Chernov: Taylor, my friend... tell me... what is left to believe in, when you are betrayed, by your own?

A scene shows microfiche with twenty-four hours left in the US countdown to nuclear fourth strike.

Chernov: When all that you are, all you have done, is buried beneath the lies and deceit of corrupt men. I will die in this wretched place. The only thing that keeps me alive, is the thirst for vengeance. They must be stopped, Taylor. Ivan Makarov... Raul Whihelm... David Archer... Khristenko... ALL MUST die.

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ROOM 10

Interrogator 2: It's no use! We're out of time!

Interrogator: We can't give up. He was at prison. He knows how to translate the codes. He's heard the broadcasts which we know contain the location. It's all in his head somewhere. He does know where it is!

Interrogator 2: We have to get to the bunker! The nuclear strike begins at Phase 4! You've tried everything!

Interrogator: Not yet... I have one more card to play.

The door opens and Jack Mason enters the room.

Jack: Get out of here, Chernikov. Tell them I've failed.

Interrogator 2 (Chernikov): You want to die with him? Your choice.

He gets up and leaves with Cole, Jack approaches FTac Recon, 

Jack: DAMMIT!

...then loses control and shoves a TV off it's shelf, smashing it.

Jack: WHY CAN'T YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING?!

He violently shakes FTac Recon.

Jack: Chernov's DEAD, Taylor! Do you hear me?!!! HE'S DEAD!!!... Chernikov's right, we're out time. Neo-Soviet union and allies fucked you up... I know you... you're not a traitor.

He unties FTac Recon's left hand. As was untying the right hand, FTac Recon clenches his fast and punches, Jack, knocking him down into the TVs and smashes several of them before collapsing on the floor. He unties his right and staggers from the room. FTac Recon hears echoes of prior missions in his head.

ROOM 10

FTac Recon (Taylor)

June 17th 2051

Interrogator: *voiceover* The numbers, Taylor. What do they mean? Where are they broadcast from?

FTac Recon (Taylor): The numbers... what... what the heck... are they saying?...

???: *in his mind* Get your hold yourself kid, wake up.

Number: *voiceover*6. 11. 21...

In his memories, FTac Recon pictures Chernov giving him the dossier.

FTac Recon (Taylor): Chernov... where are you... Chernov...

He sees flashes of Aiden and Kraken Swift Squad searching a room. He pushes trhough a double door.

FTac Recon (Taylor): *voiceover* Raul was there... we had to kill Raul! I... keep... hearing... the fucking.... numbers... all over my head!

???: *in his mind* Kid wake up, this isn't about Chernov, what he said, that he is dead.

Khristenko: *voiceover* You... Again... I should have eliminated you in Prison.

Ivan Makarov: *voiceover* Wait a few moments... let him rest. When he regains consciousness Double the guards.

???: *in his mind* Kid, forget about Chernov, he's no longer here.

He pushes open a double door into an operated theater and looks back and forth very fast.

FTac Recon (Taylor): I remember. Ahhhh! Prison!!...

Flashes of light and numbers return FTac Recon to his memories of Kresty prison, on an operating table with machinry, surrounded, by Raul Whihelm, Ivan Makarov, Rorke and a pacing Khristenko.

Raul: The subject has been successfully implanted a new eye to his right with the knowledge to translate the number sequences.

Rorke: So what is the problem?

Raul: His responses to our orders have been, sporadic. Unpredictable. He shows a remarkable resilience.

Ivan Makarov: Why?

Raul: He is unusual, just like Steiner's work on the subject did. Few men possess such will... Our other test subjects have been far more successful.

Rorke: Mmmph, well... you implated the right eye marks with red, meaning he is half sleeper cell agent and translate number sequences.

Raul: Well yes, Rorke, it did.

Rorke: *scoff* Well... Taylor, got right job not to kill the ghosts but to killed the global leaders. 

Flashes return him to the present.

Rorke: *COMMS* If he will not follow the orders embedded in the numbers and disobey orders to kill the global leaders, then he is of no use to me and Makarov... He can rot or dispose. Take him back to his cell.

He leaves the theater.

FTac Recon (Taylor): The pain... oh my God...!

