List of Splinter Cell characters
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The following is a list of characters found throughout the Splinter Cell
series of video games and novels.
Samuel "Sam" Fisher is the main protagonist of the Splinter Cell
series. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team, the JSOC's DevGRU, and the CIA's Special Activities Division
. He is 177 cm (5 feet 10 inches) tall, weighs 78 kg (170 pounds), and has black (dark brown in Splinter Cell: Double Agent), slightly graying hair and green eyes. He is an expert in the art of stealth, trained in various techniques and tactics, and extremely proficient in field craft. Fisher is also an expert in the Israeli hand-to-hand combat system of Krav Maga
. In Splinter Cell: Conviction, he utilized the Center Axis Relock
, a gun-fighting technique used in close quarters combat. He prefers to work alone in the field. When not on assignment or at Fort Meade
, Fisher resided in a townhouse in Towson, Maryland
.
Fisher was born on August 8, 1957, in Towson, Maryland. While not much is known about his early life, it is known that Fisher attended a military boarding school shortly after his parents died when he was a child. He received a B.A.
in Political Science
from the United States Naval Academy
, where he later rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander
while serving in the Navy. At some point during the 1980s, Fisher was stationed at an American Air Force base in Germany
, where he met and later married Regan Burns (in 1984) while allegedly working as a "diplomatic aide". In 1985, Regan gave birth to their only child whom they named Sarah (born May 31). Regan died from ovarian cancer
when Sarah was fifteen (i.e. sometime in 2000). In 1989, Sam was part of a CIA raiding team that went into a bank in Panama
during Operation Just Cause searching for some of Noriega
's drug money. He then spent the year shorty after the conflict ended in 1990 "sleeping in a ditch on the road between Baghdad
and Kuwait
" during the months leading up to the first Gulf War, when he participated in numerous SEAL operations while operating in the Persian Gulf during Desert Storm. These events, combined with his training and combat experience, played a part in Fisher being selected to spearhead Third Echelon's "Splinter Cell" program as its first field operative after he was approached by Colonel Irving Lambert, USA (Ret.), a high-ranking official in the NSA who convinced Fisher to come back to active service.
Fisher is voiced by veteran actor Michael Ironside
.
Irving Lambert is the leader of the Third Echelon team, and thus Sam Fisher's "handler". He is also the man who spearheaded Third Echelon's infamous "Splinter Cell" program. His role in the game is to guide the player through each level over the cochlear implant
radio, providing information such as critical updates, objective changes, and enemy status. Lambert becomes one of Sam's closest friends. He is voiced by Don Jordan in almost all of the games in the series, except Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, in which he was voiced by Dennis Haysbert
.
Lambert was born in 1961 in Bat Cave, North Carolina
. He served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, where he attained the rank of Colonel. Lambert is a high ranking official in the National Security Agency (NSA), where he holds the rank of Director in charge of all field operations at Third Echelon, the NSA's top-secret sub-branch/covert ops unit. Many of his duties involve conveying intelligence to Sam and other Splinter Cell operatives while they are 'on the job'. He also handles the bureaucratic and political aspects of espionage. Lambert has a much more no-nonsense approach to missions, in contrast to Fisher's aura of dark humor. Sam stated in Chaos Theory that Lambert was married and divorced numerous times.
In 2008, Irving is kidnapped by John Brown's Army (JBA), and his possible death is determined by Sam. Sam can decide to shoot Lambert or Jamie Washington in the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions of Double Agent (though even if Lambert is shot he still survives in the immediate aftermath as Fisher tells him to "hang in there") . In the Xbox/PS2/WII version of the game, Sam can decide to either upload information that either blows Lambert's cover or enhances it, increasing Lambert's chances of survival. If the player increases Lambert's cover, it is revealed at the end of the mission that Dufraisne "roughed him up pretty badly" but does not kill him. If the player blows Lambert's cover, Lambert is shot and killed by Carson Moss at the end of the mission (shown in a cinematic). In Essentials, Sam is only given the choice to shoot Lambert.
Splinter Cell: Conviction confirmed that Lambert was shot by Sam and died of his wound in "a dirty basement" in New York City.
Anna Grimsdóttír (known as 'Grim' to her friends in the NSA) is the technical operations manager at Third Echelon. Her role is to provide Sam Fisher with technical support in the field, as well as to analyze and interpret much of the electronic data. A skilled hacker
, Grimsdóttir normally tries to remotely hack into an objective computer system before Fisher is inserted, or when not possible does it direct from Fisher's OPSAT connection to a computer terminal.
Anna was born in 1974 in Boston
, Massachusetts
. Being a second generation American, her mother immigrated to the U.S. alone from Akureyri
, in Northern Iceland
. In the mid-90s, Grimsdóttír dropped out of Saint John's College
and worked as a programmer in different private communications firms contracted by the U.S. Navy. She was recruited into the NSA in the late 1990s, and rose quickly in rank as the Internet became more and more important to national security. She heads a small team of programmers responsible for providing technological, cryptographic
and data support for the Splinter Cell and assists Fisher via his interface with the high-tech components of his missions. She often makes jokes about Fisher's age.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Anna uncovers Director Williams' tampering of Fisher's files. When Director Williams confiscates the disc where she kept evidence of the file modifications, she helps Fisher infiltrate the NSA to reach his office in order to get the disc back.
Grim plays a much larger role in Splinter Cell: Conviction, and unlike the previous games makes many physical appearances. Since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory she seems to have been promoted from her position in technical operations, and is now an assistant to the new Third Echelon director, now armed and in the field. Her loyalty to Sam is brought into question throughout the game. She helps Sam take down Tom Reed, a corrupt Third Echelon officer who took Lambert's role of director after his death, by working from within the agency.
In Tom Clancy's EndWar
, which takes place in 2020, Grimsdóttir now has the title 'Director', and is commanding Splinter Cell agents, suggesting she is now in command of Third Echelon.
William Redding was born in 1969 in San Diego, California
. Redding is a calm book-wormy type. He is fanatical about his planning, preparation, and data accumulation. He is meticulously accurate in every facet of his job. He is very knowledgeable when it comes to weapons and vehicle specifications and could list from memory every item aboard an Osprey at any time, including its weight and armament.
Redding attended the University of Chicago
where he received a BA
in political science
with a dual major in history. He then applied for admittance to the United States Marine Corps
where he trained as a communications specialist and rose quickly to the rank of captain.
Redding left the Corps to work for the NSA as a signal intelligence analyst. He soon found that his experience as a Marine ended up getting him assigned to atypically dangerous locales and bringing him a lot of recognition.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Redding discovers that some of Sam Fisher's files do not match what really happened during the events of missions in Sam's career. Redding explains what really happened during the events in which he had helped Sam, and where discrepancies in the files exist. His discovery prompted Anna Grimsdóttír into looking through Sam's records, leading to the discovery that they were tampered by Director Williams in order to frame Sam Fisher. He also learned later that Director Williams had confronted Anna and took the CD containing the evidence of his file tampering. Later, after Sam escaped from his interrogators, he hid in Redding's office and was able to explain what happened during his last mission to Anna and Redding over a phone. Redding then tells Sam that he needs to infiltrate the NSA to get the CD that Director Williams had stolen.
To some extent, with the absence of Frances Coen in Chaos Theory, Redding becomes Sam Fisher's field runner. The third Splinter Cell book, Checkmate, and the fourth Splinter Cell book, Fallout, both featured William Redding as Sam Fisher's field runner.
Redding is neither seen nor mentioned in Splinter Cell: Conviction and it is unknown what happened to him.
and appears again in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow She is a field runner for Third Echelon. She is initially the replacement for Sam's good friend and old field runner Vernon Wilkes, Jr., who was killed in a shootout with Russian mercenaries in the first game. Her primary duties involve delivering Fisher into the mission area as well as extracting him after the mission is complete. She also provides good-humored banter with Fisher in the game's between-mission cutscenes. She seems to be one of the people Sam gets along with quite a bit.
Coen was mentioned briefly in Chaos Theory, where she had been monitoring the activities of a Yakuza
organization known as the Red Nishin . When Fisher is asked to tap telephone lines in a Japanese bathhouse to aid Coen in this, he replies, "For Frances...of course I can".
In the book Operation Barracuda, Sam resents being forced to work with Frances and is against the field runner program entirely.
Died: November 1, 2004, Langley, Virginia
Vernon Wilkes was born June 25, 1967 in Baltimore
, Maryland
. He serves as Sam Fisher's field runner in the first few missions of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
. He briefed Sam on new equipment and weaponry and used both ground vehicles and aircraft to deliver Sam into the mission area. In the Xbox, PC, and Gamecube versions of Splinter Cell, Wilkes is fatally wounded during Fisher's extraction from the Kalinatek building, after being shot by a Russian mercenary. In the PS2 version, Wilkes is fatally wounded during Fisher's extraction from the Nhadezda Nuclear Power Plant (an additional PS2 exclusive level that takes place between the Kalinatek and Myanmar missions) by a Russian mercenary. In both versions, Wilkes succumbs to his wound shortly after in the Osprey.
In both the sixth-generation and seventh-generation version of Double Agent
, Lambert uses Wilkes' name to pose as an undercover arms dealer.
He also appeared in the PlayStation 2 version of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
.
during the events in the first four Splinter Cell games since the original Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon 2
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
shows Bowers in newscasts regarding the Georgian Information Crisis. In a clear reference to George W. Bush
's "pretzel incident", one of the newscast's tickers reveals that a cashew has been removed from Bowers' windpipe during the Information Crisis. In Pandora Tomorrow he is briefly seen on national television defending the U.S. invasion of Indonesia.
In Chaos Theory, he is seen discussing with Irving Lambert on what course of action the U.S. should take against North Korea as well as the newly-formed Japanese I-SDF. In this situation he prefers a diplomatic and political approach rather than immediate military action, in contrast to his previous eagerness to go to war against the Georgian and Indonesian governments; it is possible that the massive loss of human life during the events of Chaos Theory has taught him to have more patience.
In the beginning of the PS2 version of Ghost Recon 2 (taking place during the events of Chaos Theory) Bowers is in a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff
, a U.S. Army General informs him of the USS Clarence E. Walsh being sunk by a fictional "super" variant of a Silkworm missile
, fired from North Korea. The General recommends that Bowers deploy the Ghosts into North Korea. Months later, Bowers is furious that a North Korean General has gotten ahold of North Korea's nuclear weapons and re-deploys the Ghosts into North Korea. Bowers faces the window and, with an angry look in his eyes, removes his glasses. He does this in a fashion similar to the habit of Walter Cronkite
during stressful situation.
In the "current-gen" versions of Double Agent, he is engaged in Nashville, where the JBA has shipped off one of several nuclear explosive devices. His possible death is determined by Sam, deciding whether to perform the risky operation of preventing the shipping off of the Los Angeles and Nashville bombs or allowing them to leave the headquarters.
Douglas Wayne Shetland is a significant recurring character in the Splinter Cell series. He is an old friend and comrade of Sam Fisher, and the CEO of the private military company Displace International. He has appeared in both Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Essentials, and he plays a major role in the story of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Shetland was born in 1959, in Boone
, Iowa
. He served in the (U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps) and was the Commanding Officer of Fisher's SEAL team for several years. Shetland and Fisher became close friends.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Shetland was captured in Norte de Santander, Colombia
, by FARC guerrillas in 1992. Going against a direct order of a Commanding Officer (C.O), Sam rescued Shetland from his captivity.
In 2002, Shetland's superiors tried to make him a scapegoat
for a friendly fire
incident in Bagram
, Afghanistan that wasn't his fault. Although he was granted a full discharge
by the court, he was disengaged from Afghanistan
and demoted to a "five star office job". Embittered, Shetland left the US Marine Corps shortly after the incident, sued the U.S. Military and won. He used the proceeds from his lawsuit ($700,000) and established Displace International. Displace International was highly successful, eventually becoming a major Private Military Contractor
for the U.S. government as well as the first private security company to be listed on the Fortune 500
.
Shetland was held hostage at the U.S. embassy in Dili
by Indonesia
n guerrillas led by Suhadi Sadono, only to be rescued by his friend, Sam Fisher. Shetland and Fisher would later perform a joint operation against Sadono's Kundang camp, in which Shetland provided tactical support with Displace mercenaries and helped facilitate Fisher's extraction.
Shetland appears again in Chaos Theory
, when Third Echelon comes to suspect that rogue elements within Displace International are covertly attempting to get the United States/South Korea and North Korea into war against each other. It is ultimately revealed that Shetland himself is the mastermind behind the scheme.
Shetland organized payment to Hugo Lacerda to interrogate Bruce Morgenholt and retrieved the Masse kernel from the first game. Killing Abrahim Zherkezhi, who worked with Morgenholt on the Kernels, Shetland used the algorithms to cause blackout
s in New York City
and Japan
, as well as launch a North Korea
n missile that, with the help of an algorithm
that crippled and successfully sank the USS Clarence E Walsh, sparking an armed conflict involving China
, North Korea
, South Korea
, Japan
, and the United States
.
Fisher is eventually sent to Japan
in order to eliminate his old friend and prevent the spread of the weaponized algorithms. After a meeting to sell I-SDF algorithms, talks decline into a firefight, Fisher pursues Shetland and the two end up facing off in a tense Mexican standoff
, in which Shetland expresses his outrage at the "politicians and bureaucrats" and their "dirty little wars" that have left America "sick and dying". He tells Fisher about the need to "tear it down and start over", and tells him that because he (Sam) "believes in honor, courage and fidelity more than any government", he "wouldn't shoot an old friend". However, Fisher does kill Shetland.
The way Shetland is killed is decided by the user. After the conversation, Sam can choose to shoot Shetland in the head, or holster his pistol. If Sam holsters his weapon, Shetland will quickly raise his gun and shoot. However, he will miss as Sam ducks and then stabs Shetland in the stomach. Both ways lead to Shetland falling through a window into the water and Sam saying, as he stares at Shetland's corpse: "You're right, Doug. I wouldn't shoot an old friend."
Sarah Fisher is the daughter of Sam Fisher and Regan Burns. Sarah was born on an American Air Force Base in Germany on May 31, 1985. Shorty after her parents divorced, Sarah's mother, Regan, had changed her surname back to Burns. Regan died from ovarian cancer when Sarah was fifteen. Throughout her childhood, Sarah (taking her mother's surname) encountered many tough times with her father, especially when he went on his missions. She was not always aware what kind of work her father did, but she knew it was government-related. During the events of the first novel, Sarah was made aware of her father's true job, and this helped her to understand that it wasn't Sam's fault he was always away. In June 2003, she graduated from Towson High School
and went on to attend Northwestern University
in Evanston, Illinois
, where she was majoring in International Relations with a minor in Art History. Nearly five years later, Sarah (now going by her father's surname) appears to be killed by a "drunk driver" while her father was away on a mission in Iceland. Sam was devastated by her apparent death, and went into a deep depression.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Fisher visits her grave on the anniversary of her death, and was captured by federal agents waiting for him to show up at the site.
Sarah appears in the next gen version of Double Agent. In the second training level, she appears as a hostage that Sam must rescue. A female technician noticed that Sam seemed to be stressed when he saw the hostage and asked him if he was all right.
In Splinter Cell: Conviction, Grim tells Sam that Sarah was not killed by a drunk driver. Lambert discovered the presence of a mole within Third Echelon who was going to use Sarah as leverage against Sam (perceived to ensure Sam would do his bidding). To prevent this, Lambert faked her death, so that, although Sam would suffer, he couldn't be used by the mole. After discovering this, Sam's friend Victor Coste takes Sarah from her apartment to be reunited with Sam. Sarah tells her father that she thought he was dead, and that Grim took care of her during the ordeal of his supposed death. At the end of Conviction, Sarah and Sam move away together to catch up.
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A relative newcomer to the NSA, Williams is the first occupant of a newly-created executive position overseeing Third Echelon activities. Williams is an ambitious and skilled political player, exactly the kind of person Sam can't get along with. He only seen in the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube versions, but he is mentioned by Hisham Hamza in the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions. jesse burch
(actor), single character, Williams is listed in the credits of Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of Double Agent. The actors voice is believed to be heard during the credits of the best ending (issuing orders to capture Sam). It is also believed that the actor can be heard from a helicopter, at the end of the bonus mission 'Coast Guard Boat', when Sam defuses the final Red Mercury. He is heard giving demands for Sam to surrender before the boat blows up. However there is dispute if the voices are from Williams (Jesse Burch), or if they are from other characters.
Personality-wise, he's the guy that goes by the book. He thinks that NOC and double agent
practices are too dangerous for the NSA and government. Williams thinks more politically than logically. He knows that Sam Fisher is capable of doing his job, but does not trust Fisher under his circumstances. When Williams finds out about the JBA mission in the other versions, he is quick to pull the plug and end it. Sam is forced to make careful decisions to keep the trust of Williams, while also making sure that the JBA trust him.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, released before Double Agent, but chronologically set after those games, he had been promoted to Director of Operations. Agent Williams is an NSA bureaucrat who entered the intelligence field by way of the State Department. Since that time he has risen steadily through the ranks by virtue of ruthless politicking. Despite the fact that he has no field experience, Williams was named acting Director of Operations in the wake of Colonel Lambert's sudden departure, and since then he has made a number of sweeping changes to agency operations. In the game, Williams wants Sam framed for murder. Williams does this by altering Sam's records of past missions, in order to make Sam look like a cold blooded killer. When Anna Grimsdóttír discovers his file tampering, he let his unnamed "boss" know about her discovering the modifications. He later threatened her to give the disk containing the evidence to him, as he has ways of dealing with people who try to cross him. He then puts the disk in a hidden safe in his office. Sam is able to sneak into his office to get the disk and then warns Williams not to try to follow him again. He tells Williams that he will find out why he is trying to frame him, and at that time he will return for him.
