Jacob Kinisky (ヤコフ・キニスキー Yakofu Kinisukī)[1][note 1] is one of the antagonists and the first boss in Time Crisis II.
Appearance[]
Jacob has short blonde hair and brown eyes which are barely visible in an Arcade version cutscene.
Jacob wears shades, a suit which is a navy blue single-breasted notched lapel coat, and matching pants. There is a white collared button shirt with a red tie underneath the coat. He also wears a navy blue bowler hat and brown shoes. In the PlayStation 2 version, his shirt is orange and the tie is dark pink.
Biography[]
A former KGB operative, Jacob defected to Neodyne Industries (NDI) after the collapse of the USSR.[1] As an NDI operative, Jacob is to prevent anyone from leaking information regarding about the Starline Network.
Role in Time Crisis II[]
Stopping the Leak[]
Jacob is first seen at the satellite launch pad supervising it with other NDI private troops, when he sees Christy Ryan attempting to escape. Jacob tries his best to stop her, but she kills most of his men and escapes to a town square.
Frantic to recover the stolen data that Christy had put upon her portable suitcase computer, and embarrassed that a woman had outsmarted him, Jacob and a sizable detachment of the NDI's troops went to Christy's apartment to silence her. At the apartment, Jacob lost his temper and punched her in the stomach. When Christy mocked him in response, Jacob struck her in the head and ordered his agents to take her away.
Fleeing the VSSE Agents and Death[]
Unbeknownst to Jacob, Christy had successfully attained help from the V.S.S.E., who sent agents Keith Martin and Robert Baxter to Christy's apartment. Unfortunately for Jacob, he happened to be in the apartment at the time, causing him to flee with the suitcase computer when they confronted him.
First, Jacob attempted to flee the area via a rendezvous with a trailer truck, but loses control of it during a right hand turn and skids. Subsequently, Robert and Keith shot and killed many of the NDI troops that tried to fight them. After the fiasco in the plaza, Jacob fled through back alleys and a side road to the docks where an armed cruiser was waiting. To his horror, Keith and Robert survived the APC carrier and the countless other troops that he threw at them. Fleeing in the armed cruiser made no difference, as the two V.S.S.E. agents were able to pursue him with some military boats that his troops had carelessly left without bothering to make them unusable.
Jacob did his best to kill them with such deadly traps as:
- Twin Gatling guns mounted on the rear of the armed cruiser
- Troops in military boats like the ones the two agents were using to try and shoot them.
- Enemy frogmen to impale them/slit their throats.
- Jacob's submachine gun, specially made to fire lots of "kill you" bullets.
However, nothing worked, and Jacob soon found himself with injuries. He probably would have survived if he was not in an out of control armed cruiser that would soon end up crashing into a pier, and if had it not exploded, he would have survived that too. However, he died, and Keith and Robert were able to recover Christy's briefcase computer (which was apparently water proof and explosion proof) and get a lead on the satellite's location (which was a seemingly but not really abandoned train yard). As they leave, Jacob's hat floated in the water behind them.
Quotes[]
Stage 1 Area 1[]
| Japanese version | English version | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| やっと |
Ha ha ha ha! Well well... It appears we have a guest! Looks like we caught you just in time. A leak like this would have been problematic, to say the... LEAST! | Jacob Kinisky to Christy Ryan |
| うるさい！この |
Silence! You have no idea how perfect our plan is. Now take her away! What the...? | Jacob Kinisky, boasting about how he stopped the information leak by Christy Ryan before gunfire from the V.S.S.E. agents caused him to panic |
Stage 1 Area 3[]
| Japanese version | English version | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| くそぅ、しつこい |
So who are those two? Where's the girl? (NDI "Normal" class soldier: They took her to General Diaz, sir!) We gotta stop them now! (NDI "Normal" class soldier: Yes sir!!) | Jacob Kinisky, before escaping in the armored cruiser |
Trivia[]
- Jacob is the second antagonist who is fought in more than one stage area. The first is Moz from the original Time Crisis. Strangely, Moz is first fought as a boss before appearing in the other stage areas as a normal enemy whereas Jacob appears as a normal enemy in the first two stage areas before fighting as a boss in the third area.
- It seems that Jacob has an endless amount of hats. This is because if the player succeeds in performing a headshot at him, his hat will be blown away and he will not return to retrieve it, revealing his blonde hair. When he reappears again, he is already wearing another hat.
- It is possible that the briefcase Jacob carries with him could contain spares of his hat instead of the computer database as the main briefcase could have be already escorted to the armed cruiser by his troops when he is not on V.S.S.E. agents' sight.
- Jacob's English voice in Time Crisis II appears to be sound feminine to make his Russian accent into a gay manner when he physically beats Christy Ryan and taunting both agents before the boat chase. His voice is still done by a male voice actor.
- Jacob's voice and demeanor is similar to Alfred Ashford in Resident Evil: CODE Veronica (Biohazard: CODE Veronica (バイオハザード コード: ベロニカ Baiohazādo Kōdo: Beronika) in Japan) and its updates as both men are the ones to taunt two women (Christy Ryan and Claire Redfield respectively) in their first encounter. Alfred's voice is also changed into a feminine voice after both Claire and Steve Burnside noticed him from being a cross-dresser as his twin sister, Alexia Ashford. The difference between the two is their nationality which Jacob is Russian while Alfred is British.
- Both men also shared the same hair color which is blonde.
Gallery[]
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.png "Jakov Kinisky and NDI soldiers entering hotel room (PS2 version).png (875 KB)")
.png "Jakov Kinisky dealing a punch to Christy Ryan (PS2 version).png (953 KB)")
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Music Theme[]
Notes[]
- ↑ For the first name "Jacob", the Time Crisis II official site uses the Greek/Latin version to write the English name. However, the Japanese translation in the same site corresponds to the Cyrillic version (ヤコフ [Yakofu] translates to Jakov in English). Buff Bryant also mentioned the Cyrillic version.