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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Single Player FAQ for the XBox by
manofaiki
copyright March 2005 by
Brian Dean Cates
Comments, questions, and tips may be sent
to: manofaiki2003@yahoo. com
This FAQ is authorized by the author to
appear at only the following
sites:
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This is a Solo Campaign gameplay Faq.
Unlike many Faq writers, I'm not going to spend
my time typing up 20 pages worth of material
that is basically a rewrite of the instruction
manual that comes with the game.
There's no version history either. You think
I have the time to type all that crap up?
The first time an action needs to be done I
will describe the
button/trigger/thumbstick combination
needed to accomplish it.
This game has been played on the 'Hard' level,
which will differ slightly from the way it will
be on the Normal and Expert levels.
One of the prime examples of the differences
between the levels is how
much damage Sam can take.  On Normal, Sam can
get hit by enemy fire 5 or 6 times before he
dies.  On Hard they only have to hit him twice,
three times at the most.  Expert? Don't ask.
You won't like the answer.
=================================================
It's 2007, and all is NOT well.
Hugo Lacerda, a radical anarchist
and revolutionary, has declared war on
civilization.  Advocating the overthrow of
social order, he has reasoned that the only real
way that revolution can come in the modern age
is through informational warfare.  Computers
now control weapons systems, electrical grids,
communications, Wall Street.... hell, the very
heartbeat of society.  Take the computers
down and you create what every anarchist has
wet dreams about.........chaos.  Lacerda has
a theory about chaos that he can cause the
West by taking down the computers that control
Western society.  Only as Third Echelon discovers,
he's beginning to move beyond Chaos Theory into
Chaos Reality.......
Tensions are at an all time peak
between China and Japan, and a computer warfare
attack on Japan's systems
only excaberates the situation.  Now in the
opening cinematic it looks
like the North Koreans are being drawn into
the picture as well, and we all know how much
fun Kim Jong(LOOK OUT! HE'S MENTALLY) Il is
to deal with.
Third Echelon suspects someone is working behind
the scenes to heighten tensions between these
volatile Asian countries, and all the fingers
point at Lacerda.  What better way to destablize
Western civilzation than with a little ol'
nuclear exchange between China and Japan, with
maybe a few North Korean missles added to the mix?
The West was not totally defenseless against this
kind of computer warfare attack.  It has brilliant
programmers working with Third Echelon and other
Defense agencies to harden computer networks and
improve security.
Several of these programmers are working on the
Masse Kernels, highly advanced information technology
developed by the late Phillip Masse, who Sam
dispatched in the Kola Cell mission of the first
game.  Only it seems Lacerda has tipped the odds
in his favor by grabbing the best and brightest of
these programmers - Bruce Morgenholt. Lacerda hopes
that by torturing Morganholt he can learn information
that will make his computer warfare on the West more
deadly and effective. He wants the Masse Kernels
technology and he is determined to have it.
Who is Third Echelon going to turn to to get
Morgenholt back and give Lacerda what he's got coming
to him?
None other than Sam Fisher.
It's time to put the nightvision goggles back on
and defend the Free World.  Get ready for the
ride of your life. Because there are hundreds of
deadly enemies out there, and they're smarter,
better equipped, and more tenacious than ever
before.  But don't worry for our hero. He's come
to this fight prepared as well.  Sam has new
moves, new toys and a bigger support team this
time around.
Freedom isn't free. And bad guys like these
don't deserve to die of old age. So get to work!
=====================================================
Level I: The Lighthouse
=====================================================
Punta Blanca Lightouse, outside of Vallerta, Peru
Intelligence has reached Third Echelon that Bruce
Morgenholt is being held at a lighthouse facility
in South America.
Why a derelict lightouse? Don't ask me; this isn't
the ABC TV show Alias, where the terrorists always
seem to be staying in snazzy resorts or cool nightclubs.
Real terrorists, unless they are the top guys, don't
have much money.  That's why this group of
terrorists are aimlessly patrolling a run down
lighthouse off the coast of Peru instead of
chugging down champagne on the French Riviera
while half-naked models sit in their lap.
Sam is to get in there and ensure that Lacerda
doesn't get his greedy little hands on any Masse
Kernel technology.
Sam is also to rescue Morgenholt if possible, but
there are secondary objectives as well. It turns
out Lacerda himself is in the area, so if Sam gets
a shot, he's supposed to be sure to take it. Other
secondary objectives may come up as well.
After being inserted on the shoreline by Zodiac boat,
the level opens with Sam crouching on the beach with
the lighthouse in the background.
Don't bother shooting out the light on the pole near
the beached Zodiac boat Sam is crouching behind. No
one's watching yet.
Move him up to the outcrop of rocks directly behind
the light pole and turn the NightVision goggles (NV)
on (push left on the directional pad).  There's an
opening up there in the rocks; you can have Sam jump
up and push himself up or simply run up the ramp-like
rock formation to the left.  If you want Sam to pull
himself up, have him stand in front of the rock ledge
and then press the yellow 'Y' button on your XBox
controller.  If you move Sam over objects like low walls
or boxes that are only waist or knee high, he will
'mantle' his way over them.
