awakens, bloodied and dazed, inside a train carriage dangling precariously over a snowy Himalayan precipice. As he climbs to safety, the narrative shifts back to how he ended up in this frozen hell. The Heist and the Betrayal Months earlier, Nate is approached by a former associate, Harry Flynn , and a reckless Australian thief, Chloe Frazer
: The group attempts to steal a Mongolian oil lamp from a museum in Istanbul. The lamp holds the secret to Marco Polo's lost fleet, which disappeared in 1292. Flynn double-crosses Nate, leaving him to rot in a Turkish prison for three months until he is broken out by his mentor, Victor "Sully" Sullivan , and Chloe.