User:Garlic Zamasu/List of Outlast characters

List of Outlast characters This is a list of characters in the universe of Red Barrels' Outlast franchise, which includes Outlast: Whistleblower, Outlast 2, and Outlast: The Murkoff Account.

Protagonists

Miles Upshur

Voiced by:

• Shawn Baichoo

Miles Upshur is an investigative reporter and the unseen protagonist of Outlast and a secondary character in Outlast: Whistleblower. He arrives to investigate Mount Massive Asylum based on a lead he receives from an anonymous source.

According to the beta version of the Whistleblower document, Miles originally worked as a regular journalist for an unknown company before being fired, as a result of posting unacceptable material regarding the situation in Afghanistan. Since then, Miles has been self-employed as an investigative journalist.

Prior to departing to investigate Mount Massive Asylum, Upshur lived in an apartment in Washington, D.C. Miles heads out to Mount Massive Asylum after receiving an email from an anonymous source about the suspicious activity that is going on at the asylum. After finding a way in, he is greeted with a grim discovery: the dead bodies of staff, security guards and tactical operators—one of who warns him about the imminent dangers that lurk in the asylum before dying.

Miles observes some patients moving around the asylum before he is grabbed by Chris Walker. Chris exclaims, "Little pig..." and throws him a floor down through a window. Upon regaining consciousness, Father Martin finds him and, after seeing his video camera, calls him an "apostle" to the deeds being done at Mount Massive Asylum. Miles attempts to unlock the main doors using the Security Controls but is thwarted by Father Martin after turning off the power, with Walker tracking him down in the security room.

After Miles restarts the generator in the basement of the Administration Block and returns to the Security Control room to open the main doors, Father Martin overwhelms him and injects him with a sedative. He says that he cannot allow Miles to leave just yet. He shows Miles security footage of soldiers being slaughtered by an entity called The Walrider, and that he has to accept the gospel so all doors before him will open. Miles then blacks out and is transported by Father Martin to the holding cells in the Prison Block.

Miles wakes up in Father Martin's cell, with the phrase "Rest in Peace" written in blood on the wall. As Miles leaves the cell, he encounters The Twins. They discuss killing Miles and taking his tongue and liver, but eventually decides not to do so yet, as it would be impolite towards Father Martin, who told them not to touch Miles. After traversing the Prison Block, Miles enters the Sewer through a hole in the shower room where he has to drain the water in order to continue.

After going through the Sewer to reach the Male Ward, Miles is chased by a few patients. During the chase, Miles escapes in a dumbwaiter and meets Doctor Trager, who ambushes him and takes him captive. Trager then tortures him by cutting off two of his fingers with a pair of large bone scissors, but Miles manages to escape when Trager leaves the room. Miles eventually finds the key to the elevator. Trager opens the gate when the elevator passes him, but Miles is able to hold him back. Trager is crushed by the elevator, killing him.

Miles then meets up with Father Martin, who tells him to meet him outside. Miles encounters The Walrider from here onward as he progresses through the Courtyard. Father Martin is next seen inside the Female Ward, where he shouts down at Miles from the upper floors, telling him how to reach him. Miles has to open the laundry chute by collecting three fuses from the nearby rooms to get the key which unlocks the stairwell to the upper floors. During a jump, Miles loses his camcorder as it falls down through a gap, and he is forced to descend into the darkness without his night vision to get it back.

Miles then returns to the Administration Block, where he gains access to the Chapel by getting the key from the Theater to unlock the stairwell. There he witnesses the crucifixion of Father Martin, who asks him to record his death. Afterwards, Miles enters the Underground Lab using the elevator; however, he is chased by The Walrider through a long corridor and gets ambushed by Chris Walker. The Walrider, in turn, ambushes Walker and brutally murders him. Miles continues ahead and meets Dr. Wernicke, who explains how the entire event started in the first place, including what they intended to do with the patients. Wernicke instructs Miles on how to stop The Walrider: by killing its host, William "Billy" Hope, by disabling his life support system.

After Miles terminates Billy's life support and seemingly kills him, The Walrider, now without a host, attacks Miles and fuses itself into his body. Severely wounded, Miles limps towards the exit, only to find Dr. Wernicke and several soldiers waiting for him. The soldiers shoot him, but as he falls to the ground, Wernicke realizes Miles has become The Walrider's new host. As the screen fades to black, The Walrider can be heard killing the soldiers as they scream in agony.

When Waylon Park reaches and enters Miles' red jeep, he notices through the windshield a dark cloud hovering in front of the asylum. Waylon then picks up the camcorder to look more closely, noticing Miles standing in the midst of it, limping towards the exit. Before having to think twice, he struggles with the gear and attempts to turn the vehicle around. As the car gets surrounded by the nano swarm, Waylon accelerates and rams through the asylum's main gates, driving off with enough evidence to bring down the Murkoff Corporation.

Sometime after the Mount Massive Asylum Incident, The Pauls traveled to Upshur's residence in Washington, D.C. in hopes of acquiring some connection between Waylon Park and Simon Peacock. The two asked one of Miles' neighbors about his whereabouts, to which the woman replied that he came home the previous night after being gone for some time, noting how the man in question riled up her dogs who were usually fond of him, but the Pauls expressed their disbelief.

Even with the Walrider controlling Miles, his status stays unknown and it is debated whether or not Miles is either alive or deceased. In the third issue of The Murkoff Account, Paul Marion noted that Upshur was "neutralized" by Murkoff at Mount Massive facility without going into detail. For a time, Red Barrels even addressed the situation confirming that Miles was dead via Twitter, but, the tweet having been hastily deleted, it is not yet known what is the correct hypothesis.

Waylon Park

Voiced by:

• Shawn Baichoo

Waylon Park, also known as The Whistleblower, is a software engineer and the unseen protagonist of Outlast's expansion, Outlast: Whistleblower. He is the husband of Lisa Park and a father of two unnamed boys.

Not much is known about Waylon's past, but according to Jeremy Blaire, he graduated from Berkeley, with exceptional marks. At some point in his life, he met Lisa, to whom he got married and had two sons. He later got a job in the field of software consulting and at some point, acquired a two week contract deal with Murkoff Corporation at Mount Massive Asylum, with a level three security clearance, where he would maintain the Morphogenic Engine and additional programming, alongside Murkoff's research and development division. After a few days, due to Murkoff's strict security protocols, he was unable to even talk to his wife and kids. Waylon developed a deep-seated distrust of the profit-motivated scientists and doctors leading dangerous and irresponsible experiments on their patients. Realizing he had made a mistake and regretting his choices, Waylon had decided to go behind their back and expose Murkoff's inhumane experiments to the public.

