- [from trailer]
- Solid Snake: I'm no hero... Never was. I'm just an old killer... Hired to do some wet work.
- Big Boss: Boss... you were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others, and believing in your own.
- Solid Snake: War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control. Information control. Emotion control. Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control. War has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control... All in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction. And he who controls the battlefield... controls history. War has changed. When the battlefield is under total control... War becomes routine.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Hey Snake, something I've been meaning to ask you. That canyon... Isn't that where you demolished Raven's tank? How'd you do it, anyway?
- Solid Snake: How? Well... Grenades.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: That's it? You didn't use an anti-tank missile or something?
- Solid Snake: Didn't have one.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Your technique is kind of... how do I put this... archaic when it comes to fighting tanks. Honestly, I don't think it'd work on today's main battle tanks.
- Solid Snake: Well, that's how I did it. What do you want me to say?
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: You know, I asked an active-duty Army officer once: If an infantryman had to take on a tank one-on-one, how should he do it?
- Solid Snake: And what was his answer?
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: "Don't." He swore there's no way in hell a single infantryman could take down a tank by himself.
- Solid Snake: Interesting.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: I always suspected there was a little something crazy about you, Snake. But after hearing that story... Now I know it. You're nuts! Single-handedly taking out a tank? That's crazy! You're insane!
- Solid Snake: Otacon, is this your idea of a compliment?
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Yes! You're the toughest, craziest, most hardcore badass on the planet! You're... the shit!
- Big Boss: [to Snake] If you had been in my place back then, maybe you wouldn't have made the same mistakes I did. Ever since the day I killed The Boss with my own hands, I... was already dead.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: [codec call] Hold it, Snake. Time to change the disc. I know. I know. It's a pain. But you need to swap disc 1 for disc 2. You see the disc labeled 2?
- Solid Snake: Uhh... No.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Huh? Oh, wait! We're on Playstation 3! It's a Blu-Ray Disc. Dual-layered, too. No need to swap.
- Solid Snake: Damnit, Otacon! Get a grip!
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Yeah, what an age we live in, huh, Snake? Wonder what they'll think of next.
- Big Boss: [to Solid Snake] I never thought of you as a son, but I always respected you as a soldier... and as a man.
- Big Boss: Boss... you say there's only room for one Snake... no... the world is better off... without Snakes...
- [Snake shares a final smoke with Big Boss as he nears his end]
- Solid Snake: Am I going to die?
- Big Boss: Everyone Dies. You can't stop it. You can't run from it. Let me tell you something... Don't... Don't waste the life you have left fighting.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: [Post credits conversation] Snake, wait up! You forgot these...
- Solid Snake: No thanks. I'm quitting.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Snake?
- Solid Snake: These things will kill ya.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Where will you go...? Our fight is finished. There's nothing left for us to do.
- Solid Snake: No. There's one thing I still have to do. I have to see this age off... See what the future brings.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Sounds good to me. I'll go with you.
- Solid Snake: Otacon, I'm gonna be dead soon. You don't have to come.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: You said it yourself, Snake. There's nothing inside you can pass on to the next generation. No genes, no memes... You're man-made... You're a beast.
- Solid Snake: I know... A blue rose. There won't be any happy "Beauty and the Beast" ending for me. What little time I have left will be spent living... As a beast. A shadow of the inside... Of the old age.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Exactly. That's why you need me. As a witness.
- Solid Snake: A witness?
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Yeah. Someone on the outside to bear witness to your final days. Someone to pass on your story... Not that I'm the only witness. But I'll remember everything you were... And stick with you to the end.
- Solid Snake: Otacon...
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Besides, you wouldn't let me suffer Sunny's eggs alone, would you?
- [holds up Snake]
- Johnny Sasaki: Drop your weapon!
- [Snake holds up his hands and turns around]
- Solid Snake: You haven't even taken the safety off, rookie.
- Johnny Sasaki: Careful, I'm no rookie! I'm a ten year vet.
- [looks closer to check. Snake uses CQC to snatch his rifle and throw him to the floor]
- Solid Snake: How the hell did you ever survive ten years?
- [from trailer]
- Otacon: Hey Snake, it's me.
- Solid Snake: Who?
- Otacon: [Otacon's face appears on the robot] Snake, it's me.
- Solid Snake: Otacon?
- Otacon: Sorry to keep you waiting. I'm here to help you from here on out.
- Solid Snake: Where are you now?
- Otacon: Out of harm's way.
- Solid Snake: Is that remote control?
- Otacon: Yup. And this mechanism is equipped with a Cell Processor.
- [the robot starts dancing]
- Solid Snake: [Snake looks out the window] Otacon, we're surrounded.