Move Sam forward into the narrow crevasse, and watch
out for the angry bats!  Soon the crevasse will
narrow dramatically and Sam will turn his shoulder
forward and slidle his way through until the passage
widens again.  Keep moving forward and soon Sam will
arrive at a big outcropping of rock that is blocking
his path.  Ah, but what's this? A window had popped
up on the upper right-hand side of our 50" Sony HD
TV. (OK, so I don't really have a 50" Sony HD TV,
and you very likely don't either, but let's just
pretend, all right?) This is the "Interact" window
and often Sam will be given mutiple choices of
actions he can do.
This time, however, there is only one option:
'Enter Crawl Space'.  See the stream of water coming
out from under the huge boulder that has blocked Sam's
path? By lying down and crawling forward he can fit
underneath this boulder and continue with his mission
instead of having to turn around, get that rubber
boat back in the water and paddle out to sea.  Where's
the fun in that?
So hit the green 'A' button on your controller and Sam
will drop down and prepare to crawl forward.  The
right thumbstick controls the camera, so you can move
it around and watch Sam crawl foward, and the left
thumstick makes Sam move.  By moving the camera all
the way to the left, you get a very good and detailed
look at the side of Sam's head and the movement of
his arms as he crawls forward.
Once Sam arrives at the other side of the crawl space,
the Interact window pops up again, this time asking
if Sam wants to exit the crawl space.  Well duh, of
course he does.  He didn't crawl all that way for
nothing!  Hit the 'A' button again and Sam will come
out and stand up and find himself facing a rock cliff.
Move Sam forward and then having him stand up by
pressing the red 'B' button. Then, hit the yellow
'Y' button and Sam will jump up and grab the lip of
the ledge above him.  By pushing forward on the left
thumbstick, you will make Sam pull himself up and
crouch on the ledge.
A smaller ledge now confronts Sam, one about waist
high. Move Mr. Fisher forward until he's in front
of it and press 'Y' again; he will jump up onto
the smaller ledge.
While Sam has been doing this climbing, Lambert
comes on the comm and talks about firing that they
can hear.  Sam says that is not an AK-47 being
fired, since he's had plenty of those fired at him
in the past. It sounds like advanced weaponry.
Lambert then tasks Sam with one of his secondary
objectives:  find out where the terrorists are
getting their weaponry from.
Now you need to make sure Sam is crouching for
this next part.  As he reaches the smaller ledge,
he can now see over it into the area beyond: a
big cavern with a rope bridge suspended between
an underground river.
After about 15 seconds once Sam has reached the
top, there are two guards stepping into view on
the far side of the bridge, and one of them will
come over the bridge and walk around on Sam's side,
even taking a second or two to pause and peer over
the edge of the cliff Sam just climbed.  If Sam is
in the dark and still, this terrorist will not see
him.  If Sam's light meter is not completely dark,
this terrorist will raise an alarm and immediately
draw his sidearm and fire on Sam as his comrade
runs across the bridge to join the fight.  If you
get discovered you'll just have to shoot  your way
out of trouble.
If Sam is not spotted, after awhile, the guard's
buddy will turn and go back from where they entered
from, and the guard on Sam's side of the bridge
will go and stand with his back to Sam facing a
narrow rock trail that runs down to the left.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING:
Right here at this point, in the very first level
the neatest thing about Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
can begin to be appreciated.  You see, you don't
HAVE to wait for these two guards to appear at the
rope bridge.  You have the option of bypassing them.
As soon as Sam reaches the top, he can quickly jump
up and then run down to the left where there is a narrow
trail cut into the rock.  After dropping down one time,
he will come to an opening in the cliff on the left
that has a panel light in it pointing at a ladder
leading upward.
So right at the beginning you have the option of
entering the terrorist's hideout by crossing the
rope bridge OR by taking this path and coming up
from below into another storage area.
For our purposes in this Faq, we're going to follow
the Rope Bridge route.
How is Sam going to deal with this guard standing
just feet away?
**********  STEALTH OPTION:  **********
Have Sam climb up and in a crouch slowly move to
the bridge and over it to the other side. I emphasize
the word SLOWLY.   Go too fast and several of the
boards on this rope bridge will creak very loudly.
Go quietly, and this guard will never turn around
and see Sam sneaking past him.  That is, if you
get Sam across the bridge inside of  a minute and
a half or so; that's when the guard will turn around
and start back over the bridge, walking halfway
down, then turn stand for a long time before walking
back.  Once Sam is over the bridge undetected,
follow the cave path on the right until you arrive
at an opening through which you can see a bunch of
barrels stacked against the walls. It's a storeroom,
and the other guard is slowly patrolling the length
of it.
