Anna Grímsdóttir

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Anna Grímsdóttir

Citizenship

American

Hair

Auburn (SC)
Brown (CT)
Blonde (E)
Purple (C and B)

Efficiency seize actor(s)

Anna Grímsdóttir: “You have to be Sam Fisher. I am Anna Grímsdóttir.” Sam Fisher: “Third Echelon lead programmer.” Anna Grímsdóttir: “You’ve got carried out your homework.” — Anna Grímsdóttir and Sam Fisher meet for the primary time within the monitoring room of “The Farm” at Camp Peary, in Virginia.

Anna Grímsdóttir is the Technical Operations Officer for Fourth Echelon, a particular operations unit commissioned by President Patricia Caldwell. Initially, Grim was the Communications Lead, later Chief Technical Analyst, for Third Echelon. Her job was to offer Sam Fisher with technical help whereas he was within the discipline, addressing any high-technology points that he encountered throughout operations. A talented hacker, Grim fronted the distant intelligence retrieval operations that Third Echelon carried out previous to inserting discipline operatives, when required. She was additionally liable for direct technical operations by means of Fisher’s OPSAT (OPerational SATellite Uplink) connection to laptop terminals within the discipline. Together with Sam, Anna is a central character within the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell collection.

Biography

Anna Grimsdóttir in 2004.

Youth

Anna Grímsdóttir was born in 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts. Being a second technology American, her mom immigrated to the U.S. alone from Akureyri, in northern Iceland. She had as soon as talked about to Fisher that whereas he was combating abroad within the Persian Gulf Conflict, she was within the tenth grade.

Grim dropped out of St. John’s Faculty within the mid-Nineties and labored as a programmer in several non-public communications companies contracted by the U.S. Navy. She was recruited into the NSA within the late-Nineties, and rose rapidly in rank because the Web grew to become increasingly vital to nationwide safety. Grímsdóttir then moved on to Third Echelon, the place she was put in command of a small workforce of programmers liable for offering technological, cryptographic and information help as a part of the Splinter Cell program and help discipline brokers by way of their interface with the high-tech elements of their missions. Grímsdóttir has helped Third Echelon along with her work as a civilian laptop/SIGINT (SIGnals INTelligence) technician all through a number of totally different missions together with the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia in 1999[4], the Checkmate incident in 2003, the Georgian Data Disaster in 2004, the Indonesian Disaster in 2006, and the Cyber Assaults/East Asian Disaster of 2007. She was additionally considered one of few individuals capable of talk with Fisher throughout missions. She was a particularly helpful asset for the company in the course of the data warfare assaults that happened in 2007.

Profession

Third Echelon

Late Nineties: Recruitment

Grímsdóttir is a second-generation American and a school dropout. She had been finding out laptop science at St. John’s Faculty within the nineties, however determined she may program rings round her instructors. She labored for a number of totally different communications companies contracted by the U.S. Navy. She had been recruited on the floor flooring of Third Echelon within the mid-1990’s by Lambert himself, and had labored as a programmer and finally grew to become the technical director. She was considered one of Third Echelon’s unique workers, and he has identified her for a very long time.[5][6][7]

1999: NATO bombings of Yugoslavia

2004: Georgian Data Disaster

Grim watching Sam’s coaching

On August 7, 2004, Grim met Sam Fisher head to head for the primary time, after he found her within the observatory room within the CIA Coaching Farm in Camp Peary, Virginia. She launched herself, and mentioned her previous with Second Echelon.

After the Oil Refinery Grim was within the V-22 Osprey with Fisher and Vernon Wilkes, Jr. Jr Wilkes is attempting to contact Sarah whereas thats taking place Sam and Grim have a brief dialog. Later a black out happens when Fishers speaking to Sarah. Irving Lambert contacts Sam and tells them that Kombayn Nikoladze declared battle on U.S and carried out a black out utilizing Philip Masse‘s algorithms.

After the blackout within the CIA HQ mission, when Fisher accesses central server she finds out that Mitchell Dougherty is the mole contained in the CIA. Fisher accesses Doughertyhs laptop and grim finds that data was being obtained to the Kalinatek. Earlier than the Kalinatek mission grim will get a name from considered one of Nikolazdes technicians named Ivan. Ivan was trapped by Russian Mercenary so Fisher was despatched in to save lots of him and get the encryption key.

