Gary "Roach" Sanderson

Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson is a playable character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He operates with Captain MacTavish in Task Force 141. His missions include infiltrating an Ultranationalist Kazakhstan base trying to retrieve data of a crashed satellite as part of Task Force 141 and hunting an arms dealer Alejandro Rojas in Rio De Janeiro after capturing his associate Faust to stop Vladimir Makarov's sinister plot. Sanderson also participates in a two-phased mission to secure an oil rig and rescue Prisoner 627 in a Russian gulag, as well as capturing a submarine. He is then deployed alongside Ghost to retrieve crucial intelligence at one of Makarov's safehouses in Russia.

Fate
When Roach and Ghost successfully retrieve intelligence from one of Makarov's safehouses at the Russian border, the pair rendezvous with Shepherd and his forces. However, before they can reach the chopper that will extract them Roach is wounded by a close mortar strike, Roach comes close many times to blacking out whilst simultaneously gunning down enemies with a dropped AK-47, Ghost rushes to Roach's rescue and drags him to the LZ, Sheperd appears from the rear of the chopper and asks Ghost where the DSM is whilst supporting a wounded Roach however Shepherd reveals his true colors and shoots both of them, and takes the DSM from Roach's dying hands.

A now heavily wounded Roach is taken to a ditch and thrown in, he then watches as Ghost is tossed in after him, one Shadow Company soldier pours gasoline over them. After a couple of seconds Shepherd drops a lit cigar on them, burning him to death. Shepherd then tells the rest of Shadow Company to leave the area. Roach is burning alive, but luckily for Ghost, he is already dead.

Trivia

 * Like his commanding officer Captain MacTavish (known as "Soap" in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare), Sgt. Sanderson has a unique nickname: "Roach".
 * Like "Soap" MacTavish in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, he was saved by his Captain at the last moment before falling to his death.
 * Roach is the fourth playable character that is scripted to die.
 * Roach's voice can be heard if you make him fall down the cliff in Cliffhanger.
 * Roach most likely wears goggles throughout the whole game, as frost is visible on the screen in Cliffhanger, and petrol seeping downwards when he's doused in Loose Ends.
 * Like most Call of Duty playable characters, his appearance is unknown, however it is possible he dresses exactly the same as other TF141 soldiers.