The Enemy of My Enemy

The Enemy of My Enemy
Previous level	Loose Ends
Next level	Just Like Old Times
Game	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Character	John "Soap" MacTavish
Team	Task Force 141
Place	U.S. Vehicle Disposal Yard 437, 160 miles SW of Kandahar, Eastern Afghanistan
Date	Day 6 (August 15th), 2016 - 16:03:35
Objective	Get to the rally point. Get in the jeep. Get on board Nikolai's plane.
Enemies	Shadow Company Inner Circle
Console codename	boneyard
Multiplayer map	Scrapyard, Trailer Park
Special Ops	Snatch & Grab

"General Shepherd's troops are battling Makarov's men. Traverse the battlefield to reach Nikolai who'll help you escape."

— Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered level description

"The Enemy of My Enemy" is the sixteenth mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered, during which the player controls Captain John "Soap" MacTavish during the battle between Shadow Company and Inner Circle in the airplane boneyard.

Characters

• John "Soap" MacTavish (playable)
• John Price
• Rook (K.I.A.)
• Nikolai
• Vladimir Makarov (cutscene and heard)
• Shepherd (cutscene and mentioned)
• Gary "Roach" Sanderson (mentioned only in the cutscene)
• Simon "Ghost" Riley (mentioned only in the cutscene)
• Imran Zakhaev (mentioned only)

Plot

At the Afghanistan boneyard, Soap continues his attempts to contact Ghost and Roach to no avail. Price states that Shepherd is "cleaning" house, and tells him that he is on his way to him.

Shadow Company and Makarov's men are fighting each other in a vicious battle throughout the whole boneyard, with Technicals, Little Birds and BTR-80s being deployed. Soap makes his way through the heat of the battle, avoiding the two warring factions while making his way to the extraction point. Price contacts Nikolai to extract him and Soap with his C-130, which Nikolai agrees to do.

On the way, Price taps into Makarov's channels and tells him that Shepherd is now a "war hero" with a blank check and information with his movements. Price offers to take out Shepherd for Makarov, who grudgingly gives up Shepherd's base of operations, Site Hotel Bravo. Nikolai comments on the hectic battle below, and knowing that it is too dangerous to linger around, threatens to leave the two behind if Soap takes too long. Soap makes his way to Price, who has Rook, a Task Force 141 soldier who survived Shepherd's betrayal, commandeer a jeep to escape in.

A hectic vehicle battle ensues, and in the process, Rook is killed by a stray gunshot by Shadow Company forces. His foot still on the pedal, Soap is forced to steer the jeep into the cargo hold of Nikolai's C-130 and they manage to escape the boneyard.

Weapon Loadout

Starting Loadout
M14 EBR Silenced MP5K Silenced Red Dot

Found in level
These weapons can be found with and without attachments. AA-12 ACR AK-47 With only a Red Dot Sight Dragunov With or without the Woodland Camouflage F2000 G18 M1014 M240 Mini-Uzi P90 PP2000 RPD RPG-7 SCAR-H SPAS-12 Striker TAR-21 TMP (with or without Akimbo and Red dot sights) UMP45 Vector WA2000

Intel Items

• Item No. 39: (1/2 Intel) From the starting point, turn west and enter the cockpit of a junkyard plane (C-130).
• Item No. 40: (2/2 Intel) Inside the only cockpit on top of hill (C-130), after the two black SUV's cross your path and approx. 88m before the jeep.

Intel No. 1

Intel No. 2

Transcript

Main article: The Enemy of My Enemy/Transcript

Achievements/Trophies

• Out of the Frying Pan... (15 / Bronze Trophy ) - Obtained by beating "The Enemy of My Enemy" on any difficulty.

• Queen takes Rook (25 / Silver Trophy ) - Obtained by beating "Loose Ends", and "The Enemy of My Enemy" on Veteran.

Trivia

• The MH-6 Little Birds on this level appear to be much weaker than other helicopters; they can easily be shot down with almost anything.
• The player can find Akimbo TMP's with Red Dot Sights on this level.
• If the player kills all the enemies by the Inner Circle controlled BTR-80s while the BTR is firing at a Shadow Company helicopter, it is possible to run around the BTR without either the BTR or the helicopter even trying to kill the player.
• It is possible, though extremely rare, to find a SPAS-12, Striker or Dragunov with Woodland Camouflage on this map.
• In the Spanish version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 the line "Soap! Rook is down!" is mistranslated as "¡Soap! ¡El novato ha caído!" (Soap! The rookie is down!).
• When the player gets in the Jeep, their ammo is automatically refilled. Their field of view is also increased.
• In the Remastered version, after Rook is shot in the head and dies, his name will still appear as if he was still alive, similar to Pyle in World At War and Ambassador Harris in Modern Warfare (2019).
• Rather than the AK-47 having woodland camouflage like in "Loose Ends", the only attachment it's equipped with is a red dot sight and has no camo at all. Only for RPG units to have it.
• Soap's loadout and suit resembles a slight similarity with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's "All Ghillied Up" mission. Soap is seen wearing what appears to be a ghillie suit and his loadout is a suppressed sniper rifle like how Lieutenant Price and MacMillan had in Pripyat.
• The name of this mission is taken from the ancient proverb, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", which means that two opposing parties should work together to bring down a common enemy. Price mentions this proverb to Makarov through the radio, to which Makarov tells him that it cuts both ways meaning both sides often turn on each other.
• After getting into Nikolai's AC-130, it's possible to see that no one is present in the cockpit.
• While driving, only Shadow Company soldiers chase you.
• This level was shown in the game's reveal trailer. In the footage shown there are Airport Security officers battling Shadow Company. Presumably they were used as placeholders for the Inner Circle. At 1:28 in the trailer, a Winter Spetsnaz soldier can be seen in the same area.

Gallery

Soap inside a scrapped plane at the start of the mission.

Part of the level as shown in the Modern Warfare 2 Reveal Trailer (note the Airport Security in place of Makarov's men).