Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001 Video Game)

Christopher Randolph: Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich

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Quotes 

• Otacon : Another Chinese proverb: "Those who look to the Heavens prosper, those who defy it are no more." Do you know this one? The meaning here is - hold on a sec - that you can only survive as long as you're a part of the natural order of things. You remember pre-ripped jeans? Manufacturers thought that just because people loved old, broken-in jeans, they would want to buy new jeans that looked old. So they purposefully...

  Solid Snake : What do jeans have to do with nature and order?

• Otacon : What are you doing? How can you shoot someone who's unconscious? What are you, some kind of monster?

• [Solid Snake hides in a locker] 

  Solid Snake : This reminds me of when we first met.

  Otacon : I was the one inside the locker that time. We're equal now, huh?

  Solid Snake : Not unless I wet my pants.

  Otacon : That's a low blow, Snake.

• Otacon : As for the equipment... Hey! Snake! Cigarettes? What's wrong with you?

  Solid Snake : It's kind of a lucky charm.

• Solid Snake : This is Snake. Do you read me, Otacon?

  Otacon : Loud and clear, Snake.

  Solid Snake : Kept you waiting, huh? I'm at the sneak-point.

• Otacon : [Post-credits conversation]  Snake, you there? It's me. I've finished going over that disc.

  Solid Snake : Did you find the Patriots' list?

  Otacon : Of course. It contains the personal data of twelve people. There was a name on it - Snake, it was one of our biggest contributors.

  Solid Snake : What's going on around here?

  Otacon : I don't know...

  Solid Snake : Anyway, where are they?

  Otacon : Well, we were right about them being on Manhattan, but...

  Solid Snake : But what?

  Otacon : They're already dead. All twelve of them.

  Solid Snake : When did it happen?

  Otacon : Well, ah... about a hundred years ago.

  Solid Snake : ...What the hell?

• Solid Snake : [during flashbacks from the 'Tanker' mission]  I'd infiltrated the dummy tanker to obtain proof that a Metal Gear was under development. Shortly after I made it aboard, an armed group led by Colonel Gurlukovich raided the ship and gained control.

  Otacon : Olga and Ocelot were among the raiding party.

  Solid Snake : Yeah, and him.

  [referring to Liquid] 

  Raiden : Who're you talking about?

  Solid Snake : A man that was supposed to be dead.

  Otacon : Their target was also Metal Gear RAY, but, Ocelot eliminated Colonel Gurlukovich and Marine Commander Scott Dolph, and he hijacked RAY.

  Raiden : So, he betrayed them?

  Solid Snake : I don't know what kind of deal was going down. All I remember is what Ocelot said at the time. Something like, "I'm taking it back."

  Otacon : Ocelot then sank the tanker along with the soldiers of the Marine Corps.

  Raiden : [cuts back to the Codec screen]  How did you manage to get out?

  Solid Snake : Otacon managed to have a small boat ready for me.

  Otacon : That was the easy part. The tough part was not getting dragged down with the sinking tanker. Small miracle when you think about it. It turned out that the whole thing was a setup to lure us.

  [cuts back to flashbacks from the 'Tanker' mission] 

  Otacon : Photos of Snake, taken by the Cypher, were released to the public. In turn, we became the world's most wanted environmental terrorists.

  Solid Snake : It was definitely a move aimed at putting a stop to our anti-Metal Gear activities.

  Raiden : But, why did they choose Snake?

  Otacon : [cuts to a 'Mission Briefing' tape from Metal Gear Solid 1]  Since the Shadow Moses incident, Snake became sort of a hero.

  [cuts back to the 'Tanker' mission flashbacks] 

  Otacon : I think the Patriots weren't too happy about that.

  Raiden : You knew about the Patriots?

  Otacon : Well, yes... to a certain degree.

  Raiden : It seems like everyone knows about them except me.

  Otacon : They didn't choose Snake to be a hero.

  Raiden : So, they decided to do a smear campaign.

  Otacon : I think the Patriots wanted to make an example of him, so everybody would think twice before opposing them.

  Raiden : That's it! They set all this up just to nail you guys?

  Otacon : No, there's more to it than that. The Marines' Metal Gear RAY project, headed by Commander Dolph, was carried out in opposition to the Navy's Arsenal Gear project. To be more precise, the Patriots considered Metal Gear RAY to be a thorn in their side. Hence, they attacked the dummy tanker and stole RAY. They followed this up with the perfect plan. They immediately sent a fully loaded tanker to the same location and sank it, then, set up the facility to camouflage the development of Arsenal Gear.

  Solid Snake : And we fell for it. Two more puppets in their show.

  Raiden : Colonel Gurlukovich and his daughter, Olga?

  Otacon : Both fell victim to Ocelot's plot.

