Samuel Leo Fisher, known simply as Sam Fisher, is the main character in the Splinter Cell series of video games and novels based on the world endorsed—but not authored—by Tom Clancy. Fisher is voiced by actor Michael Ironside.
Sam Fisher is a veteran of the CIA Directorate of Operations and of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 3. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall (178 cm), weighs 170 pounds (77 kg),[citation needed] has black hair and green eyes, and is usually rough-shaven. He is an operative of Third Echelon, a clandestine division of the National Security Agency. Fisher is extremely agile and an expert in the art of stealth. Fisher was the first person to be recruited as a field operative of the "Splinter Cell" program for Third Echelon. He works alone in the field -- in espionage parlance, as a singleton. Fisher resides in a townhouse in Towson, Maryland, when not on the job. Fisher is a student of the merciless military hand-to-hand combat system of Krav Maga.While Fisher was working on an American Air Force base in Germany during the 1980s, he met and later married Regan Burns in 1984. They had one daughter together, Sarah (born June 16, 1985). Fisher and Regan later divorced and Regan went back to using her maiden name, and had Sarah's changed as well. She died from ovarian cancer in 1989. Sarah had at some point gone back to using her true surname, a choice her father disagreed with. She was killed by a drunk driver in 2007.His direct supervisor is Colonel Irving Lambert, USA, Ret. Lambert is accompanied and supported on missions by NSA employees Anna Grimsdóttír, Vernon Wilkes Jr (now deceased) and later Frances Coen, who was Wilkes' temporary replacement and was replaced by former Marine, William Redding. One of his aides, D.P. Brunton, became the head of SHADOWNET Operations, a sister group of Third Echelon, which uses teams of operatives.Fisher has to travel all around the world to complete his missions. He has traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, China, Iceland, Israel, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, North and South Korea, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Myanmar, Serbia, Georgia, and France. Places he has conducted operations inside the United States include LAX International Airport in Los Angeles, California, New York, and the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He also has gone inside submarines, missile silos, underwater bases, and oil rigs. Fisher is able to use parts of the environment that normal people would not even notice such as pipes, zip lines, and air vents.BackgroundLead character artist Martin Caya established in early interviews about the game that during his career Fisher had served in Afghanistan, where he had an experience in which he was forced to hide under dead bodies in order to avoid being killed. Caya also established that Fisher had served in East Germany and in "other Soviet satellite countries leading up to the collapse of the USSR."The novel establishes that he hated his time in the CIA, and that he mostly had official cover (i.e. he was a "diplomatic aide"). The "Bank" mission in Chaos Theory established that he served in Kuwait, where he said he spent most of 1989 lying in a ditch on the road between Baghdad and Kuwait. The "Bank" mission also established that he served in Panama when the U.S overthrew Manuel Noriega (see Operation Just Cause) and raided the same bank during the conflict. The end of the training mission in the first Splinter Cell game established that he served in the First Gulf War since Lambert told Wilkes that served in that war.In the beginning of the second game, a conversation between Fisher and Douglas Shetland established Fisher had served with the Navy SEALs, and that he left the Navy in 1996 ("I haven't been Navy for a decade"). Splinter Cell: Essentials establishes that Fisher saved Douglas Shetland's life in Norte de Santander, Colombia when he was the commanding officer of Fisher's SEAL team. Other than for anti-terrorist operations, whic

The following is a list of supporting characters found throughout the Splinter Cell series of video games and novels.