Williams is neither seen nor mentioned in Splinter Cell: Conviction and it is unknown what happened to him.
(Note: A "Deputy Director Lawrence" from the NSA also appears in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
, overseeing the second mission of the game.)
Kombayn Nikoladze is the primary antagonist of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. A charismatic and powerful industrialist, Nikoladze seizes power of Georgia
in a "bloodless coup [d'état]" following the assassination of the previous President in a suicide bomb attack. Although appearing to be pro-Western and a democrat
, Nikoladze hid a hatred of America
and aggressive military ambitions.
After commissioning Russian mercenary Vyacheslav Grinko to retrain the Georgian army in covert guerrilla warfare, Nikoladze engaged in a secret military campaign in the neighboring Muslim nation of Azerbaijan
in order to seize control of the country's vast oil reserves. Knowing that the West
would take military action against him if they became aware of his operation, Nikoladze employed Canadian Hacker Phillip Masse, whose information warfare
techniques managed to hide evidence of the invasion from intelligence-gathering organizations. By the time Sam Fisher's infiltration of the Georgian Ministry of Defense had uncovered evidence of the campaign, Georgian commandos had almost completely overthrown the government of Azerbaijan.
With Nikoladze's crimes brought to the attention of the world, NATO engages in military action against Georgia, pushing Georgian commandos from Azerbaijan. In retaliation, Nikoladze uses highly advanced information warfare algorithms developed by Masse to attack America in what would later be called the 'Georgian Information Crisis'. Masse's attacks targeted military and computer systems as well as transportation and other infrastructure, causing widespread disruption and death. During the crisis, Nikoladze posted webcasts mocking America's efforts and threatening destruction.
Knowing that he would never be able to fight the United States directly, Nikoladze dispersed cells of the Georgian army across the world and made plans to launch a devastating strike. After making a secret alliance with Chinese
General Kong Feirong, the head of a splinter faction within the People's Liberation Army
, Nikoladze's commandos seized nuclear material from a power plant in the Kola peninsula
of Russia. Kong Feirong and his loyal troops seized control of the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar
, near the abattoir where Nikoladze was hiding. The captured nuclear material was transported to the embassy where Kong Feirong's men adapted it for military use. Although Fisher destroyed the nuclear material kept by Feirong, Nikoladze was able to smuggle a SADM
christened 'The Ark' into Washington
.
Following the defeat of his Information Warfare campaign, and the deaths of Grinko and Feirong, Nikoladze made a deal with the new Georgian President, Varlem Cristavi that he be allowed to return to the Georgian Presidential Palace for reasons that he did not specify. However, Cristavi learned that Nikoladze's reason for returning was to recover a 'key' to the Ark, and made plans to double cross him. Georgian special forces
gunned down Nikoladze's guards as he was about to recover the 'key'. In the interests of self-preservation, Nikoladze agreed to provide the new Georgian government with the Ark and it's 'key' in return for sparing his life. However, before he could give the location of the device to President Cristavi, Nikoladze was sniped and killed from across a courtyard by Fisher at the conclusion of the game's final mission.
Because of the mysterious circumstances of his death, sightings and rumours of his survival would abound for several years.
Nikoladze is referenced to by Lambert in Pandora Tomorrow. In the Jakarta, Indonesia mission, Lambert explains why Sadono has to be captured alive (because assassinated leaders tended to be stubborn ghosts).
Nikoladze is also referenced to by Anna Grimsdóttír in Chaos Theory. In the Bathhouse mission, while listening in on the secret meeting between Douglas Shetland and the owner of the bathhouse, the player had the opportunity to remotely use the laptop on the bench. Inside the laptop is only one email with the subject "Chaos Theory". If the player chooses to open the email, then after the meeting while Sam is exiting the vent, Grimsdóttír will tell him that Shetland's chaos theory is a strange outlook on Nikoladze's Glass Dagger.
Vyacheslav Grinko is a sadistic former Spetznaz (Russian Special Forces) soldier, working as a mercenary for Kombayn Nikoladze. In-game dialogue and text suggests that he served in Azerbaijan and Afghanistan, and is a professional sniper. It is also suggested that most people who know him are scared of him (With the possible exception of Nikoladze and Masse.) He was in charge of the deaths of CIA-agents Allison Madison and Robert Blaustein, the theft of nuclear material from the Nadezdha nuclear plant and the attempted executions of American soldiers in Myanmar. When Fisher infiltrated Nikoladze's hideout in Rangoon, Grinko took command and ordered his men to evacuate Nikoladze. He and his men attempted to kill Fisher and carry on with the executions, but Fisher prevented the executions and killed Grinko.
Kong Feirong was a high member of the PLA. He reached the rank of general in 2001. Kong Feirong is a rogue general, leading a schism of the Chinese Army. He allied himself with Kombayn Nikoladze to start a war between China and America. However, after the failure of the Abattoir executions, Nikoladze abandoned him. The Chinese government learned of his treason
and attacked the embassy. Beaten, Kong got himself drunk with the ambassador's best wine, which he chased with a bottle of poison and even shot two of his own men. Sam Fisher interrogated him and made him reveal files of his involvement and the weapon called the 'Ark'. Soon after that Kong succumbed to the poisoned liquor he had been drinking.
, and is being held captive at a slaughter house (Mouke Tsoe Bo Meats) in Yangon
. He speaks to Sam Fisher telling him about a rogue Chinese General. (It is hinted in a data stick that Vyacheslav Grinko tortured Long Dan in order to get him to translate what the Chinese officials were talking about between each other). The second time he appears is during Chaos Theory. He is the Chinese ambassador to the U.N trying to broker a peace deal between North
and South Korea
, and for his actions he is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
.
Phillip Masse was a Canadian computer hacker who was hired by Vyacheslav Grinko to disrupt information networks to allow the Georgians to invade Azerbaijan
unnoticed. Afterwards, he played a major role in disrupting major complex computer networks as part of an incident known as the Georgian Information Crisis. He was later killed by Sam Fisher, this mission was released after the release of the game as a downloadable level for the Xbox version, and as part of a mission pack for the PC version, called "Kola Cell".
Masse used unique tricks and strategies in computer hacking, including 512-bit encryption
. The United Nations
created a committee led by Abrahim Zherkezhi in order to determine how Masse carried out his clever and complex operations and to reverse-engineer the programs used in the Information Crisis. In mid-2006, the project was declared a success by the UN. In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory the techniques Masse used became known as the "Masse Kernels" and were considered revolutionary methods of information warfare so much so, that agent Sam Fisher was dispatched specifically to prevent that information from being spread.
An NSA interrogations expert, Baxter is sent with Wilkes to the CIA HQ in Langley to interrogate the CIA mole Mitchell Dougherty once Fisher has him in custody. They are chatted up by a security agent on the CIA grounds, though he is merely being friendly as NSA members are allowed on CIA properties. He is mentioned in the Chaos Theory Co-Op campaign where he assists in the interrogation of Jong Pom Chu but is never seen.
A CIA analyst working inadvertently with the Georgians, Dougherty's OCD caused him to store his work on a personal laptop.Poo laptop, not being nearly secure as the CIA's mainframe, was hacked by Georgians. A Georgian technician named Piotr even confirmed that Dougherty did not know what trouble he had caused. As a result of tracking down the leak from the CIA main server, Fisher abducts Dougherty for interrogation by the NSA when he goes for a smoke break. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards. It is also unknown whether the CIA found out that Dougherty's carelessness caused the information attacks.
Thomas Gurgenidze is a contact for Sam in his first mission. He told Sam why the CIA agents he was assigned to rescue vanished. They were later found dead in a morgue. Gurgenidze is crushed by falling debris after three Russian mafiosos
set fire to the warehouse he was in. Fisher found him pinned underneath fallen objects and tried to evacuate him, but Thomas was too far gone; he died before he could fully convey a rather important message to Sam.
(he was reconnected to Grim, after three transfers) to come rescue him. In return he would reveal what the Georgians were up to. A Mafioso finds him just before Sam comes in time to save Ivan. Unfortunately for Ivan, Sam came only for his encryption key and Ivan is forced to continue hiding. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards, although it is stated that he is picked up by the FBI.
Varlam Cristavi becomes the Georgian acting president
after Kombayn Nikoladze is removed from office. He orders the Georgian guards at the presidential palace to kill Nikoladze's men and retrieve the Ark for themselves. Fisher's intervention results in the failure of this plan as well as the deaths of some of Cristavi's guards. Cristavi remains president of Georgia as of 2006.
A mercenary colonel for the Georgian military forces, Alekseevich was in charge of the Kola cell in Russia, and was smuggling nuclear warheads in the submarine
Vselka. He is friends with Phillip Masse and is present in the cell when Fisher infiltrates the base. During this mission, Alekseevich is forced by Fisher to operate a retinal scanner to open a locked door. (Sam kills him afterwards.) Grim refers to Alekseevich as a Soviet "Darth Vader".
D.P. Brunton is the Operations Coordinator of SHADOWNET. In Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow he has a similar role to Irving Lambert, providing Sam Fisher with mission objectives and intelligence over the radio during some of the game's missions. As his operations specifically prohibit live satellite contact between coordinator and operatives, Dermot's function is more bureaucratic and managerial.
Suhadi Sadono is the leader of a radical Indonesia
n guerrilla group known as the Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer), and the main antagonist of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. He is voiced by David Kaye
.
Sadono has been in the Darah Dan Doa since he was 15 years old. He was trained by the CIA to help fight Communist
influences in the region, but felt betrayed when the Americans stopped backing Indonesia and put their support behind East Timor
instead, even establishing permanent military bases in East Timor to widen their influence over the region. Resentful of the American interference in his country's autonomy, Sadono eventually decides to declare war on America.
In the beginning of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Suhadi personally leads a squad of guerrillas in an attack on the American embassy in East Timor
, taking dozens of hostages, including Sam Fisher's old friend Douglas Shetland.
It is revealed later in the game that Sadono has acquired samples of the smallpox
virus and placed a series of viral bombs across the United States, threatening to detonate them and release the virus if he is ever killed or captured. He calls this scheme "Pandora Tomorrow".
When Sam succeeds in disabling the threat of Pandora Tomorrow, Sadono prepares to go underground and wage an extended terrorist campaign against America, using periodic videotaped statements to call for a world revolution against the US. Before he can implement his plan, Sadono is abducted by Fisher and handed over to the CIA for trial.
Norman Soth is another major antagonist in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, as well as the final opponent in the game.
He is a CIA field agent who participated in Operation REDBEARD, establishing US-friendly terrorist cells in Indonesia
to fight Communism. One of these cells was the Darah Dan Doa, led by Suhadi Sadono. However, the U.S. Government pulled support of Operation REDBEARD and ended up supporting the Timorese, leaving Soth on his own.
Soth was subsequently severely injured in a land mine
explosion, losing his right leg, two of his fingers, and part of his left ear lobe. He had his lost leg replaced with an advanced robotic prosthesis
.
Soth eventually went underground and aligned himself with Sadono and the DDD, becoming Sadono's chief mercenary. However, Soth had no interest in Sadono's cause, and merely wanted to strike back at America for betraying him earlier.
After Sadono is captured, Soth takes the last canister filled with the smallpox virus and plans to release it at LAX. Sam confronts Soth inside LAX, and kills him in a shootout.
In Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Norman Soth goes under the alias of 'Mortified Penguin'. He also briefly used the alias 'Johnathan Poindexter' in order to secure train tickets in France.
Ingrid Karlthson first came in contact with Sam Fisher while she was a hostage in the Darah Dan Doa's raid on the U.S. Embassy in East Timor
in 2006. She is posing as a desk-jockey and provides a translation for a file Fisher received which leads him to the Saulnier Cryogenics lab and later, Norman Soth.
It is later revealed that Karlthson is actually a deep-cover agent planted at the embassy to discern whether or not Soth was still an agency asset. (He was so deep undercover
that even the CIA didn't know if he was still working for them.) She is taken by Sadono as a bargaining
chip and is taken to the TV station in Jakarta
where she assists Fisher in capturing Sadono.
Francois Coldeboeuf was a security guard at the Saulnier Cryogenics
Lab. Back in 2003 he was arrested for invasion of privacy by taking a picture with his cellphone camera
. However, when Norman Soth's mercenaries took over the building, he was the only survivor and went into hiding in the secured body processing center, managing to take Soth's picture on his phone's camera. Before the mercenaries manage to break into the room, Fisher reaches him but only for his cellphone for information and a picture of "Mortified Penguin" - Soth. Afterward, Fisher saves Coldeboeuf from being blown up by the mercenaries. Coldeboeuf's status after the incident is not known. It is also possible to kill him, though Lambert will reprimand the player and tell Sam that he will undergo a psych evaluation next time he is "stateside", even knocking him out to carry him to safety will cause Lambert to tell Fisher the same thing.
Francis Coldeboeuf is also the name of the co-producer of the single player portion in Pandora Tomorrow, which is where his name comes from.
. He gets taken hostage by two thieves who demand his guns and money. Sam quickly disposes of these two and Saul gives Sam a modified version of his SC-20K
. If the player chooses to, Saul will lead Sam to an area where he can test out his "new" weapon. The modification of the weapon, however, was purely for a plot element, since there are no apparent differences from the SC-20K that the player uses in the previous missions.
Dahlia Tal is an undercover agent of the Shin Bet (Israeli Secret Police) who had infiltrated a Syria
n terrorist group by pretending to be a corrupt member of Mossad
. She assists Sam Fisher during a mission inside Israel in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.
In cooperation with Third Echelon, she leads Fisher through the streets of Jerusalem to the terrorist group's headquarters, while helping him evade Israeli police patrols. However, when the two of them finally reach the terrorist headquarters, Lambert radios Fisher and orders him to execute Dahlia immediately.
Fisher may choose to spare Tal. Lambert then reprimands Fisher, telling him "It's not your job to question!" Lambert then reveals that Shin Bet has double-crossed Third Echelon. They are planning on killing Fisher as soon as he retrieves the smallpox virus from the terrorists, because the Israeli government wants to steal the viral weapon for themselves; and because Fisher doesn't officially exist, there would be no repercussions for killing him. Sure enough, three Syrian mercenary snipers and Tal stalk Fisher as soon as he exits the terrorist base. Fisher is forced to kill them and heads to the exfiltration point. Lambert tells Sam that his soft spot for Tal "has cost us more in the region than you can imagine". Sam then says that "He'll wear a coned hat
in a corner" when he returns to the US. If the player shoots Tal, Fisher asks Lambert why he had to kill her at the end of the mission. Lambert only says "No, not yet", after which point the subject is not brought up again for the player.
Admiral Otomo is one of the main antagonists in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. He was the head of Japan's I-SDF (Information Self Defense Force).
Whilst Otomo appeared to be trying to assist the NSA in resolving the East Asian crisis and stopping the war that had broken out between North Korea
, South Korea
and the United States
, he was in fact one of its primary architects. Otomo and the I-SDF had been working with Douglas Shetland, and using information warfare
algorithms belonging to Displace International, the I-SDF had launched an attack on a U.S. Navy ship from a North Korean missile battery.
When the NSA realized that the I-SDF was working with Shetland, Otomo, a fierce nationalist, sealed the I-SDF's base of operations and demanded that the Japanese government suspend Japan's Constitution
and return power to the Emperor
and the armed forces. When the Japanese government refused these demands, Otomo attempted to fire a North Korean Nuclear missile upon a Japanese city, knowing that the people of Japan
would demand retaliation in the event of such an attack. The launch was stopped by Sam Fisher, who destroyed the I-SDF's servers and thus their capability to launch Information Warfare attacks. After attempting to commit seppuku
by stabbing himself with a blade, Otomo was rescued by Sam and brought before a U.N. War Tribunal, where his honor dictated that he admit his actions and plead guilty.
Mason uses a very hardline approach when dealing with problems. While he encouraged the President to send out troops (and, at one point, to use nuclear devices to stop the Korea conflict), Lambert managed to talk him down, preventing a terrible crisis.
Near the end of the crisis, Mason agrees with Lambert to take out Shetland (whose company had contracts with United States government), and capture Otomo.
Arthur Partridge was captain of the USS Clarence E. Walsh and one of the U.S. Navy's top ship commanders, on course to become an Admiral. A longtime friend of Sam Fisher, Partridge was his Commanding Officer for a short time when Sam was a Navy SEAL, and the two maintained a good friendship over the years.
Partridge captained the USS Walsh into the Yellow Sea
under orders of the President
. He was killed along with his crew when a hijacked North Korean Silkworm anti-ship missile hit and sunk the ship. The USS Walsh was more than capable of defending against the attack, but a Masse Kernel-related attack crippled it, leading to the antiquated missile being able to send it straight to the bottom.
Milan Nedićh was a ranking member of Displace International, and was in charge of the Abrahim Zherkezhi and Bruce Morgenholt protection details. Initially believed to be responsible for playing both the US and Displace over Morgenholt's death and the Masse Kernels, it is later discovered that he was working under orders from Douglas Shetland, Displace's CEO. According to members of Displace International, Nedićh killed someone in Istanbul. He was drunk and wandered out of the bar looking for a fight. His friends found him the next morning covered in blood. The newspaper said the next day that Istanbul police found some guy cut to ribbons just a couple of blocks from the bar that they were at.
Nedićh's real name is Milos Nowak, a wanted war criminal from the Bosnian Conflict
. He was known as "The Bosnian Barber" due to allegedly scalping a number of his prisoners. Nedich was eventually killed by Sam Fisher at a Hokkaidō
mountain retreat in Japan
.
Hugo Lacerda was a Peru
vian separatist revolutionary
and the leader of a Communist guerrilla organization called "The People's Voice". He is responsible for the kidnapping and murder of American computational theorist Bruce Morgenholt, but leaves his island fortress hideout before Sam can find and assassinate him. Lacerda boards the Maria Narcissa, guarded by a pair of Displace International bodyguards. However, Fisher is able to infiltrate the Maria Narcissa and kill Lacerda, as per Third Echelon's orders.
