Jacob Hendricks

Commander Jacob Hendricks is the deuteragonist, later quaternary antagonist of Call of Duty: Black Ops III and the deuteragonist in the Call of Duty: Black Ops III prequel comic. He served as the leader of the Winslow Accord Special Forces team Phi until 2064, when he and John Taylor took part in a daring mission to eliminate four defectors responsible for leaking classified information to the Common Defense Pact and its allies. After the mission, Hendricks requested transfer to a hostage rescue unit, where he met the Player.
==Biography==
===Early Career===
Hendricks was born on April 14, 2027, in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He graduated high school valedictorian in 2045. In 2049, he graduated from 2LT. He was later recruited to which is headquartered out of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.From Data Vault file
In 2056, Hendricks was promoted to Major and was assigned Company Commander to his Special Forces Operation Detachment-B. He was later seconded to the Winslow Accord Special Forces (WASF), and was assigned command of newly formed wetworks team Phi. Throughout the team's existence, he would work with John Taylor, Dylan Stone, Javier Ramirez, Alice Conrad, Joseph Fierro, Hussein Patel, Eamon Xu, and Haruko Mandelbaum.
===Team Phi===
From 2058 to 2064, Hendricks led numerous successful wetwork operations around the world, including the assassinations of Timur Abulayev in Tashkent and Maxim Chernakov in Helsinki. Hendricks was notorious among his colleagues for being ill-tempered and extremely strict, but his leadership skills proved effective. Despite his temperament, Hendricks was very protective over the soldiers under his command.
Team Phi's missions lead them on a global hunt for the mysterious and elusive Mokrie Baba, also known as the "Wet Witch of Lubyanka". Eventually, they assassinated her in 2059, but several of Phi's members were killed during the operations, including Patel, Xu, and Haruko Mandelbaum. Hendricks continued to operate with Taylor, Stone, Ramirez, Conrad, and Fierro under his command for the next five years.
===Manhunt for Dylan Stone===
In 2064, Hendricks and Taylor were sent by the CIA into the vast quarantine zone of Singapore to investigate the mysterious shutdown of a local CIA black station. After fighting heavy 54 Immortals forces in the area, the two regrouped with their new handler, Rachel Kane, before finding the black station abandoned and its staff slaughtered in cold blood. Crucially, the station's data drives - which contained vital intel regarding CIA operations around the world - had been stolen.
According to Kane, the last people to check in at the station were Dylan Stone, Javier Ramirez, Alice Conrad, and Joseph Fierro - Hendricks' and Taylor's teammates who had also been operating in the area earlier. Kane theorized that Stone's team could be behind the black station killings, but Hendricks denied it, blaming the 54 Immortals.
Shortly thereafter, some of the intel from the stolen drives was leaked to the 54 Immortals. In order to retrieve the data, Hendricks and Taylor posed as arms dealers and infiltrated the 54i's base of operations. They were compromised by the 54i's leaders, Goh Min and Goh Xiulan, and in the ensuing firefight, Goh Min was inadvertently gunned down. Hendricks and Taylor managed to retrieve the stolen data, but not before Taylor cut off Goh Xiulan's right hand in order to bypass a fingerprint authentication system.
The data from the stolen drives contained security footage that proved Stone's team was responsible for the black station murders. Hendricks, still in denial, theorized that the footage was faked and somebody was framing Stone. In order to determine Stone's motives, Hendricks and Taylor were sent to the site of Stone's last operation before he reported to the black station - Stone's team had investigated a priority alert signal originating from underneath the abandoned Coalescence Corporation facility at the heart of the quarantine zone.
Arriving at the site, Hendricks and Taylor fought through 54i forces, who had been contracted by the CDP to investigate the area. It soon became apparent why: miles underneath the facility lay a long-abandoned CIA black project, SP/CORVUS. The project, which seemed to make use of involuntary human test subjects, had accidentally been discovered by Stone's team when they responded to the alert signal. There was also evidence that this project had somehow caused the Singapore disaster that killed 300,000 people. Proceeding deeper into the facility, Hendricks and Taylor found Javier Ramirez in a server room, in the process of leaking more classified intelligence. After questioning him about Stone's motives, the two learned that Stone was using the information from the stolen drives to barter their way out of Singapore, and were headed to Egypt to find Yousef Salim - a psychotherapist involved in SP/CORVUS. Ramirez was then eliminated before the entire facility was flooded by the 54i in a desperate attempt to kill Hendricks and Taylor, destroying the evidence for the black project in the process.
The information Ramirez leaked allowed the 54i to target the CIA's local safehouse in Singapore, where Kane was situated. Although Hendricks was adamant that Stone be stopped, Taylor insisted on rescuing Kane. Moving outside the quarantine zone, Hendricks and Taylor found that the 54i was ravaging their way to the safehouse, killing civilians and destroying cities. Despite Hendricks' numerous objections to the mission, Taylor managed to rescue Kane and kill Goh Xiulan.
