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"Alert! All men to full alert! We have an intruder in Nikoladze's office! Wake up, you bastards. I want troops in there now!"
Vyacheslav Grinko

Defense Ministry is the third solo campaign level in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. In this mission, Splinter Cell agent Sam Fisher must infiltrate the Georgian Ministry of Defense Headquarters and uncover Georgian President Kombayn Nikoladze's secret.

Briefing[]

23:01 / 23:41 / 00:14 – PS2/GameCube

Discover President Nikoladze's secret.

CIA agents Blaustein and Madison were killed for getting too close to information Georgian President Kombayn Nikoladze needed to protect. Vyacheslav Grinko, a Russian mercenary, is closely tied to Nikoladze's secret; they have arranged to meet at the Ministry of Defense.

Data & Transcript[]

Information[]

Goals
Tripping an alarm will result in mission failure. Additional objectives pending.
Find and interrogate Grinko's driver. Discover Vyacheslav Grinko's whereabouts by interrogating his driver.
Infiltrate the East Wing of the Georgian Defense Ministry.
Laser-mic the Grinko and Masse conversation in the glass elevator leading to Nikoladze's office.
Deactivate the courtyard security laser grid.
Infiltrate the South Wing of the Georgian Defense Ministry.
❗ Killing civilians will result in Mission Failure [PS2/GameCube only]
Find and access Nikoladze's computer. Access Nikoladze's personal computer in his office.
Infiltrate the North Wing of the Georgian Defense Ministry.
Access Nikoladze's computer again. Complete the data transfer from Nikoladze's computer.
Reach extraction. Rendezvous with Jr. Wilkes in the basement parking garage for extraction.
Notes
🗣 [Lambert] Vyacheslav Grinko's license plate number is 84 KP 214.
🗣 [Lambert] Vyacheslav Grinko's car is in the basement parking garage.
💻 [Computer] The laser grid sensors in the courtyard can be deactivated using the computer in the South Wing Main Hall.
🗣 [Talk] Only Colonels can open retinal scanner-locked doors.
🗣 [Lambert] The evidence against Nikoladze is on his computer.
💼 [A piece of paper on the table] Nikoladze's Office Hallway – 59259.
Pick Lock
🔑 [Balcony] 3-pins: ↑ ↓ ↑ [Xbox/PC/PS3 only]
🔑 [Courtyard – Lighting Control] 3-pins: ↓ ↑ → [Xbox/PC/PS3 only]
🔑 [Room on 7th Floor] 3-pins: → ← ↓
🔑 [PS2] ↑→ ←↓ ↓→
📢 [Alarm threshold] From the start of the mission up to the courtyard, the mission fails if an alarm is triggered.
📢 [Alarm threshold] From the courtyard onwards, Fisher can trigger a maximum of 3 alarms.

Overview[]

Defense

Fisher infiltrates the Ministry's headquarters by rappelling down the side of the building.

Fisher starts the mission on the roof of the East Wing of the Ministry's headquarters. Third Echelon operation coordinator Irving Lambert, having run the surveillance footage Fisher obtained from the 7th Tbilisi Police Precinct through ECHELON, has identified the man who took Agents Blaustein and Madison's subdermal implants: Russian mercenary Vyacheslav Grinko. Lambert tells Fisher to intercept Grinko in the parking garage for answers, and that if he is not at his car, then his driver, Hamlet, will be. He also stresses the need for extreme stealth: a laser grid is online in the building's courtyard, and since Third Echelon did not receive prior approval for this mission, it will be immediately aborted if Fisher triggers any alarms. 

Fisher enters a lower floor by rappelling down the side of the building and through an open window into the Book Room. Once inside, he shoots out or avoids the camera watching over the room, and exits into the adjacent hallway. He avoids a guard patrolling in the corridor, and another standing nearby him, and moves down a nearby stairwell, avoiding cameras as he descends through the building. When he enters the garage at the bottom, he locates Grinko's car with its lights on and spots Hamlet nearby.

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Fisher interrogates Hamlet, Grinko's driver, in the parking garage for information.

As Hamlet is about to relieve himself in a corner, Fisher grabs and interrogates him. Hamlet reveals that a conversation is going to take place between Grinko and Canadian hacker Philip Masse in a glass elevator overlooking the courtyard. Lambert orders Fisher to record this conversation, noting that he will first have to disable the laser grid to get into position. With these new objectives, Fisher returns to the hallway upstairs and enters an office further down. After shooting out the camera above the door, he learns from a computer inside that the grid can be disabled from a security terminal in the lobby of the South Wing.

