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

John Cygan: Solidus Snake

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• Solidus Snake : Jack, listen to me. We're all born with an expiration date. No one lasts forever. Life is nothing but a grace period - for turning our genetic material into the next generation. The data of life is transferred from parent to child. That's how it works. But we have no heirs, no legacy. Cloned from our father, with the ability to reproduce conveniently engineered out. What is our legacy if we cannot pass the torch? Proof of our existence - a mark of some sort. When the torch is passed on from parent to child... it extends beyond DNA; information is imparted as well. All I want is to be remembered. By other people, by history.

• Solidus Snake : The data of life is transferred from parent to child. That's how it works. But we have no heirs, no legacy. Cloned from our father, with the ability to reproduce conveniently engineered out. What is our legacy if we cannot pass the torch?

• Solidus Snake : The world has room for only one big boss!

• Solidus Snake : Jack, those days during the civil war were as real as they come, split between life and death. You ran from it! And now you've been led back to war by something less than real.

• Raiden : All you want is power, at any cost.

  Solidus Snake : Jack, it's not power I want. What I want to take back from the Patriots are things like... freedom, civil rights, opportunities. The founding principles of this country. Everything that's about to be wiped out by their digital censorship.

• Solidus Snake : Good luck.

  Fortune : Thanks, but I already have quite enough of that.

• [Raiden lies unconscious on the examination table] 

  Solidus Snake : Is he still alive?

  Revolver Ocelot : He was when Olga brought him in. I've checked everything, including the Genome data, but there's nothing on this guy; NSA, CIA, FBI, he doesn't exist in any database. He's a non-existent operative from a non-existent organization.

  Solidus Snake : I suspected as much. However, I know this man.

  Revolver Ocelot : [shocked]  Hm?

  Solidus Snake : Wake him up.

  [the examination table tilts forward, bringing Raiden face-to-face with Solidus and Ocelot] 

  Solidus Snake : It's been a while hasn't it, Jack the Ripper?

  Revolver Ocelot : You know this fellow?

  Solidus Snake : You remember me, don't you? You've grown.

  Solidus Snake : [snags Raiden's head with one of his mechanical arms and begins scanning]  High concentration of cerebral implants. Have they altered your memory too?

  [Raiden chokes and screams as Solidus scans him] 

  Solidus Snake : This is my son, I taught him everything I know.

  [Solidus looks up in nostalgia] 

  Solidus Snake : Jack, I thought I'd never see you again.

  Raiden : You... know me?

  Solidus Snake : You don't remember? Your name, your skills, everything you know you learned from me.

  Solidus Snake : [cuts to flashbacks while Solidus narrates]  The 80s... the civil war... you were one of the best amongst the child soldiers that fought in that conflict. When you were barely ten years old, you became the platoon leader of the "Small Boy" unit. At the time, your outstanding kill record earned you several nicknames including "White Devil" and "Jack the Ripper." Jack, I was your godfather, I named you. When the war ended, you disappeared from the relief center. I wondered what happened to you, but I should have known they would recruit you!

  Revolver Ocelot : [cuts back to present day]  It's an interesting coincidence.

  Solidus Snake : If he's a lackey for the Patriots, I doubt he knows anything of interest.

  Revolver Ocelot : What shall we do with him?

  Solidus Snake : We'll use him like you suggested.

  Revolver Ocelot : What about Dead Cell?

  Solidus Snake : ...Ignore them.

• Solidus Snake : How much do you think we spent on that arm in Lyon? The best transplant surgery in the world!

  Revolver Ocelot : I never trust a Frenchman.

• Raiden : So you're the boss around here?

  Solidus Snake : No, not just here. I'm the boss to surpass Big Boss himself. Solid Snake!

  Solid Snake : No! That is NOT Solid Snake!

• Olga : I know I'm going to hell, but at least my child...

  Solidus Snake : I applaud your attitude. If you have a death wish, I'll be happy to accomodate you! See you in hell!

• Solidus Snake : Brother, I'm a whole different game from Liquid!

• Solidus Snake : Enjoy the show, Jack?

• Solidus Snake : Only one more step to Outer Heaven!

• Solidus Snake : I'll drown you fools for interfering!

