Jack Alexander
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Alexander Leland "Jack" Cayne is the narrator of Hitman: Blood Money, and in the final mission is also revealed to be the game's main antagonist. A former director of the FBI, Alexander is paralyzed from the waist down and half of his face is severely deformed. How he became this way is not explained in the game.
In his time as director of the FBI, Cayne became aware of the truth behind the Ort-Meyer Project and the existence of Agent 47. Over the years, Cayne devoted the FBI's resources towards hunting down and destroying 47. Ostensibly, his goal was to destroy 47's genetic material to prevent rogue states from acquiring the DNA and producing their own cloned supersoldiers. The events of Hitman: Blood Money are recounted as flashbacks to 47's career being told by Alexander to a reporter, due to Cayne's desire to expose 47's existence to the world in order to prevent the legalization of human cloning.
As the game progresses and Cayne recounts his story, it becomes increasingly clear that he is an unreliable narrator, as the details he recites differ somewhat from what actually happens in 47's missions. At first it is unclear if he is lying or merely misinformed, but ultimately he is revealed to be the real leader of the Franchise, the arch-enemy of the International Contract Agency (ICA). His true intentions are to acquire 47's DNA to help the Franchise's own human cloning program, and his attempts to prevent the legalization of human cloning have nothing to do with moral objection to cloning, but rather are designed to ensure that the Franchise's cloning program has no rivals. In fact, he even sends his own clone assassin, Franchise director Mark Parchezzi III, to assassinate the President of the United States to prevent the passage of an amendment legalizing human cloning.
At the very end of the game, Diana appears to betray Agent 47, injecting poison into him and delivering his corpse to Cayne, who gleefully arranges for a cremation and funeral for 47 at his private chapel. It was all a set-up, however, the poison turning out to be a "fake-death" serum, that was used to revive Agent Smith in an earlier mission in the game, and during the funeral Diana gives 47 a "kiss of life" while administering an antidote to restart his heart. 47 revives himself and slays the attending priest as well as Cayne's bodyguards. Pursuing Alexander outside the chapel, 47 engages in a gun battle with him and ultimately slays Cayne and the helpless reporter, thus preserving the secret of his existence.
A gag during their final fight is to have 47 run down a set of stairs inside the chapel. When Cayne tries to follow 47, his wheelchair trips and he falls down the stairs, killing himself.