Fisher picks the lock on the other door and exits onto a balcony above the courtyard, where he shimmies along a pipe and enters the South Wing through the kitchen's open window. (In the PS2 and GameCube versions, he instead crawls through an open vent in the office's ceiling, ending up in the kitchen's freezer.) Inside, the cooks are preparing a meal for one of Nikoladze's colonels, Murman Kobiashvili. Kobiashvili does not appear to be well-liked by his colleagues, as evidenced by a guard spitting in his soup. When he leaves, Fisher knocks out or distracts the cooks and follows him through the cafeteria and onto a balcony overlooking the lobby. He descends some stairs into the lobby itself and uses the computer at the bottom to disable the laser grid. Suddenly, Kobiashvili comes downstairs and sits at the computer, and Lambert orders Fisher to use him to get past the retinal scanner locking the door to the courtyard. Fisher does so and, after shooting out or avoiding the camera in this hallway, enters the courtyard.

Grinko and Masse enter the elevator at the other side. As it ascends, Fisher records their conversation with his Laser Microphone. During the conversation, Masse reveals that Nikoladze is conducting a top-secret operation in Azerbaijan, and that he keeps information about it on his personal computer. Lambert orders Fisher to break into his office in the North Wing and get this information, also letting him know that now that he is "moving into Fifth Freedom territory", the mission will no longer be aborted if he triggers an alarm. With this new objective, Fisher infiltrates the North Wing by climbing up the latticework surrounding the courtyard and through an open window.

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Fisher sneaks through the North Wing to find a way inside Nikoladze's office.

Inside, Fisher notices another elevator coming downstairs. He hides in a nearby closet, waits for the soldiers coming down to pass by him, and slips in behind them, taking the elevator to the seventh floor. Upstairs, he makes his way to the other side of the building, either through one of the doors in this hallway or through an open vent in the ceiling of an adjacent office, and makes his way to the roof by climbing up a ladder in another closet. Once on the roof, Fisher infiltrates Nikoladze's office by rappelling down the side of the building and breaking through his window, and takes out the guard inside. As he hacks his computer, Lambert is shocked by the evidence gathered from its files. Nikoladze has had an extensive presence in Azerbaijan for weeks, with Georgian commando cells and refugee camps, causing Lambert to wonder how they could have even missed it.

Suddenly, Grinko is alerted to Fisher's presence in Nikoladze's office and orders a full sweep of the room. Fisher takes out the incoming soldiers, or hides from them by hanging from the broken window, and finishes the transmission to Lambert. With his objectives complete, and with enough intelligence to legitimize a NATO intervention in the Caucasus region, he escapes Nikoladze's office and moves down a nearby stairwell to another rooftop. With more soldiers chasing him, Fisher jumps onto a pipe in an open elevator shaft and slides down it back to the garage. His field runner, Vernon Wilkes, Jr., is waiting for him with a van, having just shot and killed one of Grinko's mercenaries. Wilkes asks Fisher what he found in the office, and tells him that Lambert is "flipping out big-time" and saying that "we're going to war". The two agents flee the garage as Fisher prepares for his next assignment.

Debriefing[]

Files retrieved from President Nikoladze's computer reveal a campaign of terror against Azerbaijan. Covering their invasion using techniques of information warfare, cells of Georgian commandos have nearly overthrown their oil-rich neighbor. This intelligence has opened the door for NATO intervention in the Caucasus.

Differences[]

