Monday, May 4, 2009

Jeff Jones

Lt. Leone (real name Jeff Jones) was the leader of a mercenary group, the Leone Unit and of the armed forces on Lobito Island.

After Solid Snake arrived on the island to finish the mission, Leone recognized the potential threat that he may pose and set up one of his men as "Dr. Flemming", who was a researcher for Pythagoras. When Snake attempted to rescue "Flemming", Leone "killed" Flemming and was about to kill Snake until a stun grenade thrown by Teliko stunned him and allowed Snake to escape. Leone intercepted Snake and Teliko at the storage wherehouse, but they escaped once more. Later on Leone's unit was badly crippled because of some ACUA Troops wearing the unit's uniforms and saw little choice but to form an alliance with Snake. Leone informed Snake that Pythagoras was a Metal Gear and that the Neotony was developed to control the ACUA soldiers, who were named as such due to a will-sapping drug called ACUA. Leone offered to help Snake gain entry into FAR in exchange for a copy of the Pythagoras data and he accepted.

While Snake disabled FAR's power supply, Leone attempted to enter, but found that Flemming had changed the passcode and Leone was captured by the ACUA Troops. Snake and Teliko later found Leone drugged on ACUA and that he was under the delusion that they were trespassing on his flower garden and attempted to kill them. Having no choice but to defend themselves, Snake and Teliko mortally wounded Leone which woke him up from ACUA's effects. Knowing that he was about to die Leone asked Snake to deliver a message to Roger McCoy which was "it wasn't me." Leone died with tranquil expression on his face when he died, at peace with his old unit commander from Vietnam finally learning that he was innocent.