Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-4913740-20140331092208/@comment-1672596-20141010000226

82.43.169.214 wrote: Weedle McHairybug, have you listened to the new Ground Zeroes tapes "Paz's Spy Log - Communications Record 1&2 (Unknown Correspondent)"? This is not the same as Paz's Diary tapes, these were newly recorded. They imply a retcon that someone other than Major Zero (probably Skull Face) ordered Paz to go through with hijacking Zeke and launching a nuke at the United States.

I say this is implied because she anticipates that Big Boss will reject Zero's offer and questions why Zero would want to have her fight/frame MSF after he raised them to safeguard his governance without borders. Then in the second tape she goes as far as questioning if the unknown correspondent is even Zero, then drops it. This could be the solution to the problem you were talking about.

The game seems to be trying to pin Zero's perceived hostility on Skull Face instead. This would be why the intro text tries to make Zero seem like he sent Paz peacefully and why Paz in the tape with Skull Face has her saying Cipher would never harm Big Boss. All this could only be down to Kojima trying to address the whole FOXHOUND plothole so the ending fits IMHO. Of course I listened to it. Heck, I actually downloaded the sound files of all the tapes specifically to type them up before the games were released (in fact, the only tapes I haven't listened to besides BGMs were the full set of Chico tapes). However, just because she asked if it was indeed Zero speaking doesn't mean Skull Face hijacked his transmissions. Remember, Skull Face mentioned that, with the exception of Paz, all Cipher agents got their orders via proxies/cut out. For all we know, Zero just decided to use a proxy in those instances. Besides, he'd need to have access to Zero's channels just to hack into them, and considering he explicitly stated he needed to know Zero's location, I'm really doubtful he could have hacked into his comms.