  • The lasers in the courtyard can be seen using night vision.
  • There are two ways Fisher can enter the East Wing from the rooftop at the start of the mission: he can either rappel down through the window, or he can slide down a pipe onto a balcony and enter through the door. Whichever route he chooses, he will enter into the Book Room - just at different areas in the room.
  • There is a medical kit at the top of the stairwell that leads to the garage. If Fisher wall jumps from here up to some metal beams, and then jumps up to another platform, he will find another medical kit and a Disposable Pick.
  • Fisher infiltrates the South Wing by shimmying along a pipe above the courtyard and entering the kitchen by an open window.
  • Both of the balconies above the lobby of the South Wing are surrounded by railings, allowing a view of the room below. There is a guard standing on the lower balcony, and two more on the bottom level. One stands next to the computer that disables the lasers in the courtyard, and the other stands facing the door at the southern end of the room.
  • After Fisher records the conversation between Grinko and Masse, a group of three guards enters the courtyard through a set of locked double doors next to the latticework Fisher climbs to enter the North Wing. It is possible to pick the lock on these doors and enter the room the guards were in. Inside, Fisher can find a medical kit and a switch to disable the courtyard's lights.
  • Once Fisher enters the North Wing, there is a Disposable Pick in the closet next to the elevator.
  • There are two doors to the northern side of the North Wing, both locked by a keypad. The code is 59259; this can be found on a piece of paper on the desk in the locked office next to the elevator.
    • When Fisher approaches the door to the office, a guard enters the hallway he is in from the eastern door, walks through the hall, and proceeds through the western door to the breakroom, where three more guards are standing. The breakroom opens out to the west.
  • Three soldiers search Nikoladze's office when Grinko is alerted to Fisher's presence, and the music track "Common Fight" plays while they are in the room. If Fisher hides from them, they can be found on the rooftop above the office.
  • Two soldiers chase after Fisher when he gets to the second rooftop. If he hides from them, one stays behind, while the other can be found in Nikoladze's office.

  • The lasers in the courtyard are invisible, even with night vision.
  • The balcony with the door into the Book Room has been removed, forcing Fisher to rappel down through the window.
  • There is still a medical kit at the top of the stairs to the garage. On the platform above, in addition to the second medical kit and Disposable Pick, there is also a box of SC Pistol ammo.
  • Fisher infiltrates the South Wing by crawling through a vent leading to the kitchen's freezer.
  • The upper of the two balconies above the lobby is now surrounded by a wall, blocking its view of the lobby below. The guard on the lower balcony has been removed, and the guard on the southern side of the bottom level now patrols the length of the room.
  • It is no longer possible to enter the doors on the north side of the courtyard. There are now only two guards patrolling: one spawns in behind the northern side of the statue of Nikoladze, and the other enters from the South Wing. The medical kit behind the northern doors has been moved outside, now hanging on a wall next to the doors.
  • The Disposable Pick in the closet next to the elevator in the North Wing has been removed. Also, once Fisher takes the elevator upstairs, the guards on the first floor disappear.
  • The eastern door to the northern side of the North Wing has been removed, and there is no longer a keypad on the western door. Despite this, the code can still be found in the office.
    • When Fisher approaches the door to the office, the guard now enters from the western door and walks to the eastern side before turning around and going back to the breakroom. There are now only two other guards standing in the breakroom with him, and it now opens out to the north.
  • Only one soldier searches Nikoladze's office, and only the ambient sounds are heard while he does. Like in the other version, if Fisher hides from him, he can be found on the rooftop above the office.
  • Only one soldier chases after Fisher when he gets to the second rooftop, but there is another one already patrolling there. If Fisher hides from the former, he can be found in Nikoladze's office.

  • Trivia[]

    • This is the first time in the entire series where Fisher uses the rappel action to climb down a wall. This action was never covered during the Training mission.
    • A hidden area at the top of the stairwell from the carpark can be access by wall jumping. A medical kit and disposable pick are found there.
    • There are two security cameras located in the garage. Even if Fisher does not shoot them out when he goes down to interrogate Hamlet, they will still be disabled once he enters the garage to exfiltrate with Wilkes.
    • Kobiashvili has a satchel with a medical kit.
    • This is the first and last level that Phillip Masse appears in, not counting the DLC levels that came out after the game had been released. The second appearance in the DLC is in Kola Cell, where Fisher has to kill Masse.
    • The music heard playing on the radio in the North Wing's breakroom is Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5.
    • There is a medical kit and a box of SC Pistol ammo in the closet with the ladder leading to the roof.
    • The soldier in Nikoladze's office has a satchel with a Frag Grenade.
    • While difficult and time consuming, it is possible to break into Nikoladze's office without taking out the guard inside. It involves shooting out all the lights; sometimes the guard will walk out the window and fall to his death.
    • Wilkes uses the getaway van from the end of the Police Station level to extract Fisher at the end of this level.
    • In the Xbox/PC/PS3 version, it is possible to enter the North Wing at the start of the mission, before completing the necessary objectives, by jumping down to the second floor balcony and double jumping to the window to go inside. However, doing so will cause Lambert to lash out at Fisher and the mission to fail.
    • If Fisher jumps off the roof and lands in the courtyard, as he dies, the alarm is triggered and Lambert lashes out at him, two music tracks are used: "Georgia Fight" plays for about three seconds, and then "Death" starts playing. This may be an error.

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