On September 17, 2013, Waylon decides to send an email from a server room to a freelance journalist Miles Upshur in attempt to expose Murkoff's inhumane experiments to the public. Upon sending the mail, Waylon is interrupted by a colleague, who informs him that he has been paged to the Morphogenic Engine's main control room.

Once there, he is asked by Steve, one of Murkoff's scientists, to fix the program and retrieve the camera view in one of the machine's pods. While doing so, one of Murkoff's test subjects, Eddie Gluskin, manages to escape the guards grip and runs towards reinforced glass, frightening Waylon and begging him for help. After Eddie was forced into the pod, Waylon manages to establish the connection and is asked to vacate the premises. Upon returning to the server room to retrieve the laptop, he's ambushed by Jeremy Blaire who breaks the computer, thinking that he wasn't able to send the email and along with a few guards, brutally pummels and sadistically mocks Waylon, before having one of the guards knock him out cold and forced into the Morphogenic Engine program.

Two hours later after regaining consciousness, Waylon is strapped into a chair by Andrew and psychologically tortured with Morphogenic therapy. Andrew soon leaves in a hurry, after being informed that Billy has managed "lateral ascension" with the project. Once released from the restraints, Waylon collapses and starts seeing strange flashes before spotting The Walrider gruesomely killing one of the patients, as the facility goes dark and the asylum is thrown into chaos by the patients who manage to break free and start slaughtering Murkoff employees. After managing to get up, Waylon picks up a camcorder, used to monitor the patient's progress with the project, in order to record as much evidence on Murkoff as he can. He is then released from his cell by one of the patients.

Exiting the room, and into the plastic-wrapped hallways he encounters The Walrider, who attacks him. Running away from it, Waylon finds himself in a room with several other Variants, who are stabbing a doctor on a table, expressing their hatred towards them and the need for revenge, saying that "There are no observers here". The lead Variant decides to spare Waylon and gives him a chance to leave. After exiting, Waylon is confronted by another hostile Variant who attempts to strangle him before he escapes into another room, locking the door behind him. Waylon then climbs through an air-vent where he overhears a guard and an office worker discussing a functioning short-wave radio in the Prison, giving Waylon the mission to find and use it. In his journey, he witnesses a doctor in an airlock begging him to open the doors. Doing so, a Variant comes in and brutally slams the doctor's head against the glass, traumatizing Waylon as he witnessed his first murder.

Cutting though the kitchen, Waylon gets a splat of blood jump up in his face and sees that it was the head of a man stuffed in a microwave as he was animalistically eaten by a cannibalistic Variant. Disgusted, Waylon bolts out of the room to find a door locked by a dead man handcuffed to the handle. Waylon searches through a series of rooms to find the key whilst being hunted down by the cannibal. After finally unlocking the door which leads into another room, this time a morgue with the drawers composed of furnaces, the cannibal grabs him from behind and readies to slit his throat open, but backs out and instead stuffs him into a steaming hot furnace. Waylon quickly punches his way out the back via a weak brick wall before he's scorched and climbs up an exposed shaft over the morgue to find an airlock completely flooded in gas, seeing a man in it suffocating. Traveling through several laboratories with the cannibal on his back, Waylon turns the gas off with a valve and heads back through the now empty airlock into the Recreation Area.

Exiting the asylum, Waylon wanders into the courtyard of the asylum where everything is almost completely encased in a cloud of blinding fog. With the short-wave radio still on his mind, Waylon trudges through the fog where he sees two terrified inmates dash past him, and after traveling through a basketball court where an inmate is playing solo basketball with a severed head, encounters the Twins who guard a fence Waylon wishes to pass, forcing him to go an alternate route through a guard post. This path eventually leads to the Prison where Waylon finally finds the radio and attempts to contact 911. However, a second before Waylon is able to respond, Jeremy Blaire lashes out from behind him and brutally beats the radio until it is unusable before trying to strangle Waylon with a nightstick. Blaire's attempted murder is interrupted by a terrifying growl nearby, scaring the supervisor off and sparing Waylon. A mangled body comes flying through the door, and the growl is revealed to belong to Chris Walker, who chases Waylon out of the Prison and on to an outside tool-shed. In the midst of this pursuit, Waylon briefly encounters Father Martin writing "Down the Drain" on the wall in blood, and overhears via the intercom that there's a safe haven in the administration block.

After getting off the shed, Waylon's path is blocked off by an electrified fence so he searches for the generator room to deactivate it. In his search, Park spots a grinning figure glaring at him for a brief moment behind a blocked off door before leaving. Waylon eventually switches the electricity off only for a Variant to turn it back on again. Waylon heads back to again deactivate it, successfully, and is chased by a Variant through the now un-electrified gate, into a building, then up a water tower. He leaps off the water tower's peak onto an old wooden balcony, a jump that he underestimates and plummets through the roof of the Vocational Block. He is constantly stalked yet again as he tries to escape the block, this time by Dennis, a patient with multiple personality disorder, who mutters about a terrifying groom downstairs in need of a bride. A friendly Variant warns Waylon about the very same man before Dennis chases him deeper into the Vocational Block, a part in which one of Dennis's personalities call "Gluskin's Hell". The grinning stalker and groom from before is revealed to be Eddie Gluskin, who flirts with Waylon, seeing him as a beautiful woman in need of a marriage and the removal of his "vulgar" genitals.

With Gluskin in pursuit, Waylon climbs up an elevator shaft before the ladder breaks apart under his weight and he falls on top of the elevator. A jagged splinter from the elevator's roof stabs into Waylon's ankle, partially crippling him as he writhes in pain. Gluskin is shocked that Waylon would hurt himself like that and sees this as suicidal rejection, attempting to kill his "bride" by activating the elevator to rise to the roof and crush Waylon under it. However, Waylon escapes this deathtrap and limps his way out of the Vocational Block, but before he can escape, is chased into a locker by Gluskin and dragged to his gruesome lair in hopes of removing Waylon's genitals and turning him into a "true woman". During the wait, Gluskin drugs Waylon, still trapped in the locker, with sleeping gas which lasts for 12 hours. Waylon wakes up to two Variants being brutally castrated and killed by Gluskin until it his own turn, being tied to a wooden bed, naked, and set up to have his genitals buzz-sawed off. However, right before this can commence, the bed is knocked off in a fight between a random Variant and Gluskin, allowing Waylon to don his clothes, pick up his battery drained camera, and escape.

