Mike Connors

## Biography

### Early Career

Mike Connors was a man working for the Metropolitan Police Department as a detective for the homicide unit. Over the years, Detective Connors apprehended numerous other criminals, many of whom were mentally unstable and highly violent. One of them was Anton Reese, a mercenary whose preferred method of instilling terror in his victims was to scar their faces with corrosive acid. Another suspect was a psychotic arsonist named Barry, whom Connors arrested for burning two people alive. On another different occasion, the detective investigated the case of a violent offender, Donovan. The latter of them was a ruthless man who regularly battered his girlfriends. One of Mike's most unpredictable suspects was a man named Patrick. Due to a childhood trauma caused by his abusive father, Patrick randomly attacked and carved up other people. After arresting him, Connors himself testified in court, stating that he believed Patrick's mental illness to be incurable.

### Matt Gibson's Death

Connors got involved in the case of a serial killer known as Jigsaw, who forced his victims to fight for their lives in deadly games and cut a jigsaw piece from their skin after their death, when Jill Tuck, Jigsaw's ex-wife, revealed to Matt Gibson, an officer working for the Internal Affairs Division, that Detective Lieutenant Mark Hoffman was the successor of Jigsaw.

One day Connors was called to Mark Hoffman's Apartment to come take a look at the evidence which was discovered by SWAT officer Rivers while he led the SWAT team during the raid. Shortly after he arrived at the scene, Mike asked Rivers what exactly he wants him to have a look at, Rivers then shows Connors the blueprints to multiple various Jigsaw traps. One of the blueprints was of Sentry turret which had previously gunned down Gibson and two officers at Pete's Auto Body earlier. The police then issue a citywide curfew and a warrant for Hoffman’s arrest, then they place the city into a state of lockdown and set up roadblocks near all the entrances and exits to the city, so Hoffman doesn't escape.

Mike calls the rest of SWAT team which are at Clear Dawn, but gets no answer. He decides to head to Clear Dawn to find the rest of the SWAT team, he takes officer Johnson with him. Once Mike arrives, him and Johnson enter the building and find multiple corpses and traps as they continue to go further and further through the building they begin to start coughing. He enters one of the rooms and find the whole SWAT team dead from inhaling cyanide gas due to another trap Hoffman had set up there, Connors pulls out his phone and just as he begins dialing the number, he hears something heavy hit the floor above him. Mike then hears a man yelling that’s followed by the sound of the electric shock. Mike and Johnson head towards the area the noises are coming from and find Joyce screaming as she’s burned alive, but they can’t do anything to help but watch in horror.

### Bobby Dagen's Survival

Mike then sees Bobby Dagen who had been the target of Mark Hoffman for a game, suddenly the screaming stops indicating that Joyce is dead. Bobby is on the ground unconscious and bleeding without any reason to why he’s bleeding, that’s when Johnson points out to Mike two bloody meat hooks attached to chains from the ceiling. Mike tells officer Johnson to call for paramedics who then arrive there after 15 minutes, the paramedics help Bobby stop bleeding and then put him in the back of the ambulance and take Bobby to a hospital.

The ambulance arrives at Saint Andrews Hospital, the paramedics wheel Bobby in through the front doors on a stretcher. A Security Guard sees Bobby and reacts in disgust, one of the paramedics tells a Nurse that Bobby has severe bleeding from his pectoral muscles after piercing them himself with meat hooks. Bobby stays at the hospital overnight with a Security Guard who stood guard near the door to the room. Later the next day Detective Connors asked the Nurse where Bobby's room was to which she then walked Connors to the room. Mike asks Bobby why he was tested after already surviving one Jigsaw's games, Bobby confesses to lying about ever being in trap he says he used his lie to get fame and money but writing book about a fake a paid for it by losing the love of his life.

## Personality

Mike Connors was a hard-working Detective with a strong desire to capture criminals. On several occasions throughout his career, Connors proved his loyalty to his colleagues and the Metropolitan Police Department. To protect his friends and partners, he went to great lengths and was even willing to risk his own life in the process.