Lacerda was not nearly as popular among his men as Suhadi Sadono was among his. Many of his men can be overheard welcoming the thought of his death.
Abrahim Zherkezhi was a computer genius and worked with Bruce Morgenholt in studying the Masse Kernels for the UN (known in the game as Project Watson) following the Georgian Information Crisis, and then abruptly disappeared from public life. There were ongoing rumors that he had gone insane.
It is later learned that Zherkezhi had taken protection from Displace International. He allowed Douglas Shetland to use his 'Dvorak' algorithms, though unaware of Shetland's intentions. After the blackouts of the East Coast (New York City) and Japan, Sam was sent to Zherkezhi's penthouse to locate the 'Dvorak' only to learn it was an infinite state machine. Fisher also learned Displace relocated Zherkezhi to Hokkaidō.
While Fisher attempted to kidnap Zherkezhi, Shetland arrived beforehand and murdered Zherkezhi with a katana
in the Hokkaidō retreat to hide evidence of his involvement (if Sam neutralizes the guard outside and goes up to the door Shetland will kill Zherkezhi with a gun instead).
Zherkezhi is also mentioned in Pandora Tomorrow, in the intro cut-scene to the "Train" level, the newscaster will mention that a U.S. operation involving the "Masse Kernals" has been successful, though his name is pronounced "Abraham Zerkazi".
Bruce Morgenholt worked alongside Abrahim Zherkezhi in studying the Masse Kernels after the Georgian Information Crisis. He was kidnapped by a group of Peru
vian revolutionaries under Hugo Lacerda, and was tortured for information on the Masse Kernels. Ironically, it was Displace International who hired Lacerda, the same company protecting him.
He died from his torture before Fisher could rescue him.
.
Shetland's I-SDF contact in the Bathhouse, Kaneda meets with Shetland in order to purchase the weaponized algorithms. He gets into a heated argument with Shetland during the meeting and orders his I-SDF bodyguard to kill Shetland. However, Kaneda's bodyguard first kills Shetland's own bodyguard, allowing Shetland the opportunity to kill Kaneda's bodyguard while he is still faced away from Shetland. Now defenseless, Kaneda pleads that "We can work this out", but Shetland quickly shoots Kaneda dead.
They return in Double Agent in the Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, and Wii versions to finish the mission that Fisher began in Iceland. They destroy the factory and are then sent to Ellsworth Penitentiary to begin a riot to allow Fisher and Jamie Washington to escape the prison. They are then sent to Kinshasa to find weapons that the rebels had bought and destroy the bunker. Afterward, they head to the tanker stolen by Fisher, disarming various Red Mercury bombs.
Both agents are neither seen nor mentioned in Splinter Cell: Conviction and it is unknown what happened to them.
Emile Dufraisne is the main antagonist of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, he is voiced by Keith Szarabajka
. Emile is the founder and leader of the JBA (John Brown's Army), an American
terrorist organization. An imposing figure with a shaved head and a Cajun accent
, Emile has always believed he was destined for greatness. He despises the United States government, believing it to be corrupt
, and feels the only way to achieve social change is through radical revolution
.
For a long time, he's been dreaming of more ambitious plans for the JBA, an organization that has frequently been suspected of but never tied to any criminal activity. Ultimately, Emile is willing to sacrifice both his operatives and himself for his insane ideals, as is shown near the end of Version 1 when he sets the Red Mercury bomb to blow up most of New York City and all of the JBA with it. Some think of him as a terrorist, but he considers himself a patriot
. In Version 2 and Essentials: JBA Headquarters is in New Orleans, in Version 2 the plan is to take out New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville at the same time.
The JBA itself is a quite sophisticated organization. They use technology, training, secrecy and discipline, almost like a PMC. But being a terrorist organization engaged in illegal activities, they have material limits and ruthless methods to achieve their goals.
In Version 1, Emile is simply one of several terrorists guarding the Red Mercury bomb at the center of the JBA Headquarters underneath New York City at the end of the game. Sam can simply sneak up on him and shoot him to death like any other enemy character. The player can also interrogate Emile after corner-grabbing him. Emile will tell Sam to give it up: Sam then kills him by breaking his neck. If Sam grabs him from behind, he slips out of Sam's grip and squares off for a fist fight but Sam kills him with a fictional martial arts move which pushes his nose cartilage into his brain.
In Version 2 of Double Agent, Sam confronts Emile in a climactic one-on-one shootout within a maze of laser mines atop a New York city skyscraper during the level "New York". Sam manages to throw a flash bang to Emile blinding him for enough time to grab his pistol and shoot Dufraine dead, then disarms the Red Mercury bomb, saving New York City. Tossing a flash-bang into Emile's sight will stun him, allowing him to be grabbed. Emile will say "Nicely played, Fisher.", and engages in a lengthy conversation with Sam.
Carson Moss met Emile Dufraisne in 1996 after leaving a private security company and enlisted in JBA as head of security. Carson is a racist and was linked to several hate crime
beatings before joining the JBA but was never arrested. Carson is also a hotheaded man and is disliked by many of the members of John Brown's Army, but no one dares challenge or question him, save Jamie Washington. He bullies
everyone in the group, except Emile (for obvious reasons) and Enrica, because he is in love with her. He works out incessantly and is extremely strong. It is also noted that he played high school football
and badly hurt his knee; to this day he isn't as agile as he once was. Carson dislikes Sam and is the only JBA member that doesn't trust him. Eavesdropping on Carson while he's exercising with his punching bag
shows him saying "Fisher, there's something about that guy."
In Version 1, Carson Moss's real name was Gary Carson. He had a history of child abuse
from his father, resulting in having him jump to various orphanages. At one point, he attempted to enlist in the United States Marine Corps
, but was rejected, and ended up serving a brief stint in the U.S. Army. Moss had many disciplinary problems while in the Army but nothing too serious. His problem carried on during Moss's civilian life while being arrested by local police officers numerous times, while doing muscle-work for various criminals, including working for a bookie out of Miami as a "kneecapper". In 1996 Moss was employed by PMC Displace International. While on security detail in Kazakhstan
, Moss severed the ring finger of every man, woman and child in a small village as punishment for "harboring kidnappers". Moss was later dismissed from Displace. After that, he changed his name to Carson Moss and went to work for Dufraisne as head of security for the JBA.
Sam finds Moss on a Coast Guard
ship in New York City
attempting to set off the last Red Mercury device after realizing the entire operation has gone awry. Sam can attempt to sneak up to and grab Moss but he manages to free himself, after a short struggle Sam manages to knee Moss's bad knee and breaks his neck before pushing his corpse aside. Sam then defuses the Red Mercury. Sam then dives into the ocean just before the police fires a rocket to the boat's bridge which blows up the ship.
Early in Version 2, during the mission JBA Headquarters Part 1, it is possible for the player to grab and interrogate Moss. Killing him, or anyone else in the mission results in failure. In the final mission Moss was defending a Red Mercury bomb on the 68th floor of an unnamed skyscraper in New York, and was killed by Sam. In this version he can be successfully grabbed in the usual way and interrogated before killing him.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials version, Moss captures a recording of Sam and Irving Lambert discussing the mission to infiltrate the JBA. Sam alters the recording to keep his own cover, replacing his voice with someone named "Dave". Later Moss is in a room with Dufraisne. They had captured Lambert, and Moss played the recording in order to uncover Sam's true identity, but is foiled by the modified recording. Moss apologizes for making the mistake. Although he was sure he had heard Sam's voice originally, he had no way to prove what he heard.
He is voiced by Dwight Schultz
.
Jamie is a study in contrasts. On one hand he is generally cheerful and easy-going, and once he decides he likes somebody, they are friends for life. On the other hand he can be a vicious, cruel, cold-blooded killer causing harm to anyone who gets in his way (in Version 2 on the first JBA Headquarters mission, a certain guard, if interrogated, comments that he is "crazier than a snake on steroids"). He is an active member of the JBA. Jamie has a heart condition, and was equipped with a pacemaker
during his spell in prison in order to help with keeping his heart-rate steady. In Version 2, it is revealed that the traitorous Cole Yeagher had secretly gave information to the police that led to Washington's arrest and sentence to prison. However, the charge was for kidnapping, and the jury never found out he was also a murderer.
In both versions, Sam helps him break out of Ellsworth Penitentiary, so he can get invited into John Brown's Army (Ellsworth Penitentiary appears to be based on the real life USP Leavenworth). In Splinter Cell: Essentials version of the event, Sam helps him break out of the "United States Penitentiary", in Leavenworth
, Kansas.
Jamie and Moss seem to not get along very well, as Fisher sees when he is snooping around. In the end, Fisher will eventually either choose to kill Jamie instead of Lambert, or kill him later on, if the player does not shoot Lambert straight away Jamie tells Fisher to shoot Lambert on the count of five or else he will shoot Fisher. When he reaches 3, however he flinches, saying "Don't make me do this." Fisher is forced to shoot Lambert who will die of his wound later while Jamie leaves the room. Fisher encounters him again in the basement and kills him.
In Version 2, Jamie is guarding a Red Mercury bomb with B.J. Sykes, when he is killed by Sam. As an option, his pacemaker could be short-circuited by Sam's OCP attachment on his 5.7 pistol. If interrogated, Jamie will express initial disbelief that Sam is a "traitor", claiming he knows Sam too well to believe it, before Sam remarks Jamie did not know him at all.
A brilliant young woman with a PhD in biochemistry, she works with Emile Dufraisne for the JBA. She seems to be the most medically trained of the JBA, as she can be seen working in the infirmary. It would seem, however, that she is working for him against her will, due to threats from Emile exposing her to the police about her involvement in a "monkeywrenching" protest where a security guard was accidentally killed. She is a possible "love interest" for Sam Fisher.
In Version 2, the game uses their relationship as a main plot point, and in the final level they plan on running away together; however, she is killed by a Splinter Cell agent sent by Williams. Sam then ambushes the agent by hiding in the snow, slitting the agent's throat in anger. Sam then defiantly cuts out his own sub-dermal radio.
In Version 1, Sam and Enrica share a sexual encounter in her quarters after Sam cracks Emile's safe, though Sam only seduces her in order to keep his cover intact. In some missions, Enrica acts as Sam's contact, including a mission in which Sam must place a bomb on a cruise ship to test its effectiveness. Sam can either frame Enrica using her disarm code to prevent the bomb from exploding, or simply jam the signal. In either case, Emile will execute her. Sam does not show any remorse following her death, nor does he offer any comments following the actions. Her corpse is later seen beside a furnace in the final JBA HQ level. If Sam instead decides to allow the ocean liner to explode, Enrica offers a disingenuous "Nice work, Sam". Near the end of the game, Enrica hands Sam his SC-20K rifle and goggles (though only if the player forgot to collect them from the firing range), aiding him in preventing Emile from detonating the nuclear explosive device. She will also open a retinal scanner locked door for Sam. Enrica then heads to her office, and Sam can either leave her alone, knock her unconscious, or kill her. If the player grabs her from behind, the grapple animation has Enrica twist around in his arms to look at him face to face, holding onto his wrist, though it is worth noting that female civilians in other missions also exhibit the same hold position. Since the player must save two out of three targets to get the canon ending, framing Enrica is the canon choice since Conviction confirmed that Sam did not save Lambert.
Dayton is a JBA computer hacker and head of the security systems. He also creates the hacking program for Enrica to use on the Cozumel cruise ship. He despises nearly every member of the JBA leadership with the exception of Enrica Villablanca because she is a woman. He is also plagued by nightmares and illnesses. He has also been considered a hypochondriac, as well as being in the worst health in the JBA. He is able to be interrogated by simply grabbing him - he doesn't fight back like Emile or Moss. Sam interrogates him to find out where Emile is: he then kills him. Killing Dayton will allow the player to scan his retina.
Stanley shares the same role as B.J. Sykes from the Xbox/PS2/GC/Wii version of Double Agent.
Billy-Jo Sykes is a JBA computer hacker and head of the security systems in Version 2 and is a different version of Stanley Dayton. He is the least liked of all the JBA members. Sykes is an introvert who talks to himself because he does not like to talk with others. Although Sykes is notorious for jumping to paranoid conclusions, Emile respects his technical skills and Sykes sticks around because he gets to play with the JBA's high-tech systems. Emile respects him greatly, for he is the only one trusted to run solo on errands outside the JBA.
He ultimately reveals Sam's status as a spy to Emile in Version 2 during the HALO jump in the New York rooftop operation. Sykes is killed along with Jamie Washington in the snowtops level.
B.J Sykes shares the same role as Stanley Dayton from the 360/PS3/PC version of Double Agent.
with a chemical weapon. In Version 2, a news broadcast at the end of the game states he was arrested by FBI agents.
In Version 1, Massoud meets with Emile and Takfir in Kinshasa. He tells them that his men will crew the tanker Sam had stolen, and pilot it into the Los Angeles harbor with one of the nuclear weapons (in which three Red Mercury bombs are disarmed by Agents One and Two). He then receives a call from one of his men, and learns an agent, Hisham Hamza, had infiltrated his group. He then leaves the meeting to conduct the search for Hamza. It was also revealed in an opportunity objective that Massoud also temporarily owned a chemical bunker in Kinshasa, which was eventually sabotaged by Agents One and Two.
In Version 2, Takfir had stolen the weapons from Raheem Kadir in Iceland. Takfir was one of the buyers, along with Dufraisne that wanted the weapons, and was angry when it was agreed Dufraisne would be purchasing them. Takfir eventually allied with Massoud and Emile to use his nuclear weapons.
Part of a new initiative within the Department of Defense, Hisham's capacity for quick learning made him an excellent candidate to act as a field liaison between the CIA and the NSA. Following the CIA's orders, Hisham managed to get recruited in the Massoud group and is acting now as a double agent. He is ready to do whatever it takes to stop the menacing plans of the JBA—even sacrificing himself for the right cause.
In Version 1, Hisham is sometimes Sam's contact, such as in the Shanghai mission. Eventually, Emile will order Sam to kill Hisham when he discovers that he has a mole. Whether Sam kills him or helps him escape (by freeing him from the palace and blowing the whole place up to make it look like he is dead) is up to the player.
In Version 2, Hisham is Sam's partner during the Iceland mission. He discovers traces of radiation in the labs and evacuates with Sam when Lambert calls the mission off. He then joins Massoud's group as a double agent, until his cover is blown. During the Kinshasa mission, the player can either kill Hisham and stuff his body in a car for J.B.A. trust, or escort Hisham to a parking lot and hoist him over the fence facilitating his escape.
i nuclear scientist who meets Emile and Massoud to sell nuclear documents and Red Mercury
. Emile orders Sam to steal the documents on how to make Red Mercury when Emile refuses to pay Aswat because the price is too high. Sam steals the documents and killing Aswat becomes a primary objective given to Fisher by Agent Hisham, an undercover CIA agent. Hisham refers to Doctor Aswat as a "liability". If Sam does not succeed in killing Aswat, he will lose NSA trust.
In Version 2, Yeager is a member of the JBA. However, he plans to overthrow Emile and take it over, though Emile suspects it. Emile sends Fisher to find out what he can about Cole, and to bring it to him. Lambert tells Fisher to give the information to the NSA, so they can capture Cole and find information.
If Sam gives the information he finds to Lambert, then the NSA takes Cole and interrogates him for information for a very brief period of time. Williams tells Fisher that he was still alive and in prison, stating "Emile didn't look too hard". If Sam gives it to Emile, Carson Moss kills Cole and the NSA finds his body three days later.
He serves the same role as Mikey from Essentials.
Edward Blake was recruited into the NSA from Texas A&M University, where he was pursuing a double major in Political Science and Psychology. After joining the agency he became a field analyst specializing in the debriefing of foreign intelligence assets. Despite a notable lack of patience and a willingness to resort to physical methods of interrogation, his success record is one of the highest in the agency.
He was in charge of interrogating Sam after he was captured by the NSA after the events of "Double Agent". Fisher was able to escape from him and hide in William Redding's office.
Mikey can be interrogated by Sam, in which he explains why he was in prison.
Mikey serves the same role as Barnham from the Ubisoft Montreal version of Double Agent.
An ambitious graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Reed served in the U.S. Air Force in various counter-terrorist capacities, particularly cyberwarfare, and rose to the rank of Colonel. He transitioned to a new Third Echelon initiative under then-Director Irving Lambert. After Lambert was killed during the JBA crisis, Reed positioned himself to ascend to command position in Third Echelon. He has expanded organization’s head count and mission, moving aggressively into pre-emptive information warfare approaches. Reed's psychological profile indicates strong adaptive thinking with some narcissistic tendencies. He prefers hands-on operation and places a great store in personal loyalty. Reed has replaced most of Lambert’s appointees in Third Echelon with his own people. As a ruthless and relentless man, Reed has completely transformed Third Echelon into an organization that will resort to questionable tactics and will do anything to "protect" the United States, mostly through lethal means.
During the game, Reed discovers that President Patrica Cladwell is planning to shut down Third Echelon when she thinks they are justifying funding for the agency and is leaving America vulnerable without its intelligence services. He went to a mysterious group called Megiddo and conspires with Kobin and the PMC
called Black Arrow to smuggle EMP technology into the country as cover in an attempt to assassinate President Cladwell and have her Vice-President, who is in Megiddo's pocket, take over. If they succeed in assassinating the president, Reed would be considered a hero and will get an promotion to the high ranks.
Once the EMP was unleashed in Washington DC, Reed and his men attacked the White House to take over the White House. Once they took control in the Oval Office, Anna Grimsdóttír brought Sam inside, pretending to be a hostage and he reveals he planned to frame Sam for assassinating the President. Once Sam and Grim took out Reed's men in the Oval Office, Sam interrogates him and discovers that he was the mole that Lambert was searching for, which made the latter staged the death of Sam's daughter Sarah. In the last mission, the player has a choice to either kill Reed or spare him, in which case Reed is killed by Grim.
