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A vagabond (son of a former Statue of Liberty tour guide) who lives on Liberty Island. UNATCO’s moderate efforts to catch him have failed. He does not respond well to threats for information—a gentle word and he will be your comrade for life. He can rattle off key names of people toiling as moles in the NY underground network. This character proves that the most incongruous NPC can have pertinent information.
Provides key to Statue of Liberty tour facility; passes on names of key NY mole people; if Denton rats on him, he will find Filben DOA on subsequent missions.
What makes Filben intriguing is the fact that he’s an Illuminati assassin, working for Stanton Dowd, pretending to be a UNATCO stoolie by pretending to be a drunken bum. Filben appears over and over again to provide information, assist the player and generally confound expectations.
Classic skid-row drifter clad in a tattered ‘I LOVE NY’ T-shirt.