Jay Roberts (Raider: Last Blood)

John Brewer (fake alias)

Keith Patel (fake alias)

The Black Grim Reaper (by Duke)

Marcus Dalton (fake alias #2)

Devon Chester (fake alias #3)

The Ghost (notably known)

Operative of the 5th Special Forces Group

Operative of Delta Force (all discharged)

Freelance Mercenary (ongoing, retired)

Nomadic Freelancer (formerly)

Lieutenant of the Ghosts (formerly)

Vigilante (currently)

Brother Matthew's Wayward Home for Gifted Children (formerly)

The Underworld (formerly)

The Ghosts (formerly)

Redwood Security Consulting (formerly)

The Green Hive (formerly)

Indomitable willpower

Intimidation

Peak physical attributes

Advanced Military training

Master piloting/driving skills

Expert gunmanship

Expert marksmanship

Knife mastery

Master archery

Weapons expertise

Masterful adaptive and survival skills

Mastery in guerrilla warfare

Mastery in stealth

Expert hand-to-hand combatant

Trap mastery

Psychological tactics

Tormenting and killing people

### Goals

To get rid of the Underworld in retaliation for the death of his son and bringing him into action (succeeded)
To kill or arrest any loose end in his path (succeeded)

To arrest or kill Duke Bennett and his allies (succeeded)

To leave the mercenary life and became a food vendor (succeeded, formerly)

To become a vigilante and to wipe out the Underworld (ongoing)

### Family

Lilly Gabriela Clarke - Wife (deceased)
Daryl Clarke Roberts - Son (deceased)

### Friends/Allies

Willard ("Hammer") - Bartender/Ally
Mordecai Winchester Senior - Commanding Officer (deceased)

Mordecai Winchester Junior - Best Friend (deceased)

Lara Winters - Lover (formerly)

Charlotte Lille - Lover/Hacker (formerly/deceased)

Mila de Leon - Lover (formerly)

Ned - Ally (deceased)

Beaver - Gun Dealer (deceased)

Damien Barrett - Partner (formerly/deceased)

Elena Dixon - Lover/Ally (deceased)

### Enemies

Trevor Bachelor - Commanding Officer (deceased)
Damien Barrett - Partner (deceased)

Duke Bennett - Archenemy (imprisoned)

Ned - Enemy (deceased)

Lucas Wolf - Enemy (imprisoned)

### Type of Hero

Cold and Charismatic Ex-Soldier

**Jay Trevor Roberts** (known as **Jay Roberts** or **Spiritus Sanctus** (**The Ghost** in Latin)) is a main character and the main protagonist in the Raider: Last Blood series.

Jay is a former Delta operator and freelance mercenary that sought vengeance against the Underworld for killing his son in a botched robbery/assassination attempt. Angered by this, Jay managed to single-handedly take down their operations and other figures connected to them to accomplish his mission of vengeance.

## Background

Born on November 4, 2003, Jay grew up in Columbus, Georgia. While nothing is known about his personal life or his childhood, it's heavily rumored that Jay graduated most of his educational process (from preschool to high school) with a high GPA and decent grades. It's also known that Jay had a good reputation due to his willingness to complete a task and his integrity.

As a young adult, Jay joined the United States Army and joined Infantry for a while. While serving for the 41st Infantry Battalion and having fought in the Russo-Ukrainian War (which devolved into WW3 due to whatever side started the war), Jay volunteered for the Army Rangers and joined the 75th Ranger Regiment, effectively becoming Master Sergeant.

Due to his physicality and strong combat proficiency, Jay was personally selected by the late General Winchester to become an operator for Delta Force after he reluctantly joined the US Special Forces for more preparation, eventually joining the 5th Special Forces group, according to Bachelor. His time in Delta has molded him into a highly effective soldier in terms of unconventional warfare, marksmanship, and CQC.

His time in Afghanistan (having assassinated many Taliban leaders) and Syria (having captured a few unnamed enemy leaders) have proven his combat skills and he became the top man for secretive and highly dangerous missions for the CIA SAD (special activities division) under the direct orders of Secretary of Defense Trevor Bachelor after he surrendered his rank for extra part-time work while still in Delta. According to Jay himself, he did 2 tours in Russia, Afghanistan, and Syria while doing special forces training.

His time in the Army changed when he and 6 Delta operators were sent in to take out an Iranian general (General Ahadi) making illegal arms deals with Russian paramilitaries but found out that Iran and Russia had a plan to use American-made Tomahawk cruise missiles against the United States and under the direct orders of Secretary of Defense Bachelor, Jay, several members of Task Force: REAPER (including his future allies Ned Philips and Damien Barrett), and the Green Hive PMC led by CEO Nathan Caldwell, managed to destroy the missiles and killed Colonel Arman Hakimi of the Iranian Quds Force, even after finding out that Trevor and Nathan tried to cover up an illegal arms deal to give the missiles to a Ukrainian paramilitary group to fight against Russia and was forced to fight back against the Green Hive, causing Trevor to go off the grid.

However, his last tour in Russia went wrong when his unit was sent in to destroy an arms depot, and lost half of his unit in an ambush, which resulted in Barrett saving his life. After Barrett and Philips left the service, Jay led a unit back to base but was the sole survivor of the unit as a Taliban platoon ambushed the group on the trail.

After being honorably discharged from the Army for 8 years due to his injury, Jay began to work in various jobs but quit every one after struggling with trauma, so he decided to become a mercenary and worked for various groups and even joined Brother Matthew's Wayward Home to make money to pay his medical bills. While in Texas in 2031, Jay met Lilly Clarke and after 6 months in the relationship, the pair married and though Lilly is against his mercenary life, she still stayed by his side and Jay paid for her college loans.

After 3 years of marriage, Jay and Lilly started to have a child and although she gave birth to his baby son (Daryl), Lilly died from eclampsia during childbirth, deeply hurting Jay to an extent. Despite the pain, Jay still raised Daryl to the best of his abilities and whenever he was working, he gave Daryl to Lara Winters, his former lover, to take care of him.

Jay was hired to rob an armored truck in one of his contracts (which was called the Bailey Heist) and stole $25 million with Charles Lane (a skilled hacker and mentor figure to Jay). However, Jay betrayed his employers and took the money upon realizing that he stole from the Underworld and would be killed after robbing the truck. This act resulted in the Underworld sending a few skilled hitmen to kill Jay and burn down his home, but they ended up killing a 5-year-old Daryl in the attack and seemingly killing Jay in the fire.

However, Jay survived the fire and went off-grid for 5 years, continuing his work as a mercenary. While working, he joined up with the Ghosts and did a few jobs with them. He soon falls in love with Elena Dixon, his handler, after working together for 3 months and not wanting to lose her, he reluctantly breaks up with Elena and leaves the Ghosts. He ultimately chose to leave the mercenary life after Elena seemingly died in Colombia from a house explosion and stayed off the grid in Alabama, living in a home for 9 months.

## Biography

Jay is first seen, walking down and buying coffee and newspapers in Mountain Brook, Alabama. He drove back to his home and as he was watching TV, he was attacked by 6 men (revealed to be elite mercenaries hired by the Underworld), killed them, and took their employer's card. Despite not wanting to go back, Jay reluctantly goes back to Atlanta, Georgia, and meets some of his old contacts (Brother Matthew's Wayward Home founder/bartender Willard, arms dealer Beaver, and hacker Charlotte Russo) to aid him in his search for the men responsible for his attack. After learning from Beaver that Maurice Martinez, a former hitman hired by the Underworld, bought a gun and used it in the attack, Jay sets off on his quest to find the men responsible for his son's death.

Two months later, Jay had tracked down Martinez and interrogated him for the name of his employer. Martinez claimed he didn't know their name and stated that Jay was walking into something he couldn't handle. Jay then raised his gun to shoot him, but the magazine was empty. Martinez then attempted to attack Jay, who subdued him with his baton. He then meets with his associate, Damien Barrett, who confesses that he purposely emptied Jay's magazine and had called the police to cover up the deaths of several Cartel thugs. Jay then leaves Damien to take Martinez to a secure location while he escapes the stadium.

After resting at his motel hideout, Jay went over to Mila's house for Rod's birthday. The exchange was relatively amicable, but then Jay noticed Mila acting distressed on her phone and hacked it, overhearing someone threatening to break into her house. After the call ended, Mila hastily fastened the locks. Concerned, Jay hastily leaves and then traces the number of the prank caller and pursues him. Eventually, he catches his target and hacks his phone, learning that someone put him up to this. He gives the information to Charlotte in hopes of figuring it out. Meanwhile, as Charlotte is tracking the source of the call, Jay has his first face-to-face encounter with Declan Barrington while carrying out a contract for Damien.

After the contract, Charlotte pinpoints the source of the call to an apartment complex. Jay follows the lead and discovers that his former partner Charles is the one who ordered the harassment of Mila. Charles tells Jay to meet him. Jay meets Charles, who is heavily intoxicated, and Charles reveals that there was a third hacker at the Bailey job, other than Jay and himself. As he was crippled in the aftermath of the Bailey job, Charles proposes to Jay that they become partners again. Jay, however, rejects him, since he blames Charles' "going too far" for Daryl's death, despite Charles pointing out that Jay's investigation had "hit a brick wall". Troubled after his encounter with Charles, as well as the realization that he needs Charles' information, Jay visits Daryl's grave and reminisces about a previous visit with Mila.

After leaving the cemetery, Jay is again contacted by Charles. Needing Charles' information, Jay reluctantly goes to a meeting place and waits for Charles. Instead, Charles calls Jay and sends him a text that shows himself in Mila's kitchen. Enraged, Jay arrives at Mila's house and, after physically assaulting Charles, discovers that Charles has kidnapped Mila, although Rod got away, and threatens to kill her to blackmail Jay into retrieving a hard drive which will lead them to the third hacker. Charles then gives Jay a hard drive full of data from his investigation and leaves. Worried about Rod, Jay locates him by tracking his tablet's signal. Even though he managed to neutralize the fixers, Rod is killed during the rescue attempt, breaking Jay down. Jay gets on the train and arranges for weaponry to his arms dealer, Beaver until he gets Mila back.

Upon returning to his motel room, Jay finds a video in the flash drive Charles gave him; however, the file is corrupted. Already frustrated, he pulls a gun on Charlotte when she suddenly enters his room. Pulling it together, Jay asks for her input on the video. Checking the file, Charlotte tells Jay that the file is permanently corrupted and that he needs the original to view it. After showing Charlotte the IP address Charles gave him as well as explaining his current situation, Jay prevents Charlotte from leaving the room because he hears car screeches. Both take cover and Jay detonates explosives in his room as armed men shoot at them through the window. Charlotte escapes through the back door as Jay returns fire and detonates more explosives to remove all evidence of his investigation. After killing an attacker holding Charlotte hostage, Jay defends her as she makes her way to her car, killing all of the attackers before reinforcements show up. Once out of danger, Charlotte calls Jay and arranges to meet him at a dock. Jay also receives a mocking call from Charles who is indifferent to Jay losing his entire network and simply tells him to solve his problem. Charles then allows Jay to speak to Mila. After telling her that Rod is dead and trying to calm her, Jay is cut off by Charles, who refuses to let them speak again until he gets the results.

Having lost his base and all of his equipment, Jay is informed by Charlotte of the Roach, the first VXOS testing site which is a blind spot in the system through which none of Jay's activities could be detected. Using a nearby surveillance camera's footage, Jay discovers that a man buried a key, in which he finds it. After hearing that Martinez gave up some information to Damien, Jay activates the bridge to the Roach and restores power to the island by activating the three generators scattered around it. Jay then takes the elevator, disguised as a shipping container, to the Roach. Charlotte soon joins him and the two agree to not divulge the Roach's existence to anyone until Jay completes his investigation. Together the two restore power to the Roach and enable it to get back online. After tracking the IP address, Charlotte discovers that the address originated in Russo-Green, the district where the White Viceroys hold power.

After hacking the local VKOS center, Jay ventures into the White Viceroys' compound and shuts down all three security terminals to make infiltration easier. He also discovers that the Viceroys had rerouted all of the VXOS activity in the area, something made more suspicious by the government's lack of action in repairing the damage. Jay also concludes that Atlanta was drastically underestimating the Viceroys as a simple street gang when in reality they were smart and organized (a charade unbeknownst to Jay was intentional). After hacking the VXOS tower in the Viceroy compound, Jay leaves the district.

Upon his return to the Roach, and after a brief discussion about teamwork with Charlotte, Jay uses his VXOS access to look inside Russo-Green's cameras to gain a deeper insight into their operations. He discovers that they utilize cross-wiring and are heavily armed, confirming Jay's earlier suspicion that the Viceroys are not a typical street gang. Eventually, Jay observes Evan "Patriot" Rogers emerge from a server room that requires a security card to enter, which is hidden in his dog tags. Jay and Charlotte watch as Patriot meets with both his brother, Wade "Big Wad" McGowan, whom he briefly threatens, and an Atlanta North Club member. The Club member puts Declan Barrington on speaker. Barrington angrily questions Patriot over his stealing of Barrington's guest list, although Patriot dismisses it as a business collaboration. Once the call ends, a Viceroy explains to Patriot the meaning behind one of Barrington's phrases. Patriot begins to laugh, and as the Viceroy slowly joins in, Patriot proceeds to bash the Viceroy's skull in with the briefcase containing the guest list. Patriot then dismisses the henchmen and returns to his locked server room. After witnessing these events, Jay forms a plan to get inside the locked room. Theorizing that Wade is close to being eliminated due to incompetence, Jay plans to blackmail Wade into sneaking into the locked room by getting evidence of him making his next mistake. Jay also receives another call from Charles who allows him to speak to a significantly more calm Mila after mocking him over his recent car chase, referencing his battle with the Fixers hunting Rod.

Jay arrives in Wade's neighborhood and begins to follow him as he makes contact with numerous associates. Slowly, Jay begins to build up a cache of audio logs and videos proving that Wade is disloyal to Patriot. Eventually, Wade gets a call from his informant, Elias "Gator" Jones. Jay hacks a nearby surveillance camera and overhears the conversation between the two. Despite Gator trying to negotiate, telling Wade that Patriot intends to kill him, Wade turns violent and pulls a gun on Gator. Jay intervenes by causing a pipe to burst, interrupting the execution and giving Gator time to hide. Wade, suddenly enraged, orders the Viceroys in the vicinity to kill Gator on sight. Jay, wanting to hear about the assassination plan, makes contact with Gator and offers to guide him to safety in return for information. Gator agrees and escapes, giving Jay information in the process. Jay learns that an ambush has been set for Wade in the closed-down Atlanta Brick Factory, better known as "The Bricks". Jay, seeing an opportunity, goes about setting up a trap for the hitmen so that it looks like Wade has murdered some of his best fierce soldiers, which would lead to Patriot trusting him and gaining prestige in the White Viceroys.

