Sam Fisher
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| Full Name | Samuel "Sam" Fisher |
| Born | 1957 (although listed as CLASSIFIED) |
| Family | Regan Burns (wife, deceased) Sarah Fisher (daughter, deceased) |
| Nationality | American |
| Position | Field Operative ("Splinter Cell") |
| Rank | Lt. Cmdr. (USN-Ret.) |
| Hair | Black |
| Eyes | Green |
| Height | 5' 10" (178 cm) |
| Weight | 170 lbs. (77 kg) |
| Affiliations | National Security Agency (Third Echelon) |
| Status | Active |
| Voiced By | Michael Ironside |
| Appearances | All Splinter Cell games |
Samuel "Sam" Fisher is the first official Splinter Cell (a lone operative supported in the field by a remote team). His name can be seen when he was using the computer in the Osprey to encrypt his call home in Splinter Cell.
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[edit] Sam Fisher's Profile
Sam Fisher is a veteran of a hundred silent wars; he has been one of the most experienced field agents in the U.S. Intelligence network. Before becoming one of the first agents recruited into the "Splinter Cell" program for the NSA's Third Echelon initiative, Fisher was a member of the U.S. Navy SEALs and the CIA. He is an expert in stealth tactics and proficient in both armed (SEAL CQB) and unarmed (i.e. Krav Maga) combat. He operates almost exclusively at night and always works alone in the field. He can speak a startling number of foreign languages including Russian, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Persian and Spanish. Fisher was briefly married to Regan Burns, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989, and had one daughter, Sarah (born May 31, 1985).
Documentation of his past activities from the 1970s to the 1990s is unavailable and considered classified. What little unclassified data is known about Fisher is that he has been on the front lines of espionage in several defining conflicts throughout the last decades. He has not only survived, but also excelled in the field of covert operations through hard work, insatiable curiosity, and brutal honesty. Personality-wise, Fisher is abrasive and honest, and has little patience for niceties and even less for lies, especially when the immediate problem presents itself. He is quiet, instinctive, and observant: somebody who watches from the outside. Unlike younger agents, he is not a blind idealist, only taking to task if the cause is just and within reason.
Though fully aware and confident of his abilities, Fisher understands that his survival has often been a gift of chance. He knows he is human and fallible, and he does not want to die. He has a strange and slightly dark sense of humor. Constant training have defined his adult life; his tactical experience has become part of his instincts. Now, even outside of work he is most comfortable on the fringes of society, keenly observant but still removed.
But in order to achieve the discipline necessary for his work, Fisher has had to bury certain parts of himself. His ability to detach himself emotionally from the immediate situation in order to better achieve his goals is a prized skill. A man of few words, he is truly himself only when he is on the job – he has, in a sense, become what he does. He has acquired an admirable collection of scars and secured his place in Valhalla, and he has little left to prove to the world. Now older and wiser, he has no interest in glory. If he fights, it is because he believes the cause is necessary and he is capable of provoking positive change.
[edit] Operations
Sam Fisher has been into the most sensitive areas around the world. Since his first mission during the Georgian Information Crisis in 2004 to the JBA Crisis in 2008 in which he went undercover posing as a member of the JBA (John Brown's Army). He has never failed any of his missions and is proven to be the most veteran of the "Splinter Cell" program.
[edit] Shadows
2004: An Iranian terrorist group known as "The Shadows". Led by Nasir Tarighian, planed to use a weapon of mass destruction codenamed "The Babylon Phoenix" against the city of Baghdad as revenge for the actions taken by Iraq against Iran during the 1980s. While there really isn't much benefit to the group today, Tarighian attempts to sell the scheme to his organization by claiming that it would also create further disorder in Iraq and in the Middle East, which would inevitably cause the people to turn against the "West", namely the United States since Iraq is currently under their watch. Tarighian, a former "great warrior" during the Iran-Iraq War and often proclaimed hero in Iran, hoped that by doing this the Iranian people would rejoice and urge the Iranian government to invade and conquer Iraq after the U.S is forced out of the region. Most of the members of the Shadows disagree with the course of action, feeling that the result is extremely unlikely and that the scheme is nothing more than a 20-year-old vendetta by Tarighian to get back at Iraq for the death of his wife and children during the war. These members feel the same effect of destabilization in the region can be achieved by attacking either Tel Aviv or Jerusalem in Israel. Meanwhile an arms dealing organization known as "The Shop" has taken the liberty of assassinating Splinter Cells whenever possible thus to increase their profit margin by keeping the shipment of arms from falling into unwanted hands. The Shop is one of the few organizations in the world that is aware of the black-ops division of the NSA, named "Third Echelon", Sam Fisher is deployed by Third Echelon to the Middle East to uncover the truth about the murder of a Splinter Cell agent and track down the source of a shipment of arms seized by the Iraqi police. There he surveys and infiltrates numerous locations relating to both the Shop and the Shadows, all the while unaware that the Shop has targeted him and his only daughter, Sarah.
