James Walton

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Evil-doer
Full Name	James Walton
Alias	Lieutenant Walton
Origin	Black Mirror
Occupation	CEO of Callister Inc. (reality) Second-in-Command of the USS Callister (virtual)
Powers / Skills	Leadership Charisma Manipulation
Goals	Kill Daly's virtual clones (failed)
Crimes	Fraud Digital human rights abuse Numerous other charges
Type of Villain	Greedy Businessman

“	I treated you like a golden goose and got fat on the profits, figuratively speaking. And I was thinking I should have appreciated you more, you know? I should have treated you better. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking I should say all that. But you threw my son out of an airlock, so fuck you to death!	„
	~ Virtual Walton cursing out Daly before "sacrificing" himself to save the others.

James Walton is a major character in the Black Mirror franchise, appearing as a supporting character in the fourth season premiere, USS Callister and as the main antagonist of its sequel, the Season 7 finale, USS Callister: Into Infinity.

He is portrayed by Jimmi Simpson, who also played Dr. Royce Hemlock in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Liam McPoyle in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Skip Tyler in White House Down, a younger William in Westworld and Spencer Clay in The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Personality and traits

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Biography

USS Callister

James is introduced as the CEO of Callister Inc., a gaming production company he co-founded with Robert Daly. When Daly's latest update of Callister's newest virtual game, Infinity, is late, he rebukes him, despite technically being equal in the company. When Daly returns home from work, he strangles the assimilation of Walton. The next day, Nanette Cole arrives on her first day at work. He notices her and offers a tour. When Cole is added to the game she meets Walton and the crew. After Cole finally complies with Daly's orders, she and most of the crew are brought out on a mission. They meet Valdak, the villain of the game and Gillian, a monster. When Daly pauses the game the group all come out of character until Daly returns. After the mission, Daly leaves. Shania Lowry explains to Cole how genitals do not exist in the game, Walton models. The next day, Cole explains how she can get the crew out of the game and plans to hack it. Walton is against this and explains how as punishment for disobedience, Daly has previously brought Walton's young son into the game, taken him to an airlock and expelled him into space before Walton's eyes. Cole manages to persuade Walton after she observes the new update (appearing as a wormhole). The crew manage to get Daly out of the ship and on a barren planet with the help of real-life Nanette. The ship suffers extreme damage from an asteroid belt and requires to be manually fixed. The crew realize whoever fixes the engine will be incinerated in the engines. Walton agrees to do this and leaves without hesitation. He gets to the engine and begins wiring, he calls Robert Daly and taunts him, switches the engines on and is burnt. After the ship flies through the wormhole he is not seen with the returning crew members.

USS Callister: Into Infinity

A reporter travels to Callister Inc. to ask Walton about these rogue players in Infinity, as well as illegal DNA cloning equipment that had been used by Callister Inc.'s late CTO, Robert Daly. Nanette Cole, a programmer for the game, overhears this and offers to help James track down these rogue players. They enter the game and track down James' clone Walton who had previously died but had respawned due to trace amounts of James' DNA remaining in Infinity. Simultaneously, Captain Nan, Nanette's digital clone and in command of the USS Callister, also discovers Walton's whereabouts. The two groups meet up, find Walton, and return to the USS Callister. While meeting the rest of the crew, James attempts to murder them with a gun, killing Karl's clone Valdek. Nanette kicks him out of the game and then disconnects herself to lambast him as they leave the office. She is suddenly hit by a car, leaving her seemingly brain-dead.

Meanwhile, Walton helps guide the USS Callister to the Heart, which appears as a space station, and Nan transports into it. Inside, she discovers it to be a digital recreation of Robert's garage where he and James had constructed the technology behind their original game, including a digital clone of Robert himself. As Robert was the genius behind the game's universe, the two acquired an illegal digital cloning device to place a copy of Robert into the game, allowing the clone to update and expand Infinity indefinitely. The clone of Robert is willing to help Nan and the crew, but he reveals that Nanette is currently brain-dead. He offers a choice via separate floppy disks: he can either merge Nan's consciousness with Nanette's to help revive her or he can create a private server for the crew. After Nan chooses the latter, Robert says he can do both by copying and pasting Nan. Nan realizes that this would leave a copy of herself to be Robert's companion and demands that he cut and paste instead. Infuriated that Nan plans on leaving him to be alone again, Robert attacks her.

Meanwhile, James enters the game and poses as Walton to gain access to the Callister's bridge and, while the crew is distracted, sends out an invite to all the players that the Callister crew had robbed. James exits the game and opts to spectate from the real world. The ship struggles to defend itself from scores of angry players.

Nan, struggling with Robert's control over her body and the game's world, manages to kill him with a prop knife. Robert's death engages a dead man's switch that starts to destroy the Heart. Nan frantically searches for the floppy to perform the cut and paste command and enacts it just as the Callister is about to be hit by missiles. Nan finds herself in control of Nanette's body, also co-inhabited by the Callister crew who can experience the real world through her senses and communicate with her via cell phone. Meanwhile, James finds that the whole of Infinity has been wiped from the server after calling the original Kabir about the associated error, much to his frustration.

Three months later, James is arrested on numerous charges, including fraud and "digital human rights abuse". After watching this on the news, Nan and the crew inside her watch the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Trivia

• Virtual Walton's character takes inspiration from Spock of Star Trek, similar to Virtual Daly being inspired by Captain James T. Kirk. The only difference is that, unlike Spock, James is still a human rather than a half-vulcan.