Benjamin Travis

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Benjamin Travis

In-Game Information

Gender:

Male

Nationality:

American

Status:

Deceased

Age:

44

Date of Birth:

June 3rd, 1969

Date of Death:

August, 2013

Affiliation(s):

ICA
- Mary Lucille Travis (Mother)
- Praetorians
- Saints
- Agent 47 (formerly)
- Birdie (formerly)
- Diana Burnwood (formerly)
- Jade Nguyen
- Gary Owen
- Maria Mullins (colleague)
USMC (formerly)
- FORECON (formerly)

Occupation(s):

ICA Head of Division
- ICA Handler
Lance Corporal (formerly)
USMC FORECON operator (former)

Relations:

Dexter Industries
- Blake Dexter
  - Layla Stockton

Signature Weapon(s):

Travis' Swiss 3000

Real-World Information

Appearances:

Hitman: Damnation

Hitman: Absolution

Voice Actor:

Powers Boothe
Katsuhisa Hōki (Japanese Dub)

Benjamin Alexander Travis (also known as Mr. T, Travis, ICA-PF-579113^[1], is the secondary antagonist of Hitman: Absolution. He is a Head of Division of International Contract Agency.

Biography[]

Background[]

Benjamin Travis was born in the United States of America on June 3rd, 1969, to Mary Lucille Travis and an unknown father. He grew up in a poor neighbourhood around Barlow, Kentucky.

Marine Service[]

As a young man, Benjamin Travis joined the United States Marine Corps and was the youngest Force Reconnaissance recruit in its history. He was highly skilled as he was the only one of "a handful" of candidates to be permitted to apply to Force Recon without active service prerequisites. Later, as a Marine, Benjamin Travis participated in Operation Desert Storm as a Force Recon operative and got a Bronze Star Medal for his service. In 1994 he fought in Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia. Eventually though, he got dishonourably discharged for several unauthorized military operations.

Getting Into The Agency[]

Benjamin Travis's first contact with the Agency happened in September 1995, while he was on military trial - his sentence was waived after the Agency blackmailed one of his superiors. The Agency continued monitoring Benjamin Travis until they proposed him a job in December 1999. Benjamin Travis accepted the offer and trained at Field Office 1, where he got high test scores. The Agency's sole concern was his psychological health, as "one stressor may be enough to trigger an episode". Later, Benjamin Travis "failed" the Rorschach test by giving sarcastic answers.

Work In The Agency[]

Eventually, the Agency hired Benjamin Travis in February 2001. The Agency's higher-ups commended him as the one who "Navigates and manipulates the theatre of conflict, with a natural flair". An example is a car bombing in Mexico that Benjamin Travis made look like it was the work of the Sinaloa Cartel. He got appointed to the Agency's Tech Board in April 2006, where he was an "architect of numerous agency programs and initiatives" and got promoted to ranks Gamma in July 2007, Delta in January 2008 and Tetra in December 2008. As the Agency's higher-ups became more confident in him, they stopped his psychological monitoring.

Hunt After Agent 47[]

Benjamin Travis secretly organized the Victoria clone project, later learning that Diana Burnwood got ahold of the information about it and tried to get her assassinated using Agent 47. Thinking that Forty-seven had assassinated her, he attempted to cover his tracks, starting a hunt after him using the Agency resources/sub-organizations (Agency Assault Troopers), with Agent 47 going rogue. Trying to get rid of the assassin, Benjamin Travis was also doing an affair with Blake Dexter concerning Victoria who got kidnapped by the latter.

Death[]

Six months after Diana's apparent death, after having failed to kill Agent 47 and return Victoria back, seemingly obsessed Benjamin Travis, the Agency Assault & Heavy Troopers and Jade Nguyen travel to Cornwall, United Kingdom, hoping to exhume her body to confirm her death. Agent 47 infiltrates the graveyard and kills Travis, Jade and Travis's private guard - the Praetorians. Before dying, Benjamin Travis asks 47 if he really assassinated Diana. Agent 47 coldly answers that "he will never know" before shooting him dead.

Personality[]

Travis serves as the Head of Division for the Agency. Due to its ambiguity, it is unclear what the position is directly responsible for. What is known, though, is that he has the ability to recruit, train, organize, and disperse operatives. While it retains a high level of power, based on chatter heard between him and Jade Nguyen - his field assistant - during the mission Absolution, there are others operating above him. It is heavily implied that Travis is using Agency resources without his superiors' knowledge to fly out to Cornwall and exhume the Burnwood family graves.

Trivia[]

In the ICA trailer for Benjamin Travis, there is a document showing approval for an "ICA Initiative 424", codename: Saints, along with a brief description of the proposed female hit squad. The next page shows Travis himself as the sponsor for the initiative.
Although Benjamin is the secondary antagonist of Hitman: Absolution, he became the final antagonist for Agent 47 to kill.
In the Cinematic trailer for Hitman: Absolution (and the game itself), it is revealed that Benjamin Travis is missing his left arm and possibly left ear as well, and has them replaced with a prosthesis, though in the ICA File trailer, his hand is natural even after the scenes set during his military career. When he is shot by Forty-seven in the same trailer, he is shot through the right hand, not the left. In the intro cutscene, Travis originally has his hand, suggesting the scene where Agent 47 shoots it was removed from the game before it was finished. Nothing about his hands, prosthesis or otherwise, is mentioned in Damnation, which is set before Absolution.
On one occasion, Travis is called "Mr. T" by Lasandra Dixon, leader of the Saints.
His weapon is a Swiss 3000 with the Agency's logo on it.
In Damnation, Travis' official title is said to be "Manager Three".
Weirdly in the Hitman: Absolution Travis ICA File promotional video, the US President that awards Travis the Bronze Star Medal looks more like the 43rd President George W. Bush than his father, George H. W. Bush, President during the Gulf War.