- Otacon: Any ideas?
- Solid Snake: Can you lend me a hand?
- Otacon: Not at the moment... Snake, you'd better get moving.
- [the robot gives Snake bullets]
- Solid Snake: OK. I'll take what I can get.
- [Snake gets up and leaves]
- Solid Snake: You coming?
- Otacon: Of course. I'll be behind you all the way.
- Otacon: [after Otacon spots a cigarette in Snake's mouth] Uhh, Snake?
- Solid Snake: What now?
- Otacon: Didn't you quit?
- Solid Snake: Nah, just found a light.
- Otacon: Even in the middle of a battlefield...
- Solid Snake: Go!
- [last lines]
- Sunny: [frying eggs] Come quick! They're ready! They look... yummy! Sorta like the sun. It's rising again...
- Big Boss: [Speaking over The Boss's grave] Ever since the day I killed The Boss... With my own hands... I... Was already dead. Boss... You were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... The way it is. It's about respecting the will of others... And believing in your own. Isn't that... What you fought for? At last... I understand the meaning behind what you did. At last... I understand the truth behind your courage.
- [He salutes]
- Big Boss: Everything has its beginning. But it doesn't start at "one." It starts long before that, in chaos. The world is born... from zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes two, two becomes ten, ten becomes 100. Taking it all back to one solves nothing. So long as Zero remains, one... will eventually grow to 100 again. And so our goal was to erase Zero. Even the mighty Patriots began with a single man. That one man's desires grew huge, bloated; absorbed technology; began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late that we had created a beast. We had helped turn Zero into 100. His sin was ours. And for that reason, I'm taking it upon myself to send Zero... back to nothing.
- Raiden: It was never going to work out for me. It even rained the day I was born.
- Solid Snake: You've got it all wrong. You were the lightning in that rain. You can still shine through the darkness.
- Mei Ling: [quoting Shakespeare] The tongues of dying men force attention, like deep harmony. Where words are spent, they are seldom spent in vain.
- Liquid Ocelot: [Pumps a nearly-dead, exhausted Snake with nanomachine suppresor] This is it, brother; Our final moment. The battle has ended, but we are not yet free! The war is over... but... You and I still have a score to settle.
- Liquid Ocelot: [Snake pulls himself upright and gets into a combat stance; Liquid casts aside his sunglasses and gets into a combat stance as well; music intensifies] SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT, SNAKE!
- Meryl Silverburgh: [to Johnny, during firefight] And I want a real wedding! With flowers... and a cake! It was my dream ever since I was a girl.
- [the scene in Europe where Liquid Ocelot controls the power of the Guns of the Patriots, he points at a chopper like he's holding a gun]
- Liquid Ocelot: Bang!
- [the chopper's engine then shuts down and the chopper crashes into the river, Liquid Ocelot does the same with another chopper]
- Liquid Ocelot: Bang!
- [the other chopper's engine shuts down and crashes into the river]
- Liquid Ocelot: This is the liberty we've won for ourselves: Outer Haven! And with this weapon I will destroy JD! Then, everything ends, and everything begins! But as for you, brother, you'll stay here to mark this island's watery grave!
- Big Boss: It all began with a bunch of old fools. Now they've all passed away, their era of folly is over.
- Sunny: [during the Act 1 'Mission Briefing,' Sunny is cooking eggs on board the Nomad] O-Only two eggs, today? Solidus must have taken the day off.
- [singing]
- Sunny: 7892590360...
- [humming]
- Sunny: ... 3305305...
- [continues singing]
- Sunny: ... 4882046652...
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The Manhattan incident triggered a serious public backlash. Now, the U.S. has to think twice before intervening militarily in other countries' affairs. This has fueled a push towards military privatization, with PMCs at the heart of that movement.
- Solid Snake: PMCs... Private Military Companies.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: That's right. PMCs have no basis in nations or ideologies. They are private enterprises, driven by profit. In addition to dispatching mercenaries to war zones, they secure weapons and train local soldiers. They're contractors for war itself, and business is good. Their clientele includes developed nations like the U.S., rebel factions looking to seize power by force... Smaller countries lacking armies of their own... even terrorist groups. They're in the Americas, Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, Africa, the Middle East. The rise of the PMC has spawned a war by proxy, and it's spreading across the globe.
- Sunny: [walking downstairs to bring Otacon the eggs she cooked, Sunny begins to stutter] They, they're... re...
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: [typing on his computer] Sunny, we'll eat them later, okay?
- Solid Snake: Every age has its mercenary. These PMCs are nothing new. We've been dealing with them since before the turn of the century.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: No, Snake. They're nothing like the mercenaries of the past.