**********  KO/KILL OPTION:  **********
To KO or kill the guard standing near the bridge,
hit the 'Y' button, make sure Sam is in a crouch and
then SLOWLY have him advance on this terrorist from
the rear.  If you move too fast, or make noise, this
terrorist is very quick on the draw and will turn
around and pull his pistol out and start firing.  When
you are close enough, the Interact Window will pop up
with the option saying 'Grab Character'.  Hit the
green 'A' button and Sam will grab the terrorist from
behind, twisting his hand into a painful jointlock
while placing the edge of his razor- sharp military
knife against the man's throat.
If characters Sam has caught this way have
information that could be useful, the 'Interrogate'
window will pop up.  Sam has the option of interrogating
his captive if he so desires.  Once the information has
been gathered, Sam can either knock the terrorist out
with a chokehold or simultaneously break their back
and plunge a knife into their heart from behind.  For
the chokehold, pull the left trigger.  For the
backbreak/knife thrust pull the right trigger.  All
through the game it will be like this: left trigger -
nonlethal knees, palm strikes, chokeholds; right
trigger - lethal knife strikes and lethal bonebreaking
strikes.
What if you mess up the grab and the guard detects you
and turns around and begins to yell and draw a weapon?
If that happens..........you amatuer......quickly pull
the right trigger.  Sam will do the eqivalent of an
Iaido stroke with his knife; that is, he will draw it
and kill the enemy with one incredibly lethal motion.
And then put his knife away. Whoa.
If you opt to kill this guard, for fun, have Sam pick
him up and approach the edge of the chasm.  Then when
Sam is right on the edge, facing the chasm, hit the
'A' button again and watch the body fall into the
riverbanks far below.
**********  THE BARRELL FILLED STOREROOM:  **********
Move across the bridge slowly and then pause at the
entrance of the storeroom and use the camera
thumbstick to 'peek' into the room and find the
patrolling guard.  Wait until the guard is on the
far side of the room with his back turned and then
have Sam slowly walk in and crouch behind the barrels
against the wall on the left.
Once again, the choice is up to you. As this
unsuspecting terrorist comes strolling back, you have
the option of:
1. Having Sam draw his silenced pistol and shooting him
in the head. (Anybody else notice the vastly improved
rag-doll physics in this game?)
2. Having Sam suddenly step out from behind the barrels
and smash his palm into the guards forehead, knocking
him out cold. Or giving him a wicked knee; it depends
on the angle of the attack.
3.  Having Sam suddenly step out from behind the
barrels and stab the guard with his knife, and
depending on which way the guard is facing, Sam
will use a different knife attack.
4.  Having Sam grab the guard and interrogate him.
Then either choke him unconscious or break his back
and stab him.
5.  Having Sam shoot the guard with a Ring Air Foil
round, or a Sticky Shocker.
6.  Take your time, watch the guards patrol
pattern........and avoid him
completely.  It's easy to avoid this guard because he
spends about 12 seconds at the far end of the room
staring at......a bare wall.  That gives Sam plenty
of time to sneak past into one of the two routes
available, which we will discuss shortly.
If you kill the guard make sure you hide his body.
I always dump him down the chasm with his buddy.  No
reason the dead should be lonely, right?
Proceed further into the storeroom and soon you will
see a stairway opening on the left leading down while
there is also one on the right leading up.  Ignore
them for now and go past these openings into the back
of the storeroom where a large, flat rectangular crate
sits next to a lamp.  As Sam approaches, he tells
Lambert they were right about the advanced weaponry.
Lambert instructs Sam to scan the crate's bar code
with his EEV so they can begin tracking where this
shipment of advanced weapons came from.  Move Sam up
to the crate and the Interact Window will popup.
Press the 'A' button to "Scan Crate".
(NOTE: If you are doing the Stealth Option, with the
patrolling guard still in the room, move Sam to the
stairway leading down on the left and hide in the
dark spot against the wall.  The patrolling guard
won't see Sam when he passes by.  Once he has turned
and gone the other way, click the right binoculars
and when the Binocular View comes up, center the
crate in the viewfinder.  The binoculars will scan
the crate from a distance and read the barcode!
Sam doesnt' have to stand right next to it!)
Lambert informs Fisher that the crate he has just
scanned is one of a shipment of five.  He tells Sam
to keep an eye out for the other 4 crates.  It's
very important Third Echelon does all it can to
discover where these dangerous terrorists are getting
top-of-the-line weapons.
Now turn and go back to the stairways.  Here we have
the option of going up or going down.  It doesn't
affect what  happens either way, so let's go down
first.  All that firing is getting on my nerves and I
like it peaceful and quiet, so somebody is gonna die.
There is a lamp suspended from the ceiling at the bottom
of the stairs. From the doorway beyond, we can hear
gunfire as one of the terrorists shoots happily away
at targets with his recently aqquired advanced assault
rifle.
Switch to the silenced pistol and shoot the light
out.
