Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Plot Summary

The main flashpoint in Pandora Tomorrow is Indonesia, in the year 2006, where the U.S. has established a military presence in the newly independent nation of East Timor to train that country's military forces in their fight against anti-separatist Indonesian guerrilla militias. Foremost among these Indonesian militias is the Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer), led by Suhadi Sadono.

Charismatic militia leader Sadono, once trained by the C.I.A. to help fight Communist influences in the region, has grown resentful of the U.S. support of East Timor and its interference with his country's sovereignty. Sadono initiates a suicide bombing and follow up attack on the U.S. Embassy to Dili, capturing a number of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel including Douglas Shetland, an old friend and comrade of Splinter Cell Sam Fisher.

Fisher is sent to infiltrate the embassy and gather intelligence on the Darah Dan Doa. Fisher succeeds in his mission, and the U.S. Embassy is retaken by Delta Force. Sadono escapes, and the U.S. launches a military campaign on Indonesian soil in an attempt to hunt him down, much to the protests of the Indonesian government.

Fisher ultimately learns that Sadono has masterminded a scheme known as "Pandora Tomorrow", by placing a series of biological bombs (ND103's) equipped with the smallpox virus on American soil. Every 24 hours, Sadono makes encrypted phone calls to each of the bomb carriers to delay the release of the virus. If he is killed or detained, the virus is released and millions of Americans will die. Because Sadono is fighting on the front lines in the conflict, the U.S. cannot risk killing him, and is forced to withdraw its forces.

Fisher is sent to infiltrate Darah Dan Doa strongholds in order to learn the location of the smallpox bombs. He is assisted in this endeavor by Shetland and Shetland's PMC, Displace International. Fisher ultimately learns the location of the bombs, and Shadownet spies are sent in to neutralize them, bringing an end to Sadono's threat against the U.S.

Third Echelon decides to capture Sadono alive instead of merely assassinating him, due to the problems created when Fisher assassinated President Nikoladze in 2004.

Although Fisher manages to capture Sadono, Third Echelon learns that a rogue C.I.A. agent, Norman Soth has acquired the last smallpox-armed ND133, and intends to detonate it in Los Angeles' LAX airport. Soth cares nothing for Indonesia, but intends to get revenge on America for betraying him years earlier. Fisher infiltrates LAX, kills Soth and his group of terrorists (disguised as airport workers and security guards), and prevents the detonation of the last smallpox-armed ND133 by disguising himself as a maintenance worker and setting the ND133 down behind two airport security guards, who notice the device almost immediately, and have the airport evacuated. The L.A.P.D. Bomb Squad is then called in to perform a controlled explosion of the device, which is done by an unmanned vehicle using reinforced steel.