Joshua Hallal

### Occupations:

Student Spy-In-Training (formerly)Agent for SPYDER (formerly)Leader of Splinter Cell

### Aliases:

Josh (by Erica HaleCaptain Hook (by Orion)

Cyclops (by Hotel Staff)

### Enemies:

CIA
Erica Hale
Benjamin Ripley
Cyrus Hale
Alexander Hale Murray Hill

### Education:

CIA Academy of Espionage (sixth year formerly)

### Strengths:

Shooting
 Combat
Surveillance
Martial Arts
Espionage
Almost everything else

### Last episode:

SSPX

**Joshua Hallal** is an extremely talented spy who was turned by SPYDER. He has tried to cause mayhem and make money through many evil schemes, which have all been foiled by Ben Ripley. After SPYDER's defeat in *Spy School British Invasion*, Joshua's whereabouts are unknown.

### **Biography**

Joshua used to be referred to the "cream of the crop" during his time at the CIA Academy, meaning that he was extremely talented and was much better a spy than everyone else. Not only was he more skilled than Erica, but she also used to trust and perhaps have a crush on him. Joshua turned to the dark side, faking his death with a bomb explosion (failed science experiment) in his dorm room, and began working for SPYDER. Up until *Spy Camp*, everyone truly thought he was dead.

## Appearance & Personality

Joshua has piercing green eyes and a mane of dark brown hair. Due to plummeting to near death in *Spy Camp*, he acquired an eyepatch, a hook for a hand, and a mechanical leg. Ben describes him in *Evil Spy School* as "an extremely well dressed evil pirate." He has also broken two other appendages after falling in a cenote and off the Eiffel Tower. Before Spy School Goes South, he had replaced his hook with a metallic hand, and later on breaks his other arm and other leg. In Spy School British Invasion, he disappears.

Joshua is very cunning and deceitful, having been one of the top Academy students. He managed to climb the ranks of SPYDER despite his young age, and was one of the orchestrators of their complex schemes. Since turning evil he has also become cold and almost psychopathy.

## Skills & Abilities

Joshua knows karate, judo, Brazilian jujitsu, and Lithuanian knife fighting. Even with a missing hand, he still has good accuracy with a gun. He now has a robotic leg and a bionic hand that can shoot explosives. Joshua is an extremely good fighter, as he was able to knock out Erica.

## Series History

### **Spy Camp**

Joshua first appears in *Spy Camp* when he kidnaps Erica and Cyrus Hale. Erica, thinking that he was dead, was very surprised by this, so surprised she dropped her guard and got captured. Ben Ripley even says that this is the most surprised he's ever seen her. Later in the book we see Joshua for the first time, when his evil scheme of killing many major government officials with a missle is about to play out. The last time we see Joshua in this book is when he is running away from Ben and Erica. When doing this he falls to what Ben thinks is his death, but turns out he landed in a marsh that cushioned his fall and only lost an arm and a leg.
### **Evil Spy School**

In *Evil Spy School*, Joshua is overseeing SPYDER's headquarters in New Jersey, where there was also evil spy school. He coaches and instructs young SPYDER agents, Ashley, Nefarious, Ben, and Murray, but he is also there to help SPYDER's plan of blowing up 10 major bridges in New York succeed. We find out that he is communicating with who turns out to be SPYDER's leader, Mr. E, in a secret underground lair accessible through a rock wall in the rec room. Here we see him going through documents, in different languages, about SPYDER's upcoming plan. He is also eating frozen yogurt from the frozen yogurt bar in the lair. The last thing he does in this book is plant a note to Ben in a safe. It says: "Ben, looks like we can't trust you after all." This note leads us to find out that Joshua has escaped, and is somewhere with the rest of the higher ups in SPYDER.
### **Spy School Goes South**

In *Spy School Goes South* Joshua first appears meeting with Paul Lee. They discuss plans for weapon moving but Joshua reveals his true nature and Dane and him are going to kill Lee. Ben swings down from the grating saving Paul Lee and shocking Joshua. They fight for a bit and Joshua is out of action for a bit. He appears with Ashley Sparks and BASE jumps of the building in pursuit of Ben and Erica. Ben launches a oxygen tank at him blasting him into a pool. At the end he falls into a cenote and breaks his other leg and arm.

## Relationships

### **Erica Hale**

It is pretty clear that Joshua cared for Erica when he was still working for the CIA, and the feeling may have even been mutual and genuine. He expressed emotion upon seeing Erica in *Spy Camp*, and she was also visibly very shocked. But his betrayal has turned both of them cold, and after continuous clashes throughout the series, whatever used to be between them vanished.

## Trivia

* He got his eyepatch not from a fall, but because a bug flew into his eye during his first day with the hook, and accidentally impaled his eye while trying to get the bug.
* He likes his towels fluffed when they are new.