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| “ | Looks like you were one of the lucky ones out there. Well, we're not gonna lose these two for nothing. We're going for broke here, Bell. Putting all our chips on the table. You need to stay on point for this. Sharp. Focused. | „ |
| ~ Sims to "Bell" if Park and Lazar were left behind (non-canon, player-determined). |
| “ | Figured if I struck around hell long enough I'd see the Devil. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler in Black Ops 6. |
Captain Lawrence Sims is a supporting character in the 2020 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, a playable operative in the multiplayer of the above mentioned game and Call of Duty: Warzone. He returns as supporting character in the 2024 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and returns as a playable operative in season five of the above mentioned game and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0.
He was a CIA agent who is recruited into Russell Adler's team to stop Perseus and his spy network, and provides the team with gear and equipment for on-field missions. At some point he left the agency and returned to the army, leading his own unit during the Gulf War. In 1991, Sims was contacted by Adler to help him, Troy Marshall and William "Case" Calderon capture Russian scientist Matvey Gusev to learn the location of the virological weapon named the Cradle. In 1992, Sims joins the Rogue Black Ops with the back of the U.S. Military and the CIA to hunt down the Pantheon moles that went underground.
He is voiced by Reggie Watkins.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
| “ | A technological genius with special forces training, Sims joined MACV-SOG in 1967, serving on Russell Adler's team in Vietnam. He always provides a steady hand and sense of humor under pressure, no matter the circumstances. | „ |
| ~ Sims' in-game bio. |
Lawrence Sims was born on February 4th, 1942 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to unnamed parents, and decided to follow his father's footsteps after his passing. Sims took an interest into technology, and later received a scholarship to the Rochester Institute of Technology. Around the 1960s, Sims joined the United States Army for two years, reaching the rank of sergeant before joining the Central Intelligence Agency.
Military Career[]
Sims befriended CIA agent Russell Adler in Vietnam, and Sims is considered one of Adler's favorite cohorts. In 1968, Sims survived a Viet Cong ambush after his chopper suffered from mechanical difficulties during a mission with airman Darren Kopp. Though Kopp was killed, Sims collected Koop's knife and managed to take out the Viet Cong soldiers before reinforcements arrive to save him. Before 1981, Sims was sent by the CIA to capture or eliminate Anton Volkov, an Russian mafia arms dealer whom Sims saw at a "douchebag conference" some years prior.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]
In 1981, Sims was recruited into joining Adler's team to stop Perseus, being recruited alongside MI6 agent Helen Park, and CIA agents Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay, Alex Mason, and Frank Woods. Sims is informed by Adler and Park that they programed Perseus' close associate and agent, whom survived being killed by Arash Kadivar in Turkey. Adler and Park use the MK ultra program to brainwash the agent, giving him implanted memories of serving in Vietnam with Adler, and is given the code name "Bell". Meeting with the team at the CIA safehouse in Germany, Sims is tasked with giving the team gear and equipment, and can tell "Bell" that he has connections longer than the Berlin wall. Adler first has "Bell" recall Operation Fracture Jaw, where Adler and Sims found intel on Soviet activity in Vietnam and information on Perseus.
"Bell" managed to decode the intel and gets stuck on the name of Volkov, leading the team to go after him and his chief courier Franz Kraus. The team succeed in either apprehending Volkov to MI6 or eliminating him, taking one of Perseus's associates off of the board. The team later learn that Jason Hudson was the head of Operation Greenlight, a CIA nuclear program that stationed nukes across Europe. Perseus stole a nuke from Berlin, and Hudson's superior, Emerson Black, reveals that Perseus also collected a list of sleeper agents that Nikita Dragovich programmed in the 1960s. Though Mason and Woods succeed in collecting the mainframe from Mount Yamantau that contain the list, Perseus wiped it to keep the CIA off of his trail.
Adler and "Bell" then go on an operation to infiltrate the KGB headquarters to collect the list, and are assisted by KGB double agent Dimitri Belikov. Sims also leads two operations on eliminating Perseus's associates Vadim Rudnik, a KGB major and Robert Aldrich, a CIA agent who defected to the Russians. Sims has "Bell" assist them on collecting evidence for the two operations, and if the player manages to solve the evidence, they can cripple Perseus' network.
Adler and the team manage to pin point Perseus's plan to use an American nuke from Operation Greenlight, and follow the sleeper agent he's planning to use to arm in Havana, Cuba. The team learn from the sleeper agent, Theodore Hastings, that Peruses had him arm all of the American nukes across Europe, and that he plans on having the United States take the blame from the aftermath. Park or Lazar are killed by Tropas soldiers, and "Bell" has the choice to either save one of them, or leave both of them behind. If the player leaves both behind, Sims will speak to "Bell" on helping them get Perseus's location, and oversees Adler forcefully interrogate "Bell". After the interrogation, if the player didn't choose Park or Lazar, Sims will reveal to "Bell" that they were brainwashed by the CIA to help them stop Perseus, and find his location.