The firing stops and the guard comes to investigate
the light going out.
STEALTH OPTION
After shooting the light, don't wait in the corridor,
immediately move Sam into the doorway and to the
left and crouch him down as the guard goes blissfully
by unaware there is a highly trained, highly lethal
Splinter Cell operative just feet away, a man who's
killed hundreds of terrorists just like him in the
past.......boy, he has no idea how lucky he is.
While the guard is examining the light Sam shot out
at the base of the stairs, quickly move Sam close
enough to use the silenced pistol to shoot out the
light  on the left hand side of the room, over the
generator and............another weapons crate!  You
also have time to scan the crate before the terrorist
comes back and notices the light is out now.
You can also take out the light by shutting off the
generator, but the terrorist just goes over and turns
it back on.  Piercing the generator with the knife
takes a little time and it's just quicker to shoot
the light out.
Over half this room is now in darkness, so this
terrorist cannot see Sam as he wanders around in the
dark.  Avoiding him should be easy, and when he's on
the far side of the room, just go out through the door
again and you're home free.
**********  KO/KILL OPTION  **********
To KO this guard without interrogating him first,
after you shoot the light out at the base of the
stairs, slowly move Sam up against the left-hand wall
by clicking the left thumbstick.  Slide Sam up the wall
until he is about 5 feet from the doorway and wait.
The terrorist slowly appears moving into the doorway.
He moves slowly, professionally, rifle held at a 45
degree angle in front of him, ready to snap it up and
fire if he finds a target.
He can't see Sam, and when he is about 3 feet away,
click the left thumbstick again to bring Sam off of
the wall, move him quickly into the terrorist and
pull the LEFT trigger hard.  Sam will step up and hit
this guard with a powerful palm smash to the forehead
that will knock him out cold.  There's really nobody
to wander down here and find him, but hide the body
because it's good practice.
To kill this guard, follow the same procedure as
outlined above; shoot the light out, crouch on the
left hand side near the doorway; wait until the guard
is close, then bring Sam off the wall and this time
pull the RIGHT trigger hard.   Sam will draw his
knife, bring it back and up as he pulls the guard into
him and......
That thumping sound you hear is 5 and a half inches of
tempered stainless steel thrusting it's way through a
beating heart.  The terrorist will also let out a
strangled groan as he collapses.  Note also the angle
that Sam stabs at; he's actually angling upward
through the abdominal wall to bypass the ribcage.  Very
authentic.
Move Sam up to the doorway and once again click the
left thumbstick to make him slide along the wall in Wall
Mode. When he gets to the door jamb, push the left
thumbstick all the way right.  Sam will peek around the
corner.
We see a lighted chamber with small rooms on the left
and righthand side. The right hand side was the shooting
range where the now dead terrorist was playing with his
newest.......and last..........toy.  The left hand side
has the generator running and........the weapons crate!
There's no reason to shoot the light out now, the guard
is either dead or snoozing.
Just to get into the habit, before moving into this well
lighted room and exposing yourself, scan the room with
Normal, then NV, then Thermal Vision.  I know, there's
nobody there, but good habits like this will save Sam's
bacon more than once in this game.
The next habit: kill any light sources before  you go
and stand out in the open in front of something, like
the weapons crate over there near the generator.
You have the option of: shooting out the lights OR
piercing the gas tank of the generator with the knife
and destroying it.  Once the room is dark, go over to
the crate and scan it.
That's two crates down, three more to go.
Go and take a look at the floor on the far side of the
room from the doorway where you entered. See the ladder
leading down? That's the same ladder I mentioned earlier
that you would have encountered if you had avoided the
guards at the rope bridge and run down the rock trail
to the minicave below.  If you had done that, you would
have encountered Mr. I've Got A New Assault Rifle And I
Won't Stop Firing It Until I'm Dead before the other
guards.
**********  ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY:  **********
Suppose you took the rock trail and avoided the guards
at the rope bridge. You found the minicave with the
ladder leading upward with the halogen lamp right next
to it.  You've shot out the Halogen lamp.
Great. Now what do you do?  Easy. Slowly climb the
ladder and stop at the top with only your head poking
up and look to the left - the guard is in the little
chamber on the left in his make-shift shooting range
blasting away with his machine gun.  Every minute or so
he will walk into view as he goes down to the far side
of the chamber and sets up new targets while reloading
his rifle. He will then turn and go back out of sight to
the left behind a rock wall.  While he's there, he can't
see you.
**********  STEALTH OPTION  **********
When the guard is firing, and is intent on looking down
the barrell of his nifty new machine gun, climb Sam up
and move him into the dark corner to the right of the
ladder.  While standing in the dark, Sam will be able
to scan the weapons crate sitting near the generator on
the right side of the room with his binoculars.
Once the guard's ammo runs out and he strolls up the
center of the room to reload and set up new targets, he
will have his back to Sam and also part of the wall
obstructing his view.
