Jacob Lee

* Cargo Pilot
* B.I.P. Prisoner
* Armored Suit

### Notable Facts

The main protagonist of The Callisto Protocol and The Callisto Protocol: Final Transmission

> I don't know what the hell's going on! My ship crashed, I got thrown in here, and then I woke up to this!
>
> Jacob Lee to Elias Porter

**Jacob Lee,** also known as "**John Callisto"** by fans, was the central character, and the primary protagonist of *The Callisto Protocol*. He was a cargo ship pilot working alongside with a co- contracted transport carrier named Max Barrow. Set in the year 2320, the two contract freight transporters were working for the United Jupiter Company (UJC). Their goal was to eventually retire. However, there is an unexpected ambush during their supply run of medical supplies from Europa to Callisto, the coldest moon of Jupiter.

En route with their routine delivery, a terrorist organization known as the Outer Way decided to board into Max and Jacob's ship. Led by Dani Nakamura, the Outer Way is a resistance group dedicated to uncovering all the secrets behind the United Jupiter Company. However, Max loses his own life when their ship landed on the colder surface of Callisto and Jacob is rescued by the security personnel seemingly all under strict orders of the Warden. Jacob was then escorted to Black Iron Prison by Captain Leon Ferris.

Jacob is then held against his will, forced to undergo registration and processing as inmate 532-521. Dr. Caitlyn Mahler implants a CORE Device in Jacob's neck, the policy for all prison personnel and inmates. Because of this, he is than falsely imprisoned as a convict of Black Iron Prison, the largest maximum-security penitentiary. His identification number is later registered throughout their security system as Prisoner #521. Unbeknownst to him, all of the other inmates have begun transforming into horrifying monsters and they were attacking others. Automated androids that were once controlled by the prison staff have started rejecting their own orders and are also killing anyone in sight, including most other guards.

## Events of Callisto Protocol

### 'Cargo'

In 2320, Jacob, along with his partner Max Barrow were transporting a mysterious cargo to Jupiter's dead moon Callisto for the United Jupiter Company. However, during Jacob's investigation inside the cargo area of their ship, a mysterious woman and her partner had boarded the ship and attempted to steal the cargo. Jacob finds that their ship has been boarded by the Outer Way, a terrorist group. He tries to sneak past the interlopers and goes back to the cockpit. The Outer Way catches up to him and Jacob opens the airlock in attempt to stop them, only for the woman to shoot a hole through the window of the cargo hold. Jacob was forced to make an emergency landing on Callisto, despite not having any emergency clearance to land, and Max was killed as a result. Security units then came into the ship with Captain Leon Ferris behind them. Jacob discovered the mysterious woman was Dani Nakamura, a member of the Outer Way. Captain Ferris imprisons Jacob in the Black Iron Prison facility along with Dani. He was placed in the Cell Blocks while Nakamura was sent to the Special Housing Unit, falling unconscious during a CORE Device procedure. After dreaming of a mysterious pink box and hallucinating his deceased partner, Jacob awakens to discover that a mass breakout had started in the prison.

### 'Outbreak'

He comes across a longtime inmate known as Elias Porter. Elias gives Jacob a shiv to defend himself with and instructed him to access the control room in the Cell Blocks to open his cell door. Once Jacob arrived, he killed a few gang member inmates and while retrieving the crowbar, discovered that a Biophage outbreak had also started. Jacob killed the Grunt and successfully opened up Elias' cell. Informing Elias of what he witnessed, despite Elias disbelief, Jacob is then told to head to the Watchtower to meet up with him. After encountering more Grunts, he makes his way to an elevator, only to be taken down to Solitary instead of up to the Watchtower. Jacob continues despite this, encountering a Security Unit brutally executing two inmates, sneaking around the patrolling Security Unit and heading through the Medical Wing. He soon encounters Captain Ferris, who is distracted with the breakout occurring in the prison. Jacob attempts to sneak around Ferris but is spotted, who freezes him with the Gravity Restraint Projector. Pulling Jacob to him, he initially questions how he had entered the Watchtower, before shooting him across the table in frustration, accusing Jacob of starting the outbreak, asking himself why Warden Cole wanted Jacob alive. Noticing a group of Grunts blocked off beside him, Jacob pulls out the shiv, using it to slice the restraint on the door, letting the Grunts into the room as he escaped, and watching Ferris get tackled through the Watchtower window.