???: *in his mind* Kid SNAP OUT OF YOURSELF!

Number: *voiceover* 18. 4. 6. 21. 17. 14. 9. 19. 8. 24. 17. 24. 11. 13. 11. 20. 15...

FTac Recon (Taylor): Proceed.... to.... target (in echoes) Oswald... compromised (echoing words again)

FTac Recon enters a conference room.

He enters a conference room. Screens, maps and papers depict Chernov and footage from prison. Every single screen shows the same picture of Chernov's face

Chernov: *voiceover* In prison, we are all brothers.

Russian Prisoner: *voiceover* Chernov, are you sure you can trust this American?

Chernov: *voiceover* With my life. He and us, are not so different... We are all soldiers without an army. Betrayed. Forgotten. Abandoned.

Chernov: *voiceover* You will survive... you have to....

Chernov: *voiceover* We are brothers Taylor... We are the same.

He leaves the conference room and staggers down a corridor, the ceiling peel away and the framework retracts to show the Neo-Soviet rocket from the Asktrakhan new Cosmodrome about to take off.

FTac Recon (Taylor): Wilson... J... Michael. I'm told you are the best we have. Anywhere.

Flashback

Michael J Wilson: We are in grave danger fom the Communists. Our very way of life is at risk. Ivan Makarov.

Pushes files towards FTac Recon in flashback.

The rocket takes off after Russian countdown and flashes of Ivan Makarov and unnamed Iranian appear, before he returns to the present.

FTac Recon (Taylor): *voiceover* When do I kill him?

FTac Recon (Taylor): *voiceover* Okay. Time we got the hell out of here.

FTac Recon (Taylor): *voiceover* Not yet... We're going after Ivan Makarov.

Flashes of Ivan Makarov's car wrecked.

Cronen Squall (Vargas):No one's getting out. Satisfied, Recon?

FTac Recon (Taylor): *voiceover* No! No, not yet.... Not until I see the body. HOW MANY TIMES?! Raul was at Rebirth Island. We have to kill Raul.

Interrogator: We? Dima Chernov?

FTac Recon (Taylor): *voiceover* We wanted the same thing. The same.

Hesh: *voiceover* What the hell is there both doing?

Jack: *voiceover* Killing everyone between him and Raul.

As He enters a computer lab, Jack spins him around and gives him a hard punch to the face, as FTac's voiceover say the words the same time. He falls within himself before remembering Chernov at Prison, again. He is on a table with Chernov him.

Chernov; The pain is difficult, isn't it. *Chernov now on his left side* We are all brothers, Taylor... We are the same. *Chernov grits his teeth* Ivan Makarov, Khristenko, David Archer, Raul Whihelm. All must die...

He resumes consciousness Jack Mason is standing over him, holding an FN Five-seveN to his head.

Jack: Makarov brainwashed you, but Chernov had plans of his own.

Flashes of memories. Chernov helps FTac Recon up.

Chernov: *voiceover* Taylor.

FTac Recon (Taylor): *voiceover* Chernov. How'd you get out of Prison? Never thought I'd see you alive.

He hands FTac Recon the dossier, but when he lowers it, Chernov is gone.

Jack: *voiceover* He was never in North Korea. The real defector with the Nova 6 dossier died during the attack on the MAC-V. He was never in the rat tunnels.

More memories show that FTac Recon actually freed himself, FSS Hurricane and Cole from the Tiltrotor, and that he had fired at nothing in the rat tunnels, causing Lucia to swear at him.

Lucia: *voiceover* What the fuck's wrong with you?

More memories shows Chernov fueling FTac Recon's desire to kill Khristenko,

Chernov: *voiceover* Khristenko is here!

...before he running alone, with no Chernov

Chernov: *voiceover* This way! We cannot let him slip through our grasp!

His memories alternate between him and Chernov taking cover in the shipping crates with Kastov 762.

Jack: *Voiceover* He was never at the Rebirth Island. It was you did with 762.

Then, he recalls Raul's execution.

Chernov: My name is Dima *as the sound of thunder* CHERNOV.

Raul: No! Y-your not Chernov...

Cut to Jack's point of view.

Jack: TAYLOR!

