
Kobin tells Sam to dump some cargo to reduce the Paladin's weight, and Sam heads to the hangar where Briggs waits for him to dump the helicopter. The co-pilot ends up having to control the Paladin alone manually and Sam has to free Kobin from his cell in order to fly it above sea level. Prior to American Fuel, Majid Sadiq orders the plane to be destroyed, that is why the Paladin experiences a STUXNET style virus attack from the Engineers, stripping the crew's control of the Paladin followed by flashes of the Blacklist on every screen within the ops center. Eventually, Briggs takes over the UAV to defend it as it takes off. The crew defends it, and Ollie becomes wounded in action. Shortly after the Safehouse operation in Benghazi, Libya, Andriy Kobin is placed in a holding cell as a high value prisoner, and eventually Kestrel rests in the infirmary after being extracted from Koltsovo Naukograd, Russia, but as a high value individual/patient.įollowing the Guantanamo Bay mission, the Paladin comes under attack in Yucatan, Mexico. Sam Fisher is appointed as the unit's commander by President Patricia Caldwell following the first Blacklist attack, and is partnered with Anna Grímsdóttir, Charlie Cole and Isaac Briggs.

The Paladin was established as the headquarters for Fourth Echelon.