### 'Aftermath'

Elias contacts Jacob again, informing him of a safe room up ahead from the Watchtower. Jacob later reaches the safe room as he and Elias reunite again, giving him a Hand Cannon. After Jacob reprints the weapon, he tells him his plan to commandeer and fly a ship to escape from Callisto, with Jacob being the one to fly it. Problems arise with this plan, being that the ship is currently in orbit and they need a specific inmate to hack the systems to allow it to land, and that inmate is being held in a place known as the SHU. Elias knows how to access the SHU from the safe room and guides Jacob as he makes his way to the SHU. Leaving the safe room, Jacob encounters a new Biophage attacking and killing a prison guard, infecting them in the process. Encountering the new mutants as he heads through the Laundry area to the Medical Wing. Finally making it, Jacob notices some infected inmates being held in isolation, displaying strange symptoms as they pounded against their containment. Jacob ventures further through the wing, acquiring a GRP worn by the guards, allowing him to utilize kinesis against the Grunts. Arriving at the Maintenance Wing, Jacob finds dead soldiers littered everywhere throughout the wing. Elias opens up the maintenance elevator, sending Jacob falling into the Basement Storage. After encountering the Bloodworm, Jacob uses another elevator to ascend to SHU. Meeting Elias again, Jacob has to ride a gondola towards the actual housing unit. Jacob finds himself surrounded, fending off many enemies as he waits for the power to cycle. Finally making it to SHU, Jacob investigates the cells looking for the inmate, only to be ambushed by Dani, locking Jacob in her cell, Elias catches up to the altercation and Dani tells them both that she won't help them, telling Elias to not trust Jacob before leaving. The cell descends and docks, sending Jacob towards Waste Processing.

### 'Habitat'

Avoiding more enemies and traps designed to kill escaping prisoners, Jacob arrives at a control room, the next goal being to access a tram that will take them to a hanger, Elias warns him of an impending storm, before telling him to head towards the Habitat Dome. Making his way towards the Dome, Jacob encounters the Corruptor devouring a corpse. Following a recording left by Elias, Jacob has to drain tank number 6 of water to proceed further. Encountering a dead guard, he notices writing on the wall above his corpse, written in blood, saying "Shoot the Tentacles," before later encountering a mutated Big Mouth. While waiting for the tank to drain, Jacob notices the corpses of both inmates and guards entombed in cocoons on the ceiling, realizing he's not alone, a PA system indicates an anomaly being present, revealing it to be the Corrupter he noticed earlier. After fighting them off, he ascends a ladder heading towards the pipe, making his way through, but he is suddenly flushed through the pipe by a wave of water, being attacked by a Corrupter as he reaches the end of the pipe. Managing to pull himself up to safety, Jacob arrives at the Habitat Dome, noticing the tram station in the distance, Elias contacts him and tells him to power up the station to make it operational. Obtaining a code owned from a dead guard, Jacob powers up the station and meets back up with Elias, running into a nearby airlock. Elias mentions the evolving Biophages to Jacob, telling him to wear the Armored Suit as they will need to head into the storm. Both are surprised at Ferris' sudden appearance and are flushed out of the airlock.