Timing is crucial here to make this work; move Sam down
the right hand wall towards the door staying in the
shadows as much as possible....DO NOT PAUSE in the
doorway or the foot of the stairs beyond the doorwary.
Do not stop to shoot out the light over the stairs.
Stay to the right and move up the stairs until you hit
the dark spot near the top of the stairs and FREEZE.
Within a few seconds the barrell storeroom patrolling
guard will step into view and stop near the top of the
stairs, with Sam less than 3 feet away from him.  But
if your light meter is slid all the way to the left,
he won't see Sam at all.
Let him go by and then find the crate to the left of
where Sam is and scan it through the binoculars.
Wait until the guard has done another circuit in his
patrol, and then just as he turns from standing near Sam
to move off to the left SLOWLY move Sam across the room
and up the stairs on the opposite side.  The patrolling
guard shouldn't hear a thing.
Keep going up the stairs, but not so fast you make noise.
Don't waste time taking out the lefthand lightbulb;
just keep moving and you will be out of sight in the
dark at the top of these stairs before the patrolling
guard comes back.
**********  KO/KILL OPTION:  **********
While the firing guard is out of sight and firing away
with the machine gun, bring Sam all the way up the
ladder and in a crouch move to the wall to the left.
The guard is on the other side.  Have Sam draw his
pistol and get ready to move.  Soon the guard runs out
of ammo and slowly walks down to the far end of the room,
looking at the gun in hands as he changes magazines.......
completely unaware that Sam Fisher is slowly moving up
behind him.
I always have Sam stand and, from about 4 feet away,
pump a round from the silenced pistol into the back of
this guard's head. The rag doll physics are simply
amazing, and it's more fun than knifing him or grabbing
and KO'ing him.
Because you came this way instead of going over the rope
bridge, the first crate Sam encounters is the one next
to the genrator on the other side of the room.  So the
discussion about scanning the crates and looking for the
other 4 happens here at this point.
From here, you would just do what I have describes so
far with the other two guards in the barrell room and
the rope bridge, only you'd do it in reverse.  If you
don't want to bother sneaking across the bridge to deal
with the guard on the other side, you could just shoot
him in the head with the SC 20K.  You can see this guard
on the other side of the bridge from the cave opening -
not a long shot for an expert.  I've dropped him on the
bridge and once he fell and slid off the side on the
other side of the bridge and fell to the rocks below.
Whichever way you went, down the rock trail or across
the bridge, now it's time to go up the stairs from the
barrell-filled storeroom.  At the top of the stairs, on
the left hand side, is a metal door.
Whether you've snuck or shot or knifed your way to this
point, Sam is now ready to enter the room at the top of
the stairs.
When Sam crouches in front of this metal door, the
Interact Window pops up and Sam is given several
options:
Open Door Open Door Stealth Bash Door Optic Cable
Hold down the 'A' button and then use the directional
pads up or down pad to pick which option you want.
It's best to enter this chamber quietly.
We can hear Bruce Morgenholt being tortured, and a
shadow is thrown on the wall of the chamber we are
looking into.  He's hanging by his arms as a terrorist
taunts him.
One of our objectives is to try to rescue Morgenholt,
but it's not to be.  The game is set up so you can't do
it.
I don't believe in the impossible scenario, but there
really is no way to save Morgenholt.  He's still alive
when Sam comes into the room, and one of the terrorists
is preparing to administer a final, fatal electric shock
to him.
About 5 seconds after Sam enters the room, the terrorist
begins killing Morgenholt with the electric shock.
I've experimented repeatedly with different strategies.
Direct Assault, lobbing flash grenades,smoke grenades,
sticky shockers, etc.
I've taken 3 seconds to get into position at the base of
the ramp, dropped the terrorist holding the electric
pads with a head shot before he can touch Morgenholt
with them, taken out the searchlight behind him, and
then dropped the other terrorists, but Morgenholt is
always dead when Sam reaches him.
It's not fair, but that's the way it is.
Since Morgenholt can't really be saved, you have to
decide if you want to avenge him by KOing/Killing the
terrorists in this room or using the Stealth Option and
sneaking past them.
**********  STEALTH OPTION  **********
Upon entering the chamber, there is a Medkit hanging on
the wall to the right near the toilet. Use it if you
need it.  Then use the silenced pistol to take out the
light near the doorway.
Turn Sam's Nightvision on and move down the ramp to
ground level.  See the big block shaped rock in front of
you?  Remember where it is.
Now go and peek around the corner where the bright light
is coming from. You will see two terrorists standing
around Bruce Morgenholt's corpse as it hangs in a
bathtub.  Behind them is the source of the bright light;
a big searchlight.
One of the terrorists will soon start to patrol, so we
need to find a spot to hide until he goes past.
Go back to the huge block and either hide behind it or
jump up on top of it and crouch down.  Watch the
patrolling terrorist pass by.  When is going up the
ramp, you have about 20 seconds to silent jump off of
the block, go up the hallway right into the light of the
searchlight illuminating the room, and pass through the
doorway on the right into the darkness.
