Stephen Hopkins was the Head of Security aboard the MSV Saigon and a good friend of Emile Warden. Formerly a officer who failed to get into the due to previous convictions, Hopkins attempted to get his life together and do the right thing for a change. Stephen would later meet Sandra Roman, a woman who he would fall in love with and soon impregnate. Now with a daughter on the way, Stephen knew that he would have to get himself together so he planned to leave Jorge Berniard's shipping business and get a job on .