Tower/Transcript

Cartwright Stays Behind

Having killed the Widowmaker, Hale scans the Tower's atrium for any more enemies, then turns back to face Cartwright.


 * Stephen Cartwright: Not bad shooting, I'd say...[Cartwright grimaces and falls, slumping against a wall. Hale runs over to him and sees that he is bleeding badly; the Widowmaker has given Cartwright a serious injury] Considering I was hit and all. [Hale tries to patch up Cartwright's wound but Cartwright shakes him off] You go ahead, I'll cover this entrance.

''Hale, looking solemn, looks at Cartwright, regretful at the thought of simply abandoning him. Cartwright nods for him to enter the Tower. Hale pats Cartwright on the shoulder, then runs to the lift, boards and turns the controls. The lift begins to descend into the Tower''.

[Fade to black]

Gameplay'

Our Only Hope

An image of a Goliath and other Chimera overrunning British soldiers and tanks is shown


 * Rachel Parker [voiceover]: We were losing the battle outside the tower. The few tanks that remained would soon be overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite hordes of Chimera. [An image of Parker helping the injured Cartwright onto a VTOL is shown] Our only hope lay with the few soldiers who had managed to infiltrate the tower. [An image of Hale is shown] It was up to them to find a way to destroy it from the inside.

[Fade to black]

Gameplay

Victory and Remorse

''The Tower's reactor has gone critical. As Hale watches, the reactor begins to explode, knocking pieces of the tower's superstructure away. Hale runs for a nearby exit, reaching just ahead of a wall of fire behind him. Outside the Tower, as it begins to collapse from the inside out, a VTOL hovers above the Tower's entrance. Onboard are Captain Rachel Parker and the injured Lieutenant Stephen Cartwright''.


 * VTOL Pilot: We're too close, Captain! We've got to get clear!


 * Rachel Parker: Hold this position! That's an order!

''Signs of the tower's impending destruction are becoming more obvious; at its base, a pair of Widowmakers trying to flee are fatally caught in a wave of fire from the entrance. The VTOL begins to move away''.


 * VTOL Pilot: It's too late! No one's coming out of there!


 * Rachel Parker: I SAID...! [an explosion rocks the VTOL and Parker is forced to hang on for dear life.]

''The VTOL flies off as the Tower begins to explode violently behind it. The pilot expertly avoids a collision with Tower Bridge as behind them, in a blinding explosion, the Tower is destroyed. Cut to black. When the scene returns, it shows an image of dying hybrids in the ruins of London''.


 * Rachel Parker [voiceover]: As the Tower fell, Chimeran creatures began to shriek and writhe on the ground. They died within minutes. We believe they were simply unable to survive the loss of the Angels. [the image is replaced with one of a map of Great Britain, indicating the network of Chimeran tunnels and towers] The significance of our victory in London wasn't understood for several days. The reactor meltdown caused a chain reaction that destroyed all the towers in the network. At least in Britain, the Chimera were defeated. [another image is shown, of the ruined Chimeran tower in Cheddar Gorge] We have investigated the ruins of five towers so far. As we attempt to reverse-engineer the complex technologies we find, the mystery of the Chimera only deepens. [the image fades; another of British soldiers attending to civilians appears] With combat subsided, the soldiers have been searching the rural villages for survivors. So far we've found nine hundred and twenty one hiding in bunkers and basements: seventy eight of them children. Cartwright's youngest daughter, Angela was among them. As for Nathan Hale...[an image of Hale's face is shown] his body was never recovered. He was presumably incinerated inside the Tower. The American military lists him as "Killed In Action", July 14th 1951. A part of me still believes he might have escaped somehow. [Hale's image fades, replaced by one of Parker staring back at the ruins of the London tower] I even thought I heard his voice on the radio just after the Tower exploded. I'll never know for sure. [Fade to black. Credits roll].

A Fateful Choice

''A badly injured Nathan Hale, having survived the destruction of the London Tower, is wandering dazed through the English countryside. Suddenly, a VTOL marked with the logo of SRPA lands and five Black Ops soldiers emerge, form a circle round Hale and take aim. Hale hold up a frag grenade, his last weapon, and toys with the pin, as though contemplating pulling it. After a few moments thought, he relents and drops the grenade. One of the Black Ops motions for him to board the plane, and Hale moves to do so, the soldiers flanking him. With Hale and the soldiers onboard, the VTOL quickly takes off and flies off into the distance''.