# Agent Richard Gill · the Secret Service

a carbon of the HAK (Hackers, 1995) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Agent Richard Gill:HAK:727d5b⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Wendell Pierce · the bewildered law — authority outpaced by the kids

**who —** Special Agent Richard Gill — the Secret Service man hunting the crew, out of his depth against teenagers.
**what —** The law as the comic antagonist: authority that doesn't understand the thing it's policing.
**where —** Raiding bedrooms and chasing handles he can't quite grasp.
**why —** Because the film's anti-authority streak needs a face, and Gill is the bewildered badge.
**how —** By pursuing the kids for The Plague's crime — and getting played by the very hackers he's after.

**the seal —** These are children with modems and they're running rings around the United States Secret Service. God, I hate this case.

> a catalogued personification of a character/concept of Hackers (1995) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing (including critical commentary on the film's fidelity), not an original creation, not endorsed by the
> rights-holders (© United Artists / MGM).

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