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2004: Georgian Information Crisis

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​2006: Operation Barracuda/MRUUV Incident



2007: East Asian Crisis

      Coen was active during the East Asian Crisis in 2007, when she had been stationed in Japan to monitor the activities of a Yakuza organization known as the Red Nishin. When Fisher was asked to tap telephone lines in a Japanese bathhouse to aid Coen in this, he replies, "For Frances...of course I can".



Trivia



        In the novel Operation Barracuda, at the time of the story (c. 2006), Sam initially resented being forced to work with Coen to track down The Shop, and was initially against the Field Runner program entirely. This may have been due to the Splinter Cell program losing several of its agents, it lost three-to-four Splinter Cells in the previous year[1], in fact Sam had lost his first field runner, Vernon Wilkes Jr., just over a year before (though this is not mentioned). He had been going solo during 2005 without the use of field runners. He worries what would happen if she was captured and tortured, worrying about his and her safety.[2] He warms up to her throughout the story, and is glad to have her by the end.



She is also described as having "a large scar on the side of her neck that disappears into her collar."



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            Frances Coen is a field runner for Third Echelon stationed in East Asia, mainly Japan. She was first introduced in the second half of the original Splinter Cell and appears again in Pandora Tomorrow. Coen was briefly mentioned in Chaos Theory.

Frances Coen is a field runner for Third Echelon stationed in East Asia, mainly Japan.

                 Coen was the replacement for Sam Fisher's good friend and old field runner Vernon Wilkes, Jr., who was killed in a shootout with Russian mercenaries on the roof of the Kalinatek building in Langley, Virginia, during the Georgian Information Crisis.

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               As a field runner, her primary duties involved delivering Fisher into the mission area as well as extracting him after the mission is complete. She also provides good-humored banter with Fisher during mission briefings. She seems to be one of the people Sam gets along with quite a bit.