### 'Lost'

Jacob heads towards the heavy snowstorm after some initial difficulties with his visor inhibiting his oxygen supply. Finding Elias in bad shape, Elias thanks Jacob for helping him get out before passing away. Encountering Dani, she grabs the data implant from Elias' corpse, she leaves Jacob behind, telling him that he can come along with her, as long as he can quickly get to a hanger. Leaving him behind, Jacob makes his way the hanger on foot, encountering Combustors as he reaches a garage. Jacob is saved from certain death by Dani, who is fighting off other Biophages. Helping her fend them off, Dani reluctantly forms a truce with Jacob in order to escape from Callisto. Needing to repair a snowcat, Jacob works towards opening the doors of the garage. Heading through a field of frozen Biophages, he meets back up with Dani at the snowcat, who, instead of heading towards the hanger, detours towards Jacob's crashed ship, looking for evidence of guilt to use against Jacob. Her efforts prove to be useless, as it's revealed that the mysterious cargo Jacob and Max were transporting were just medical supplies. Seeing a hallucination of Max behind Dani, Jacob believes his implant is messing with his head, and they both depart the crashed ship and head to the hanger. Calling the ship from orbit, a hologram of Warden Cole appears, stopping their attempt to escape as the ship is shot down, destroying both their attempt to escape and the hangar. Jacob is sent flying off the edge of the hangar, crashing through a vent. Envisioning Max again, he is brought into a dream of the terrorist attack on Europa, but is woken up by Dani. Checking a nearby monitor, she is surprised to find that they are trapped inside an old abandoned colony known as Arcas, a colony that was sealed off from Callisto 75 years ago, with Black Iron Prison being built on top of it. Needing to head back through Black Iron, Jacob initially protests her idea, but Dani argues back with needing answers, the first being why the Warden would shoot down his own ships, and how the Biophage outbreak is connected to the attack on Europa. Needing to confront Warden Cole with these questions, Dani and Jacob head for an elevator that can take them to the colony's transport area. Both get separated as Jacob falls into the depths of the Transport Hub.

### 'Below'

Coming across new Biophages, known as the Blind. Sneaking around the infected remnants of the colony, Jacob resets the breakers of a generator that powers up an old cargo platform, setting it off to meet back with Dani. Getting onto the platform, he is greeted with a new enemy, A Two-Headed Brute, who he kills as he arrives at the colony. Dani contacts Jacob and tells him to head towards a brightly lit tower. Jacob meets up with Dani at the tower, finding her hooked up to a deceased colonist. he disconnects her from the corpse and she attacks him in a rage, accusing Jacob of 'killing them all.' They both descend into the Town Square, finding the charred remnants of the colonists, who were murdered by the UJC after an outbreak had started in the colony. Both are attacked by a mutated Two-Headed Brute, being separated again, Jacob fights through more infected and meets back up with Dani, passing through a medical wing.

### 'Colony'

Entering an area of the colony with a huge dome surrounding an old mine shaft, using this as their means of heading back to Black Iron. The Dome is home to a huge laboratory, the UJC scientists using it to study and research certain organisms. A pre-recorded hologram of Dr. Mahler gives Jacob a guided tour of the lab, talking about a distress call that the UJC received from the miners of the colony, encountering a symptomology that was considered familiar. finding the symptomology the hologram described, Jacob is witness to a huge behemoth, an alien lifeform that was found in the depths of Callisto, finding many Parasites that were stored in its belly. Jacob finds a crate that he delivered to and from Callisto in the lab, rummaging through the medical supplies to find the contained Larvae of the Behemoth underneath them, realizing that he was, indirectly, responsible for the outbreak that occurred on Europa. Upon his revelation, he is interrupted by a mutated Ferris. Initially attempting to shoot him, he finds that his bullets don't do anything to the Captain. A fight ensues as Jacob and Dani make their escape from Ferris. Ferris gloats despite this as he notices Dani being infected by a Parasite behind Jacob, and Jacob pulls the Parasite off Dani, escaping to another elevator.

### 'Tower'

Arriving back at Black Iron, Jacob and Dani see the SHU and the rest of the prison enveloped in a large biomass, Dani tells Jacob that the Warden's signal must still be active in the tower, but both are intercepted and incapacitated by Security Units. Being thrown back in his cell, Jacob is contacted by Dr. Mahler, telling him that the Security Unit who captured Dani rerouted and taken to her for examination. Mahler releases Jacob from his cell as he makes his way through an old Psychiatric Ward, arriving at a state of the art laboratory. Jacob finds out that the prison had been built around this lab to conduct human experimentation with the Biophage. Confronting Dr. Mahler, she tells him that the inhibitors she is giving Dani will only delay her infection, she also tells him that Dani was there during the outbreak on Europa as she uses their CORE implants to upload Dani's memories to Jacob's implant. She claims she can make a cure, but she needs the blood of the Warden's 'Alpha' Biophage. Jacob questions her and she tells him about an infected who had reached 'symbiosis' with the Biophage but was killed during the sterilization of the Arcus colony, known as 'Subject Zero.' Warden Cole had attempted to recreate this event by releasing the Biophage into the Black Iron Prison to infect the population, an event he dubbed 'The Callisto Protocol' or what he considered the next step of human evolution. Marla leaves, pondering her role in everything before saying she deserved to remain in Black Iron. Jacob meets back up with Dani to confront the Warden, but as they both reach the tower, Jacob is met with the aftermath of Europa's outbreak, seeing the pink box he saw in his dream before being attacked by Max, demanding that Jacob look at the box, the box turns into a vial, and Jacob is brought back to before the outbreak, during a moment where Max finds him holding a vial, claiming "What we've got here...is none of our business." snapping back to reality, Jacob sees a memory of Dani fending off an infected as she mourned for her dead sister.

