<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">'''Edward''' "'''Ned'''" '''Kelly''' (June 1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-1 [1]]</sup> was an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Australian Irish Australian] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushranger bushranger]. Kelly's legacy is controversial; many consider him to be a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_hero folk hero] and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Australian Anglo-Australian] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_class ruling class], while others emphasise his involvement in killing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-2 [2]]</sup></p>
|Commendations = (The following is forged by Agency)<br>'''Ph.D, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Standford''' - 1996<br>'''M.S., Computer Science, Stanford''' - 1995<br>'''B.A., B.S. Languages and Computer Science, U.C. Berkeley''' - 1993
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Kelly was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia) Victoria] to an Irish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia convict] father, and as a young man he clashed with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Police Victoria Police]. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he and his colleagues killed three policemen, the colonial government proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw outlaws].</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">A final violent confrontation with police took place at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenrowan,_Victoria Glenrowan] on 28 June 1880. Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour armour] and a helmet, was captured and sent to gaol. He was convicted of three counts of wilful murder<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-3 [3]]</sup> and hanged at[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Melbourne_Gaol Old Melbourne Gaol] in November 1880. His daring and notoriety made him an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_icon iconic] figure in Australian history, folklore, literature, art and film.</p>
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'''Lian Xing''' is a special operations field agent who is the former second-in-command to [[Gabriel Logan]] in the [[IPCA]] and former operative working in the shadowy [[The Agency|Agency]] under [[Edward Benton]]. Lian is Gabe's closest ally throughout the entire series, serving as either his combat teammate or tactical advisor via radio.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 2011, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropologist anthropologists] announced that a skeleton found in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_grave mass grave] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentridge_Prison Pentridge Prison] had been confirmed as Kelly's. His skull, however, remains missing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WSJ2Sep2011_4-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-WSJ2Sep2011-4 [4]]</sup></p>
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== [[Syphon Filter 3|[[File:Mss_chinese_by_sfcreator-d4yai7d.png|thumb|MSS chinese by sf,creator]]Early Career]] ==
Born in Kashi, China sometime in the 1970's, Lian served as an operative for the Chinese Secret Service (MSS) in soviet-occupied Afghanistan during the late 1980s, where she was assigned with gathering evidence of soviet commander [[Uri Gregorov]]'s troop movements. Within the city, she ran straight into a Soviet ambush but was saved by Gabe. She had then agreed to assist Gabe in getting his truckload of arms to the rebels by making a distraction.
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Ellen Kelly (née Quinn)
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==Early life==
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<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Kelly's father, John Kelly (better known as "Red"), was born in County Tipperary, Ireland,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-5 [5]]</sup> and was transported in 1841 from Tipperary to Tasmania for stealing two pigs, not for shooting at a landlord as the Victorian Royal Commission indicated in "an unwarrantable piece of propaganda."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-6 [6]]</sup></p>
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Chinese intel had supplied Lian with information that the soviets have developed a [[wikipedia:AU3000|prototype weapon that]] could penetrate solid objects. She eventually got her hands on that weapon and neutralized a key number of Soviet snipers in the area. Having photographed Gregorov's area charts and blown up the underground munitions depots, Lian was extracted by chopper out of Kabul.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">After his release in 1848, Red Kelly moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,_Australia Victoria] and found work at James Quinn's farm at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallan,_Victoria Wallan Wallan], where he worked as a bush [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter carpenter]. He subsequently turned his attention to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold gold]-digging, at which he was successful and which enabled him to purchase a small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freehold_(law) freehold] at Beveridge.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-7 [7]]</sup></p>
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During the chase for [[Erich Rhoemer]] in Costa Rica, Lian infiltrated Rhoemer's Labs in the Aztec Ruins. She had found out that [[Black Baton|Rhoemer's group]] had kidnapped a number of world renowned scientists and medical technicians to work in his labs and was ordered by Benton to get the kidnapped personnel out of there alive, via a chopper at the Eastern Temple. She was also ordered to retrieve a number of plant materials the scientists were synthesizing, as well as a synthetic computer model of the virus itself.
