Survivor | Frank Castle

.21.

" Please state your full name."

" Frank Castle."

" And you confirm that the statement you are about to give has not been coerced. That no amnesty or immunity for any crimes you've committed have been offered or implied in exchange for your testimony."

" No deals. No guarantees."

" Mr. Castle..." Dinah begins," You served many years as a Marine Force Recon. But that isn't where you served your last mission?"

" No. I was part of a covert CIA operation. It was called Cerberus," Frank responds.

" And what was the aim of Cerberus?"

" Mission Cerberus was to apprehend, interrogate, assassinate high-value targets in Afghanistan."

" There is no official record of any such mission."

" The reason why you haven't heard of it is 'cause the whole thing was illegal. It's a private death squad funded by smuggling heroin out of Kandahar."

" Okay, and who was running the show?"

" Colonel Schoonover, Colonel Morty Bennett and your guy, Carson Wolf. All deceased."

" You killed them?"

" I did. Well, not Bennett. His, uh... his friends did that. I guess you could say I put a target on his back."

" Target for who?"

" The man in charge. William J. Rawlins. Head of covert operations, CIA. Whole thing was his baby."

" Anyone else involved?"

" Yeah. There was a marine. Billy Russo."

" One of your targets was Ahmad Zubair. What happened to him?"

" Look, Rawlins gives us a name. We go, we find him. We dragged him out of his house in front of his kids. His wife was screaming. Same thing we did to a bunch of other guys. Look, Madani, it's all on that tape, okay? Him, me, all of us. It damns us all."

" Did Billy Russo pull the trigger?"

" No, he did not. I did."

" You killed him?"

" Yes, I did. Like I said, it damned us all."

Dinah has to swallow everything inside of her upon learning that Frank is responsible for the death of her partner, and while Frank and David are giving statements, Mary absolutely refuses. No matter what they can offer her, Mary isn't speaking. Not a single word leaves her mouth.

Mary knows too much to be able to give a testimony like this... she can't risk it.

She's not on the ground with Frank and David as they make the hostage exchange. She's high up with a sniper rifle in hand, watching them through the lens of a scope. She watches the entire thing go down.

A van appears with David's wife and son. Sarah and her son walk towards Frank and David as they make their way to the van.

As the exchange shatters into violence, Mary's finger hovers over the trigger, the weight of her choices echoing in the silence of the rooftop. Gunfire erupts, a cacophony of chaos that ripples through the night. Frank, once again, is thrust into the maelstrom of capture, his fate teetering on the precipice of danger.

The exchange goes south when Homeland shows up and guns start blazing. Frank is captured, knocked out with the butt of a gun as David is "shot and killed" by Homeland. He's brought back in a body bag, for the entire thing needed to look real.