Old Snake: Who are you to him?
Quiet: He was the man I chose.
Quiet: You did not know who he was when you killed him.
Old Snake: No.
Quiet: I am not here for revenge.
Old Snake: Then why are you here?
Quiet: Because I learned the truth too late.
Old Snake: Then start at the beginning.
Quiet: I was sent to Cyprus to kill Big Boss when he was in a coma. I failed. He burned me alive.
Quiet: Cipher kept me alive with parasite therapy. My lungs, skin, blood, voice, everything changed.
Quiet: I became a weapon designed to carry death through language. The "curse of the forked tongue."
Old Snake: The English strain.
Otacon: You were carrying vocal cord parasites?
Quiet: Yes.
Otacon: My God. I found all files on it after the fall of SOP. I learned how my father was involved and all the horrible things he did. You were a victim too.
Quiet: I hated him. I wanted revenge.
Old Snake: And then?
Quiet: He spared me. He should have killed me more than once. He did not.
Quiet: That was the first mistake.
Old Snake: Mistake?
Quiet: For Cipher.
Quiet: I remained near him. Watched him. Fought beside him.
Quiet: The mission changed.
Quiet: No. I changed.
Quiet: You know what it means to live inside systems built by monsters.
Quiet: There came a time when he would have died if I remained silent.
Quiet: So I spoke English to save him.
Old Snake: You exiled yourself.
Quiet: Yes.
Old Snake: To protect him.
Quiet: Yes.
Otacon: So you just vanished...
Quiet: That was the point.
Quiet: The Patriots found me before death did. They gave me back my voice after I no longer had anyone to speak to.
Quiet: Cipher, the Patriots, used the Wolbachia to control the English strain and stop its replication.
Quiet: Then nanomachines to regulate the rest. It magnified my regenerative and photosynthetic abilities.
Quiet: Due to that I haven't aged since 1984. I'm the same woman I was when I met him. A ghost of the past.
Quiet: Cipher, the Patriots, kept me alive because I was useful. Hard to kill. Easy to aim.
Old Snake: And you worked for them?
Quiet: Never willingly. So I remained their prisoner until the fall of SOP.
Old Snake: You learned who Venom Snake really was after the end of the Patriots.
Quiet: Yes.
Old Snake: And that I was the one who killed him at Outer Heaven.
Quiet: Yes.
