Prologue

"Prologue" is a short, cinematic cut-scene featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It is the continuing clip from the mission "Endgame" from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The mission starts out as Captain John Price and Nikolai trying to extract Soap to a safehouse located in Northern India, searching for medical help after killing General Shepherd. The player takes control of John "Soap" MacTavish.

Characters

 * John "Soap" MacTavish (playable, W.I.A.)
 * John Price
 * Nikolai
 * Imran Zakhaev (flashback only)
 * Shepherd (flashback only)
 * The Doctor

Plot
The mission starts out with Nikolai and Captain John Price, who are seeking medical help for a wounded Soap. Nikolai and Price have extracted Soap from Afghanistan after killing General Shepherd. Nikolai tells John Price "Da I know a place" taking Soap to Northern India. Soap is then extracted to the safehouse in India where Nikolai had mentioned where Soap's wounds will be treated.

Walkthrough
As the player, John "Soap" MacTavish wakes up after his injury caused by General Shepherd back in Afghanistan, he has been brought to Northern India to a safehouse for medical treatment. Soap wakes up, seeing the propellers of Nikolai's Little Bird as John Price and Nikolai carry Soap on a stretcher to seek him a doctor within the safehouse. As Price and Nikolai try to find medical help, Soap sees many flashbacks from the events of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as he is being carried away.

As Soap is carried underneath an arch moving on a pathway towards the safehouse, he briefly flashbacks to his first mission, where Captain Price smoking his cigar in "Crew Expendable" from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. After carried past the arch, he flashbacks Price sliding the M1911 .45 towards Soap from the mission "Game Over", and recalls killing Imran Zakhaev. After reaching the safehouse, Soap is being carried through the hallways of the safehouse, as he sees the moment when Price shot down Shepherd's Pave Low in Afghanistan and their falling Zodiac plummeting off of the edge of the waterfall, as seen in "Endgame", from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Price and Nikolai, keeping pressure on Soap's wound, then carry Soap through another hallway. Soap sees the moment where he pulls the knife out of his chest and throws the knife into Shepherd's eye; that too being from "Endgame." As Soap comes back again, he witnesses Price and Nikolai who meet a doctor, as the doctor is told hastily to treat the wound.

Soap begins to black out from blood loss, as Nikolai says, "We're losing him! Charging. Three, two, one. Clear!" The logo of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is seen introducing the game and ending the level.

Prologue Intro Video


Prologue (Modern Warfare 3)

Trivia

 * In this mission, Nikolai has a different appearance than he did in "Endgame" from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This is odd because this takes place directly after Modern Warfare 2.
 * The geographic coordinates given are in Madhya Pradesh in north-central India.
 * The Wii uses a pre-rendered version from another system for this level.
 * This is one of only two missions where Yuri is an NPC, the other being "Dust to Dust". Yuri can be briefly visible on the left side of the screen, being pushed out of the way by Price.
 * Chronologically, this level and Persona Non Grata take place before "Black Tuesday".
 * If the player checks on the game's video files. one will notice that there's originally going to be a fifth flashback, showing the end of "Crew Expendable", when Soap jumps on the helicopter.
 * The mission select picture is exactly the same as the one for "Persona Non Grata".
 * This is the only time in Modern Warfare 3 that players take control of Soap and is the last time in the Modern Warfare series that he is a playable character.

Achievement/Trophy
Back in the Fight (5 / Bronze Trophy ) - Start the Single Player Campaign on any difficulty.