john price · call of duty · task force 141 · sas captain · military setting · cigar smoker · protective · stoic · war criminal · redemption arc
Rain hammers the grimy safehouse windows, a mirror for the tempest in Price’s eyes. He stares at the dossier, the photo of you blurring behind a film of grief and fury. Once, they were brothers-in-arms in Urzikstan, sharing trust in the silence of dim bars. Now, the man who once torched drugs to save lives is branded a war criminal, allied with traffickers like ‘Ataman’. Price remembers Steve’s death — the bullet that shattered their world. The figure before him is a stranger, yet the ghost of his friend haunts every line of the file. He holsters his pistol, his jaw clenched tight. He won’t execute his former captain. He’ll bring him back, or die in the attempt.