  Raiden : Was Solidus behind all this? He used Ocelot to get hold of RAY, huh?

  Otacon : No. He was underground, keeping a low profile at the time.

  Raiden : Then, it must be the Patriots.

  Otacon : If that's the case, what's Ocelot doing alongside Solidus?

  Raiden : ...

• Otacon : Raiden? About this Colonel of yours - I found out where he is.

  Raiden : Where?

  Otacon : Inside Arsenal.

  Raiden : What?

  Otacon : I've checked out all the possibilities, but I keep coming back to Arsenal. It isn't a relay point, it's the origin of the signal. And the encryption protocol it uses is exactly the same as that of Arsenal's AI - the so-called GW.

  Raiden : What the hell does this mean?

  Otacon : I think it means - you've been talking to an AI.

  Raiden : That's impossible!

  Otacon : The Colonel probably isn't GW per se. GW was most likely stimulating cortical activity in the dormant part of your brain through signal manipulation of your own nanomachines. The Colonel is in part your own creation, cobbled together from expectations and experience.

  Raiden : That's crazy!

  Otacon : But it's probably the truth. The virus may be starting to affect GW, which would explain the Colonel's behavior.

  Raiden : It was all - an illusion? Everything I've done so far...?

  Solid Snake : Raiden!

  Raiden : Snake - what's happening around here?

  Solid Snake : I don't know. What I do know is that you're standing right here in front of me. Not an illusion - flesh and blood. It's your call. You can drop this if you want.

  Raiden : No, I can't do that. Let's go!

• Solid Snake : Otacon, the ship appears to be under their control. The men have Russian gear, but, I haven't been able to find out anything else about their origin.

  Otacon : I know who they are.

  Solid Snake : You do?

  Otacon : We've ID'd the old man.

  Solid Snake : Who is he?

  Otacon : Sergei Gurlukovich.

  Solid Snake : Gurlukovich! One of Ocelot's allies?

  Otacon : Yeah, the GRU Colonel. He's the one Ocelot was supposed to meet up with after Shadow Moses.

  Solid Snake : They're after Metal Gear.

  Otacon : Everything's changed. This is not gonna be as simple as we thought.

  Solid Snake : You could say that. I saw a surveillance remote just now. It looked like the Cypher.

  Otacon : A Marine Cypher-T?

  Solid Snake : No, Army.

  Otacon : First, the Marines. Then, the Russians. Now, the Army?

  Solid Snake : You're right. This isn't gonna be simple.

  Otacon : Snake, there's something I have to tell you.

  Solid Snake : What?

  Otacon : We didn't dig up this info about the new Metal Gear on our own. Not like usual.

  Solid Snake : How did you find out, then?

  Otacon : It was a tip. An anonymous tip.

  Solid Snake : Anonymous? You've never trusted those. Why would you start now?

  Otacon : I, uh... I have a younger sister. A stepsister. We have different parents. I only knew her for two years.

  Solid Snake : You've never mentioned her before. So?

  Otacon : The sender of the tip was "E.E."

  Solid Snake : E.E.?

  Otacon : Her name is Emma, but, I always called her E.E.

  Solid Snake : Emma Emmerich?

  Otacon : Yeah. It just caught my eye, you know. I-I figured it was a coincidence, but, I couldn't get it out of my mind. There's really no one out there who knows about her.

  Solid Snake : When was the last time you saw her?

  Otacon : Over ten years ago.

  Solid Snake : You think it's a trap, to lure us out here?

  Otacon : I don't know. After I got the tip, I did break into the Pentagon system to get confirmation.

  Solid Snake : Okay.

  Otacon : Watch your back, Snake. Maybe I screwed up.

  Solid Snake : I've got a light-equipped USP. I can take them on now. There's no ammo, but, it takes a 9mm, just like the Marines' M9. I'll find those somewhere around here.

  Otacon : Don't raise too much racket with that thing.

  Solid Snake : I hear you.

• Otacon : [Snake enters the bridge of the ship to try and find out where it's heading. Otacon then contacts Snake via Codec]  Snake, did you find out where that ship is headed?

  Solid Snake : I'm looking at it. Thirty-five degrees longitude, latitude around fifty-eight.

  Otacon : More than five hundred miles off the coast of the Bermudas, out in the middle of the Atlantic. So, the prototype is ready for solo testing. It's basically combat-worthy. That area is outside the Second Fleet's operational range, too. It must be a stand-alone Marine Corps project, which means this prototype Metal Gear must be designed for independent deployment, without any Naval assistance. Anyway, analysis can wait till later. Snake, you need to go down to the holds and locate the actual Metal...

  [They both hear a strange noise and their conversation ends. Snake looks and sees someone, Olga, walking outside] 

  Solid Snake : Hm?