Dark Water

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Dark Water
Previous level	El Sin Nombre
Next level	Alone
Game	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Character	Johnny "Soap" MacTavish
Team	Task Force 141
Allies	Los Vaqueros Shadow Company
Place	Gulf of Mexico
Date	November 2nd, 2022 17H00
Objective	Infiltrate the oil rig Clear the bottom deck of the rig Clear the upper deck of the rig Investigate the middle container Rappel onto the boat Join forces with Shadow-3 on the ship Clear the deck of the ship Breach the ship structure Clear the interior structure Get to the missile controls Disarm the missile
Enemies	Al-Qatala
Console codename	shipaf
Multiplayer map	Shipment

"Soap, Alejandro, Ghost, Graves and his Shadow Company race to an offshore oil platform to prevent an imminent strike on US soil."

— Mission Briefing

Dark Water is the twelfth mission featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

Plot

After Valeria Garza revealed the second missile's location through interrogation. Task Force 141. Shadow Company and Alejandro launched an attack on an abandoned oil rig off the Coast of Mexico, alongside with the ship 500 meter northwest of the rig. Alejandro, Soap, alongside with Graves and Shadow Company then secured the oil rig, there they found out the missile's control was on the ship, with Ghost spotting it on the deck of the ship.

Soap and Graves then reinforced Ghost and Shadow 3, leaving Alejandro with the remaining the Shadow Company contractors to defend the oil rig. They then reached the deck of the ship, where the trio learned that the missile can't be disarmed anymore, which prompted Shepherd to told Graves to launch the missile at the rig, "disarming" it alongside with destroying the rig. Ghost then instructed Alejandro and Shadow Company contractors on the rig to withdraw from it.

With helps from Graves, Soap launched the missile at the rig, destroying it with the rig, with Alejandro and the Shadow Company contractors evacuating just in time, accomplishing their mission.

Characters

• Johnny "Soap" MacTavish (playable)
• Alejandro Vargas
• Phillip Graves
• Shadow 2-1
• Simon "Ghost" Riley
• Shepherd (voice)
• Rodolfo Parra (cutscene)
• Valeria Garza (cutscene, P.O.W.)
• Hassan Zyani (mentioned)

Weapon Loadout

Starting loadout
Fennec 45 w/ Slimline Pro and XTEN Black Kite FTac Recon w/ SZ Bullseye Optic and FTAC Dreadnaught

Found in level
Kastov 762 Lachmann-556 (used by Alejandro and Shadow Company contractors) M16 Kastov-74u SO-14 Lachmann-762 Lachmann Sub PDSW 528 Minibak Vaznev-9K MX9 556 Icarus RAPP H RPK Bryson 800 Lockwood 300 LM-S X13 Auto

Unobtainable
SA-B 50 (used by Ghost) P890 (used by Ghost)

Transcript

Main article: Dark Water/Transcript

Gallery

Videos

Official Dark Water Level Gameplay - Call of Duty- Modern Warfare II

Trivia

• In the Dark Water Level Gameplay video, the mission is dated October 22nd.
• The intro cinematic of the mission uses the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Task Force 141 emblem.
• The oil rig and the ship are loose references to "The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday" from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and "Crew Expendable" from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare respectively.
• All Shadow Company contractors on the Oil Rig use either a suppressed PDSW 528, a suppressed Lachmann-556, or a suppressed VEL 46 as a primary weapon. The PDSW 528 and Lachmann-556 can be obtained through a scripted death and one of the Shadows getting killed by Al-Qatala soldiers, while the VEL 46 cannot be obtained.
• In the official gameplay teaser starring this mission, Soap's loadout originally owned a suppressed TAQ-56 before being replaced with the FTac Recon.
  • The thumbnail for the teaser also shows the Shadow Company contractors in the boat section of the mission wearing caps. In the final game, they wear helmets with night vision goggles.
• The model for the Shadow Company contractor standing next to Graves in the scene where both he and Graves use the line launcher to create paths for the Alpha Team to hook up the Oil Rig changes when the scene switches to another frame. This change does not occur if the contractor's model is the Militant operator skin.