Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015 Video Game)

Robin Atkin Downes: Kazuhira Miller

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• Kazuhira Miller : Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... And my arm... even my fingers... The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past!

• Kazuhira Miller : Cypher sent us to a hell but we are going even deeper. Take back everything that we have lost.

  Punished Snake : Kaz, I'm already a demon.

• Kazuhira Miller : We're not burying them at sea? What then?

  Punished Snake : We'll make diamonds from their ashes. Take them into battle with us.

  Kazuhira Miller : A shining light, to our brothers in arms. Even in death.

  Punished Snake : We are Diamond Dogs.

• Kazuhira Miller : The world calls for wetwork, and we answered. No greater good. No just cause.

  [from trailer] 

• Kazuhira Miller : You've only got two options. Heaven, or Hell.

  Punished Snake : No, there's another.

• Kazuhira Miller : [Over Radio]  Just go along with him for now. We're ready to fight if it comes to that. That's our leverage against him - our deterrent. He doesn't want a war on his hands.

  Skull Face : [Skull Face talks Snake into following him]  Whatever the Navajo told you... it's just one possible solution derived by Cipher. My will is different. I've known you since your time at Langley. I've long been the other side of your coin. 1964, Soviet territory. FOX's first mission. Any mess you made, I was there to clean up. You completed your task - and admirably. The "information" you returned was far more than enough to fill our pockets. With it, our futures became - more or less - set in stone. And then the major came to me with an idea. "Washington doesn't know how to spend money," he said. "I'd like to... redirect it". His goal was an organization dedicated solely - covertly - to supporting America. Cipher. You know the rest. To him, it was mourning - the loss of his friend. Or rather, an act of revenge. On the world, but America most of all.

  [Skull Face, Snake, and four XOF soldiers step into a cargo elevator which goes to a lower level] 

  Skull Face : America is a country of liberty. A meeting of immigrants. Instead of simply assimilating, its citizens live along side others. Their roots are varied. Diverse. America's never been made up of just one people. But he tried to forge a single consciousness. For it, and from it. The idea that every citizen would use free will to unite behind their country... Unilateralism like that can't be entrusted to any one individual. So the major sought a system which used information, words, to control the "subconscious".

  [Skull Face and his XOF soldiers lead Snake out of the elevator to their jeep convoy] 

  Skull Face : [Snake and Skull Face climb into the back of a jeep, and are driven out of OKB Zero]  To unite America and the entire world. The major thought this was his friend's will. But I think he never understood what she wanted. Before he ever walked, or cried - even before he was born - his mother tongue was English. He doesn't know the pain of losing his own language. Not yet. He cannot understand her will. I do. I was born in a small village. I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers. Foreign soldiers. Torn from my elders, I was made to speak their language. With each new post, my masters changed, along with the words they made me speak. Words are... peculiar. With each change, I changed too. My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong... War changed me - and not only my visage. Words can kill. I was invaded by words, burrowing and breeding inside me. A philosopher once said, "It is no nation we inhabit, but a language." "Make no mistake, our native tongue is our true fatherland." My fatherland - my truth was stolen from me. And so was my past. All that's left is the future. And mine is revenge. On those who'd leech off the words of their fellow man. This is what I learned from the major. And then it hit me. It was he who should feel my wrath. He and the code he chose as basis for control. Language codes, information codes - beamed all around us - genetic codes spanning history. By controlling the codes, Cipher... Zero intends to unify the world. Codes implanted into our heads, sucking our minds dry as it spreads from one host to the next. A parasite upon the earth. That is what Zero is. As one born into this world, he's afflicted. I hold him responsible for killing my freedom. Killing all traces of my past... Killing any promise of a future... We are all but dead men forced to walk upon this earth. A world reduced to Zero. Cipher plans to use its codes to control the world. They think they can.

  [He pulls out a small canister] 

  Skull Face : And the "mother tongue" of all those codes is English.

  [He opens the canister, revealing two vials and a space for a third one which is empty] 

  Skull Face : The word became flesh. The final parasite.

  [Skull Face grabs and holds onto one of these vials and shows it to Snake] 

  Skull Face : It knows English. An English strain of the vocal cord parasite.

  [He puts it back in it's canister and closes it before setting it down beside him] 

  Skull Face : I will exterminate the English language. With this, I'll rid the world of infestation. All men will breathe free again - reclaim their past, present, and future. This is no ethnic cleanser. It is a "liberator," to free the world from Zero. Let the world be. Sans lingua franca, the world will be torn asunder. And then, it shall be free. People will suffer, of course - a phantom pain. The world will need a new common tongue. A language of nukes. My Metal Gears shall be the thread by which all countries are bound together, in equality. No words will be needed. Every man will be forced to recognize his neighbor. People will swallow their pain. They will link lost hands. And the world will become one. This war is peace.

  [the last two verses of "Sins of the Father" are heard on the radio while Snake and Skull Face continue to face each other with no words spoken] 

  Skull Face : [Toward the end of the song, the jeep arrives at the Serek Power Plant]  When the world witnesses Sahelanthropus, the hands of the doomsday clock will roll on, regardless of Zero. Sahelanthropus will take the first giant step into a brave new world. It is the bell with which a world - trodden upon by words - declares its independence.

• Kazuhira Miller : [Post-Credits Conversation]  What was it all for...? If the Boss has some plan, what is it?

  Ocelot : The real Big Boss is working separately from us, to create his new nation.

