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

Peter Renaday: Richard Ames

Quotes 

• Richard Ames : [contacting Raiden via Codec]  Are you on?

  Raiden : Right here. Do you really know where the President is?

  Richard Ames : Almost certainly. He was moved to the first floor of Shell 2's core section.

  Raiden : The first floor, the core of Shell 2... Is he still there?

  Richard Ames : I don't know. I can't get a response.

  Raiden : You don't think he's been - like the other hostages...?

  Richard Ames : ?

  Raiden : A hostage was killed in retaliation after the SEAL 10 disaster, remember?

  Richard Ames : What are you talking about?

  Raiden : ...?

  Richard Ames : Regardless of what they do to other hostages, they won't touch the President.

  Raiden : What makes you so sure?

  Richard Ames : The case.

  Raiden : You mean the nuclear button they took?

  Richard Ames : Right, and the case won't do a thing by itself. That case may be the single most advanced example of a weapons fail-safe system. The password is nothing less than the physiological data of the U.S. President.

  Raiden : Physiological data?

  Richard Ames : The President's own vital signs, heartbeat, brainwave pattern, blood pressure, and so on are constantly monitored and relayed by his internal nanomachines. This information, along with the DNA pattern, serve as a bio-metric password, unbreakable even by the latest parallel processor supercomputers. The password entry itself cannot be performed unless brainwave patterns and heartbeats fall within normal parameters, rendering chemical and other forms of coercion impractical. In other words, the login must be made of the President's own free will. As a fail-safe, the input must also be reconfirmed hourly, even after the initial login. If a valid confirmation is not forthcoming, the system will automatically cancel the login.

  Raiden : And that's why they can't harm the President.

  Richard Ames : At least until the bird flies.

  Raiden : Is there really a new model of Metal Gear here?

  Richard Ames : Absolutely. The Black Case serves as the launch key to Metal Gear as well.

  Raiden : Why would they hide a Metal Gear in an offshore plant?

  Richard Ames : Haven't they told you anything?

  Raiden : ...

  Richard Ames : The entire thing was planned. The oil spill, the tanker accident that caused it, everything. The Big Shell was built specifically for the development of a new Metal Gear model. The inspection tour was to check its progress.

  Raiden : What's going on around here?

  Richard Ames : Wait!

  [their conversation ends as Ames sees Snake, a.k.a. Solidus, enter the room] 

• Richard Ames : [after Raiden hears Ocelot's and Solidus' conversation through the directional microphone]  Anyway, what did you manage to catch?

  Raiden : They said password input was complete.

  Richard Ames : I thought so.

  Raiden : You said the password entry into the Black Case had to be made by the President willingly.

  Richard Ames : That's right.

  Raiden : So, this means the President is cooperating with them?

  Richard Ames : It would have to be, yes.

  Raiden : Why?

  Richard Ames : Probably tired of being a puppet, but, it wasn't a smart move to betray us.

  Raiden : A puppet?

  Richard Ames : We're running out of time. They will fire a nuke. You know what you need to do before then.

  Raiden : Fire the nuke? But, it's nowhere close to the ransom deadline.

  Richard Ames : Ransom?

  Raiden : Thirty billion dollars in cash.

  Richard Ames : What are you babbling about? The nuclear strike is not a threat. It's been the objective all along!

  Raiden : They plan to slaughter millions of people?

  Richard Ames : No, a high-altitude detonation. You've heard of the Compton Effect?

  Raiden : The total disruption of electronic equipment caused by EMMA pulse.

  Richard Ames : Textbook answer. Well, when an average nuclear warhead goes off within the atmosphere, the result is an electromagnetic pulse of up to fifty billion megawatts. The EMMA field can reach tens of thousands of volts per meter, and most electronic equipment will be toast in an instant.

  Raiden : If one of the key movers of world economy stops functioning, it could mean the beginning of a global depression.

  Richard Ames : But, that isn't their aim. What they plan to do is "liberate" Manhattan, pull it offline, and turn it into some kind of a republic. Hence "Sons of Liberty," I suppose.

  Raiden : Sons of Liberty?

  Richard Ames : Damn, Ocelot is coming! I'm going offline.

  [their conversation ends] 

• Richard Ames : I'm Richard Ames.

  Raiden : Secret Service?

  Richard Ames : No, I was sent in by the La-li-lu-le-lo, just like you. Switch over to nanocommunication, so no one can listen in.

  Raiden : What for?

  Richard Ames : Silence beats talk.

• Richard Ames : Solid Snake did die... but he's also here in the Shell. Either he survived, or there are two of them.