
Angrily, Sparks knocks the woman out, and orders Riley to help him get her inside her house so that they can rape her. As they are walking back home Sparks approaches a young woman he previously saw at the pub and tries to sweet talk her into bed, the young woman is not impressed. Sparks tells Riley that he and Washington are getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan. While having a beer together at a local pub, Sparks and Riley rehash old times and their experience during those hellish months in Mexico. While spending Christmas with his family, Riley gets a surprise visit from Sparks. Riley has nightmares every time he sleeps, with Roba haunting and taunting him. Physically Riley is fine, but his superiors fear that his mental state is still in question. The story then jumps to December 18, 2010, Riley is being debriefed about his experience to his superiors.

Moments later, Riley is buried alive with the decaying corpse of Major Vernon.Īt the start of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost #3, Riley digs himself out of the grave by using Vernon's lower jaw bone, which took him thirteen hours, and later found by a Texas sheriff. During these flashbacks, many of Riley's adversaries are by seen wearing "ghostly" makeup (presumably a hallucination of Riley) of similar style to that worn by participants in the Day of the Dead celebration.Įventually, the USSOCOM members Sparks and Washington are able to escape, having learned that the Mexican cartel plan to kill them due to the fact they can not break them down, but are forced to leave Riley behind.
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In June 2006, Riley is seen as best man at his brother Tommy's wedding, who is now completely free of drugs. To his early years in the SAS and how he, after coming back from his first tour of duty in Afghanistan on January 2003, takes care of his abused mother and helps clean up his drug-addicted younger brother named Tommy. Throughout this ordeal the reader sees flashbacks of Riley's early life, from his childhood and how he had to endure an abusive fiend of a father. This mission takes place on the Mexican holiday, "Day of the Dead", when Riley and the others wear skull face-paint and skeleton costumes to blend in with the celebrating crowd at the party that the leader of the Heroin Cartel is throwing.ĭuring Modern Warfare 2: Ghost #2 it is revealed that Ghost and his team are captured by the Mexican cartel, and during their captivity they endure continuous torture and brainwashing techniques in order to be used as hired guns for various criminal and terrorist groups. The SAS loaned "Ghost" to USSOCOM to bust a heroin cartel that has recently begun smuggling terrorists into the U.S. The soldier passes the time by telling a story of his friend, Simon "Ghost" Riley on a mission in Mexico.
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The first mission depicted in the series has a captured Special Ops soldier wearing a skull-patterned balaclava in a classroom filled with children of a Ukrainian school that has been taken over by terrorists (who threaten to kill one child each hour if their demands are not met). Simon managed to help Tommy break from his drug addiction, and made him marry a woman named Beth, as he kicked his father out of their home. He returned home in 2003, and refused to return to the military until he fixed his family, as his father was cheating on his mother, and Tommy began a drug addict. While working as an apprentice butcher, Simon saw the 9/11 attacks and joined the British military, and later became a member of the Special Air Service. Simon Riley was born in Manchester, England to unnamed parents and a older brother named Tommy, who would often scare him when he slept.