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== [[Syphon Filter|Agency Service]] ==
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1851, at the age of 30, Red Kelly married Ellen Quinn, his employer's 18-year-old daughter, in Ballarat.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-8 [8]]</sup> Their first child, Mary Jane, died at six months in 1850, but Ellen Kelly then gave birth to a daughter, Annie, in 1853.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup></p>
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Lian was Gabe's radio backup throughout the first several missions, but then Rhoemer's men kidnapped her in Kazakhstan and made her one of the test subjects for the virus. Gabe found her to learn that the vaccine he carried, supplied by [[Thomas Markinson]], was ineffective, and Lian's analysis later showed it to be a chemical used in lethal injections.
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== [[Syphon Filter 2|The effects of the virus]] ==
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The Kellys' first son, Edward ("Ned"), was born in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge,_Victoria Beveridge], just north of Melbourne. His date of birth is not known, but at Beveridge he said to an officer, "Look across there to the left. Do you see a little hill there?", "That is where I was born about 28 years ago. Now, I am passing through it, I suppose, to my doom."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-The_Kelly_Gang_9-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-The_Kelly_Gang-9 [9]]</sup></p>
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The Agency tried to extract her plasma for the incubating virus, but she escaped and aided Logan's departure from Colorado. As the effects of Syphon Filter grew, she was unable to help and nearly died until Gabe returned with the vaccine from New York City. Lian would then support Gabe through the trials orchestrated by conspirator [[Vincent Hadden]], and afterwards she became second in command of the newly reformed Agency.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Kelly was baptised by an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustinian Augustinian] priest, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O%27Hea Charles O'Hea]. As a boy he obtained basic schooling and once risked his life to save another boy, Richard Shelton, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning drowning]. As a reward he was given a green sash by the boy's family, which he wore under his armour during his final showdown with police in 1880.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-10 [10]]</sup></p>
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== [[Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain|The IPCA]] ==
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Kelly's family moved to Avenel, near Seymour, where Red Kelly became noted as an expert cattle-stealer. In 1865 he was convicted of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_duffing cattle duffing] and imprisoned. Red Kelly died at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenel,_Victoria Avenel] on 27 December 1866 shortly after his release from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmore,_Victoria Kilmore] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaol gaol]. When Red Kelly died he was survived by his wife and seven offspring, Ned and Dan, James, Mrs Gunn, Mrs Skillion, Kate and Grace.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-11 [11]]</sup> Several months later the Kelly family acquired 80 acres (320,000 m<sup style="line-height:1em;">2</sup>) of uncultivated farmland at Eleven Mile Creek near the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta,_Victoria Greta] area of Victoria, which to this day is known as "Kelly Country".</p>
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She accompanied Logan on several searches related to the Omega Strain outbreaks, diverting to track other criminals that tried to obtain the virus. Her first significant appearance was in Uganda, where she investigated an Ebola outbreak with Gabe. He expresses his obsession to her at that point and feels that he needs to stop Mara Aramov.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The Kellys were suspected many times of cattle or horse stealing, but never convicted. Ned Kelly himself claimed that he had stolen over 280 horses as a boy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-12 [12]]</sup> Red Kelly was arrested when he killed and skinned a calf claimed to be the property of his neighbour. He was found innocent of theft, but guilty of removing the brand from the skin and given the option of a twenty-five [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling pound] fine or a sentence of six months with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_labour hard labour]. Unable to pay the fine, Red served his sentence, which had an ultimately fatal effect on his health. The saga surrounding Red, and his treatment by the police, made a strong impression on his son Ned.</p>
