The Raven’s Trail

The Raven’s Trail is the seventh level of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Endgame and follows the TF-141 as they locate and capture the cyber terrorist who was recruited by General Shepherd to bring down the satellite that carried the ACS Module pivotal to the Russian Invasion of America in Modern Warfare 2

Player Character: - Sgt Catherine ‘Amazon’ Cortez

Previous Level Border Skirmish

Next Level Barrier of Spears

Walkthrough
The level begins with Cortez, Onyx and Huntsman and a randomly named NPC arrive at a building outside a café. Heading out of the car and into an alley they stealthily infiltrate and adjacent building and take out a group of Mercanries that have set up a sniping position in the window opposite the café’s upper floor balcony. As they get in position Captain Price, Captain MacTavish and a TF-141 agent named Lightning arrive and enter the café. After making contact with Clarke things take a turn for the worse as Mercenaries disguised as staff and customers attack allowing Clarke to stun Lightning with a Concealed Stun Gun before running out through the back door. After defeating the Mercenaries Cortez’s team shimmy down the fire escape and join up with Price’s team instructing Huntsman and Onyx to keep Lighting safe while the rest of them meet the Intercept team. Fighting to the Intercept Team’s location; consisting of Heron, Jackal, Blaze and a second randomly named NPC the group find Clarke’s car just as she gets inside. Cortez and Blaze and instructed to extract her before she moves off only to come on the receiving end of a door mounted flamethrower killing Blaze. As Clarke speeds away Cortez and Soap take out the car’s tyres preventing her escaping. Unfortunately as the car comes to a stop two Casspir APCs arrive blocking the road before deploying more mercenaries. After escaping the firefight the team head through the back alleys and more attacking Mercenaries before watching Clarke cross into a train station. Following her into the station the team manages to land a leg shot just before she reaches the train.

Soap goes to prep her for extraction but discovers that the woman they have been chasing is a decoy. The real Clarke then broadcasts a message mocking them before telling them that they will never catch her. As she signs off Mercenaries jump the turnstiles and attack forcing the team to exit the station without the decoy. As they return to the streets Huntsman informs them that a Little Bird has taken off from a nearby airstrip and is heading towards a location in the East of the City. Just as he is about to reveal the location Clarke jams the transmission and cuts off communication. Using his knowledge of the city Price determines that the Botanical Gardens is the safest place for Clarke to catch the Helicopter due to the open nature of the area. As the team arrives in the gardens a massive firefight between them and the Mercenaries takes place as the real Clarke slips into the Little Bird Helicopter. In desperation Soap shoots at the Little Bird but it gets away just as the South African Police arrive. Quickly withdrawing the TF-141 escape under the nearby highway meeting up with Huntsman, Onyx and Lightning. With the Mercenaries and Police moving in the team splits up with Cortez, Soap and Jackal heading towards the Science Estate. Arriving on the Estate more Mercenaries attack with heavy weapons just as more Casspirs arrive with the troops attacking from inside. Using Heavy Weapons the team destroys two of the Casspirs but is forced to attack the third one on foot with Jackal dying in the assault. After taking the APC Soap hotwires it while Cortez keeps the Mercenaries from overrunning the vehicle. Eventually Soap succeeds and drives the Casspir through a barricade only to be blocked by Police Cars and Riot Vehicles. Price informs Soap to surrender to the police and that he has a plan.

Initial Weapons
AUG HBAR w/ Rangefinder and Silencer, UMP 45 w/ ACOG Scope, Frag Grenade x 4, Flashbang Grenade x 4

Found in Level

AK-47, FAL, FAMAS, Mini Uzi, BXP, AUG HBAR (Found by Dead TF-141 Members), L86 LSW, Denel NTW-20, M93 Raffica (Found by Dead Police/TF-141 Members), MAC-10, Striker, M9, M32 Multiple Grenade Launcher

Transcript

Satellite moves from the Afghan border south towards the Indian Ocean

Cortez: - I’m done you found your agents so I’m leaving

Heron: - You leave when we tell you. Look around the world is falling apart and you aren’t going to help us top it.

