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SNAKE: So this is what you were calling the Perfect Soldier? Does he have ESP, too?
ELISA: No, he's just an ordinary human being. That is, he used to be... He was raised in a special way - under very special conditions - to be a great warrior. He's incapable of emotions or doubts. He's the ultimate combatant, created with one purpose only: to accomplish the mission. He has no human memories. The only things he has left are his skills in battle.
SNAKE: No memories?
ELISA: Each time he completes a mission, he undergoes readjustment. Like this. Inside the culture tank all five senses are shut out completely. Most men would go mad in minutes. Like a baby who's coming into the world for the first time, the Perfect Soldier's senses are honed to a razor sharpness. He can read the enemy's movements and learn them faster than any normal person ever could.
SNAKE: What kind of person could endure that kind of extreme training?
ELISA: Nobody, of course. The Perfect Soldier project ended in failure and was abandoned. He was the only success. That's why they gave him the code name Null. He's a lost number. He has no feelings and no memories. Not even a project number. Don't even think about fighting him. You can't possibly win, Snake.
SNAKE: You could be right about that.


NULL: ...Why? Why do you still live?
SNAKE: What the hell's he talking about?
NULL: No man can meet the Perfect Soldier in battle and survive. But you won't die. Why!?
SNAKE: These moves... I know these moves... It was in... Mozambique!


GENE: What's the meaning of this?
NULL: I must complete my mission.
GENE: Stand down, Null.
NULL: Not yet. He lives. I have not completed my mission.
GENE: You mean Snake? He's been captured. Your mission is complete. Stand down, Null.
NULL: No. Why won't you die, Snake!? Out of my way. I'll kill him! I must kill him... I must... kill!
GENE: You will follow my orders, Perfect Soldier. I am your commander.
GENE: The Perfect Soldier has his memory reset after every mission. And yet, after a single skirmish, you managed to instill such strong emotions in him. Snake...


NULL: I found you. Tell me. Why are you still alive? I used to get dreams... about my comrades... They'd come save me with strong arms and laughing voices. When I woke up, I had nothing. No joy, no sorrow, no hatred... No memory. When I wake up from the darkness, all I see are the bodies of men I've killed, lying in front of me. My memory is riddled with corpses. I know. Everybody dies. Crime, disease, accidents, war... No matter how noble a person you are, no matter how good a soldier. There are no exceptions. Even if I don't kill them, they die. This world is full of death. And yet you won't be killed. Why? Why do you still live? What do you hope to accomplish by living?
SNAKE: I know your name.
NULL: ...name...
SNAKE: It was four years ago, in Mozambique. There was a child soldier fighting with a guerrilla group in the struggle for independence. He killed dozens of government soldiers with just a single knife. He'd throw the enemy off guard with the innocent frankness of a young boy. Then he'd prey on them with the cold cruelty of a hunter. He spoke a little German so his enemies called him "Frank Jaeger," the frank hunter.
NULL: Frank Jaeger... ...my name...
SNAKE: Don't do this. The strong arms... ...allies who will help you are somewhere else.
NULL: No. I am the Perfect Soldier. Where I exist, there are no other soldiers. So I don't need a name. I am Null. And when you're dead, I can go back to being null!


NULL: I remember now... Big Boss... Even then, you were the one who stopped me. I was raised by adults to be a tool of war. But you defeated me. Watched over me.
SNAKE: I'm sorry. I thought you'd have been safe at the rehab facility... I had no idea they'd subject you to this. It had to be the Philosophers...
NULL: It's OK, Big Boss. You're always there to save me. You help me fill the void inside.
SNAKE: Let's get going. It's time to blow this place.