Major characters

1.1 Sam Fisher
1.2 Colonel Irving Lambert
1.3 Anna Grimsdóttír
1.4 William Redding
1.5 Frances Coen
1.6 Vernon Wilkes
1.7 Morris O'Dell
1.8 President David Bowers
1.9 Douglas Shetland
1.10 Sarah Burns
1.11 Assistant Director/Director of Operations Lawrence Williams
2 Splinter Cell
2.1 President Kombayn Nikoladze
2.2 Philip Masse
2.3 Vyacheslav Grinko
2.4 General Kong Feirong
2.5 Long Dan
2.6 Hamlet
2.7 Doctor John Baxter
2.8 Mitchell Dougherty
2.9 Piotr Lejava
2.10 Thomas Gurgenidze
2.11 Ivan
2.12 Acting President Varlam Cristavi
2.13 Colonel Andrei Alekseevich
3 Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
3.1 Dermot Brunton
3.2 Suhadi Sadono
3.3 Norman Soth
3.4 Ingrid Karlthson
3.5 Francois Codeboeuf
3.6 Saul Berkovitz
3.7 Azrul Arifin
3.8 Dahlia Tal
4 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
4.1 Admiral Toshiro Otomo
4.2 Defence Secretary Frank Mason
4.3 Captain Arthur Partridge
4.4 Milan Nedićh (Real Name: Milos Nowak)
4.5 Hugo Lacerda
4.6 Abrahim Zherkezhi
4.7 Bruce Morgenholt
4.8 Thomas Standish
4.9 Kaneda
5 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Co-Op
5.1 Agent One and Agent Two
5.2 Señor Segundo Ruiz De Medeiros
5.3 Colonel Kim
5.4 Chu
5.5 Jong Pom-Chu
6 Splinter Cell: Double Agent
6.1 Emile Dufraisne
6.2 Carson Moss
6.3 Jamie Washington
6.4 Enrica Villablanca
6.5 Stanley Dayton
6.6 B.J. Sykes
6.7 Massoud Ibn-Yussiff
6.8 Alejandro Tawkfir
6.9 Hisham Hamza
6.10 Doctor Abdul-Ahmad Aswat
6.11 Cole Yeagher
6.12 John Hodge
7 Splinter Cell: Essentials
7.1 Edward Blake
7.2 Mikey
7.3 Captain Moore
8 References

The storyline is similar in most of the games. Terrorists are planning an attack by weapons of mass destruction, usually by use of information warfare, and Sam Fisher needs to prevent this. The missions range from gathering intelligence to capturing or eliminating terrorist operatives. Stealth is a critical aspect of gameplay; shooting and killing any civilians or enemy units may result in mission failure or increased difficulty (as guards may arm themselves to better prepare for an attack). An alarm usually occurs if a non-player character spots a casualty, an unconscious person, or Sam Fisher himself. In the first two games, the mission is aborted after a set number of alarms have been triggered; sometimes only one will end a mission prematurely, depending on the mission. The third game features a new system, in which enemies move up to a new level of awareness for every alarm triggered. For example, after the fourth alarm is set off, enemies will fortify positions around the map and wait for you.

The smoothest way forward in the game is to remain invisible, select non-obvious routes, and utilize diversions to pass guards. The game is a combination of problem solving and quick action. Attacks must be swift, silent, and decisive to ensure success. Pandora Tomorrow introduced a two-on-two multiplayer mode, pitting two very differently equipped teams against each other. Chaos Theory further evolved that mode and introduced a co-operative mode. This mode plays out very much like the single player mode, yet features myriad moves that may only be performed by both players acting as a team.

Double Agent, introduces a new morality factor. As the subtitle implies, Fisher becomes a double agent, assuming the identity of a wanted criminal and is recruited by a terrorist ring. The new mechanic is that Fisher may now encounter conflicting objectives between his superiors and the terrorist ring. For example, the terrorists may assign you to assassinate a person, while you may be instructed by the NSA to prevent said assassination. This creates a delicate balancing act between gaining the trust of the terrorists and fulfilling your mission assignments. In addition, Fisher must not do anything to reveal to the terrorists that he is a double agent.


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 (to be announced


Novels
The Splinter Cell novels are written under the pseudonym David Michaels by different authors. The first two novels were written by American author Raymond Benson, also known for being the author of several official James Bond novels and short stories. In 2006, Raymond Benson stepped down from writing further novels saying the next novel would be written by another author under the same pseudonym. It is currently unknown who authored the third novel released in November 2006.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2004) by Raymond Benson as David Michaels
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda (2005) by Raymond Benson as David Michaels
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate (2006) by unknown author as David Michaels
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout (2007) by unknown author as David Michaels

[edit] Film
Main article: Splinter Cell (film)
The existence of a movie in pre-production has been confirmed both by news sources and by the inclusion of a teaser trailer in the "Collector's Edition" of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Originally, Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) was slated to direct/produce and Splinter Cell video game scriptwriter, J.T. Petty, was slated to write, along with John J. McLaughlin.

J.T. Petty and Peter Berg left the project in summer 2005 and the project shifted from Paramount Pictures to DreamWorks [1]. Not long after, however, V