Jay calls Damien to procure some explosive IEDs and arranges to meet him along with "his boys". Jay then meets Damien and "his boys", in reality, two corpses Damien wishes to dispose of, and, after testing the explosives, "the girls", on Damien's truck, place several explosives around the site of the ambush. Using both the explosives and his equipment, Jay proceeds to kill all of the hitmen as well as their reinforcements. He then joins Wade's position, where he exposes to him all the blackmail he collected on his phone. Jay then informs Wade by phone that he is "gonna be [Jay's] eyes and ears inside Russo-Green". Wade tells him that the only way to approach Patriot is at an auction, where Patriot and Barrington will both be. Charlotte then tells Jay that she can copy Patriot's key if he gets close enough.

Charlotte then localized the briefcase containing the guest list, which was spotted in Patriot's hands in Russo-Green. Jay tails the owner, finds it in an old Club-owned marina, and takes pictures of the list. He decides to assume the identity of Jack Crispin, an American friend of Barrington who moved to Europe 12 years prior, to safely approach Barrington. In order not to blow his cover, Jay finds Crispin, who came to the marina for a meeting, hacks his cell phone, and kills him. Jay had Charlotte call the club, claiming to be his assistant requesting that he needs a VIP pass to be sent to the auction at the docks. Jay then attended the auction. Using Crispin's ticket, Jay enters the auction, where he briefly meets Patriot. Jay hacks Patriot's dog tags and sends the key to Charlotte. Declan Barrington, however, was aware of Crispin's death and ordered his men to go after and kill Jay on sight. Jay, however, manages to escape the Viceroys' security guards and escape. On his way out, he calls the police and informs them about a shootout in Verlaine Docks, at the auction, which would allow the police to raid the auction and rescue all of the women.

Jay then continues his job at Russo-Green. He leaves a wire in a bin at a bar not far from the compound and calls Wade to tell him to pick it up. Sneaking into the building, Jay enters a small room and then hacks into the cameras to find Wade. Jay guides Wade through the local security to the server room, which he opens using the key he hacked from Patriot at the auction. Wade starts downloading the data but starts panicking after hearing someone approaching, while he has only downloaded 25% of the data. Patriot and his bodyguard then enter the room and find Wade inside. Patriot threatens to throw Wade by the window, asking him why was he in the restricted part of the building. He, however, notices the bug from Jay and orders his men to find Jay. After Jay evades the Viceroys, Wade calls him to tell him he is still alive and that Patriot mentioned Juliette Ehrmantraut in the video. Convinced that Wade knew nothing, Patriot spared him. Jay then agrees to cut him loose. He then calls Charlotte, who was looking at the partial download, and discovers that Patriot has a lot of blackmail on the police and politicians, hence why no one has moved on Russo-Green.

Upon his return to the Roach, Charlotte tells Jay that she is not able to decrypt Patriot's data. She then tells Jay about Victor Kenney, a former VXOS pioneer and Underworld hacker, who went missing after finding out about his company's corruption. She thinks that only he can decrypt the data. Jay then called Charles to update him on his plans. However, Charles was against recruiting Kenney, knowing his reputation as a whistleblower, who would most likely release the blackmail to the public. Jay noted that Charles sounded worried, and deduced that he wanted the blackmail. Jay went to an abandoned warehouse, where Kenney's last signal came from. However, it turns out Underworld hitmen were looking for Kenney as well. Jay eliminates the mercenaries in the area before using a computer, allowing Charlotte to trace Kenney to Johnstontown, and wipes the hard drive. After intimidating and torturing two mercenaries, who were aware of Kenney's whereabouts, Jay kills them, before heading to Johnstontown to find Kenney.

As Jay arrives at Johnstontown, he goes to a bar and finds a man who goes by the name of "Bryan Brady". When Jay asks Bryan if he knows Kenney, he challenges him to a drinking game. As Jay succeeds, Bryan punches him out of the bar. Jay briefly handles him with his baton, but Bryan, who turns out to be Victor Kenney, paralyzes Jay using his Taser. Later, Jay wakes up in Victor's safe house. Victor warns Jay that he is not able to help Jay in Atlanta as the government programmed the VXOS to identify him. Victor agrees to help Jay if he sneaks into the VXOS headquarters and wipes out all data about Kenney from their servers, using a virus Victor programmed. Victor then shows Jay his safe house, with armed robots that he crafted in case he was ever attacked. Victor offers Jay a deal: if Jay gives him some favors, Victor will help him. Jay must first steal a truck containing hardware, that was taken from him by the local Johnstontown Militia.

Victor then asks Jay to tail a VXOS helicopter that is heading towards a VXOS compound, as Jay needs the ID of a VXOS security chief to break inside their headquarters. Jay finds the chief in a camping lot and copies their ID. Victor then tells him that he has created a virus that should wipe any file about Kenney on the database. Jay then heads into the VXOS HQ. He sneaks inside the area and uploads Victor's virus into the database. However, as he hacks into the database, he finds out that VXOS's public relations VP Hannah Stoltz has a scheduled meeting with Charles Lane. By hacking through cameras, Jay manages to reach the room, where he witnesses Charles offering to exchange Kenney's whereabouts for total access to the VXOS. Feeling that Kenney is uncovered, Jay escapes the compound and races to Victor's hideout, being assaulted by the Militia men. Victor has no other choice but to blow up his hideout while being covered by Jay. While protected by Jay, Victor arms the explosives and escapes the graveyard which is destroyed by the bombs (with Victor recording "for [his] portfolio") before escaping towards the Roach by boat.

Victor is at first skeptical because of Charles' deal but finally agrees to help Jay, after being convinced by Charlotte for good. Jay then heads for his next stop, Russo-Green, after requesting sniper support from Damien. Jay enters the building with Kenney's help to open the main door, wipes out any resistance, and hacks into Patriot's server. On his way out, he encounters Patriot in person. After a brief standoff, Patriot escapes on the rooftop, followed by Jay. He ultimately kills him after killing his remaining security. Jay escapes the compound and then heads back to the Roach, to see what he managed to obtain from Patriot, after getting yet another call from Charles, to confirm he got the data. Jay is then forced to turn up at Charles' meeting without data. Jay tries backing Charles into a corner, pointing out that without the blackmail, the Underworld would most likely send mercenaries after him. Charles then allows another phone call with Jay. However, believing he was not taking him seriously, Charles has a mercenary waiting in a GPB truck broadcasting images of Jay's vigilantism on all the large TV screens, effectively blowing his cover.

Escaping the police, Jay sends Victor a piece of audio from the call with Mila, that might give away her position. Victor then informs Jay that he worked on the audio piece to find a name: Smith. Jay goes to his place of work, a wastewater treatment plant in Verlaine Docks. He guides Mila out of the Merc-controlled plant, but as soon as she sees Jay, Charles suddenly kills her and escapes with his remaining mercenaries, forcing Jay to retreat since he is outnumbered and outgunned.

Victor then sends an audio piece revealing that the one who ordered the hit was Declan Barrington, leader of the Atlanta North Club. Jay goes to Barrington's hotel, the Shamrock, "where he fucked up his life", and where Barrington organized a benefit. Jay sneaks by the security, kills the Club hitmen, and reaches Barrington's offices. As Jay makes his way to Barrington's floor, he is caught by two guards as he steps out of the elevator. Jay reveals that he was seeking justice for his son Daryl, who was killed because of Barrington. Barrington scoffs at this, wondering why there was so much fuss over such a "little problem", then leaves his men to finish off Jay, who overpowers them and fights through Barrington's mercenaries to reach him. During this time, Barrington had sequestered himself in an impenetrable panic room in his office.

When Jay discovers the panic room and confronts Barrington, he taunts Jay from behind a pane of bulletproof glass, telling Jay to give up and live his life. However, the glass could not protect him from Jay, who induced a heart attack in Barrington by hacking his pacemaker. Reeling down in pain, Barrington realized that Jay didn't know the reason he was targeted. Admitting it was a mistake, he then showed Jay footage of Mayor Ronald Donovan murdering Juliette Ehrmantraut and revealed that the reason he ordered the hit was because he assumed that Jay was looking for it (it's later revealed Ehrmantraut was a district court judge and that she and 16 witnesses (8 of them were formerly associates of Barrington) were on a criminal case and had incriminating evidence against Barrington and Donovan), while Jay and Charles were only there for the money, whereas it was actually Patriot who attempted to get the video. Falling to his knees, Barrington promises that even if he dies, the people will erect a statue in his honor while Jay will fall into obscurity.

However, Jay reminds him that he's the Ghost, the man who reaps the souls of "scum" like Barrington upon being seen. Jay then uses one last hack, shutting off the pacemaker and killing Barrington, while Barrington offers to "make any deal [he] want[s]." Jay escapes the Club after leaving the hotel. On his way out, Charles calls Jay and is informed that Charlotte has tried to trade herself in for Mila, unaware that she is dead. Jay realizes that Barrington intends to have her eliminated (it is heavily implied that Charles denounced Charlotte to the Club), and heads to the cemetery, where Charlotte is visiting Daryl's grave to place flowers there. Just then, hitmen from the Atlanta North Club locate her at the graveyard. Alerted by Victor, Jay races to her but is too late since she is killed quickly. After disposing of the hitmen, Jay gives Charlotte a moment of silence and takes her flowers to put them on Daryl's grave before walking away.

As Jay enters the Roach, he encounters Victor, who is in the midst of packing up, as mercenaries are going to come for him. He then stated that he was unaware of Juliette's death. Guessing that Jay intends to distribute all of Patriot's blackmail publicly, Victor decides to leave Atlanta to escape the fallout. Jay leaves the Roach after uploading the blackmail to the public, much to Charles' anger. Charles then reveals that he has gained control of VXOS and the trust of the Underworld, believing that he should suffer as he has, but he shows mercy and gives him his location, a lighthouse east of the city, to convince him that they can control the city together.

Jay goes to the lighthouse, where Charles uses a megaphone to taunt Jay. He then joins Charles at the top of the lighthouse and confronts him. After a brief standoff, Damien arrives and informs Jay that he has a new contract (later revealed from the Underworld) before asking him to drop his gun. After doing so, Jay tries to use the phone but is shot by Damien, who then shoots Charles in the head when he tries to reach for Jay's gun.

As the city tries to recover from the violence, a seemingly dead Jay reflects on the past events. He started out trying to fix his son's death, only to end up weeding out criminals and corruption and it has changed him as well. Remarking that everything's connected, Jay then embraces his role as the Ghost, vowing to protect, and if necessary, to punish or kill. Credits then roll out, with various GPB TV broadcasts, informing that Donovan was found dead (revealing that he was executed following the release of the video from the Shamrock) leading to someone else becoming temporary mayor; Seamus DeMarco, Declan Barrington's top associate, being arrested (after surviving Jay's assassination attempt during the trafficking investigation) and convicted for human trafficking; and that a journalist was writing a book on the Ghost.

After a year, Damien suddenly goes into hiding and wakes up Jay (who faked his death by having Damien shoot him with a low-velocity round and having worn a bulletproof vest) and after having a change of heart, Jay suddenly spares Maurice and lets him go before Damien tells him about Duke Bennett (a crime boss and leader of the Red Order Syndicate) is moving up onto Barrington's lost rackets and placed a bounty on Jay. However, Damien knocks Jay out upon realizing that Duke is doing the illegal organ trade and that serves as two benefits (Jay can find out who ordered the Bailey Job and Damien leaves town after getting the bounty).

Six weeks later, Jay wakes up in a makeshift hospital and sees doctors treating him while Jimmy Pagani (Duke's associate) watches. He wakes up later and escapes, noticing he came close to being cut open. By interrogating a thug, he learns the location of Pagani: the Olympus Strip Club.

At the club, Jay tries to find Pagani but a group of Mexican gangsters, led by Rafe, show up looking for Jay. After a gunfight, he learns that a mobster named "El Gato Blanco" ("The White Cat") wants to kill him, but he doesn't find out why.

After leaving the club, Joseph Von Raines (Duke's lieutenant and a crime boss that Jay helped a while back) picks Jay up in a limo. He informs Jay that Barrington was a prominent leader in the Underworld, who had a conflict with Duke Bennett due to the two's differing viewpoints and feeling scorned, Duke managed to create a heist to rob Barrington of his blackmail and his money (the $25 million) and chose Jay and Lane to do the job since they're skilled criminals and they had no association. Jay kills Von Raines and his henchmen upon learning that Von Raines wishes to return him to Duke for a reward. Meanwhile, Rafe is forced to give himself another chance to hunt down by mutilating himself for his failure to capture Jay.

While avoiding any patrols, Jay saw Pagani on the street outside and a shootout ensues before Jay subdues Pagani. Jay also learns that Duke has already been in Atlanta and has sent elite mercenaries to find him. Pagani is shot and killed by Rafe as Jay questions him, and Jay is knocked unconscious. Meanwhile, Duke tells Talbot that Jay has been captured and orders him and a few elite mercenaries to bring him.

Jay is taken to Catalina Island where El Gato Blanco awaits and after an intense torture session, he is brought out to El Gato Blanco. It is revealed that El Gato Blanco is Leonel Chavez, the brother of Gustavo and Eduardo Chavez, one of whom Roberts locked up. Leonel also reveals that he only went after the bounty to torture and kill Jay. Talbot suddenly arrives with backup, and a shootout ensues, killing most of Leonel's men and Leonel is beaten to death by Talbot. Jay tries to escape but is knocked unconscious by an elite mercenary.

After heading to the villa, Jay is brought to Duke, who greets him like a friend. As Jay questions Duke about his involvement in the Bailey job, Duke reveals that Barrington has been collecting blackmail on everyone to stay on top, and Duke wanted power and respect, so he and Talbot planned out the Bailey Job and specifically chose Jay and Lane for their skillset and after Patriot hacked into the truck and scared the two away, Duke reveals that they did their part and chose to sell them out to Declan, who then had sent hitmen to kill the pair, which resulted in Daryl's death, Lane's attack and descent to darkness, and Jay's broken mindset and Jay finally saw that everything that happened to him was because of Duke's greed.

