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| “ | I don't know what you're talking about, but if you get any closer, I'll jam my knee into your balls so hard you'll have to spit 'em out. | „ |
| ~ Inman threatening Elliot Stabler |
Walter Inman is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Manipulated". He is a mercenary and professional assassin who murders two women at the behest of his client Tessa McKellan, and then attempts to frame her husband for his crimes, also on her orders.
He was portrayed by Holt McCallany, who also portrayed Sam Whitemoon in Creepshow 2.
Early life[]
Inman was once in the U.S. military, where he learned combat skills such as hand-to-hand fighting, marksmanship, and rope climbing. He was dishonorably discharged, however, after he was arrested for breaking into the home of a woman he was sleeping with and assaulting her. He found new employment with the private military contracting firm Silverhammer, which made use of his skills while overlooking his criminal record. While working for Silverhammer, Inman fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After Silverhammer lost a major contract and the resulting lawsuit against their former client, however, the company laid off several of their mercenaries, including Inman, to cut costs. Tessa McKellan, the attorney who had represented Silverhammer in the suit, approached Inman and offered to pay him a hefty sum to kill Vicky Riggs, one of her junior associates who moonlighted as an exotic dancer and with whom her husband Linus was having an affair, and to frame Linus for the murder. Inman accepted the offer and had McKellan set up an offshore bank account for him in the Cayman Islands, where he deposited the money, tax-free, and used it to pay his daughter's college tuition.
McKellan also paid Inwood to break into a research lab run by one of her clients and steal bacteria and virus cultures. He committed the robbery and gave the cultures to McKellan, and was stunned to witness her inject them directly into her arm; he then learned that McKellan suffered from Munchausen Syndrome, a psychiatric disorder that compelled her to make herself sick to get attention.
In "Manipulated"[]
Inman begins his work by stalking and surveilling Riggs to learn her routine. He finds out that she meets with Linus in the apartment owned by Josie Post, who dances at the same club as Riggs. He wrongly assumes that Linus is also sleeping with her and reports such to McKellan, unaware that Post is simply letting Riggs use her apartment for trysts with Linus. McKellan pays him to kill Post, as well, and frame Linus for her murder along with Riggs'. To accomplish the latter, she gives him a condom full of Linus' semen, which she saved after performing oral sex on her husband, and then tells Inman to plant it on the bodies of both Riggs and Post.
Inman discreetly follows Riggs and Post from work back to the apartment, and rappelled down the side of the apartment building so he could get into the apartment without leaving fingerprints or risk being seen by breaking in. He then attacks Riggs and Post and strangles them both to death, afterwards putting Linus' semen on their thighs. He then locked the door from the inside and rappelled back down the side of the apartment building to the street.
Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit investigate the murders and deduce that the killer rappelled up and down the building to enter and escape, respectively. Inferring that the killer is a disgruntled former client of McKellan's who has specialized military training, they get service records from Silverhammer and discover that Inman lost his job after McKellan lost the suit against the company. Believing Inman to be the killer, they have Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak get them a warrant for his arrest.
When Benson and Stabler arrive at Inman's apartment, however, they find that he has spotted them and escaped out the window. They follow him to the street, where Detective John Munch apprehends him. Inman elbows Munch in the stomach and tries to run, but Munch's partner Fin Tutuola cuts him off and arrests him for murder and assaulting a police officer. Benson and Stabler interrogate Inman, who denies committing the crime and shows no emotion when Benson tells him that Post was not having an affair with Linus, meaning that Inman killed her for no reason.
Knowing that there is no physical evidence connecting Inman to the murders, Novak tries to get him to confess by threatening him with the death penalty, but he still refuses to talk. When Benson and Stabler uncover McKellan's payments to Inman, however, Novak realizes that McKellan is the mastermind of Post's and Riggs' murder, and that Inman is merely the hired muscle.
She meets with Inman again and tells him that she can have his bank account frozen during the trial, which means that his daughter will have to drop out of school. Finally threatened with something that scares him, Inman makes a deal with Novak in which he tells her everything about McKellan paying him to kill Riggs and Post, as well as the lab burglary, in exchange for promising to leave his money alone.
The information Inman supplies helps Benson and Stabler arrest McKellan and Novak to convict her, while Inman is found guilty of murder, stalking, burglary, and grand larceny, and imprisoned for life.
External links[]
- Walter Inman on the Law & Order Wiki
