Tom Reed

Colonel Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Reed was the main antagonist of ''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction. ''He was the director of Sam Fisher's prior agency, Third Echelon after the previous director, Irving Lambert, died in New York City in 2008.

Before Conviction
Reed started his career in the U.S. Air Force studying cyberwarfare. He then worked for AFCYBER to prevent cyberattcks against U.S. intrests. He was later transferred to the NSA's intelegence brach, Third Echelon, under then-Director Irving Lambert. After Lambert was pronounced K.I.A, Reed then ascended himself as the new director of Third Echelon. He then expanded Third Echelon with more operatives and more brute tactics. After this, Third Echelon became ultimately corrupt.

Splinter Cell: Conviction
Reed was first seen by the player (Sam) at Price Airfield in Washington D.C. after Sam was extracted by Jeremy Prentiss from Andriy Kobin's Mansion in Velleta, Malta. He tells Anna Grimsdottir to interrogate Sam about his involvment with Kobin (unaware that she's a mole working for the President). Later he meets with a businessman named Lucius Galliard about a mysterious group called Megiddo. After the meeting was over, Sam interrogates Galliard about Megiddo and got some info out of him before being killed by someone speculated to be working for Megiddo.

Later, it was revieled that Reed is working for Megiddo and he's using EMPs to knock out most of the electricity in Washington D.C. (all of it if Sam hadn't destroyed one of the three EMPs) in order to decoy the civilians so they would be bluffed to believe that nothing suspicious is going on so this would provide cover, break into and assault the White House, and kill the President for turning down Megiddo's order to match her polocies with theirs. When Sam was brought to Reed's presence, Sam and Grim botched Reed's mission, revieling that Reed was a mole that Lambert was looking for because he would threaten Sam's daughter, Sarah, in order to leaverage Sam. Reed was then killed by Sam (Grim kills Reed if Sam spares).

Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Because of Reed's reckless actions, Third Echelon was expelled. As a result, a new NSA unit, Fourth Echelon, was formed under Sam's direction.