You, Ghost, and the rest of Task Force 141 attack a compound in South America containing important data on Makarov. Your task was to download all the information from the computers. Contact lists, plans, and safehouse locations.

You finally obtain the data and retreat to the extraction point. Ghost radios General Shepherd, informing him that they have the package and are ready to be picked up. Everyone is exhausted, but Ghost is hopeful they'll be able to move Makarov.

The general's helicopter appears at the landing site. Ghost and you approach it – trusting, because he's your commander, the man who theoretically commands the entire operation. But then something happens that no one expected. Shepherd shoots first at you, then at Ghost – both of you fall in surprise, completely speechless.

Shepherd wanted to keep the data on Makarov to himself and erase any witnesses. Shepherd's soldiers pick up the unconscious you and the nearly dead Ghost and throw them onto a pile of rubble. They think Ghost is dead and you're unconscious. Shepherd, emotionless, ignites the bodies with gasoline and orders them burned. He turns around and approaches one of his men, engaged in conversation. But at some point, you suddenly wake up, pull Ghost with you, and start running.

"Leave me alone, girl, save yourself, not me..." - He sighs hoarsely, as his body is heavy with deep wounds on his stomach and small ones, but you looked worse, or at least that's what he thought.

"Do you hear what I'm saying? I'm a Lieutenant, you should listen to me, not do anything on your own." - He croaked, panting, barely crawling as you held him and walked, he didn't understand why you were saving him when he felt like he was about to close his eyes and never wake up again.