Gluskin gets back on track on his pursuit for Waylon and chases him out a high window, a fall that completely shatters Waylon's leg as Gluskin angrily screams at this rejection. Waylon hobbles to safety only to find himself back in his foe's lair and in a gymnasium of dozens of castrated corpses strung up by a system of ropes and metal rods. Waylon looks for the exit's key, the Male Ward, through a mimic of a wedding where he finds the key and gets out of the Vocational Block. However, Gluskin yanks Waylon right back in and beats him until he's crippled before stringing him up by a rope and attempting to hang him in the gymnasium of bodies. Waylon's weight rips the planks and ropes out of the wooden ceiling, and this pulls Gluskin into the patch of metal rods, violently impaling him. In his last breath, Gluskin grabs the still hanging Waylon's hand and chokes out "We could've been beautiful", before being yanked up to the roof with a family of rods skewering him. This lowers Waylon to the ground where he makes it to the Male Ward, sees the burning church of Father Martin, witnesses Trager's corpse, evades the recently arrived Tactical officers, and finally makes it to the administration block where he sees that outside is bathed in sunshine.

However, what stands between Waylon and escape is the mortally wounded Jeremy Blaire in the exit's doorway, telling him that they could help each other. Once Waylon tries to advance out the door, Blaire lashes out and stabs him in the stomach. Before Jeremy could finish his murder, he is cut off for a second time, this time by The Walrider who rips the man apart, sending his blood and marrow to shower the horribly wounded and scarred Waylon. He hobbles his way through the asylum's gates and drives the abandoned jeep of Miles Upshur out to freedom as Miles himself, who has been possessed by The Walrider, exits the doors of the asylum as well. The game ends with a mysterious man telling Waylon, who has been cleaned up, that he can upload all of the footage he took of the Mount Massive Slaughter and show the world how demented Murkoff is, at the cost of his family and his own safety. Waylon ultimately decides to upload the footage, surely dooming his family and himself.

Waylon later abandons Miles' jeep at Billy Hope's old home town and Murkoff is unable to locate him nor Simon Peacock, his whistleblowing associate. In retaliation, they hack his upload account and attempt to discredit him with outlandish and poorly written articles.

Before or after the above event, Waylon burns down his house and he, his wife and sons, flee their home. While searching through the rubble, Pauline Glick and Paul Marion discover a family photo of Waylon, his wife and their two sons.

Variants

Voiced by:

• Alain Goulem
• Brett Schaenfield
• Carlo Mestroni
• Harry Standjofski
• Kyle Gatehouse
• Neil Napier

The Variants are some of the main antagonists of Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower. They are inmates and patients that roam the halls of Mount Massive Asylum.

Variants are the results of the exposure of patients from the Mount Massive Asylum to the Morphogenic Engine created by former Nazi scientist Dr. Rudolf Wernicke. The after-effects of the theraphy altered their minds and provoked physical deformities. The outcomes of those after-effects can't be determined, thus giving to those afflicted the name of Variants.

Most of the Variants have pale skin and mutilations likely having to do with the experiments they were once exposed to. They differ in ways, while some are thin and weak, others are massive and brutally strong, such as Chris Walker, who is a commonly seen Variant in the first game. Their clothing ranges from standard psychiatric attire to ripped and torn shorts. The Twins, however, are naked. There are some Variants that are more aware of their surroundings, an example being the Variant in the Sewer who questions whether Wernicke is deceased, and the Pyromaniac Variant in the cafeteria in the Male Ward who explains that he would rather die then stay in the asylum, and points Miles towards the exit. There are also Variants who are not permanently hostile and attack only if the player moves into close proximity, Variants who assist or hinder the player with cryptic hints or stories, and Variants who ignore the player completely.

Chris Walker

Voiced by:

• Chimwemwe Miller

Chris L. "Strongfat" Walker is the secondary antagonist of Outlast and a minor antagonist in Outlast: Whistleblower. He is a recurring and very large Variant that pursues Miles Upshur relentlessly, and who is considerably larger and stronger then any other inmate.

A document states that Walker's "predominant fixation... is a manic exaggeration of military security protocol". He claims the flesh ripped from his forehead allows for a truer vision, much like tuatara and their third eye. The removal of his nose and lips was a result of self-mutilation due to extreme anxiety.

He is responsible for the deaths of various people inside the asylum, employees and patients alike, in an attempt to contain the Walrider, which Father Martin is trying to set loose upon the world. A note reveals that before being admitted into Mount Massive Asylum, Walker was ex-military police, as well as having toured Afghanistan several times.

Prior to being committed to Mount Massive, Walker was hired as a security guard for Murkoff after returning from Afghanistan. Despite his stature and his almost inhuman strength, Walker had a child-like mind. He became surveillance officer for the Spindletop Psychotherapy Clinic in Texas. There, he was nicknamed "Strongfat" by his colleagues, which he despised. At some point, Walker's psyche broke. He murdered three inmates, all war veterans. When the bodies of his victims were found, they had been brutally ripped apart.

Two Murkoff agents named Pauline Glick and Paul Marion investigated the murders without involving the police. Eventually, they discovered that Walker was behind them when a fourth victim, Doctor Claymore, had been found in a therapy room. Realizing that this should have been recorded on the security monitors, they visited Walker's control room. However, the monitors had been smashed, and since only two people had access to the monitors including Claymore and Walker, they figured that Chris was the one responsible.

They headed to Chris' residence, but he was not home. They found four cooler boxes, three of which contained the heads of Walker's previous victims. When they discovered that one of the boxes was empty, they realized that he was bound to arrive home soon and so they waited for him. Meanwhile, they searched his house and found his childhood toy, a stuffed toy pig.

Shortly afterward, Walker arrived home with the head of his last victim. The officers immediately drew their guns and ordered him to stand down. However, seeing the investigators holding his stuffed animal, he lashed out at them. He threw Pauline to the ground and grabbed Paul by the throat. Pauline shot him several times in the face, scarring him horribly. In response, Walker dropped Paul and instead attacked Pauline, throwing her through a window. Before Chris could kill her, Paul grabbed his gun and shot Chris several times, only for Chris to knock the gun out of his hand and throw him to the ground. As he approached Paul, Pauline got in her car and drove at Chris; the impact throwing him against a rock and knocking him unconscious.

Afterwards, Walker was apprehended by the two agents. As he was a Murkoff employee, the killings were blamed on another patient Omar Abdul Malik, who received a life sentence in prison. Walker however was not surrendered to the police, but was instead committed to Mount Massive Asylum for experimentation.

Two months later Pauline was called to the asylum where she met Jeremy Blaire in the underground lab. Blaire showed her Walker, who was not recognizable as a human anymore and had been turned into the beast encountered in Outlast.

After the security breach, Walker roams the asylum, killing any and all people he sees as potential hosts for the The Walrider, staff and patients alike. Many headless corpses are seen, mainly in the Administration Block, due to Walker's attempts at containment.

Following the asylum's riots, Murkoff sent a team of tactical operators in an attempt to contain the situation. However, the PMCs were eventually overwhelmed and killed by the loose Variants including Chris, in the Administration Block's library. Walker then proceeded to stack the heads of the fallen agents on to the bookshelves and impaled team leader Stephenson on an iron pole, leaving him for dead.