Arriving in Egypt, Hendricks, Taylor and Kane met up with Egyptian Army Lieutenant Zeyad Khalil, who had placed Dr. Salim in custody at Ramses Station in return for support against the invading Nile River Coalition. After Hendricks briefly interrogated Salim, the station came under sudden attack from the NRC, forcing Hendricks and Taylor to abandon Salim and focus on holding back the enemy forces. Whilst they were fighting, Salim was kidnapped by Stone, who had used the NRC assault as a distraction to slip into Ramses Station unnoticed.
Taylor revealed to Hendricks that all was not lost; he had planted a tracking device on Salim beforehand, so they could still track his (and therefore Stone's) location. Hendricks, angered that Taylor had acted without his permission, punched Taylor in the face and expressed his reservations about the entire mission.
Following the tracker, Hendricks and Taylor were led to the ruined city of Kebechet, where they captured Alice Conrad. They were too late for Salim; Stone and Fierro had executed him and escaped. Taylor took it upon himself to interrogate Conrad, who revealed Stone's whereabouts and motives - he intended to track down and capture Sebastian Krueger, director of the SP/CORVUS project, and hold him publicly accountable for his crimes. After learning this information, Taylor executed Conrad, much to Hendricks' dismay.
Conrad's information led Hendricks and Taylor to the sub-Cairo aquifers, where Stone and Fierro were under the projection of the NRC. With the help of the Egyptian Army, the NRC forces on the aquifers were wiped out and Fierro was trapped. Stone, however, managed to escape. Despite Hendricks' promises of securing Fierro alive, Taylor killed him, triggering another argument between the two. Hendricks accused Taylor of being romantically interested in Kane which was affecting his judgement, and expressed sympathies with Stone. In response, Taylor punched Hendricks, declaring him unfit for the mission. The fight was broken up by the sudden collapse of the aquifer, forcing the two to hastily escape. Afterwards, Hendricks filed a report on Taylor, heavily criticizing his unprofessional relationship with Kane.
The Egyptian Army eventually tracked Stone's location to the Lotus Towers, the NRC's last stronghold in Cairo. With Lt. Khalil's help, Hendricks and Taylor inspired a civilian uprising, which distracted the NRC forces whilst the two chased down Stone to the roof of the towers. Taylor attempted to eliminate Stone, but suffered crippling injuries; Hendricks overcame his ethical issues with the mission to save Taylor's life by shooting Stone dead at the last second.
===Aftermath===
With all of the defectors dead, the leaks were stopped and the secret of SP/CORVUS was secure; without Stone's evidence, the CDP's claims of the CIA's involvement in the Singapore disaster were dismissed as mere propaganda.
The mission left Hendricks and Taylor as the only surviving members of team Phi, which was immediately disbanded. The stress of the mission caused Hendricks to resign from wetworks operations and request a transfer to a lower-risk hostage rescue unit. However Taylor, with the severe injuries he received at Lotus Towers, was accepted into Project Prometheus and received cybernetic augmentations to heal his body. Following recovery, Taylor became the commander of a so-called "Cyber Soldier" unit within the Winslow Accord Black Cyber Ops Division. The two would not see each other again until they collaborated on a hostage rescue mission in 2065.
===Ethiopia===
On October 27, 2065, Hendricks, along with the Player, took part in a joint operation with Taylor's Cyber Ops team to rescue the Egyptian Minister Said from an NRC base in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia. Disguising as air traffic control operators, Hendricks and the Player caused a distraction by shooting down an NRC aircraft with the local D.E.A.D. system. Upon locating the Minister, they rescued him from interrogation, but he insisted that they also extract Lt. Khalil, who had been captured during the civilian uprising at Lotus Towers in 2064. Hendricks reluctantly agreed.
Fighting their way through the NRC forces, Hendricks and the Player rendezvoused with Taylor. Now a Cyber Soldier, Hendricks witnessed Taylor's new capabilities first-hand, but quipped that he had lost his humanity through the augmentations. After their primary extraction plan went awry, Hendricks and the Player moved to secondary extraction to secure Minister Said and Lt. Khalil, whilst Taylor's team rescued the rest of the prisoners on Hendricks' demand.
After holding off masses of NRC forces, a VTOL Drone finally arrived and extracted Hendricks, Said, and Khalil, but unfortunately the Player and the remainder of the WASF team were left behind and torn apart by a GI Unit. Losing both their arms and breaking their legs, the Player was rescued at the last second by Taylor.
