Ian Howe was a treasure hunter who is after the Templar Treasure and does not care who he has to kill or what he has to destroy to do so.
Biography
Templar Treasure
Ian finanices a trip to the Candian Arctic, specifically the lost ship Charolette, where Ben Franklin Gates says there is a treasure waiting for them. However, they find there is just another clue and it leads to the Declaration of Independence. Ian says the only way to see the back where the clue is to steal it and he intends to do so. When Ben and his friend Riley Poole say they do not want any part of it he tried to kill them leaving them for dead and heads for Washington D.C. At the Watergate Complex, Ian along with some henchmen create a plan to steal the document. However, Ben decides to save the document and beats Ian to it. Ian figures out that the next clue leads to Philadelphia and is outsmarted at the Liberty Bell by Gates and his friends by stroke of luck. Ben now had the Declaration and goes to New York City, where the next clue leads.
Ian has to make a deal with Gates friends because only Gates can figure out the final clue. It leads to Trinity Church in New York and, to make sure that Ben and his friends do not pull a double cross on him, he kidnaps Ben's father Patrick Henry Gates. The two Gates, however, trick Howe into thinking there is one last clue which leads to the Treasure at the Old North Church in Boston. The treasure, which was in Trinity Church, is found by the Gates who tell the FBI that Ian and his henchmen are at the Old North Church in Boston. Ian is captured and apparently thrown into jail.
Name
It is Possible that he is named after British Admiral Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe who was the leader of the British navy during the America revolution
Appearances
- National Treasure
- Sean Bean has signed on to reprise the role in National treasure 3
Ian(right) and his best friend Shaw(left)