Smith (Hitman character)

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Agent Smith is a fictional character in the Hitman video game series.

He is a fairly inept American secret agent with ties to the CIA as well as Codename 47's own employer, The Agency. Smith has an unfortunate tendency to be captured and tortured by the very people he's assigned to spy on. As a result, the Agency has sent 47 to rescue him on a number of occasions. His torture experiences have caused him to take up drinking on the job, making him even more ineffective. Smith is about as close to a comic relief character as the Hitman series has.

Like 47, Agent Smith dons a variety of disguises, but most often he's seen beaten and stripped down to his American Flag boxer shorts. He seems to regard 47 as a friend, no doubt because 47 has rescued him so many times. Of course, the feeling is not mutual.

47 initially treats his relationship with Agent Smith as detached and professional, but as he is forced to rescue Smith again and again he increasingly sees Smith as an ineffective hindrance. In the fourth installment of the game Hitman: Blood Money, 47 even puts a gun to Smith's head and appears ready to kill him, after Smith surprises 47 by hitching a ride in his car.

Agent Smith has appeared in all four games in the following levels and situations:

• Hitman: Codename 47, level The Lee Hong Assassination; locked up in the basement of a Triad headquarters in Hong Kong. Level The Setup; locked up in a cell in an insane asylum in Romania.

• Hitman 2, level Tubeway Torpedo ; being tortured in a renegade Russian general's dungeon in St. Petersburg. Also in Temple City Ambush , told information on how to kill the cult leader.

• Hitman: Contracts, his appearance is identical to that in Hitman: Codename 47.

• Hitman: Blood Money, level Flatline; held in the secure wing of a rehab clinic in California. He also appears at the end of the level Dance with the Devil, set in Las Vegas, as a getaway driver, and subsequently employs 47 in the next and final mission.

Despite his incompetence and his association with the shadowy Agency, Agent Smith seems to have some strong degree of patriotism. Even after the Agency is all but destroyed, Smith uses his own money to hire 47 to foil the Franchise's attempt to assassinate the President of the United States.