- Sunny: [walks over to the side and tries again to give Otacon the eggs] Th-They're ready.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: [continues typing] Sorry, I'm a little busy right now.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The Pentagon's new battlefield control system has produced a decisive difference between hired guns and the PMCs of today.
- [Sunny walks towards Snake and Campbell]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The system was developed by ArmsTech Security.
- Solid Snake: ArmsTech? You mean AT Corp?
- Colonel Roy Campbell: Eh. In recent years, AT Corp has shifted focus from weapons development to security tools. And since the establishment of AT Security, business has been booming.
- [Sunny, feeling disappointed, starts walking upstairs. Otacon turns around and watches her]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The system makes it possible to integrate not only micro-level information on individual soldiers and units, but also macro-level information about field conditions and order of battle.
- Solid Snake: So, they've finally achieved total real-time battlefield control?
- Colonel Roy Campbell: That's right, and as a result, the global presence of PMCs has grown explosively. Truth is, the rise of system-controlled PMCs has led to a dramatic decline in civilian casualties and human rights violations on the battlefield.
- Solid Snake: A cleaner, safer battlefield.
- [grunts]
- Solid Snake: Makes for nice propaganda.
- Sunny: [drops her two dishes of eggs on top of the stove angrily, looks at an ashtray on the side and a cigarette falls down. Sunny gasps and stomps on the cigarette a few times; she then yells at Snake] Snake! You were smoking again, weren't you? This is a non-smoking fl-flight!
- Colonel Roy Campbell: There's more. State governments and rebel groups can't match the maintenance price of standing forces. PMCs, by comparison, are reliable, easy to use.
- [while Campbell continues talking, Otacon tests out the Mk.II]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: It wasn't long before everybody had them on the payroll... and as a result, regular armies began to decline worldwide.
- [fades to an animated cutscene of the world]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: It's hard to believe, I know, but PMCs are beginning to overtake conventional armies in terms of scale. Nowadays it's the PMCs who serve as standard battalions. They already make up sixty percent of all combatant forces in zones of conflict.
- Solid Snake: Sixty percent...
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The fact is the world now depends largely on PMCs for waging its wars.
- Solid Snake: I thought it was the U.N. that authorized the PMCs in the first place.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The U.S. abstained from voting on that resolution. In effect, Washington was endorsing PMCs without ever revealing its true intentions. Until they got wind of the uprising, that is.
- Solid Snake: The U.S. has exported too much military power, and now she's paying the price.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: That's exactly it. America has now turned war into a form of economic activity. Analysts are calling it the "war economy," in that it's picking up the slack for the downward-sloping oil market. But I, for one, don't intend to simply stand by and watch it happen. For the PMCs, market expansion entails fanning the flames of war. It means more refugees.
- Solid Snake: War orphans, child soldiers.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: Yes. Even as PMC soldiers get more specialized, they're also getting younger.
- Solid Snake: Mercenaries spun off from state armies, unmanned weapons, child soldiers... Proxy battles in a new Cold War.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: There are hundreds of PMCs in business worldwide, and their numbers are growing. Currently, five of them are big enough to be labeled global powers. Two in the U.S., and one each in the U.K., France, and Russia. Reconnaissance has revealed that those five PMCs are run by a dummy corporation that acts as a single mother company. This mother company embodies the five largest PMCs. Her name is 'Outer Heaven.'
- Solid Snake: Outer Heaven? You mean...!
- Colonel Roy Campbell: That's right. It's Liquid.
- Solid Snake: Liquid...
- Colonel Roy Campbell: He's taken command of this immense army and is now preparing to unleash an insurrection.
- Solid Snake: I watched him die.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: His will lives on - in the body of the man once known as Ocelot. He aims to fan the flames of war even higher, to create the perfect world once envisioned by Big Boss.
- Solid Snake: The one world in which soldiers will always have a place.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: He must be stopped... before it's too late.
- [fades back to the Nomad]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: Do you understand, Snake? Any means necessary. Just stop Liquid's insurrection. Even if it means...
- Solid Snake: Killing him? You want Liquid dead. Isn't that right, Colonel?
- Colonel Roy Campbell: I'm sorry. I know... This isn't justice. It's a covert assignment. A hired hit. A wet works op targeting the head of a major multinational corporation.
- Solid Snake: [sighs] Why me?
- Colonel Roy Campbell: Because of the military might of the PMCs and the effect they have on the economy. War is to the twenty-first century what oil was to the twentieth: The pillar that supports the global economy. You'll recall a rather alarming report issued by that American think tank during the Cold War. One that described a new model for perpetual war. What we're facing now is a whole new ballgame.