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Lian is later a playable character in the bonus mission, Kyrgysztan. She hears news of a bio-weapons container being sold from a warlord in Tash, Kumyr, Askar Saydahmat, to the North Koreans. The latter sends Sok-ju Yang to facilitate the transaction, but Lian kills Samaev, Saydahmat's henchman, and disguises herself as a concubine to fool the North Korean agent. Giving Yang the bio-weapons case, Lian eliminates him to re-acquire the container, and then poisons Saydahmat's water chalice. She also kills a seemingly innocent Yemeni terrorist, Zayed al Dhahiri.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In all, eighteen charges were brought against members of Ned's immediate family before he was declared an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw outlaw], while only half that number resulted in guilty verdicts. This is a highly unusual ratio for the time, and led to claims that Ned's family was unfairly targeted from the time they moved to northeast Victoria. Perhaps the move was necessary because of Ellen's squabbles with family members and her appearances in court over family disputes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-13 [13]]</sup> Antony O'Brien argued that Victoria's colonial police practices treated arrest as equivalent to proof of guilt.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-14 [14]]</sup> Further, O'Brien argued, using the "Statistics of Victoria" crime figures that the region's or family's or national criminality was determined not by individual arrests, but rather by the total number of arrests.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-15 [15]]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify clarification needed]'']</sup></p>
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==Rise to notoriety==
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<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Ned's first documented brush with the law was on 15 October 1869 at the age of 14 when he was charged with the assault and robbery of Ah Fook, a pig and fowl trader from a Chinese camp near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright,_Victoria Bright]. According to Ah Fook, as he was passing the Kelly house, Ned approached him with a long bamboo stick, announcing that he was a bushranger and would kill him if he did not hand over his money. Ned then took him into the bush, beat him with the stick and stole 10 shillings. According to Ned, his sister Annie and two witnesses, Bill Skilling and Bill Grey, Annie was sitting outside the house sewing when Ah Fook walked up and asked for a drink of water. Given creek water, he abused Annie for not giving him rain water and Ned came outside and pushed him. Ah Fook then hit Ned three times with the bamboo stick, causing him to run away. Ah Fook then walked away threatening to return and burn the house down. Ned did not return until sundown. Historians find neither account convincing and believe that Ned's account is likely true up to being hit by Ah Fook but then Ned likely took the stick from him and beat him with it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jones_16-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-Jones-16 [16]]</sup></p>
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She later plays a larger role, having worked undercover in Murukawa Industries. Assaulting the Murukawa headquarters with Gina Hunter and the IPCA agents, the helicopter is hit by a SMAW missile, but Gina lands safely and the agents are deployed. Lian planted a camera inside Murukawa's suite, which shows that Mara Aramov visited the Japanese, and convinced him to commit suicide in order for him to stay silent. Later, she meets the agents on the rooftop and protects the helicopter before extraction.
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ned_kelly_1874.jpg][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ned_kelly_1874.jpg]Portrait of Ned Kelly taken by the Police Photographer at Pentridge after Ned's transfer from the Beechworth Gaol in 1873 (State Library of Victoria)<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Ned was arrested the following day for Highway Robbery and locked up overnight in Benalla. He appeared in court the following morning but Sergeant Whelan, despite using an interpreter to translate Ah Fook's account, requested a remand to allow time to find an interpreter. Ned was held for four days. Appearing in court on 20 October he was again remanded after the police failed to produce an interpreter. The charge was finally dismissed on 26 October and Ned was released. Sergeant Whelan disliked Ned. Three months earlier when he had prosecuted Yeaman Gunn for possession of stolen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton mutton], Ned testified that he had sold several sheep to Gunn that same day. In a controversial judgement, the magistrate found Gunn guilty and fined him £10. Furious that Ned was not convicted for the robbery, Whelan now kept a careful watch on the Kelly family and, according to fellow officers, became "a perfect encyclopedia of knowledge about them" through his "diligence".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jones_16-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-Jones-16 [16]]</sup></p>
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Some time earlier, Lian and Imani flipped a coin to see who would follow another North Korean agent, Yong-jun Kim. Imani Grey lost and she had to get on a flight to trail the man. Upon flying back to base, Lian learns that Imani's flight went down inside the Myanmar jungle, and guilt-striken, she brings the IPCA agents to the crash site with her. Injured due to the helicopter attack sustained previously, she stays at the boat while the agents kill the terrorists responsible for destroying the jet and recover Imani Grey's remains. They also find evidence that the plane crash was due not to weather factors, but a missile brought it down, and recover documents proving this.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Following his court appearance, the Benalla Ensign reported, "The cunning of himself [Ned] and his mates got him off", the Beechworth Advertiser on the other hand reported that "the charge of robbery has been trumped up by the Chinaman to be revenged on Kelly, who had obviously assaulted him."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Quotations this quote needs a citation]'']</sup> Interestingly, Ah Fook had described 14-year-old Ned as being aged around 20 years. Some 12 months later a reporter wrote that Ned "gives his age as 15 but is probably between 18 and 20". Although 5' 8" in height, Ned was physically imposing. When arrested, a 224 pounds (102 kg) trooper was purportedly unable to subdue the then 15-year old Ned until several labourers ran to assist him and even then Ned had to be knocked unconscious.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jones_16-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-Jones-16 [16]]</sup></p>
