Time and Fate/Transcript

Intro
Harper, Salazar, and David "Section" Mason are training, boxing

Section hits Salazar

Harper: What took you so long?

Section hits Harper

Harper: (Laughs) So the boss is back in town. Now go get that fuck Menendez.

''Harper hits Section on the face. He suddenly has a flashback.''

Harper: He blames your Dad for killing his sister.

''Harper hits Section again, and he continues to see more flashes. Section falls''

Harper: He also blames Woods...

''Section stands up again only to be hit by Harper. The flashes continue.''

Harper: And now he's coming for you.

''Harper hits Section, and the flashes clear up. Section hits Harper several times, eventually knocking him down on the ground. Harper stands up.''

Harper: Dude. I think Menendez is going down.

Section: I keep seeing these flashes... the night my father died, when I was a kid... Why now?

Harper: Ah fuck it. I just didn't hit you hard enough.

Section: Alright look. Woods gave us all the pieces - we just gotta put them together.

Back at The Vault on April 19, 2025, Section and Harper continue listening to Woods' story

Woods: Menendez was in Nicaragua, got that from Kravchenko. He was being offered up on a silver platter by old pineapple face himself, Manuel Noriega. One of the perks of being the president of Panama is that you get to use the army as your private police force. So CIA, in their infinite wisdom, they sign off on the deal, and the White House cuts Noriega a check for a million bucks and everybody takes their victory lap. And off we go to the jungle. What we did in Nicaragua... that was an accident. We don't target civilians.

Gameplay #1
"Time and Fate"  Wasa King, Nicaragua  Alex Mason CIA Special Activities Division   September 25th, 1986

Hudson, Mason, Noriega and Woods spy Menendez

Hudson: Intel checks out. It's Raul Menendez.

Noriega: I told you he would be here.

Mason: Are your men ready to move?

Noriega: As soon as I give the order.

Mason: Give it.

Noriega takes out a radio

Noriega: Avancen. (Translates to "advance" though the subtitles read "Move in.")

Woods: Let's not mess around here, boys. Let's smoke this bonehead.

Mason looks through his binoculars at Menendez

Hudson: That's not the mission, Woods. We take him alive.

The player takes control of Menendez, who is looking at himself in a mirror

Menendez looks at his hand, where he has his sister's heart shaped pendant

He then briefly looks at a photo of her, and then at her, sleeping on the bed

He sits down beside her while a low-pitched bell rings

 Raul Menendez  Beside his sister Josefina

Someone knocks loudly at the door

Menendez goes and answer the door

Menendez: ¡Cuantas veces te lo tengo que decir que no me molesten! (The sentence actually translates to "How many times do I have to tell you that I don't want to be disturbed!" though the subtitles read "I told you I did not want to be disturbed!"

The Nicaraguan cartel man at the door is shot in the head by a PDF soldier

Menendez: ¡¿Que carrajo?! (Translates to "What the fuck?", though the subtitles read "What the hell?")

''PDF soldiers come in, they secure Menendez and the room. A PDF moves toward Josefina''

Menendez: ¡Si tocas a mi hermana te lo juro que te mato! (It translates to "If you touch my sister I swear I'll kill you!" although in the subtitles says "Touch my sister and you're a dead man!")

The officer proceeds and grabs Raul's sister

Menendez: ¡JOSEFINA!

Josefina cries

PDF Officer: ¿Que es esto? ¿Un monstruo? (What is this... a monster?)

The Officer throws Josefina to the floor.

Menendez sets himself loose from the Panamanian soldiers and runs toward the Officer

Menendez: ¡ANIMAL!

PDF Soldier: ¡Mierda! (Shit!)

Menendez grabs a shard from the mirror and brutally stabs the officer in the neck

PDF Soldier: ¡Dios Mio! (My God!)

The officer dies

PDF soldier: ¡Quitenmelo! (Get him off!)

PDF soldier: ¡Está loco de remate! (He's fucking crazy!)

Two soldiers grab Menendez

PDF soldier: ¡Denle un sedante! (Sedate him!)

