Crew Expendable

"Infiltrate the cargo ship and take the package"

- Level description.

"Crew Expendable" is the second mission in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It sees the player control SAS trooper John "Soap" MacTavish to retrieve a package on an Estonian Freighter.

Characters

 * John "Soap" MacTavish (playable)
 * John Price
 * Gaz
 * Wallcroft
 * Griffen

Plot
Taking place at night on a storm-lashed Estonian Freighter in the Bering Strait, Captain Price leads a team of SAS commandos onto the ship. His team, including SAS newcomer "Soap" MacTavish, rope down onto the ship's deck. Their objective is to recover a suspected nuclear device, which is hidden in a crate inside one of the ship's cargo holds. Captain Price and his team clears the ship's bridge and crew quarters quickly, then proceed through the cargo holds, killing all of the armed guards. They find the package, which turns out to be plutonium, but reports of "fast movers" approaching the ship mean they have to get out quickly, so Soap grabs the shipping manifest and they leave the ship. As they are leaving, the ship is fired upon by the unidentified aircraft, However the team successfully extract from the ship in the nick of time as it begins to sink. The raid was a partial success, although they could not secure the nuclear device for safekeeping; the manifest seized by Soap points to Middle Eastern military and coup d'etat leader Khaled Al-Asad as the intended buyer of the nuclear device.

Getting Started
The player starts in a helicopter. After rappelling down, player is ordered to clear the deck. After cleaning it, the S.A.S. soldiers will breach the door into the deck. Going down the hallway, the player will see a drunken crew-member (of the ship) staggering around. He will be shoot and the player will continue on, although there is a piece of enemy intel inside the bedroom to the players right in the hallway. After exiting, the player will make a left down to the above-water hull. As the player moves forward, there is a platform with two guards. The player will or NPCs will kill them. As the player moves even further along there will be a structure with heavily armed enemies firing at the player. The player will then be instructed on how to crouch. Captain asks the helicopter to eliminate the enemies to which the pilots oblige. The squad then breaches another part of the ship.

Finding the Package
Player will then need to search the ship for the package while fighting the enemies. Once the player has picked up the manifest, enemy fast movers will bomb the ship.

Getting Out
After Price helps the player to get up, team must escape while the ship is sinking. When the team boards, player will need to jump to board the helicopter. Price will catch the player. Mission ends with the player watching the ship sinking.

Enemy Intelligence

 * Laptop 1 is located in the bunk room where the drunk Russian comes out. The laptop will be on a desk next to a computer and under a poster.
 * Laptop 2 is in the first cargo hold the player enters. If he/she goes down the first set of stairs, the laptop would be on the left, out in the open.

Achievements

 * Make the Jump (20 Gamerscore.png) - Successfully make the jump to the helicopter.
 * The Package (40 Gamerscore.png) - Complete the mission on Veteran difficulty.

Trivia

 * At the very end of "Game Over", as Soap's vision fades to white, a female news anchor reports that a search for a missing ship, possibly the one in this mission, was called off due to a storm.
 * Some unused audio mentions that the missing ship had luxury automobiles in it, which the one in this mission did not.
 * The containers with Chinese characters say "快歌樂運輸", which means "Kreigler Transporting", the name printed on some of the other crates. Kreigler was also the original name of the hostage in "Mile High Club" before it was removed from the storyline of the game and added as a bonus mission.
 * Kreigler refers to Richard Kreigler, the head art director of Infinity Ward.
 * Pausing after jumping onto the helicopter will show the player in a hidden corner of the map.
 * This mission contains many references to the Alien franchise:
 * The title, "Crew Expendable" is reference to a line from the first film.
 * The lines "I like to keep this for close encounters" and "Soldier, we are leaving" are also from the series.
 * It is possible to pick up two Desert Eagles in the first cargo hold and use them interchangeably.
 * On the side of the container that has the "Package", it says "IW PWN TZ" vertically.
 * If the player looks closely at the Minigun while it's firing in the beginning, nobody is firing it.
 * It's impossible to kill the sleeping Russians with grenades.
 * Firing the USP.45 will not wake up the sleeping Russians, even though it is unsilenced.
 * Even if the player runs past the sleeping Russians, the other SAS members will not kill them. They will continue to sleep throughout the mission.
 * There is an OpFor banner behind the nuclear package.
 * In the first room where Captain Price throws a flashbang, there is a hidden enemy who spawns if you take point and go before your squad. If you go with your squad, he will not spawn. He carries a Desert Eagle and shows up around the corner of a container. If the player kills him, he will drop two Desert Eagles.
 * The first section where the team clears out the deck and the living quarters, shares the same layout as the CQB test from F.N.G..