Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish

"Who is Kingfish!?"

- John "Soap" MacTavish to Shepherd

Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish is a fan made prequel to Modern Warfare 2 and was first shown at Call of Duty XP. The video was produced by We Can Pretend and was endorsed by Activision. It shows Task Force 141 and Delta Force participating in an assault on a Ukrainian compound, with the objective of finding an unidentified High-Value Target code-named Kingfish, who is later revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. It also shows the team leaving Captain Price behind, leading to his future incarceration in a Siberian Gulag.

Plot
The film begins with Soap sitting at a table, loading the magazine of a M4A1, in the corner stands Shepherd, asking him to 'start from the beginning'. It then cuts to Karkonosze Mountains, Ukraine, where Soap, Price, Ghost and Roach are seen walking through a forest. Delta Force operatives Sandman and Frost are up in the hill aiming with a Barret 50. Cal at several soldiers guarding a safehouse asking for permission to engage. Overlord gives the go and Delta starts to take down enemy soldiers. The AC-130 (Callsign Spectre 6-4) starts to fire at the incoming waves of enemy troops at a big field. After destroying some buildings and clearing the way for the Task Force, Soap's team advances into the house and kills all remaining soldiers inside. Roach plants a breaching charge on a wall, with Ghost entering the room and killing the soldiers inside. Price (offscreen) says 'One-Four-One has arrived.'. The team enter the room after clearing it out of soldiers, where there are pictures of an airport refering to the ZIA airport massacre and the Bravo Six team. Soap discovers that a picture of the Bravo Six team has the deceased crossed out. Soap then tells Price that they are targeting Bravo Six, they then hear a C4 detonator beeping and escape before the C4 can kill them.

The Task Force run for a V-22 Osprey for exfil, and Spectre 6-4, the AC-130, came in to cover them. However, enemy RPG fire took 6-4 down in a massive explosion, leaving the Task Force to defend themselves. An RPG missile is fired and it explodes near Soap, knocking him semi-concious and spitting blood. Sandman and Roach then drag Soap to the chopper while Frost rushes to the Osprey and covers the evacuating operatives. Price then tells them to leave without him while he provides covering fire, however, Soap refuses to leave him behind. Overlord tells the pilot to take off, however, Sandman goes to the cockpit and say that Price is still there. Price shout for them to go, and the helicopter lifts off. Price is then shot. He pulls out his pistol and takes down some more soldiers, and was shot again in the arm and was captured. It then cuts to the present day where it reveals the scars that Soap had suffered from the explosion, after asking Shepherd who Kingfish was. Shepherd throws him a dossier with a picture of Makarov, saying 'We will get him.". Soap then stabs the picture of Makarov ending the video.

Trivia

 * Soap stabs the picture of Makarov in the eye, the opposite eye he stabbed Shepherd in.
 * The Karkonosze mountains are actually located along the Czech-Polish border, not Ukraine as stated in the video.
 * This is the only time ghost says the 'F 'word
 * This is the first time an AC-130 is shot down in the storyline.
 * The presence of the photo of Sandman, Ghost, Soap and Price at the end of Modern Warfare 3 and the way that Makarov is referred to as "Kingfish" at several points throughout the campaign suggests the film can be considered canon, however whether it actually is or not remains unknown.
 * In the end credits, they spell Shepherd as 'Sheppard'.

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Operation Kingfish