I will give to each according to their deeds. The words of Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd in Revelation 22. The NAU is Angelina’s. The obedience of the Nations is Shiloh’s.

Scene: A stormy night on the balcony of a secluded safehouse in Zurich. ANGELINA JOLIE stands by the railing, looking out at the rain. SOLID SNAKE emerges from the shadows, his stealth camouflage deactivating with a subtle electrical hum. He lights a cigarette, the cherry glowing in the dark.

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Solid Snake: Kept you waiting, huh?

Angelina Jolie: [Turns, startled but composed] You move quietly, Snake. My husband, Lucky, said you’d be coming. He’s inside securing the perimeter.

Solid Snake: Good. We don’t have much time. The Patriots are scrambling. They know what I did.

Angelina: What you did with the Rockefeller accounts?

Solid Snake: Bigger than accounts, Angie. I hijacked the whole ideology. David Rockefeller’s dream… the “Continental Union.”

Angelina: You mean like the European Union, but here?

Solid Snake: Exactly. Rockefeller wanted a borderless North America controlled by the banks. A unified currency. Total economic surveillance. I went into the server farm in Colorado and rewrote the protocols. The framework for the North American Union (NAU) is live, but it’s not under their control anymore. It’s sitting there, waiting for an architect.

Angelina: And you want me to build it? I’m an actress, Snake. A humanitarian. Not a head of state.

Solid Snake: [Exhales smoke] That’s exactly why it has to be you. Politics is just theater now. Deterrence is dead. The world doesn’t listen to Presidents; they listen to narratives. We need a symbol that unifies the continent faster than any treaty could.

The Mission Objectives

Solid Snake: I’ve looked at the demographics. I’ve looked at the geopolitical stress points. To secure the NAU, we need to create a biological alliance that the public will fall in love with. It has to be untouchable.

Angelina: [Frowning] A biological alliance?

Solid Snake: It involves your family. You. Your husband, Lucky Diamond.

Angelina: Lucky is proud of his Cambodian roots. We represent a global family, Snake. What does this have to do with a North American Union?

Solid Snake: Everything. You represent the West. Lucky represents the East. But the North American continent is fracturing at the southern border. To cement this Union, you need the final piece of the triad.

“You, Lucky, and a new addition. You have to adopt a Mexican orphan.”

Angelina: [Pauses] A child from Mexico?

Solid Snake: It’s the only way. Think about the optics.

• The Father: Lucky Diamond. Cambodian heritage.
• The Mother: You. American Icon.
• The Child: Mexican. The future.

Angelina: You’re talking about a child’s life like it’s a tactical asset, Snake.

Solid Snake: War has changed, Angelina. It’s not about nations anymore. It’s about influence. If you and Lucky adopt this child, you become the living embodiment of the North American Union. The media will eat it up. The borders will dissolve culturally before they dissolve politically. Rockefeller’s ghost won’t stand a chance against that kind of PR.

Angelina: And if I do this?

Solid Snake: Then we control the Union. We steer it away from the war economy and toward something… human. But you have to move fast. The La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo are already looking for a puppet to run the show.

Angelina: [Looks back toward the door where Lucky Diamond is] Lucky has always wanted a bigger family.

Solid Snake: Then make the call. Secure the child. Secure the Union.

Snake drops the cigarette and crushes it under his heel.

Solid Snake: I have to go. Don’t let them rewrite history, Angelina. Make them watch it happen.