Daniel Carrington is an intelligent scientist/entrepreneur, and founder/CEO of the Carrington Institute. He is Joanna Dark's boss, who he sees as an invaluable servant for his work.
As a businessman, Carrington plans all missions carried out by his agents and runs each operation direct from a link in his office. He even owns a private villa, which there is a direct link to the Institute. Daniel has been described to have a strange taste in clothes, as he is most often seen wearing tweed suits.
Biography[]
Being the founder of Carrington Institute, Daniel used to work in a company called Secure Development International, founded and led by his parents. He then decided to disband and created his own private military research and development center designed to produce revolutionary technology such as the Null-G, and train professional hackers and covert agents. However, the main reason for his founding was to have friendly communication with the the Maians.[1]
For unknown, but justifiable prior reasons, Carrington holds a strong grudge against dataDyne, and believes that the only good dataDyne is no dataDyne at all. It is said that he once had a relationship with dataDyne's CEO Cassandra De Vries, in the events of Perfect Dark Zero, but now they have grown a bitter rivalry toward each other.
Perfect Dark Zero[]
Daniel Carrington as he appears in Perfect Dark Zero
Perfect Dark: Graduation Day[]
Carrington admitted Joanna Dark as a trainee, although she felt that he was overprotective and that he was trying to keep her from the more dangerous missions.
He was there as Dark was completing her training with the Man-E-Quin bots, clapped for her and congratulated for her performance, also admitting that such simulations need to have some lethality to trigger the best from an operator.
One week later he oversaw The Temple simulation program from an observation booth, where Dark had to tag other Carrington agents. To his surprise, Dark broke a previous CI record when she tagged one of her hunters within the first 5 minutes, and eliminated all agents in just 35'48'', breaking her friend Jonathan Steinberg's record. He asked her to pass on the jetbike race she had arranged with the other agents as she needed to be rested for the next day.
Indeed, he met her at the CI hangar the next morning to bid her farewell for her first mission: shut down an Mink Hunter's illegal cyborg manufacturing plant in South America, run by dataDyne in the background.
Perfect Dark[]
In the beginning of the game, when the AI Dr. Caroll sent a help plea to the Institute, he sends Joanna to dataDyne headquarters to rescue him. Soon after, Cassandra De Vries sent dataDyne to capture him inside his own villa as they demanded the return of the Al in exchange for his life, and must be rescued himself. However, dataDyne was a little too late, as Daniel and Dr. Carroll had already exchanged valuable information about its plans before being captured. This was enough that he called in "friends" - actually the Maians, to help stop them. As the story progresses until Deep Sea, Carrington continues to plan and aid Joanna's mission goals, with the assistance of Jonathan Steinberg and Elvis. After completing his goal at destroying the Cetan Ship, seemingly ending his work at stopping dataDyne and the Skedar from causing global chaos, he and Joanna decided to celebrate for a Presidential reception at the White House alongside the Maian delegation. Unfortunately, their enemies had begun an unexpected full-on assault attack on the Institute, forcing Joanna to evacuate as many of the staff as possible before she herself got knocked out and captured by the Skedar.
Daniel after the Carrington Institute: Defense mission is never seen or heard ever again in the game, but he has ultimately managed to escape safely and survived the attack. The reason why Carrington couldn't communicate to Joanna in Attack Ship and Skedar Ruins is the agent is well outside Earth's reach in those final two missions, and therefore she and Elvis had to work together to finish their job and exterminate the Skedar. However, he is very likely assumed to be the one who sent Elvis and two Maian Protectors to assist Joanna in the first place.
Perfect Dark: Hunting Season[]
A year later, Joanna and Elvis engaged in an operation to infiltrate Monk's Pass. Inside, Joanna discovered that dataDyne kept clones of important personalities, including one of Carrington (CK004, designated for "Special Attention")
During the operation, an unknown airborne object arrived. Carrington was teleported into an alien ship.
It belongs to the alien bounty hunter Tayst Grifbo, hired by the Skedar to deliver them to the ruins of the Battle Shrine. Daniel and Elvish were soon joined by unconscious Joanna, and they helped her stand up, explaining her where they were going. To his despair, Joanna joked about the Skedar still being angry with her. A nearby prisoner, Mook, tried to persuade them that there is no escape.
Noticing the low-level tech of the cells, Joanna managed to pick the lock, with Mook alerting Grifbo. Daniel tried to lead them to the teleporter, Grifbo stopped them, stating that he cared only for Dark's life. Dark saved them all by suffering some bunches but incapacitating Grifbo, finally with a flash grenade, and the three of them made it to the teleporter. Daniel congratulated Joanna for disabling the ship's engine shooting it.
The next day, Stanley Grimshaw found out that the bounty hunter had managed to repair his ship, as, despite their scans, there was no trace of it. As a preliminary caution, he upgraded the security around the Institute. He relayed these news to Joanna was in his office (sitting on his desk) who claimed that she was ready should Grifbo return.
Trivia[]
- According to Hacker Central's biographical information, Daniel Carrington is 62 years old in Perfect Dark.
- In Carrington's office, when Joanna crouches near Daniel, he will make a few scolding remarks, such as "Please don't do that, Joanna. It worries me."
- Carrington's look is inspired by a British film actor.[2]
- If Joanna destroys all the wine bottles in the Carrington Villa, Carrington will say, "Act your age, Joanna." In the XBLA remaster of Perfect Dark, doing this also unlocks an achievement.
- In the Perfect Dark Zero mission "Bridge Assault", if Joanna kills Carrington, he will strangely somehow speak to her over the comlinks, telling Joanna that he is terminating her mission.
- He no longer gives mission advice to Joanna after Carrington Institute: Defense, though he did manage to escape safely.
The Puglist Buddy, who appears similar to Carrington (XBLA version)
- The Pugilist Co-Op Perfect Buddy resembles Daniel Carrington and is essentially the permanent ally version of himself.
- His name may be a reference to James Bond actor, Daniel Craig.