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===Harry Power===
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<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">On 16 March 1870, bushranger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Power Harry Power] and Ned Kelly stuck up and robbed Mr M'Bean.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-17 [17]]</sup> Later that year on 2 May, he was charged with robbery in company and accused of being Power's accomplice.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-18 [18]]</sup> The victims could not identify Ned, and the charges were dismissed. He was then charged with robbery under arms, but the principal witness could not be located and the charges were dismissed. He was then charged a third time, for a hold-up with Power against a man named Murray. Although the victims for the third charge were reported to have also failed to identify Ned, they had in fact been refused a chance to identify him by Superintendents Nicolas and Hare. Instead, superintendent Nicolas told the magistrate that Ned fit the description and asked for him to be remanded to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyneton,_Victoria Kyneton] court for trial. Instead of being sent to Kyneton, he was sent to Melbourne where he spent the weekend in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Victoria Richmond] lock-up before transferring to Kyneton. No evidence was produced in court and he was released after a month. Historians tend to disagree over this episode: some see it as evidence of police harassment; others believe that Kelly’s relatives intimidated the witnesses, making them reluctant to give evidence. Another factor in the lack of identification may have been that the witnesses had described Power's accomplice as a "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-caste half-caste]". However, superintendent Nicholas and Captain Standish believed this to be the result of Ned going unwashed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jones_16-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-Jones-16 [16]]</sup></p>
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After Logan later shows his reluctance to obey the Presidential administration, he decides to investigate Niculescu's business despite Birchim's orders telling him to avoid Mihai Niculescu. Lian was instrumental to counter his decision, but Logan overrided her, telling her that 'didn't give a damn about Ivankov', because he 'wanted Niculescu'. The mission seemed to fail at first, but a paper trail directed Gabe to Niculescu's villa estate, where he found Mara and the missing pieces. Lian later apologised to Gabe, saying that he knew better, but Logan told her that ''she'' was right and they only got lucky.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Kelly's grandfather, James Quinn, owned a huge piece of land at the headwaters of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_River_(Victoria) King River] known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glenmore_Station&action=edit&redlink=1 Glenmore Station], where Power was ultimately arrested. Following Power's arrest it was rumoured that Kelly had informed on him and Kelly was treated with hostility within the community. Kelly wrote a letter to police Sergeant Babington pleading for his help in the matter. The informant was in fact Kelly's uncle, Jack Lloyd.</p>
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Agency personnel reported seeing visible concern of the behavior displayed by Logan as he became more determined to stop the Syphon Filter conspiracy. Lian continued to aid Gabe after an Agency suspension by Alex Birchim, and together they brought down the final threats.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In October 1870, Kelly was arrested again for assaulting a hawker, Jeremiah McCormack, and for his part in sending McCormack's childless wife a box containing calves' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicle testicles] and an indecent note. This was a result of a row earlier that day when McCormack accused a friend of the Kellys, Ben Gould, of using his horse without permission. Gould wrote the note, and Kelly passed it to one of his cousins to give to the woman. He was sentenced to three months' hard labour on each charge.</p>
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==[http://syphonfilter.wikia.com/wiki/Syphon_Filter:_Dark_Mirror Dark Mirror crisis]==
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Lian joined Gabe when a paramilitary group targeted the Alaskan oil refinery. She was a playable character in an operation to sabotage Red Section and ground their plane after she found out that they were flying with unauthorised air codes under NORAD's nose. She eventually provided Gabe with covering fire when he tried to diffuse the bombs planted around the refinery. Both were successful in their mission which resulted in Black King, a Red Section leader, getting killed, but the hostages committed suicide.