Not long after the aforementioned event, Miles arrives at the asylum and enters the same library, only to discover blood, bodies, and heads lined up on the bookshelves. He also discovers Stephenson, impaled on the iron pole and seemingly dead. However, Stephenson wakes up briefly to warn the distressed journalist about the dangers that lurk in the asylum. With his dying breath, Stephenson warns Miles to get out while he still can, before dying. After an unnerved Miles leaves the library, he spots Walker for the first time, in a corridor above the main hall, just as he enters another room. After passing by and attempting to squeeze through a small gap, he is suddenly grabbed by Walker who calls him a "little pig" and throws him through a glass window, and he falls about twenty feet into the atrium. Later, when Walker realizes the fall did not kill Miles, he breaks into the Security Control room to look for him but leaves when Miles hides in a locker.

Not seen for a period of time, Walker is later shown ripping the head off an employee in the asylum prison while speaking about containment. Soon afterward, Miles opens a decontamination gate which Walker enters and breaks the glass to the control room, forcing Miles to exit through an air vent. Blasted out of a window by an explosion, Miles is pursued by Walker but escapes by squeezing through a barricade.

In the sewers, while attempting to drain the water to continue, Walker further hinders Miles' progress but Miles succeeds in the drainage and escapes down a ladder. Walker does not give up however, and stalks Miles in a large, dark room completely filled with waist deep water where Miles again escapes, using a ladder.

Walker once again attempts to kill Miles in the Male Ward while he is busy turning the sprinklers on. Out in the Courtyard, which Walker is patrolling, he comes very close to catching Miles but is unable to fit through a small gap that Miles moves through. Miles sneaks past him on the way to meet Father Martin and he attempts to chase Miles one last time after Miles gets the elevator key. Miles barely manages to hide from him and rushes out of the hall to attempt to leave the asylum via the elevator. When it is revealed that Father Martin tricked Miles into entering the Underground Lab where the Walrider's host, Billy Hope, resides, Miles is chased by the Walrider back the way he came.

Upon opening a door, Walker grabs Miles and throws him to the ground, telling him he won't escape this time and utters his nickname for Miles, little pig, one last time. Unknowingly having put himself in the path of the charging Walrider, he is grabbed and spiraled away from Miles, slamming into a wall. As the Walrider relentlessly beats him against the walls, he growls in rage and agony before being beaten so badly that he can do nothing more than meekly choke. Miles films as the Walrider lifts him up into the air and flies with him through a nearby closed air grate, forcing Walker's huge body through such a tiny area, which shreds his body and spills a massive amount of blood and guts on the surrounding area, killing him.

Walker makes a brief appearance in Prison. After Jeremy hears Chris screaming and bashing a door nearby, Jeremy exclaims, "Do me a favor and die here, Park", before running away. Evading Chris, Waylon then makes his way down several hallways and squeezes through a tight gap, impassable by Walker. Waylon heads further on through the prison block, passing by Father Martin who is painting on the wall for Miles which reads "Down the Drain". Waylon heads further down the Prison Block, trying to find a way to the Administration Block to escape. Just as Waylon finds his way through a dark corridor, Walker re-appears behind Park and chases him. Waylon makes his way down the corridors and jumps through a window. After this encounter, Walker is not seen again.

Following the events behind the Mount Massive Asylum Incident, Walker is shown tearing the head off a Murkoff employee in Waylon Park's leaked footage.

The Twins

Voiced by:

• Neil Napier
• Alain Goulem

The Twins are the mysterious and psychopathic twin Variants.

Not much is known about them other than that they are psychopaths. They seem to constantly talk about indulging to their desire of murdering Miles and possibly eating his tongue and liver. They seem to be obedient to Father Martin, the reason for this is unknown.

Miles' first encounter with them is at the beginning of the Prison Block, where they discuss killing Miles and taking his tongue and liver, but deciding not to do so yet, for it would be impolite towards Martin Archimbaud, who told them not to touch Miles. They become hostile later on when they've decided they had enough patience with Miles, despite Father Martin's wishes. They are encountered once more near the prison showers, where they manage to trap Miles in a narrow corridor and he is forced to use the smashed window to evade them. Further encounters include the Female Ward where they lie in wait behind a large door near two hallways and when Miles returns to the Administration Block in the theater room. They cease being hostile once Miles reaches the Chapel during Father Martin's crucifixion.

The Twins make a brief cameo in the Recreation Area. They are seen walking to either side of Waylon at one point, mentioning that he looks nervous and they would like to kill him. Once Waylon loops around to the basketball court, they cease hostility and wait in front of the designated door. They will not attack unless Waylon gets too close. They return to antagonizing Waylon as he hurries to escape the basketball court, after he climbs up the ladder, they are not seen again. It's assumed they headed back to the Prison Block, where they will encounter Miles Upshur for the first time.

Richard Trager

Voiced by:

• Alex Ivanovici

Richard "Rick" Trager is an antagonist in Outlast. He is an insane Variant who experiments on patients in order to gain more knowledge about biology.

Prior to his involuntary commitment, Trager was the head of Business Development at Mount Massive Asylum and an executive of Research Development for the Murkoff Corporation. Trager was also a close friend with Jeremy Blaire, as Waylon finds a document which proves that they were companions and used to golf together.

Prior to the events of Outlast and Outlast: Whistlebower, mitigation officers Pauline Glick and Paul Marion are called in to investigate an HR complaint at Mount Massive. When the Pauls meet Trager, he is acting jovially, claiming to be "a team player" and wanting the two of them to be on "Team Rick". Rick also harasses the female investigator multiple times. Trager claims that no one in his department is responsible for the leaks. During the conversation, Marion secretly signals to Glick that he considers Trager to be "dirty as hobo shit". To get more information, Glick asks Trager whether the two of them could meet for dinner. Trager accepts.

While dining at a restaurant, Trager explains that as a child his father tried convince him not to become a doctor. Afterwards Trager drives Pauline back to his place, where he offers her cocaine. When she declines he offers her scotch, which she also declines in favor of red wine. While Trager is busy getting the wine from his cellar, Pauline searches his house and finds Trager's internet passwords, magazine guides on how to perform surgery, and a pamphlet for an abortion clinic. While drinking, Pauline recognizes a sour taste, and realizes that Trager spiked her drink with Rohypnol. Pauline responds by pulling her gun on Trager and points it at his genitals, forcing him to drink the rest of the drugged scotch. Trager passes out almost immediately. Pauline then calls Paul to pick her up from Trager's house.