Duke has his men send Jay into a cell where they will torture and then kill him. Two months later, a few men prepare to kill Jay, but Jay manages to break out and escape, killing a large number of Duke's men in the attack. Talbot and a few elite mercenaries sent Duke into his office and they tried to kill Jay, but they were all killed and Talbot was killed during a short, brutal fight. As Jay goes into the office, Duke fights back and after a short fight, Duke tries to bargain for his life by saying that he will pay 300 million dollars if he can walk, but Jay refuses and kills Duke, destroying the Red Order for good.

5 months after the dismantlement of the Red Order, Jay is still grieving the death of his family and a few days later, a group of Irish gangsters, led by Rory Barrington, accost Jay at a gas station and try, and fail, to intimidate him into selling them his 2006 Dodge Charger SRT8. That night, they break into Jay's home, assault him, and steal the car. Rory takes the Charger to a chop shop to remove its identifying details, but the shop owner, Mateo, recognizes it and refuses service. Mateo informs Jay that Rory is the son of Nolan Barrington, the new boss of the Atlanta North Club, and the brother of Declan.

Upon learning of his son's actions, Nolan berates Rory for incurring Jay's wrath. He reveals Jay was once a hitman in the Underworld's employ, and was renowned and feared in the criminal underworld as the Ghost, a ruthless, relentless "man of focus, commitment, and sheer determination". After Jay murdered his brother, half of their organization, the Red Order, and Patriot's army, Nolan gave his men a task to avoid Jay at all costs.

Jay recovers a concealed stash from his former career that includes weapons and silver coins. He refuses Nolan's attempt to make amends for his son's actions and kills the 8-man hit squad subsequently sent to his home. Nolan puts a $4 million bounty on Jay and enlists his former friend and Delta operator, Stanley Fitzpatrick, to kill him. Jay visits Brother Matthew's Hotel, a luxurious hotel that serves as a hub spot for mercenaries in the Underworld and where conducting criminal business is forbidden. Aiden, the hotel's owner, and Jay's old friend, informs him that Rory is at a nightclub called Green Circle and gives him a card with Rory's name. Jay infiltrates Green Circle and confronts Rory, but he is attacked by Nolan's top henchman Archer, and forced to retreat to his home for medical attention.

As Jay rests, a hitwoman, Ms. Lawson, sneaks into his room. Stanley sees Lawson from an adjacent building and fires a warning shot to alert Jay, who wakes up and subdues her. Lawson reveals Nolan has doubled the bounty for her to kill Jay in the hotel and has concealed a high-value stash in a church. Jay knocks her out and runs away.

At the church, Jay destroys Nolan's cache of cash and extensive blackmail material. When Nolan arrives to assess the damage, Jay assaults him and his men but is hit by Archer's car and captured. Jay tells Nolan he will not stop until Rory is dead because Daryl gave him hope and a chance to not be alone in his grief for Lilly and the theft reminded me of what Declan did to him. Stanley again intervenes to save Jay, who kills Archer and threatens Nolan into revealing Rory's location in a safe house. Jay assaults the safehouse and kills Rory. Stanley encourages Jay to leave the city for good. Lawson witnesses this and reveals Stanley's duplicity to Nolan, who has him tortured and killed. Nolan calls Jay to taunt him with the details, drawing him back to the city.

Having second thoughts about Nolan's increasing aggression and fear for her life, Lawson informs Jay that Nolan is preparing to leave the city by helicopter. Jay races to Atlanta Harbor, where he kills the last of Nolan's men and kills Nolan, who accepts his defeat and taunts him into killing him. Jay walks away and leaves Atlanta for good.

2 years later, Jay is in Mississippi, drinking in a random bar with Hans (his pet German Shepherd), and after 3 guys try to rob him on the way home, Jay brutally takes them out in a short, brutal fight. Jay takes the last survivor to his home, where he interrogates him, and the guy is revealed to be a mercenary for Redwood Security Consulting and their leader is planning to destroy the government, so Jay kills him and goes to their last location, an abandoned outpost. As the mercenaries are torturing two soldiers, Jay fights his way onto the outpost, killing a good number of them and the tortured soldier reveals to Jay that he shouldn't trust a man and that he was working for them before he succumbs to his wounds. Jay then gets knocked out by a mercenary and after realizing that Jay destroyed most of their equipment, Patrick McCarthy (Harrison's second-in-command and the mercenary that knocked Jay out) presides over an emergency meeting and announces that their group only has enough food and ammunition to last a week (due to Jay's attack). Cohan proposes they replenish their supplies by taking back their outpost, which was seized from them by a group, that slaughtered most of her group. Cohan, Patrick, Porter, Novak, Frost, Turner, Michaels, and Anderson travel on the road with a captive Jay, and Patrick is planning to kill him after the mission is done. Upon arriving at their location (where they need to gather supplies from a hidden depot), the group is alarmed by the sight of the bodies of their former allies strung up all along the road they're on. Suddenly, the group is showered with arrows and throwing knives, killing Frost and severely injuring Turner. As the group scrambles for cover, they see a group of Ghosts advancing towards them.

As the Ghosts unleash their attack, the group scatters into the woods. Michaels, Anderson, and Patrick are injured, while Turner is killed by one of the Ghosts. Novak, on the other hand, is stabbed with several throwing knives. Cohan is briefly ensnared by a whip, but Porter comes to her aid and frees her, only to be ensnared himself and dragged off to be hung. Alone, Cohan observes her environment. Sensing a Ghost nearby, she throws Porter's axe at him but misses. This, however, gives her enough time to escape.

Trudging on alone, Cohan approaches a shopping mall. While trying to find a way in, she is startled by a throwing knife narrowly missing her. Scrambling, she finds a different door and enters the building. After exiting the stairwell, she constructs a makeshift alarm by positioning glass bottles on the door handles. She crosses the empty shopping mall and climbs up another stairwell. Climbing up one floor, she inspects the way she came with her lighter, while a Ghost sneaks up behind her. Before he can kill her, both are alerted by the sound of glass breaking, giving Cohan the chance to dodge the Ghost's attack and kick him through the railing and down the stairwell. When she inspects it, however, Cohan doesn't see the Ghost's body, and soon enough hears the footsteps of her pursuer running up towards her.

On the upper floor of the shopping mall, Cohan is reunited with Michaels, but before they can even catch their breath, both are attacked by a pair of Ghosts. Cohan struggles against the Ghost she encountered earlier but is eventually able to stab him in the neck with her knife. Out of nowhere, Patrick helps Cohan by finishing the Ghost off with his empty rifle. Cohan throws her knife into the back of the remaining Ghost, but before they can kill him, the Ghost throws a flashbang, stunning both Patrick and Cohan, who succumb to her wounds. In the brief moments it takes him to recover, Patrick finds the Ghost gone, along with the body of the Ghost they managed to kill. Rushing to Michaels' aid, Patrick finds that he has been killed in the attack. With the realization that he is dealing with two threats. Patrick walks back to HQ.

Having managed to escape from the group, Jay sneaks around an abandoned building. After distracting a Ghost with a thrown rock, he slithers away into the woods but is soon attacked by another Ghost. Jay struggles against the Ghost until Hans assists him by biting the attacker. Hans is quickly tossed aside but he escapes. Two more Ghosts arrive on the scene. When one tries to attack Jay, however, another prevents him from doing so. This gives Jay enough time to escape after throwing a knife at the Ghosts. In the morning, Jay covers himself in mud to cover his tracks and then sets off to search for Hans. One of the Ghosts from earlier is searching for Jay, but discovers Hans instead. Jay hears Hans barking in the distance and rushes towards the noise, but finds him sitting at the feet of the Ghost who was tracking him. Jay orders the Ghost to release his pet, at which point the Ghost takes her mask off and reveals herself to be Elena, who is still alive. She is surprised to see Jay again and asks if he is alone. When Jay confirms he is, Elena says that she saw him on the road with the RSC group. She asks Jay about them, this time holding him at gunpoint. Jay claims this was a group he met on the road and they're going to kill him, but insists he isn't one of them. He attempts to de-escalate the situation by leaving and calling Hans back to him. When Hans doesn't go to him, Elena jokes that she always thought Hans liked Jay better. Jay says that, whatever the Ghosts' problem is with the group, he's not a part of it. He tries to leave again but is soon flanked by the two Ghosts from earlier.

Jay is captured and taken to their compound with a bag over his head. He is taken into a shack and left alone with Elena. Jay lets Elena know he did come back and looked everywhere in Colombia for her, adding that he is sorry she ended up "killed" due to his failure. Elena asserts that the Ghosts are her family and that he didn't fail. They, Elena says, never stopped looking for her and, when they found her wounded, she came home after being nursed to health. Elena then asks if the people on the road were Jay's allies, but he claims his former group was wiped out in a conflict in WW3, and insists he is alone. Considering Jay's claims, she decides to clean him, but then smothers him with a rag until he is unconscious. When he wakes up, Jay is waterboarded by two Ghosts under Elena's supervision. One of the Ghosts, Adler, interrogates Jay about the others, but Jay sticks to his story and claims he doesn't know. Eventually, Elena decides to stop the interrogation, despite Adler's protests. Elena implores Jay to talk, as their leader won't be so nice when he interrogates him. Jay clarifies that he merely worked with the group by transporting their supplies in exchange for food, and claims he knew the group for less than a week before killing a few of them when they tried to kill him out of fear. Elena, however, doesn't believe him, and Jay is taken back to a cell.

After a brief nap, Jay wakes up to find Anderson has also been captured and is imprisoned in the cell across from him. Anderson tries to converse with him, but Jay shoots him down, angrily doesn't care about him or his friends, and admits that he enjoyed killing them in the attack. Picking up on the hostility, Anderson is angered by Jay's words and tells him that they should have let him die. Anderson is then taken away to be interrogated. Sometime later, Elena visits Jay and chastises him for being stubborn and lying. Jay swears he has never lied to her, and that he is not about to start. Elena again asks him about the group, but Jay maintains he doesn't know anything about them, and insists that he'd help her if he could. He asks to be released along with Hans and promises that she'll never see him again. Elena asks if that's what he wants, but their conversation is interrupted by a pair of Ghosts dragging a badly beaten Anderson to his cell. When Elena inquires what the commotion is about, Adler informs her they found Wells. When Elena asks about North, Adler takes her down the hall, where she witnesses Wells weeping over his failure to save North. Nearby, North lies dead, with Powell performing a prayer over him. Saddened, Elena performs a small prayer for North. Distraught, Connors proclaims that he is angry. He orders the Ghosts to make the group they're hunting "feel their wrath."

Elena goes back to Jay's cell and tells him that one of her brothers is dead. Jonathan North, she professes, was like the little brother she never had, and this was the first time she lost someone close to her since she lost Jay. Jay interjects that she didn't lose him, as he did come back for her, but she was gone. Elena protests that Jay is the one who left in the first place, to which he admits that he was scared of letting go and losing her like his family. After sitting in silence for a moment, Elena asserts that it doesn't matter, as their relationship wouldn't have worked out anyway in a world like this. Jay wonders if this is her opinion or her family's. Elena snaps that Jay has no right to judge them based on the things he has done himself, and claims that this is, and always was, who she really is. Jay, however, doesn't believe her. Elena says that she can help Jay save himself, and maintains she still cares about him despite everything. This is why, she warns, he needs to tell her something, or she won't be able to control what Connors will do, as her commander is angry about North and wants someone to pay. Finally, Jay admits that the group was led by David Harrison (the field commander and the man who wanted Jay dead for killing his son), with her lieutenants being Patrick McCarthy and Ryan Starks (their former commander whom Harrison exiled to take over) He also warns Elena that the group outnumbers the Ghosts, with at least four dozen fighters. Grateful for the information, Elena promises to get Jay out of his cell. Before she leaves, Jay asks when he gets to meet Connors, to which Elena assures him it will be soon.

Elena goes to see Connors and conveys what Jay told her. Furthermore, she suggests they recruit Jay. She is frustrated when Connors ignores her and demands a response. Connors calmly replies that not everything is about her and blames her for losing a day of tracking so Elena could interrogate her "old boyfriend." After a moment of silence, Connors asks Elena about Jay, to which she says that Jay would be a good fit for their group due to being fearless and determined. Connors, however, is skeptical and thinks Jay just wants to be with Elena. He then wonders why Elena didn't kill Jay when she had the chance. Elena confesses that Jay meant something to her at one point, but claims she severed all ties when she rejoined the Ghosts and doesn't regret her decision. Connors confides that he trusts Elena more than any of the other Ghosts and asks if she thinks they can trust Jay. When she says yes, Connors is pleased, intent on finding out for himself.

Jay is taken to the cabin where he was tortured earlier. The other Ghosts taunt him until Elena arrives. When the others leave, Elena unties Jay and says that Connors is on his way and instructs Jay to follow her lead. Hearing a thump on the other side of the door, Elena goes to open it but finds it locked. She then notices liquid leaking from underneath the door and jumps away just as it is set on fire. With the cabin in flames, Elena and Jay scramble to find a way out. Elena is soon incapacitated by the smoke, leaving Jay to find something to pry off the window boards. Elena finds the waterboarding table, which Jay then breaks and uses one of the legs to pry the boards from the windows, then smashes the glass. He helps Elena climb out, before evacuating himself. Outside, they find Connors and the other Ghosts watching them. Jay is deemed "forged by fire, ordained by God" by Connors, who welcomes him into their ranks.

In a private meeting, Connors asks Jay if he believes in God. When Jay admits that he doesn't, Connors is disappointed. Confused, Jay points out that he passed their test, but Connors reveals the test isn't over. When asked what more he wants from him, Connors simply tells Jay he wants him to understand. Over a drink, Connors explains the backstory of his group. The Ghosts started as a military unit serving in Afghanistan, where they saw a great number of their comrades killed. Despite their sacrifice, the politicians didn't care about them and just used them as props. In those dark days, the soldiers didn't have much to hold onto but God and each other. After returning home, many Ghosts found it difficult to reintegrate into society. Ultimately, Connors formed a mercenary group comprised of his old unit and a rogue unit of Russian Spetsnaz, and they served all over the world. During WW3, Connors witnessed such carnage that his faith in God started to waver, just like Jay's. When the Russians bombed the villages, the Ghosts survived by holding up in a small church, as everything around them burned. Despite their perilous situation, none of the Ghosts were even injured. It was then that Connors came to believe the Ghosts were chosen by God to survive. He compares this situation to Jay making it out of the fire unscathed, claiming that God chose Jay tonight as well.