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Gabe later brings Lian on a mission to destroy Red Section and rescue Blake Hargrove. The girl is Addison Hargrove's daughter, and it is later revealed Gabe's daughter as well. Lian rescues Blake from drowning, but the girl runs off and Lian loses her. She destroys the Red Section computer terminals, and helps Gabe by killing a guard who patrolled a doorway. Gabe eventually has Lian escort Blake to safety after rescuing the girl from being killed.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Upon his release Kelly returned home. There he met Isaiah "Wild" Wright who had arrived in the area on a chestnut [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_(horse) mare]. While he was staying with the Kellys, the mare had gone missing and Wright borrowed one of the Kelly horses to return to[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield,_Victoria Mansfield]. He asked Ned to look for the horse and said he could keep it until his return. Kelly found the mare and used it to go to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangaratta,_Victoria Wangaratta] where he stayed for a few days but while riding through Greta on his way home, Ned was approached by police constable Hall who, from the description of the animal, knew the horse was stolen property. When his attempt to arrest Kelly turned into a fight, Hall drew his gun and tried to shoot him, but Kelly overpowered the policeman and humiliated him by riding him like a horse and driving his spurs into the back of his legs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-19 [19]]</sup> Hall later struck Kelly several times with his revolver after he had been arrested. Ned always maintained that he had no idea that the mare actually belonged to the Mansfield postmaster and that Wright had stolen it. After just three weeks of freedom, 16-year-old Kelly, along with his brother-in-law Alex Gunn, was sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for "feloniously receiving a horse". "Wild" Wright escaped arrest for the theft on 2 May following an "exchange of shots" with police, but was arrested the following day. Wright received only eighteen months for stealing the horse.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-20 [20]]</sup> After his release from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Pentridge Pentridge] Prison in February 1874, Ned allegedly fought and won a bare-knuckled boxing match with 'Wild' Wright that lasted 20 rounds.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">While Kelly was in prison, his brothers Jim (aged 12) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kelly_(bushranger) Dan] (aged 10) were arrested by Constable Flood for riding a horse that did not belong to them. The horse had been lent to them by a farmer for whom they had been doing some work, but the boys spent a night in the cells before the matter was cleared.</p>
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Lian was forced to return to Shen when his X-Z-2 device was stolen by terrorists, but Shen eventually killed himself rather than risk her life and his own. With the mission complete, Lian learned that Gabe planned on retiring, but [[Trinidad]] appeared again and targeted her. Gabe blocked the bullets meant for Lian, and in the exchange of bullets, Trinidad shot Gabe four times while Logan fired two shots at her, apparently killing her. Lian is last seen attempting to revive Gabe.
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Two years later, Jim Kelly was arrested for cattle-duffing. He and his family claimed that he did not know that some of the cattle did not belong to his employer and cousin Tom Lloyd. Jim was given a five-year sentence, but as O'Brien pointed out the receiver of the 'stolen stock' James Dixon was not prosecuted as he was 'a gentleman'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-21 [21]]</sup></p>
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===Shoemaker shop brawl===
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<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In September 1877 a drunk Kelly was arrested for riding over a footpath and locked-up for the night. The next day, while he was escorted by four policemen, he escaped and ran, taking refuge in a shoemaker's shop. The police and the shop owner tried to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handcuff handcuff] him but failed. During the struggle Kelly's trousers were almost ripped off. Trying to get Kelly to submit, Constable Lonigan, whom Kelly later shot dead, "black-balled" him (grabbed and squeezed his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicles testicles]).<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup> During the struggle, a miller walked in, and on seeing the behaviour of the police said "You should be ashamed of themselves."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-KELLY_INTERVIEWED_22-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-KELLY_INTERVIEWED-22 [22]]</sup> The miller then tried to pacify the situation and induced Kelly to put on the handcuffs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-KELLY_INTERVIEWED_22-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-KELLY_INTERVIEWED-22 [22]]</sup></p>
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==Trivia==
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Kelly said about the incident "It was in the course of this attempted arrest Fitzpatrick endeavoured to catch hold of me by the foot, and in the struggle he tore the sole and heel of my boot clean off. With one well-directed blow, I sent him sprawling against the wall, and the staggering blow I then gave him partly accounts to me for his subsequent conduct towards my family and myself."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-KELLY_INTERVIEWED_22-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly#cite_note-KELLY_INTERVIEWED-22 [22]]</sup></p>
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*The first Syphon Filter instruction manual lists a "fake background", as the information was "Agency-forged" following her recruitment. She is listed as being born in California and having obtained several degrees from U.S. Universities. This is impossible, due to the fact that she was still a Chinese MSS Agent until 1995(or 1996, see below point regarding conflicting dates).
