Netflix Debuts Splinter Cell Deathwatch with Sam Fisher

Netflix premiered Splinter Cell Deathwatch on October 14, 2025, releasing all eight episodes of an animated adaptation of Tom Clancy’s espionage franchise that returns veteran agent Sam Fisher to the screen. Liev Schreiber voices Fisher, who has been pulled out of retirement to help a wounded younger operative, Zinnia McKenna, as the pair unravel a transnational conspiracy centered on a tech corporation.

The series, created for television by Derek Kolstad, follows a straightforward globe‑trotting plot in which Fisher teams with a small Fourth Echelon unit to gather intelligence and prevent a terrorist-level threat. Kirby Howell-Baptiste voices McKenna, Janet Varney plays technical operations officer Anna Grimsdottir, Kari Wahlgren voices antagonist Diana Shetland, and Joel Oulette appears as field agent Thunder. The first season was written by a room led by Kolstad and other writers, and all eight episodes were directed by Félicien Colmet-Daage and Guillaume Dousse.

Kolstad has described the season as a self-contained story that nevertheless leaves room for continuation. "The movie has a beginning and an ending. If there's only one, I'd be just as proud of it," he said, while...