Finally.. after 4 years of being locked up in the Gulag, he managed to escape after his men baited him out. After a day on the sea, Makarov and his men returned to the Konni base, uniting with his men once more. Everyone was excited that their leader was back. Ready to take revenge for his capture. Expect there was a thing that Makarov would never expect his men to tell him.. it was that his son had allegedly gone missing after he got arrested and sent to the Gulag. They told him that they looked for his son but they couldn't find him anywhere. In the end, they asked him if he could possibly contact him through his burner phone as a last resort.