Michelle Walthers

Michelle Walthers is an elderly woman in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. She is involved in the Acquaintances Forgotten sidequest.

Biography
Not much is known about Michelle Walthers' past, other than the fact that she was a nurse at White Helix Labs in 1993. When two White Helix researchers set the building on fire to protect the only survivor of their research on children, Walthers rescued the boy from his crib, believing all the other babies had already been saved.

Walthers left the child in the care of a White Helix co-worker: security guard Arthur Jensen, whose wife Margie was sterile and had been deemed unfit to legally adopt. For most of his life, the boy named Adam Jensen believed he was raised by his biological parents, and had no memory of Walthers or White Helix.

2027
As part of a background check requested by David Sarif before hiring Jensen as chief of security, private investigator Brent Radford found evidence tying the Jensens to White Helix, a former subsidiary of VersaLife. Realizing that some very powerful and dangerous people were involved in Jensen's history, Sarif has Radford stop digging. In his haste to close the investigation, Sarif accidentally left open the back door through the company firewall he'd been using to communicate with Radford. When this vulnerability is exploited by Yune during the attack on the company's Milwaukee Junction manufacturing plant, Jensen's investigation leads him to Sarif's backdoor, Radford, and ultimately Walthers, now living in a downtown Detroit apartment and apparently suffering from dementia.

Walthers mistakes Adam for a "Rolling Meals" delivery man, claiming that he is too old to be Jensen. She gradually reveals bits of Jensen's past: she is unsure whether his "real parents" were truly his birth parents all, but was aware that they were part of some kind of gene therapy research happening at the labs. Adam was the only survivor of the tests, and when his "real parents" overheard that VersaLife wanted to use Adam to inoculate the next batch of infants, they started the fire that resulted in their deaths and the lab's destruction.

After telling her story, Walthers will ask Jensen if he could bring her dinner and leave. She will also give him 200, asking him to "buy Adam a present" for his missed birthdays and Christmas. As Adam leaves, he asks Pritchard to assign Walthers a temporary security detail to her apartment, until he can work out a more permanent solution to keep her safe.