Major David "Nine" Fox (retired). Callsign: "Trainer 9." He was the final instructor at I.G.I.'s infamous "Course 9" – a brutal, unrecorded training program for deep-cover solo operatives. Fox never used a gun on a mission; he built the people who did. Now he lives off-grid in northern Norway, raising sled dogs and drinking away the guilt of the twelve recruits he lost over his career.

A dark screen. A computer terminal boots up. A familiar I.G.I. 2 mission select map appears – but all the old missions are replaced with one new file:

A stolen I.G.I. prototype, the "Spectre" bioweapon (an odorless, colorless aerosol that induces complete neuromuscular shutdown in 90 seconds), is confirmed to be in the hands of a rogue Russian mercenary, Colonel Arkady Volkov. Volkov plans to deploy it at the UN General Assembly in 14 days. The new joint intelligence task force (MI6, CIA, FSB remnants) has no one to send—their best operatives are either dead, compromised, or politically blocked.