Midnight Black

In Helsinki, Court rents a cottage in a deserted vacation commune in the forest, waiting for news on a Russian ship he can board. Zack and his team join him after a few days. By now, it is clear that someone in Russia has clear intel about Court, which they are feeding to Dvorak’s team. Zack and his team stay in the cottages next to Court and are careful not to light fires, despite the bitter cold, for fear of attracting attention.

As Zack anticipated, Baronov gives Dvorak Court’s location (though Baronov insists that he knows nothing about Chayka’s whereabouts). Keen to seek revenge against the man who killed his teammates in Riga, Dvorak calls in his elite Shark and Eagle units and heads to the woods.

Dvorak and his team make their way to the cottages in the dead of night, wearing powerful night-vision goggles. Snipers are positioned on a small headland across from the cottages. Dvorak and his associate “Atilla” (a code name) plan that their teammates will approach the cottages from the far end since lookouts are bound to be placed near the road. Once the team eliminates the people in the far cottages and an alarm is raised, Dvorak and Atilla will move in.