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​Archer is the Third Echelon agent that one character will take control of in the prequel CO-OP campaign of Splinter Cell: Conviction. He is a seasoned veteran.



Archer

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            ​Daniel Robert Sloane-Suarez (callsign: Archer), was a field operative of the "Splinter Cell" program for Third Echelon, a top-secret sub-branch within the National Security Agency (NSA). He was the first of two protagonists featured in the co-op campaign mode of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, paired up with Voron operative Kestrel. He is voiced by Edward Yankie.



Background



             Earning an Economics degree at Harvard, Daniel Sloane-Suarez joined the NSA to pursue a career as an intelligence analyst. While at the Agency, Daniel interpreted signal intercepts connected to dozens of terror plots, and personally identified the leadership of extremist group, the Grass Liberation Front. Though Daniel proved to be a highly capable analyst, his deeply-entrenched resentment of authority created considerable tension with his superiors at Fort Meade.



               

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​           Daniel soon began to chafe against the bureaucratic confines of his job. Fortunately for him, his personnel file was flagged for potential field duty by recruiters for Third Echelon, and Anna Grímsdóttir quickly approved his admission to the group's gruelling training program. Eighteen months later, he was assigned his call-sign "Archer". A man with a genius-level IQ, Archer was also known to be articulate but stubborn; competitive, resenting of authority, and always had to have the last word. He had no military background prior to joining the NSA.​



Pre-Third Echelon Conspiracy & Death



             Before or during the events of the Third Echelon Conspiracy, Archer carried out numerous deniable operations which usually included sanitizing the entire area of enemy personnel. He died at the end of his mission with Kestrel in Russia after their extraction with the EMP. After successfully extracting the EMP device with Kestrel and Andriy Kobin via transport plane, Archer was contacted by Tom Reed and told to "Eliminate Kestrel" whilst in a different area of the plane. Kestrel also became aware of this message as it's also displayed on Archer's OPSAT (which was left on a bag next to Kestrel). The two briefly fought in the hold of the plane (as an in-game event forces both players to fight each other one-on-one), and the victor sadly crouches over the body of his partner and they exchange last words, only to be killed himself as Kobin emerges from the shadows. Archer's corpse can be found in the single player campaign in a body bag in Kobin's mansion.