10 Video Game Characters With Terrible Secrets You Totally Missed
4. Liberty City Newspaper's Contact Fought In The Same War As Niko - Grand Theft Auto IV
Of all the characters in Grand Theft Auto IV, the United Liberty Paper contact is easily the most mysterious. If the fact that people don't even know his actual name doesn't make it obvious, the guy barely talks about his past or himself, spurring hundreds of discussions between people who try to fill in the gaps themselves.
The biggest of these secrets came, ironically, from the contact revealing that he could speak Serbian to Niko.
This has led many people to speculate that the contact might be Serbian himself, but the truth is hidden even deeper, between the lines he speaks to Niko before and after missions.
The contact claims to have fought for his country, participating in a lot of covert operations inside actual war zones. This information, combined with the fact that he can speak fluent Serbian despite being a native citizen of the United States, means that the agent’s secret is, in fact, that he served in the same Serbian war in which Niko did.
His using Niko's mother tongue was likely an attempt to manipulate the man. It's all just a ruse to make you want to work with him, and the fact that people believed he might be Serbian himself, means it worked.