FTac Recon (Taylor): My name is Dima Chernov. And I will have my revenge!

Chernikov leaps at him, who executes Raul and shoots Chernikov and Hesh. Jack pins him down.

Jack: Taylor NO!

Then FTac Recon and Kastov 762 their escape from Kresty prison.

FTac Recon (Taylor): Step eight, Chernov - Freedom!

Chernov: For you, Taylor... Not for me!... 

He sees Chernov's car halt by the Neo-Soviet guard blocking the road.

Back to present.

Jack: Dima Chernov's been dead for 19 years! He died at Kresty prison ST Petersburg during the escape! All these years you thought he was with you that was just in your mind!

Jack puts his gun away and help FTac Recon up.

FTac Recon (Taylor): I trusted him.

Jack: That' why it worked... it was their attempted at MK-Ultra. Ivan Makarov and Rorke programmed you to kill global leaders not the ghosts, but Chernov sabotaged you. He wanted revenge for all that Makarov had done to him. Ivan Makarov, Khristenko, David Archer, Raul Whihelm. Four new victims. One David Archer was declared dead. There are gaps in your memories Taylor. You know what he done to you where you went MIA and we couldn't account for you. But now that the brainwashing's been broken, all that lost time will come back.

He looks around and walks to the computers whilst speaking. Flashback of FTac Recon and Kastov 762 killing Raul Whihelm.

Jack: We need to leave... The Nova 6 strike is imminent in phase 4. Millions of sleeper agents, hidden in every worldwide countries, nations, are about to unleash this poison on entire countrymen not US but the all world. When Raul died, we lost our key to unlocking the location of number broadcasts. You were programmed in Prison, to translate the number codes, like Mason did back ago in 68s. Only you can tell us what the codes mean. Nova 6 was just one of the sleeper operation. But I'm sure there were others... ones we didn't even know about.

Flashback ended. Jack turns around.

Jack: We have the broadcasts, we played them to you over and over again for hours every day. Your commander, Hesh, Logan, your friends are worried about you, since your in prison. They felt worried of what they had done to you long time, but we haven't been able to break through your programming yet. Taylor, this is our final last shot. Listen, remember listen again.

FTac Recon tries to remembers the numbers as Jack plays.

Numbers: 24, 7, 21, 4, 2, 14, 3, 14, 7, 18, 13, 6, 22...

Memories begin to aries.

Unnamed Iranian: Do with him you wish, General... He's my gift to you, in honour of our new relationship...

Raul: I know you... Kresty prison! You don't know... what we did to you... The subject has been successfully implanted with the knowledge to translate the number sequences.

The displays an overlay of red static noise, along with with an overlay of changing and flying numbers begin to play befor Ivan Makarov's break through.

Ivan Makarov: *indistinct at first*... Attention all agents. It has been so long since Dragovich made you. Our new allies have graciously permitted to construction *distinct* a new... and permanent... broadcast station within the Mediterranea Sea. The allies begin to weak of our Soviet might, From now until Project Nova's initiation, all instructions will be broadcast from the Chengdong.

The static faded out to only the numbers; the red numbers fade to show the destroyer Chengdong the Chinese destroyer.

Ivan Makarov: Our plan to strike at the very heart of every countries is now in motion. Await further instructions.

The sequence ends, and he remembers the dock again.

Unnamed Irianian: Do with him with you wish, General. He's my gift to you, in honour of our new relationship... in honour of our new relationship...

He turns to see the the big destroyer ship behind unnamed Iranian, Ivan Makarov, David Archer, Khristenko and Gabriel T Roke. It burns red as the numbers beign to play.

Number: 21. 31. fiften...

Ivan Makarov: ... and permanent... broadcast station within their borders. All instructions will broadcast from the Chengdong.

He returns to normal.

FTac Recon (Taylor): I know where the number station is...

Jack turn his head towards him.

Jack: Really?

FTac Recon (Taylor): It's a destroyer... I saw it long time ago... the Chengdong, the Chinese destroyer.

Jack: Where?

FTac Recon (Taylor): Mediterranea Sea.

Jack then smiled as he pull his phone out from his pocket and contact Hesh and the others.

To be continued

Final chapter