Sam waited, his heart rate steady at sixty beats per minute. He wasn't just a soldier; he was a scalpel. As Sadono turned to leave, Sam dropped silently behind the last guard, a gloved hand clamping over the man’s mouth while the other pulled him into the darkness.

"Lambert, I'm inside," Sam whispered, his voice barely audible over the comms. "The Darah Dan Doa haven't noticed a thing yet."

"Good work, Sam," Irving Lambert’s voice crackled back from Third Echelon HQ. "Suhadi Sadono is playing a dangerous game. If those smallpox containers aren't neutralized, 'Pandora Tomorrow' becomes a reality. Find Douglas Shetland. He's our only lead to the encryption keys."

The heavy monsoon rain drummed against the corrugated metal roof of the Dili embassy, a rhythmic mask for Sam Fisher’s movements. He was a shadow within shadows, the three green dots of his multi-vision goggles the only evidence of his existence in the pitch-black corridor.