Walsh was a former police officer who worked as Catherine Weaver's personal investigator. Although Walsh did not know it, he was the unwitting pawn of the Cyborg Resistance, a group of machines opposed to the machinations of SkyNet; his involvement in this conspiracy led to his death.
Biography[]
Walsh was born in Los Angeles. His father was a longshoreman who worked on both the east and west coasts of the United States before meeting his wife. Walsh also had an aunt living in Baltimore, who he and his father moved in with after the death of Walsh's mother. After graduating from a Baltimore high school, he used his father's and his L.A. uncle's references to get a job working as a Baltimore Long Shore Port security guard for two years. With some financial support from his aunt, he then completed the required two year police academy training prior to joining the Baltimore Police Department, where he served for 23 years. At age 45, he was forced to take early retirement when a possible case of misconduct and malfeasance occurred which would have implicated him. In spite of this incident, he continued to proudly wear his Baltimore service ring. At some point, he also maintained a sporadic relationship with an unknown prostitute in Los Angeles.
After leaving the Baltimore Police Department in late 2007, he received an anonymous call from the Zeira Corporation stating that they would like to meet with him to discuss employment of his services. Not having seen California for some time, he met with Catherine Weaver, who persuaded him to help her locate missing property as well as find and acquire new proprietary technology for Zeira Corporation. Using his previous police "contacts", Walsh was able to locate and acquired the Turk, and sold it to Catherine Weaver at Zeira Corp headquarters for $300,000.
Desert Investigation[]
Weaver sent Walsh to track down the whereabouts of George McCarthy, an employee of the "Desert Canyon Heat and Air" facility in the high desert, who had been listed as dead after the destruction of the facility. Walsh went to the company town, and attended the vigil and wake for the deceased townspeople, searching for clues. Derek Reese recognized that Walsh wasn't a regular mourner, and offered to give him a ride to the funeral. In the truck, Walsh pretended that he was an OSHA investigator trying to determine the cause of the plant explosion. Realizing that Reese was also searching for information on the plant, Walsh got out of the truck and walked the rest of the way to the funeral.
After the funeral, Walsh walked to a house in the neighborhood, secretly tailed by Sarah Connor who had learned from Reese that Walsh was looking for something. He broke into an empty house and disappeared inside. The house contained a secret surveillance room, used by George McCarthy, and a tunnel which led to McCarthy's garage. Walsh was killed and his body was left by a pond outside of town. Some of his blood was found in the surveillance room by Sarah Connor who had followed him to investigate.
That evening, Sarah, John, Cameron, and Derek found Walsh's bloody body by the pond, along with some of the dead cows that John and Cameron had viewed earlier in the day. As they were examining the scene, the drone lifted out of the pond and flew away. "Desert Cantos"
Behind the Scenes[]
- The line about formerly being a member of the Baltimore Police Department, 4th Precinct in the episode "Desert Cantos" is a direct reference to actor Max Perlich's previous role on the TV show Homicide: Life on the Street about the 4th Precinct of Baltimore PD.