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, weighs 170 pounds (77 kg) [1], usually has a rough-shave, and has black hair and green eyes. 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, is a singleton. Fisher resides in a townhouse in Towson, Maryland, when not on the job. Fisher studies the military hand-to-hand combat system 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 died as a result of being hit by a drunk driver in 2008.
His direct supervisor is Colonel Irving Lambert, USA, Ret. Lambert is accompanied and supported on missions by NSA employees Anna GrimsdóttÃr, 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.
Fisher has to travel all around the world to complete his missions. He has traveled to Indonesia, Japan, North and South Korea, Europe, and inside the CIA building. He had gone into Los Angeles and New York. He also has gone inside submarines, missile silos, under water bases, oil rigs, and airports. Fisher is able to use parts of the environment that normal people would not even notice such as pipes, zip lines, and air vents.
