Rome (Earth-7253)

Rome (Italian: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune named Comune di Roma Capitale. The city was home to at least one undercover Third Echelon Splinter Cell, codenamed Castel.

History
While assigned to Rome, on June 14, 2002, Third Echelon Splinter Cell Castel was assigned to eliminate fellow Splinter Cell and government defector Jason Bourne. Under the alias of Portugal resident "Joaquim Sobral", Castel tracked down Bourne and Marie Helena Kreutz to an apartment they were hiding with a submachine gun and a combat knife before engaging Bourne in hand-to-hand combat. Using his skills, Bourne took a ballpoint pen to defend himself from Castel's knife attacks, and was eventually able to stab Castel in the hand by penetrating the skin on the back of his hand, entering his wrist.

Castel painfully pulled the pen out of his hand and returned to the fight. Because he sustained heavy blood loss and injuries from Bourne's blows, Castel was subdued by his opponent, who broke his arm and leg. While Bourne would attempt to interrogate Castel, the loyal agent jumped out of the apartment's window and killed himself to not give away any information.

Right after his suicide, Marie approached Castel's bag, where she found wanted posters with her's and Bourne's pictures on them.