In the co-op storyline, Kobin is as an ally that helps the two playable characters, Archer and Kestrel, secure the EMP bombs and evacuates them via aircraft. Afterwards, when Archer and Kestrel are forced to kill one another in the plane's hangar, he is seen killing the guilt-ridden survivor in order to remove all traces of Tom Reed's future plans with the EMP weapons. Both bodies are later seen in his mansion, awaiting disposal.
Archer is an American agent working as a member of the "Splinter Cell" program for Third Echelon.
Earning an economics
degree at Harvard, Daniel Sloane-Suarez joined the NSA to pursue a career as an intelligence analyst. While at the Agency, Daniel interpreted signal intercepts connected to a dozen of terror plots, and personally identified the leadership of extremist group, the Grass Liberation Front. Though Daniel proved to be a highly capable analyst, his deeply-entrenched resentment to authority created considerable tension with his superiors at Fort Meade. Sloane-Suarez soon began to chafe against the bureaucratic confines of his job. Fortunately for him, his personnel file was flagged for potential field duty by recruiters of Third Echelon, and Anna Grimsdóttír quickly approved his admission to the group's grueling training program. Eighteen months later, he was assigned to his callsign "Archer".
He is killed at the end of the Coop campaign by either Andriy Kobin or Kestrel.
Mikhail Loskov a.k.a. Kestrel is a Russian agent working for Voron, Third Echelon's Russian counterpart.
Most of Mikhail's military dossier is classified. What is known is that he is no stranger to death, misery, and misfortune. His parents were killed when he was six. He had a tempestuous and violent relationship with his foster father, and at the age of 14 he ran away from home to live on the streets for four years. After numerous run-ins with local police he was arrested and turned over to the army for his period of conscription. Loskov thrived in brutal of Russian army life, and was quickly transferred to a special counterinsurgency charged with tracking down and neutralizing Chechen
guerrillas and Wahhabists fighters in the Chechen capital of Grozny
. After an incident where his entire unit was ambushed and subsequently captured, he endure three days of unspeakable torture before the Spetsnaz
came to his rescue. After reading his report, an SVR officer named Viktor Korvalev approached Loskov to discuss a new, special operation group dedicated to high-risk infiltration and information gathering. From that day on he was known as "Kestrel".
He is killed at the end of the Coop campaign by either Andriy Kobin or Archer.
Victor "Vic" Anthony Christopher Coste is one of Sam Fisher's oldest friends. The two served together on SEAL
Team Three in Iraq during the Gulf War
in 1991. During their time in Iraq, Coste single-handedly rescued Sam from a hostage situation after he was captured by Iraqi forces during a disastrous mission. After leaving the Navy, Coste later became a private security consultant. He served as Sam's contact in Conviction, giving him vital information/equipment during certain missions. Near the end of the game, Coste reunites Sam with his daughter Sarah.
Coste serves as the game's narrator, retelling the story in a Black Arrow PMC interrogation room. The player also takes control of Victor during a flashback to the mission where he saved Sam.
It is unknown if Fryman survived the destruction of the HQ due to the area being sealed off after Sam infiltrates it.
Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels. The protagonist, Sam Fisher, is presented as a highly-trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon"...
series of video games and novels.
Lieutenant Commander Samuel "Sam" Fisher, USN (Ret.)
- Born: 1957, Towson, MarylandTowson, MarylandTowson is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 55,197 at the 2010 census...
(listed as CLASSIFIED for undisclosed reasons) - Height: 5′ 11"
- Weight: 170 lbs.
- Age: 54 (in 2011) (CLASSIFIED for undisclosed reasons)
Samuel "Sam" Fisher is the main protagonist of the Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
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series. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team, the JSOC's DevGRU, and the CIA's Special Activities Division
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. He is 177 cm (5 feet 10 inches) tall, weighs 78 kg (170 pounds), and has black (dark brown in Splinter Cell: Double Agent), slightly graying hair and green eyes. He is an expert in the art of stealth, trained in various techniques and tactics, and extremely proficient in field craft. Fisher is also an expert in the Israeli hand-to-hand combat system of Krav Maga
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. In Splinter Cell: Conviction, he utilized the Center Axis Relock
Center Axis Relock
Center Axis Relock is a shooting system invented by Paul Castle.The CAR system features a bladed stance , a close-to-body firearm hold, and sighted or non-sighted fire as the situation dictates. This differs from other shooting styles such as the Weaver which feature a more squared stance Center...
, a gun-fighting technique used in close quarters combat. He prefers to work alone in the field. When not on assignment or at Fort Meade
Fort George G. Meade
Fort George G. Meade is a United States Army installation that includes the Defense Information School, the United States Army Field Band, and the headquarters of United States Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Courier Service...
, Fisher resided in a townhouse in Towson, Maryland
Towson, Maryland
Towson is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 55,197 at the 2010 census...
.
Fisher was born on August 8, 1957, in Towson, Maryland. While not much is known about his early life, it is known that Fisher attended a military boarding school shortly after his parents died when he was a child. He received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
from the United States Naval Academy
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in Annapolis, Maryland, United States...
, where he later rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander
Lieutenant commander (United States)
Lieutenant commander is a mid-ranking officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, with the pay grade of O-4 and NATO rank code OF-3...
while serving in the Navy. At some point during the 1980s, Fisher was stationed at an American Air Force base in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, where he met and later married Regan Burns (in 1984) while allegedly working as a "diplomatic aide". In 1985, Regan gave birth to their only child whom they named Sarah (born May 31). Regan died from ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....
when Sarah was fifteen (i.e. sometime in 2000). In 1989, Sam was part of a CIA raiding team that went into a bank in Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
during Operation Just Cause searching for some of Noriega
Manuel Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno is a Panamanian politician and soldier. He was military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989.The 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States removed him from power; he was captured, detained as a prisoner of war, and flown to the United States. Noriega was tried on...
's drug money. He then spent the year shorty after the conflict ended in 1990 "sleeping in a ditch on the road between Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
and Kuwait
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...
" during the months leading up to the first Gulf War, when he participated in numerous SEAL operations while operating in the Persian Gulf during Desert Storm. These events, combined with his training and combat experience, played a part in Fisher being selected to spearhead Third Echelon's "Splinter Cell" program as its first field operative after he was approached by Colonel Irving Lambert, USA (Ret.), a high-ranking official in the NSA who convinced Fisher to come back to active service.
Fisher is voiced by veteran actor Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian-born actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes, though he has also portrayed...
.
Colonel Irving Lambert, USA (KIA)
- Born: 1961, Bat Cave, North CarolinaBat Cave, North CarolinaBat Cave is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area....
- Died: March 6, 2008, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- Height: 6′ 2″
- Weight: 270 lbs
Irving Lambert is the leader of the Third Echelon team, and thus Sam Fisher's "handler". He is also the man who spearheaded Third Echelon's infamous "Splinter Cell" program. His role in the game is to guide the player through each level over the cochlear implant
Cochlear implant
A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing...
radio, providing information such as critical updates, objective changes, and enemy status. Lambert becomes one of Sam's closest friends. He is voiced by Don Jordan in almost all of the games in the series, except Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, in which he was voiced by Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Dexter Haysbert is an American film and television actor. He is known for portraying baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the Major League film trilogy, President David Palmer on the American television series 24, and Sergeant Major Jonas Blane on the drama series The Unit, as well as his work...
.
Lambert was born in 1961 in Bat Cave, North Carolina
Bat Cave, North Carolina
Bat Cave is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area....
. He served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, where he attained the rank of Colonel. Lambert is a high ranking official in the National Security Agency (NSA), where he holds the rank of Director in charge of all field operations at Third Echelon, the NSA's top-secret sub-branch/covert ops unit. Many of his duties involve conveying intelligence to Sam and other Splinter Cell operatives while they are 'on the job'. He also handles the bureaucratic and political aspects of espionage. Lambert has a much more no-nonsense approach to missions, in contrast to Fisher's aura of dark humor. Sam stated in Chaos Theory that Lambert was married and divorced numerous times.
In 2008, Irving is kidnapped by John Brown's Army (JBA), and his possible death is determined by Sam. Sam can decide to shoot Lambert or Jamie Washington in the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC versions of Double Agent (though even if Lambert is shot he still survives in the immediate aftermath as Fisher tells him to "hang in there") . In the Xbox/PS2/WII version of the game, Sam can decide to either upload information that either blows Lambert's cover or enhances it, increasing Lambert's chances of survival. If the player increases Lambert's cover, it is revealed at the end of the mission that Dufraisne "roughed him up pretty badly" but does not kill him. If the player blows Lambert's cover, Lambert is shot and killed by Carson Moss at the end of the mission (shown in a cinematic). In Essentials, Sam is only given the choice to shoot Lambert.
Splinter Cell: Conviction confirmed that Lambert was shot by Sam and died of his wound in "a dirty basement" in New York City.
Anna Grimsdóttír
- Born: 1974, Boston, Massachusetts
- Height: 5′ 8″
- Weight: 160 lbs.
- Age: 37 (in 2011)
Anna Grimsdóttír (known as 'Grim' to her friends in the NSA) is the technical operations manager at Third Echelon. Her role is to provide Sam Fisher with technical support in the field, as well as to analyze and interpret much of the electronic data. A skilled hacker
Hacker (computer security)
In computer security and everyday language, a hacker is someone who breaks into computers and computer networks. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, including profit, protest, or because of the challenge...
, Grimsdóttir normally tries to remotely hack into an objective computer system before Fisher is inserted, or when not possible does it direct from Fisher's OPSAT connection to a computer terminal.
Anna was born in 1974 in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
. Being a second generation American, her mother immigrated to the U.S. alone from Akureyri
Akureyri
Akureyri is a town in northern Iceland. It is Iceland's second largest urban area and fourth largest municipality ....
, in Northern Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
. In the mid-90s, Grimsdóttír dropped out of Saint John's College
Saint John's College
-Australia:* St John's College, University of Sydney, a residential college at the University of Sydney.* St John's College, University of Queensland, a college at the University of Queensland, Queensland....
and worked as a programmer in different private communications firms contracted by the U.S. Navy. She was recruited into the NSA in the late 1990s, and rose quickly in rank as the Internet became more and more important to national security. She heads a small team of programmers responsible for providing technological, cryptographic
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
and data support for the Splinter Cell and assists Fisher via his interface with the high-tech components of his missions. She often makes jokes about Fisher's age.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Anna uncovers Director Williams' tampering of Fisher's files. When Director Williams confiscates the disc where she kept evidence of the file modifications, she helps Fisher infiltrate the NSA to reach his office in order to get the disc back.
Grim plays a much larger role in Splinter Cell: Conviction, and unlike the previous games makes many physical appearances. Since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory she seems to have been promoted from her position in technical operations, and is now an assistant to the new Third Echelon director, now armed and in the field. Her loyalty to Sam is brought into question throughout the game. She helps Sam take down Tom Reed, a corrupt Third Echelon officer who took Lambert's role of director after his death, by working from within the agency.
In Tom Clancy's EndWar
Endwar
-Media:*Tom Clancy's EndWar, a video game based on a futuristic global war, in the Tom Clancy series of games*Tom Clancy's EndWar , the novel written by David Michaels which ties in with the game...
, which takes place in 2020, Grimsdóttir now has the title 'Director', and is commanding Splinter Cell agents, suggesting she is now in command of Third Echelon.
William Redding
- Born: 1969, San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
- Height: 5′ 11″
- Weight: 180 lbs
William Redding was born in 1969 in San Diego, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Redding is a calm book-wormy type. He is fanatical about his planning, preparation, and data accumulation. He is meticulously accurate in every facet of his job. He is very knowledgeable when it comes to weapons and vehicle specifications and could list from memory every item aboard an Osprey at any time, including its weight and armament.
Redding attended the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
where he received a BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
with a dual major in history. He then applied for admittance to the United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
where he trained as a communications specialist and rose quickly to the rank of captain.
Redding left the Corps to work for the NSA as a signal intelligence analyst. He soon found that his experience as a Marine ended up getting him assigned to atypically dangerous locales and bringing him a lot of recognition.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Redding discovers that some of Sam Fisher's files do not match what really happened during the events of missions in Sam's career. Redding explains what really happened during the events in which he had helped Sam, and where discrepancies in the files exist. His discovery prompted Anna Grimsdóttír into looking through Sam's records, leading to the discovery that they were tampered by Director Williams in order to frame Sam Fisher. He also learned later that Director Williams had confronted Anna and took the CD containing the evidence of his file tampering. Later, after Sam escaped from his interrogators, he hid in Redding's office and was able to explain what happened during his last mission to Anna and Redding over a phone. Redding then tells Sam that he needs to infiltrate the NSA to get the CD that Director Williams had stolen.
To some extent, with the absence of Frances Coen in Chaos Theory, Redding becomes Sam Fisher's field runner. The third Splinter Cell book, Checkmate, and the fourth Splinter Cell book, Fallout, both featured William Redding as Sam Fisher's field runner.
Redding is neither seen nor mentioned in Splinter Cell: Conviction and it is unknown what happened to him.
Frances Coen
Frances Coen was first introduced in Tom Clancy's Splinter CellSplinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels. The protagonist, Sam Fisher, is presented as a highly-trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon"...
and appears again in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow She is a field runner for Third Echelon. She is initially the replacement for Sam's good friend and old field runner Vernon Wilkes, Jr., who was killed in a shootout with Russian mercenaries in the first game. Her primary duties involve delivering Fisher into the mission area as well as extracting him after the mission is complete. She also provides good-humored banter with Fisher in the game's between-mission cutscenes. She seems to be one of the people Sam gets along with quite a bit.
Coen was mentioned briefly in Chaos Theory, where she had been monitoring the activities of a Yakuza
Yakuza
, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...
organization known as the Red Nishin . When Fisher is asked to tap telephone lines in a Japanese bathhouse to aid Coen in this, he replies, "For Frances...of course I can".
In the book Operation Barracuda, Sam resents being forced to work with Frances and is against the field runner program entirely.
Vernon Wilkes, Jr.
Born: 1967, Baltimore, MarylandDied: November 1, 2004, Langley, Virginia
Langley, Virginia
Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.The community was essentially absorbed into McLean many years ago, although there is still a Langley High School...
Vernon Wilkes was born June 25, 1967 in Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
. He serves as Sam Fisher's field runner in the first few missions of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels. The protagonist, Sam Fisher, is presented as a highly-trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed "Third Echelon"...
. He briefed Sam on new equipment and weaponry and used both ground vehicles and aircraft to deliver Sam into the mission area. In the Xbox, PC, and Gamecube versions of Splinter Cell, Wilkes is fatally wounded during Fisher's extraction from the Kalinatek building, after being shot by a Russian mercenary. In the PS2 version, Wilkes is fatally wounded during Fisher's extraction from the Nhadezda Nuclear Power Plant (an additional PS2 exclusive level that takes place between the Kalinatek and Myanmar missions) by a Russian mercenary. In both versions, Wilkes succumbs to his wound shortly after in the Osprey.
In both the sixth-generation and seventh-generation version of Double Agent
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent is an action-adventure stealth game, developed and published by Ubisoft. The series, endorsed by American author Tom Clancy, follows the character Sam Fisher, an agent employed by a black-ops division of the National Security Agency, dubbed Third...
, Lambert uses Wilkes' name to pose as an undercover arms dealer.
Morris O'Dell
Morris O'Dell is the anchor for the FNW in "Splinter Cell" and the WNM in "Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow", "Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory" and in the very end of "Splinter Cell: Double Agent" in the Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube versions.He also appeared in the PlayStation 2 version of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 is the third console installment in the popular Ghost Recon tactical shooter video game series, published by Ubisoft. It is a sequel to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon....
.
President David Bowers
The President of the United StatesPresident of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
during the events in the first four Splinter Cell games since the original Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon 2
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is an action-adventure stealth game, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and built on the Unreal Engine 2. It is the first Splinter Cell game in the series endorsed by author Tom Clancy, and follows the activities of American NSA Black Operation, "Black Ops", agent Sam Fisher....
shows Bowers in newscasts regarding the Georgian Information Crisis. In a clear reference to George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
's "pretzel incident", one of the newscast's tickers reveals that a cashew has been removed from Bowers' windpipe during the Information Crisis. In Pandora Tomorrow he is briefly seen on national television defending the U.S. invasion of Indonesia.
In Chaos Theory, he is seen discussing with Irving Lambert on what course of action the U.S. should take against North Korea as well as the newly-formed Japanese I-SDF. In this situation he prefers a diplomatic and political approach rather than immediate military action, in contrast to his previous eagerness to go to war against the Georgian and Indonesian governments; it is possible that the massive loss of human life during the events of Chaos Theory has taught him to have more patience.
In the beginning of the PS2 version of Ghost Recon 2 (taking place during the events of Chaos Theory) Bowers is in a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Joint Chiefs of Staff is a body of senior uniformed leaders in the United States Department of Defense who advise the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council, the National Security Council and the President on military matters...
, a U.S. Army General informs him of the USS Clarence E. Walsh being sunk by a fictional "super" variant of a Silkworm missile
Silkworm missile
The Shang Yo or SY-series , and the Hai Ying or HY-series were early Chinese anti-ship missiles. They were derived from the Soviet P-15 Termit missile.The HY-1 and HY-2 received the NATO reporting name Silkworm...
, fired from North Korea. The General recommends that Bowers deploy the Ghosts into North Korea. Months later, Bowers is furious that a North Korean General has gotten ahold of North Korea's nuclear weapons and re-deploys the Ghosts into North Korea. Bowers faces the window and, with an angry look in his eyes, removes his glasses. He does this in a fashion similar to the habit of Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
during stressful situation.
