Kalinatek is the sixth solo campaign level in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Third Echelon sends in Splinter Cell agent Sam Fisher to infiltrate the Kalinatek building and obtain an encryption key carried by one of Kombayn Nikoladze's programmer mercenaries, Ivan.

Briefing

01:24 / 01:33 / 01:44 / 01:56 / 02:02 / 02:07 – PS2/GameCube

Recover the encryption key.

Russian mercenaries have begun to destroy evidence of Georgian activities at Kalinatek. Before her detection in the network, Grímsdóttir discovered that a technician named 'Ivan' is hiding in the building. Ivan possesses an encryption key that could help Third Echelon find Nikoladze.

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Overview

Third Echelon computer specialist Anna Grímsdóttir was able to hack into Kalinatek's mainframe through a PC at the CIA Headquarters where the information was being streamed. Panicked, Vyacheslav Grinko's mercenaries proceeded to destroy all evidence of their activities - this includes killing their own computer technicians in an effort to keep them from talking.

Sam Fisher infiltrated the building from a parking deck on the opposite side of the street from the Kalinatek building. Irving Lambert explains to Sam that his mission "is a man named Ivan." Ivan is one of Nikoladze's computer technicians, and Fisher needed to find him before Grinko's men kill him. Fisher asks why they are killing their own men, to which Lambert explains that "it's all evidence." Fisher makes his way through the parking deck and up a flight of stairs to the upper level; both levels have Grinko's mercenaries patrolling them. After sneaking through, Fisher is able to navigate to the Kalinatek building by climbing around a crane stationed between the two buildings. Fisher gets to the top of the Kalinatek building and rappels down the side of walls, finally entering the building through a skylight set up that connects the parking deck to the Kalinatek building.

Fisher infiltrates the building and arrives to a broken elevator he's able to move through to the opposite side. As he enters into one of the office rooms, he finds two computer technicians trapped by two wall mines. Fisher disarms the wall mines and the technicians reveal to him that there is a bomb set up in the Archives Room. The bomb is set up on his level and is rigged to the gas pipes, meaning that it would extensively destroy much of the building. Fisher quickly navigates through the burning building and wall mines set up and eventually is able to defuse the bomb before it detonates.

Sam eventually located and found Ivan, a computer technician whose data key provided crucial information on Nikoladze's plans as well as his possible location. After retrieving the data key, Fisher proceeded to head towards the extraction point located on the top of the Kalinatek building. He took the elevator to the top floor and discovered that the rooftop - which was still under construction - was covered with Grinko's mercenaries.

Fisher made his way through the mercenaries and eventually made it to the location the V-22 Osprey was located. Vernon Wilkes, Jr. was waiting with the Osprey, trying to cover Fisher with his sidearm, however, during the gunfight Wilkes is shot and fatally wounded by gunfire from the Russain Mafiosos guarding the helipad. Fisher neutralized the mercenaries and climbed up to the helipad to the Osprey where he and Wilkes extracted. Wilkes, however, died on the Osprey from his wounds.

The FBI later seized the Kalinatek Offices and captured the few surviving mercenaries left alive at the building, and brought them in for interrogation. Later news reports indicated that the feds took full control of the Kalinatek Offices in it's efforts to uncover further evidence of Nikoladze's terrorist activities against the United States.

Debriefing

Trivia

• This is the first level in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell that wall mines appear in, and the first time that wall mines appear in the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cellseries.
• Upon completion on the Xbox version, the debriefing states that the signal was traced to Kola in Northern Russian. However, on next mission, briefing states that signal was traced to Myanmar. This is due to the several missions being cut between Kalinatek and Myanmar.
• The Ark is mentioned again in this level; the player learns that the mercenaries destroyed all evidence alluding to the Ark while listening in on their radio chatter.
• If the player talks to Junior Wilkes before they leave the insertion point, Wilkes will tell Fisher to "be careful." Fisher replies by saying, "I've already got a mother, Wilkes."
• The player can break the glass skylights when entering Kalinatek by jumping on the panel that they rappel down on to.
• In one of the offices in the Kalinatek building, there is a hoop and little basket balls that can be thrown by the player. The room is located in the small 'security station' before the metal detectors.
• The metal detectors will activate if the player walks through them, alerting any nearby guards of the player's presence and cause extra guards to spawn in.
• The two mercenaries who storm the auditorium can be taken out with a wall mine placed at the top of the stairs.
• This is the third, and last, appearance that Vernon Wilkes Jr. makes in the Splinter Cell series.
• The fish tanks in the Kalinatek building can be shot and the water will drain to the point of the bullet insertion into the tank. Any more shots into the glass will shatter it and the water will pour out on the sides - the fish will flap around until they disappear.
  • If enemies stand next to aquarium while the water has drained out, the player can sticky shock the water and take out multiple enemies at once. The water can be seen with sparking when shocked.
• After the section where a cutscene triggers (showing a technician being killed by a mercenary), it is possible to knock out one of the mercenaries which will prompt the other to walk over to the wall mine (that was just activated) and take it off the wall. The wall mine may or may not explode, as the mercenary will take it off regardless.
• This is the first level for the bomb that make its appearance in the game which is located in the Archives Room.
  • Interestingly, it is possible to shoot the bomb even before or after disarming it but this will cause the mission to fail.
    • However, it would be odd that if the player is near the bomb as it explodes, it never kills the player and the explosion doesn't destroy the whole room and the building itself.
  • Another bomb (albeit looking similar but close to identical) takes place in the boiler room in the Paris, France level in Pandora Tomorrow.
• In the area before the vent leading to Ivan, the player can hear some extra dialog by taking out the merc using the bathroom then go back to the other merc waiting for him. He will say "You took your sweet time" to merc if Sam killed him in bathroom or not.
• If Ivan is killed, Lambert will get mad at Fisher and a Mission Failure will occur. This will trigger regardless of if the player has retrieved the encryption key from Ivan or not.
  • However, after retrieving the encryption key, Fisher can knock Ivan out without so much as a word from Lambert.
• This mission contains the highest wall mine count out of all the other levels in the game. Interesting enough, this is also the first level wall mines are introduced in.
• If the player runs directly into the auditorium's basement without taking down the mercenaries as getting spotted by them, a hidden radio chatter will occur after the player enters there to hide as they will stop searching. Even if the player reaches the checkpoint or not.
• The PS2 version features thunder and lightening during infiltration of Kalinatek.
• After the cutscene showing the death of Vernon Wilkes, Jr., it is possible to grab the ledge of the opsrey pad directly using a well-timed wall jump off of the right wall.

Gallery

Fisher watching the fish.

Sam encounters a dying Kalinatek technician

Wilkes Jr's trying to fend off the Georgian mercs

Walkthrough