Chris Walker is the secondary antagonist of Outlast and a minor antagonist in its DLC story, Outlast: Whistleblower.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
In the comic book series The Murkoff Account, it is revealed that Walker was a military police officer who served in the US army and fought in the Iraq War. After returning from Afghanistan, Walker and many other veterans were commited to the Murkoff-owned Spindletop Psychotherapy Clinic in Texas, in order to cure them of their recently-developed PTSD via hypnosis and dream therapy treatment. Eventually, Walker became a Murkoff employee and was hired to work as a surveillance guard at Spindletop, where he would survey the therapy sessions. There, he earned the nickname "Strongfat" due to his stature and near-inhuman strength, which contrasted with his child-like mind. Walker, however, despised this nickname.
At some point, Walker's psyche snapped for unknown reasons, leading him to murder three Spindletop inmates, with each of their bodies being found brutally torn apart. Two Murkoff agents, Pauline Glick and Paul Marion, were sent to investigate the murders. After a fourth victim, Dr. Claymore, was found dead in a therapy room, Glick and Marion, knowing that the room had security cameras, went to the control room, but found all the equipment smashed. Since only Claymore and Walker had access to the room, they thus determined that Walker was responsible for the murders. After heading to Walker's residence, they found that Walker was not home, and then discovered the severed heads of Walker's first three victims.
Realising that Walker would be home soon, the two agents decided to wait for him to return so they could arrest him. While waiting, they decide to search Walker;s house some more and find a stuffed toy pig; Walker's childhood toy. Shortly after, Walker returned home, holding the head of his latest victim, and was held at gunpoint by Glick and Marion, who ordered him to stand down. However, Walker saw his beloved stuffed toy in their hands and lashed out at them. In the ensuing chaos, Glick shot Walker multiple times in the face, leaving it horribly scarred, and the fight ended when Walker was ran over and knocked out by Paulin in her car. Walker was then apprehended by the agents, but since he was a Murkoff employee, his murders were blamed on a patient named Omar Abdul Malik, who got life in prison. Walker, meanwhile, was commited to Mount Massive Aslyum so he could be experimented on. Two moths later, Glick was called over to Mount Massive Asylum, where she met its head, Jeremy Blaire, in the underground lab. There, Blaire showed her Walker, who was completely unrecognisable as a human in part due to self-mutilation of his nose, lips and forehead.
Outlast[]
After the Mount Massive security breach (seen in Outlast: Whistleblower), Walker begins to roam the asylum, brutally killing many staff members, patients and tactical operators sent by Murkoff in an attempt to control the security breach, as Walker sees them all as potential hosts for the Walrider. Mere moments after, a freelance journalist named Miles Upshur arrives at Mount Massive in response to an anonymous email sent by Waylon Park about the inhumane activities occuring at the asylum. After Miles discovers the carnage caused by Waker and the other inmates firsthand, Miles is attacked by Walker and thrown through a glass window, knocking him out when he falls to the ground level. 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. Later on, 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 escape 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.
Death[]
Walker's death
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. Having unknowingly placed himself in the path of the charging Walrider, Chris is grabbed and spiraled away from Miles — with Miles actively filming the event as it unfolds a few inches in front of him — before being repeatedly slammed against the hallway's two walls. As Walker screams in agony and struggles against the Walrider's overwhelming might, the Walrider enters Walker's torso, levitates him into the air and proceeds to force his entire body through a nearby air grate, shredding it into pieces, only leaving behind bits of Walker's remains and a large pool of blood.
Zoran gave Walker's death the Golden Chainsaw because it was one of the few onscreen deaths and it was satisfying to watch.
Trivia[]
- Zoran gave his decapitation death scene the Royal Reload because it was a Suprise after the other lame death scenes.