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**This fact is confirmed in the Syphon Filter 2 manual in the following quotation - "Originally an agent for the Chinese MSS, she was recruited in 1996 by the Agency and '''given a new identity as an American citizen including fake biographical information'''".
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*There are some conflicting dates in the instruction manuals regarding Lian's background. Excluding the first Syphon Filter's manual, Syphon Filter 2 and 3 list her as being in the Agency from 1995-2000 (though SF2 says "Present", as they were still Operatives at the time). However, both Backgrounds describe her as being recruited in 1996 rather than 1995.
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**In addition, both books list her as being in the Chinese MSS starting in 1989. However, she was already on a mission for the MSS as early as 1987 when she first met Gabe in Kabul, Afghanistan. The manual from Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror states that she obtained a Government job at the age of 17, which COULD be why she was in Kabul however she states in her Testimony to Vince Hadden that she was on an assignment FOR the MSS.
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*Lian is the only lead protagonist with over three different voice actors. She is also one of several characters to have a different voice actor since the first game, with Mara Aramov holding the record of a different voice actor for each of her appearances in the series. The same could be said for Vince Hadden, whose voice changed in each title of the original trilogy.
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*Unlike Gabe, whose hair often changes between titles, Lian has always had her hair parted in the center and cut mid-length down to her jaw. In the second game it appears however that some strands are divided along the center of her forehead.
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*Lian's missions are mostly based around stealth, though can develop into action sequences depending on the level. Gabe on the other hand is given more action sequences, with only some stealth.
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*Lian, with the exception of Teresa (as she was not present in the first title), is the only female character to live through all of the games.
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*In SF3's multiplayer game, Lian tends to taunt her enemy with her sharp tone:
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::: " Get on your knees and beg! "
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::: " You don't want to make me angry. "
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Legend has it that Kelly told Lonigan that "If I ever shoot a man, Lonigan, it'll be you!"<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Quotations this quote needs a citation]'']</sup></p>
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::: " What do you aiming at? "
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In October 1877, Gustav and William Baumgarten were arrested for supplying stolen horses to Kelly and were sentenced in 1878. Baumgarten served time in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentridge Pentridge] Prison, Melbourne.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup></p>
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::: " Are we having fun yet? "
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<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Following his father's death, Kelly's mother, Ellen, married a Californian named George King, with whom she had three children. King, Kelly and Dan Kelly became involved in cattle rustling.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup></p>
*Lian is also the only lead protagonist out of the original four who is not potentially dead (where as the other three are left unknown, due to a cliffhanger ending in the most recent title).
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IPCA 2001-Present The Agency 1995(6)-2000 Chinese MSS 1987(9)-1995
Career
Chief of Operations, IPCA 2001-Present Intelligence Communications Expert 1995(6)-2000 Chinese MSS Agent - 1987(9)-1995
Commendations
(The following is forged by Agency) Ph.D, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Standford - 1996 M.S., Computer Science, Stanford - 1995 B.A., B.S. Languages and Computer Science, U.C. Berkeley - 1993
Ava Fang (SF1) Zoe Galvez (SF2, SF3) Kim Mai Guest (SF:TOS, SF:DM, SF:LS)
Lian Xing is a special operations field agent who is the former second-in-command to Gabriel Logan in the IPCA and former operative working in the shadowy Agency under Edward Benton. Lian is Gabe's closest ally throughout the entire series, serving as either his combat teammate or tactical advisor via radio.
