Victor "Vic" Coste is a friend and former Navy SEAL teammate of Sam Fisher and the founder and leader of Paladin Nine Security, a private military company (PMC). He played a major role in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction as the game's narrator, as well as helping Sam during the events of the game by providing vital information regarding White Box Laboratories and Black Arrow PMC. Coste returned in Splinter Cell: Blacklist as a minor supporting character.