  Kazuhira Miller : New nation...?

  Ocelot : A military nation above and apart from all - the true "Outer Heaven." Something created to maintain world balance. Independent of the struggles for supremacy, for personal profit, the cycles of revenge between countries. It'll be an army all right, but more. Big Boss is building a nation. But... until it's complete, we support the other Big Boss. The phantom carries on his legend... his meme. That, is Big Boss's plan.

  Kazuhira Miller : So that's the way it is...

  Kazuhira Miller : Nine years ago, I thought everything had been taken from me. But now, I really have lost it all. The Boss, and the future we were building together.

  Ocelot : One day, the age of Big Boss's sons will arrive. They'll likely want to settle the score with him. We have to shape that age. We'll each have roles to play. Building the foundation for a revolution led by both Big Bosses - the true one, and the phantom.

  Kazuhira Miller : No... Big Boss can go to hell. I'll make the phantom and his sons stronger, to send him there. For that... I'll keep playing my role.

  Ocelot : Huh. You know... sooner or later there will be only one Boss. There's only room for one Boss. His sons are fated to face each other someday too. If the day ever comes that you go back to Cipher, I'll aid the other son. And then you and I will be enemies, too. One of us will have to kill the other.

  Kazuhira Miller : Fine by me. I'll be ready for the new age. Until then, we'd better get used to coexisting.

  [Kaz is heard walking away, then a bulkhead door is heard closing shut, presumably behind him] 

• Kazuhira Miller : Boss, get out of there!

• Kazuhira Miller : Unless we stop him, he'll go down in history a conquering victor. We can't let that happen!

• Ocelot : Nine years ago, this man acted as accomplice to the attack on Mother Base. He then provided support to Skull Face. Conspiring with Eli, he repaired Sahelanthropus in secret. His "research materials" caused the leak at the quarantine facility. Which in turn caused the Wolbachia mutation, letting the parasites off their chains. We lost a lot of good men. He also stands accused of murdering one of his own family, hiding the body.

  Huey Emmerich : I haven't killed anyone. The rest is all wrong, too. The inspection was supposed to help everyone! I sacrificed myself for my companions just as much as any of you... Why won't you believe me?

  Kazuhira Miller : The prosecution calls a witness.

  [Summons The Boss AI] 

  Kazuhira Miller : Strangelove's gravestone. Haunted by her phantom.

  Huey Emmerich : It's just a machine...

  Strangelove : [the Boss AI blinks and plays the recording of Huey locking away Strangelove inside The Boss AI]  Open this thing! Huey! Damn it Huey! Open it now! Please... Let me out... Kill me...

  Kazuhira Miller : It recorded it all...

  [Throws the photos on Huey] 

  Kazuhira Miller : Everything... Everything you did living together.

  Huey Emmerich : How could a machine...?

  Kazuhira Miller : You forced your own son into the cockpit of a Metal Gear. A test subject.

  Huey Emmerich : Hal...

  Kazuhira Miller : His mother had to hide him away... And for that you locked her in that coffin.

  Huey Emmerich : No! She... She did it herself! It was suicide!... And even if I did, what right do you have?

  Kazuhira Miller : There's more. We have you to tell us everything you've done - everything you've thought - all this time. Nine years ago. You agreed to the inspection in return for Cipher's guarantee that you'd be spared.

  Huey Emmerich : I thought it was real!

  Kazuhira Miller : We've reviewed into everything else that's happened since you arrived here.

  Huey Emmerich : Please...

  Kazuhira Miller : Guilty. All counts.

  [Smashes his cane on the ground and the angered crowd keeps shouting to kill Huey before Ocelot shuts them with a gunfire] 

  Kazuhira Miller : We exist outside the law. What should we do, Boss? Just give the order... We'll handle the rest.

  Punished Snake : [Walks to Huey]  Prepare a life raft. Big enough for one. Food and water, too.

  Kazuhira Miller : Boss...?

  Punished Snake : He's leaving.

  Kazuhira Miller : You... He's responsible for... for all of this. Think of all the men... He didn't lose a damned thing. This is the enemy, and he's here - on his knees...!

  Punished Snake : Kaz. You are right, he's not one of us... But we are not responsible to judge an enemy. He leaves Mother Base and that'll be the end of it.

  Huey Emmerich : [One of Diamond Dogs staffs puts a box containing food and water on a raft, about to touch a part on Huey's exo-leg before Huey backs him off]  Get back! Don't touch me! I'm innocent! You're the murderers!

  [points at Snake before the raft slowly descends to the sea] 

  Huey Emmerich : Snake, you should be in this boat! There'd have been no inspection if it weren't for your precious nuke! I risked my life trying to save you all! How can you do this? Am I the only sane one here? I... My... It's not my fault.

  [as the water flows to the raft, Huey throws both his exo-legs] 

  Ocelot : Look... You can't discard your phantoms forever, Doctor.

  Kazuhira Miller : Son of a bitch'll make it, you know. I can see it now. In no time he'll be telling tales about the black-hearted Diamond Dogs. The shining white knight. Blabbering on about our injustice, hiding behind his fool's idea of morality... And all the other fools will stand around, nodding with every word he says.

  Ocelot : No. One day he'll see through the lies he's built up. Realize what kind of man he really is. What goes around comes around. You can't run from yourself forever.

• Kazuhira Miller : [while getting rescued by Snake]  You look well. Age hasn't slowed you down one bit.