Pertti Järnefelt

Pertti Järnefelt
In-Game Information
Gender:	Male
Nationality:	Finnish 🇫🇮
Status:	Deceased
Age:	90
Date of Birth:	1929
Date of Death:	2019
Affiliation(s):	Ledger
Occupation(s):	Private Militia Bookkeeper
Relations:	SS Wiking Brigade (Indicated) Richard Ekwensi (Client) Delgado drug cartel (Client) Yuvee (Client) Al'R'hem (Client) Private Militia Lucas Grey (Employer) Sean Rose (Colleague) Penelope Graves (Colleague) Ezra Berg (Colleague) Maya Parvati (Colleague)
Signature Weapon(s):	Ledger
Real-World Information
Appearances:	HITMAN™ HITMAN™ III
Voice Actor:	Nicholas Boulton

Pertti Järnefelt (also known as "The Bookkeeper") is an Elusive Target in the 2016 release HITMAN™. He appeared in the mission Freedom Fighters.

Background

Järnefelt is bookkeeper to the global underworld, an expert at managing finances and transferring money without drawing the attention of law enforcement. As such, he has become the premier facilitator for terrorists and criminal organizations alike.

The 90-year-old Finn is considered to be a criminal myth by law enforcement agencies the world over, which may be because he enjoys a measure of extra-legal protection. Given his meticulous attention to detail, this anonymity may also be due to his careful nature and the simple fact that he has never been caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar.

ICA files show him fleeing within hours or even minutes ahead of raids, a fact which lends credence to possible connections within global law enforcement. The target has lead an unassuming yet comfortable life managing the finances of kleptocracies, terrorists and tyrants for decades, at least since the late '60s. Files retrieved from Russia in the mid-'80s indicate that he may have been a part of the volunteer SS Wiking Brigade during the Second World War, but this link is inconclusive.

― Target Intel

Routes

Pertti Järnefelt starts the level by walking from the West Bridge area, along with his entourage of militia. Specifically, he is accompanied by four Militia Elite bodyguards, one of whom is an enforcer for all disguises. Subduing any of the Bookkeeper's bodyguards will trigger an immediate evacuation regardless if you were spotted or not.

Pertti will be roaming in various sections of the militia compound, such as the barn, shooting range, explosives range, the old house, and the main camp area. If alerted, he will run to his car at the West Bridge to escape. If he is able to escape during the mission, the player will fail in fulfilling the contract in killing him.

During the mission, Pertti also keeps a Ledger, in a form of a tablet, that is locked in a vault in Sean Rose's bedroom. Retrieving it will ensure that he will not gain any contact with his clients once again.

Behavior

Pertti Järnefelt is sensitive and can easily detect anything wrong, either when his bodyguards are missing, or when there are explosions that occur in game. If the vehicle is destroyed, he will find shelter in the house basement or the northeastern bedroom.

Furthermore whenever his route is halted, will alert and panic him. This causes him to remain at his last upcoming stationary location prior to the alert. He will also not spot and react to 47, when he is not wearing the right disguise, and will not spot him being on a trespassing or in a hostile area zone.

Gallery

Hitman (2016) - Elusive target briefing- The Bookkeeper

Briefing

Pertti Järnefelt in Colorado

Pertti at the front gate

Pertti at the left gate

Another shot of Pertti

Pertti and his Ledger

Trivia

• Pertti Järnefelt's name is sometimes misspelled as Jãrnefelt with a tilde (~) instead of an Umlaut (¨).
• He is one of the two Elusive targets in Colorado, along with Richard M. Foreman.
• The client for this contract is called "Locksley", the same person who talked to Taheiji Koyama about the ICA, therefore making the Koyama issue in The Sarajevo Six contracts. Locksley is also the client for the Patient Zero campaign.
• At 90 years old, he is one of the oldest targets in the Hitman series.
• If Pertti indeed served in the Waffen-SS, he would have to have lied about his age, as he couldn't have been older than sixteen by the war's end.
• The briefing for Järnefelt reveals that he was the bookkeeper for, among others, both African dictator Richard Ekwensi and the Delgado drug cartel.