Alexander Fanin was the CEO of Milton-Fitzpatrick. He is a minor character in HITMAN™.
Background[]
Following the disappearance of Milton-Fitzpatrick CEO, Eugene Cobb, Fanin was promoted in his place, despite Cobb having preferred New York branch director Athena Savalas for the role.
Like his late predecessor, Fanin was made a Herald and thus granted a key to Providence's vault containing information on their assets and operatives, though seems unaware of most of his employer's secrets.
Personality[]
Fanin is very nervous and fearful, and quite inept in regards to his role in Providence.
History[]
Two days after Providence's coup d'état in Morocco was thwarted by the ICA, Alexander Fanin met with Arthur Edwards at the vault in New York. Edwards states that one of his men was killed in Johannesburg and his key was stolen from him.
Fanin replies by saying he wasn't informed, but that all other keys were accounted for--except, Edwards notes, Fanin's late predecessor, Cobb, whose death Fanin believes to have been an accident. Edwards, however, realizes that Providence is compromised. Using their own keys, both men open the vault to find it ransacked. Stunned, Fanin asks how much money was taken, to which Edwards replies: "Not money, Mr. Fanin. Information. On all of our assets and operatives. Like you." Before leaving, Edwards tells Fanin to hunker down, for no operative is safe anymore.
In the fallout of the ICA and Providence, Fanin, alongside other exposed operatives of Providence, was forced to step down from his position.
Trivia[]
- During Club 27, a guest at the Himmapan Hotel thinks that Fanin orchestrated Cobb's plane crash, in a scheme to become the CEO.
- During Situs Inversus, fellow Herald Yuki Yamazaki speaks to a nervous Fanin by phone, annoyed that he'd call her. She reveals she had vouched for him as Cobb's successor.
- A phone call made by Yuki Yamazaki in Hokkaido reveals that he is terrified that he will be the next Providence operative that the Shadow Client's private militia murders. Yamazaki assures him that, given his rather minor position in the organization, the chances of that are slim.
- During Golden Handshake, it is implied that Fanin is the unnamed board member who blocked Savalas' promotion to CEO, though this could also have been Jonathan Luther. Fanin's status as CEO of the company is confirmed in the A New Deal cinematic from Hitman 3.
- During The Farewell, Valentina Yates will call Fanin after killing her husband, asking for $10 million in cash from the Milton-Fitzpatrick branch in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The conversation also implies she and Fanin knew each other prior, potentially romantically.
- His appearance in A New Deal has him with a Van Dyke moustache, and looks to be in his early 60's, rather similar to that of his concept art.