===DNI Infection===
Upon rescuing the Player, Taylor recommended them for Project Prometheus and they were taken to a hospital in Zürich to receive the necessary cybernetic augmentations. In a show of solidarity, Hendricks opted to undergo the DNI implantation and cyber soldier augmentation as well, though it is uncertain if he actually did undergo the surgeries. However, records in the Data Vault confirmed that Hendricks had been accepted into Project Prometheus and also listed two patients in post-op recovery who could be the Player and Hendricks following their DNI implantation.On the other hand, the Project Prometheus procedures take 1 month to be completed. And the cutscene showing Hendricks agreeing to the augmentation also shows Kane's bandana left on a nearby counter, casting doubt on its veracity since the bandana could only have come from Taylor's memories and was never seen by The Player. However, it is possible that the DNI infection took weeks to take effect and that 1 month passed between the Player's death on October 29th, 2065 and Hendricks' attack on the Zurich HQ (which is undated). Additionally, Corvus was known to confuse memories and even chronology in subjects (see SP/CORVUS#SP/CORVUS Data Archive 67/935).
The Player was implanted with a DNI, but died prior to the limb replacement procedure due to a life support failure. The agony of their death caused Corvus to be awakened in their DNI. Due to the DNI interface Taylor had made with the Player earlier, Corvus was able to transfer to Taylor's DNI along with the preserved mind of The Player.
Scouring Taylor's mind, Corvus found his memories of the manhunt for Dylan Stone. Wanting to know the details of its origin, Corvus crafted a simulation for the Player from these memories and placed the Player in Taylor's shoes to experience these memories and shed light on how Corvus had been created. As this simulation progressed, Corvus also infected the rest of Taylor's team when they "synced up". It is uncertain whether Hendricks had a DNI implanted and whether he may have interfaced with Taylor or the Player (thus enabling an infection by Corvus).
===Defection===
Hendricks had sympathized with Dylan Stone's beliefs regarding SP/CORVUS and later felt betrayed by the Winslow Accord and the CIA for their roles in the deaths of Stone's team in 2064 and Taylor's brain death/comatose state in 2065. Hendricks may have also been infected by Corvus if he had actually undergone DNI implantation. Hendricks launched a terrorist attack on the Coalescence Corporation headquarters in Zürich, slaughtering Coalescence staff.Another concern which points toward Hendricks having undergone surgery was the severity of Hendricks' attack on Zurich; it is difficult to explain how Hendricks could have so thoroughly subverted Zürich Security Forces' drones if he had not been implanted with a DNI. It would also be difficult to explain the urgency with which Kane sought to stop Hendricks if he had not had a DNI that was corrupted by Corvus and capable of spreading Corvus throughout the rest of the world. If this was not the case, it would have made more sense to wait for reinforcements rather than attempt to take down Hendricks with only an unstable Taylor to help her. He eventually captured Sebastian Krueger and held him at gunpoint. He berated Krueger for continuing the unethical DNI experiments despite their incredibly costly bloody failures, before appearing to question Krueger about the Frozen Forest. While interrogating Krueger, he was interrupted by the Player, now physically controlling Taylor's body. Hendricks appeared to kill Krueger via direct interface which prompted the Player to shoot and kill Hendricks.
===The Frozen Forest===
Following Hendricks' death, Corvus used a simulated Hendricks in an attempt to coerce the Player into staying in the Frozen Forest forever. The Player refused, seeing through Corvus' tricks, and proceeded to destroy the Frozen Forest and wipe Taylor's DNI, thus eradicating any remaining traces of Corvus.
==Personality==
Hendricks was notorious among his colleagues for possessing a fiery temper, which was evident during operations in Tashkent and Helsinki, and especially so during the hunt for Dylan Stone. He is also shown to be more emotional than the Player or Taylor, although Hendricks was formerly dedicated to the Winslow Accord and its allies, he put his comrades above anything else, which proved to be a moral issue for him when he was tasked with hunting them down. Upon the discovery of SP/CORVUS, Hendricks also questioned the ethics of the Winslow Accord's operations, something that Taylor seemed reluctant to consider.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
Hendricks Ember trailer reveal BO3.png|Hendricks as seen in the "Ember" reveal trailer.
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Jacob_Hendricks_bio_1_Black_Ops_III.png|Data Vault entry on Jacob Hendricks
Jacob_Hendricks_bio_2_Black_Ops_III.png|Apparent confirmation that Hendricks accepted to voluntarily undergo augmentation
Prometheus_recovering_pts_Black_Ops_III.png|Data Vault entry on Project Prometheus listing two patients in post-op recovery
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Female Player Hypocenter BO3.png|Hendricks with The Player.
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Hendricks Cover BO3.png|Hendricks taking cover during Black Ops.
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Soldier with KN-44 BO3.png|Hendricks in "Hypocenter", wielding an KN-44.
Hendricks holds hostage BO3.png|Hendricks holds Sebastian Krueger hostage
Hendricks in the frozen forest BO3.png|Hendricks in the Frozen Forest created by Corvus
Hendricks with Corvus BO3.png|"Hendricks" attempts to explain the Frozen Forest to the Player with Corvus at his side
I cant do this anymore BO3.png|"Hendricks" tells the Player he can no longer support him
==References==
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops III Winslow Accord Characters
Category:Antagonists