In the "current-gen" versions of Double Agent, he is engaged in Nashville, where the JBA has shipped off one of several nuclear explosive devices. His possible death is determined by Sam, deciding whether to perform the risky operation of preventing the shipping off of the Los Angeles and Nashville bombs or allowing them to leave the headquarters.
Douglas Shetland
- Born: April 18, 1959, Boone, IowaBoone, IowaBoone is a city in and the county seat of Des Moines Township, Boone County, Iowa, United States. It is the principal city of the 'Boone, Iowa Micropolitan Statistical Area', which encompasses all of Boone County. This micropolitan statistical area, along with the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan...
- Died: July 10, 2007, TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan - Height: 6′ 0″
- Weight: 201 lbs
Douglas Wayne Shetland is a significant recurring character in the Splinter Cell series. He is an old friend and comrade of Sam Fisher, and the CEO of the private military company Displace International. He has appeared in both Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Essentials, and he plays a major role in the story of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Shetland was born in 1959, in Boone
Boone, Iowa
Boone is a city in and the county seat of Des Moines Township, Boone County, Iowa, United States. It is the principal city of the 'Boone, Iowa Micropolitan Statistical Area', which encompasses all of Boone County. This micropolitan statistical area, along with the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan...
, Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. He served in the (U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps) and was the Commanding Officer of Fisher's SEAL team for several years. Shetland and Fisher became close friends.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Shetland was captured in Norte de Santander, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, by FARC guerrillas in 1992. Going against a direct order of a Commanding Officer (C.O), Sam rescued Shetland from his captivity.
In 2002, Shetland's superiors tried to make him a scapegoat
Scapegoat
Scapegoating is the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals , individuals against groups , groups against individuals , and groups against groups Scapegoating is the practice of singling out any...
for a friendly fire
Friendly fire
Friendly fire is inadvertent firing towards one's own or otherwise friendly forces while attempting to engage enemy forces, particularly where this results in injury or death. A death resulting from a negligent discharge is not considered friendly fire...
incident in Bagram
Bagram
Bagram , founded as Alexandria on the Caucasus and known in medieval times as Kapisa, is a small town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir...
, Afghanistan that wasn't his fault. Although he was granted a full discharge
Military discharge
A military discharge is given when a member of the armed forces is released from their obligation to serve.-United States:Discharge or separation should not be confused with retirement; career U.S...
by the court, he was disengaged from Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
and demoted to a "five star office job". Embittered, Shetland left the US Marine Corps shortly after the incident, sued the U.S. Military and won. He used the proceeds from his lawsuit ($700,000) and established Displace International. Displace International was highly successful, eventually becoming a major Private Military Contractor
Private military company
A private military company or provides military and security services. These combatants are commonly known as mercenaries, though modern-day PMCs refer to their staff as security contractors, private military contractors or private security contractors, and refer to themselves as private military...
for the U.S. government as well as the first private security company to be listed on the Fortune 500
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
.
Shetland was held hostage at the U.S. embassy in Dili
Dili
Dili, spelled Díli in Portuguese, is the capital, largest city, chief port and commercial centre of East Timor.-Geography and Administration:Dili lies on the northern coast of Timor island, the easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands....
by Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n guerrillas led by Suhadi Sadono, only to be rescued by his friend, Sam Fisher. Shetland and Fisher would later perform a joint operation against Sadono's Kundang camp, in which Shetland provided tactical support with Displace mercenaries and helped facilitate Fisher's extraction.
Shetland appears again in Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a critically acclaimed action-adventure stealth game, developed and published by Ubisoft. Chaos Theory is the third game in the Splinter Cell series endorsed by writer Tom Clancy....
, when Third Echelon comes to suspect that rogue elements within Displace International are covertly attempting to get the United States/South Korea and North Korea into war against each other. It is ultimately revealed that Shetland himself is the mastermind behind the scheme.
Shetland organized payment to Hugo Lacerda to interrogate Bruce Morgenholt and retrieved the Masse kernel from the first game. Killing Abrahim Zherkezhi, who worked with Morgenholt on the Kernels, Shetland used the algorithms to cause blackout
Power outage
A power outage is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area.There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network...
s in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, as well as launch a North Korea
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
n missile that, with the help of an algorithm
Algorithm
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning...
that crippled and successfully sank the USS Clarence E Walsh, sparking an armed conflict involving China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, North Korea
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Fisher is eventually sent to Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
in order to eliminate his old friend and prevent the spread of the weaponized algorithms. After a meeting to sell I-SDF algorithms, talks decline into a firefight, Fisher pursues Shetland and the two end up facing off in a tense Mexican standoff
Mexican standoff
A Mexican standoff is a slang term defined as a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can foreseeably win. The term is most often used in lieu of "stalemate" when the confrontational situation is exceptionally dangerous for all parties involved.In popular culture, the Mexican...
, in which Shetland expresses his outrage at the "politicians and bureaucrats" and their "dirty little wars" that have left America "sick and dying". He tells Fisher about the need to "tear it down and start over", and tells him that because he (Sam) "believes in honor, courage and fidelity more than any government", he "wouldn't shoot an old friend". However, Fisher does kill Shetland.
The way Shetland is killed is decided by the user. After the conversation, Sam can choose to shoot Shetland in the head, or holster his pistol. If Sam holsters his weapon, Shetland will quickly raise his gun and shoot. However, he will miss as Sam ducks and then stabs Shetland in the stomach. Both ways lead to Shetland falling through a window into the water and Sam saying, as he stares at Shetland's corpse: "You're right, Doug. I wouldn't shoot an old friend."
Sarah Fisher
- Born: 1985, Frankfurt, Germany
- Height: 5' 5"
- Weight: 125 lbs
- Age: 26 (in 2011)
Sarah Fisher is the daughter of Sam Fisher and Regan Burns. Sarah was born on an American Air Force Base in Germany on May 31, 1985. Shorty after her parents divorced, Sarah's mother, Regan, had changed her surname back to Burns. Regan died from ovarian cancer when Sarah was fifteen. Throughout her childhood, Sarah (taking her mother's surname) encountered many tough times with her father, especially when he went on his missions. She was not always aware what kind of work her father did, but she knew it was government-related. During the events of the first novel, Sarah was made aware of her father's true job, and this helped her to understand that it wasn't Sam's fault he was always away. In June 2003, she graduated from Towson High School
Towson High School
Towson High School is a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, founded in 1873. The school's current stone structure was built in 1949. Located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson and serving the surrounding communities of Towson, Lutherville, and Ruxton, it is part of the Baltimore...
and went on to attend Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
in Evanston, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...
, where she was majoring in International Relations with a minor in Art History. Nearly five years later, Sarah (now going by her father's surname) appears to be killed by a "drunk driver" while her father was away on a mission in Iceland. Sam was devastated by her apparent death, and went into a deep depression.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, Fisher visits her grave on the anniversary of her death, and was captured by federal agents waiting for him to show up at the site.
Sarah appears in the next gen version of Double Agent. In the second training level, she appears as a hostage that Sam must rescue. A female technician noticed that Sam seemed to be stressed when he saw the hostage and asked him if he was all right.
In Splinter Cell: Conviction, Grim tells Sam that Sarah was not killed by a drunk driver. Lambert discovered the presence of a mole within Third Echelon who was going to use Sarah as leverage against Sam (perceived to ensure Sam would do his bidding). To prevent this, Lambert faked her death, so that, although Sam would suffer, he couldn't be used by the mole. After discovering this, Sam's friend Victor Coste takes Sarah from her apartment to be reunited with Sam. Sarah tells her father that she thought he was dead, and that Grim took care of her during the ordeal of his supposed death. At the end of Conviction, Sarah and Sam move away together to catch up.
Lawrence Williams
Profile for Splinter Cell: Double Agent- Position: Assistant Director
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, - Height: 5′ 8″
- Weight: 155 lbs
Profile for Splinter Cell: Essentials
- Position: Director of Operations
- Born: 1970, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. - Height: 5′ 10"
- Weight: 165 lbs.
A relative newcomer to the NSA, Williams is the first occupant of a newly-created executive position overseeing Third Echelon activities. Williams is an ambitious and skilled political player, exactly the kind of person Sam can't get along with. He only seen in the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube versions, but he is mentioned by Hisham Hamza in the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions. jesse burch
Jesse burch
Jesse Burch is an actor, born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA. He is a supporter of English football team Sunderland AFC.-External links:*...
(actor), single character, Williams is listed in the credits of Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of Double Agent. The actors voice is believed to be heard during the credits of the best ending (issuing orders to capture Sam). It is also believed that the actor can be heard from a helicopter, at the end of the bonus mission 'Coast Guard Boat', when Sam defuses the final Red Mercury. He is heard giving demands for Sam to surrender before the boat blows up. However there is dispute if the voices are from Williams (Jesse Burch), or if they are from other characters.
Personality-wise, he's the guy that goes by the book. He thinks that NOC and double agent
Double agent
A double agent, commonly abbreviated referral of double secret agent, is a counterintelligence term used to designate an employee of a secret service or organization, whose primary aim is to spy on the target organization, but who in fact is a member of that same target organization oneself. They...
practices are too dangerous for the NSA and government. Williams thinks more politically than logically. He knows that Sam Fisher is capable of doing his job, but does not trust Fisher under his circumstances. When Williams finds out about the JBA mission in the other versions, he is quick to pull the plug and end it. Sam is forced to make careful decisions to keep the trust of Williams, while also making sure that the JBA trust him.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials, released before Double Agent, but chronologically set after those games, he had been promoted to Director of Operations. Agent Williams is an NSA bureaucrat who entered the intelligence field by way of the State Department. Since that time he has risen steadily through the ranks by virtue of ruthless politicking. Despite the fact that he has no field experience, Williams was named acting Director of Operations in the wake of Colonel Lambert's sudden departure, and since then he has made a number of sweeping changes to agency operations. In the game, Williams wants Sam framed for murder. Williams does this by altering Sam's records of past missions, in order to make Sam look like a cold blooded killer. When Anna Grimsdóttír discovers his file tampering, he let his unnamed "boss" know about her discovering the modifications. He later threatened her to give the disk containing the evidence to him, as he has ways of dealing with people who try to cross him. He then puts the disk in a hidden safe in his office. Sam is able to sneak into his office to get the disk and then warns Williams not to try to follow him again. He tells Williams that he will find out why he is trying to frame him, and at that time he will return for him.
Williams is neither seen nor mentioned in Splinter Cell: Conviction and it is unknown what happened to him.
(Note: A "Deputy Director Lawrence" from the NSA also appears in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is the sixth installment in the Rainbow Six series. It is a first person shooter video game and the sequel to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. It was announced by Ubisoft on November 20, 2007...
, overseeing the second mission of the game.)
President Kombayn Nikoladze
- Born: 1943
- Died: November 13, 2004
Kombayn Nikoladze is the primary antagonist of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. A charismatic and powerful industrialist, Nikoladze seizes power of Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
in a "bloodless coup [d'état]" following the assassination of the previous President in a suicide bomb attack. Although appearing to be pro-Western and a democrat
Democracy
Democracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law...
, Nikoladze hid a hatred of America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and aggressive military ambitions.
After commissioning Russian mercenary Vyacheslav Grinko to retrain the Georgian army in covert guerrilla warfare, Nikoladze engaged in a secret military campaign in the neighboring Muslim nation of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
in order to seize control of the country's vast oil reserves. Knowing that the West
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...
would take military action against him if they became aware of his operation, Nikoladze employed Canadian Hacker Phillip Masse, whose information warfare
Information warfare
The term Information Warfare is primarily an American concept involving the use and management of information technology in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent...
techniques managed to hide evidence of the invasion from intelligence-gathering organizations. By the time Sam Fisher's infiltration of the Georgian Ministry of Defense had uncovered evidence of the campaign, Georgian commandos had almost completely overthrown the government of Azerbaijan.
With Nikoladze's crimes brought to the attention of the world, NATO engages in military action against Georgia, pushing Georgian commandos from Azerbaijan. In retaliation, Nikoladze uses highly advanced information warfare algorithms developed by Masse to attack America in what would later be called the 'Georgian Information Crisis'. Masse's attacks targeted military and computer systems as well as transportation and other infrastructure, causing widespread disruption and death. During the crisis, Nikoladze posted webcasts mocking America's efforts and threatening destruction.
Knowing that he would never be able to fight the United States directly, Nikoladze dispersed cells of the Georgian army across the world and made plans to launch a devastating strike. After making a secret alliance with Chinese
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
General Kong Feirong, the head of a splinter faction within the People's Liberation Army
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China...
, Nikoladze's commandos seized nuclear material from a power plant in the Kola peninsula
Kola Peninsula
The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is washed by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast...
of Russia. Kong Feirong and his loyal troops seized control of the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, near the abattoir where Nikoladze was hiding. The captured nuclear material was transported to the embassy where Kong Feirong's men adapted it for military use. Although Fisher destroyed the nuclear material kept by Feirong, Nikoladze was able to smuggle a SADM
Suitcase nuke
A suitcase nuke is a tactical nuclear weapon which uses, or is portable enough that it could use, a suitcase as its delivery method. Synonyms include suitcase bomb, backpack nuke, mini-nuke, pocket nuke and snuke....
christened 'The Ark' into Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
.
Following the defeat of his Information Warfare campaign, and the deaths of Grinko and Feirong, Nikoladze made a deal with the new Georgian President, Varlem Cristavi that he be allowed to return to the Georgian Presidential Palace for reasons that he did not specify. However, Cristavi learned that Nikoladze's reason for returning was to recover a 'key' to the Ark, and made plans to double cross him. Georgian special forces
Special forces
Special forces, or special operations forces are terms used to describe elite military tactical teams trained to perform high-risk dangerous missions that conventional units cannot perform...
gunned down Nikoladze's guards as he was about to recover the 'key'. In the interests of self-preservation, Nikoladze agreed to provide the new Georgian government with the Ark and it's 'key' in return for sparing his life. However, before he could give the location of the device to President Cristavi, Nikoladze was sniped and killed from across a courtyard by Fisher at the conclusion of the game's final mission.
Because of the mysterious circumstances of his death, sightings and rumours of his survival would abound for several years.
Nikoladze is referenced to by Lambert in Pandora Tomorrow. In the Jakarta, Indonesia mission, Lambert explains why Sadono has to be captured alive (because assassinated leaders tended to be stubborn ghosts).
Nikoladze is also referenced to by Anna Grimsdóttír in Chaos Theory. In the Bathhouse mission, while listening in on the secret meeting between Douglas Shetland and the owner of the bathhouse, the player had the opportunity to remotely use the laptop on the bench. Inside the laptop is only one email with the subject "Chaos Theory". If the player chooses to open the email, then after the meeting while Sam is exiting the vent, Grimsdóttír will tell him that Shetland's chaos theory is a strange outlook on Nikoladze's Glass Dagger.
Vyacheslav Grinko
- Born: October 30, 1959
- Died: November 11, 2004
Vyacheslav Grinko is a sadistic former Spetznaz (Russian Special Forces) soldier, working as a mercenary for Kombayn Nikoladze. In-game dialogue and text suggests that he served in Azerbaijan and Afghanistan, and is a professional sniper. It is also suggested that most people who know him are scared of him (With the possible exception of Nikoladze and Masse.) He was in charge of the deaths of CIA-agents Allison Madison and Robert Blaustein, the theft of nuclear material from the Nadezdha nuclear plant and the attempted executions of American soldiers in Myanmar. When Fisher infiltrated Nikoladze's hideout in Rangoon, Grinko took command and ordered his men to evacuate Nikoladze. He and his men attempted to kill Fisher and carry on with the executions, but Fisher prevented the executions and killed Grinko.
General Kong Feirong
- Died: November 12, 2004
Kong Feirong was a high member of the PLA. He reached the rank of general in 2001. Kong Feirong is a rogue general, leading a schism of the Chinese Army. He allied himself with Kombayn Nikoladze to start a war between China and America. However, after the failure of the Abattoir executions, Nikoladze abandoned him. The Chinese government learned of his treason
Treason
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a...
and attacked the embassy. Beaten, Kong got himself drunk with the ambassador's best wine, which he chased with a bottle of poison and even shot two of his own men. Sam Fisher interrogated him and made him reveal files of his involvement and the weapon called the 'Ark'. Soon after that Kong succumbed to the poisoned liquor he had been drinking.
Long Dan
Long Dan is featured during the Georgian information crisis in the first Splinter Cell. He is the Chinese ambassador to MyanmarMyanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, and is being held captive at a slaughter house (Mouke Tsoe Bo Meats) in Yangon
Yangon
Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...
. He speaks to Sam Fisher telling him about a rogue Chinese General. (It is hinted in a data stick that Vyacheslav Grinko tortured Long Dan in order to get him to translate what the Chinese officials were talking about between each other). The second time he appears is during Chaos Theory. He is the Chinese ambassador to the U.N trying to broker a peace deal between North
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
and South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, and for his actions he is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
.
Hamlet
Grinko's personal driver, Sam interrogates him for information on Grinko's meeting with Masse. After that the player can choose to kill him if he wants to, but Lambert will get angry if he does, calling it "sloppy work" (though it doesn't affect much at all). Hamlet is scared of Grinko and understands that Sam needs information from him.Phillip Frankel Masse
- Born: August 21, 1972
- Died: January 19, 2005
Phillip Masse was a Canadian computer hacker who was hired by Vyacheslav Grinko to disrupt information networks to allow the Georgians to invade Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
unnoticed. Afterwards, he played a major role in disrupting major complex computer networks as part of an incident known as the Georgian Information Crisis. He was later killed by Sam Fisher, this mission was released after the release of the game as a downloadable level for the Xbox version, and as part of a mission pack for the PC version, called "Kola Cell".