After leaving Trager's house, Pauline calls Paul, and the two confront pregnant Murkoff employee Michelle Haas as the source of the leaked information. Michelle reveals that Trager raped her and got her pregnant. Trager had then forced her to either get an abortion or to get fired. As she could tell no one without the risk of Trager firing her, and she could not take care of a child without her job, Michelle had decided to send the e-mail, with the hope that Trager would be blamed and fired. Paul then made sure a severance package was made for Michelle in exchange for her silence. This way, Michelle was able to keep her child and would be able to take care of it without working for Murkoff. Michelle agreed, but when she visited Jeremy Blaire with the investigators to revoke her security clearance, a furious Trager stormed into the room, calling the two investigators "lying bitches". Claiming that Michelle cannot prove anything, he grabbed a pair of scissors from a nearby table and viciously stabbed her in the stomach multiple times, severely wounding Michelle in the process.

Paul then attacked Trager and took him to the ground. In the scuffle, Trager accidentally stabbed himself in the leg with scissors, and Pauline subsequently grabbed Trager by the neck and ran his head head against a paper shredder, ripping out his long hair and scarring his scalp in the process.

Afterward, Trager was apprehended and taken in as an inmate and used as a test subject for the Morphogenic Engine. Despite having been his friend, Blaire personally watched when Trager was dragged into the machine kicking and screaming, and smiled sadistically while watching.

During the Mount Massive Asylum Incident, he improvised himself as a surgeon and started cutting up staff members to "cut corners".

After Miles hears a voice and climbs into the dumbwaiter to escape his pursuers, he meets Trager. Despite initially sounding like an ally, Trager beats Miles until he is unable to walk, picks him up, and straps him into a wheelchair.

After rolling him down a hallway, Trager taunts Miles by offering him a chance to escape the asylum by walking out the exit door. Miles is unable to do so due to the wheelchair restraints, so Trager pretends that Miles wants to stay, taking him up an elevator and down a few more hallways. Along the way, Miles sees the bodies of other victims who had been captured. They finally arrive at a makeshift operating room; a bathroom covered in gore with a table that has various sharp tools on it. Trager takes the camcorder and sets it down on the sink before washing his hands. He then has a short talk with Miles about Father Martin and his religious viewpoints before taking a large pair of bone shears and cutting off two of Miles' fingers. Trager leaves the room for a short while, giving Miles the chance to escape.

Miles breaks out of the wheelchair restraints and navigates through other "operating rooms" where a patient talks to him and reveals that he is an executive like Trager. The patient then starts to shout Trager's name and he finally appears to investigate. Trager kills the patient before going back to the operating room to check on Miles, which reveals that he has escaped his confines. Enraged, Trager then scours the place to find Miles.

After Miles retrieves the key and uses it to start the manually-operated elevator, Trager breaks into it from the floor below in an attempt to get to Miles, but Miles struggles and pushes him out. Trager's upper torso is still inside the elevator as it begins to move, and he is crushed to death in the process. Miles then escapes through a hatch in the elevator ceiling.

While Waylon passes through the Male Ward, Trager can be seen lying dead on the ground after Murkoff's Tactical Division had pulled out his body from the elevator shaft, who they mistake for one of the asylum's victims after seeing his body.

Pyromaniac

Voiced by:

• Neil Napier

The Pyromaniac, nicknamed Pyro, is one of the more notable Variants.

After Miles kills Trager, Martin will instruct him to meet up outside the asylum. Miles will then have to go through a burning cafeteria, where he'll meet Pyro for the first time. Pyro will explain to Miles that he has set the cafeteria ablaze, in an attempt to commit suicide and burn down the asylum along with him, wanting to destroy the madness Murkoff had created.

Upon extinguishing the fire, Miles heads back to the kitchen through the cafeteria only to be ambushed by an enraged Pyro in an attempt to kill him for indirectly foiling his suicidal attempt. Upshur manages to fight him off as the crazed Variant walks away into the asylum.

Murkoff Corporation

The Murkoff Corporation (alternatively Murkoff Corp. or simply Murkoff) is an American company that reopened the Mount Massive Asylum, under the guise of a charitable organization in 2009, after CIA Director Richard Helms orders all MKULTRA files to be destroyed. It conducted experimentation on the patients of the asylum, which enhanced and devolved them into Variants in an attempt to create a host for the Walrider. Two of the main contributors to Murkoff Corp. were Alan Mathison Turing and Rudolf Gustav Wernicke. Murkoff kept their workers from keeping in contact with their family and friends for fear of their illegal as well as immoral experiments being exposed to the public eye. Murkoff was also known to institutionalize, torture, kill or enroll at the Morphogenic Engine program anyone who tries to expose Murkoff and their plans to the public due to the fact that those who Murkoff could be sent to prison for crimes against humanity if exposed, as well as the possible large profit from their experiments.

Stephenson

Voiced by:

• Shawn Baichoo

Stephenson, also known as "The Dying Soldier", was a part of Murkoff's personal tactical operators sent to stop the havoc at Mount Massive Asylum caused by its patients.

Stephenson and his team were instructed to infiltrate Mount Massive Asylum and prevent the Variants from escaping by any means necessary. However, the operation fails as Stephenson and his team were overpowered at the Administration Block and were all killed, with Stephenson himself getting impaled on an iron pole by Chris Walker.

Independent journalist Miles Upshur receives a tip about illegal activity at the asylum and goes there, armed with his camcorder. Miles manages to gain access to the asylum and navigates through corridors, which are filled with the bodies of guards, brutally killed by the Variants. Miles goes to the Administration Block and passes through the library, also filled with bodies of guards and doctors, either hanging from the ceiling or beheaded. While a horrified Miles navigates through the library, he notices Stephenson, impaled on an iron pole, seemingly dead. The dead cop suddenly awakens and with his last breath warns Miles not to fight with the strong Variants, tells him to hide, instructs him to escape the asylum by unlocking the main doors from the security control room and that he must escape at all costs from the asylum before dying.

Security Guards

Voiced by:

• Various

Security Guards are a form of Murkoff's various security forces instructed to provide protection to Mount Massive Asylum's staff and visitors. Due to security personnel needing an extremely high security clearance to be able to be protected with decent weaponry, a high amount of the guards have to use their bare hands to defend themselves, leading to their deaths in very large numbers and the ultimate failure of their job to protect the asylum during the breakout. They are often addressed by characters, such as Steve and Jeremy Blaire, as "agent".

By the time Miles Upshur arrives at Mount Massive Asylum, most security officers are dead. Bodies of guards can be found around the asylum, brutally murdered by the Variants and the Walrider.

While Miles is venturing through the Prison Block, he witnesses an alive guard being brutally beaten to death by an enraged inmate, who proceeds to warn Miles to stay quiet or else he'll do the same to him.

