User blog comment:AndImBatman/A theory: How woods could of stayed alive/@comment-32237267-20121025175448

Here are a few things that makes me wonder on what really happened to Woods.

Note 1: Kravchenko also survived the explosion.

Why do I believe this?

If Kravchenko was blown up by the greandes, then his jacket wouldn't have remained intact. The survival of his jacket is important due to the fact that Mason TOOK Kravchenko's jacket off his corpse and wore it in Rebirth.

So, my theory is that Woods somehow managed to get the grenades off of Kravhchenko and also get both of themselves to cover.

Side note: Kravchenko could still be dead, Woods could have stabbed him again after the explosion before going back up to Mason on the second floor.

Note 2: When Reznov was released from his cell, he was already wearing Woods' shirt.

After the explosion, Woods says "You're okay." Then Mason blacks out a little. MAYBE Woods could've left during that blackout and Mason just imagined Reznov being there. Why I suspect this is not just Woods being there and being imagined as Reznov, is the line that comes after the blackout. "Are you okay?" WHY would Woods say that Mason is okay then ask if he is okay.

Woods could've gone somewhere to find help, bring the Hind closer to the base so he could drag Mason into it and leave, help the other POWs out, or maybe he just went back to the caves to give Bowman a proper burial. While he is gone, Mason imagines Reznov there, sees the documents, and leaves without thinking of looking for Woods since he wanted revenge too much.

Note 3: Intel that is unlocked from the mission mentions a request of the liberation of POWs from the Hanoi Hilton. Woods may have been sent there after the events of "Payback" because his superiors either thought it was more important or maybe because they didn't want the close relationship between Woods and Mason interrupting the capture of Steiner at Rebirth Island.

And whaddaya know? The NVA are fighting the SOG in the multiplayer map, Hanoi. And a little trivia note there mentions strange sounds and sounds of chairs being moved around. (Woods being tortured, captured or interrogated in an inaccessible room?)

Sidenote: In real life, the POWs of the Hanoi Hilton were released voluntarily by the NVA and no fight to break them out ever occurred. Black Ops may be saying that there WAS a fight but was covered up and this was when Woods was captured. And after the war, Woods was released from the prison.