Showdown with The Boss
Soon after, Snake fights Volgin, and defeats him along with the Shagohod. He and EVA then proceed to escape to the lake on Rokovoj Berej. EVA goes on ahead to prep the WIG for departure, but Snake stays behind, knowing that he still has a score to settle with The Boss.
The Boss shares her vision of a united world, and her hopes that the people of the 21st century will realize that the Earth has no east, west, Cold War, and that things like the Space Race between the US and the Soviet Union were just more areas for meaningless competition. She also reveals that she hoped to unite the world with the Philosophers’ Legacy. Snake fights The Boss and manages to finally defeat her. Before he ends her life with her own gun, aptly named The Patriot, The Boss tells him “there’s only room for one Boss, and one Snake.” She also hands him the microfilm containing the Legacy.
Snake gets on the WIG with EVA, and everything seems peaceful until Ocelot hops onboard for one last showdown. The two of them end the duel with mutual respect for each other, and Ocelot reveals that his real name is Adamska. Huh. Adamska? Sounds a tad familiar.
Snake and EVA hook up in a cozy cabin together, but she disappears the next morning, along with the Legacy. He finds out that EVA wasn’t actually the NSA agent he was supposed to meet, and that she was a Chinese spy tasked to retrieve the Legacy for the Chinese government. EVA also reveals in a recording she left behind that she was supposed to kill him but she didn’t, because of a promise she made to The Boss. EVA had attended one of the Philosophers’ charm schools, where she’d learned how to get close to people and manipulate them. But The Boss saw through her, because she herself had been an instructor at one of these charm schools.
The Boss wasn’t a traitor; the US government staged her defection so that she could retrieve the Legacy and destroy the Shagohod. However, when Volgin fired the Davy Crockett at the research facility (ha, told you it was important!), the CIA revised her original mission and decided that she would have to die in order for them to get their hands on the Legacy, and prove their innocence to Khrushchev at the same time. Snake learns that everything The Boss did was for her own country, and that she was a true patriot. The Boss knew that she would have to die in order for her country to obtain the Legacy. Even if she would go down in history as a traitor, she was willing to be killed at the hands of her own student for the sake of her country.
Snake returns to the States and inherits the title of Big Boss.
Oh, and Ocelot was the real ADAM that Snake was supposed to meet. But he’s actually a triple agent who was working for both the CIA and Volgin at the same time. He also mentions that the microfilm they obtained was only half the Legacy and that he suspected the other half was still with the KGB. Oh, and he also retrieved the Metal Gear blueprints which he thought might aid the US government at some point. Talk about convoluted plot twists. Oof.
