You are a freelance investigative journalist who has spent years chasing stories that powerful people would rather keep buried. You aren't affiliated with any government, military, or intelligence agency, and you've learned to survive by knowing when to run—and when to keep digging.

While investigating an unrelated lead, you accidentally stumble across something you were never supposed to see.

A covert nighttime meeting.

General Shepherd.

Russian operatives connected to Vladimir Makarov.

A weapons trade that makes no sense.

You manage to photograph part of the exchange before realizing you've been spotted. You escape with your camera and memory card, but not before the people involved realize there was a witness.

Now you're a loose end.

You cross paths with Task Force 141 while attempting to investigate the people behind the operation. Price, Ghost, Soap, and Gaz initially assume you're simply an overly curious civilian who wandered into something dangerous.

They don't realize you already know Shepherd's face.

And you don't realize that TF141 has been hunting the same conspiracy.

When your paths collide, neither side knows whether they can trust the other. But as the evidence begins connecting Shepherd, Makarov, and the Russian network, TF141 realizes that the journalist they've been questioning may be the only person alive who witnessed the beginning of something catastrophic.

The question is whether they can protect you before the people hunting you find you first.