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Splinter Cell
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A former Navy SEAL operator and CIA paramilitary ops/clandestine officer, Fisher is a former member of Third Echelon, a top-secret initiative within the National Security Agency (NSA), where he successfully carried out ultra-secret missions as the very first field operative of the initiative's "Splinter Cell" program. In Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Fisher became the commander of a covert unit called Fourth Echelon and for a brief time carried out missions for Paladin Nine Security, a PMC.
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Douglas Shetland was a close friend and comrade of Sam Fisher and was the president and CEO of the private military corporation Displace International.
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Irving Lambert (1961–2008), was a United States Army colonel, Director of Third Echelon, Operations Coordinator of the "Splinter Cell" program and the primary handler during Sam Fisher's time at Third Echelon. While in the position, his role was to guide Fisher through each mission over the cochlear implant radio, providing him with information such as critical updates, objective changes and enemy status. He was also one of Sam's closest friends.
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Norman Soth as a rogue CIA agent and working in collaboration with Darah Dan Doa leader Suhadi Sadono.
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Lawrence Williams was the acting Third Echelon Director of Operations.
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Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Reed was the last Director of Third Echelon and an instrumental person involved in the Third Echelon Conspiracy in 2011. He replaced Lawrence Williams as Third Echelon Director, who briefly became director after the death of Irving Lambert.
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Norman Soth loses his American citizenship. Between now and 1981 he is a resident of Cambodia, Myanmar, Hong Kong and then Indonesia.
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Douglas Shetland enters Alabama State University.
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Douglas Shetland enters West Point.
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Douglas Shetland leaves West Point.
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Douglas Shetland begins his career as a U.S. Marine.
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This is approximately the year that Sam Fisher first meets Irving Lambert, having first worked within the Army's Delta Force.
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Sam Fisher meets Regan Burns while in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and impregnates her. They later marry after learning about the pregnancy.
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Sarah Fisher (formerly Sarah Burns) is the daughter of Sam Fisher and the only surviving member of his family. Sarah has a distant, but steady, relationship with her father due to his line of work, though he loves her dearly. During the Red Mercury Plot and Third Echelon Conspiracy, her death was faked by Third Echelon Director Irving Lambert in order to root out a mole in Third Echelon who wanted leverage over Fisher. After Lambert's death, she was protected by Anna Grímsdóttir.
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Sam Fisher and Regan Burns divorce (having only been married for a little over three years)
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Regan retains primary custody of Sarah Fisher, changing her name to "Sarah Burns".
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Sam Fisher is part of a CIA raiding team that raids the MCAS Banco de Panama in Panama City, Panama during the conflict to search for some of Noriega's drug money.
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Sam Fisher spends most of the rest of the year "sleeping in a ditch on the road between Baghdad and Kuwait"
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Second contact between Sam Fisher and Douglas Shetland during Operation SCARAB TOOTH in Kuwait.
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Sam Fisher leads a four-man Navy SEAL squad including Victor Coste (callsign "Husky") on a patrol along the "Highway of Death" in Diwaniya, Iraq. One of their men is killed by an IED and the other three are ambushed by the Ba'athist Iraqi Republican Guard soldiers.
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Sam Fisher sneaks out of a U.S. camp in Norte de Santander to locate Shetland on his own and free him.
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Douglas Shetland, the liasion officer within Sam Fisher's SEAL team, is captured by soldiers belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the Selva Verde operation.
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Sam Fisher is discharged from the U.S. Navy.
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Regan Burns dies of ovarian cancer
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The NSA experiences its first system-wide crash when the immense volume of high-tech communications technology combined with the accelerated pace of developing technology and encryption overwhelms Second Echelon.
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Sam Fisher is called back into active service and recruited by Irving Lambert into Third Echelon.
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American terrorist Norman Soth is killed by Sam Fisher during his failed attempt to unleash the smallpox virus in LAX.
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Fisher is assigned to Saulnier Cryogenics to defuse a terrorist plot.
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Douglas Shetland is killed by Sam Fisher in a bathhouse in Tokyo.
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Sam Fisher averts a nuclear missile launch in Iceland by Islamic terrorists.
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She defies Sam by taking a vacation to Israel with her best friend, Rivka Cohen, and her boyfriend, Eli Horowitz. She is later kidnapped by Horowitz, who has secretly been working for The Shop. Held hostage as bait to draw Fisher to Israel where he can be assassinated by The Shop, she is rescued by her father with the aid of the Shin Bet.
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Sam Fisher covertly rescues his daughter and her friends (one of them, the daughter of a high-level diplomat)
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Sarah Fisher is involved in a hit-and-run by a drunk driver in Evanston, Illinois and dies at Brady Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