Born in Kashi, China sometime in the 1970's, Lian served as an operative for the Chinese Secret Service (MSS) in soviet-occupied Afghanistan during the late 1980s, where she was assigned with gathering evidence of soviet commander Uri Gregorov's troop movements. Within the city, she ran straight into a Soviet ambush but was saved by Gabe. She had then agreed to assist Gabe in getting his truckload of arms to the rebels by making a distraction.
Chinese intel had supplied Lian with information that the soviets have developed a prototype weapon that could penetrate solid objects. She eventually got her hands on that weapon and neutralized a key number of Soviet snipers in the area. Having photographed Gregorov's area charts and blown up the underground munitions depots, Lian was extracted by chopper out of Kabul.
During the chase for Erich Rhoemer in Costa Rica, Lian infiltrated Rhoemer's Labs in the Aztec Ruins. She had found out that Rhoemer's group had kidnapped a number of world renowned scientists and medical technicians to work in his labs and was ordered by Benton to get the kidnapped personnel out of there alive, via a chopper at the Eastern Temple. She was also ordered to retrieve a number of plant materials the scientists were synthesizing, as well as a synthetic computer model of the virus itself.
Lian was Gabe's radio backup throughout the first several missions, but then Rhoemer's men kidnapped her in Kazakhstan and made her one of the test subjects for the virus. Gabe found her to learn that the vaccine he carried, supplied by Thomas Markinson, was ineffective, and Lian's analysis later showed it to be a chemical used in lethal injections.
The Agency tried to extract her plasma for the incubating virus, but she escaped and aided Logan's departure from Colorado. As the effects of Syphon Filter grew, she was unable to help and nearly died until Gabe returned with the vaccine from New York City. Lian would then support Gabe through the trials orchestrated by conspirator Vincent Hadden, and afterwards she became second in command of the newly reformed Agency.
She accompanied Logan on several searches related to the Omega Strain outbreaks, diverting to track other criminals that tried to obtain the virus. Her first significant appearance was in Uganda, where she investigated an Ebola outbreak with Gabe. He expresses his obsession to her at that point and feels that he needs to stop Mara Aramov.
Lian is later a playable character in the bonus mission, Kyrgysztan. She hears news of a bio-weapons container being sold from a warlord in Tash, Kumyr, Askar Saydahmat, to the North Koreans. The latter sends Sok-ju Yang to facilitate the transaction, but Lian kills Samaev, Saydahmat's henchman, and disguises herself as a concubine to fool the North Korean agent. Giving Yang the bio-weapons case, Lian eliminates him to re-acquire the container, and then poisons Saydahmat's water chalice. She also kills a seemingly innocent Yemeni terrorist, Zayed al Dhahiri.
She later plays a larger role, having worked undercover in Murukawa Industries. Assaulting the Murukawa headquarters with Gina Hunter and the IPCA agents, the helicopter is hit by a SMAW missile, but Gina lands safely and the agents are deployed. Lian planted a camera inside Murukawa's suite, which shows that Mara Aramov visited the Japanese, and convinced him to commit suicide in order for him to stay silent. Later, she meets the agents on the rooftop and protects the helicopter before extraction.
Some time earlier, Lian and Imani flipped a coin to see who would follow another North Korean agent, Yong-jun Kim. Imani Grey lost and she had to get on a flight to trail the man. Upon flying back to base, Lian learns that Imani's flight went down inside the Myanmar jungle, and guilt-striken, she brings the IPCA agents to the crash site with her. Injured due to the helicopter attack sustained previously, she stays at the boat while the agents kill the terrorists responsible for destroying the jet and recover Imani Grey's remains. They also find evidence that the plane crash was due not to weather factors, but a missile brought it down, and recover documents proving this.
After Logan later shows his reluctance to obey the Presidential administration, he decides to investigate Niculescu's business despite Birchim's orders telling him to avoid Mihai Niculescu. Lian was instrumental to counter his decision, but Logan overrided her, telling her that 'didn't give a damn about Ivankov', because he 'wanted Niculescu'. The mission seemed to fail at first, but a paper trail directed Gabe to Niculescu's villa estate, where he found Mara and the missing pieces. Lian later apologised to Gabe, saying that he knew better, but Logan told her that she was right and they only got lucky.
