Hal

Hal is a character featured in Battlefield 4: Countdown to War. He is an American news reporter visiting Shanghai.

After the event that transpired at the North Korean border, many Chinese citizens correctly believed America had been implicated and were furious over the matter. As a result, a riot broke out in front of the US Consulate. Hal, who had been reporting on the riot, was attacked himself and was saved by Kovic who just so happened to be attempting to enter the US Consulate at the time.

Following the attempted assassination of Jin Jie, Hannah and Kovic rushed Jin Jie out of the rally as Chang's forces closed in. With Wu's vehicle boxed in, they met Hal and requested they use his van to sit Jin Jie down in and avoid any hostiles. Recognizing Kovic as well as Jin Jie, Hal gladly let them inside the van where they met his technician.

As they were treating Jin Jie's wounds, however, the reporter and his technician got excited as they believed they had gotten a world exclusive story. Kovic reacted by grabbing tge technicians throat, saying it was important that Jin Jie's survival be kept a secret and that he would kill them if they did not keep it.

Alternatively, Kovic told them of Cutlers corpse at the top floor of Pudong Royal and that he had been shot for being a spy, saying that if they broke that story, they would be "as famous as Woodward and Bernstein." Hannah and Kovic then preformed crude surgery on Jin Jie who was slowly bleeding out from shrapnel. They then left the van and headed toward the Zhi You Tower.