Masse used unique tricks and strategies in computer hacking, including 512-bit encryption
Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The result of the process is encrypted information...
. The United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
created a committee led by Abrahim Zherkezhi in order to determine how Masse carried out his clever and complex operations and to reverse-engineer the programs used in the Information Crisis. In mid-2006, the project was declared a success by the UN. In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory the techniques Masse used became known as the "Masse Kernels" and were considered revolutionary methods of information warfare so much so, that agent Sam Fisher was dispatched specifically to prevent that information from being spread.
Doctor John Baxter
- Born: February 13, 1967
An NSA interrogations expert, Baxter is sent with Wilkes to the CIA HQ in Langley to interrogate the CIA mole Mitchell Dougherty once Fisher has him in custody. They are chatted up by a security agent on the CIA grounds, though he is merely being friendly as NSA members are allowed on CIA properties. He is mentioned in the Chaos Theory Co-Op campaign where he assists in the interrogation of Jong Pom Chu but is never seen.
Mitchell Dougherty
- Born: May 12, 1959
A CIA analyst working inadvertently with the Georgians, Dougherty's OCD caused him to store his work on a personal laptop.Poo laptop, not being nearly secure as the CIA's mainframe, was hacked by Georgians. A Georgian technician named Piotr even confirmed that Dougherty did not know what trouble he had caused. As a result of tracking down the leak from the CIA main server, Fisher abducts Dougherty for interrogation by the NSA when he goes for a smoke break. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards. It is also unknown whether the CIA found out that Dougherty's carelessness caused the information attacks.
Piotr Lejava
A technician on the oil rig carrying an important briefcase to Philip Masse that Sam must retrieve using any means necessary. The player can interrogate him, knock him out or kill him to get the briefcase if they choose to on any of these three options.Thomas Gurgenidze
- Born: November 8, 1960
- Died: October 16, 2004
Thomas Gurgenidze is a contact for Sam in his first mission. He told Sam why the CIA agents he was assigned to rescue vanished. They were later found dead in a morgue. Gurgenidze is crushed by falling debris after three Russian mafiosos
Russian Mafia
The Russian Mafia is a name applied to organized crime syndicates in Russia and Ukraine. The mafia in various countries take the name of the country, as for example the Ukrainian mafia....
set fire to the warehouse he was in. Fisher found him pinned underneath fallen objects and tried to evacuate him, but Thomas was too far gone; he died before he could fully convey a rather important message to Sam.
Ivan
A Russian programmer in the Kalinatek Building. He hid in one of the bathrooms calling 911911
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(he was reconnected to Grim, after three transfers) to come rescue him. In return he would reveal what the Georgians were up to. A Mafioso finds him just before Sam comes in time to save Ivan. Unfortunately for Ivan, Sam came only for his encryption key and Ivan is forced to continue hiding. It is unknown what happened to him afterwards, although it is stated that he is picked up by the FBI.
Acting President Varlam Cristavi
- Born: November 5, 1948
Varlam Cristavi becomes the Georgian acting president
Acting president
An Acting President is a person who temporarily fills the role of an organization's or country's president, either when the real president is unavailable or when the post is vacant .-See also:*Acting *Acting President of Pakistan*Acting President of Malta*Acting President of...
after Kombayn Nikoladze is removed from office. He orders the Georgian guards at the presidential palace to kill Nikoladze's men and retrieve the Ark for themselves. Fisher's intervention results in the failure of this plan as well as the deaths of some of Cristavi's guards. Cristavi remains president of Georgia as of 2006.
Colonel Andrei Alekseevich
- Born: June 7, 1953
- Died: January 19, 2005
A mercenary colonel for the Georgian military forces, Alekseevich was in charge of the Kola cell in Russia, and was smuggling nuclear warheads in the submarine
Submarine
A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
Vselka. He is friends with Phillip Masse and is present in the cell when Fisher infiltrates the base. During this mission, Alekseevich is forced by Fisher to operate a retinal scanner to open a locked door. (Sam kills him afterwards.) Grim refers to Alekseevich as a Soviet "Darth Vader".
Dermot Paul "D.P." Brunton
- Born: October 21, 1963
D.P. Brunton is the Operations Coordinator of SHADOWNET. In Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow he has a similar role to Irving Lambert, providing Sam Fisher with mission objectives and intelligence over the radio during some of the game's missions. As his operations specifically prohibit live satellite contact between coordinator and operatives, Dermot's function is more bureaucratic and managerial.
Suhadi Sadono
- Born: December 23, 1972 CirebonCirebonCirebon is a port city on the north coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is located in the province of West Java near the provincial border with Central Java, approximately 297 km east of Jakarta, at .The seat of a former Sultanate, the city's West and Central Java border location have...
Suhadi Sadono is the leader of a radical Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n guerrilla group known as the Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer), and the main antagonist of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. He is voiced by David Kaye
David Kaye
David V. Hope , known professionally as David Kaye, is a Canadian American actor who is better recognized for his work as a voice actor...
.
Sadono has been in the Darah Dan Doa since he was 15 years old. He was trained by the CIA to help fight Communist
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
influences in the region, but felt betrayed when the Americans stopped backing Indonesia and put their support behind East Timor
East Timor
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...
instead, even establishing permanent military bases in East Timor to widen their influence over the region. Resentful of the American interference in his country's autonomy, Sadono eventually decides to declare war on America.
In the beginning of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Suhadi personally leads a squad of guerrillas in an attack on the American embassy in East Timor
East Timor
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...
, taking dozens of hostages, including Sam Fisher's old friend Douglas Shetland.
It is revealed later in the game that Sadono has acquired samples of the smallpox
Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...
virus and placed a series of viral bombs across the United States, threatening to detonate them and release the virus if he is ever killed or captured. He calls this scheme "Pandora Tomorrow".
When Sam succeeds in disabling the threat of Pandora Tomorrow, Sadono prepares to go underground and wage an extended terrorist campaign against America, using periodic videotaped statements to call for a world revolution against the US. Before he can implement his plan, Sadono is abducted by Fisher and handed over to the CIA for trial.
Norman Washington Soth
- Born: August 8, 1961
- Died: April 23, 2006
Norman Soth is another major antagonist in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, as well as the final opponent in the game.
He is a CIA field agent who participated in Operation REDBEARD, establishing US-friendly terrorist cells in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
to fight Communism. One of these cells was the Darah Dan Doa, led by Suhadi Sadono. However, the U.S. Government pulled support of Operation REDBEARD and ended up supporting the Timorese, leaving Soth on his own.
Soth was subsequently severely injured in a land mine
Land mine
A land mine is usually a weight-triggered explosive device which is intended to damage a target—either human or inanimate—by means of a blast and/or fragment impact....
explosion, losing his right leg, two of his fingers, and part of his left ear lobe. He had his lost leg replaced with an advanced robotic prosthesis
Prosthesis
In medicine, a prosthesis, prosthetic, or prosthetic limb is an artificial device extension that replaces a missing body part. It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control...
.
Soth eventually went underground and aligned himself with Sadono and the DDD, becoming Sadono's chief mercenary. However, Soth had no interest in Sadono's cause, and merely wanted to strike back at America for betraying him earlier.
After Sadono is captured, Soth takes the last canister filled with the smallpox virus and plans to release it at LAX. Sam confronts Soth inside LAX, and kills him in a shootout.
In Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Norman Soth goes under the alias of 'Mortified Penguin'. He also briefly used the alias 'Johnathan Poindexter' in order to secure train tickets in France.
Ingrid Ruth Karlthson
- Born: February 14, 1952
Ingrid Karlthson first came in contact with Sam Fisher while she was a hostage in the Darah Dan Doa's raid on the U.S. Embassy in East Timor
East Timor
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...
in 2006. She is posing as a desk-jockey and provides a translation for a file Fisher received which leads him to the Saulnier Cryogenics lab and later, Norman Soth.
It is later revealed that Karlthson is actually a deep-cover agent planted at the embassy to discern whether or not Soth was still an agency asset. (He was so deep undercover
Undercover
Being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence...
that even the CIA didn't know if he was still working for them.) She is taken by Sadono as a bargaining
Bargaining
Bargaining or haggling is a type of negotiation in which the buyer and seller of a good or service dispute the price which will be paid and the exact nature of the transaction that will take place, and eventually come to an agreement. Bargaining is an alternative pricing strategy to fixed prices...
chip and is taken to the TV station in Jakarta
Jakarta
Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...
where she assists Fisher in capturing Sadono.
Francois Coulon Coldeboeuf
- Born: February 18, 1980
Francois Coldeboeuf was a security guard at the Saulnier Cryogenics
Cryogenics
In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behavior of materials at those temperatures. A person who studies elements under extremely cold temperature is called a cryogenicist. Rather than the relative temperature scales of Celsius and Fahrenheit,...
Lab. Back in 2003 he was arrested for invasion of privacy by taking a picture with his cellphone camera
Camera phone
A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture still photographs . Since early in the 21st century the majority of mobile phones in use are camera phones....
. However, when Norman Soth's mercenaries took over the building, he was the only survivor and went into hiding in the secured body processing center, managing to take Soth's picture on his phone's camera. Before the mercenaries manage to break into the room, Fisher reaches him but only for his cellphone for information and a picture of "Mortified Penguin" - Soth. Afterward, Fisher saves Coldeboeuf from being blown up by the mercenaries. Coldeboeuf's status after the incident is not known. It is also possible to kill him, though Lambert will reprimand the player and tell Sam that he will undergo a psych evaluation next time he is "stateside", even knocking him out to carry him to safety will cause Lambert to tell Fisher the same thing.
Francis Coldeboeuf is also the name of the co-producer of the single player portion in Pandora Tomorrow, which is where his name comes from.
Saul Berkovitz
Sam's first contact in IsraelIsrael
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. He gets taken hostage by two thieves who demand his guns and money. Sam quickly disposes of these two and Saul gives Sam a modified version of his SC-20K
FN F2000
The FN F2000 is a 5.56×45mm NATO bullpup assault rifle, designed by FN Herstal in Belgium. The F2000 made its debut in March 2001 at the IDEX defense exhibition held in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.-Design details:...
. If the player chooses to, Saul will lead Sam to an area where he can test out his "new" weapon. The modification of the weapon, however, was purely for a plot element, since there are no apparent differences from the SC-20K that the player uses in the previous missions.
Azrul Arifin
Sam's CIA contact in deep cover as Sadono's private pilot. Sam plants a bomb on his plane and then later meets up with Azrul to get a code word from him. He warns Azrul to stay away from his plane.Dahlia Suleiman Tal
- Born: August 11, 1968
- Died: April 5, 2006
Dahlia Tal is an undercover agent of the Shin Bet (Israeli Secret Police) who had infiltrated a Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
n terrorist group by pretending to be a corrupt member of Mossad
Mossad
The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....
. She assists Sam Fisher during a mission inside Israel in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.
In cooperation with Third Echelon, she leads Fisher through the streets of Jerusalem to the terrorist group's headquarters, while helping him evade Israeli police patrols. However, when the two of them finally reach the terrorist headquarters, Lambert radios Fisher and orders him to execute Dahlia immediately.
Fisher may choose to spare Tal. Lambert then reprimands Fisher, telling him "It's not your job to question!" Lambert then reveals that Shin Bet has double-crossed Third Echelon. They are planning on killing Fisher as soon as he retrieves the smallpox virus from the terrorists, because the Israeli government wants to steal the viral weapon for themselves; and because Fisher doesn't officially exist, there would be no repercussions for killing him. Sure enough, three Syrian mercenary snipers and Tal stalk Fisher as soon as he exits the terrorist base. Fisher is forced to kill them and heads to the exfiltration point. Lambert tells Sam that his soft spot for Tal "has cost us more in the region than you can imagine". Sam then says that "He'll wear a coned hat
Dunce cap
A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce's cap, or dunce's hat, is a pointed hat. In popular culture, it is typically made of paper and often marked with a D or the word "dunce", and given to schoolchildren to wear as punishment by public humiliation for misbehavior and, as the name...
in a corner" when he returns to the US. If the player shoots Tal, Fisher asks Lambert why he had to kill her at the end of the mission. Lambert only says "No, not yet", after which point the subject is not brought up again for the player.
Admiral Toshiro Otomo
- Born: 1955, HiroshimaHiroshimais the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - Height: 5′9″
- Weight: 161 lbs
Admiral Otomo is one of the main antagonists in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. He was the head of Japan's I-SDF (Information Self Defense Force).
Whilst Otomo appeared to be trying to assist the NSA in resolving the East Asian crisis and stopping the war that had broken out between North Korea
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, he was in fact one of its primary architects. Otomo and the I-SDF had been working with Douglas Shetland, and using information warfare
Information warfare
The term Information Warfare is primarily an American concept involving the use and management of information technology in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent...
algorithms belonging to Displace International, the I-SDF had launched an attack on a U.S. Navy ship from a North Korean missile battery.
When the NSA realized that the I-SDF was working with Shetland, Otomo, a fierce nationalist, sealed the I-SDF's base of operations and demanded that the Japanese government suspend Japan's Constitution
Constitution of Japan
The is the fundamental law of Japan. It was enacted on 3 May, 1947 as a new constitution for postwar Japan.-Outline:The constitution provides for a parliamentary system of government and guarantees certain fundamental rights...
and return power to the Emperor
Emperor of Japan
The Emperor of Japan is, according to the 1947 Constitution of Japan, "the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people." He is a ceremonial figurehead under a form of constitutional monarchy and is head of the Japanese Imperial Family with functions as head of state. He is also the highest...
and the armed forces. When the Japanese government refused these demands, Otomo attempted to fire a North Korean Nuclear missile upon a Japanese city, knowing that the people of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
would demand retaliation in the event of such an attack. The launch was stopped by Sam Fisher, who destroyed the I-SDF's servers and thus their capability to launch Information Warfare attacks. After attempting to commit seppuku
Seppuku
is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai bushido honor code, seppuku was either used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies , or as a form of capital punishment...
by stabbing himself with a blade, Otomo was rescued by Sam and brought before a U.N. War Tribunal, where his honor dictated that he admit his actions and plead guilty.
Defense Secretary Frank Mason
Frank Mason is the Secretary of Defense under President Bowers during the events of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. In response to North Korea and China's blockade of Japan, Masson sent the USS Clarence E. Walsh to the Yellow Sea to reaffirm the US commitments to Japan. After both Japan and the eastern United States fell victim to an information warfare attack and blackout, Mason began suspecting the Koreans. After the Walsh was sunk by a Korean missile, Masson tried to push Bowers to declare war immediately, before Lambert gives more intelligence.Mason uses a very hardline approach when dealing with problems. While he encouraged the President to send out troops (and, at one point, to use nuclear devices to stop the Korea conflict), Lambert managed to talk him down, preventing a terrible crisis.
Near the end of the crisis, Mason agrees with Lambert to take out Shetland (whose company had contracts with United States government), and capture Otomo.
Captain Arthur Partridge
- Born: 1949, Tuskeegee, AlabamaAlabamaAlabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
- Died: July 4, 2007, Yellow SeaYellow SeaThe Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden...
- Height: 5′10″
- Weight: 173 lbs
Arthur Partridge was captain of the USS Clarence E. Walsh and one of the U.S. Navy's top ship commanders, on course to become an Admiral. A longtime friend of Sam Fisher, Partridge was his Commanding Officer for a short time when Sam was a Navy SEAL, and the two maintained a good friendship over the years.
Partridge captained the USS Walsh into the Yellow Sea
Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden...
under orders of the President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
. He was killed along with his crew when a hijacked North Korean Silkworm anti-ship missile hit and sunk the ship. The USS Walsh was more than capable of defending against the attack, but a Masse Kernel-related attack crippled it, leading to the antiquated missile being able to send it straight to the bottom.
Milan Nedićh (Real Name: Milos Nowak)
- Birth: 1970, Place of Birth Unknown (although believed to be born in former Yugoslavia)
- Death: July 4, 2007, HokkaidōHokkaido, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - Height: 5′11″
- Weight: 189 lbs
Milan Nedićh was a ranking member of Displace International, and was in charge of the Abrahim Zherkezhi and Bruce Morgenholt protection details. Initially believed to be responsible for playing both the US and Displace over Morgenholt's death and the Masse Kernels, it is later discovered that he was working under orders from Douglas Shetland, Displace's CEO. According to members of Displace International, Nedićh killed someone in Istanbul. He was drunk and wandered out of the bar looking for a fight. His friends found him the next morning covered in blood. The newspaper said the next day that Istanbul police found some guy cut to ribbons just a couple of blocks from the bar that they were at.
Nedićh's real name is Milos Nowak, a wanted war criminal from the Bosnian Conflict
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...
. He was known as "The Bosnian Barber" due to allegedly scalping a number of his prisoners. Nedich was eventually killed by Sam Fisher at a Hokkaidō
Hokkaido
, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...
mountain retreat in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
.
Hugo Lacerda
- Born: 1972 "El Salvador"
- Died: June 24, 2007, Maria Narcissa
- Height: 5′9″
- Weight: 128 lbs
Hugo Lacerda was a Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian separatist revolutionary
Revolutionary
A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...
and the leader of a Communist guerrilla organization called "The People's Voice". He is responsible for the kidnapping and murder of American computational theorist Bruce Morgenholt, but leaves his island fortress hideout before Sam can find and assassinate him. Lacerda boards the Maria Narcissa, guarded by a pair of Displace International bodyguards. However, Fisher is able to infiltrate the Maria Narcissa and kill Lacerda, as per Third Echelon's orders.
Lacerda was not nearly as popular among his men as Suhadi Sadono was among his. Many of his men can be overheard welcoming the thought of his death.
