Kenneth Morgan (also known as "The Brick" or "The Lawyer") is a minor antagonist in HITMAN™, a lawyer and one of Agent 47's targets in the HITMAN™ mission Club 27.
Background[]
Morgan distinguished himself in corporate law, but it was a criminal case which propelled him into fame. In 2004, Morgan successfully led the defense of Chelsea Whitmore, a teenage high society girl accused of killing a homeless man and framing her cheerleading rival. Dubbed the trial of the decade, Morgan had his client acquitted by arguing that Chelsea was a victim of affluenza, also known as "rich kid syndrome."
This display of legal wizardry so impressed Thomas Cross, eccentric owner of the Cross Holdings media empire, that he made Morgan his personal attorney. Morgan went from victory to victory, representing corporate giants such as Ether, Hamsun Oil, Kronstadt Technologies and Haven Corporate Services. However, he also earned a reputation for playing fast and loose with the law, bribing public officials and blackmailing witnesses.
One year ago, Morgan led the defense of Jordan Cross, when Hannah Highmoore fell to her death from Cross' penthouse loft in DUMBO, New York. According to the clients, Morgan actively and knowingly helped Jordan Cross cover up Hannah's death as an accident, bribing police officers and manipulating the media. Because of his expert effort, Hannah was branded an out-of-control party girl, and Cross came out a grieving victim smelling like roses.
To date, Ken Morgan has never lost a case.
Morgan comes across as a mild-mannered, elegant and silver-tongued Englishman. A courteous and somewhat harmless bon vivant bachelor, he lives alone in a penthouse, overlooking Central Park, with his Basset Hound Pickles. But make no mistake, Ken Morgan can annihilate anyone in a court room and has the will and resources to crush anyone who stands in his or his clients' way.Habits and Personality[]
Morgan will roam around the ground floor of the hotel, accompanied by his bodyguard. He will cycle between the restaurant (where he will taste one of the five plates laid before him at random), the southeastern terrace, and the reception desk, where he will ask if his suite is ready and check for mail. As per the On The House opportunity, Morgan can be led to the Queen suite when he will remain once the opportunity has been completed. He will occasionally lean on the balcony at the southern edge of the suite, where he can be pushed.
Ken Morgan is shown to be nit-picky, as he will comment on every stain in his suite. However, once 47 (disguised as hotel staff) has cleaned all of the deficiencies, he will declare the suite acceptable, and dismiss the player. He will spend the rest of the mission in the suite.
Trivia[]
- Despite their very close business relationship, Ken mentions to his bodyguard that he had only talked to Thomas Cross face-to-face twice in his entire life - once aboard Cross' jumbo jet to be offered the role of senior counselor, and once in New York when Jordan was indicted. In the same conversation, he states his belief that Thomas cares for Jordan but "has an odd way of showing it".
- Some time ago, he had a relationship with actress Jackie Carrington.
- He seems to be a fan of football, as he talks with his bodyguard about the World Sports Federation Championship. He even bought a ticket to see the England vs. Argentina match, but because of his appointment in Bangkok, he's unable to go to the championship.
- Both England and Argentina would eventually become destinations in Hitman 3 and, coincidentally, both involve his firm.
- Providence operative Haas Rheinhardt, president of the World Sports Federation, will call him from the match in regards to a sports doping scandal.
- Morgan can end up meeting Jordan Cross if the two encounter each other in the hotel lobby, causing Cross to believe that Morgan was sent by his father to spy on him. The two head up to the Queen Suite, where Morgan reveals he was sent to retrieve the recording of Hannah Highmoore's death from Dexy Barat. Cross will become enraged and push Morgan out of the window.
- Morgan's death is counted as an accident kill and his body will not be noticed by civilians.
- It is possible to use the weapon lure trick to get Ken Morgan to follow you upstairs to The Class suite to meet Jordan Cross, but the player will have to get Otis out of the way first.
- This is one of only four instances in the game where one target can eliminate another target, the other two being Tamara Vidal, Noel Crest and Vitaly Reznikov.
- Ken Morgan's death was apparently ruled an accident; in The Ark Society, one of the custodians near the helipad writes off talk of his assassination as "an alt-right conspiracy".
- Ken's business partner, Don Archibald Yates, later becomes a target in The Farewell in HITMAN™ III.
- Don resents Diana Burnwood for being responsible for Ken's death, which he brings up several times in the mission.
- After Morgan's death, Don and Valentina Yates adopted his dog Pickles, who later got ran over by a grape picker.
- In early versions of the game Morgan would go to a trashcan rather than the nearby bathroom, if sickened with an emetic poison at the food bar, cheating the player out of a drowning assassination opportunity. This appears to have been changed at some point.
- If Morgan sees a character who is has been sickened via an emetic and is vomiting, he will berate that person, saying: "That is disgusting! You are disgusting!" He will say this even if the sickened character is his friend Otis.
- During his target lockdown, the kitchen will become a hostile area.
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