He hands Zero the unredacted Course 9 manual. The final line of the story is Zero's callsign being officially entered into the new I.G.I. roster – not as a trainee, but as
Fox refuses. He looks at Zero.
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: 9 trainer igi 2
LOCATION: NORWAY - SAFEHOUSE 9 OBJECTIVE: EXTRACT TRAINER 9 THREAT LEVEL: CRITICAL PLAYER: ??? He hands Zero the unredacted Course 9 manual
A dying I.G.I. founding member, Director Alma Sorensen, surfaces. She has one last asset: the unredacted "Course 9" manual and the location of Trainer 9. She gives Fox an impossible order: "Build a team from scratch. You have nine slots. You have fourteen days. Stop Volkov." He looks at Zero
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.
After the events of I.G.I. 2: Covert Strike , the Institute for Geotactical Intelligence (I.G.I.) has been officially disbanded by a international oversight committee. Its methods are deemed too reckless, its casualty rates too high. The remaining field agents are scattered. The black sites are sealed.