PDF soldier: ¡Mantenganlo quieto! (Hold him still!)

PDF soldier: ¡Rápido! (Quickly!)

A soldier sedates him

Menendez: Josefina...

Menendez fades

The screen blacks out

PDF soldier: ¡Despierta! (Wake up!)

Menendez slowly wakes up

PDF soldier: ¡He dicho despierta! (I said wake up!)

Menendez looks at the soldier and then at his hands, which are handcuffed

Noriega walks in

Noriega: ¿Lo sacaron sin que los vieran? (You removed him without being seen?)

PDF soldier: Sí. Nos tomo cuatro para restringirlo. (Yes. It took four of us to restrain him.)

Noriega cocks his SPAS-12 and shoots the two soldiers that were with him

Noriega: No witnesses. (chuckles) I saved your life. You should be in American hands by now.

Noriega removes Menendez' handcuffs

Noriega: Call it a favor.

''Menendez, full in anger for what Noriega's men did to his sister, using all of his adrenaline, grabs Noriega, chokes him and starts punching him eventually knocking him out. He then grabs Noriega's SPAS-12, and just as he is about to shoot him, hears his sister scream''

Menendez: ¡JOSEFINA!

PDF soldiers move in and try to kill Menendez

Josefina: ¡Ayúdame! ( "Help me!")

Menendez: ¡JOSEFINA!

PDF soldier: ¡Estamos perdiendo más hombres! (We are losing more men!)

Menendez: AAARRGH!

Menendez approaches a group of Nicaraguan peasants who are surrounded by PDF soldiers

Woman: ¡Por favor déjenos ir! ¡No hemos hecho nada mal! (Please let us go! We've done nothing wrong!)

Menendez grabs an axe and throws it at a soldier

Menendez: ¡ASQUEROSOS, NO TIENEN ALMA! ¡ANIMALES! ¡MUÉRANSE! (Filthy! Souless! ANIMALS! DIE!)

Josefina: ¡Raul! ¿Donde estás, Raul? (Raul! Where are you, Raul?)

Menendez: Josefina! Hold on, I'm coming!

Raul enters a barn full of horses and Panamanian soldiers

Menendez: Aaaaarrgh!

Josefina: Nooo!

Menendez: ¡Muéranse por sus pecados! (Die for your sins!)

Josefina: Please help me!

Cartel: ¿Menendez, estás bien? (Menendez, are you okay?)

Menendez: ¡Josefina... Tengo que llegar a la casa! (Josefina... I need to reach the house!)

Cartel: ¡Lo escucharon! ¡Empujen delante a la casa! (You heard him! Push forward to the house!)

Menendez and his men move forward to the house where the Panamanians have Josefina

Menendez: ¡Rompan la puerta! (Smash the gate!)

Cartel: ¡Vamos, tomen el patio! (Come on, take the courtyard!)

Josefina: Where are you? Raul, help me!

Menendez: Nooo! I'm coming! Hold on!

Josefina: Raul!!

Menendez enters the house

Menendez: ¡Estoy aquí Josefina! ¡Estoy aquí! (I'm here, Josefina! I'm here!)

''Menendez kicks the door leading to a hall were Josefina is at. Just as he enters, Woods and Mason emerge from the other side of the hallway''

Woods: MENENDEZ!

''Woods starts shooting at Menendez. He turns around and is grabbed by Hudson. Menendez tries to set loose from Hudson, but then he notices a grenade being thrown into Josefina's room. Menendez sets loose from Hudson and runs into the room, just as the grenade detonates. The screen fades white.''

Cutscene
Section: Menendez's sister Josefina died in the blast? Who threw the grenade?

Woods: I had no idea she was there, David. I just saw Menendez... and I lost my shit.

Section: Frank, you don't lose your shit. What the fuck did Menendez do to you in Angola?

Woods: Menendez, he... he wanted to know what the CIA had on him.

Woods has flashbacks of his custody by Menendez

Woods: So he tortured my men in front of me... thought I'd break. One by one. I watched my team die. Then he... dumped us in a tin can and locked the door... left me there for weeks. So yeah, the next time I saw Menendez, I lost my shit! WHAT THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO?

