snake begins to cough]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : And would you make some for Snake, too?
Sunny : Okay.
Solid Snake : Uh, hey... None for me, Sunny.
[Sunny walks back up the steps]
Solid Snake : How long was I out?
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : The whole day.
Solid Snake : [grunts] Someone saved my life.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Yeah. It could have been Meryl and her boys. Don't worry. They're doing fine.
Solid Snake : Liquid got away.
[gets up and coughs a bit more]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : [holding Snake] You okay?
Solid Snake : My body... just seized up all of a sudden. This isn't normal. It's not my joints or muscles.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : It looked like the PMC soldiers all went haywire en masse, too. I thought it might be a form of ADS, but I didn't detect any aberrations in the EM field. You were lucky. Some of those guys' hearts simply stopped.
Solid Snake : She was there. Naomi was at Liquid's side. Otacon, did you see her?
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : No, but you're right. Naomi was there. I found traces of her DNA in that syringe you were holding.
[hands Snake the syringe]
Solid Snake : So, it was Naomi. Why?
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Here, let me show you something.
[sits down and types on his computer]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Right after it all happened, I got a video mail from Naomi. It was sent to my old address.
Sunny : [having made a second batch of burnt eggs, Sunny comes down and hands the dish to Snake] U-Um... Here you go.
[Snake takes the dish]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Thanks, Sunny. They're delicious.
Sunny : [picks up the dish she gave to Otacon before] But... y-you haven't even eaten any.
[Otacon takes back the dish]
Solid Snake : [puts down the dish] Eh. We grownups have to watch our caloric intake, you know.
[picks up a cigarette that was on the dish]
Solid Snake : Eh, but thank you. I was lookin' for this.
Sunny : [stuttering] Y-You're not watching your n-nicotine intake.
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Sunny!
[she walks back up the steps]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : You really hurt her feelings.
Solid Snake : Yeah? Why don't you teach her how to cook eggs, then?
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Oh, like I know how to cook! Hey, check this out.
[types on his computer and the video mail from Naomi appears]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : The data's been quarantined, no viruses. The voiceprint matches Naomi's, and I'm fairly confident the video isn't digitally synthesized, either.
Naomi Hunter : [on the computer screen] Snake, I'll make this quick. I'm in South America. I've been captured and forced to do research. It's Liquid. Liquid's goal is to seize control of SOP, the Sons of the Patriots system, that controls the soldiers. To do that, he needs to analyze the nanomachines' structure and find out how they communicate with one another. The nanomachines currently in use by militaries and PMCs are third generation, but their design is derived from that of the first generation. And the basic technology is still the same.
Solid Snake : First generation?
Naomi Hunter : [on the computer screen] I was the one who created the first generation. A nanomachine colony, part of which was FOXDIE. Nine years ago, at Shadow Moses... I injected it into your body, Snake. The technology used in FOXDIE was incorporated... inherited, really by SOP. That's why Liquid has me helping him hijack the system because I know how FOXDIE works.
[a sudden, loud breaking noise is heard]
Naomi Hunter : Please, you must rescue me. Liquid's found a loophole he can use to get in to the System.
[more loud noises are heard]
Naomi Hunter : Preparations for his insurrection are nearly complete. There's no time to waste. Snake, hurry!
[another loud noise is heard and the video ends]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : Naomi sent her location data in a separate file.
Solid Snake : [looking at Otacon's computer screen] What the hell is that?
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : It's a type of encrypted data. Sunny decoded it for us. Remember now?
[an image of a map appears]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : This is data from the Soliton Radar you used at Shadow Moses. I'm guessing Naomi wants us to know the message truly is from her. Sending the map data in Soliton Radar format... Pretty clever, and Mei Ling's helping us out from Hawaii.
Sunny : [from the steps] The d-data she sent was 4-D sound data. I don't know how Soliton Radar works, but all I had to do was change the audio data into video data. It was easy. This Naomi lady seems pretty cool.
[walks back up and Otacon chuckles]
Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich : [hearing a beeping sound] It's Campbell.
[puts Campbell up on-screen]
Colonel Roy Campbell : Snake, as you'll recall, following the Shadow Moses incident nine years ago, Naomi was detained by the authorities. But, someone arranged for her escape.
Solid Snake : Yeah, I hear they added that to my rap sheet, too.
Colonel Roy Campbell : I suspect it was actually Liquid. He must have taken her prisoner himself and forced her to do research at his facility in South America. Chances are the location Naomi gave us is the site of Liquid's main base.
Solid Snake : But, there's no actual proof?
Colonel Roy Campbell : There's an ongoing skirmish between a new regime put into power by PMCs and a rebel army formed by remnants of the old one. The rebels have hired a small-scale local PMC of their own to stir things up. It's the quintessential example of a war economy market. The new regime is still in shambles, so it's really Pieuvre Armement, one of the PMCs under Outer Heaven control, that's calling the shots. You might say it's a perfect place for Liquid to make his haven.
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Rosemary : What's up Snake?
Solid Snake : Got an update for me?
Rosemary : There doesn't seem to be any problem with your psyche. So far, so good. Proceed with the mission.
Solid Snake : Got it.
Colonel Roy Campbell : Speaking of food Snake... .
Solid Snake : Colonel? We're... .in the middle of something here.
Colonel Roy Campbell : Have you ever eaten rations from a country other than the U.S.?
Solid Snake : Of course I have.
Colonel Roy Campbell : The U.N. recently held a ration swap meet between military attachés of each member state. It was a momentous development in the cultivation and understanding of other countries cuisines.
Rosemary : Roy this isn't really the time... ..
Colonel Roy Campbell : On the contrary, I want you to hear this too Rose.
Rosemary : I've already heard it a hundred... .
Colonel Roy Campbell : You'll survive. Anyway Snake, I did a taste test and found out that French rations were generally the best. The Italians weren't bad either. And the Japanese stuff was much better than I expected.
Solid Snake : Really? That's... .wonderful.
Colonel Roy Campbell : But everyone seem to agree that the worst rations of all were ours. America for the win.
Solid Snake : Alright, so what's your point?
Colonel Roy Campbell : Yep. It must be nice to live in a country that knows how to cook. Those French rations... ..delicieaux! I wish you could've been there to try some Snake. Oh, and you too Rose.
Solid Snake : Colonel, what exactly are you......
Colonel Roy Campbell : Some of the best food I've ever tasted Rose!
Rosemary : I'm sorry Snake, but ever since he went to that swap meet that's all he can talk about. You think he never had a decent meal in his life.
Solid Snake : Yeah no kidding. Wait a second. Rose, who does the cooking at your house?
Rosemary : Me! Roy doesn't... .what are you getting at?
Solid Snake : Nothing. Nevermind. Colonel?
Colonel Roy Campbell : Hm?
Solid Snake : My sympathies.
Colonel Roy Campbell : It's appreciated Snake.
Rosemary : I actually like those American rations!