Cortez: - If what you are saying is true then I am needed back home

MacTavish: - What if we do a deal. As soon as the TF-141 has cleared it’s name, then we will release you with an honourable discharge. Problem is we don’t know where to start.

Price: - The Satellite carrying the ACS module the Russians copied. If we knew how it was brought down we might be able to piece some of these puzzle pieces together. Shepherd planned everything including giving the Russians backdoor keys to the US, find that and we find proof that he was behind everything.

A blueprint of the satellite highlighting the ACS module

MacTavish: - On the run Price and I picked up information from a Shadow Company Field Base. Inside we found codes to their computer systems. We stripped down everything useful but it’s possible that there may be some information left.

A list of operations appears on-screen

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez: - What is that?

The computer zooms in on a cartoon like symbol in the top left corner <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - It’s and Electronic Signature. I have seen this before. Two years ago Ghost and I caught a cyber terrorist named Alexander Clarke AKA The Raven.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Raven’s profile appears

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - We handed her into Shepherd and she was sent to prison for five years minimum.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Profile Zooms in

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Looks like she got and early release.

Heron: - Where do we find her?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Satellite tracks south west before stopping over South Africa before finally settling over Pretoria.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cut Scene Ends

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price (Radio): - Overwatch Team are you on station?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Huntsman: - Not yet we are just arriving at target building. We can see at least one hostile sniper already in position.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Alright take that position before they alert Clarke that we are coming. We are on the clock, my contact in the South African Police has given us a twelve minute window.

''The team gets out of the Land Rover and heads into the building. Upon reaching the door Huntsman brings up a Dynamic Hammer and gets ready to smash down the door''.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Huntsman: - Everybody ready. Once we get inside take them out quietly.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">He smash down the door

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Mercenary 1: - Enemy Breach warn Clarke

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The team take out all the Mercenaries as well as the Security Camera

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Onyx: - Area secure. Confrontation team move in.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Huntsman: - Take a window everybody. We need to keep an eye on this one in case she runs.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez picks up a Sniper Rifle and gets ready to support the Confrontation Team whoa rive in a second Land Rover.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Okay we are moving into position. ''The team reaches the second floor of the Internet Café. ''Lightning move in while we do a sweep on the other customers.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Lightning: - Ms Clarke I need you to come with me.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke: - Fuck Shepherd’s Thugs have found us.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''Several Customers and a Waitress draw weapons. Lightning grabs Clarke but she shocks her with a stun gun. A fire fight begins.''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Overwatch we are pinned down give us cover while we secure Lightning

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Overwatch positions thin the enemy as Clarke runs out the back of the Restaurant

Price: - Interception Team, the Raven is in flight heading North West out of the back of the facility

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - Roger that as soon as we get visual we will update you on her position.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''The team thins out the Mercenaries and begins to move. Cortez and the others on Overwatch team shimmy down the fire escape and join the Confrontation Team on the hunt''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Huntsman, Onyx stay with Lightning until she regains consciousness

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - We have a visual on the Raven. She is heading to a Silver Mercedes parked on Hartley Street.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - We are almost there.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''Clarke suddenly appears from an alley jumping into a Mercedes. The Interception Team arrives seconds later''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - Blaze, Amazon get her out of there

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''Blaze reaches the car first. Clarke opens fire with a door mounted ‘blaster’ flamethrower incinerating Blaze before driving off''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - She’s getting away

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - No she’s not. He levels a rifle and shoots the tyres out of her car which skids to a stop

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Good job Soap, let’s get her to the extraction point before time runs out.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''As the team closes in two Casspirs appear and block the road before unloading Mercenaries. The team fights through them but still can’t remove the vehicles blocking the road''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - Into the alleys quickly

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The team goes into the alleys and fights more Mercenaries before emerging as Clarke runs towards the station through a crowd of civilians.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Get her before she reaches the Station

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - No shot the civilians are in the way we will have to follow her into the Station

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The team enters the station and vaults the ticket barriers to find Clarke has vanished into the crowd

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - Everybody Down ''as he shoots into the air. The Crowd complies leaving Clarke as the only person left standing''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Amazon take the leg shot