She’s going to solely speak within the Nuclear Energy Plant mission and Chinese language Embassy (Half 2) mission till the tip of the sport. Speaking about Kong Feirong‘s file and the extraction for the missions.

2006: Indonesian Disaster

Suhadi Sadono a guerrilla chief makes an assault on the united statesmilitary base in Dili in East Timor. Fisher is distributed into infiltrate the Embassy. She help Fisher by means of the mission. She later assists Fisher by means of Paris, France, Paris-Good, France, Jerusalem, Israel, Kundang Camp, Indonesia, Komodo, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia and Los Angeles, California with the intention to get data and to cease Sadono and CIA operative Norman Soth.

2007: Cyber Assaults of 2007/Disaster in East Asia

Grim in 2007

Grim, Lambert and Sam within the HQ throughout The East Asian Disaster.

The Masse Kernels, initiated by Douglas Shetland, begins a Blackout. Abrahim Zherkezhi and Bruce Morgenholt are the one ones who noticed the Masse Kernels. So, Fisher is distributed to infiltrate Zherkezhi’s Penthouse. Grim reveals to Sam who “Dvorak actually is. Together with Irving Lambert and William Redding, Grim provides Sam briefing earlier than the beginning of each mission.

2009: The Fisher Investigation

Grim uncovered Director Lawrence Williams‘ tampering of Fisher’s recordsdata. When Director Williams confiscated the disc the place she saved proof of the file modifications, she helped Fisher infiltrate the NSA’s headquarters to achieve Williams’ workplace with the intention to get the disc again. Grim solely seems in cutscenes in Necessities, identical as William Redding.

2011: Third Echelon Conspiracy

Grímsdóttir meets Fisher at Value Airfield.

As soon as Sam’s technical help inside Third Echelon and the confidante of former company Director Irving Lambert, Grim performed a a lot bigger position throughout the new Third Echelon as Chief Technical Analyst. Working intently with the then-new Director Reed, Grim is the company’s conscience, in addition to its best and ruthless asset. She wields a substantial amount of affect throughout the group, and is known as “The Ice Queen” by Andriy Kobin, resulting from her chilly nature. In the course of the conspiracy, Grim manipulated and deceived Sam quite a few occasions, however she at all times did so with the very best of intentions. 

Whereas Fisher was in Valetta, Malta, Grim contacted him and warned him of an impending hit by a bunch of criminals. Along with her assist, Fisher was capable of covertly remove his would-be killers and monitor down their chief, Andriy Kobin. Nonetheless, this was really a lure set by Grim, as a bunch of Splinter Cells storm Kobin’s mansion and take Sam into Third Echelon custody whereas he is interrogating Kobin. Sam was taken for interrogation to Value Airfield in Virginia, the place Grim helps him escape after revealing that she was working for President Patricia Caldwell as a mole inside Third Echelon and she or he tells him that his daughter is alive to get him “again within the sport”.

All through the conspiracy, Grim manipulated each Fisher and Reed, which culminated with Grim and Fisher foiling Reed’s assassination try towards President Caldwell and Grim killing Reed herself.[8] As Sam turned to depart, Grim requested Sam to return to Third Echelon, since he’s the one one left she trusts. Sam remarked on the irony of her utilizing the phrase “belief” and walked away.

Nationwide Safety Advisor

Following the Third Echelon Conspiracy, she was promoted to Nationwide Safety Advisor. At a gathering within the French capital of Paris, she was met by Fisher, who sought data on the KROWE terrorist group. She tried to warn him off, however he was quickly captured. Coste referred to as in a favor and she or he had him returned. Grim then instructed them that the federal government was hiring Paladin 9 Safety to rescue Lt. Col. William Bradshaw, and she or he despatched in a SEAL workforce as backup. After the mission was over, she had Fisher tie up some free ends with Matilda Solomon.

