Intelligence gathered speculates the Ark is held somewhere in the Georgian Presidential Palace, and that Nikoladze may be already within. Third Echelon sends Fisher to sneak in and to prevent both Nikoladze and the new President, Varlam Cristavi, from accessing the Ark key. It seems Cristavi is already aware of the Ark's existence, and has previously interrogated one of Nikoladze's thugs in a recording labelled as the "Ark Interrogation Files." Fisher locates these which reveals that the Ark is a Special Atomic Demolition Munition; an extremely powerful nuclear suitcase bomb, and moves on to find Nikoladze, who is about to take the Ark from a vault in the building basement, but is then forced to open the safe believed to hold The Ark. However, Cristavi's thugs then arrive, and hold both Nikoladze and Fisher at gunpoint. There, Nikoladze reveals that the Ark is already in position and that the safe contains the key to activate it. He bargains to give the Ark key to Cristavi in exchange for safe passage out of Georgia. They take Nikoladze and the Ark key elsewhere, while Fisher is left to be executed - luckily, Lambert organizes for a blackout, allowing Fisher to escape from his captors and continue his pursuit of Nikoladze. During this, it is learned that the Ark is actually a nuclear bomb hidden somewhere in America. Fisher eventually locates Nikoladze, who at this moment is trying to negotiate the Ark for his freedom: in order to prevent this from happening, Fisher assassinates Nikoladze, the only person capable of activating the Ark, thus ending the crisis.
6 сен 2024