Connors brings Jay to a bonfire where the Ghosts are eating dinner and orders Wells to give Jay some food. Connors then praises Wells for carrying his fallen comrade for ten miles on his back, to which Wells exclaims that he just did what any of them would have done. After inquiring about Wells' wounds, Connors notes that the wounds are on his back. Despite Elena trying to calm him, Connors once again asks where Wells was when North was being attacked. Petrified, Wells claims he was there, facing the enemy. Acknowledging this, Connors tells Jay that it's human nature to run when scared and that it takes divine strength to risk everything for someone else. Connors commends Jay for getting Elena out of the fire first, proclaiming that God baptized him in that fire. However, Connors warns Jay that there is one rule he forgot to tell him: never turn your back on your brother. Connors then adds that God doesn't just use fire as His baptism, but also His wrath. With this, he pushes Wells into the bonfire and holds him with his foot until he burns to death for his perceived betrayal. Connors proclaims that the Ghosts always run into the fire and towards the enemy, scaring most of the Ghosts into submission.

In the compound, Adler tortures Anderson and demands to know where his people are. Anderson gives up nothing. Connors and Jay watch from outside the room. When Connors asks whether the torture bothers Jay, he replies that he's done worse. With Adler getting no results, Connors orders Jay to take a turn interrogating Anderson. Adler secretly draws and conceals his pistol. Anderson tips off Jay to this action. Jay puts Anderson in a chokehold and orders him to give up his friends' location, but he refuses. Jay chops off one of Anderson's fingers and again demands to know the location of his friends. Anderson finally reveals the location of the supply depot. Connors dispatches Elena to scout the location with a crew of Ghosts.

Jay, Elena, Adler, and a crew of Ghosts approach the supply depot. The Ghosts burst into the supply depot and search the house. After finding nothing, Elena orders them to search the entire town. The Ghosts search for another house. Elena finds some wet, bloody bandages, indicating someone was recently there. He offers to track Patrick's group outside. Adler suspects that Jay is up to something and confronts him. Elena sends Adler upstairs to sweep the rooms again and warns Jay not to anger Adler. Adler finds an injured Novak and as Novak smiles and mocks him, Adler strangles him with sheer joy and snaps his neck. Jay and Adler argue. Jay criticizes the Ghosts' plan of attack and insults Adler for his lack of intelligence. Adler accuses Jay of being disloyal. Jay admits that the only reason he joined the Ghosts is because he cares about Elena, but says he will follow Connors out of fear. Adler notices the trap door and opens it, finding the stash. The Ghosts return to HQ. Adler tells Connors that their stash is the Ghosts' now. Connors reveal that he continued to interrogate Anderson after they left and got all the information he needed. They see Anderson tied to a post: he is now hung and dismembered like Porter. Connors confers privately with Adler as they head inside. Elena looks at Jay with worry.

Meanwhile, Harrison yells at Patrick for his failure to kill Jay and has Patrick take an RSC company to the compound to kill Jay and take back the supplies by force, which Patrick accepts. Jay walks around the compound and sees a Ghost exit the food shed. The search patrol returns and they tell Connors that they found no sign of Patrick's group. Connors screams at the Ghosts for failing to find their enemy, which Jay has led him to believe is dozens strong. Elena admonishes Connors for yelling at his soldiers. Connors tells Elena to do another sweep with Jay. While on patrol, Jay and Elena search the outskirts of the compound. Jay commends Elena for standing up for her crew and Elena defends Connors' behavior and says he is like a father to her. As the two talk about the past, Jay and Elena find their cabin and take a few things for themselves. As they were to get close for a kiss, they were interrupted by a radio call summoning them back to HQ.

Jay, Elena, Adler, Maddox, Pope, and Connors watch the company from the top of the perimeter wall. Adler suggests taking down the company like they did with three dozen Taliban fighters in a hospital in Fallujah, while Elena observes they're moving in a peculiar pattern. Jay offers to lead the company away from the company. Connors adopts Jay's strategy but sends Maddox instead.

Maddox leads the company away from the compound with a hidden IED and radios the Ghosts that he's doing fine. a group of armed RSC fighters suddenly appear from all directions, and Patrick stabs him. Injured and surprised by the attack, they overtake him. He screams as they beat Maddox to death. Elena insists on helping Maddox, but Connors says he's already dead. Elena realizes Connors dispatched Maddox as bait to confirm his hunch that Patrick is controlling the company. Elena reminds Connors that Maddox was part of their family, but Connors coldly says it was Maddox's fate to die. Connors asks Jay for intel about Patrick. Jay says that Patrick is the group's best fighter and a sneaky combatant and advises Connors to look for him in the trees. Adler radios Connors to report that the company has returned with more gear. Connors looks out at the company and declares that they will never reach their gate. Explosions start to go off as they drive on landmines planted around the perimeter.

The company continues to trip the landmines outside the compound. Elena laments all the people they've lost, but Connors reasons that every war has its sacrifices. Jay looks through binoculars and sees Patrick's elite group wearing masks and using their vehicles as shields. Jay walks up to a sentry post guarded by Fisher and he joins Fisher at his post and offers him a joint. He intentionally drops the matches and stabs Fisher when he reaches down to pick them up, then throws him over the wall. He reads his journal and breaks the lock on the door of the food shed, where he finds a secret armory and notices that there is a Tomahawk missile, revealing that Connors is the one working with Harrison and that the Ghosts were responsible for stealing the missiles from the Green Hive years ago and traded them with RSC for money to fund their group while RSC can destroy the city.

As the elite soldiers approach, an explosion sends shrapnel into them, killing a few of them. Jay rejoins Connors, Elena, and Lewis. Elena tells him the group is scattering, but Jay points out that they're advancing. As the Ghosts notice them getting toward the wall, Connors tells Elena to deploy the hwacha. Bell and Hendricks sneak into the compound through a pile of burned trash. Bell confirms the next step with Hendricks and tells him to wait for his signal. Hendricks sneaks into a building and goes straight to a secret compartment in the back of a closet. He reaches inside and finds what he wants.

Jay, Elena, and Jensen gather on a rooftop. Jensen reveals the hwacha – a multiple rocket launcher that he designed. Jay quietly asks Elena if she still believes in Connors. Elena admits that it's hard to watch Connors hurt the people that she cares about. Jay reveals that the enemies they're fighting are working with Connors and Connors is going to commit domestic terrorism. He begs Elena to help him stop them. Elena reels as she processes his revelation. Connors joins them on the roof. The RSC company began to attack them by using mortars, destroying their defenses. The mercenaries pour in through the breach to attack the Ghosts. Connors orders Jensen to launch the hwacha. Elena says the hwacha will end up killing their own people, but Connors reasons that it's their time to die before a hesitant Jensen lights the fuse. Jay unsheathes his knives to attack Connors, but it is Elena who stabs Connors in the neck with a sedative. Jay then hurls a knife into Jensen (which is non-lethal) and cuts the fuse to stop the launch. Meanwhile, Bell fights a Ghost in the courtyard as Hendricks hides and Bell is killed as a result.

Jay reaches out his hand to escape with Elena, but she instead radios everyone that Jay knocked out Connors and is with the enemy. She tells Jay that she would do anything to protect her family while she is purposefully giving Jay a way out. Jay escapes moments before Adler and Pope arrive. Elena instructs them to close the gate and kill everything inside the walls. Patrick and his elite soldiers fight Ghosts in the courtyard and Elena radios the Ghosts with orders to pull back. After the courtyard is cleared of Ghosts, she launches rockets at Patrick's group below.

At the compound, Elena fires the hwacha at the company as they flood into the compound. Hendricks hides in a building and meets up with Mason, an elite soldier, who was injured by shrapnel. He brings him to the infirmary, where they hide in a secret room. Adler looks for them and receives a radio order from Elena to kill everyone he finds. A Ghost aims at the company and shoots at them from a window. Jay attacks him and, after a fierce battle, stabs the Ghost and strangles him to death. He hides just as Elena enters the room and discovers her comrade's body. Jay quietly escapes the room.

Adler chases them down a hall, where they find the doors all locked. Hendricks and Mason forced themselves to get ready to fight him, which Adler smiled in anticipation. Adler overpowers both of them, injures Mason, and knocks Hendricks to the ground. After killing them, Jay distracts Adler with dust and smacks him with a heavy bell. Jay ties him up and plans to use Adler as leverage, despite his plan to escape. Jay radios Elena and proposes they talk. Jay meets with Elena and the remaining Ghosts. Jay offers to release Adler if he can leave Mississippi unharmed, but vows to kill them if they hunt him down. Elena accepts his offer and reveals that a sniper will kill him if he doesn't honor the deal or harm Adler. Amused, Jay reluctantly lets Adler go. Elena gives Jay two hours to kill Connors (who ran away) and leave Mississippi for good to get back in her good graces, which Jay accepts.

Jay leaves Mississippi and goes to Auraria, Georgia to stop the deal. During the deal, Harrison betrays Connors and before Connors is about to be shot, Jay injures David and kills the last of Harrison's men, saving Connors' life and he's warned by Jay to leave the country for good or he will kill him if he saw him again, which Connors agreed. An injured David fights Jay, but he is brutally killed by Jay and after disarming the missile, Jay is arrested by the FBI HRT, led by Wade Bryan and the Ghosts disbanded upon realizing that they were terrorists.

9 months after his imprisonment, a terrorist group kidnapped the daughter of President Mitchell, and because they were ex-military and knew when and where to strike, Mitchell sent in General (formerly Lieutenant Colonel) Justin Kane and Major Logan Garnett to get Jay, who was sent to solitary confinement. It's revealed that Jay and Kane were allies during WW3 and Kane reveals that the government will restore his pension, release him from prison, and grant him a full pardon for his crimes against organized crime if he accepted a task to exchange himself for the safety of Mitchell's daughter in 46 hours. However, an enraged Jay refuses to do it due to what happened to him and coldly dismisses Kane, who gives him a ring that the group left as a calling card.

After an intense flashback, Jay accepted the mission and went to the briefing room to learn about the exchange. Jay made a heartfelt speech to the staff before Delta Team was sent to the drop-off spot and after Jay was forced to follow the kidnappers' demands, Delta Team managed to get Mitchell's daughter successfully. Not wanting Jay to be brutally tortured or brainwashed, Kane ordered a drone strike, but the kidnappers scrambled the signal, temporarily disabling them. The kidnappers leave the vehicle and the leader is revealed to be Trevor Bachelor, who survived being on the run. Trevor cordially greets him before ordering his men to knock Jay out and take him to an underground outpost.

Jay awakens inside a bulletproof glass-enclosed cage and Trevor introduces 5 old friends (Master Sergeant Donald Vincente, Sergeant Major Dean Presley, Commander Jack Baker, Lieutenant Ricardo Tucker, and Captain Alexis Dawson) and reveals that the remnants of the Green Hive went on the run for 23 years and that Jay stopped them from selling Tomahawk missiles filled of Amberwood, a highly advanced variant of the VX nerve agent. Trevor reveals that while he was willing to sell missiles and guns to paramilitary groups to finance his army, he disagreed with using chemical weaponry, but years of running and deep resentment gave the Hive a new goal: unleash Amberwood into US soil as revenge for ousting the Hive and labeled them as terrorists. To prevent his plans from being foiled, Trevor has Bronson (his best interrogator) kill Jay after they leave and Jay gives Trevor a sincere send-off and admits that Trevor would have a great archenemy and he was the best man that he fought with, which genuinely impressed a stunned Trevor. Trevor and his crew leave as Bronson knocks out Jay to prepare for his torture. Thanks to his inside men, Trevor got his hands on ventilation equipment, flame throwers, and military hardware for his war.

As Jay wakes up again, Bronson lectures Jay about torture and Jay tries to bargain for his life, but it falls on deaf ears. Luckily for Jay, Bronson has lost most of his vision during the attack in Mexico (where Jay and the Reapers fought against the Hive for their betrayal), so Jay makes a great escape by destroying the compound and killing Bronson and 5 of Trevor's best soldiers. Jay goes to his secret hideout to get Amberwood and after a moment, he realizes that Trevor let him go easily when he added up the details. Jay gives up Amberwood when Trevor and his men come to the hideout and threaten to kill him, and just before they are going to kill him, a drone strike (courtesy of Kane) allows him to escape and retreat to an abandoned garage, where John Riley (one of his allies) wanted to help and reveals that he planted a tracker into the container since they first got it and they found Trevor's location; an abandoned train yard and during the stakeout, Riley reveals that the things that they did while they were at Mexico were living hell, but admitted that Trevor needed to be stopped. The duo saw Jack and Alexis escort Vera Belsky, their top scientist and the only one who would stabilize the chemical weapon, to the lab and Donald cordially greeted Vera, admiring her handiwork. As Jay walks inside the lab, he makes a long speech about betrayal and that Trevor is using them as replaceable pawns for his mission, which causes a few of the soldiers to doubt their loyalties, except for Donald, Jack, and Alexis. After a short, intense speech between Jay and Donald, Riley attacks the lab, killing Donald and most of the soldiers, except for Jack, Alexis, and Vera, who took Amberwood and escaped via helicopter. This failure causes the duo to quit the mission and they go their separate ways.

Meanwhile, Nathan tracked down Elena for 2 weeks, who was cleaning her gun at her camp in the woods. Hive soldiers find her camp, but no one is inside the tent. Elena ambushes them, injuring two of them. Nathan asks Elena to hold her fire so that they can talk. Elena emerges from the darkness with a rifle. Nathan smiles and says he's here to offer her a job. As Nathan is splitting two groups of soldiers, including the newly recruited Elena who he has hired to kill Jay since he went into hiding, she gears up for the mission and ignores Nathan's attempts at conversation. Elena looks up to the sky and remembers her memories before laughing softly. Nathan tells her that he needs to see Jay dead and hands her a radio. Elena takes the soldiers to hunt him down as Nathan watches from behind.

