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4. Konrad's Letter - Spec-Ops: The Line
Throughout the fantastic Spec Ops: The Line, players can scoop up intel documents which help sketch out the wider conflict that Captain Martin Walker is involved in.
The most memorable, however, is an extremely short communique which lands with sledgehammer force.
In the very final chapter of the game, players can search the apartment of Colonel Konrad and find a letter he wrote to his son, Jeremy.
The letter simply says, "Jeremy. Someday, people will tell you about your father. For that, I'm sorry, I love you, Dad."
This is a searing reminder of Konrad's guilt that his attempt to evacuate Dubai was a catastrophic failure, prompting him to instigate martial law in a brutal, ill-advised attempt to maintain order.
Konrad is clearly painfully aware that history is destined to remember him as a tyrant and his son will likely bear the brunt of that, lending weight to the subsequent jaw-dropping revelation that Konrad has actually been dead the entire time, having taken his own life before Walker even arrived in Dubai, appearing only to Walker as PTSD-infused hallucinations.
In just a few sentences, the game bewilderingly expands upon Konrad's heartbreaking interior life.