Prologue

"Prologue" is a short, cinematic cut-scene featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It is the introduction to Modern Warfare 3. It is the continuation clip from the level "Endgame", from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The Mission starts out as Captain John Price and Nikolai tries to extract Soap to a safehouse located in Northern India, searching for medical help. The player takes control of John "Soap" Mactavish.

Plot
The mission starts out as Nikolai and Captain John Price trying to find medical help for wounded Soap, after Nikolai and Price extracted Soap from Afghanistan after killing General Shepherd. Soap is then extracted to Northern India.

Walkthrough
As the player, John "Soap" MacTavish wakes up after his injury, after being wounded by General Shepherd, Soap wakes up, seeing the propellers of Nikolai's helicopter. John Price and Nikolai then tries to extract him to a doctor, as Soap is severly wounded. As Price and Nikolai tries to find medical help, Soap sees many flashbacks from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As Soap is carried underneath an arch, he first sees Captain Price smoking his cigar in "Crew Expandable" from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. After carried past the arch, he then sees Price sliding the M1911 .45 towards Soap, also seen in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Soap then killing Imran Zakhaev. After being carried through the hallways of the safehouse, Soap sees the moment when Price and him shot down the Pave Low in Afghanistan, then the Zodiac fell down the waterfall, as seen in "Endgame", from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As Price and Nikolai are carrying Soap through another hallway, Price tells Nikolai to keep pressure on Soap's wound. Soap then sees the moment when himself threw the throwing knife into Shepherd's eye, also seen in "Endgame". Price and Nikolai then meets the doctor, who tells him to hurry and fix Soap's wound. Then the screen gets pitch black. Then the doctor says "We're losing him. Charging in 3, 2, 1, clear!" Then the logo of MW3 is seen, showing the introduction. The campaign the continues to "Black Tuesday", the next mission.

Trivia

 * This is one of the shortest missions in the Modern Warfare Series. The first being "Aftermath", from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and the other one being "Davis Family Vacation", featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
 * In this mission, Nikolai has a different appearence then he did in "Endgame", from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.