Finding an abandoned shack, Elena's group of soldiers enter the building, searching for Jay. However, three of the men set off a booby trap, causing an explosion that kills all the soldiers inside. When Jay stands up, he is suddenly shot in the arm by Elena, who emerges from the building, having survived the explosion. He runs away as Elena follows. Eventually, Nathan's group arrives at the shack to see the aftermath. After finding their corpses, Nathan angrily radios Elena, saying she got his men killed. An unrepentant Elena simply tells him that she drew them out and that she's doing this her way. Nathan angrily states that Elena's way got his men killed, but Elena calls it collateral damage and discards her radio. A Hive soldier states they will find Jay and Elena and an unhinged Nathan tells him they'd better, revealing that Nathan was planning to kill Elena after she killed Jay. In the woods, Jay looks around and suddenly spots Elena nearby. They engage in a gunfight and Jay gets a hit on her leg. Jay approaches quietly, but Elena surprises her and knocks him out. Elena takes Jay back to her old cabin, where she ties him up to a chair. Jay wakes up and it is now morning. Elena sits in front of her, pointing a gun at her. Jay tries to stall for time as he tries to untie himself, so he tells Elena he understands what she is going through. Jay tells her that killing him won't make her feel better, but Elena says he is wrong. She is going to kill Jay because it is her mission while she is trying to keep herself in check. In the woods, Nathan's group is looking for Elena and Jay. As Nathan finds a bloody cloth on a tree, Jay continues to distract Elena, who is conflicted between doing her mission and listening to Jay. After a moment of realization, Elena unties Jay, and the two hide in the floor after showing him a trapdoor. The two violently hit each other before having rough sex as Nathan is telling his mole that he will get all of the money and power he wants when Elena is dead. The two leave the floor and Jay looks out the window and sees that Nathan's group has found them. He aims at Nathan through the glass and shoots, prompting the soldiers to fire. Jay and Elena flee the scene. The bullet had only grazed Nathan's cheek. He angrily enters the cabin and declares that now they will pay with their lives and promptly calls off the hunt.

Jay tells Elena to leave the country and never come back because this is his war and drops her off at a motel and gives her his sidearm and money before kissing her goodbye. He heads off to see Kane, who is happy to see him again and as a token of gratitude, he gives him a file that leads to a dead zone and gives off a heat signature indicating there were 100 hostiles in the area and he admits that he is breaking the law by doing this, but he genuinely believed that Jay will stop Trevor once and for all. After a heartfelt hug, Jay gears up and drives deep into the Blue Ridge Mountains, finding a heavily guarded encampment. At the compound, Trevor orders Jack and his men to burn everything after Amberwood becomes fully functional and calls Kane with a demand of 50 billion dollars from the government or he will launch the missiles into US capitals by tonight, which Kane refuses. After doing some recon and killing a sentry, Jay infiltrates the encampment and sets up explosives while killing sentries. Trevor makes his warring speech as Jay prepares his attack and after the speech, Jay launches his attack, killing Alexis and all of the operators collectively. Trevor, Dean, and Ricardo track Jay down inside the command room and Jay manages to wound Ricardo and Dean. Having had enough, Trevor suddenly kills the two wounded soldiers and gets close to Jay's hiding spot, but gets ambushed and disarmed. However, Trevor laughs and reveals a snubnosed revolver and that he isn't the real Trevor (the "Trevor" that Jay encounters is Lieutenant Carl Kernst, one of his most trained soldiers and Trevor's body double) before being killed by Adler, who then reveals himself to be the mole that revealed Elena's location, Jay's hideout, and that he betrayed the Ghosts to satisfy his bloodlust and his greed. Adler also revealed to Jay that he was jealous of Jay's closeness to Elena and believed that if he died, Elena would give Adler a chance. However, Adler gets disarmed by Elena, who followed Jay the whole time and as Adler tries to joke his way out of this, he manages to disarm Elena and engages in a brutal fight. As Adler grabs his knife, Jay tries to convince him to take Elena and let him walk away, which almost makes him have second thoughts and tells Jay that while he never wanted this, he will enjoy "carving him open" with a smile. Just before Adler can give Jay a fatal blow, Elena chops off his hand and stabs him through the head with Jay's machete, saving Jay's life. Elena and Jay leave the command center and after looting Kernst's corpse, Jay finds out that Kane was working with Trevor (given the fact that Kane was treating Jay strangely and was planning to kill him) and Nathan's location: a heavily fortified facility in the Texan desert. Jay, Elena, and the Ghosts (with Garnett's assistance) attack the facility and Nathan is killed while trying to kill Jay with a tank.

2 months later after the attack, Trevor and Kane cordially greet each other at an abandoned airfield and Kane gives Trevor the Presidential list and tells him that Amberwood has been placed into major capitals and can be detonated on Trevor's signal, to which Trevor nods. However, the airfield is attacked by coordinated explosive attacks, killing almost all of the Hive mercenaries and Jack. Jay manages to kill Kane in a brutal fight and kills Trevor as he tries to run away, ending their plans.

A year later, Jay and Elena are officially together and they live with the rest of the Ghosts, who are now being led by Lucas Wolf, in an outpost. It's revealed that RSC is still going to bomb the city since Patrick is still alive, so the Ghosts (with the help of Damien Barrett, who joined at Jay's request) attacked them in an abandoned stadium (their main HQ) and after a short fight, Patrick is killed by Jay and the missiles is taken by the Ghosts back to their place. As the two lay down, Elena tells Jay that they should retire from the mercenary life and Jay agrees before they kiss.

After 2 weeks, Lucas and Damien look at the missiles and they talk to Jay about Connors' involvement, which Jay honestly doesn't know, and figure out that Connors only did it for the money, which Wolf agrees because he knew Connors was always greedy. As Jay walks around the outpost, he hears a man coughing in the torture chamber and it is revealed to be Garnett, who found out about Kane's involvement and that Wolf is a close ally of Connors. As Jay questions him, Damien coldly shoots Garnett and takes Jay back, and orders the rest of the Ghosts to come to the "lobby". As they question Damien, Wolf reveals to the Ghosts that Jay found out that Garnett was here and that Garnett and a team were sent to recover the missiles, but Wolf killed them all and plans to destroy the government with Amberwood and Damien reveals his involvement and only doing the mission for a huge payout. As Elena and a few Ghosts prepare to point their guns and she orders them to subdue Wolf, a massive number of Ghosts betray Elena and her loyalists, revealing that they're all out for the payout. Angered, Jay attacks Wolf, causing an intense gunfight. During the chaos, Damien tries to kill Jay, but Elena bravely takes the bullet, dying in Jay's arms. As Jay tries to chase Wolf, Damien shoots him twice and leaves him to die while the building is set up to blow up.

After a month of recovery, Jay wakes up in an apartment and Powell (one of Elena's loyal Ghosts) reveals that he saved Jay and that Wolf is working with RSC to destroy a major city and Garnett's team was sent to kill them all and recover the missiles, but they failed and that Wolf is planning to destroy Atlanta in 48 hours. With preparation, Jay goes to their main compound and by using a mortar, Jay kills a majority of Wolf's loyalists and Damien during a brutal fight. As Jay enters the meeting room, he is ambushed by a few Ghosts and kills them all, but Wolf isn't among the bodies. However, Wolf has escaped in a car, causing Jay to chase after him, and upon catching up, he kills Wolf and his remaining men, stopping the chaos. At a hotel in Thailand, Raymond Irons (a former Marine colonel) is lying in his bed, talking to his contact about several pounds of heroin, but Jay calmly reveals himself before killing Irons.

3 months after taking out Wolf and Irons, Jay continues his crusade to hunt down the remaining members of the White Viceroys, the Las Vatos Cartel, and the Atlanta North Club. Once all members of the three gangs are dead, Jay abandons his life as the Ghost and starts a new life as a construction worker, named John Brewer. Jay tries to live a quiet life but sees three men shaking down a few workers. Jay later meets with Zachary Dumont (a former Marine) after the veteran group therapy session, and Zachary encourages him to let the Ghost die and live a normal life. Transferred from Afghanistan, Katherine Ludlow returns to the FBI office in Atlanta where she gets partnered with Leo Pruitt. Ludlow continues her investigation of the assassination of Omar Karimi, an undercover FBI field agent, who investigated the heroin trafficking in Kandahar. Tyson Perkins actively discourages Ludlow from her investigation, but Ludlow ignores him and asks Pruitt to provide her with the files on Raymond Irons and Jay Roberts since they were stationed in Afghanistan around the same time as the murder.

Jay goes to a restaurant, unaware that his hunt put him on Mordo's radar. Jay receives a phone call from Mordo, a person who left a disc with the footage of Karimi's execution and had been watching him for a while. Jay is concerned that his privacy may be compromised. After making sure that Zachary was not the one who divulged the information, Jay asks him for help to find Mordo. Jay then approaches Dina Moss (a reporter and former Reaper) to ask her for help, and she informs him about Mordecai Winchester Junior, a former member of the Reapers and an NSA analyst, who had been leaking classified information and was a subject of the massive FBI investigation. To make progress in her investigation, Ludlow tries to get an audience with Richard Milton, who used to serve in the same unit with Jay and Irons, but Pruitt reminds her that Perkins would not allow it. Ludlow convinces Perkins to greenlight field training with Cerberus, a private military company, owned by Milton. Ludlow tries to get close to Milton, so he can answer her question, and Milton invites her to a bar to talk about his service in Afghanistan.

Jay approaches Chloe Winchester, who believes her husband Mordecai to be dead, causing Mordecai to panic, as Jay has found Mordecai's family. Afterward, Jay changes his appearance to avoid Mordecai watching him, and confronts Perkins at his house, since he was in charge of the Winchester investigation. Jay attacks Perkins and gets him to admit that Winchester was killed for leaking the footage of Karimi's murder and that they thought that Jay was the one who provided him with the footage. Perkins told Jay that the attack at Jay's house was more than just a gangland drive-by and was instead an attempt to assassinate Jay under the cover of a random gangland attack (with the help of the Underworld). Jay then murders Perkins and leaves his body to be found by the Atlanta PD and the FBI. In an attempt to gain leverage, Jay contacts Mordecai and tricks him into leading Jay to his hideout where he begins to interrogate Mordecai. Mordecai tells Jay that he is not his enemy and that he was targeted by the same people who killed Jay's son. Mordecai reveals that he was sent the footage of Karimi's murder and that he'd sent it to Ludlow, but the people in charge found out and sent Perkins to assassinate Mordecai. Although he survived, he had to pretend to be dead to keep his family safe.

Jay then recalls his service in Afghanistan, during Operation Olympus, a covert task force aimed at eliminating terrorist groups, led by Irons and Walter Williamson, known as "Agent Willy". During the operation, Williamson flagged Omar Karimi as a terrorist, and the squad was ordered to abduct him for an investigation. Afterward, Williamson orders Jay to execute Karimi and bury him in an unmarked grave, unaware that the whole murder was filmed by one of the squad members. Williamson later receives intel about the high-profile terrorist figure in Kandahar and sends the squad to assassinate him, but it turns out to be a trap. Jay manages to get the squad to evacuate with minimal casualties, but Williamson's lack of concern and empathy enrages him, forcing Jay to assault Williamson, forcing Milton to intervene and stop Jay. Mordecai tells Jay that Operation Olympus was not authorized by the United States Congress and was therefore illegal, which meant that the people in charge tried to prevent its exposure by killing Jay and Winchester. Realizing that these people were the ones who had his family murdered, Jay agrees to work with Mordecai on the condition that he gets to kill every single one of them.

Ludlow and Pruitt investigate Perkins' murder and Pruitt discovers evidence that Perkins had $60 million in his off-shore bank accounts, leading to the suspicion that Perkins was corrupt. Ludlow notices how Perkins tried to hinder her investigation and suspects that no one at the agency can be trusted. In the wake of Perkins' death, Wade Bryan appoints Ludlow as the acting SAC of the FBI office in Atlanta but warns her to keep her focus on the current operation against the Russian Mob.

To acquire enough firepower to fight their enemies, Jay and Mordecai target the Russian Mob's arsenal, reaching out to law enforcement chatter. After Jay spends more time with Chloe and her children, Mordecai informs Jay that the FBI organized a sting operation to catch the Russian Mob during the weapons deal, which was a perfect chance to strike. Mordecai hacks into their comms, causing a diversion, while Jay steals the truck with the weapons. Ludlow tries to chase after Jay, which ends up with Jay hiding in an alleyway. Hacking her phone, Jay then tells Ludlow that he killed Perkins because Perkins was dirty and then tells Ludlow to stay out of his way.

Ludlow keeps the fact about Jay being alive a secret from everyone, except Pruitt, and continues her investigation. After being questioned by the Office of the Inspector General, both keep silent about Jay's involvement, and Ludlow asks Pruitt to find the information about the others from Jay's unit, including Troy Harrison. However, they were unaware that Williamson was listening to their conversations from his office at the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Fearing that Harrison might jeopardize his position, Williamson orders for Harrison to be eliminated. Afterward, Ludlow meets with Milton again. After having a few drinks, they end up having sex at his apartment. Now possessing enough firepower, Jay and Mordecai decide to find Harrison who secretly recorded Karimi's execution and sent it to Mordecai. Arriving at the woods of rural Alabama, Jay approaches Harrison and asks him about any details he knows about Operation Olympus. Harrison informs Jay that Williamson organized a heroin and organ smuggling operation to fund their activity in Kandahar without Congress' backing, and Garrett Henderson (an Army Colonel) was in charge of the traffic. However, a tactical unit sent by Williamson arrives in Alabama and after a gunfight, both Jay and Harrison end up heavily wounded, as Williamson finds out that Jay is still alive. Harrison dies in the woods, while Mordecai saves Jay and gets Zachary to treat his wounds.