Abrahim Zherkezhi
- Born: 1960, Warsaw, Poland
- Died: July 4, 2007, HokkaidōHokkaido, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - Height: 6′3″
- Weight: 207 lbs
Abrahim Zherkezhi was a computer genius and worked with Bruce Morgenholt in studying the Masse Kernels for the UN (known in the game as Project Watson) following the Georgian Information Crisis, and then abruptly disappeared from public life. There were ongoing rumors that he had gone insane.
It is later learned that Zherkezhi had taken protection from Displace International. He allowed Douglas Shetland to use his 'Dvorak' algorithms, though unaware of Shetland's intentions. After the blackouts of the East Coast (New York City) and Japan, Sam was sent to Zherkezhi's penthouse to locate the 'Dvorak' only to learn it was an infinite state machine. Fisher also learned Displace relocated Zherkezhi to Hokkaidō.
While Fisher attempted to kidnap Zherkezhi, Shetland arrived beforehand and murdered Zherkezhi with a katana
Katana
A Japanese sword, or , is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. There are several types of Japanese swords, according to size, field of application and method of manufacture.-Description:...
in the Hokkaidō retreat to hide evidence of his involvement (if Sam neutralizes the guard outside and goes up to the door Shetland will kill Zherkezhi with a gun instead).
Zherkezhi is also mentioned in Pandora Tomorrow, in the intro cut-scene to the "Train" level, the newscaster will mention that a U.S. operation involving the "Masse Kernals" has been successful, though his name is pronounced "Abraham Zerkazi".
Bruce Morgenholt
- Born: 1967, Wilmington, DelawareWilmington, DelawareWilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...
- Died: June 24, 2007, PeruPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
- Height: 5′9″
- Weight: 128 lbs
Bruce Morgenholt worked alongside Abrahim Zherkezhi in studying the Masse Kernels after the Georgian Information Crisis. He was kidnapped by a group of Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian revolutionaries under Hugo Lacerda, and was tortured for information on the Masse Kernels. Ironically, it was Displace International who hired Lacerda, the same company protecting him.
He died from his torture before Fisher could rescue him.
Thomas Standish
Thomas Standish (aka 'The Turtle') is a British specialist bank thief with expertise in cracking high security bank vault systems. He was eventually caught and sent to prison, but is released in exchange for him remotely helping Fisher and Third Echelon break into a bank in PanamaPanama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
.
Kaneda
- Died: 2007, TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
Shetland's I-SDF contact in the Bathhouse, Kaneda meets with Shetland in order to purchase the weaponized algorithms. He gets into a heated argument with Shetland during the meeting and orders his I-SDF bodyguard to kill Shetland. However, Kaneda's bodyguard first kills Shetland's own bodyguard, allowing Shetland the opportunity to kill Kaneda's bodyguard while he is still faced away from Shetland. Now defenseless, Kaneda pleads that "We can work this out", but Shetland quickly shoots Kaneda dead.
Agent One and Agent Two
Agent One and Agent Two were Splinter Cells-in-training in Chaos Theory until the Korean conflict began. They were sent together as a team to discover other deals by a Panamanian banker who made deals between Displace and Hugo Lacerda. They learned that he made deals with a North Korean scientist, Jong Pom-Chu. They are sent into wartorn Seoul and capture Jong. They discover that Jong had been developing a chemical weapon and are sent to a silo in North Korea to locate a strain of the virus and create a vaccine. The Korean conflict was over by then, but they learned that North Korean Colonel Kim had refused to lay down arms and led a rogue faction of the army to plant bombs within New York. The two agents head to the train station and disable the bomb. They head back to North Korean soil to learn that Kim had the ability to strike a final time, at the UN Headquarters. The duo team return to New York at the UN HQ, where they kill Kim and disable the last bomb.They return in Double Agent in the Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, and Wii versions to finish the mission that Fisher began in Iceland. They destroy the factory and are then sent to Ellsworth Penitentiary to begin a riot to allow Fisher and Jamie Washington to escape the prison. They are then sent to Kinshasa to find weapons that the rebels had bought and destroy the bunker. Afterward, they head to the tanker stolen by Fisher, disarming various Red Mercury bombs.
Both agents are neither seen nor mentioned in Splinter Cell: Conviction and it is unknown what happened to them.
Segundo Ruiz De Medeiros
The vice president for the Panama Administration Building. He had dealings with Hugo Lacerda and Jong Pom-Chu. The Agents interrogate him for information on security systems and codes. However they are ordered by Lambert to not kill him under any circumstances.Colonel Kim
Colonel Kim is an officer in the North Korean Army. He is the main antagonist of the co-op storyline of Chaos Theory. He commanded the chemical bunker near Namp'o-si, which developed a biological weapon. However, he was angry at the cease fire and blamed General Jung (Head of the Military; also from Ghost Recon 2) for abandoning 5,000 troops. He refused to lay down arms against the Americans and led a rogue faction of deserters to continue to wage war with America. He planted chemical bombs developed by scientists at the chemical bunker in New York at the train station and at the UN Headquarters. The Splinter Cell Duo team disabled his bombs and killed Kim at the UN headquarters.Chu
A comrade of Colonel Kim who is in charge of the New York Penn Station takeover. Chu successfully took over the station and planted the bombs. However, one of his soldiers fell victim to the virus, and Kim called him to take out that soldier. Chu headed to the locker room to receive the vaccine guarded by a password with his son's birthday, where he is captured by a Splinter Cell agent. The Splinter Cell agent killed Chu after interrogating him.Jong Pom-Chu
Jong Pom-Chu is a North Korean spy and scientist who developed a deadly virus to attack the Americans. He dealt with de Medieros and the CDIB to exchange deadly weapons. Jong was at Seoul during the Korean Crises. Knowing Jong was important, the North Korean Special Forces hid him at a cyber cafe by the river. Jong had an impersonator at the original hotel as a decoy, and had an escape boat on the river. The Splinter Cell Duo team found the decoy and the location of Jong's hideout (Sam Fisher himself reveals Jong's whereabouts to the team during the course of the single-player campaign). They disabled his boat and abducted him. The NSA interrogated him, learning he gave the virus to Colonel Kim.Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Since there are two different games/versions with two completely different storylines (despite having the same general plot). Version 1 will cover the PS3/Xbox 360, and PC version, while Version 2 will cover the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox/Wii version.Emile Dufraisne
- Born: November 10, 1956, Opelosas Louisiana
- Died: March 7, 2008, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- Height: 5′9″
- Weight: 160 lbs
Emile Dufraisne is the main antagonist of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, he is voiced by Keith Szarabajka
Keith Szarabajka
Keith Szarabajka is an American actor and voice artist.-Early life:Szarabajka was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Anne, a school teacher, and Edward Szarabajka, a savings and loan officer....
. Emile is the founder and leader of the JBA (John Brown's Army), an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
terrorist organization. An imposing figure with a shaved head and a Cajun accent
Cajun English
Cajun English is the dialect of English spoken by Cajuns living in southern Louisiana and, to some extent, in eastern Texas. Cajun English is significantly influenced by Cajun French, the historical language of the Cajun people, a direct descendant of Acadian French, which differs somewhat from...
, Emile has always believed he was destined for greatness. He despises the United States government, believing it to be corrupt
Political corruption
Political corruption is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by...
, and feels the only way to achieve social change is through radical revolution
Revolution
A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.Aristotle described two types of political revolution:...
.
For a long time, he's been dreaming of more ambitious plans for the JBA, an organization that has frequently been suspected of but never tied to any criminal activity. Ultimately, Emile is willing to sacrifice both his operatives and himself for his insane ideals, as is shown near the end of Version 1 when he sets the Red Mercury bomb to blow up most of New York City and all of the JBA with it. Some think of him as a terrorist, but he considers himself a patriot
Patriotism
Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy...
. In Version 2 and Essentials: JBA Headquarters is in New Orleans, in Version 2 the plan is to take out New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville at the same time.
The JBA itself is a quite sophisticated organization. They use technology, training, secrecy and discipline, almost like a PMC. But being a terrorist organization engaged in illegal activities, they have material limits and ruthless methods to achieve their goals.
In Version 1, Emile is simply one of several terrorists guarding the Red Mercury bomb at the center of the JBA Headquarters underneath New York City at the end of the game. Sam can simply sneak up on him and shoot him to death like any other enemy character. The player can also interrogate Emile after corner-grabbing him. Emile will tell Sam to give it up: Sam then kills him by breaking his neck. If Sam grabs him from behind, he slips out of Sam's grip and squares off for a fist fight but Sam kills him with a fictional martial arts move which pushes his nose cartilage into his brain.
In Version 2 of Double Agent, Sam confronts Emile in a climactic one-on-one shootout within a maze of laser mines atop a New York city skyscraper during the level "New York". Sam manages to throw a flash bang to Emile blinding him for enough time to grab his pistol and shoot Dufraine dead, then disarms the Red Mercury bomb, saving New York City. Tossing a flash-bang into Emile's sight will stun him, allowing him to be grabbed. Emile will say "Nicely played, Fisher.", and engages in a lengthy conversation with Sam.
Carson Moss
- Born: January 19, 1972, Tulsa, OklahomaTulsa, OklahomaTulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
- Died: March 7, 2008, New York HarborNew York HarborNew York Harbor refers to the waterways of the estuary near the mouth of the Hudson River that empty into New York Bay. It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. Although the U.S. Board of Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental,...
- Height: 6′2″
- Weight: 245 lbs
Carson Moss met Emile Dufraisne in 1996 after leaving a private security company and enlisted in JBA as head of security. Carson is a racist and was linked to several hate crime
Hate crime
In crime and law, hate crimes occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, social status or...
beatings before joining the JBA but was never arrested. Carson is also a hotheaded man and is disliked by many of the members of John Brown's Army, but no one dares challenge or question him, save Jamie Washington. He bullies
Bullies
Bullies is a 1986 Canadian action-drama film about a feud between two families in a small town in a similar vein to the story of Romeo and Juliet...
everyone in the group, except Emile (for obvious reasons) and Enrica, because he is in love with her. He works out incessantly and is extremely strong. It is also noted that he played high school football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
and badly hurt his knee; to this day he isn't as agile as he once was. Carson dislikes Sam and is the only JBA member that doesn't trust him. Eavesdropping on Carson while he's exercising with his punching bag
Punching bag
A punching bag or punch-bag is a sturdy bag designed to be repeatedly punched. It's used for conditioning, physical exercise, and stress relief...
shows him saying "Fisher, there's something about that guy."
In Version 1, Carson Moss's real name was Gary Carson. He had a history of child abuse
Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...
from his father, resulting in having him jump to various orphanages. At one point, he attempted to enlist in the United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
, but was rejected, and ended up serving a brief stint in the U.S. Army. Moss had many disciplinary problems while in the Army but nothing too serious. His problem carried on during Moss's civilian life while being arrested by local police officers numerous times, while doing muscle-work for various criminals, including working for a bookie out of Miami as a "kneecapper". In 1996 Moss was employed by PMC Displace International. While on security detail in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
, Moss severed the ring finger of every man, woman and child in a small village as punishment for "harboring kidnappers". Moss was later dismissed from Displace. After that, he changed his name to Carson Moss and went to work for Dufraisne as head of security for the JBA.
Sam finds Moss on a Coast Guard
Coast guard
A coast guard or coastguard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to being a volunteer organization tasked with...
ship in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
attempting to set off the last Red Mercury device after realizing the entire operation has gone awry. Sam can attempt to sneak up to and grab Moss but he manages to free himself, after a short struggle Sam manages to knee Moss's bad knee and breaks his neck before pushing his corpse aside. Sam then defuses the Red Mercury. Sam then dives into the ocean just before the police fires a rocket to the boat's bridge which blows up the ship.
Early in Version 2, during the mission JBA Headquarters Part 1, it is possible for the player to grab and interrogate Moss. Killing him, or anyone else in the mission results in failure. In the final mission Moss was defending a Red Mercury bomb on the 68th floor of an unnamed skyscraper in New York, and was killed by Sam. In this version he can be successfully grabbed in the usual way and interrogated before killing him.
In Splinter Cell: Essentials version, Moss captures a recording of Sam and Irving Lambert discussing the mission to infiltrate the JBA. Sam alters the recording to keep his own cover, replacing his voice with someone named "Dave". Later Moss is in a room with Dufraisne. They had captured Lambert, and Moss played the recording in order to uncover Sam's true identity, but is foiled by the modified recording. Moss apologizes for making the mistake. Although he was sure he had heard Sam's voice originally, he had no way to prove what he heard.
He is voiced by Dwight Schultz
Dwight Schultz
William Dwight Schultz is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist. He is best known for his roles as Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action show The A-Team, and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First...
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Jamie Washington
- Born: 1979, Bowling Green, KentuckyBowling Green, KentuckyBowling Green is the third-most populous city in the state of Kentucky after Louisville and Lexington, with a population of 58,067 as of the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Warren County and the principal city of the Bowling Green, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area with an estimated 2009...
- Died: March 6, 2008, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- Height: 5′11″
- Weight: 165 lbs
Jamie is a study in contrasts. On one hand he is generally cheerful and easy-going, and once he decides he likes somebody, they are friends for life. On the other hand he can be a vicious, cruel, cold-blooded killer causing harm to anyone who gets in his way (in Version 2 on the first JBA Headquarters mission, a certain guard, if interrogated, comments that he is "crazier than a snake on steroids"). He is an active member of the JBA. Jamie has a heart condition, and was equipped with a pacemaker
Artificial pacemaker
A pacemaker is a medical device that uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart...
during his spell in prison in order to help with keeping his heart-rate steady. In Version 2, it is revealed that the traitorous Cole Yeagher had secretly gave information to the police that led to Washington's arrest and sentence to prison. However, the charge was for kidnapping, and the jury never found out he was also a murderer.
In both versions, Sam helps him break out of Ellsworth Penitentiary, so he can get invited into John Brown's Army (Ellsworth Penitentiary appears to be based on the real life USP Leavenworth). In Splinter Cell: Essentials version of the event, Sam helps him break out of the "United States Penitentiary", in Leavenworth
United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
The United States Penitentiary , Leavenworth was the largest maximum security federal prison in the United States from 1903 until 2005. It became a medium security prison in 2005.It is located in Leavenworth, Kansas...
, Kansas.
Jamie and Moss seem to not get along very well, as Fisher sees when he is snooping around. In the end, Fisher will eventually either choose to kill Jamie instead of Lambert, or kill him later on, if the player does not shoot Lambert straight away Jamie tells Fisher to shoot Lambert on the count of five or else he will shoot Fisher. When he reaches 3, however he flinches, saying "Don't make me do this." Fisher is forced to shoot Lambert who will die of his wound later while Jamie leaves the room. Fisher encounters him again in the basement and kills him.
In Version 2, Jamie is guarding a Red Mercury bomb with B.J. Sykes, when he is killed by Sam. As an option, his pacemaker could be short-circuited by Sam's OCP attachment on his 5.7 pistol. If interrogated, Jamie will express initial disbelief that Sam is a "traitor", claiming he knows Sam too well to believe it, before Sam remarks Jamie did not know him at all.
Enrica Villablanca
- Born: June 2, 1978, Boca Raton, FloridaBoca Raton, FloridaBoca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about...
- Died: February 28, 2008, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- Height: 5′7″
- Weight: 125 lbs
A brilliant young woman with a PhD in biochemistry, she works with Emile Dufraisne for the JBA. She seems to be the most medically trained of the JBA, as she can be seen working in the infirmary. It would seem, however, that she is working for him against her will, due to threats from Emile exposing her to the police about her involvement in a "monkeywrenching" protest where a security guard was accidentally killed. She is a possible "love interest" for Sam Fisher.
In Version 2, the game uses their relationship as a main plot point, and in the final level they plan on running away together; however, she is killed by a Splinter Cell agent sent by Williams. Sam then ambushes the agent by hiding in the snow, slitting the agent's throat in anger. Sam then defiantly cuts out his own sub-dermal radio.
In Version 1, Sam and Enrica share a sexual encounter in her quarters after Sam cracks Emile's safe, though Sam only seduces her in order to keep his cover intact. In some missions, Enrica acts as Sam's contact, including a mission in which Sam must place a bomb on a cruise ship to test its effectiveness. Sam can either frame Enrica using her disarm code to prevent the bomb from exploding, or simply jam the signal. In either case, Emile will execute her. Sam does not show any remorse following her death, nor does he offer any comments following the actions. Her corpse is later seen beside a furnace in the final JBA HQ level. If Sam instead decides to allow the ocean liner to explode, Enrica offers a disingenuous "Nice work, Sam". Near the end of the game, Enrica hands Sam his SC-20K rifle and goggles (though only if the player forgot to collect them from the firing range), aiding him in preventing Emile from detonating the nuclear explosive device. She will also open a retinal scanner locked door for Sam. Enrica then heads to her office, and Sam can either leave her alone, knock her unconscious, or kill her. If the player grabs her from behind, the grapple animation has Enrica twist around in his arms to look at him face to face, holding onto his wrist, though it is worth noting that female civilians in other missions also exhibit the same hold position. Since the player must save two out of three targets to get the canon ending, framing Enrica is the canon choice since Conviction confirmed that Sam did not save Lambert.
Stanley Dayton
- Born: September 22, 1981, Bend, OregonBend, OregonBend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population...
- Died: March 6, 2008, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
Dayton is a JBA computer hacker and head of the security systems. He also creates the hacking program for Enrica to use on the Cozumel cruise ship. He despises nearly every member of the JBA leadership with the exception of Enrica Villablanca because she is a woman. He is also plagued by nightmares and illnesses. He has also been considered a hypochondriac, as well as being in the worst health in the JBA. He is able to be interrogated by simply grabbing him - he doesn't fight back like Emile or Moss. Sam interrogates him to find out where Emile is: he then kills him. Killing Dayton will allow the player to scan his retina.
Stanley shares the same role as B.J. Sykes from the Xbox/PS2/GC/Wii version of Double Agent.
B.J. Sykes
- Born: 1972, Cincinnati, OhioCincinnati, OhioCincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...