No matter what the player decides to do (tell the truth or lie to Adler), Sims will not participate in the Solvovetsky Islands assault or the operation in Duga-2. However, it can be assumed that Sims got his connections to provide the team with weapons and firepower alongside Belikov, whom was able to provide them with armor to reach the islands.
Call of Duty: Warzone[]
Sims continued to serve the agency to hunt Perseus and his network, such as joining Woods' rescue team to find Adler in Laos.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6[]
Due to Adler's (and the CIA) unethical methods, Sims left the agency and returned to the United States Army, where he reached the rank of captain. In 1991, Sims is contacted by Adler to help him, Troy Marshall and William "Case" Calderon locate Matvey Gusev, a Russian scientist hired by the Pantheon to improve the strain of the Cradle. Reluctantly agreeing, Sims decided to participate in Adler's operation due to knowing of his questionable methods. Reaching Gusev's plane, they discovered that it was a bait made by Pantheon, but Marshall locates the scientist at a military plane across the airfield. The trio stop Gusev from escaping via a tank, and Sims apprehends the scientist after the latter reveals that the Cradle is at Vorkuta.
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0[]
In 1992, Sims meets with Woods and Marshall after they're pardoned by the president, informing them that he and U.S. military are backing the Rogue Black Ops to help them hunt down the Pantheon moles that went underground. Showing them the military arsenal they've been provided, Lawrence joins the rogue team in their mission.
Quotes[]
Black Ops Cold War[]
| “ | This feels like looking for a needle in a haystack, in a field of haystacks. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler. |
| “ | Adler, we confirmed it: Soviets on site. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler in "Fracture Jaw". |
| “ | Least the nuke didn't go off. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler and Bell. |
| “ | Shit, I tried to track that motherf-cker years go when he went to Italy for a douchebag conference. He's slick. If you see him, tell him Lawrence Sims says, "Hello." | „ |
| ~ Sims to Bell about Volkov. |
| “ | You were a guinea pig for The CIA's MK-Ultra Program. They used me and Adler's missions in Vietnam to create new memories. Nothing brings people together like wartime. Instant family. Brothers in arms. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Bell; player-determined. |
Black Ops 6[]
| “ | U.S. Soldier: Captain Sims-. Lawrence Sims: Not Now. |
„ |
| ~ Sims to One of the U.S. soldiers. |
| “ | It's above the table, Unambiguous. Maybe, you should give it a try. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler about Central Command. |
| “ | I can get you close, But Doc: This is it for me. I'm on a different path now. Once you get what you need, I'm out. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler about capturing Gusev. |
| “ | Lord, Give me strength. | „ |
| ~ Sims in the "Ground Control" Cinematic. |
| “ | Get your crew, We'll leave in five. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler. |
| “ | That's him? Top lab for an army of mercs? | „ |
| ~ Sims to Adler about Gusev and Pantheon. |
| “ | Hold up, Case. Adler's on the hunt, but we still got rules out here. I trust you'll follow them. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Case. |
| “ | I hate it when he's right. | „ |
| ~ Sims to Case. |
| “ | Coalition Tanks are gonna be gunning for us in this T-72! Fuck me, I'm gonna get pulverized by my own tank line! | „ |
| ~ Sims to Case and Adler. |
| “ | Russell Adler: Just like Da Nang, eh, Sims? Lawrence Sims: Yeah. That was a shit show too! |
„ |
| ~ Sims to Adler about Da Nang. |
| “ | F-ck that guy! | „ |
| ~ Sims after Case fires a tank round on Gusev's plane. |
| “ | Russell Adler: You buying that, Sims? Lawrence Sims: Nah, Kids probably came with the wallet. |
„ |
| ~ Sims to Adler about Gusev. |
| “ | Lawrence Sims: Enough, He told us what he knows! Russell Adler: Getting soft in your old age, huh, Sims? Lawrence Sims: You've got your ways and I've got mine. Gusev's in my custody now. |
„ |
| ~ Sims to Case and Adler after capturing Gusev. |
Warzone 2.0[]
| “ | Lawrence Sims: Then you'll be happy to hear the full might of the US Military's at your disposal. Frank Woods: Sims. Lawrence Sims: Woods. |
„ |
| ~ Sims reuniting with Woods and Marshall in the season five cinematic. |
| “ | Frank Woods: Holy shit. they're giving us the keys to the toy box? Lawrence Sims: Think of it as a welcome home present. So, where do we start? Troy Marshall: Mmmhmmm. |
„ |
| ~ Sims to Woods and Marshall in the season five cinematic about the vehicle and weaponry arsenal. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- His blood type is B negative.
