So today, I'm gonna break down exactly what that ending means, where the story is gonna go in the future, and how it all connects to that mid-credits cutscene as well.

The Trojan Horse mission takes place in November 2023 and follows Captain Price, Soap, Gaz, and Ghost all working together alongside a group of London SFOs which stands for Special Firearms Officers.

And their initial objective is to deal with this dead drop of a USB stick which contains some kind of critical data which is in the possession of a Black Hat hacker.

And the assumption is that they are trying to transmit some kind of sensitive information to the ultra-nationalist private military corporation called Kony.

It's that organization which Commander Vladimir Makarov leads, and so obviously it's very much in the interests of our friends Price and co at Task Force 141 to put a stop to his efforts.

Now, they chase the hacker on foot and eventually manage to secure the drive.

But when they do so, they discover that Kony have actually injected a Trojan Horse virus into the London train network.

This will allow them to reroute and control trains within the Channel Tunnel which is a tunnel that runs between London and France.

It goes straight from London to Paris.

And it's an underwater tunnel.

So as you can imagine, if this ultra-nationalist group is gonna pull off some kind of funny business with thousands of people underwater in the Channel Tunnel, then there's potential for a lot of casualties.

So, Task Force 141 push into the Channel Tunnel themselves using a service tunnel, so it's like an access entrance that doesn't have consistent civilians running through it.

And they battle with Kony as they push through the tunnels.

Now, it's at this point as TF141 continues to push through that they discovered that there was a bomb inside the tunnel.

Laswell describes it as an explosive radiological dispersal device combined with C4 conventional explosives.

Now, initially, they think that just one person will be able to disarm the bomb and so the other person can take cover.

But it turns out it's a two-person job.

And so, Captain Price and Soap work together to try and disarm it.

And they get through a few stages of the disarm process before they are basically ambushed by Makarov.

He kind of takes them by surprise.

And Soap takes several firearms rounds to his torso.

And it seems at first like he's maybe actually just dead from that alone, because he slumps to the floor.

And so Makarov looms over Price ready to finally take him down, something that Makarov was no doubt looking forward to doing for a very, very long time, seeing as inside the campaign, he had spent four years in jail leading up to this point.

And had only gotten out a couple of weeks ago in the kind of canon of the Modern Warfare universe.

So he's looming over Price ready to extract his revenge.

And Soap makes a hero play to try and prevent Makarov from going any further.

But unfortunately, Soap's efforts are not lethal.

And so Makarov is able to then sort of twist around and fire a bullet directly into Soap's noggin, ending his life, but buying Price just enough time for the tables to turn and Makarov to be forced to flee with Price still alive on the train platform.

Makarov runs off into a side service tunnel.

He successfully escapes.

And he is injured.

The actions of Soap did definitely injure him, but they are not mortal wounds.

Once Makarov is gone, the team successfully defuse the bomb, preventing disaster in the channel tunnel, and the mission comes to a close.

The next thing that we see is the fact that Soap was cremated and the remaining members of One for One scatter his ashes presumably somewhere near Soap's hometown perhaps, and they say a few words in his honor and in his memory.

Laswell also personally redacts the document which specifies exactly what happened during the mission, seeing as she is their CIA handler for the little expedition.

And she's especially sure to enter into the record not just Sergeant John Moktavish, but Sergeant John Soap Moktavish as having passed away.

Now, the mid-credits scene picks up just a little later with Price making a surprise appearance in the office of General Shepard.

And right from the get-go, it's apparent that Price is not there to be friendly.

He's not there to be nice.

He's not there to make small talk and to do a deal.

Rather, he's there for one simple purpose, and that is to end the General's life.

And this doesn't just come out of nowhere.

In Modern Warfare 2, the 2022 game, Shepard had given orders for a mercenary called Graves who leads a private military corporation called Shadow Company to betray Task Force 141 and attack them.

