The Rook's Face (War of Games)

The Rook's Face is the fourth episode in the first season of War of Games and the fourth installment to the series. In this episode, Nathan Drake is recruited by the Rainbow Six initiative and gets briefed on why he's chosen by an international counter-terrorism agency to assist them in their quest. Meanwhile, the main target of the agency reveals itself in a chain of islands near Southeast Asia.

Main Story
The episode starts with the view of Nathan sleeping on a helicopter that's seen flying over a mountainous area. When sleeping, Karen Bowman, who sits in front of him, tells him to wake up as they're near the Rainbow base. Seeing the view after waking up, Nathan asks where he is and why is he asleep. Karen tells him that it's classified and that they knocked him out the moment the helicopter took off in order to keep secrecy of the base's existence. Nathan is annoyed by the revelation, but decides to not complain as he knows of the lengths a top-secret agency will go to keep their existence in the dark. Nathan then engaged in a brief conversation with other soldiers. One of them, only named "Bayman", asked him of his many adventures and tells him that he once hunted down Lazarevic with his team, only for him to be the survivor of the "massacre". Bayman however got silenced by the nearby Logan Keller, telling him to save the stories for the other soldiers later on.

After several minutes, the Rainbow base is finally seen among the mountainous peaks, hidden by both the snow and the base's white colouring. Landing on the primary helipad of the base, Nathan and the others drop down. When Nathan drops down, he sees a black woman with sunglasses standing in an authoritative way. Seeing her, Nathan tried to greet her in a stunned and scared way before Karen tells him that the woman is Six, her boss and the director of operations for the initiative.

After greeting each other casually, Nathan is brought in to the interior of the base, where he sees other operatives conduction training sessions, guard duties, interrogating "persons of interest", being briefed on possible future threats, and others. Nathan asks Six why are there so many agents in an extremely secret base while they've got jobs to do out there. Six responds that those in the base are usually those with "privileges" and "selective skills" and are reserved for the worst-case-of-scenario situation. And now, the worst case of scenario seems to be happening in a matter of days.

Entering her office that is all plain white with some pictures hanging around, Nathan is told to sit down and the briefing begins. Before the briefing begins however, Six asks him if he has any other questions before the briefing begins. Sam tries to think of a logical question while having a little stress and "shock", and decides to ask her of what's with the pictures of soldiers around the wall. Six tells her that she intends to tell him after the briefing, in which Nathan responds with a sigh. After that, the briefing begins.

Six tells him that for the past couple of months, they have been beginning a series of undercover crackdowns and investigations on multiple terrorist organizations. Organized crime factions such as the Chicago South Club, Santa Blanca Cartel, Los Santos Vagos, and the Payday Crew, terrorists and militias such as their mortal enemy, the White Masks, FARC, Cordis Die, the Arctic Avengers, both the Africa and Brazilian militias (the same one that captured Nathan in the previous episodes), and others. Even the consortium, Federation of Pharmaceutical Companies, all are monitored. In their investigations, they discovered a smuggling network among many of the organizations. And from interrogations, each of these (but not all of them) organizations seem to have cooperated willingly to help yet another secret faction. Cooperating between these factions like they're old friends is something very rare among the criminals and terrorists, and there must be someone or some faction out there that is so strong that even they can hide their presence using the media and vanish as if they are merely phantoms.

Nathan gets what Six is trying to say, but didn't know of what's the connection with him. That, however, was until Six showed him a picture of of one of his past rivals, Eddy Raja. Seeing the picture, Nathan was absolutely stunned and left wordless. Nathan remembered seeing his former friend and rival getting bit and dragged into a deep hole by a Descendant, and he never heard of him anymore after El Dorado. In the picture, Raja is seen shaking hands with a man with a mohawk-style hair. Six then tells him that like his brother, Nathan should believe that not all men can truly stay dead. Nathan examines the picture once again and asks where did she get the image and who is the man Raja is shaking hands with.

Trivia

 * The name of this title reflects the location in which the antagonists are revealed to the viewers for the first time in the Rook Islands from Far Cry 3.