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Amazon shoots Clarke in the leg just as the train arrives.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Target secure, Soap secure her for transport

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''Soap walks over and bends down removing Clarke’s Stun Gun and Pistol before getting her into a sitting position. Suddenly he gets up.''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - We have been played. Followed a decoy instead of the real thing

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - But we confirmed that we had the right target

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - She must have escaped in the crowd

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - To Decoy Where is she?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Suddenly the PA chimes and all the monitors show Clarkes’ face

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke: - Somewhere you won’t find me. I knew Shepherd would betray me so I took steps to stay safe.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Soap she’s broadcasting on the move. We should be able to track her easily.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke: - I’m not going to make it that easy. I believe you met some of my employees, Mercenaries arrive, they will take care of you know.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke vanishes and the Mercenaries attack

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - Huntsman we lost Clarke is there anything on your end that would indicate where she has gone.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Huntsman: - Air Traffic Control gave clearance to a private helicopter to lift off from Johannesburg Wonderboom Airport. As far as we can tell it’s heading towards the Pretoria Bot..Static cuts through the transmission

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke: - No that would make things to easy. Try finding me without your eyes in the sky

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - She’s using the Security Cameras to monitor our progress. If you where going to land a helicopter in a city with an unknown amount of hostiles where would you land it?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez: - A park or open space. You would be out in the open but there would also be less danger of enemies attacking from the high rise buildings.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - Huntsman may have been talking about the botanical gardens south of our position.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - It’s better then nothing the police will be coming soon.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''The team sprints down the road as police drive to the station. Overhead a Little Bird can be seen and heard heading to a nearby park. As the TF-141 arrives Clarke can be seen getting into the Little Bird as around thirty mercenaries open fire from behind ornaments and from the trees.''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Soap Plan B do it know

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Soap fires a sniper round into the Little Bird as it flies off

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke: - You missed Captain MacTavish. I’m pretty sure the police will happily pick you up and if they fail. Well let’s just say I’m sending a viral untracable E-Mail to everybody who wants you dead. It’s a long list but I’m sure you know that.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Heron: - The police are closing in and we can’t guarantee that we will be able to take down all those Mercenaries and escape in time. Head south to the road and we will lose our pursuers before regrouping with Huntsman and Onyx.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''The team bugs out as the Police arrive and begin to open fire on the Mercenaries. As they reach the highway the team straps of repelling cables and abseils down before disappearing from sight.''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Huntsman can you hear me?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Huntsman: - We can hear you Captain what are your orders?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - We are on the run from Clarke’s goons and the police. Head to the exfil point and wait for us there. Keep a low profile and don’t trust anybody.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Voices shouting in Afrikaans can be heard from the roadside

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - There closing in quickly. We should split up and try and meet up later. Amazon, Jackal and I will head south to the Scientific Estate.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - I’ll take Heron and head west back into town see if we can hide from them in plain site. If we are not at the exfil point in forty minutes then we leave the others and follow the trail.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Agreed, Good Luck Sir

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''Price and Heron head West along the Highway until they are out of sight. Soap leads the others away from the city to the Scientific Park. As they reach the central compound more Mercenaries attack''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Jackal: - They are boxing us in, I see four heavy weapons emplacements with MGLs and Snipers

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Two Casspirs arrive deploying more troops and opening fire with their machine guns

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Amazon go and find a M32 to take out those Casspirs. Jackal and I will we cover you.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez finds an M32 Multiple Grenade Launcher and destroys the first Casspir

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Jackal: - Take out the second one with the M32

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The second Casspir is destroyed

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Let’s go before more show up

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">A third Casspir arrives

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Destroy that Casspir

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez: - I’m out of grenades

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Jackal: - Then we will just have to take it for ourselves

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">''He charges in followed by Soap and Cortez. Jackal makes it to the deployment door but is shot down by a mercenary inside. Soap arrives next and with Cortez’s help clears the troop bay.''