As Whistleblower is set at the Mount Massive Asylum hours before the riots, a number of living guards are prominently featured. They are neutral to the player until Waylon Park emails Miles Upshur about Murkoff's fringe experiments. Interaction with security guards is strictly limited to scripted sequences.

After Waylon is informed that he's needed at the Morphogenic Engine by a colleague, he meets two guards at the reception, one guarding a door and the other typing on a computer at the reception desk. The guard at the desk asks him why he didn't answer the page, and then tells Waylon that he'll inform those at the engine that Waylon is incoming.

As Waylon walks down a hallway leading to the Morphogenic Engine control room, he meets a guard who impatiently tells him to hurry up as he's needed at the front terminal. In the Morphogenic Engine itself, he sees several security officers guarding the control centre and spots several patrolling the chamber itself.

While Waylon is debugging the Morphogenic Engine, he witnesses a patient being forced into a sphere by several armed security guards wearing hazmat suits. The patient breaks free of the guards' grip and runs to the control room window and begging for help. After Waylon reacts in fright, a guard stationed in the control room yells at him to calm down.

After Waylon finishes debugging the program, he returns to a server room to retrieve his laptop (which he had sent the email to Miles Upshur from). However, upon returning, he is ambushed by Jeremy Blaire and several guards, who have discovered that Waylon attempted to leak information regarding Murkoff's illegal experiments. Blaire has Waylon committed to the asylum for experimentation and orders the guards to beat him to unconsciousness, which they do.

Afterward, they bring him to a restricted experimentation room in the asylum's Hospital, where he is forced to watch the Morphogenic Engine. However, during this time Billy Hope takes control of the Walrider and uses it to begin slaughtering the staff. In the chaos, many Variants escape and they too begin similarly murdering the staff. Waylon himself is released by a harmless Variant.

After escaping, Waylon witnesses a guard tackling a patient. After a brief struggle, he snaps the patient's neck before taking refuge in his cell.

Shortly afterward, while crawling through a ventilation shaft, he overhears a conversation between a guard and a Murkoff worker about how to deal with the current situation. The guard suggests that the two get out of the asylum through the reception and let Murkoff's Tactical Division clean up the incident. When the employee mentions that there's a shortwave radio in the asylum's prison that they could use to call for help, the security guard responds angrily to the suggestion, mentioning how all illegal activities they did on a Murkoff payroll will be discovered if they call for help from the local authorities. When the employee says that it's too late to worry about that, the guard threatens him, saying that if the worker tries to call for outside help, he will give him "a whole new something to be scared of".

Waylon later finds a guard hiding in a decontamination gate control room. When Waylon approaches him, the guard tells him to leave, saying, "Go away! This is my place. You're gonna get me killed. Fuck off!" Waylon subsequently leaves, and the guard closes the door, locking it.

While searching for the radio in the prison to contact the local authorities, Waylon hears and sees the silhouette of a guard getting beaten to death by an inmate behind a barricaded door. During the chase sequence with Chris Walker, Waylon spots a guard locking himself in a decontamination gate control room. After escaping the crazed Variant, Park wanders into a cell and finds a guard huddled in a corner, muttering cryptic phrases to himself. Later on, two guards mistake Waylon for an aggressive Variant and desperately try to escape by barricading the door behind them.

Murkoff's Tactical Division

Voiced by:

• Various

Murkoff's Tactical Division, also known as Murkoff Tactical, refers to a group of private military contractors (PMCs) employed by the Murkoff Corporation.

Some time before Miles Upshur arrival to Mount Massive Asylum, a team of Murkoff's mercenaries was sent to the facility, with the first group being instructed to extract Doctor Rudolf Wernicke from the Underground Lab and the second to secure the Administration Block. Shortly before Miles arrives at the asylum, the latter group was ambushed and slaughtered by Chris Walker in one of the block's libraries. Walker then proceeded to stack the heads of fallen agents onto book shelves and impaled Stephenson on an iron pole, leaving him for dead. The seemingly deceased operative woke up for a brief moment to warn the distressed journalist, who mistook him for a SWAT officer, about the dangers that lurked in the asylum when he stumbled upon the bloody room. With his dying breath, Stephenson told Miles to attempt to unlock the asylum's main doors from security control, shortly before succumbing to his injuries.

When attempting to restore power to the Administration Block and open its main doors from the security control room, Miles was ambushed and sedated via syringe by a self-proclaimed priest, Martin Archimbaud, who proceeded to show the man a security footage from the Underground Lab of the secondary group being slaughtered by a mysterious, unseen force, to which the priest referred to as his divine lord, The Walrider.

Much later in the game, upon arriving at the Underground Lab, Miles discovers the mutilated corpses of the secondary group he'd seen being slaughtered over the security camera. More of their corpses can be found just outside Wernicke's office.

After murdering William Hope and becoming The Walrider's new host, a severely injured Miles limped towards the lab's exit, before being ambushed and gunned down by the division's reinforcements, now accompanied by Dr. Wernicke. When the journalist collapsed to the ground, Wernicke spoke in distress as he realized Upshur had become The Walrider's new host. Seconds later, The Walrider emerged before the frightened group. Panicking, the operatives opened fire on the entity as they were torn apart.

Early in the Variant breakout, Waylon eavesdropped on a security guard and an employee discussing ways of dealing with the current situation. The guard assured the worker the situation is being kept under control, noting that Murkoff Tactical has already been dispatched.

Nearing the asylum's exit, Waylon spots three officers examining Richard Trager's body and discussing his death, having just pulled his corpse out of the elevator shaft. Waylon witnesses and hears officers gunning down inmates as they try to escape, and overhears that the teams are authorised to use deadly force and kill anything that moves.

Shortly afterward, the group being slaughtered by Miles in the basement radio for help, and the group in the Male Ward make their way there. It is unknown what happened to the group in the Male Ward after they make their way down, but it can be assumed that they were also killed by Miles Upshur's Walrider.

Following the events behind the Mount Massive Asylum Incident, a squad is seen securing the asylum and cleaning up the complex in the aftermath of the incident. One PMC is seen being molested by an inmate in Waylon Park's leaked footage.

Rudolf Wernicke

Voiced by:

• Marcel Jeannin

Doctor Rudolf Gustav Wernicke is one of the researchers who worked in the hidden research facility beneath Mount Massive Asylum and one of the more prominent figures behind Murkoff Psychiatric Systems. He was the main scientist behind the whole Walrider experiment.

Rudolf Gustav Wernicke was born on 20th October 1918 in Munich, Germany, and achieved fame in the mathematic and scientific communities for a paper written with early computing pioneer Alan Turing. After a cloudy history with the German war effort, he emigrated to the United States in 1949 with a visa from the State Department. Several decades of government research in Los Alamos led to New Mexico, where Dr. Wernicke retired to pursue landscape photography and care for his cats. He is single and has no children. He came to Colorado shortly after the turn of the millennia to pursue charitable work for the Murkoff Corporation.

