Suko was an Albanian assassin working for Murad Hoxha and the secondary antagonist of the 2012 film, Taken 2.
He was portrayed by Alain Figlarz.
Biography[]
Suko kidnapping Lenore
Suko and Murad's henchmen first tortured a corrupt officer named Jean-Claude Pitrel, an ex-friend of Bryan Mills's, to learn Bryan's identity. While doing this, Suko mentions that he had a brother and an unspecified number of friends, who were among Bryan's victims during the researches of his daughter. The Albanians then tracked Bryan, Kim, and his ex-wife Lenore to Istanbul, Turkey. During a fight in the streets, Suko and his cohorts captured both Bryan and Lenore, but Kim, who was still at the hotel, received instructions from Bryan which allowed her to help free him. Toward the end of the film, Bryan found Murad's safehouse where Lenore was held captive. There was a confrontation between Suko and Bryan during which the two were disarmed after an armed standoff. Suko was then killed by Bryan during the fight before the American saved Lenore from Murad, killing the mafia boss too.
Trivia[]
- Suko appears to be a counterpart of Ali from the first film ; while their upbringing and positions within their respective affiliations are different (Ali is the bodyguard to Sheikh Raman while Suko is merely the right-hand man of the Albanian Mafia), they share the role of being Bryan's opponent in the climaxes of their respective movies with fighting skills on par to his, on top of having similar clothing palettes with black as the main color.