Tim O'Brien

## Biography

### Early Life

Tim O'Brien was a homicide detective working for the Metropolitan Police Department, sometime after the Jigsaw murders, The Metropolitan PD were under a list of policies called Article 8, which gave them the legal means to do whatever was needed to stop crime, this allowed for corruption. This legislation expanded the powers of law enforcement in order to fight crime. Police Chief Marcus Banks and head of homicide Angie Garza were actively involved in covering up these crimes and shielding their officers from punishment.

### Turning On Ezekiel Banks

However, the scandal was ultimately uncovered when Banks' son, Officer Ezekiel Banks exposed his partner, Peter Dunleavy, for murdering an innocent man named Charlie Emmerson to prevent him from testifying against another corrupt officer. After this O'Brien like almost every other cop in the department, turned against him.

### Zeke's Undercover Robbery

With mostly all of Zeke's colleagues hating him, he attempted to go undercover. At an Apartment Complex, Zeke, and three gang bangers that plan to rob drug dealers there. After Zeke and the three gang bangers completed the robbery, they went to their car to leave the place when they were caught by the police. He was reprimanded by the new police chief and family friend Angie Garza. Garza was angered that he went undercover without any backup, though Banks was sure he couldn't trust anyone. Garza refused to believe that and instead gave him a new partner, an idealistic rookie, though Banks tried to argue against the assignment. He didn't want to babysit someone, though Garza didn't give him a choice. She assigned him, and his new partner, to the homicide division once again. O'Brien came over to join this Detective Fitch in listening to the conversation, Fitch made rude remarks about Zeke to which O'Brien agreed made some remarks about Zeke also.

### Jigsaw Copycat

When off-duty detective Marv Bozwick is gruesomely murdered in the subway tunnel, Banks is called to investigate alongside his new partner, Detective In-Training William Schenk. At the station Angie Garza, Fitch, Kraus, **O'Brien**, Morgey and himself try to find out who killed Boz. Zeke revives a box from the killer with USB in it, Zeke plugs it in. They find the first video tape from the killer, who identifies the murdered man as a police officer. The killer plans to reform the Metro PD and remind them of the oath they took to the city. Schenk, Banks, and Detective Fitch piece together that the Jigsaw Killer has a new copycat. Once Zeke saw the video that Schenk anonymously sent to him in the form of an USB, he recognized the courthouse that appeared in the video, went there along with William and found the red spiral.

### Fitch's Death

Another box is sent to the police station containing another thumb drive with a video. The police then found a truck with a spiral painted on it, located under a bridge. Zeke decided to open the door upon doing so he found inside a dead pig and a box containing Fitch's fingers and badge while O'Brien contacted Kraus and the other officers reacted in disgust. Zeke, Will, Kraus and Drury then find Fitch's corpse at bread factory the location of the crime scene. Detective Drury suspects that Banks is involved since both Boz and Fitch had connections to Banks.

### Schenk's Fake Death

A box is later delivered to the station with a taunting note asking Banks if the killer was getting under his skin. Inside the box is a piece of Schenk's skin inside, identified via a distinctive tattoo. Also, inside is a vial that directs the new batch detectives to a butcher shop. Banks recognizes the place as a hobby shop that he and his father visited when he was younger. After getting to Constantine, Ezekiel and O'Brien entered the room where Benny's body (Who was still believed to be William's) was being examined by other cops and reacted with horror and disgust after seeing the corpse. Ezekiel waited outside of the room for a few minutes and when he went back into it, he asked a forensic about evidence. The forensic told him that they have been analyzing the tape recording and they were able to find out not only that Benny was skinned but also how the body was scored in order to remove the pieces in larger strips first and that the defensive wounds mean he tried to fight back, explaining the deeper gashes. After hearing all of this, Ezekiel was close to cry, due to not believing the fate allegedly his new partner and friend met. This upset Banks more then he anticipated, though he begins to piece together clues from the investigation that he doesn't share with the other detectives.

### Angie Garza's Death

One day Officer Barrett was at a shop on 3rd st Beman when he was attacked by a Figure in a Pig mask and was stabbed in the arm. He was later found by fellow officers and informed Detective Ezekiel Banks. Barrett's attack was used as a distraction to get the officers out of the precinct so that the killer could capture Captain Angie Garza. Banks realizes she's been abducted and is next on the copycats kill order and tries to find her. He doesn't arrive in time and discovers her corpse; her face is covered in wax, while her spinal cord is severed. Her death devastates Banks, but also gives him a lead. He realizes that the killer must know intimate knowledge of the police station to pull off the abduction. Banks also learns that his father, Marcus Banks, is officially missing as no one can locate him. O'Brien suspects that Marcus is working with the copycat killer, due to Zeke having a relationship with all of the victims. O’Brien asks Zeke when he last saw his father, causing Zeke to flip out Zeke is later gets held back by the other officers.

## Personality

Tim O'Brien was a man who worked under Article 8 but after Zeke turned Peter Dunleavy in for shooting a man, O'Brien turned on Zeke like almost every other cop in the department. However, O'Brien is shown to be a hard-working Detective who put aside his hatred for Zeke while investigating the crime scene at the Butcher shop, this shows that O'Brien is focused on doing his job other than fighting with Zeke like Fitch. O'Brien is shown to be very smart as he realized that all the victims had a relationship with Zeke.