Long time before all this, I was just a grunt, boots on the ground counter-terror. Went in, did my fair share of all the fancy kicking doors in, and saved my fair share of people. Things started getting nasty in London, really nasty. Group of insurgents took a metro station hostage, held about three hundred people hostage, we got everyone else out of there. They ordered my team to hold on standby, they kept us there on standby for three hours, wouldn't let us in to do our thing. By the time they finally cleared us, and we got down into the station, they'd killed all the hostages. Three hundred bloody people, mate. I remember walking in, and seeing these kids, their faces turned up at us, shirts stained with blood, their parents dead up against the wall in the same positions. [i]He paused for a moment.[/i] I retired after that. Left for a while, then Cody Wolfe found me. He and I had worked in the Middle East for a while together, he told me that he had a job opportunity for me, told me I could make a difference, that I could make sure what had happened before. I bought that. I f*cking bought it. [i]He said again, almost laughing nervously.[/i]