Gameplay #2
 WASA KING, NICARAGUA 

15 MINUTES EARLIER

Agent Hudson, Operators Mason and Woods

On the North Side of the Village

Mason is looking at Menendez through his binoculars

Mason: Who's the girl?

Hudson: Doesn't matter. She's not a target.

Woods: Probably just a whore...

Mason watches as Menendez answers the door, and Panamanian soldiers move in

Mason: Noriega's men are moving in. Let's go.

The team moves up

Woods: Alright! About fucking time.

Mason: Heavy fighting up ahead!

Hudson: Noriega's men are pushing across the riverbed!

Woods: I ain't keen on fighting alongside these bastards.

Hudson: Trust me Woods. The Cartel boys are hardcore. You're gonna be glad they're here.

The team reaches a stream near the entrance of the Village

Hudson: MG on the window! Building on the right!

Woods: Guys posted at the rooftops!

Mason: On me!

Woods: Right behind you, brother!

The team enters the Village

Woods: Check your fire! We got civilians!

Hudson: Watch the balcony!

The team moves in the Village

Hudson: We got more incoming!

Woods: Got another MG!

Mason: Spread out!

Mason takes out the MG gunner

Hudson: They're down! Move up!

Woods: In the window!

''The path splits. If Mason takes the path to the right''

Mason: Flanking right!

Hudson: More enemies inside the building!

Woods: Get a grenade in there!

''The group clears out the area and continues. A PDF soldier is seen throwing a Molotov into a house, destroying it along with several Cartel soldiers inside. As Mason continues moving, a Technical comes in''

Hudson: MG truck incoming!

Woods: Shoot the fucking driver Mason!

If Mason doesn't shoot, or misses the driver

Woods: Too slow Mason!

Hudson: Take down the gunner!

If Mason eliminates the Technical, the truck crashes, also killing the MG gunner

Woods: Like old times, huh Mason?

Mason: Ain't it just!

Hudson: Move!

The team moves deeper into the Village

Cartel: ¡Enemigo a las doce! (Enemy at twelve o'clock!)

Hudson: Push up the hill!

Woods: Bastards are in cover! Flush 'em out!

More enemies move in

Woods: Guys in the windows!

Hudson: Taking fire from the balcony!

The team moves up the hill

Hudson: Into the building! Clear 'em out!

The team enters the building

Cartel: ¡Están avanzando! (They're moving in!)

Hudson: On me.

The team move to the second floor of the building

Hudson: Wait... No... Can't be...

Woods: What?

Hudson: Fucking Noriega... his men were supposed to secure Menendez!

''Menendez can be seen at the distance walking toward the barn. Woods suddenly jumps off a balcony''

Woods: MENENDEZ!

''Hudson and Mason follow him. At the same time, Menendez enters the barn, and an explosion occurs inside''

Hudson: Woods! Frank... You need to get your shit together, now.

Woods: You've got no idea what happened in Angola. None!

Hudson: This isn't the way... We're on mission. He's headed to the house... We'll get him, but we do it as a team. Come on.

The team then moves up to the mansion

Hudson: Main building up ahead! Fight your way up the stairs! Secure the courtyard!

Woods: Let's fucking go!

''The team moves in the courtyard. If Mason climbs the bell tower''

Mason: I'll provide cover from the bell tower!

Mason climbs the tower and reaches the top

Mason: I'm in position. Move in!

Hudson: Snipers on the roof!

Woods: MG nest! Front entrance!

Hudson: RPG! Main balcony!

The team eliminates the Cartel

Hudson: That's the last of 'em.

The team, Hudson, Mason, Woods and several Panamanian soldiers regroup at the courtyard

Hudson: Woods, Mason. Coke lab's in the basement. Clear it out, grab any intel relating to the Menendez cartel.

Woods: (To a Panamanian soldier) If you capture him, you bring him to me. I'll make that prick talk.

Hudson: You have your orders, Sergeant.

''Woods, Mason and a Panamanian soldier move into the basement. Before Mason goes in, Hudson stops him''

Hudson: Mason. Keep an eye on Woods. Seeing Menendez again... He's losing it.