[edit] Barracuda
Taking place almost a year after the first novel, the plot picks up with Third Echelon attempting to search and bring to justice the members of The Shop, an international arms dealing ring that played a large part in the first novel. While Sam Fisher is working to collect information on The Shop in Ukraine and Russia, Third Echelon is continuing its investigation into how the Shop had previously managed to gain the identity of a number of Splinter Cells and assassinate them as well. However, when a German scientist named Jeinsen, who defected to the United States from East Germany long ago, goes missing and then reappears dead in Hong Kong, heads begin to turn. Jeinsen had developed a new submarine vehicle for the United States Navy, that could theoretically carry a nuclear weapon. Sam Fisher is sent to learn why the scientist was in Hong Kong and who killed him; it is suspected that a local group of Triads named "the Lucky Dragons" had involvement. What Third Echelon does not yet realize is that Jeinsen, the Lucky Dragons, The Shop, and a traitor inside their own government are all part of a much larger picture involving a rogue Chinese general named Lan Tun, with ambitions to invade and conquer Taiwan. With Sam Fisher not even aware that he is the world's only hope of stopping an international crisis, he has to balance his job and a new romantic relationship that he is hoping will finally bring happiness to his life. Ultimately, General Tun threatens to use the submarine vehicle to detonate a nuclear weapon off the coast of California, destroying LA with a massive tsunami, unless America abandons Taiwan when it is invaded by China. Fisher manages to foil the plot, and all the conspirators involved including the traitor, the general, and the Shop are killed. However, no one realizes that the true mastermind behind the entire plot to weaken America was none other than the head of the Senate Oversight Committee, Senator Janice Coldwater.
[edit] Checkmate
While preparing to test a new DARPA product, code-named the Goshawk, Splinter Cell operative Sam Fisher is called to intercept a cargo freighter speeding towards the eastern seaboard. The freighter, named the Trego is loaded down with radioactive material. Fisher boards the ship and quickly reaches the bridge to find one Middle-Eastern crew member. Fisher attempts to disable the man and does so, but not before the man enters the command to speed the boat up further. Fisher proceeds to slow the ship by disabling her engines. Meanwhile the residents of Slipstone, New Mexico begin showing the symptoms of and then dying from radiation poisoning.
[edit] Georgian Information Crisis
On October 16th, Fisher was inserted into the city of T'bilisi and ordered to find a CIA contact Thomas Gurgenidze, a booking clerk working in the T'bilisi 4th police precinct. He had to enter a nearby building, which had been set on fire by Nikoladze's men. Fisher found the contact, and is informed that Madison hid a black box in her apartment. After that Fisher sets out to find Gurgenidze's dead drop in Morevi Square. From there, he entered the 4th precinct through the back entrance to find the bodies of Agents Madison and Blaustein in the precinct's morgue with their subdermal implants removed. He then accessed the precinct's security surveillance room to find out who took the agent's subdermal implants. Fisher then ex-filtrated from the precinct.
[edit] Indonesian Crisis
2006: The U.S. installs a temporary military base on East Timor to train the developing defense force of the "world's youngest democracy." Resistance to the U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia is widespread and passionate, but the threat the Indonesian militias pose to Timorese democracy was deemed as sufficient justification. At the same time, the U.S. doesn't mind having an excuse to install active military personnel within easy reach of both North Korea and the largest Muslim population in Asia. Anti-U.S. resentment comes to a head under the leadership of guerrilla militia leader Suhadi Sadono, acting with the unofficial support of major corrupt factions of the Indonesian government. Suhadi's men attack and occupy the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, taking dozens of civilian and military personal hostage. Splinter Cell operative Sam Fisher was sent in to destroy a top-secret document held in the embassy before Suhadi's men could access it.
[edit] Cyber Attacks of 2007
2007: Sam was once again needed to prevent further attacks from the Masse Kernels that were being used by Displace International. During the operation, he discovered that his old friend Douglas Shetland, whom he had killed, were responsible for nearly creating World War III as the USS Walsh was destroyed by a anti-ship missile. Third Echelon later found out during the blackouts in New York and Japan that Admiral Toshiro Otomo, head of the I-SDF, was also involved in the plot. Sam was successful in preventing World War III as he captured Otomo and eliminated the "Chaos Theory".
[edit] JBA Crisis in New York
[edit] Essentials
Sam visits his daughter's grave before being captured and interrogated. He tells of his backstory as a Navy SEAL and before joining the "Splinter Cell" program. Essentials is a side story and not considered part of the main canon because there are continunity issues relating to Double Agent.
