rescued by Sam, but dig a little deeper if you could.

Initially, what happens is I get picked to be on the team by Anna Grim's daughter and

she brings me on to Fourth Echelon, and I meet Sam literally going onto the plane, Paladin,

and we're going on our mission. Basically, we're just kind of thrown together at the

last second, all of us. And the dynamics in the beginning with me and Sam Fisher is that

he doesn't really want anybody else. He's the guy -- "I can do all this," I don't really

need anybody else, especially not this hot-shot rookie coming in, thinking he can take over

my shine, or even help me do anything, I don't need it.

You're going in alone? It's nothing personal -- we hit some bumps

in Benghazi. I want you on the chopper for extraction.

We know that there's a compelling relationship between Sam and Grim -- you talk about how

you kind of get thrown in, and you're probably a middle man in that sense. Talk about your

relationship with Grim? She's probably the person that I'm closest

to on everything - on the missions, on the team. And the reason being is because one,

she picked me, 2, she stands up for me, being Sam's partner, being able to help him, and

3, we're very like-minded with the way we approach missions, we're very by-the-book,

textbook, when Sam is very off-the-book, not routine, and everything is kind of on the

fly. And that's not who Briggs is, which is the reason why we combat a lot, and if you'll

notice, is the reason why Anna and Sam combat a lot.

With all due respect, why don't we just leave the interrogation to the CIA?

Forge the company, man, bullshit. Briggs, you're on our team now.

Understood. Talk to me about some of the qualities of

Briggs that the gamers are going to appeal to.

I think that the main thing they'll like about it is that it gives them another person to

play with other than always seeing things through the eyes of Sam. It's like you kind

of know the level that you'll expect with Sam on how he approaches things. But this

new factor is that -- OK -- he has a sidekick now? And what kind of person is he, and what

does he bring to the table, and what kind of skills does he have?

What do you think about this -- the whole performance capture studio, and being in the

suit? There's a lot of mime work, obviously, and playing pretend, so to speak. How does

that work for you as an actor? Well, at first, I was a little bit overwhelmed.

It's my first time ever doing a video game, so I was like, this is amazing. I'm a big,

big video gamer myself, so I knew the basic idea of the whole motion-capture and how that

works, but I've never seen it applied. You know what I mean? It's like you know something,

but when you get behind the doors and you actually see it, you're just like -- this

is absolutely fricking cool. I was just blown away. This is one of the rawest forms of acting,

you're stripped down to your bare bones and the technology's there, but at the end of

the day, you're 1 on 1 with the actor, that's it.

Tell me a little bit, if you could, your opinion on the scope of the story. The realism of

this terror plot, the Blacklist. Take us through that.

It's almost kind of creepy, because the whole Blacklist is all the things that will basically

take down the entire American infrastructure, the entire American economy. It almost kind

of makes you think, like, woah -- could somebody possibly even make this happen? It makes your

mind go there, because it's like: if that was to really happen, how would Americans

react? You'd need a real Sam Fisher and a real Isaac

Briggs! Exactly -- they're probably out there somewhere!

I hope so! You burned every intelligence contact you've

got. I still have you.

What's that supposed to mean?