The patrolling terrorist on the ramp can't see Sam from
where he is.
The other terrorist will be seated at a table on the
right, writing something down, so he won't see Sam pass
by either.
That doesn't mean you still won't feel hairs rise up on
the back of your neck as you walk through a very
brightly illuminated room past the corpse of a man just
killed by these dangerous terrorists who are just feet
away from you.
As Sam goes by Morgenholt's suspended body, Lambert
comes on the comm and Sam informs him that Morgenholt is
'Deader than Elvis.'  Lambert instructs Sam to leave
the body there; the rescue is cancelled.
Pass through the doorway and follow the wall around a
curve until you come to a locked door.
**********  KO/KILL OPTION  **********
NOTE: this seems to be one of the points in the game on
the Hard level where it's almost impossible to shoot or
knife a character without tipping off nearby terrorists.
If you palm strike, knife, or shoot the patrolling guard
the other one is always tipped off and an alarm sounds.
The only thing besides grabbing him that seemed to work
was using a Sticky Shocker.
Once this patrolling guard is out of the way, it's easy
to sneak up on the other terrorist, as  he often by now
has gone to a little desk to the right where  a candle
burns is writing stuff down, seated in a chair.
Kill or KO him as you desire.  Now here's something you
don't see if you stealth your way through this part of
the level.
Cut Morgenholt's  body down right away and Lambert
doesn't have a problem with it.
Cut him down after awhile and Lambert will tell Sam he's
wasting time. Sam will curtly tell Lambert there's no
reason to leave Morgenholt hanging there like a piece
of meat, and Lambert wisely backs off.
Lambert's dialogue here will also change if you
accidently hit Morgenholt during a firefight with the
guards - he'll say leave the body because it'll be too
complicated  to explain how he got shot with NATO rounds.
Kill all the lights and then move on through the doorway
on the right and follow the wall until you arrive at the
locked door.
Use the optic cable on the door.  Sam will see two tents
and a searchlight.  Switch to Infrared.  Now Sam will
see someone in the nearest tent on the left with his
back to him.  Also, there is a patrolling guard who
will stroll around the searchlight for awhile and then
dissappear from sight to the left between the tents.
********** STEALTH OPTION:  **********
Once again, sneaking past these guards is easy.  One
stays mostly in the tent, though if you hang around long
enough, he will come out and a have a brief conversation
with the other guard before going back into the tent.
Simply pick the lock on the door, stay to the left along
the wall and go behind the near tent which is
completely dark.  As you pass by this tent, the Interact
Window comes up: "Cut Material".  But since we're not
interested in grabbing and interrogating right now,
ignore this window and keep going in a crouch to the far
side of the tent.
Now you can see the rest of this courtyard.  There's a
doorway on the far side with a light over it, plus an
alcove to the left with another light bulb on.  However
Sam does have a very sizable dark area in around this
tent to work with.
Watch the patrolling guard's pattern: he leaves the
searchlight, passes between the two tents, goes to the
far side of this waist-high rectangular concrete casing,
and stands there for about 20 seconds. Then he turns
around and goes back the way he came.
Wait until the other guard has come out of the tent and
had his conversation and gone back inside the tent
before moving; now we don't have to worry about the
second guard at all; it'll be over 4 minutes or so until
he comes back out again, and we'll be gone by then.
Move Sam to the near side of the concrete casing and
wait.
When the patrolling guard has been standing on the other
side of the concrete casing in the dark for his allotted
20 seconds, and he turns and goes back towards the
searchlight, SLOWLY move Sam across the dark space
between the tents so that the tent is between him and the
patrolling guard.
When Sam is positioned correctly against this tent's
wall, once again the 'Cut Material' Interact Window will
pop up.  This time press 'A' and select it and watch the
cool animation as Sam draws his knife and slits an
opening into the tent wall.  Move slowly into the tent
and find the third weapons crate and scan it.
Once you have scanned the crate, crouch near the slit in
the tent wall, but don't exit the tent yet. Turn on
your  Infrared and find the two guards with it.  The
guard in the other tent should be stationary, tinkering
with a radio.  The other guard should be standing near
the searchlight.  Wait until the patrolling guard has
done his route again, going between the tents, pausing
next to the casing, then turned and gone back to the
searchlight.
Now you've got about a minute for this next part before
he comes back:
Sam moves slowly out of the tent, and uses the OCP on
the light over the
doorway, and once the light flickers out this time Sam
advances to that doorway and passes through it.  There's
another light inside the room beyond, so use the OCP on
that as well and continue on.  The  hallway turns left,
and through an open doorway Sam can see another
courtyard. Sam has successfully completed his objectives
for that part of the level: find the weapons crate, scan
it, avoid the guards.  No alarms triggered, nothing.