- Died: December 21, 2008, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- Height: 5′7″
- Weight: 150 lbs
Billy-Jo Sykes is a JBA computer hacker and head of the security systems in Version 2 and is a different version of Stanley Dayton. He is the least liked of all the JBA members. Sykes is an introvert who talks to himself because he does not like to talk with others. Although Sykes is notorious for jumping to paranoid conclusions, Emile respects his technical skills and Sykes sticks around because he gets to play with the JBA's high-tech systems. Emile respects him greatly, for he is the only one trusted to run solo on errands outside the JBA.
He ultimately reveals Sam's status as a spy to Emile in Version 2 during the HALO jump in the New York rooftop operation. Sykes is killed along with Jamie Washington in the snowtops level.
B.J Sykes shares the same role as Stanley Dayton from the 360/PS3/PC version of Double Agent.
Massoud Ibn-Yussiff
An ally of Emile Dufraisne and Alejandro Takfir, who is plotting to blow up Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
with a chemical weapon. In Version 2, a news broadcast at the end of the game states he was arrested by FBI agents.
In Version 1, Massoud meets with Emile and Takfir in Kinshasa. He tells them that his men will crew the tanker Sam had stolen, and pilot it into the Los Angeles harbor with one of the nuclear weapons (in which three Red Mercury bombs are disarmed by Agents One and Two). He then receives a call from one of his men, and learns an agent, Hisham Hamza, had infiltrated his group. He then leaves the meeting to conduct the search for Hamza. It was also revealed in an opportunity objective that Massoud also temporarily owned a chemical bunker in Kinshasa, which was eventually sabotaged by Agents One and Two.
Alejandro Takfir
An ally of Emile Dufraisne and Massoud Ibn-Yussiff, who is planning to blow up Los Angeles with a chemical weapon. He is also the commander of the rebels in Kinshasa. It is assumed he was arrested at the end of the game since a news broadcast states that everyone who was involved with the plot had been secured.In Version 2, Takfir had stolen the weapons from Raheem Kadir in Iceland. Takfir was one of the buyers, along with Dufraisne that wanted the weapons, and was angry when it was agreed Dufraisne would be purchasing them. Takfir eventually allied with Massoud and Emile to use his nuclear weapons.
Hisham Hamza
- Born: 1979, Washington, DC
- Height: 5′9″
- Weight: 165 lbs
- Age: 29
Part of a new initiative within the Department of Defense, Hisham's capacity for quick learning made him an excellent candidate to act as a field liaison between the CIA and the NSA. Following the CIA's orders, Hisham managed to get recruited in the Massoud group and is acting now as a double agent. He is ready to do whatever it takes to stop the menacing plans of the JBA—even sacrificing himself for the right cause.
In Version 1, Hisham is sometimes Sam's contact, such as in the Shanghai mission. Eventually, Emile will order Sam to kill Hisham when he discovers that he has a mole. Whether Sam kills him or helps him escape (by freeing him from the palace and blowing the whole place up to make it look like he is dead) is up to the player.
In Version 2, Hisham is Sam's partner during the Iceland mission. He discovers traces of radiation in the labs and evacuates with Sam when Lambert calls the mission off. He then joins Massoud's group as a double agent, until his cover is blown. During the Kinshasa mission, the player can either kill Hisham and stuff his body in a car for J.B.A. trust, or escort Hisham to a parking lot and hoist him over the fence facilitating his escape.
Doctor Abdul-Ahmad Aswat
A PakistanPakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i nuclear scientist who meets Emile and Massoud to sell nuclear documents and Red Mercury
Red Mercury
The Red Mercury is the rarest of Austrian newspaper stamps .Austria's newspaper stamps first appeared in 1851; they depicted a profile of Mercury, the Roman messenger god, and were not denominated, the color of the stamp indicating the value...
. Emile orders Sam to steal the documents on how to make Red Mercury when Emile refuses to pay Aswat because the price is too high. Sam steals the documents and killing Aswat becomes a primary objective given to Fisher by Agent Hisham, an undercover CIA agent. Hisham refers to Doctor Aswat as a "liability". If Sam does not succeed in killing Aswat, he will lose NSA trust.
Cole Yeager
In Version 1, Cole is a WNM pilot who is kidnapped by Sam and Jamie after they steal his helicopter after breaking out of Ellsworth Penitentiary. Emile orders Sam to execute Cole when they arrive at the JBA's HQ in New York City with a gun carrying one bullet. If Sam decides to miss his shot on purpose, Jamie will kill Cole instead and Sam will lose a little JBA trust. Sam's decision does not affect the rest of the storyline, unlike later decisions.In Version 2, Yeager is a member of the JBA. However, he plans to overthrow Emile and take it over, though Emile suspects it. Emile sends Fisher to find out what he can about Cole, and to bring it to him. Lambert tells Fisher to give the information to the NSA, so they can capture Cole and find information.
If Sam gives the information he finds to Lambert, then the NSA takes Cole and interrogates him for information for a very brief period of time. Williams tells Fisher that he was still alive and in prison, stating "Emile didn't look too hard". If Sam gives it to Emile, Carson Moss kills Cole and the NSA finds his body three days later.
Barnham
An inmate in Ellsworth prison, Barnham is a bully to Jamie Washington. Barnham is an important witness to the Department of Justice in another case. Sam has the option to either kill him to impress Jamie or knock him out following Lambert's no casualties orders. He only appears in Version 2.He serves the same role as Mikey from Essentials.
John Hodge
An over-enthusiastic rookie Splinter Cell. He is Fisher's partner during the Iceland mission, tasked with creating a covert entrance to the facility. During the mission, he breaks from his assignment of covering Sam to enter the facility over Sam and Lambert's protests. As Sam enters the launch facility through a disabled air vent, he watches as John is confronted by an armed guard. John then is seen throwing his hands up in surrender, realizing that there is no way out alive because there are more guards cornering him nearby. The armed guard shoots him several times, killing him. This puts the facility on alert, making Fisher's presence less covered. Hodge only appears in Version 1.Raheem Kadir
Kadir is a weapons dealer who owns a geothermal foundry and obtains the Red Mercury. He was going to sell it to Dufraisne and Takfir but, Takfir's men stole the Red Mercury from the foundry using double agents. When Agents One and Two infiltrate the facility, they are ordered to destroy it, and succeed. Raheem was presumably killed in the explosion. He only appears in Version 2.Edward Blake
- Born: 1975, Harlingen, TexasHarlingen, TexasHarlingen is a city in Cameron County in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, United States, about from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than , and is the second largest city in Cameron County and the sixth largest in the Rio Grande Valley...
- Height: 6' 2"
- Weight: 220 lbs.
Edward Blake was recruited into the NSA from Texas A&M University, where he was pursuing a double major in Political Science and Psychology. After joining the agency he became a field analyst specializing in the debriefing of foreign intelligence assets. Despite a notable lack of patience and a willingness to resort to physical methods of interrogation, his success record is one of the highest in the agency.
He was in charge of interrogating Sam after he was captured by the NSA after the events of "Double Agent". Fisher was able to escape from him and hide in William Redding's office.
Mikey
Mikey is a convict serving time in the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas after killing several FBI agents during a shootout. He received life in prison instead of the death penalty after he turned in Jamie Washington. Jamie Washington wanted revenge, so he ordered Sam to kill Mikey in order for Sam to gain Jamie's trust. Sam discovered him in the prison shower room. Sam had the choice of knocking him out and claiming he murdered him or killing him in order to get on Jamie Washington's good side.Mikey can be interrogated by Sam, in which he explains why he was in prison.
Mikey serves the same role as Barnham from the Ubisoft Montreal version of Double Agent.
Captain Moore
Fisher's commander in Norte De Santander, Colombia while he was in the Navy SEALs in 1992. He ordered Fisher not to go after Douglas Shetland who had been captured by guerrillas. Sam chose not to follow orders due to being special ops, and to keep Shetland from spilling any information to the enemy. Captain Moore conceded to Sam but told him that he was on his own if captured.Agent Frasier
Agent Frasier was a mole and traitor in the NSA. He masterminded the plan to steal weapons from the NSA (with the help of Colonel Matthews and Ernest) in order to make a profit from the sell of the weapons. In 2006, after infiltrating a Steel Factory in Warsaw, Indiana taking out his thugs and eavesdropping on Ernest, Sam found Agent Frasier, waiting for him in the factory. He was hoping to catch Sam, kill him and frame him for the stolen weapons. Lambert ordered Sam to capture the traitor for interrogation, so that they could learn about the arms network.Colonel Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Reed, USAF (Ret.)
Colonel Tom Reed is a corrupt, ruthless director of Third Echelon who replaced Irving Lambert after his death and the main antagonist of Splinter Cell: Conviction.An ambitious graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Reed served in the U.S. Air Force in various counter-terrorist capacities, particularly cyberwarfare, and rose to the rank of Colonel. He transitioned to a new Third Echelon initiative under then-Director Irving Lambert. After Lambert was killed during the JBA crisis, Reed positioned himself to ascend to command position in Third Echelon. He has expanded organization’s head count and mission, moving aggressively into pre-emptive information warfare approaches. Reed's psychological profile indicates strong adaptive thinking with some narcissistic tendencies. He prefers hands-on operation and places a great store in personal loyalty. Reed has replaced most of Lambert’s appointees in Third Echelon with his own people. As a ruthless and relentless man, Reed has completely transformed Third Echelon into an organization that will resort to questionable tactics and will do anything to "protect" the United States, mostly through lethal means.
During the game, Reed discovers that President Patrica Cladwell is planning to shut down Third Echelon when she thinks they are justifying funding for the agency and is leaving America vulnerable without its intelligence services. He went to a mysterious group called Megiddo and conspires with Kobin and the PMC
Private military company
A private military company or provides military and security services. These combatants are commonly known as mercenaries, though modern-day PMCs refer to their staff as security contractors, private military contractors or private security contractors, and refer to themselves as private military...
called Black Arrow to smuggle EMP technology into the country as cover in an attempt to assassinate President Cladwell and have her Vice-President, who is in Megiddo's pocket, take over. If they succeed in assassinating the president, Reed would be considered a hero and will get an promotion to the high ranks.
Once the EMP was unleashed in Washington DC, Reed and his men attacked the White House to take over the White House. Once they took control in the Oval Office, Anna Grimsdóttír brought Sam inside, pretending to be a hostage and he reveals he planned to frame Sam for assassinating the President. Once Sam and Grim took out Reed's men in the Oval Office, Sam interrogates him and discovers that he was the mole that Lambert was searching for, which made the latter staged the death of Sam's daughter Sarah. In the last mission, the player has a choice to either kill Reed or spare him, in which case Reed is killed by Grim.
Andriy Kobin
Drug runner, arms dealer, and sleeper agent for Third Echelon. Andriy Kobin built a notorious reputation for himself and remains feared in various criminal underworlds. Kobin is the man who drove the car that supposedly killed Sarah Fisher in 2007, although it is later revealed that Kobin was actually hired by Irving Lambert to find a body look-alike for Sarah. Lambert discovered that Sarah would have been used as leverage against Sam by a mole inside Third Echelon (who is later discovered to be Tom Reed). Lambert used Kobin as part of his plan to remove her from the playing field when her livelihood became threatened. Nevertheless, Sam raids Kobin's mansion in Malta, only to be apprehended by Third Echelon agents after interrogating Kobin. After a second confrontation inside of the Third Echelon headquarters, Sam then leaves him lying injured on the ground in the main offices. It is unknown if Kobin survived the destruction of the HQ due to the area being sealed off after Sam infiltrates it.In the co-op storyline, Kobin is as an ally that helps the two playable characters, Archer and Kestrel, secure the EMP bombs and evacuates them via aircraft. Afterwards, when Archer and Kestrel are forced to kill one another in the plane's hangar, he is seen killing the guilt-ridden survivor in order to remove all traces of Tom Reed's future plans with the EMP weapons. Both bodies are later seen in his mansion, awaiting disposal.
Major Shawn Robertson
Project manager at White Box Laboratories and high-ranking member of the PMC Black Arrow. He forces the scientists at the lab to work on EMP's for Tom Reed, and then has the entire lab massacred to hide the evidence. When he is confronted by Sam Fisher, Robertson orders a squad of Black Arrow operatives to kill Sam Fisher from behind a bulletproof window. He is killed when Sam Fisher sets off the EMP in the room, electrocuting him through the computer console he is using.Colonel Jeremy Prentiss
A ruthless, high-ranking official of the PMC Black Arrow. He kidnaps a female scientist from White Box Laboratories and forces her to oversee the EMP site at the Michigan Ave Reservoir while ordering Robertson to massacre every scientist inside White Box. Prentiss is killed when Victor Coste shoots down his helicopter.Oscar Laboy
A minor character. He is a mercenary hired to fly a captured Sam to Price Airfield. He is executed by Reed in order to avoid paying him.Dmitri Gramkos
A hired gun sent to kill Sam Fisher in Malta. Sam is ambushed by Gramkos and his gang but manages to dispatch the hitmen and corner Gramkos in a bathroom. After a brutal interrogation of Gramkos, Sam kills him by crushing his windpipe.Lucius Galliard
Galliard is the new owner of White Box Industries and Private Military Contractor (PMC) Black Arrow. Sam Fisher eavesdrops on a heated discussion between Galliard and Tom Reed at the Lincoln Memorial, where a speech had just been given by the Vice President, and the speaking stage was being dismantled. Sam interrogates Galliard who is killed by an assassin before Sam can learn anything of Reed's plans. The shooter is unidentified, but presumably he was hired by Megiddo. The assassin is killed by a car bomb shortly after being chased through the National Mall by Sam. This may be a reference to Jack Ruby's assassination of Lee Oswald, who in turn had previously assassinated John Kennedy.Daniel Robert Sloane-Suarez (callsign "Archer")
- Born: March 23, 19XX Miami, FloridaMiami, FloridaMiami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
- Death: 2011
Archer is an American agent working as a member of the "Splinter Cell" program for Third Echelon.
Earning an economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
degree at Harvard, Daniel Sloane-Suarez joined the NSA to pursue a career as an intelligence analyst. While at the Agency, Daniel interpreted signal intercepts connected to a dozen of terror plots, and personally identified the leadership of extremist group, the Grass Liberation Front. Though Daniel proved to be a highly capable analyst, his deeply-entrenched resentment to authority created considerable tension with his superiors at Fort Meade. Sloane-Suarez soon began to chafe against the bureaucratic confines of his job. Fortunately for him, his personnel file was flagged for potential field duty by recruiters of Third Echelon, and Anna Grimsdóttír quickly approved his admission to the group's grueling training program. Eighteen months later, he was assigned to his callsign "Archer".
He is killed at the end of the Coop campaign by either Andriy Kobin or Kestrel.
Mikhail Andreyevitch Loskov (callsign "Kestrel")
- Alias: Glib Lakeav
- Born: July 8, 19XX Novgorod, Russia
- Death: 2011
Mikhail Loskov a.k.a. Kestrel is a Russian agent working for Voron, Third Echelon's Russian counterpart.
Most of Mikhail's military dossier is classified. What is known is that he is no stranger to death, misery, and misfortune. His parents were killed when he was six. He had a tempestuous and violent relationship with his foster father, and at the age of 14 he ran away from home to live on the streets for four years. After numerous run-ins with local police he was arrested and turned over to the army for his period of conscription. Loskov thrived in brutal of Russian army life, and was quickly transferred to a special counterinsurgency charged with tracking down and neutralizing Chechen
Chechen people
Chechens constitute the largest native ethnic group originating in the North Caucasus region. They refer to themselves as Noxçi . Also known as Sadiks , Gargareans, Malkhs...
guerrillas and Wahhabists fighters in the Chechen capital of Grozny
Grozny
Grozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 271,596; up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Census. but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989...
. After an incident where his entire unit was ambushed and subsequently captured, he endure three days of unspeakable torture before the Spetsnaz
Spetsnaz
Spetsnaz, Specnaz tr: Voyska specialnogo naznacheniya; ) is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "force of special purpose"...
came to his rescue. After reading his report, an SVR officer named Viktor Korvalev approached Loskov to discuss a new, special operation group dedicated to high-risk infiltration and information gathering. From that day on he was known as "Kestrel".
He is killed at the end of the Coop campaign by either Andriy Kobin or Archer.
Agent Ben Hansen
Agent Ben Hansen, one of Archer and Kestrel's mission handlers. Hansen also appears in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (novel), and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Endgame.Maya Valentina
Agent Maya Valentina, one of Archer and Kestrel's mission handlers. Valentina also appears in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (novel) & Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Endgame.Victor Coste
- Born: Pawtucket, Rhode IslandPawtucket, Rhode IslandPawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:...
Victor "Vic" Anthony Christopher Coste is one of Sam Fisher's oldest friends. The two served together on SEAL
United States Navy SEALs
The United States Navy's Sea, Air and Land Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command as well as the maritime component of the United States Special Operations Command.The acronym is derived from their...
Team Three in Iraq during the Gulf War
Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
in 1991. During their time in Iraq, Coste single-handedly rescued Sam from a hostage situation after he was captured by Iraqi forces during a disastrous mission. After leaving the Navy, Coste later became a private security consultant. He served as Sam's contact in Conviction, giving him vital information/equipment during certain missions. Near the end of the game, Coste reunites Sam with his daughter Sarah.
Coste serves as the game's narrator, retelling the story in a Black Arrow PMC interrogation room. The player also takes control of Victor during a flashback to the mission where he saved Sam.
Charlie Fryman
A minor character, but an ally of Grim and Sam Fisher. He is a Third Echelon employee, who had heard of Sam Fisher's work and is a big fan of him. He provides Sam with the Sonar Goggles.It is unknown if Fryman survived the destruction of the HQ due to the area being sealed off after Sam infiltrates it.