Walter Flynn

**Walter Flynn** (*Irish*: *Ualtar Ó Floinn*) was one of the main antagonists of Power Book IV: Force, also the father of Claudia and Vic Flynn.

Walter serves as one of the main antagonists of season 1 and a supporting antagonist in season 2.

Walter Flynn is the head of the Flynn Family in Chicago. Despite living a life of immense prosperity in his castle on the lake, he longs for the way things used to be. Walter believes that without community and family, there is no tradition, and his deeply held code of honor bleeds into every aspect of his life. As he ushered his family into the twenty-first century, Walter quickly saw the criminal organization he built facing threats he never accounted for.

### Past

In He Ain't Heavy, Walter briefly speaks of his past. When he was young his family moved from Ireland to Scotland. His father drank himself to death and left him and his brother on the streets of Glasgow. Sometime during Walter's adult life, he moved to Chicago and had two children in Vic and Claudia, then all he wanted to do was fight to the death for them.

### Season 1

Walter is first seen talking to Claudia. He says Vic is doing collections with Paulie. Claudia asks if she can get involved but Walter says she isn't capable of handling herself in the streets whereas Vic is. Walter later meets with Tommy and tells him to get out of his city. He is also shown to have lung cancer and he tells Vic about this as when he's gone he wants Vic to run the family business.

A few days later Tommy and Liliana have a brief meeting with Walter and Paulie. Walter says he isn't surprised that Tommy is sticking around Chicago. Tommy tells him that he has recently run into some pure cocaine but Walter refuses to adhere as he only moves Pills. However he would rather work with Tommy than CBI so he listens to the proposition. Walter finds out that Vic has been making moves with CBI behind his back and is angry with him. Vic says he is doing what is best for the family but Walter responds by saying that's his job.

Walter along with Vic and Paulie have a meeting with Diamond and Tommy. The latter suggest their plan in regards to the Chicago drug game. Walter doesn't want to work with Diamond because of their previous issues. He believes that Diamond was behind the attack on Paulie's wife and Walter says that he retaliated by killing several CBI members. Diamond then walks out and Vic is disappointed with Walter for not leaving the past in the past.

Vic tells Walter that he and Gloria were shot at and says that it was most likely the Serbians. In retaliation Walter kills three of the Serbs, adding to the number of dead Serbians in Chicago. He later tells Claudia that she doesn't have the strength to pull a trigger not knowing that she already has shot Reggie. Claudia teels Walter he doesn't know what she is capable of.

He goes to see a doctor who tells him he has Stage one Lung Cancer. He is suspicious of Claudia questioning what she has been up to after two of his men go missing, but Claudia tells a lie, not fully trusting her father. Walter has a conversation with Paulie about Gloria, and Walter, off-screen, tips off the Serbs about Vic and Gloria's location when they were trying to get out of town. One of the Serbians kills Gloria, and Walter later goes to see Vic in the hospital saying that he thinks it was Tommy who tipped off the Serbs about where he and Gloria were. They both agree that Tommy and all the Serbs have got to go.

He calls in some of his hitters from Dublin to form a war crew against Tommy and the Serbians. They make a plan to try to kill Tommy but the first attempt fails. Sometime later Walter has a meeting with Jenard who talked to Mirkovic and suggests they squash the beef with the Serbs and focus only on Tommy. Walter agrees with this however Vic is annoyed at him. A final shootout occurs in which Walter tries to kill Tommy, however Claudia starts to believe that Walter was to blame for Gloria's death as he may have tipped off the Serbs about her and Vic's whereabouts. Vic starts to believe that as well and he almost kills his father.

Walter is finally seen with Paulie who seems to be remaining loyal to Walter, however Vic says that he is not siding with his father anymore and Claudia thinks the same.

## Murders committed by Walter

* **Nine CBI Gangsters:** Killed chronologically 20 years before the start of the series.
* **Three Serbian Mob Members:** Shot to death for trying to kill Vic.
* **Two Irish Mob Members:** Shot to death to save Vic.
* **Big Red:** Shot in the stomach and in the head for killing Paulie and for trying to kill him and Vic.