[edit] Conviction
2010: Sam is no longer working for Third Echelon, he is instead working for himself. All that has been revealed about it is that Sam is looking for his daughter's killer. In the first demo, he brutally interrogates an arms dealer named Seth to find out that Andry Kobin killed Sarah. He then sneaks into Andry's mansion and is about to interrogate him when Third Echelon agents (presumably Splinter Cells) come in and rescues Andry. The demo ends with Anna Grimsdottir saying "Affirmative, lets bring him home." A second demo has been released where Sam is in Washington D.C where he goes to a place called the EMP staging grounds find a scientist being forced by terrorists to make a EMP bomb. Sam has somehow obtained his old equipment such as his goggles, grenades, and sticky Cams. He goes in interrogates a black arrow officer which ends with the officer pinned to a tree stump with a knife through the hand. Sam then infiltrates the facility and rescues the scientist. The demo ends with Sam walking with a purpose to an unknown destination.
[edit] Relationships
Sam was good friends with Irving Lambert as well as with Douglas Shetland before the Cyber Attacks of 2007 resulting in having to eliminate Shetland. Even though Sam is sarcastic, he is shown to be very caring with the people he worked with. Prior to his first mission in the Georgian capitol of T'bilisi, Fisher met with Vernon Wilkes, Jr. Their relationship only lasted so far up until the extraction from the Kalinatek building in Virginia in which Wilkes was killed from a bullet to the torso. Even though Sam had briefly known Wilkes, he showed compassion for the man. He is also good friends with Anna Grímsdóttir and Frances Coen, two of whom he share good-humored banter with during missions.
Prior to being a Splinter Cell, Sam was married to Regan Burns for a very short time that resulted in a divorce. Though Regan had later died shortly after the divorce from ovarian cancer.
Sam is very loving to his daughter Sarah Fisher who was his only child. He felt sorry for having to leave at odd times whenever he was home. Though he would give her a call during briefings aboard the Osprey. Sarah was later killed by a "drunk driver" during the JBA Crisis. The reaction from Sam was a depressing downward spiral. After the JBA Crisis, Sam went to hunt for his daughter's true killer after receiving word the the hit-and-run accident was plotted.
During the JBA Crisis, Sam developed a romantic relationship with Enrica Villablanca, a member of the JBA, only to end in Enrica's assassination (only in the Xbox/PS2/Gamecube/Wii versions of Double Agent). He also developed a romantic relationship with his Krav Maga instructor, Katia Loenstern, during the MRUUV incident. She later died in the book after being killed by a stray sniper bullet intended for Sam.
[edit] Equipment
Sam Fisher uses both a SC-20K M.A.W.S. and a 5-7 SC Pistol as his primary and secondary weapons respectively. The SC-20K, modelled after the FN F2000, was equipped with a grenade launcher which was modified to launch sticky cameras, or launch non-lethal devices such as a smoke grenade or a sticky shocker. The SC pistol holds about 20 rounds per magazine. Giving Sam more tactical advantages over those who carry small round magazines.
Sam's Multi-Vision Goggles is considered by many fans as his trademark in the game. They were changed in almost every game. In the original Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow, the goggles only used night-vision and thermal imaging while in Chaos Theory and Double Agent, it added EMF vision, which finds anything electronic to be highlighted, along with a mode called the EEV which allows Sam to hack secure doors and computers from a distance. The goggles will return in Splinter Cell: Conviction, though a new white hot/black hot vision mode will replace the old multi-chrome thermal imaging version of the previous games.
Sam later carried the SC 'Protector' which was a Navy SEAL knife. This was introduced in Chaos Theory. It was later slightly modified for Double Agent, giving a slightly longer length of the knife and a single bladed edge instead of the double bladed edge knife.
Sam's stealth suit, the Mark V Tactical Operations Suit, was a specially designed outfit that helped him out on a variety of missions. The game series does not go in-depth into discussing the suit's technical information. Though in the novels, the suit is equipped with having a body tempature regulator which can control the temperature nobody the outside weather temperature. It was also outfitted with water packs within the skin of the suit which help keep Sam refreshed with water to drink. The body armor of the suit is made of Kevlar and RhinoHide, invented by DARPA, which helped prevent bullets from penetrating within Sam.
[edit] Appearances
- Films
- Splinter Cell (TBA)
- Games
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (2004)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (2005)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials (2006)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (2006)
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2010)
- Novels
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2004) — by David Michaels
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda (2005) — by David Michaels
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate (2006) — by David Michaels
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout (2007) — by David Michaels
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2009) — by David Michaels
- Music
- Agent Sam Fisher - Conviction (2008)
[edit] Trivia
- Sam Fisher is voiced by Michael Ironside who also played in such films as Top Gun, Starship Troopers, and also in cinematics for Command and Conquer 3.
- Sam Fisher is mentioned in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater during the game mode of Snake vs. Monkey in which the main character Naked Snake is talking to the Colonel about the possiblity of getting someone else to do the work such as Sam or is a direct reference to Sam Fisher.