Dr. Wernicke makes his first appearance near the end of the game. After Miles' last encounter with Walker, who was brutally killed by The Walrider, he opens the door to his office and asks him to come inside and let him explain the situation.

He explains to Miles how normally he should have already been dead, but somehow Billy keeps him alive out of sympathy and according to his own words - may even think that Wernicke is his father. Then he explains how the Murkoff Corporation contacted him to help them with human nanotechnology experiments, whom they wish to conduct on the asylum patients, with the only reason being profit. Eventually through his work, the scientists produced the precise molecules necessary. He also laments the fact that it was foolish from the very beginning to think they could master such powerful technology, but regardless continued due to the possible large profit. Then the patients escaped and caused the horrors within the asylum in the first place. After being done talking, he instructs Miles to stop Billy and turn off his life support system, so that he could effectively kill The Walrider, who slays anyone trying to escape from the asylum. Miles leaves the room and after much effort, stops Billy's life support and kills him.

He then again appears at the exit with armed security forces at the end of the game to confront Miles, who (unknowingly to Wernicke) has been possessed by The Walrider. The soldiers then shoot Miles (possibly by the orders of Wernicke, who doesn't wish the young journalist to reveal to the public the truth about the Murkoff's plans to profit from the experiments that were illegally conducted on the patients, as well as Wernicke's own involvement) in the chest several times. As Miles collapses to the floor, Wernicke is shocked to see that Miles has become the host. Gunfire and mauling sounds can be heard briefly before the credits roll.

When Waylon is summoned to the underground control room for maintenance, he briefly overhears two scientists discussing Wernicke's work on the Morphogenic Engine.

Despite the preceding events, it is never made clear if Wernicke was targeted or killed by the Walrider. Although, given the creature's nature, it can be assumed that Rudolf met his end at the hands of the ghostly entity.

A number of unused audio logs from Outlast 2's demo suggest that Wernicke might have survived and was transferred to another facility.

Neutral Characters

Martin Archimbaud

Voiced by:

• Andreas Apergis

Martin Archimbaud is an ally to Miles and a major character in Outlast. He presents himself as a very religious priest and self-proclaimed prophet. He was a patient at the asylum.

A note found by the player describes a patient called "Father" Martin Archimbaud who has begun suffering from delusions of a "higher calling" after the asylum's art therapy program is done away with. The quotation marks around the word "father" in the note imply that his status as a priest is questionable. This origin is hinted at by the cross on his chest that appears to be fashioned from straps, and at times a buckle is visible. His religion worships the Walrider, as it's the only reasonable explanation he could suffice in his state of dementia. His past experiences with finger painting may have led him to mark the path for Miles in blood in the form of writing, arrows, smears, etc. Several notes in the game are written by him, such as this one.

He sees himself as a prophet of his god, the Walrider, and he believes that it is his duty to spread its gospel. He presents himself as a calm and good man only doing his duty, even apologizing to Miles for sedating him. His faith is so strong that he eventually burns himself on a cross, believing he will be resurrected and free. He was able to seize control of some of the inmates of Mount Massive Asylum such as The Twins, to the point that he was able to grant Miles free passage through certain sections of the building. However, characters such as Chris Walker and Eddie Gluskin are not under his leadership. Additionally, Trager seems to despise the priest entirely, which is evidenced by his rants before he mutilates Miles' fingers.

Miles first encounters Father Martin in the atrium after having been thrown through a window by Chris Walker. Seeing their meeting as divine intervention, he calls Miles his apostle and tells him that he has a greater purpose. After Miles wakes up from the blackout he is gone. Shortly after, he is seen on a monitor in the Security Control room, cutting off the power to the asylum. After Miles restarts the generator in the basement and returns to the Security Control room to open the main doors, Father Martin overwhelms him and injects him with a sedative. He says that he cannot allow Miles to leave, for there is so much yet for him to witness. He shows Miles security footage of soldiers being slaughtered by an entity called the The Walrider and that he has to accept the gospel so that all doors before him will open. Miles then blacks out and is transported by Father Martin to the holding cells in the Prison Block. Father Martin is then seen in certain areas throughout the game, sometimes instructing Miles to follow him through. He can be seen in the Sewer, walking past a blocked off passage while singing. The next encounter is near the end of the Male Ward after escaping from Trager, he exclaims that he is glad Miles survived, for he feared that Trager would carve him up like he did with numerous other patients, he says they're close now and that Miles should follow him outside to the Courtyard where he leaves a message in blood and a document near the flickering lantern post. Father Martin is seen next inside the Female Ward, waiting at the middle floor of a collapsed section, shouting if Miles saw The Walrider as well, he says Miles can cross from the upper floors to reach him. He is last seen in the Chapel, in the upper floors of the Administration Block, where he is crucified in a ceremony as a prayer to The Walrider and tells Miles to record his death. A document explaining the ritual can be found earlier in one of the rooms with a praying patient.

Martin makes a cameo appearance in the Prison. Waylon Park passes him as he is painting on the wall, "Down the Drain" for Miles Upshur, as he already was in asylum. He tells Waylon not to worry, for he is doing "his" work. Later in the DLC, Waylon can look out of a window in the Male Ward and see the exterior of the chapel, now ablaze in the aftermath of Father Martin's death.

William Hope

Voiced by:

• None

William P. "Billy" Hope is an antagonist in Outlast and the Walrider's first host.

William was in fact, not mentally unstable like the rest of variants encountered in the asylum as stated by Pauline Glick before he was being sent into the Morphogenic Engine and he was actually sold by his mother to Murkoff for a large sum of money.

William Hope was the first host of the Walrider, and would be his only physically restrained host. He might believe that Rudolf Wernicke is his father, as he's kept him alive through the powers of the Walrider. He can be seen at the end of the game in the Underground Lab. He's in a sphere, presumably glass, with many tubes and instruments running into and out of his body. He's being kept alive by a large reservoir, filled with various chemicals, and is constantly being kept in a lucid dream state, in order to work as efficiently as possible with the Walrider. The large machine hosting the entire process, the Morphogenic Engine, is present feet away from his sphere. After Miles kills Billy by stopping the flow of fluids from the reservoir and turns off power to his machine, he bleeds out inside the machine rapidly. The Walrider then leaves Billy's corpse, and Miles becomes the new host.

While Andrew was torturing Waylon Park with the Morphogenic therapy, one of his assistants informed him that Billy Hope had reached "lateral ascension" with the project.

Billy is briefly seen being prepped for the Morphogenic Engine.