Ludlow receives information about the shootout in Alabama where she and Pruitt find Harrison's body, noting that he was not alone. Examining the DNA on the scene, they conclude that Jay was the sole survivor of the gunfight, so Ludlow decides to speak with Milton directly. She informs Milton that his best friend is alive, and asks him for help to find him. Milton tries to get in touch with Jay via radio calls and asks Zachary who denies any knowledge of Jay's current status. Jay eventually reunites with Milton and informs him about everything involving Operation Olympus and the conspiracy behind it. Milton then offers Jay to use his Cerberus resources to get him out of the country and start a new life under a new identity. Knowing that he cannot leave until the people behind the conspiracy are punished, Jay refuses Milton's offer, unaware (but slightly distrustful) that he has been working with Williamson all along as Milton sets up a failed assassination attempt. Milton tells Ludlow that his attempts to find Jay were fruitless, while Pruitt is frustrated that Ludlow involved a civilian like Milton but kept Bryan out of it. Ludlow then realizes that Harrison was killed after they brought him up in the investigation, which meant that the culprits were listening to her. Ludlow and Pruitt then search the office and find the hidden bug, which Williamson used to keep tabs on the FBI's investigation.

Jay and Mordecai plan to infiltrate Henderson's home to find Henderson and use him to find Agent Willy. Williamson and Milton realize that Jay might be targeting Henderson but decide to organize an ambush without informing Henderson about it. Jay infiltrates the mansion and confronts Henderson, while Mordecai hacks into his phone to plant a tracker. However, a masked Milton and a team of Cerberus agents ambush Jay but he takes out all of them non-lethally and escapes from the compound once Mordecai finishes the hack. Afterward, Milton brings Henderson to the CIA Safe House to speak with Williamson, while Jay and Mordecai follow them. Henderson is angered that they used him as bait for Jay, and Williamson orders Milton to get Henderson out of the country, so Jay would not find him. However, in reality, Milton was ordered to murder Henderson, as he was too much of a liability and Milton gets to take over the PMC, revealing that Henderson was the co-founder of Cerberus. Locating Williamson at the safehouse, Jay observes him with a sniper rifle but Williamson is looking at Jay and salutes at him, so Jay leaves and escapes from the safehouse.

By using the scope on Jay's rifle, Mordecai identifies Williamson as the Director of Covert Operations and that his true identity is Rupert Moretti, a British MI6 agent who went rogue and met the Williamson family, taking on their surname and wealth and climbed the ranks in the CIA. Mordecai gets concerned that the CIA might be after them, but Jay calms him down. Mordecai then notices that the cameras at his house are down and asks Jay to check in on his family. Later, Mordecai suggests getting in touch with Ludlow and officially testifying, so the FBI could take Williamson down, however, Jay is against that idea. While Jay spends some time cleaning his gear, he notices that Mordecai is near the house and tells him to get back, promising to speak with Ludlow. Aware of the bug in the office, Ludlow and Pruitt organize a fake sting operation on the weapons dealer who was dealing with Jay, in an attempt to lure out the people hunting for Jay. Receiving information from Williamson, Milton gets in touch with four ex-Cerberus agents and enlists their help to kill Jay. However, they ended up in a gunfight with the FBI agents, which resulted in several agents and all the mercenaries being killed. Milton tries to escape, only to be confronted by Pruitt but after he sees Milton's face, he uses the confusion to kill Pruitt and run away, leaving Ludlow to mourn over her partner.

As Ludlow is ridden by the guilt for Pruitt's death, Jay and Mordecai decide that it is not the best time to talk to her. Still blaming herself for Pruitt's death, Ludlow eventually decides to attend his memorial and come clean with everything they had been working on, even if it would cost her her career. At a bar, Ludlow gets approached by Mordecai who did not wait for Jay and decides to tell her everything about Operation Olympus and Walter Williamson. Meanwhile, Georgia State Governor Hank Van Holden hired Milton and Cerberus (since Williamson is funding his campaign) to provide him with a security detail during his interview and public inauguration at the *Royal Marlowe* Hotel since he is worried about the Ghost and increasing crime rates. A few terrorists manage to breach the security and infiltrate the hotel, while Jay contacts Milton and tells him to evacuate Van Holden, while he would take these terrorists down. Meanwhile, Ludlow returns to the FBI and comes clean to Bryan about her investigation. Bryan shows her files on the mercenaries from the shootout and reveals that all of them used to work for Cerberus. Ludlow goes to the hotel and asks Milton about it but he denies any connection with them and the shootout.

The terrorists kill numerous Cerberus guards and try to kill Van Holden at his suite, but Jay protects him by shooting at them. As Van Holden escapes, Roberts evades the remaining Cerberus guards, who try to kill him. He eventually gets confronted by Ludlow who tells him that she was talking to Mordecai and tries to get Jay to testify against Williamson, but Jay refuses. Jay suddenly gets shot by Milton who ignores Ludlow's demand to put the weapon down and Ludlow realizes that Milton was the one who killed Pruitt (it's later revealed that the "terrorists" are ex-Cerberus agents that Milton sent after Van Holden and he orchestrated the attempted assassination as part of a false flag operation to gain public support for Van Holden's anti-gun campaign and to boost his PMC's reputation). As the police arrival interrupts them, Jay manages to avoid the police and get out of the hotel.

Returning to the hideout, Jay argues with Mordecai because he went to Ludlow without talking to him, while Mordecai is frustrated that Jay went after Milton and let the police identify him. Both Jay and Mordecai decide that once Williamson is dealt with, their partnership will be over. Ludlow interrogates Milton at the FBI office, trying to get him to admit that he was a part of the Olympus conspiracy and killed Pruitt because he was close to exposing him, but Milton denies everything, pointing out that Ludlow has no evidence to back her claims. However, Ludlow reminds him that Jay knows about him too and he does not need any evidence to take Milton out, and she could turn a blind eye when Jay deals with him. Since Jay is too much of a threat, Williamson approaches Annette Wilton and informs her about the situation that could put the CIA in danger. He gets Wilton to provide him with access to the CIA surveillance, so he can track Jay down.

Aware of Jay's connection with the Winchester family, Milton sends a group of Cerberus agents disguised as police officers to abduct Chloe, Larry, and Cody. Milton is not thrilled with the idea of kidnapping civilians, but Williamson reminds him that Jay poses a great danger to them and they had to get rid of him no matter the cost. Jay tells Mordecai to go meet with Ludlow, while he stays at the hideout, waiting for Milton to come for him.

Ludlow and Bryan summon Wilton to the meeting at the FBI office and inform her that Williamson was a top suspect in their investigation, as a man in charge of the conspiracy, that involved the CIA, NSA, and the United States Armed Forces. Wilton denies any knowledge of it and reminds them that the FBI does not have any jurisdiction over the CIA, but Bryan argues that Williamson caused several FBI agents to get killed on US soil. Wilton later confronts Williamson about the mess they are now involved in because of him, but Williamson plans to put all the blame on Milton and get rid of Jay, so the CIA will be clean in the end. Wilton tells him that regardless of the outcome, Williamson would have to resign and in case he tries to get back at Wilton, she would turn him in to the FBI.

Tracking down the phone call, a group of Cerberus agents break into Mordecai's hideout, only to end up in the ambush, planned by Jay. Jay mercilessly kills all of the agents but finds out that Milton is not among them. He then gets in touch with Milton, proposing to him a trade, that Jay and Mordecai would turn themselves in to Milton and Williamson, in exchange for the Winchesters being liberated. Afterward, Jay meets with both Mordecai and Ludlow, and they join forces to take Williamson down once and for all. Jay testifies about everything involving Operation Olympus and the murder of Omar Karimi, admitting that he was the one who pulled the trigger. Mordecai, however, refuses to cooperate until the FBI ensures the safety of his family. Jay and Mordecai then go to the hostage exchange, during which the FBI ends up attacking the Cerberus mercenaries, and Mordecai ends up being shot in the back, while Jay gets captured by the mercenaries. However, it was only a decoy, planned by Ludlow, as Mordecai's death was faked, allowing him to reunite with his family.

Jay regains his consciousness back at Mordecai's hideout where Milton finds that the computers were rigged to upload the footage of Karimi's execution online after the countdown ends. Williamson then brutally tortures Jay, getting him to unlock the computer access and stop the countdown, however, Jay activates the cameras at the hideout, so the entire torture and Williamson admitting to his crimes would be recorded. Ludlow is furious that Jay went against the plan and Mordecai tells her that he wanted to provide the FBI with necessary evidence, while he would either kill Williamson and Milton or die trying. Milton and Williamson's alliance begins to fray, which results in Milton secretly snipping the zip ties holding Jay's wrists. Before Williamson prepares to kill him, Jay frees himself and brutally murders Williamson in a brutal brawl, while Milton prepares to leave the hideout. However, Mordecai has a change of heart and leads the FBI to the hideout to save Jay, resulting in Milton getting wounded and escaping. Mordecai and Ludlow find the heavily injured Jay and thanks to his training, Mordecai manages to save Jay's life and treats his wounds.

As Milton's criminal involvement was exposed, the FBI launched a pursuit after Milton, however, his men killed most of the agents and detonated the Cerberus Headquarters while helping their boss escape. Milton later goes to Zachary's apartment and tries to force Zachary to tell Milton where Jay is, unaware that he is outside of the apartment and preparing an ambush. Milton manages to avoid Jay's shot and takes Zachary as a hostage, forcing Jay to let him get out. Milton then tells Jay to meet him where it all started, so they can end it once and for all: the Trail. As Milton reinforces his men as his decoys, he engages in combat with Jay on a rooftop after Jay wipes out the last of his Cerberus agents. Milton manages to gain the upper hand, but one of the hostages escapes and attacks Milton, forcing him to be distracted and shoot the hostage. Jay uses his distraction to brutally attack Milton, but instead of killing him, Jay decides that dying would be too easy of a punishment. Jay proceeds to repeatedly smash Milton against a broken mirror, destroying Milton's face and leaves for the hospital before the police arrive. Both Milton and Jay were taken to the hospital, while Milton was arrested, although Jay caused him severe cranial trauma which put him in a coma. Bryan and Wilton meet with both of them and inform Jay that in the wake of the recent events, the CIA and FBI redirected the narrative, putting Milton and his company as the main culprits and wiping out all information about Jay from the database, so he would remain a free man. Mordecai finally gets to reunite with his family and return to his normal life, and part ways with Jay who joins Zachary's therapy session, opening up about his fear and uncertainty. Van Holden gets arrested by the FBI because he conspired with Williamson and his campaign was funded by the heroin from Kandahar.

6 months later, 3 men enter the McCreedy Check Cashing Bank and hold two civilians in line at the counter hostage. The leader would negotiate with Linda, who was the bank's manager, only for Linda to refuse to grant them access to the safes, and even to bluff with the robbers, claiming that the door was set on a timer and could not be opened even if she wanted to, which the robbers did not believe. The leader, who was getting increasingly impatient with Linda, had then attempted to spook her by pulling out a grenade. Despite this, Linda would still not open the door and even mocked the robbers, much to his annoyance. However, Jeff Reed, who was secretly working with the robbers, pushed past Linda and pressed the button to open the door, allowing them to enter and proceed to rob the bank. While the two robbers took the cash, the leader tied up Linda and the other employees, before taking Reed as the hostage as they took the cash and made their escape to their getaway cars.

2 weeks earlier, Jay woke up and got a call from Bryan, leading him to go to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he saw the carnage and it's revealed that Milton woke up and murdered everyone, including Ludlow, who is found in his bed. Bryan hires Jay to track down Milton, which Jay accepts eagerly. A week later, Jay meets with Zachary and asks him about Milton's whereabouts, but Zachary doesn't know. However, Zachary tells Jay that William Dobson, one of the members, had been on drugs recently, so Jay blends in as a dealer and knocks out Dobson upon meeting him. Dobson found himself tied to a chair while Zachary was looking and Jay demanded to know about the whereabouts of Milton. Repeatedly, Dobson held back from revealing what he knew, enduring multiple punches from Jay until Zachary ordered him to stop. Dobson questioned why Zachary was a part of the interrogation. Zachary explained that serving in Covert Operations with Milton and Jay made them all closer than blood brothers until Milton killed Jay's son and shot him for getting in the way.

As he tended to Dobson's wound, Zachary tried to reason with him, telling him Milton would no longer have a use for him once he was done, and begged Dobson to not get in between Milton and Jay. After consideration, Dobson confessed the crew's plans when Jay returned. He said they would hit the McCreedy check cashing spot and were staying at an empty warehouse in Johnstontown. After getting the information, Jay immediately punches Dobson in the face and beats him to a pulp, leaving him to die. Jay takes his clothes and goes to Johnstontown, where he finds the bank. Before Milton and his crew could make their swift escape from the bank, they noticed that Dobson had seemingly returned, while Milton simply ordered Dobson to leave immediately. However, it was then revealed that this was, in fact, Jay in disguise, which had caused Milton to freeze on the spot out of fear of seeing Jay. As Jay had shot and killed Richardson and Ricci, Milton was grabbed by his crew who drove away and Jay chased them.

Upon regaining his senses, Milton decides that he wants to gain his revenge on Jay for disfiguring his face, as he furiously demands that Ramirez stop the car, which he does. Milton had then armed himself with a machine gun and waited for Jay to come round the corner as he shot at him. Confused and enraged at why Jay would have betrayed him, Milton then demanded answers from Jay to confirm all his suspicions that he was responsible for all the scarring on his face. When Jay admits he had disfigured him, Milton unleashes a fury of gunfire on Jay, going against the urges of his comrades. The crew decides to retreat, which causes Milton to fail to kill Jay, as he is forced to escape with the rest of his crew, as he is not willing to be arrested or killed. Upon getting back to the hideout, Milton was blamed by Franklin and Reed for not preparing them against his interference, as they were annoyed that Jay had shown up in the middle of the robbery. Annoyed by this disrespect, Milton swiftly kills them both, instilling fear in the rest of the crew while taking the stolen money for himself. He goes to an apartment and snorts up some painkillers, trying to calm down, but realizes that he could be someone bigger.

Having calmed down from his previous outburst, Milton went to meet with the surviving members (Beck, Adams, Ramirez) of his crew on the outskirts of Atlanta, dropping all of the stolen money on the ground. Seeing that the crew were tense about being around him again following the murders of Franklin and Reed, Milton had reassured them that everything that they had stolen was there in the bag as he had not taken any of it, as he had then invited Beck to check the bag for the money, with Beck confirming that Milton was telling the truth. Despite this, Milton had then told the crew that everything they stole from the bank should be considered as nothing more than scraps, questioning if that was all that they wanted and if they all wanted to simply leave Atlanta with this small amount of money and never return, but offers them to become something more than they already are, using the money to build their army and take on the city soon.