Fourth Echelon

2013: Fourth Echelon and the Blacklist

Grim, Briggs and Sam overseas Fourth Echelon’s cellular base, The Paladin

Two years after the occasions that happened in D.C., Grímsdóttir grew to become the technical operations officer of a brand new unit commissioned by President Caldwell to exchange Third Echelon, referred to as Fourth Echelon, underneath Sam Fisher, the unit’s commander. The unit is at the moment engaged in efforts to disrupt and destroy a deliberate collection of terrorist assaults towards U.S. pursuits referred to as the Blacklist. Grim retains up communications between all events concerned with Fourth Echelon, together with the president. Sam and Grim regularly butt heads over the suitable course of actions in the course of the storyline, with Grim specializing in confirmed ways and Sam using extra fast-and-loose strategies of engaging in the mission.

Although their historical past with each other in Third Echelon proves to be a supply of rigidity between the 2, Sam and Grim carry a mutual respect for each other. Grim even breaks her often inflexible strategies of ‘by-the-book’ mission completion by ordering drone strikes and helps the groups’ resolution to disregard the President’s orders and proceed to Web site F to seize Majid Sadiq, showcasing a rising perception within the want of flexibility when finishing operations. In the course of the course of the story, she confronts Sam on his considerably hypocritical perception that the mission to carry down comes earlier than private pursuits, but solely joined with the workforce resulting from Sam’s pal, Vic Coste, struggling accidents in the course of the occasions of Blacklist Zero from the Engineers; she implies that Sam’s purpose for becoming a member of was out of a private vendetta quite than goal justice. By the tip of the story, Sadiq has been captured, and Fourth Echelon continues looking down remnants of the group throughout the planet, with Grim, after constructing again up their relationship, persevering with to operate because the technical operations officer.

Grim in Blacklist can also be a side-mission supplier, much like Charlie and Kobin. Her missions, nonetheless, require Sam and Briggs to be utterly stealthy, and never be detected in any respect, like some missions within the first two Splinter Cell video games: one alarm will fail the whole mission and you’ll have to begin the mission over from the start.

2019: Operation Watchman, Bolivia

In 2019, Grim remains to be serving as a mission handler for Fourth Echelon. She receives an emergency communications request from the CIA’s Langley headquarters concerning a stolen information package deal in transit to Bolivia. She provides the mission to Sam for deployment and secures tactical help from a Ghost Recon fireteam with the help of CIA case officer Karen Bowman. Whereas Sam is recovering the stolen CIA information, she learns of one other emergency from the Joint Chiefs of Employees containing the phrases “empty quiver,” a army time period used for stolen nuclear arsenals, which she later relays to Sam after his deployment in Bolivia. Nonetheless it’s at the moment unknown whether or not she was a part of Operation Checkmate which happened in Auroa within the 12 months 2025.

Expanded Universe

2003: Checkmate

2006: Operation Barracuda/MRUUV Incident

Grim returns from twelve months of psych depart following the loss of life of performing technical director Carly St. John to assist Fisher monitor down Carly’s assassin and members of “The Store“.

2008: Fallout

2008/9: Korfovka Mission

2009/10: The Seek for Sam Fisher/Doppleganger Arms Manufacturing facility Conspiracy

Eighteen months later, Grímsdóttir grew to become the director of Third Echelon within the interim between Director Williams and Tom Reed.[9][10]

Appearances in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell media

Video games

Novels

Appearances in different Tom Clancy’s model media

Mentions

Tom Clancy’s EndWar

• Grim is talked about to be the Director of Third Echelon in The Finish Begins: Splinter Cell, a brief narrative in a information article on the web page for Tom Clancy’s EndWar. She’s referred to as the “Grim Reaper”.[11] With the discharge of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, this has been made non-canon within the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell universe.
• She additionally seems within the novel Tom Clancy’s EndWar: The Hunted, as head of the NSA’s Splinter Cell program. She, together with Main Dennison, transient Ghost Recon Captain Alexander Brent on their mission to seize the “Snow Maiden”. She assigns them two Splinter Cells, the brothers George Voeckler and Thomas Voeckler.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands

• Grim is talked about by identify in the course of the occasions of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, the place she was liable for deploying Sam Fisher into Bolivia to get well stolen intelligence by a rogue CIA agent. Throughout Sam’s dialog with CIA case officer Karen Bowman on the finish of his mission, Bowman mentions Grim having one other emergency mission for Sam to hold out concerning stolen nuclear weapons.

Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad

• Grim is an unlockable character on the Heroes aspect of the sport Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad and hails from the Fourth Echelon faction. Her bodily look in Elite Squad appears to be closely impressed by her design in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction.

Trivia

• In Model 1 of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Sam Fisher met Anna Grímsdóttir in a room within the CIA Coaching Farm, Virginia, on his first day of coaching for Third Echelon (August seventh, 2004).
  • In Model 2 of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (Ubisoft Shanghai), Grim introduces herself to Sam for first time at Andrews Air Pressure Base on board the Osprey (October fifteenth, 2004).
  • In Necessities (and the novels) Sam Fisher first met Grímsdóttir when he joined Third Echelon within the nineties. Based on the handbook for Necessities: “Anna Grímsdóttir was a civilian laptop programmer and communications specialist within the mid-Nineties when Irving Lambert recruited her into Third Echelon.” She seems working for Third Echelon in the course of the 1999 NATO bombings of Yugoslavia issuing recommendation on Sam Fisher’s mission and in 2003 in the course of the Checkmate incident.
• En-route to Sam’s first mission in T’Bilisi in Splinter Cell, Grim injects him with subdermal microchips and a cochlear implant (on PlayStation 2 he already had the implants and used them again within the Pacific ocean earlier than being recalled by Third Echelon).
• Grim regularly jokes about Sam’s comparatively outdated age in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Concept.
• The Necessities founding of Third Echelon within the Nineties appears to comply with the chronology of the Splinter Cell (novel), Operation Barracuda, and Checkmate which states that Third Echelon had been based years earlier than 2003 (although Sam Fisher was nonetheless the unique Splinter Cell). Sam Fisher and Irving Lambert had identified Anna Grímsdóttir for years (from the time she was introduced into Third Echelon). Checkmate states that Third Echelon was based by presidential government order a number of years earlier than 2003. Operation Barracuda states that Grim was considered one of Third Echelon’s unique workers, and sure recruited within the nineties.[12]
• Within the novels Splinter Cell: Conviction and Splinter Cell: Endgame set in round 2009, Grim is talked about to be the Director of Third Echelon.
• Grim appears to have obtained a point of weapon coaching after she turns into the Director, as she marks & executes the Splinter Cells with Sam close to the tip of Conviction, additionally she is armed with 5-seveN when the SEALs board the C-147 Paladin in Blacklist.
• In Blacklist, Charlie Cole replaces Grim as most important technical help/hacker for the Fourth Echelon, nonetheless Grim nonetheless has loads of programming talent that can assist the 4E within the time of want.
• Grímsdóttir seems as soon as extra in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint as a playable determine, purchasable by way of actual cash. Her look is predicated on her appears to be like in Splinter Cell: Conviction.

References

1. ↑ Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 [1]ubisoft.custhelp.com, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell PC handbook, web page 4
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 [2]ubisoft.custhelp.com, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow PC handbook, web page 3
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 [3]ubisoft.custhelp.com, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Concept PC handbook, web page 4
5. ↑ Operation Barracuda, 109-110
6. ↑ Checkmate, pg
7. ↑ Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Necessities handbook

   “Anna Grímsdóttir was a civilian laptop programmer and communications specialist within the mid-Nineties when Irving Lambert recruited her into Third Echelon. As a key member of the sphere help workforce, her job is to take care of safe OPSAT communications and supply data evaluation and laptop help at a second’s discover. Steadily referred to as upon to carry out miracles of analysis and invasive work and invasive community operations on the fly, she is without doubt one of the most extremely expert technical specialists the company has.”

8. ↑ SMI database in Blacklist
9. ↑ Conviction, pg
10. ↑ “Director Grímsdóttir”, Endgame, pg 12
11. ↑ https://internet.archive.org/internet/20081108020931/http://endwargame.us.ubi.com/article.php?news_id=8702

    ““Director Grimsdottir. That is an honor.” That wasn’t precisely true. Having the Grim Reaper on the road with you meant two issues, neither of which was an honor. It meant that what you had been doing was top-line precedence, and it meant that you simply had been screwed.”

12. ↑ Operation Barracuda, pg 109-110