• Solidus Snake : No more games Raiden, at least you know. There's no reason to keep you alive any longer.

• [all the Metal Gear RAYs around Snake begin to tremble violently] 

  Solidus Snake : What's happening?

  Revolver Ocelot : [over Solidus's radio]  The AI, GW, it's out of control!

  Solidus Snake : WHAT?

  Revolver Ocelot : I'm reading an abnormal impulse cascade throughout the neural network. I can't shut it down!

  Solidus Snake : The Patriots?

  Revolver Ocelot : I don't know. Maybe some kind of virus?

  Solidus Snake : Ocelot, what have you been up to?

  Revolver Ocelot : It's too late! Arsenal's system has gone haywire. It's on an emergency assent course.

  Solidus Snake : Stupid machines!

• Solidus Snake : [walking slowly towards Raiden]  Jack, my son, my brothers and I are called "Les Enfant Terribles," replicas of evil genes. You are different; one-of-a-kind, but still a monster. We must decide now which monstrosity will have the privledge of survival. Oh, and by the way Jack, I was the one who killed your parents.

  [Raiden looks up at him in shock] 

  Solidus Snake : I claimed you for my own and raised you as a soldier in the army of the Devil. I am your foster-father and your worst enemy!

  Raiden : Why?

  Solidus Snake : Because I needed to know if we were really someone else's creation. We're repeating history here, Jack; Liquid and Solid hunted down Big Boss trying to sever the tie that bound them to him. Unless you kill me and face your past, Jack, you will never escape. You'll stay in the endless loop: your own double helix.

• Solidus Snake : I was planning to give you Arsenal to begin with.

  Fortune : Why the uncharacteristic generosity?

  Solidus Snake : I'm no philanthropist. Arsenal is far from impregnable. It needs other Metal Gears as guards, a huge payload of warheads, and full air, sea, and land support to function efficiently. Against a large attack force without support, Arsenal is nothing more than a gigantic coffin. Seizing Arsenal Gear was never the real objective.

  Fortune : What was your objective then?

  Solidus Snake : A list of names of The Patriots!

• Solidus Snake : [talking to Olga via walkie-talkie]  I've taken care of that annoying fly. What's the situation over there?

  Olga : Puzzling. I saw a man dressed like a ninja just now.

  Solidus Snake : Ninja?

  Olga : It's the only way to describe it. A kind of cyborg ninja, complete with a sword.

  Solidus Snake : What?

  Olga : Are you hiding something from me?

  [Raiden is eavesdropping, though Olga doesn't notice] 

  Solidus Snake : Olga, are you sure it wasn't an Arsenal Tengu?

  Olga : Don't be a fool. Think I wouldn't know the difference? I've never seen field gear like that ever.

  Solidus Snake : Alright. We'll intensify patrols. Anything else?

  Olga : Actually, one more thing. You'll find it hard to believe, though. I saw a man hiding under a cardboard box.

  Solidus Snake : Where?

  Olga : On the connecting bridge to Shell 2.

  Solidus Snake : Hmm.

  Olga : So, you believe me this time?

  Solidus Snake : I've seen someone use that box trick before. We'll lay a trap on the Shell 2 connecting bridge.

  Olga : Over and out, then.

  [hangs up and Raiden appears] 

  Raiden : Freeze!

  [aiming his gun at Olga] 

  Raiden : You must be one of Dead Cell.

  Olga : Of course not. What a thing to say.

  Raiden : [sees her holding a gun]  Drop your gun!

  Olga : Not a chance.

  [jumps over a railing and escapes] 

  Raiden : [contacting Pliskin via Codec]  I saw a female soldier. Russian.

  Iroquois Pliskin : Must be Olga Gurlukovich.

  Raiden : How do you know?

  Iroquois Pliskin : Unlike you, I've been briefed.

  Raiden : She's not a Dead Cell?

  Iroquois Pliskin : No, she commands a Russian private army.

  Raiden : They must be the ones patrolling the Big Shell.

  Iroquois Pliskin : That's right. She's led the group ever since her old man, Colonel Gurlukovich, died. Watch yourself with her. She's a tough one.

• Solidus Snake : BURN, BABY!

• Solidus Snake : I'll let you go out in style!