Samuel Leo 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), has brown and green eyes, and usually has a stubble. He was an operative of Third Echelon, a clandestine division of the National Security Agency, up to the conclusion of Splinter Cell Double Agent. 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 prefers to work alone in the field. Fisher resides 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 she had Sarah's surname changed. Regan died from ovarian cancer in 1989, and Sarah was killed by a drunk driver in 2008.
Sam's 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 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 in order to complete his missions. Places he has conducted operations inside the United States include LAX International Airport in Los Angeles, California, New York City, New Orleans, Ellsworth Prison and the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Skills!
Sam Fisher is extremely athletic, especially for a person of his age. He is capable of many different climbing and scaling abilities, such as step-jumping to climb raised walls, performing a split leg maneuver to keep himself supported for a long period of time, as well as being able to hold on tightly to ceiling pipes or even the undercarriage of a moving train. He is also strong enough to lift the body of a full grown man onto his back and carry it around, and can run somewhat faster than the average soldier. He utilizes some aspects of the French gymnastic art of parkour while surmounting obstacles, albeit in a slightly slower and stealthier way.
As the nature of Fisher's job relies on stealth and non-detection, he is highly adept at blending into shadows and moving silently. He is able to sneak up on most opponents undetected and quickly subdue them using either lethal or non-lethal means
He uses Krav Maga for unarmed combat. Krav Maga is a combat form that was developed by the Israeli Special Forces. He has reached the advanced level of 3B under the tutelage of his instructor, Katia Loernstern. It is also possible that Sam has also been highly trained in the SEALS CQB and the US Marine Martial Arts program. Lambert and Fisher first met during a training program where the best of the best from the SEALS, Rangers, Delta and Force Recon all trained together to create the best special forces operators in the intelligence community.
Fisher possesses a command of a startling number of foreign languages and scripts including Russian, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish.
Fisher is also ambidextrous, as he can switch which hand he fires his rifle and pistol with, in order to keep better cover without any apparent loss of accuracy. However, he draws his weapons right-handed.
There is a lot of new information on Sam Fisher as of Conviction, but I will go ahead and post four of the more significant videos and write some texts on his newly discovered abilities when I have more time. For now:
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