- Solid Snake: Iron Mountain's "Delphi Technique"...
- Colonel Roy Campbell: That was fiction. It existed only on paper. The reality is far more serious. The global community is concerned, but they're all too afraid of the war economy collapsing to do anything about it. The U.N., too.
- Solid Snake: [takes out a cigarette] Sounds pretty self-serving to me.
- [Sunny and Otacon both shake their heads]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: Snake, this mission isn't an order from Washington, not like the old days. And it's not something the U.N. can officially sanction, either. But, we can't just look the other way while Liquid plots this insurrection. If we fail to act, he'll become the greatest threat the world has ever faced. Snake...
- [takes the cigarette from Snake's hand]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: ... you're the only man I can trust.
- Solid Snake: [takes the cigarette back] Fine. Let's hear it.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: [brings up a picture of Liquid a.k.a. Ocelot on-screen] Our intelligence on Liquid's uprising originally comes via reports from U.S. Special Forces, who were mobilized after we at the U.N. reported our findings. They're tracking Liquid's movements. About eighteen hours ago, he was spotted in the Middle East.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: There's a rebel army in the Middle East made up of ethnic minorities, waging civil war against the regime in power.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The core of that regime's army is provided by one of the PMCs under Liquid's control.
- Solid Snake: What about the rebels?
- Colonel Roy Campbell: The local militias have hired small numbers of operators as trainers and field commanders. And of course, they've got help from the local PMCs.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Right. A proxy war between hired guns.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: Eh. PMC versus PMC. A quagmire of war. All too-typical victims of the new world economy. Snake, you'll be sneaking into the conflict zone via transport truck disguised as one of the rebel army's hired operators. Your first objective is to make contact with our informants, Rat Patrol Team Zero One. They'll be expecting you.
- Solid Snake: Rat Patrol, huh. They sound sneaky.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: They're a Special Forces team assigned to the Army's PMC investigation unit, CID.
- Solid Snake: CID... The real rats of the Army.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: No, I can vouch for them personally.
- Solid Snake: Friends of yours?
- Colonel Roy Campbell: You could say that. Transportation to the area will be provided under cover of a U.N. humanitarian aid mission with support from the U.S. military.
- [Sunny walks downstairs again]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: From there on, though, you'll get no protection and no guarantees from anyone. And you must not leave behind any evidence of your involvement in the area, let alone that of the U.N.
- [Otacon turns Sunny around, taps her on the shoulders and she starts walking back up the stairs]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: If word of this ever leaked out, it would spark a global firestorm. Snake... will you do this for me? Will you terminate Liquid?
- Solid Snake: [after a brief moment of silence] I'm not like the PMCs. I don't need your money.
- Colonel Roy Campbell: Thank you.
- Solid Snake: But, if you're going to spark something, spark this.
- [holds up his cigarette and both Campbell and Otacon shake their heads in dismay]
- Solid Snake: Fine. I'll start my own fire.
- Naomi Hunter: Well, Dr. Emmerich... um... I... I know it's easy to forget sometimes, but I am a woman. You understand. Sorry. I... I know it's selfish of me, but I'd like to be alone for a while.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Right.
- [chuckles softly]
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: I understand. I'll show you in.
- Naomi Hunter: Thank you.
- Sunny: [awoken up] Huh?
- [turns around and puts her head down as Otacon lets Naomi into the helicopter]
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: [Naomi almost falls over, but Otacon helps her] Oh!
- Naomi Hunter: [holding Otacon's hand] Good night, Dr. Emmerich.
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: Yeah. If you get uncomfortable or anything, just let me know. I'll be out there working.
- Naomi Hunter: [chuckles a bit] Thank you.
- [lets go of Otacon's hand]
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: And...
- Naomi Hunter: Yes?
- Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich: [attempts to kiss her again, but doesn't] Call me Hal. Good night.
- Naomi Hunter: Good night, Hal.
- [Otacon closes the door then Naomi pulls him inside, presumably to make love to him]
- Big Boss: Zero and I, Liquid and Solidus, we all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty to free ourselves from systems, nations, norms and ages, but no matter how hard we fought, the only liberty we found was on the inside, trapped within those limits. The Boss and I may have taken different paths but in the end, we were both trapped inside the same cage: liberty. But you have been given freedom. Freedom to be... outside.
- Solid Snake: ar has changed. Our time has ended. Our war is over. But there's one more thing I must do... one last punishment I must endure. Erase my genes... wipe this meme from the face of the Earth. This... is my final mission.
- [from trailer]
- Colonel Roy Campbell: War is to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th; the pillar that supports the global economy.