Returning from Dani's memories, Jacob confronts the Warden as he is having a meeting with masked men who welcome him as 'Vir Solitarius.' Jacob threatens him at gunpoint, demanding to know where the Alpha is. Cole expresses doubt at Jacob's resolve to save Dani, claiming that he's been watching them both, knowing that Jacob is not as innocent as he thinks. The mysterious voices now call Jacob 'Vir Solitarius' as Jacob calls out Cole's intentions to recreate Subject Zero in Black Iron that resulted in the deaths of many of Black Iron's population. Cole counterargues Jacob's accusation, claiming that the Callisto Protocol isn't about death, but about life. He points out towards the space visible from the sunroof, claiming that humanity's future, their destiny, lies out in space, and that through the Callisto Protocol, humanity would survive. A door opens opposite from Cole and Ferris emerges, initiating a final contest, between Humanity and his Alpha, to prove that his methods were worth the risk.

Ferris approaches Jacob as Jacob backs away from Ferris, before the Alpha said that he should thank Jacob, that he at first thought the Biophage was a curse, before realizing that it was, in fact - a gift. He continued, claiming the Warden has opened his eyes and shown him his purpose, and he would now show Jacob. Another fight between Ferris and Jacob ensues, Ferris eventually getting the upper hand despite Jacob's efforts. Before he can kill Jacob, he begins to mutate into a Behemoth, initiating the final fight between him and Jacob. Jacob eventually defeats the Behemoth, getting the sample he needed from him. Cole emerges, attempting to reason with Jacob to give him the sample, giving him an escape pod and allowing him to go back to his life before if he did. Dani walks in during this, pointing her gun at Cole, demanding her sister back, before attempting to shoot the Warden, only to realize it's his hologram she tried to shoot. Jacob injects Dani with the synthesized antidote, only to be berated by Cole's hologram, saying that what Jacob did doesn't matter, and this allows Cole to initiate "Phase 2" of the Callisto Protocol. Jacob and Dani make their way to the escape pods only to find one available. Jacob allows Dani to use the pod to escape as he stays behind, giving her a sample of the larvae as the pod is sent off.

Jacob defeats the Biophages and is contacted by Dr. Mahler, who claims to know another way out of Black Iron, only for a hallucination of Ferris to reappear, albeit deformed back to the state he was in prior to becoming a Behemoth, and the game cuts to black.

### "Final Transmission"

Dr. Mahler finds Jacob almost dead, presumably after Ferris returned and caught him off guard, in the Wardens' Tower and carries him to her lab. There, she attaches what remains of his body to life support systems in an attempt to keep him alive and uses his neuronal link with Dani to send her confessions about experiments in Black Iron. During this time, Jacob hallucinates that he embarks on a mission to reach the ship Mahler mentioned, but when he reaches it, he wakes up hanging in Mahlers' life support, missing his pelvis and legs, both arms and nearly all skin on his entire right side. He survives just long enough for Mahler to finish submitting her files, but succumbs to his wounds shortly after the transmission ends.

## Appearance

Jacob Lee is a tall, middle aged man in his early 40s, standing at 190cm and 210lbs. He is first shown with medium length brown hair and a short beard, his attire consisted of a brown bomber jacket with a digital print on the back and right arm, dark cargo pants, and boots. After crash landing in Callisto and being imprisoned in Black Iron Prison, his head is shaved, a CORE Device is forcefully implanted on the back of his neck, and dons prison attire. He later utilizes the Armored Suit at the end of Habitat, granting him additional protection in order to survive the harsh conditions outside of Black Iron Prison.

