| Splinter Cell: Deathwatch | |
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| Also known as | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch |
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| Created by | Derek Kolstad |
| Based on | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell byUbisoft |
| Directed by | Guillaume Dousse |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Editor | Thomas Belair |
| Running time | 20–27 minutes |
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| Network | Netflix |
| Release | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) – present |
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is anadult animatedespionageaction television series created byDerek Kolstad and based on theTom Clancy's Splinter Cell video game franchise byUbisoft. The series starsLiev Schreiber as the voice ofSam Fisher alongsideKirby as Zinnia McKenna. It is directed bySun Creature Studio co-founder Guillaume Dousse and produced byUbisoft Film & Television while animation services are provided by FOST Studio.
The series premiered on October 14, 2025, onNetflix. A day after the series premiere, it was renewed for a second season.
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| No. | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Up from the Grave" | Derek Kolstad | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
Splinter Cell agent Zinnia McKenna sneaks into a building inVilnius to retrieve something referred to as the Shetland Files, but becomes distraught when she comes across a man who has been tortured and killed. She removes a tooth from the man and kills almost everyone in the building and escapes, but is injured. The headquarters, Fourth Echelon, is shut down after a cyber attack, and its director Anna sends coordinates to Zinnia to flee to. Zinnia flees toPoland to findSam Fisher, a retired Fourth Echelon Splinter Cell agent. Zinnia is pursued, but Sam kills all of them. | ||||
| 2 | "Dinner First, Talk Later" | David Daitch &Katie J. Stone | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
Sam escapes with Zinnia toGdańsk, but is chased by the mercenaries. He manages to kill most of them, and confronts Zinnia to find out why they are being pursued. | ||||
| 3 | "Welcome to the 4th Echelon" | David Daitch & Katie J. Stone | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
Sam and Zinnia take the tooth that Zinnia extracted to a spy that helps them extract information; the tooth contains files incriminating an organization. There are more files in a safe house, which Sam breaks into to steal them. Anna travels to Canada to hired a hacker to help at Fourth Echelon. | ||||
| 4 | "Scars of Bagram" | David Daitch & Katie J. Stone | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
| 5 | "Simple as That" | Naomi Davis and Matias Wulff | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
| 6 | "The Man Is the Mission" | Naomi Davis and Matias Wulff | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
| 7 | "Chaos Theory: Part 1" | Derek Kolstad | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
| 8 | "Chaos Theory: Part 2" | Derek Kolstad | October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14) | |
In July 2020, it was revealed thatUbisoft Film & Television was developing an animated adaptation of theTom Clancy's Splinter Cell video game franchise forNetflix.Derek Kolstad was hired to serve as the lead writer for the series, which was initially reported to have received a two-season order but[1] Kolstad later stated that only the first season had beengreen-lit and that it would take a few years before the series was released.[2] Kolstad imagined the series with an olderSam Fisher,[3] and he wrote the story such that the history behind the games wascanon for the show. He also maintained the clandestine feel from the games by utilizing long periods of silence before sudden bursts of action.[4]
In August 2024,Michael Ironside, who had previously voiced the character Sam Fisher in the video games, stated that he was too old to portray the character for television and thatLiev Schreiber had taken over the role.[5] This was confirmed the following month, when Netflix released a first look of the series and announced Schrieber's casting. Animation was provided by the Danish/FrenchSun Creature Studio and the French studio Fost.[6] Guillaume Dousse began working on the series at Sun Creature as a creative director, and as development progressed, his responsibilities grew to director of some episodes and then the whole first season. The scale of the production was too large for Sun Creature, so most production animation was done at Fost, where Dousse worked with co-director Félicien Colmet-Daâge to lead that aspect.[3]
On October 15, 2025, Netflix renewed the series for a second season.[7]
The series premiered onNetflix on October 14, 2025.[8][9]
On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 86%, based on 14 reviews.[10]Metacritic, which uses aweighted average, assigned a score of 70 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[11]
The series was nominated for "Best Adaptation" atThe Game Awards 2025.[12]