**********  KO/KILL OPTION
Just as in the stealth strategy outlined above, pick the
lock, open the door  and move up behind the near tent.
Only this time, we do want to cut the material and enter
the tent when the Interact Window comes up. Sam moves
into the tent and the terrorist has his back to him.
He's either tinkering with the radio or he's slowly
adjusting the strap of his rifle as he inches toward the
tent door.
Move Sam slowly up behind him and grab him when the
Interact Window appears.
Now here's how realistic this game is:  Sometimes if you
interrogate this guard in the tent, the other guard
outside overhears it and comes firing.  So make sure you
don't interrogate this terrorist too close to the tent's
door.  I always like to back the guy out of the tent
completely, and staying in the dar, go back along the
wall though the door Sam just came out of and around the
corner.  Now the other guard won't hear a thing as Sam
interrogates this terrorist.
From this guard we learn that Lacerda is long gone, so
once again a mission objective is cancelled. First we
couldn't rescue Morgenholt and now  this!  Oh well, no
time to dwell on it.
Kill the guard by pulling the right trigger or KO him
with a choke by pulling the left trigger.
Now we go get his buddy before he realizes his friend is
missing.
Make your way back through the door and pass behind the
near tent and crouch near the rectangular concrete casing.
This is the best place to grab this guard because it's
dark and he can't see you.  Wait until he's been
standing there and then when he turns around and heads
back towards the searchlight, move Sam up behind him and
grab him.  Then KO him.
If you want to kill this guard, there's no reason to
grab him first. Just move Sam up to the concrete casing,
wait until the guard is standing still on the other
side, stand Sam up, draw the silenced pistol, take aim
from about 4 feet away.........
PHUT.
One less terrorist for the Free World to worry about.
If you like the knife, use the knife.  Isn't freedom of
choice a wonderful thing?
Now you can go and scan the crate in the second tent
without a care in the world. Both guards are either
unconscious or dead.
Whether you avoided the guards or killed/KO'd them,
after you scan the crate and exit the tent where you
sliced it open, crouch down for a moment.  You have two
ways to go to the next part of the level.  Through the
lighted doorway in front of you which leads into a
courtyard, or up the rocks to the right where you can
climb your way up to a lighted archway and enter a
castle-shaped building.
********PATH #1: THE LIGHTED DOORWAY********
You need to go through the door on the opposite side of
the courtyard that has the lightbulb on over it.  There
is a small room with another lightbulb high up on the
left hand side and a doorway leading to the right.  You
need to take this light out instead of just turning it
off for 20 seconds with the OCP.
Now that it's nice and dark, move Sam forward and peek
through the open doorway that is revealed around the
corner.  Most of the courtyard beyond is very dark.
Move Sam into the courtyard against the lefthand wall
about 10 feet or so and then crouch him down and wait.
He can hear two guards having a conversation behind the
stone wall to his right.  Once the conversation is over,
he sees then hears one of the guards walking around the
end of the wall.  This guard will make a circular
pattern through the courtyard, but he can't see Sam in
the dark and as long as Sam is crouched against he wall,
he won't detected him.
One of the weapons crates Sam needs to scan is under an
awning just off the center of this courtyard. The
patrolling soldier is passing around it every time he
makes his circuit.  Scanning the crate is easy.  Slide
Sam along the wall and move him until he is just a few
feet away from the crate, but out of the nearby light.
As long as Sam is against the wall, the guard will not
see him.  Just after the guard passes directly by Sam,
move him as close to the crate as you can, but STAY OUT
OF THE LIGHT.  Crouch Sam down and WAIT.  You want the
guard to pass by the other way and go back around the
stone wall for about 4 seconds.  When he does, move Sam
towards the crate. His light meter will begin to slide
to the right as he exposes himself, but the guard is now
out of sight. As soon as the Interact Window "Scan Crate"
pops up hit the 'A' button. It shouldn't take more than
a second.  Then move Sam back to the wall and under
cover of darkness.  Slide Sam back down the wall toward
the door he entered by.
That's four crates down. One more to find.
Now to get past these two guards.
*******  STEALTH OPTION  ********
This patrolling guard isn't really a problem.  It's the
other guard on the other side of the wall that's the
problem.  There is a fortified structure he's standing
in front of with a lightbulb burning brightly over the
doorway.
The patrolling guard is easily avoided because he spends
most of his time moving around in the dark.  This other
guy is leaning up against a big structure with a light
on just two feet over his head.
Here's the problem: if you shoot the light out these guys
have flares. They will light them up and Sam will lose
the advantage of being in the dark.  Sam will have to
fight his way past these guards if that happens.
You have to use the pistol's OCP on the light, but it's
tricky because the only place you have an angle on it is
a V shaped hole in the stone wall about halfway down,
and Sam will have to stand up and point his pistol at it
for about 3 seconds; during those 3 seconds you need to
make sure the patrolling guard has his back to this
spot, or he's going to see Sam when he stands up and
aims.  That would be bad.