Agency personnel reported seeing visible concern of the behavior displayed by Logan as he became more determined to stop the Syphon Filter conspiracy. Lian continued to aid Gabe after an Agency suspension by Alex Birchim, and together they brought down the final threats.
Lian joined Gabe when a paramilitary group targeted the Alaskan oil refinery. She was a playable character in an operation to sabotage Red Section and ground their plane after she found out that they were flying with unauthorised air codes under NORAD's nose. She eventually provided Gabe with covering fire when he tried to diffuse the bombs planted around the refinery. Both were successful in their mission which resulted in Black King, a Red Section leader, getting killed, but the hostages committed suicide.
Gabe later brings Lian on a mission to destroy Red Section and rescue Blake Hargrove. The girl is Addison Hargrove's daughter, and it is later revealed Gabe's daughter as well. Lian rescues Blake from drowning, but the girl runs off and Lian loses her. She destroys the Red Section computer terminals, and helps Gabe by killing a guard who patrolled a doorway. Gabe eventually has Lian escort Blake to safety after rescuing the girl from being killed.
Lian was forced to return to Shen when his X-Z-2 device was stolen by terrorists, but Shen eventually killed himself rather than risk her life and his own. With the mission complete, Lian learned that Gabe planned on retiring, but Trinidad appeared again and targeted her. Gabe blocked the bullets meant for Lian, and in the exchange of bullets, Trinidad shot Gabe four times while Logan fired two shots at her, apparently killing her. Lian is last seen attempting to revive Gabe.
Trivia
The first Syphon Filter instruction manual lists a "fake background", as the information was "Agency-forged" following her recruitment. She is listed as being born in California and having obtained several degrees from U.S. Universities. This is impossible, due to the fact that she was still a Chinese MSS Agent until 1995(or 1996, see below point regarding conflicting dates).
This fact is confirmed in the Syphon Filter 2 manual in the following quotation - "Originally an agent for the Chinese MSS, she was recruited in 1996 by the Agency and given a new identity as an American citizen including fake biographical information".
There are some conflicting dates in the instruction manuals regarding Lian's background. Excluding the first Syphon Filter's manual, Syphon Filter 2 and 3 list her as being in the Agency from 1995-2000 (though SF2 says "Present", as they were still Operatives at the time). However, both Backgrounds describe her as being recruited in 1996 rather than 1995.
In addition, both books list her as being in the Chinese MSS starting in 1989. However, she was already on a mission for the MSS as early as 1987 when she first met Gabe in Kabul, Afghanistan. The manual from Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror states that she obtained a Government job at the age of 17, which COULD be why she was in Kabul however she states in her Testimony to Vince Hadden that she was on an assignment FOR the MSS.
Lian is the only lead protagonist with over three different voice actors. She is also one of several characters to have a different voice actor since the first game, with Mara Aramov holding the record of a different voice actor for each of her appearances in the series. The same could be said for Vince Hadden, whose voice changed in each title of the original trilogy.
Unlike Gabe, whose hair often changes between titles, Lian has always had her hair parted in the center and cut mid-length down to her jaw. In the second game it appears however that some strands are divided along the center of her forehead.
Lian's missions are mostly based around stealth, though can develop into action sequences depending on the level. Gabe on the other hand is given more action sequences, with only some stealth.
Lian, with the exception of Teresa (as she was not present in the first title), is the only female character to live through all of the games.
In SF3's multiplayer game, Lian tends to taunt her enemy with her sharp tone:
" Get on your knees and beg! "
" You don't want to make me angry. "
" What do you aiming at? "
" Are we having fun yet? "
" Surrender youself! "
" How dare you shoot a lady! "
" How many times do I have to kill you? "
" You're going down! "
" Oh, I'm so scared! " (sarcasm)
Lian is also the only lead protagonist out of the original four who is not potentially dead (where as the other three are left unknown, due to a cliffhanger ending in the most recent title).
China Exhibit ·Colorado Bridge ·D.C. Subway ·Military Base ·New York Slums ·Phagan's Warehouse ·Rhoemer's Fortress ·Washington Park ·Whispering Woods Mortuary
