Realising time is not against them and that the mercenaries intend to carry out the plan in revenge, President Ballantine, unwilling to destroy El Paso and Juárez to prevent them, asks Mitchell to find the last nuke and neutralize it. Aided by heavy support, the Ghosts head back across the border into Mexico and track down the launch site for the last nuke. An EMP strike, guided in by Mitchell, successfully neutralizes the last nuke and ends the crisis, Mitchell however is severely wounded after the EMP strike. Mitchell is then recovered by Rosen, while praised by Keating and Ballantine for preventing a disaster from happening.