## Personality

It is currently unknown what sort of person Jacob was prior to the crash landing on Callisto, but as shown in a flashback, during a delivery prior to the Black Iron Prison Outbreak, Jacob and Max are shown talking about the contents they are delivering. While Max is more concerned about what it is, Jacob is quick to brush it off, claiming that what they're delivering is none of their business, implying that Jacob is apathetic to what he was delivering, as long as he was being paid for it. Prior to the crash, Jacob claims that the final job was going to pay them well enough to retire early and he didn't want to hear Max's arguments otherwise. Jacob is shown to be calm and collected, during combat and in between, only being frustrated that he was wrongly imprisoned. He was initially hostile with Dani Nakamura for causing the crash of his ship and the death of his partner, but he had to think past the distrust he had towards her to form a truce that would help them escape Callisto. Jacob eventually grew to care about Dani, learning from her memories that she was a survivor of the Europa outbreak, an outbreak he learns that he had indirectly caused, and grew to care about her enough to confront Warden Cole by himself to get the cure for her infection, fighting a mutated Ferris to get the sample to save her, and even sacrificing himself to allow her to escape from Callisto with a sample of the Biophage larvae.

## Equipment, Tools, and Abilities

Despite starting with no equipment, Jacob is a competent fighter, capable of fighting many of the infected that found themselves in the Black Iron Prison.

### Equipment

#### Armored Suit

Originally designed by the United Jupiter Company for the staff of Black Iron Prison, Jacob first retrieves the suit at the conclusion of Habitat. The Suit grants him increased protection against the Biophage infected and protects him from the harsh environments outside the Black Iron Prison. The Suit is slim enough to allow him to sneak around The Blind, despite their enhanced sense of hearing, and protect him against the the likes of the Two-Headed Brute and the mutated Captain Ferris.

### Tools

#### G.R.P

Also known as the Gravity Restraint Projector, A miniaturized graviton field generator used by UJC Correctional Officers to pacify inmates and manipulate objects, Jacob gets access to one during his escape, allowing him to grab enemies and objects around the environment, either pulling them towards him or push them away. This gives Jacob unique ways to dispatch enemies, such as grabbing a Biophage and throwing it into a fan or grinders.

#### CORE Device

A neck implant that is embedded in the necks of all Black Iron inmates and Security personnel. It was forcefully implanted on Jacob during his imprisonment. the device allows people to easily monitor someone's physical wellbeing by displaying the status of their health. It can also be used for long range communication and memory transfer. They have also been known to induce hallucinations for several hours after being implanted.

#### Health Injector

An item that can be used in order to restore some of Jacob's health.

### Weapons

Jacob gains access to a variety of weapons during his escape of Black Iron Prison. Jacobs only weapon is a Crowbar that he acquires after being beaten by a group of inmates, later being given a Shiv by Elias. Jacob can also acquire a Stun Baton. After meeting with Elias in the safe room, Jacob is given a Tactical Pistol, and then granted access to the Shop, allowing him to acquire Primary Weapons' like an Assault Rifle, a Riot Gun, a Skunk Gun, and a Hand Cannon.

## Relationships

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## Trivia

* Lee is portrayed and voiced by Josh Duhamel.
* Given the lineage of *The Callisto Protocol*, Lee can be considered analagous to Isaac Clarke of the *Dead Space* series.
* Jacob is the son of Isaac in the Bible, a reference linking Jacob Lee to the protagonist of *Dead Space,* Isaac Clarke.

## Gallery

Jacob without a helmetJacob wearing the complete Armored SuitA Big Mouth about to attack Jacob from behindMugshot of JacobAlternate mugshot of JacobJacob holding the Hand CannonJacob on Callisto's surfaceJacob and Max in the CharonJacob in the Special Housing Unit with Dani and EliasJacob engaging the Biobot
## References

1. ↑ 2022-06-24, The Callisto Protocol Cover Story - The Dark Side Of The Moon. *Game Informer*, accessed on 2022-07-02