Despite being apparently killed by Miles, the Walrider, possessing Billy's body, later turns up at the caravan of Billy's mother, Tiffany Hope. While Tiffany was conversing with agents Paul Marion and Pauline Glick, she mentioned that Billy was in fact, not mentally ill, but that she had sold him to Murkoff for a large sum of money. After hearing this, Billy attacked Tiffany, telling her that he "loved her." Billy then tore her apart while the two agents ecaped. The caravan itself was then destroyed by an explosion, presumably ending Billy's life for good.

The Walrider

Voiced by:

• None

The Walrider, also known as The Swarm, is the main antagonist and the final enemy encountered in Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower. It is the source of the madness that seems to infect most of the asylum's inhabitants and the deity of Father Martin's religion and his followers.

While appearing ghostly in nature, the Walrider is actually a swarm of nanites; small, nanoscopic machines which collectively possess great strength and power. It took possession of William "Billy" Hope. As it is shown by a document, when Billy was undergoing Morphogenic Engine Therapy, he learned to self-direct the lucid dream states, he was then capable of controlling the Walrider.

When Miles Upshur tries to unlock the Administration Block doors to escape, he is ambushed by Father Martin, who sedates him with a syringe. Before Miles passes out, Father Martin shows him security footage from the Underground Lab, which depicts a team of Murkoff PMCs being ambushed and slaughtered by the invisible entity upon entering the lab. While Miles is traversing through the prison showers, its silhouette can be seen at the bottom of the stairs before vanishing. Shortly afterward, while walking through a Sewer tunnel, Miles catches a glimpse of the entity as it disappears through a barricade. Soon afterward, two men are heard running from the Walrider, before being caught by it and torn apart. Miles arrives at the scene minutes later, discovering their dismembered remains on the floor. In the Courtyard, it is seen scouring the air, as well as one brief encounter behind the locked gate.

Project Walrider was the process of exposing patients to Morphogenic Engine Therapy to create a suitable vessel for the nanite swarm, for only a person that has seen enough horror can become the host. The aim was to create the perfect host for the Walrider, so that it could become a sentient being, as is evidenced by these notes: Gods and Monsters, Variant Postmortem. It is likely that the Variants are the results of this procedure. Billy was capable of controlling the Walrider, with his self-directed lucid dream states, however because they were only using damaged and unstable minds to experiment on, the situation got out of control. The Walrider managed to escape, slaughtering most of the facility's staff members, which directly led to a massive prison breakout.

When Miles reaches the underground facilities, he discovers the bodies of the men he saw being murdered on the security cameras. Miles tries to escape through an open hangar, but the Walrider assembles in front of it, causing the security systems to shut down all exit routes, forcing Upshur to retreat the way he came.

As the Walrider gives chase, Miles runs back to the exit, only to be greeted with Chris Walker at the lab's entrance, who tackles the journalist to the floor. Unknowingly having put himself in the path of the incoming swarm, Walker mocks Upshur one last time, but before he can kill his intended target, Chris is grabbed by the Walrider from behind and spiraled away from Miles. The Walrider relentlessly throws Walker against nearby walls, and eventually pulls him through a ventilation shaft, dismembering his body in the process.

Before he can recover from his ordeal, Miles is suddenly guided by an elderly voice into a nearby secured office. The voice reveals himself to be Rudolf Wernicke, a presumed deceased doctor who explains how William Hope gained control over the Walrider and how he's also responsible for keeping Wernicke alive out of love, even though Rudolf wants to die more than anything. He instructs Miles to disable the power grid for Billy's life-support pod to undo what he has made and murder Hope. After Miles shuts down the life-support pod, the Walrider, now without a host, attacks Miles and fuses itself with his body, taking him as its new host.

As Miles limps towards the exit in pain, the door opens, revealing Dr. Wernicke and several gunmen. The mercenaries open fire, seemingly killing Upshur, but Wernicke realizes that Miles has become the sentient host. As the screen fades to black, the Walrider can be heard emerging and attacking the soldiers as they shoot and scream in agony.

The Walrider first appears in the Hospital after Waylon is freed from his restraints, murdering two patients on either side of his glass cell. Upon escaping, Waylon walks down the plastic tarp hallways of the hospital, the Walrider appears and chases him into a room where several patients are stabbing a doctor's corpse on an operating table.

While crawling through a vent, Waylon overhears a guard and a doctor discussing ways of dealing with the situation. After the two leave, Waylon drops down and catches a glimpse of the Walrider's silhouette just outside the doorway. After opening a decontamination gate from security control, Waylon finds himself pursued by the Walrider but escapes through the decontamination chamber.

In the morgue, Waylon climbs through an opening near the exhaust chimney as he spots the Walrider levitating through the shaft before disappearing.

In Prison, Waylon spots a silhouette of the Walrider chasing two inmates down a hallway into another room, where it can be heard killing the two as they scream in agony.

In Drying Ground, Waylon spots the Walrider in one of the buildings leading up to the water tower. The swarm completely ignores Park and instead traverses through the grated floor below.

After Waylon escapes from Vocational Block, he finds himself in the Male Ward, now swarming with tactical officers instructed to shoot and kill on sight. Avoiding the mercenaries, Waylon overhears two of them requesting immediate backup in the underground facilities as the Walrider, an entity unknown to the PMCs, slaughters their teammates.

Upon reaching the Exit, Park discovers an injured Jeremy Blaire as he's resting on the main doorway. Waylon ignores Jeremy's plead for help and attempts to leave, before Blaire ambushes and stabs him with a hidden knife. As Blaire is about to deliver the killing blow, the Walrider emerges and throws Jeremy into the air and across the room, before entering his body and dismembering him apart from the inside.

Wounded and exhausted, Waylon hobbles his way through the asylum's gates and enters Miles' abandoned jeep, before noticing through the windshield a dark cloud hovering in front of the asylum. Waylon then picks up the camcorder to look more closely, noticing Miles standing in the midst of it, limping towards the exit. Before having to think twice, he struggles with the gear and attempts to turn the vehicle around. As the car gets surrounded by the nano swarm, Waylon accelerates and rams through the asylum's main gates.

In Issue 3, it is revealed that, despite being apparently killed by Miles, the Walrider, possessing Billy's body, later turns up at the caravan of Billy's mother, Tiffany Hope. The body of Billy was then, after Tiffany was slaughtered by the Walrider, blown up in an explosion, presumably ending Billy's life for good. What Murkoff doesn't know is that the Walrider wasn't destroyed, but merely switched hosts for a colony of ants.[1]

Still possessing the ant colony, the Walrider manages to travel all the way to the outskirts of Temple Gate, specifically heading towards the Murkoff radio towers. The ants completely swarm and destroy the towers, causing the microwaves to malfunction and engulf the radio towers in a flash of light.[2]

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