Mason: He's okay, Hudson. I got his back.

Mason proceeds to the basement

Woods: Let's make this quick. I don't wanna miss something bagging the real prize. You ready, Mason?

Mason opens an armory

Cartel: ¡Empaquen! ¡Nos vamos! (Pack up! We're leaving!)

Cartel: Escuchamos disparos. ¿Que pasa? (We heard gunfire. What's going on?)

Cartel: Hay extranjeros en la villa. ¡Necesitan cargar los camiones! (Foreign soldiers are all over the compound. You need to get the goods on the trucks!)

Cartel: ¡No podemos portar todo! (We can't pack up everything!)

Cartel: ¡Lo que no podemos llevar lo quemaremos! ¡Dejen de discutir, y MUÉVANSE! (What we can carry we'll burn it. Now stop talking and get moving!)

Cartel: ¡Rapido! (Quickly!)

''Mason picks up a Machete inside the armory. The team moves to the coke lab''

Cartel: ¡Soldados enemigos! (Enemy soldiers!)

Cartel: ¡Regresen el fuego! (Return fire!)

Cartel: ¡Saquen las cosas de aquí! (Get the stuff out of here!)

Fighting starts in the coke lab

Woods: Grab any intel before they burn this place to the ground!

Mason finds a CIA memo lying on a table

Mason: What the fuck? CIA??

Fighting continues

Woods: Come on, Mason!

Woods and Mason move up to a door

Woods: Fucking junkies...

Woods kicks the door open, and climbs up a ladder

Woods: Hudson. You scoped that son of a bitch yet?

Hudson (on comms): He's inside the house. We're moving on him now.

Woods: On my way!

Hudson (on comms): Negative, Woods. We have the situation under control.

''Woods and Mason exit the basement through the ladder. As Mason climbs up, Woods quickly grabs a guard standing nearby''

Hudson (on comms): Woods?

Mason: Damn, Woods!

Woods snaps the guard's neck

Woods: Hustle, Mason! I'm not letting this bastard escape!

Mason: Slow down!

''Woods moves in the house, killing all the guards, while Mason follows. They breach a door and run into a hallway. At the same time Menendez also enters from the other side with Hudson just behind him''

Woods: MENENDEZ!

Woods opens fire on Menendez

Mason: Woods! NO!

''Mason tries to stop Woods from firing. Woods headbutts Mason and throws a grenade at Menendez. Mason tries to stop him but fails. The grenade bounces around the wall and then into Josefina's room. Menendez runs to Josefina as the grenade detonates. The screen fades white.''

Mason wakes up and removes debris from his hip and stands up, Panamanian soldiers arrived at the scene and are seen helping Woods and Hudson

Panamanian Soldier: (On megaphone to the Cartel) Esta es su única advertencia. Atención, todos los miembros del Cartel aún con vida deben entregarse al personal militar inmediatamente. Esta zona esta bajo bloqueo. (This is your only warning. Attention, every member of the Cartel that is still alive must surrender to the personal military immediately. This area is locked down.)

''A Panamanian Litte Bird is seen hovering. Panamanian soldiers remove debris and are seen taking a body bag''

Panamanian Soldier: Tres. Dos. Uno. ¡Levantar! (Three. Two. One. Lift!)

Mason: Frank, are you okay?

Hudson: Get him outta here.

Mason: What happened, Hudson? Where's Menendez?

Hudson: That's him, in the body bag.

Hudson looks at Woods

Hudson: From this point on, today never happened.

Screen fades white, level ends

Outro
Back at The Vault

Woods: You let the PDF walk off with the body, and now he's back... and he's pretty pissed off, too.

Section: Well he sure can't kill my old man, 'cause someone already beat him to it long ago.

Flashes to Menendez meeting Woods in The Vault appear

Section: But he could've killed you. So why are you still alive, Frank?

Menendez approaches Woods and gives him the pendant

Menendez (flashback): Now it begins.

Flashback ends

Woods: I'm done talking, go find that maniac.