Meanwhile, Jay visits the cemetery, sitting near the grave of his wife and son, and stays there, talking to them about his crusade and how bad it's turning him into a monster, but relents when he embraces himself for who he is and leaves. With money from the McCreedy Check Cashing, Milton turned his crew into a micro-army that caused chaos across Atlanta. Milton promises himself to abandon his lifestyle and start a new life but not before he finishes with Roberts. Dumont is tracking the movements of Milton's crew and informs Roberts about their location. Roberts kills several crew members, including Marcus. Using Marcus' phone, Roberts learns about a woman who had a connection with Milton's crew. Roberts attends the *Tipsy Tommy Bar* and convinces Tammy (one of the bartenders) to tell him about Milton's crew and Tammy informs him about their hideout. Outside of the bar, Roberts is confronted by 6 of Milton's men, however, Roberts quickly takes down all of them and learns about a bounty.

Together with Zachary, Roberts takes position near Valhalla, observing Milton and preparing for an attack. They discuss Milton and Roberts admits that he is not too dissimilar to him, although Zachary argues that, unlike Milton, he cares about people. However, Milton is aware of Roberts and Dumont, as well as their upcoming attack, and organizes an ambush. As Dumont was covering him from the rooftop, Roberts infiltrated Valhalla with the sole intention of eliminating Milton. However, he is caught in the trap set by Milton, who orders his crew to brutally attack Roberts. Milton orders the crew to finish the exhausted and wounded Roberts. Meanwhile, other crew members were confronted by Dumont. Dumont proceeds to fight back, but he ends up killing them, much to Dumont's regret. Roberts manages to fight back and kills multiple crew members before proceeding to chase Milton. After the brutal firefight with Milton's men, Roberts opens fire on the office where Milton is hiding. However, he goes to the office and sees three women, shot to death and is horrified that he killed innocent people, as Milton planned. Upon the shootings, Jay passed out from his injuries. However, Jay is brought back to a hospital in New Devereux, Louisiana, where he is nursed back to health. Upon waking up, Jay is introduced to Terrence Young, a crime lord, and he orders his man to unlock Jay. As Jay disarms him, he threatens Terrence but backs down as Terrence gives him a choice to eat and talk or kill him after ordering his guards to walk away. Jay and Terrence talk about their pasts and for a moment, Jay understands his motives and respects Terrence, but he's still willing to kill him since he is a criminal, which earned Terrence's respect.

Seeing the potential in him, Terrence offers Jay a position to join Gladiator of Reality and the opportunity to earn 8 million dollars, to which Jay agrees. At the arena, Jay goes by the Ghost moniker and kills 7 contestants. However, Terrence brings Jay to him and tells him that the last guy is a brute and he's the best contestant, so he orders Jay not to kill him and just knock him out, to which Jay nods. During the fight, the contestant puts up a difficult fight, nearly killing Jay, but this results in Jay brutally killing him, breaking the deal. After that, Terrence is disappointed in Jay and orders his men to take him somewhere private for a "talk". As they near a corner, Jay breaks off his restraints and kills the men, leading to his escape.

Hiding in an apartment, Jay plans out his attack on Terrence's empire, starting from his money laundering rackets to his numbers rackets, weakening his operations and angering Terrence. Jay also killed his underboss, further weakening Terrence's grip on the city.

While hiding, Jay plays a recording of Terrence and Milton discussing their final plan and Terrence has leveraged out the manpower and has called in every favor he could, but none of it made any difference. He knows he wouldn't last ten minutes out on the streets with Jay hunting him, so he tells Milton to call up whatever men they have left and have them meet them at the Sunshine Hotel & Casino and orders him to kill Jay as he steps foot here. Before leaving, Jay destroys all evidence and heads to the casino.

After fighting through all of the men at the casino, Jay finally reaches Milton. He tells him that he always thought he was his friend, and that he had his back. But it was all an act; Milton didn't try to kill him because he said no, but because he thought he owned him, like a pawn. Milton says it was never about him, instead it was about himself. He would do anything for himself, the same as Jay would do for Daryl. With that, Jay says that he will understand why he has to do this. Jay kills Milton by pushing his combat knife into Milton's torso. Jay then finds a key in Milton's vest, which he uses to call the elevator to access the penthouse. During the short ride, he admires the gold ring that once belonged to Lilly and has a vision of Lilly telling Jay how he will never be alone.

With Milton dead, Jay enters Terrence's office to find him looking out the window admiring the view. Terence says he remembers a time when it was nothing more than a backwater shithole ran by a vicious maniac. As Jay holds his gun on him, Terrence turns and says that whatever was between them is over; it ended the moment it was Jay coming up the stairs instead of Milton. He then offers Jay a drink. He says that he ordered a bottle of expensive Scotch to celebrate the opening of the casino, and remarks how that will not come to pass. Jay dryly remarks "Does not look like it".

As the two sit and drink, they discuss their recurring nightmares. The one that gets Terrence the most is that of his family's funeral. They're laid out in a shitty little casket, neck cut the same as his brother's; this one comes around every three days. Jay then describes one he has where he's back in Afghanistan, sleeping in a foxhole when suddenly some dark figures hold him down, tie his hands, and stuff a muddy rag in his mouth. Unable to warn the men sleeping next to him, he has to listen as they all die. Terrence says he doesn't imagine that one will go away any time soon, to which Jay agrees.

Terrence explains that all of this started because he was trying to keep his nightmare from coming true, but it didn't end well. He says he's buried a lot of people, more than he can count, but the one he never wanted to see go down into that cold ground was his family. Yet here they are: Milton and his men are dead, and Terrence's having a drink with the man who killed them.

Terrence describes how he's never had it in him to apologize for what he's done, and if he did, he'd just be lying. He doesn't have it in him to feel shame for the things he's done; in fact, he never has since most of the men he killed were worse than he was. He also knows that Jay didn't come there for an apology, but he was right about Jay. He knew it the second he met him and admits that men like them are wired up wrong. There's only one thing they know, and one thing they're good at. Terrence ends the conversation by saying that he'll be waiting for Jay and that this won't be the last time they see each other. Jay agrees before grabbing his pistol, leading the two to engage in a brutal fight. As Terrence got the upper hand, Jay stabbed him and in his last moments, Terrence told Jay that he had 80 million somewhere and wanted him to take 30 million while handing his family the rest since they would need it. Jay nods and holds Terrence's hand as he succumbs to his wounds, ending his reign on New Devereux. Jay does honor Terrence's wishes by sending his family the money and leaves New Devereux for good, despite having heavy remorse upon killing him due to the fact they were the same.

After a year, Jay arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to get ready to leave the country for good. Meanwhile, a plane carrying corrupt foreign military leader General Jose Ramon Torrez is headed to Dulles International Airport under extradition for using American funds to buy drugs to finance his dictatorship. Waiting to meet Torrez's plane is disgraced former Colonel Robert James and a group of ex-military sympathizers who supported Torrez's actions. Suspicious, Jay follows two of James' men into a restricted baggage sorting area where a gunfight ensues. He kills one man, but the other escapes.

With the help of Mordecai, Jay discovers that the dead man's fingerprints correspond to an American soldier who died in a helicopter accident four years ago. Putting this together with Torrez's imminent arrival, he tries

## Personality

As shown in a few flashbacks, Jay is typically known as a calm, wise man, being a good friend and dedicated father. However, he will stubbornly cling to his strong personal moral code, which ultimately cost him his entire life as a happy individual.

Jay is shown throughout the series as an open-minded, hard-working, and self-confident individual that only went to nightclubs and parties to have fun, but it's revealed that he is a highly pessimistic and hardened veteran who suffers from a severe post-traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to civilian life, which is especially complicated because of prejudice against returning soldiers after WW3 ended. He is shown to be highly prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers in the Third World War. Due to his PTSD, he has difficulty talking about his problems and he is too scarred from trauma to open up to most people. The only people he trusts in the world are his late wife, Tamara (a prostitute that he saved from Duke), Samuel Dalton, and Beaver (his arms dealer), and he still has only told Samuel about one of the brutal deaths he witnessed. This makes Jay look like a simple bloodthirsty killer to most people, but in reality, he is so overwhelmed with self-hatred and nightmarish memories that he can't talk to anybody or at least leave his house until he feels so. Because of that, he rarely speaks until spoken to or asks/answers questions, as he chooses not to engage with most people and only speaks directly to a few people that he could trust. As he grows older, he becomes extremely bitter and angry at the world, even leading to him casually swearing and making snide comments under his breath at people, and downright insulting people, believing that people are extremely selfish and are only out for themselves and getting what they want while making people suffer for their intentions, showing that he had developed an extremely cynical and pessimistic worldview and claimed to himself as a survivor and a nobody in a "f\*\*ked up world" where people kill each other or sell drugs for their benefit. After losing his right eye and left leg for the past 15 years, Jay grew more distant and somewhat accepting of the fact that he can't save everyone and chose to leave the town at the mercy of the bikers, which began to show that Jay is starting to become a powerless and highly insecure coward that is straying from combat due to his injuries.

As the series progressed, he is truly displayed as a man who genuinely wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do anything to save his friends and the people he cares about from any danger, despite being highly cynical. Due to his violent nature and his strong use of brutality against people that tried to kill him, many civil people tend to fear him, except for Sam Dalton, who is his boss and most likely his only father figure who understands him and the pain and torture he had endured in the war and is the only one able to understand the problems he has since he learned from his father, who was a military veteran. Despite his cold and brooding demeanor, it's implied Jay did care for people and reveals to Sam that he did form a bond with his fellow soldiers and that his combat skill and general care for all members of the Reapers have led him to be looked up to, and allowed him to take the leadership role within the group in the past, having a strong sense of compassion for others. Relying on his military skills and survival tactics, Jay has evolved into a battle-hardened survivor who will protect anyone whom he cares about without question. In many ways, Jay has displayed strong violent tendencies and even showed intense ruthlessness and mercilessness; being ready to destroy a threat without a moment's hesitation and not trusting anyone except for himself or his group. Given the fact he knew that with the world the way it is now, he claims that you either become stronger and die with dignity and sincerity or live in constant fear with slight dishonesty, making him far more cold-hearted and callous and much more pragmatic in his viewpoint. However, unlike the men he killed, and despite his coldness, Jay retains most of his morality and honor for the sake of himself and the people he cares for, looking to his dead allies and family members for guidance and even coming back to religion in making sure that he doesn't completely lose his sanity and devolve into another antagonist himself. This contrasts with most antagonists, who only cared about personal survival and used people for their benefit.

Despite his ruthless and cold-hearted demeanor and bleak worldview, Jay has slowly begun to lose more of his violent traits and has adopted a more peaceful and democratic way of living, genuinely trying to avoid violence in general and while this made most of his former allies go against him, his stubbornness to follow his moral code has prevented Jay from committing horrific crimes and only spared people that posed no threat to him. While he is a mercenary, it's later revealed that he is only doing the work for paying off his debts and admitted to Lucille that he enjoyed fighting people as he traveled, showing a prideful attitude to violence, but claimed that he is more honorable, only killing people that deserved it or posed a huge threat, showing that he viewed violence as cold, necessary, and without feeling while only using it as a last-ditch attempt, only preferring diplomatic reasons to convince them into giving up. His morality made him immune to threats, bribery, and blackmail, and given his cynical attitude, he often assumed (sometimes rightfully) the character, intentions, and flaws of a person, and as seen with Dalton, he displayed shock when he found out that he tried to kill him and for committing these crimes and anger/sorrow after realizing that Dalton had to die for his betrayal and for using him as an assassin for fame. Even though he wanted to leave the town, Jay chose to go back and fight against the bikers to save the town, finally regaining his courage and accepting that while he is trying to avoid violence, he can choose how to use his military training for good.

In short, Jay is a combat-hardened veteran that had intense cynicism and managed to redeem himself by following his footsteps and giving up his life as a mercenary to live a peaceful life

## Appearance

Jay is an American man with dark brown eyes, black hair, and a light skin complexion. According to his file by Perkins, Jay is standing at 5'9 or 5'10 and weighs over 245 pounds. Unlike his counterparts, Jay is seen with several scars on his body (most notably on his face) from years of fighting, which made him more intimidating with the combination of his military training. He sports a crew cut (later a swept-back undercut fade) and a heavy stubble beard and according to most people, he is often described as "a ruggedly handsome operator with skills".

Jay is shown to have a heavily built muscular physique and sports various tattoos, such as:

* **Black Scorpion Tattoo** (right bicep): Represented his emotional resilience and getting rid of his past mistakes and his love for weaponry.
* **Tribal Tattoo** (entire left arm except for the underside): Represented his love for various Oceanic traditions.
* **United States Army Tattoo** (upper back): Represented his service for the Army.
* **United States Army Eagle Tattoo** (lower back): Represented his pride and service for the Army.
* **Infantry Logo Tattoo** (left pec): Represented his job position in the Army and enjoyed fighting in Infantry.
* **Love & War** (gun and heart) **Tattoo** (right pec): Represented his internal conflict between leaving his life and fighting.
* **Familie für immer** (Family Forever in German) **Tattoo** (right underarm forearm): Represented his strong faith and love for his family.
* **Venator sum** (I'm the Hunter in Latin) **Tattoo** (left underarm forearm): Represented his strong combat abilities and hunting skills.
* **Loyalty Dreamcatcher Tattoo** (right calf): Represented his loyalty to his family and PMC.
* **Floral Tattoo** (right upper forearm): Represented his non-violent nature and his family tradition.
* **7-2 Card Tattoo** (left wrist): Represented his involvement in 4 special operation groups (Rangers, Green Berets, Delta Force, and the CIA).

During his military service, Jay either wore the famous ACU in an OCP pattern or tactical clothing during his time with Delta Force.

Throughout the series, he began to wear different outfits in the chapters:

1st Chapter/2nd Chapter/3rd Chapter (2042):

* **Bed Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing a gray tank top, dark blue boxer briefs, and a Fitbit watch on his left wrist, presumably to keep track of his hours. He usually wore slippers.
* **Outdoors Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing a dark red athletic t-shirt, gray athletic shorts, and black running shoes, presumably for jogging and other exercise routines.
* **Work Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray flannel shirt, a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and brown cowboy boots. He is seen for the first time wearing his military dog tags. He usually wore black-rimmed glasses and according to Lara, the glasses often made him look "Hollywood attractive".
* **Street Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing an olive green (switched to dark blue in the 2nd chapter and white in the 3rd chapter) long-sleeved shirt, dark blue jeans, black combat boots, and a G-Shock watch. In combat, he often wore tan gloves, a hip holster, and an SDS BAE plate carrier.
* **Nightclub Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray suit to infiltrate the Tech nightclub. He usually wore a black zip-up tie and a small-in-the-back holster for his sidearm.
* **Work Outfit #2**: Jay is seen wearing a black combat uniform during his on-duty hours for Dalton Enterprises. Unlike the others, he wore no headgear.

