Philip Locke

Colonel Philip Locke begins as an official in Whitehall. According to Stonebridge, Locke was an SAS legend who worked several missions against the IRA in the 1980s. At one point the IRA attempted to kill him with a car bomb, but instead the bomb killed his son and left his wife in a persistent vegetative state. The bomber was never caught. In Shadow Warfare, Locke suspends Dalton and effectively takes charge of Section 20 from then on. When the IRA are revealed to be working with al-Zuhari's cell, Locke is briefly held captive by them. After he is rescued, Locke later manages to capture Mairead McKenna and forces her to divulge the identity of the bomber. When McKenna instead tries to shoot him—but is killed by Kamali before she can—Locke is forced to accept that he will never find his son's killer; however, during the events of Legacy, he encounters a freelance bombmaker who he identifies as the man who called him moments before his son's death. The bombmaker, Desmond, claims that it was the British government and not the IRA who arranged for the bombing which was intended to kill Locke himself. Locke subsequently executes Desmond. Locke is killed during a prisoner transfer when a CIA assassination squad ambush Section 20.