Samuel Leo Fisher (8 August 1957-) was an American Lieutenant Commander who served as leader of the Fourth Echelon Black Ops unit.
Biography[]
Samuel Fisher was born in Towson, Maryland in 1957, the son of a CIA case officer, and he lost his parents at a young age and was raised by his paternal grandmother, who put him in military school to help him focus his energy. Fisher enrolled in the United States Naval Academy before joining the CIA during the 1980s, and he married NSA analyst Regan Burns after a tempestuous affair. However, they divorced after three years, and Fisher raised his daughter while also operating in Afghanistan and the Soviet republics at the end of the Cold War. He later returned to America to take up a bureaucratic job so he could raise his daughter Sarah, who had lost her mother at the age of 15.
Fisher also served in the US Navy, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and joining the elite US Navy SEALs. He served in Panama, Kuwait, Bolivia, Colombia, Senegal, and Kosovo before becoming an intelligence analyst at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois and being awarded a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. Fisher was honorably discharged in 1996, but he was later secretly recruited into the NSA's top-secret Third Echelon Black Ops unit. In 2004, he assassinated the Georgian leader Kombayn Nikoladze, who secretly cultivated an anti-American agenda despite his Western support. In 2006, he was deployed to East Timor to put a stop to the Indonesian-backed communist leader Suhadi Sadono's insurgency against US forces in the newly-independent country. In 2007, he helped prevent a third world war by thwarting Japanese admiral Toshiro Otomo's plot to remilitarize Japan against China. However, the kidnapping of his daughter demoralized Fisher, who, after rescuing her, was relieved of duty as a Splinter Cell. He was instead sent to infiltrate the far-left John Brown's Army in Kansas, preventing them from launching nuclear attacks in Los Angeles and New York City. At the same time as this mission, his daughter was killed by a drunk driver. Fisher retired from Third Echelon shortly after preventing director of operations Lawrence Williams from smearing him as a rogue agent and avenging his daughter's death, which had actually been engineered by NSA mole-turned-Third Echelon director Tom Reed
Fisher went on to be recruited into Paladin Nine Security before the President appointed Fisher to head the highly classified Fourth Echelon unit, in which capacity he thwarted a biological warfare plot in 2013. In 2019, he launched a solo mission to Bolivia to prevent a CIA defector from selling military technology to the Santa Blanca Cartel, working with Ghost Recon to delete the Skell Technology data stored at FOB Vibora as part of Operation Watchman.