Move to the V shaped hole in the wall, crouch down, and
find the patrolling guard.  When he's reached the part
of his circuit where he turns and puts his back to Sam,
quickly turn Sam around, stand him up, aim the pistol at
the light over the doorway, and pull the left trigger.
When the light is off, you have about 20 seconds to put
the pistol away, crouch Sam down, and keeping him close
to the wall at all times, move him slowly around the
wall and BEHIND the very large crates the loitering guard
was leaning against.  The light will give a brief
flicker about 5 seconds before it comes all the way back
on, so you will get some warning.
The guards are staring up at the light over the doorway
trying to figure out what happened, so they shouldn't see
Sam now crouched behind the crates, just feet away from
the door and the generator next to it.
I tried OCPing the light again and going through the
door, but the loitering guard lights up a flare every
time I do that and I get caught. So don't OCP the light
again, unless you want to give up the Stealth option and
get in a gunfight.
Once the guards to back to loitering and patrolling,
turn Sam around and find the smaller crates with the
tanned taurplin pulled over them. He can mantle his way
up them and from there jump up and pull himself into the
building by that window on the second floor.  You might
have to position him a little big while he's hanging by
his fingernails from the window ledge; it took me a few
tries to get him to pull himself up into the window.
Oh, and you have to time this so the patrolling guard
doesn't see Sam's outline in the well lighted window as
he climbs in. Got it?
Once through the window, Sam will land on some stairs.
At the bottom is the doorway with the generator and the
loitering terrorist just feet away, so don't go down.
Go up.  To the left is an archway that overlooks the
courtyard with the tents in it that Sam already passed
through.
********PATH #2: UP THE ROCKS INTO THE ARCHWAY********
Move Sam up to the big overflow of rocks. You should be
able to see the lighted archway up high.  Find the
crates with some pallets on top of it. Have Sam climb up
onto it and then from there jump up and grab the next
ledge with his fingertips and then pull himself up. Now
he's in front of the archway itself.  Through the
archway we see the lighted stairway.
Follow this path, and you have to do everything
mentioned above in Path #1 reverse. To scan that fourth
crate you still have to sneak past the two guards.  You
can get away with OCPing a light ONCE.  And if you
follow this path, you really have to sneak past these
guards TWICE. Once on the way to the crate and then once
again on the way back.
********  KO/KILL OPTION  ********
If you opt for this, the trick is going to be absolutely
sure you take the first patrolling guard out without the
loitering guard hearing it. I wouldn't advise using the
knife or a palmstrike.  Most of the time the other guard
heard his buddy falling and came running with a lighted
flare and a very happy trigger finger.
Wait until the patrolling guard is isolated on the near
side of the rock
wall, where the other guard can't see, and take him from
behind in the dark.  Once you've grabbed him, move him
into the doorway where Sam entered by.  Then KO or kill
the poor SOB.
Now there is only one target to deal with.  You have more
options here,  because nobody is going to come running
and firing if you mess up, though you will lose health
if this terrorist gets some bullets into you.
Easiest way: Headshot from the SC 20K from the V shaped
hole in the wall.  Expert way: OCP the light above his
head, make your way behind the crates the guard is in
front of, and then take him from behind with the knife.
Whichever way you choose, we now pick up the story after
Sam has scanned the crate, avoided/KO'd/Killed the
guards, and is now making his way up the stairs into as
yet unexplored territory.
At the top of the stairs on the left side is a darkned
archway leading into what looks like a bunk room for
these terrorists.  Crouch Sam down at the door and
survey the room.  There are two terrorists present; one
is sleeping in bed and the other is sitting with his
back to Sam.
********  STEALTH OPTION  ********
You have to move Sam across this room in the dark to the
lighted doorway on the left.  You will move directly
behind the seated terrorist.  You don't really have a
shot at OCPing the light illuminating this doorway until
you are very, very close to the doorway.  I didn't
bother.  I simply moved Sam slowly along the left side
of the doorway.  The music picked up, and the terrorist
mumbled something, catching something out of the corner
of his eye.  But by the time he turned his head nothing
was there.  I peeked around the corner a few seconds
later and the terrorist was serenely sitting in his chair
staring off into space.
If  you are feeling really bold, instead of immediately
sneaking across the room to the left and exiting the
room, sneak to the right along the wall and go to the
counter where there is ammo, a frag grenade and a
MedKit waiting.  You shouldn't need the MedKit all all,
though, if you've been following my excellent advice!
********  KO/KILL OPTION  ********
You can't immediatley shoot or knife or KO the sitting
guard; if you do the other guard on the bed wakes up and
unleashes a hail of bullets. And an alarm will go off.
Alarms are bad, and we want to avoid them. You can't
take the sleeping guard first, because you  would be
seen by the sitting guard as you moved in.
Move up slowly behind the sitting guard and grab him
when the Grab Character window pops up.  Once you have
him, slowly move him backwards toward the door Sam came