Walton Simons

""All in all, you weren't a bad experiment. You will be the last prototype we have to discard.""

- Walton Simons to JC Denton

Walton Simons is Bob Page's main executive and partner at Majestic-12, co-leading the organization. He also the director of FEMA and a very powerful man in Washington.

Background
"If UNATCO had a personal bogey-man, Walton Simons would be it. Whenever there's a failure, there he is, sniffing out inadequacies from the top brass on down. The appointed head of the powerful Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Simons is smart, augmented and not afraid to use the big guns. Torture? Execution? To Simons they're not jollies, but they're not atrocities either... they're tools. This is not the kind of guy who leaves his enemies in a precarious position and assums they'll come to a bitter end. Nope, this is the kind of enemy who blows his opponents into karkian-kibble and never gets his starched white cuffs splattered. He's not no sense of humor, and he doesn't want to hear about your problems. He's not going to ask how your day's been. He's going to tolerate you as long as needs to, and the second he decides you're unnecessary to his long-range goals... well, don't make any extensive retirement plans."

- description of Walton Simons to the player He is known to the public as an important government official and the head of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was appointed to FEMA through Page's manipulation of an unnamed senator infected with the Gray Death, and went to work immediately. A strictly cloak-and-dagger man, Simons was the first higher-up on the scene after JC Denton's capture of NSF operatives in Battery Park, though his interrogations consisted mostly of numerous Shotgun blasts to the chest.

The third successful nano-augmented human (After Paul and JC Denton), Simons is widely considered one of the most dangerous men in Majestic 12. Although augmented with numerous combat-aiding modifications, he claims that they are strictly for increased ability for work in FEMA disaster relief. His augmentations make him immune to gas, flames, plasma ammunition, and prods. He's also very resistant to small arms ammunition, possesses a targeting aug and a remote explosive detonation aug. He also travels with an escort of two or more Men in Black. A powerful combatant, Simons's nano-augmentations are mostly combat-oriented and it is revealed later in the game he carries both a Plasma Rifle, a LAM Grenade and a Dragon's Tooth Sword – both of which are high-powered weapons with almost instantly lethal capabilities.

As well as being a skilled fighter, Simons is also a Machiavellianian politician, who uses his skills in intimidation to coerce and command his numerous underlings. This can be seen during his conversations with UNATCO head Joseph Manderley, a bureaucrat whom Simons has put in such a position of power due to his willingness to be ordered by MJ12. Late in the game, Simons hunts down JC in one of MJ12's offshore bases with the intention of killing him. If he fails here, he last shows up in a hangar at Area 51, again after JC.

Simons has a tendency to continually charge his bioelectric reserves, keeping them at 100% efficiency. This causes an intermittent sharp pain behind his eyes, advised by Jaime Reyes to quit that habit. He is responsible for Joseph Manderley's death if JC Denton doesn't kill him when he escapes from UNATCO HQ. And in a interrogatory he kills two NSF soldiers who no copperate and say he has information about their families.

Quotes

 * "You're beginning to exceed your clearance. What are you, Angel/0A?"
 * "Denton? Walton Simons here. What an expensive mistake you turned out to be. I ordered the troops to kill you, because frankly I don't have the patience to wait for one of those damn killswitches to work."
 * "You can't run, Denton. Even if you escape, your killswitch is counting down. You'll be dead in twenty-three hours. Another fifty billion dollars down the drain."
 * "Am I behind a desk right now? No, I'm not."
 * "Jesus Christ, Denton!"
 * "Fool."
 * "I must attend to a...sensitive matter."
 * "You don't know who I am, do you?"
 * "Leave me alone."
 * "He is here!"
 * "Uh-oh!"
 * "I have one question."
 * "Once the bug bites, you have already lost the patient."
 * "Leave, dammit!"
 * "Get the hell out of here, Denton!"
 * "Your turn. See what you can find in Manhattan."

Behind the scenes

 * Walton Simons' character model and name are based on a long-time friend of Warren Spector named Walter Simmons.
 * Simons is voiced by Tom Hall, a former founder of Ion Storm and developer from Anachronox.

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