And following the events of that game, Shepard went into hiding and Price was absolutely Shepard's worst enemy.

Like, Price really was not happy with Shepard whatsoever.

And that only gets more intense in this game when earlier in the story, Price gave Shepard an ultimatum that he could get a warm ride home from being stranded in Siberia, but only if he fully cleared Pharah's name, because Pharah had been implicated in various things during this story by Makarov.

And the ultimatum also required him to own up to the rest of it.

Everything with Makarov himself, and just all of the lies and the deception.

And Shepard did admittedly follow those orders mostly and owned up to some things in front of a congressional subcommittee towards the end of the Modern Warfare 3 campaign.

But he did not admit to the fact that he gave the order for Graves to turn on Task Force 141.

And Graves, right next to him in that committee, straight up called him out and said, no, General Shepard did indeed give the order.

So the result of that combined with the actions of Shepard in Modern Warfare 2, combined also with the growing sentiment that it's a bad idea to bury your enemies alive, that's like a real theme in this game, means that Price takes the decision alongside Laswell, by the way.

It's not a decision he takes on his own.

Laswell lets Price into General Shepard's office, but he takes the decision to not just bury Shepard alive by giving him an out from his career in the military and kind of letting bygones be bygones, but instead he decides to bury him dead, taking him down and finally putting an end to any further lies and deception that Shepard may have been able to get himself into.

Further to all of that, I suspect that Price feels that Shepard is quite significantly responsible for Soap's death, because had there not been this, this deception from inside his own ranks and his own teammates, Price and his companions would have had a much easier time in trying to deal with the Makarov threat.

Instead, they were constantly having to deal with this other party just making their life hell, and that no doubt meant that they were less effective, and therefore had to take on more risk in their endeavors.

And, it was that risk that ultimately led to Soap's demise.

Now, the natural next question to ask is where exactly does this go next, because that ending is so abrupt.

Like, why does it end in that way?

And, the simple answer is that there are a variety of loose threads now which are going to be used in the Warzone story, probably also slightly played with a little bit in the Zombies story, although most of that is splashback stuff because it takes place in the past.

And also, will be picked up in the next Modern Warfare game whenever that comes out.

Within that, if we have a sort of loose look at the previous Modern Warfare series and how that evolved, we can expect at some point to have Makarov's efforts to incite a Third World War become successful eventually, and to have some kind of Russian invasion of the United States, and potentially again have the White House being stormed, and also potentially missions involving the destruction of the Eiffel Tower.

And also, some of the weapons threats that we saw in this game such as the nuclear warheads towards the beginning which the US supplied the ULF with, and also the chemical weapons that we see Makarov successfully detonate once or twice.

Those will no doubt return, and we'll probably see chemical weapons attacks all over the globe in places like London, and also probably elsewhere in Europe.

Throughout all of this, Price is going to be seeking revenge for Soap's death, and he's going to be seeking Makarov.

Seeking Makarov's head on a stick.

He is not going to be happy.

He's going to be getting increasingly incensed, and we're going to start seeing him lose his grip a little bit compared to the very restrained and controlled Price that we're used to.

This will likely end in some kind of culmination where Makarov is chased down, and I wouldn't be surprised if thematically they flip the idea of, of Makarov's greatest weapon being perception on its head, and Makarov himself is actually betrayed in some way, and his perception is messed with, and that is his ultimate downfall.

We see the groundwork laid for this in the Modern Warfare 3 campaign, because Makarov at one point executes one of his soldiers called Ivan or Vanya, because he doubted Makarov's plan even just for a moment.

And, Makarov used that as an opportunity to make an example of him, and try and really gain ironclad confidence from absolutely everyone that he was leading.

But, that might lead to Makarov getting a little bit comfortable in that environment, and somebody such as Yuri potentially who obviously works with the US, or someone else within his ranks such as Nolan, breaking from his trust and stabbing him in the back.

I think that's, that's definitely a possibility for what's to come.

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