4th Chapter/5th Chapter/6th Chapter/7th Chapter (2045):

* **Street Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing a dark blue patterned shirt, blue jeans, and gray running shoes. He put on a ballistic vest during the raid on the Russians' hideout. He has usually seen with his hair grown out into a swept-back undercut fade and appeared to be clean-shaven, having shaved his heavy stubble beard.
* **Street Outfit** **#2**: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray t-shirt, blue jeans, a black leather jacket, black combat boots, black fingerless gloves, and his dog tags. He wore this throughout the 4th chapter.
* **Casual Outfit**: Jay wore a black suit during Sam's promotion to commander.
* **Street Outfit #3**: Jay is seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and tan combat boots. He notably used concealable body armor in his fight against the Reaper.
* **Combat Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing OCP pants, tan boots, and a tan (switched to dark green in the 6th chapter) t-shirt. He wore body armor against the Reapers during his pursuit.

8th Chapter/9th Chapter (2050):

* **Street Outfit**: Jay is seen wearing a dark gray t-shirt, blue jeans, a black leather jacket, and black combat boots. He often took parts of the enemy's uniform (plate carriers, holsters) to blend in to save Lucy from Dexter.
* **Street Outfit #2**: Jay is seen wearing a black t-shirt (switched to a fitted gray tank top), blue jeans, a green army jacket, black combat boots, and body armor during his pursuit of Dexter's younger brother.

10th Chapter (2065):

* **Street Outfit**: Jay wore a tan canvas jacket, a gray t-shirt, and olive cargo pants. He wore brown cowboy boots. Due to his past injuries from attacking the compound, Jay is seen with a blind right eye and a prosthetic leg on his left side since his leg was crushed by debris. He appears to be older, with graying hair to a buzzcut and a light stubble beard.

## Skills

* **High Intelligence**: Jay was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to avoid dangerous situations using incredible street smarts. He was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain the trust of enemies to blend in with their organization and to complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* **Criminology**: As a former mercenary, Jay has exceptional insight into how the criminal underworld operated and how illegal activities work, such as mercenary groups and feared crime families. He also displayed extensive knowledge of illegal narcotics, able to tell what kind of drugs the Georgia criminal underworld was moving and selling.
* **Intimidation**: Due to his title as "The Ghost" and his exceptional combat abilities as a former Delta operative, Jay is widely known and feared within the criminal underworld and was so infamous that even his title strikes fear and terror into the hearts and souls of his enemies that incurred his wrath. Jay used his combat abilities and title to lure enemies away from him, even using a simple Ace of Spades card and placing it on an enemy's corpse to further fuel more fear toward him. His skill set and efficiency for killing criminals rapidly became so infamous that the ex-soldier became known as the "Ghost" due to his ability to wipe out an entire group quickly and efficiently and disappear without any issue, making even the most dangerous gangs fear him to a large extent.
* **Hacking Skills**: After learning from CIA technicians, he is an intermediate hacker with complete access to even the most secret government servers to find his targets and trace their locations with relative ease. He can jam communications, cause blackouts, and disable security systems.
* **Multilingualism**: Jay is shown to be fluent in several languages, including English, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin (to a certain degree), French, Russian, Irish Gaelic, Japanese, and Arabic. Out of the languages (only 6 are trickier for him to speak due to his speech impediment), Spanish is his most spoken as he communicated with several Argentinian soldiers and German as he went to Germany to do a dead-drop.
* **Skilled Physician**: Jay appears to have extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as intermediate first aid and medicine, as shown during his self-healing scenes where he puts slight pressure on his severe wounds. He is shown to be extremely knowledgeable in pressure points, as shown during his sparring match with Nichols, the hand-to-hand expert of the Ghosts.
* **Master Tactician**: As a former Infantryman that joined the Rangers, the Green Berets, Delta Force, and the CIA SAD, Jay is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He's also a highly skilled tracker, having collected information with relative ease to find his targets and their locations while on a mission. He is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of both allies and enemies just by watching them. He is a skilled negotiator and interrogator, capable of presenting facts and telling lies without inducing intense emotion. He is a very effective leader and mentor, having trained, fought, and led his Reapers and a large number of Delta operatives into various battles with strategic facts and thinking, which made him far more dangerous. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using explosives to take out various militia groups and picking out the stragglers with ease, as a lone wolf. As shown in the raid against the Russian arms depot, Jay is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of skilled operatives to help take out various Russian soldiers.
* **Expert Spy**: Having worked in Delta Force and the CIA SAD, Jay is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's adept at blending in with his surroundings and easily sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds.
* **Stealth Mastery**: Jay is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations, using his hacking skills to disable communications and light sources, and using the environment around him to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. He's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where he can easily eliminate them or pass by them to move to the objective.
* **Skilled Engineer**: Jay is a very skilled mechanic and engineer that is capable of manipulating and using objects and machinery around him to gain an advantage. He's also capable of using makeshift traps out of common household supplies and military weaponry to deter his enemies and has modified his vehicle to take a beating.
* **Skilled Scientist**: Jay has shown to be somewhat knowledgeable in poison and was able to concoct poisons to either incapacitate or kill his enemies. Combined with his charm, Jay can use poison whenever he saw an opportunity in the form of food and was capable of using it efficiently to make the death look like an accident.
* **Connections**: Having worked with a few prison groups, and various mercenary groups, Jay has a vast set that he can use to gain an advantage over his enemies, even with weapons dealers, criminal informants, and government officials.
* **Forensics Specialist**: Jay is very capable of making a "clean job" while working with paramilitary groups by using the silent approach to minimize mass destruction. Whenever he kills his targets, he tries to make the deaths look like either a gang attack or a simple accident.
* **Expert Driver**: During his time on the battlefield, Jay has shown exceptional driving skills to the point where he is even capable of driving manual cars, mechanicalized vehicles (tanks, APCs, boats, and helicopters), and motorcycles with ease.
* **Master Marksman**: As shown in various fights and having been a Delta operator, Jay is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during his fights). He's also skilled with using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers, light machine guns, and flamethrowers as well as using mounted weaponry. Due to his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Jay has shown to be extremely skilled with bows and scavenging, and using whatever firearm the enemy has to achieve his goals. Jay can blend his marksmanship with hand-to-hand skills, being able to grapple, disarm, and even use his enemies' weaponry against them with precision. Jay is also seen to slightly calculate the trajectory of his weapons and used them to great effect, such as shooting an RPG at a lightly armored car with some difficulty. He is also capable of firing heavier weapons one-handed and dual-wielding pistols and accurately landing shots at enemies with relative ease. As shown in several scenes, he is capable of drawing his sidearm out and accurately gunning down men with relative ease, making him a deadly marksman in close combat.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Having been trained in the Army and taking classes throughout his life, Jay is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Boxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Wrestling (both freestyle and Greco-Roman), Sambo, Krav Maga, Hapkido, Kyokushin Karate, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Taekwondo, and Eskrima/Kali. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once. Due to his quick wit, Jay can adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to turn their strengths against them as seen in his fights with Duke Bennett, Ned, Lucas Wolf, Martin Adler, and a few Ghosts and Green Hive mercenaries. He also sometimes makes use of dirty tactics, such as eye gouges, biting, and striking the groin, and the environment around him to gain an advantage. Despite being older, Jay is still capable of fighting, such as he managed to beat various enemies with minimal ease.
* **Knife Mastery**: Jay is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, Jay can use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight and has shown deadly expertise with a machete as shown during his fights. Due to his background as a freelance mercenary, he learned Iaido, Kendo, and Ninjutsu and used them effectively.
* **Improvised Weapon Mastery**: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Jay is very good with using whatever tools that he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, as when he used a metal pipe to unsuccessfully knock out Ned. Due to his engineering skills, Jay was very capable of making makeshift traps with minimal resources to maim and kill opponents.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As a former soldier of the United States Army, an operative of the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 5th Special Forces Group, and Delta Force, and a freelance mercenary, Jay has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* **Peak Human Strength**: Despite his build, Jay is very strong, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a skilled operator with a single strike, breaking their bones and necks with ease, breaking through walls and glass with some difficulty, and surprisingly ripping out their throats, eyes, and ears with relative ease, which shocked allies and enemies alike. Jay could also break out of handcuffs and other restraints fairly easily due to his specialized training. His strength is somewhat near inhuman to a degree, as shown when he punched through a brick wall during his fight with Lucas and could lift and slam an operative to the ground while gouging the eyes. One possible explanation of his strength comes from his intense exercise regime that involved strength training, which would explain his capability to do nearly difficult tasks that the average man couldn't.
* **Peak Human Durability**: Jay is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. Jay can survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings/slashes, and blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain. The greatest feats of his durability were surviving a brutal torture session by the Red Order Syndicate (broken ribs, a gunshot wound near the heart, a severe beating, etc) and a severe beating from Martin Adler, as seen as he was capable of withstanding heavier punches from him, who's more skilled in hand-to-hand and utilized brute strength. His durability also made him tougher to kill, as evidenced during his fight against Lucas Wolf, as seen as he fought him evenly, despite being injured and the fact that Wolf is more younger and agile than him.
* **Peak Human Speed**: Despite being middle-aged, Jay is extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. Jay can outrun his opponents and can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. Jay's speed made him more dangerous in combat as he used his anatomical knowledge to quickly injure an enemy.
* **Peak Human Agility**: Jay has extreme amounts of stamina. He can fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. He can flip and spin his way out of incoming gunfire with the impressive feats of an experienced gymnast and vault, scale, and traverse through difficult terrains and obstacles with ease. Even with being extremely injured or tired, Jay required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* **Peak Human Reflexes**: Jay has incredible reflexes. Due to his time on the battlefield, Jay has displayed a fast reaction time, as he can easily evade bullets and melee attacks during combat. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, Jay can correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and act effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit him in the field. His senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear, smell, and sense his enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes, raids, and sniper fire with ease. He is notably quick enough to react and kill several men with ease.
* **High Pain Tolerance**: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Jay has been frequently injured throughout the series, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds, stabbing, blunt force trauma, and physical blows with ease. As shown in his fights with numerous opponents like Damien Barrett, Martin Adler, Lucas Wolf, some of the Ghosts, Royce Talbot, and various enemies, Jay has shown that he can outlast and outwit them by using his injuries against them, opening them up for a counter-attack.

## Equipment

* **H&K MK-23**: Jay's primary sidearm. He notably used the pistol to kill several mercenaries and Underworld associates with relative ease. His MK23 is usually suppressor-equipped, with an Osprey 45 square suppressor.
* **FN FNP 45 Tactical**: Jay's on-duty sidearm. He usually carries it and used it to kill most of Dalton's men until switching it to another pistol.
* **Glock 17**: Jay's secondary sidearm. He notably bought it from Beaver and used it for the remainder of the series, having carried it for loud missions. His Glock is the 4th Gen model with a flared mag-well, a ported barrel/slide, night sights, and textured grips.
* **Kimber Warrior**: Jay's temporary sidearm.
* **Colt 629 Classic**: Jay's hunting sidearm. He notably carried it as a safety measure to protect himself against bears. His revolver is outfitted with Hogue grips and a ported barrel.
* **Colt M4 (M4A1) Carbine:** Roberts' primary firearm. He notably used the rifle numerous times throughout the series, even using it to open doors, disable vehicles, and knock out/kill enemies silently. His rifle is the SOPMOD version outfitted with an EOTech HHS V hybrid sight, a Magpul AFG (Angled Foregrip), a custom pistol grip, Magpul PMAGs with Ranger Plates, and a Magpul MOE stock.
* **H&K HK-416**: Roberts' on-duty primary firearm. He mainly carries the rifle on patrol and hostage missions. His HK416 is customized with a Magpul CTR stock, a suppressor, an EoTech 512 holographic sight, a 45-degree offset sight, a Magpul AFG, and an AN/PEQ-2A IR designator.
* **M100 SASS (Knight's Armament SR-25):** Roberts' primary marksman rifle. He notably used the rifle two separate times as sniper support during his time in Delta. The M100 is outfitted with a sound suppressor and a laser sight.
* **Remington M2010 ESP**: Roberts' secondary marksman rifle. He notably used it to kill several enemies before discarding it.
* **Remington 700**: Roberts' hunting rifle. He notably used it to bag various rabbits and deer himself to make jerky.
* **Mossberg 590:** Roberts' primary shotgun. As a CQC-operated weapon, Jay strongly used the Mossberg to breach doors, subduing targets, and intimidation skills. The Mossberg used by Roberts is the Mossberg 590A1 outfitted with Ghost Ring sights, a heat shield, an extended magazine tube, and a collapsible stock.
* **Benelli M4 Super 90**: Roberts' secondary shotgun. Jay strongly used the Benelli throughout the series whenever he needed heavier firepower. He bought the weapon from Beaver and it's outfitted with Mossberg-styled ghost ring sights, a shell holder, a door breacher muzzle brake, a heat shield, and a fixed stock.

## Awards

WW3 (World War III)

* Medal of Honor
* Purple Heart
* Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)
* Distinguished Service Medal (DSM)
* Defense Distinguished Service Medal
* Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal
* Soldier's Medal
* POW Medal

The Argentinian Civil War

* Army Good Conduct Medal
* National Defense Service Medal
* Distinguished Flying Cross
* Humanitarian Service Medal
* Army Service Ribbon
* Purple Heart (x2)
* Silver Star (x2)
* Armed Forces Service Medal
* Army Achievement Medal
* Army Commendation Medal
* Joint Service Commendation Medal
* Joint Service Achievement Medal
* Meritorious Service Medal
* Air Medal
* Defense Meritorious Service Medal
* Soldier's Medal
* Defense Superior Service Medal

Badges

* Combat Infantryman Badge
* Combat Action Badge
* Ranger Tab
* Special Forces Tab
* Combat Service Ribbon
* Airborne Tab