Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-8245466-20130509020822

Yeah but I never liked that Octopus basically served as a convenient plot device. You didn't get to fight him, never learned anything about him.

After finally getting to 7th capture Zadornov mission, I have to say, I think the whole thing was a ruse. I mean, sure, he escaped and pretended to try and get away in order to give Paz enough time to steal ZEKE, but at the end Zadornov fucking blows his own cover by yelling out Big Boss's name, jumps out from behind cover and fires off a few pathetic shots that miss by a mile. Zadornov was fucking KGB. There's no reason he should have gone down so easily. What if Zadornov acted as a sort of triple agent, pretending to serve as merely an expendable diversion to Paz, but secretly being entrusted by Cipher with the entire mission should Paz fail. I'm just saying, the way he "died" doesn't add up, and I think it wouldn't be hard to imagine someone from the KGB, someone working for Cipher, faking their own death so convincingly. Maybe he had a fake death pill!

If Zadornov's death was false, he would have had plenty of time to escape Mother Base during the ZEKE battle with everyone preoccupied. Later, after realizing Paz failed, he recovered her body and took her to Camp Omega for interrogation. I'm returning to the suggestion that Zadornov is the X0F commander, although I don't yet have an explanation for how he might end up looking that way.

As a crazy aside, after Zadornov dies the camera clearly shows him lying there with his hand upright making the V for victory sign. Maybe "V has come to" was a coded reference to the fact that he woke up alive.