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Keep them from overrunning our position while I hotwire this thing

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez protects the Casspir

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez: - Hurry up John the Police are on their way.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - This thing is designed not to be stolen.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez: - Seriously I can see the Police putting up a roadblock

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Got it, The Casspir starts moving let’s run it over

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Casspir crashes through the road block as Police Guards and Riot Casspirs arrive surrounding the TF-141s escape vehicle

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cortez: - What know? I don’t fancy killing police officers especially since technically we are on the same side

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - Well we need to do something

Price: - Soap are you there?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">MacTavish: - We are in an enemy transport surrounded by Police. What are your orders sir?

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price: - Don’t fight them Soap. I have an idea.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The rear door of the Casspir opens and light streams through the back of the truck causing the screen to white out.

<h2 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Intel

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Intel No. 15 (1/2) After leaving the Overwatch Position head into the Internet Café and go to the second floor. The enemy Intel is on the middle row of desks opposite the bar

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Intel No. 16 (2/2) After abseiling off the Highway check the pile of cardboard boxes next to the gratified skip. The Intel is inside one of them

Achievements
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">All Circuits are Closed (10G): - Destroy all the Security Cameras in this level

<h2 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Trivia

Internet Café
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The shop that you enter the back off is the Playeos Ice Cream also found in The Hornet’s Nest

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">If the player kills any of the Mercenaries in the Internet Café they get the ‘You Killed a Civilian Screen’ appear

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Price’s contact in the South African Police suggests that the TF-141 still have allies across the world

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke has a holstered M9 in the Internet Café. Interestingly she will never use it relaying on the Talon Stun Gun instead

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Clarke believes that the TF-141 are Shadow Company Operatives suggesting that she too is on the run from them

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Lightning ironically gets taken out by a Stun Gun, her fate is never discovered

<h3 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Street Chase

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Blaster used by Clarke is a perfectly legal weapon in South Africa. It is legal to use lethal force if you perceive that your life is in danger

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Like Lightning and Mako, Blaze’s death is highly ironic

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Mercenaries appear to be a mix of ex South African Army Personnel and Street Criminals. This is evidenced from their arms and armor ranging from professional looking equipment to football shirts and weapons associated with the criminal underworld

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Casspir’s high ground clearance, intended to keep the passengers safe from landmines, means that the TF-141 could have crawled under them instead of going through the alleys instead

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The character model for the real Alexander Clarke can be seen running away from the station as you approach the building

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The leg-shot used to take down Clarke is similar to the one used to take down Rojas’s Assistant

<h3 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Botanical Gardens

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The distance from the Train Station and the Botanical Garden is much further in real life. The distance was shortened to make the player feel like they had just missed catching Clarke

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Until you reach the Botanical Gardens you will not be able to shoot the police

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Little Bird that Clarke gets in has a Shadow Company Logo suggesting it was a gift from Shepherd or that she stole it.

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Soap uses an Intervention Sniper Rifle to shoot the Little Bird. In reality the Intervention is an Anti-Material Rifle and would cause more damage to the helicopter

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Strangely Clarke stops jamming transmission after she has left as Huntsman and Onyx can sometimes be heard over the radio

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Treyach and Infinity Ward Logos are gratified on the highway flyover

<h3 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Scientific Complex

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The M32 has infinite ammo until the second Casspir is destroyed

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Despite being an armoured vehicle the Casspir is very vulnerable to the M32s Grenades

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Despite being a South African Weapon the Mercenaries use the American M32 instead of the Milkor MGL that the weapon is a variant of

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Infinity Ward Logo reappears on the side of one of the buildings in the complex

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The Crows that are in this area appear to be un-killable

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">If the player has a weapon with an ACOG Scope or a Sniper Rifle, then they will see that the Police Sirens are simply floating in mid air with no cars attached

<h3 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Miscellaneous

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The cartoon Raven in the cut scene is a German character called Huckebein

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The words Never More appear under the cartoon Raven. This is a reference to Edgar Allen Poe’s poem the Raven

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">This level has a large amount of Crows. A reference to Clarke’s code name being the Raven

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">This is the first level to take place in Sub Saharan Africa

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">It is possible that Alexander Clarke is related to Daniel Clarke from Call of Duty: Black Ops

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt">There are rumours that Price’s contact could be one of the characters from Black Ops