Walter Sykes is the main antagonist in Season 3. He was the former head of a shell company called A to Z Technologies. The name of the company, it is later revealed, was inspired by his childhood baseball team, The Aztecs. Paralyzed since childhood, he is confined to a wheelchair. In 2001, he dropped off the grid along with the millions of dollars that his company made. He was attempting to find out any information he could about the Warehouse, though it is assumed he had quite a bit already. Sykes had already started to collect artifacts that the Warehouse hadn't even heard about yet like the Berlin Wall Spray Paint Can. In 'The New Guy' he ordered an assassin to collect as much information about the Warehouse as possible. The assassin killed a waiter and a banker using William Shakespear