Harrigan's History
Detective Lieutenant Michael R. "Mike" Harrigan was an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department and head of a small team at the Alvarado Precinct during the gang wars of 1997. His investigation of severe gang violence led him to cross paths with that of a Predator in the city hunting the same gangs for sport.
Harrigan grew up on the streets of Los Angeles with his close friend Daniel "Danny Boy" Archuleta, and the two eventually joined the police force and went through training together. At one point, he was also good friends with fellow officer Phil Heinemann, but when the latter was promoted their friendship fractured as a result of their conflicting ideals and methods.
During his eighteen years of service with the LAPD, Harrigan was credited with destroying eleven police patrol cars in the line of duty, as well as a city bus and a streetsweeper in undisclosed incidents. He also received ten commendations for valor in the line of duty and held the best felony arrest record in the history of the LAPD. Harrigan's dedication to his duty cost him a marriage and several long-term relationships.
When two motorcycle officers were gunned down after inadvertently stumbling into a drug deal, Harrigan and his team rushed to the scene. Harrigan single-handedly assaulted the Colombian Scorpions, pursuing them into their stronghold and sending their leader, El Scorpio, plummeting from the building's roof. However, the rest of the gang members had already been slaughtered by the City Hunter, whom the police officers mistakenly believed to be some previously unknown hitman, possibly working for the Colombian's rivals, the Jamaican Voodoo Posse.
Following the shootout, Harrigan was warned by his superiors, Deputy Chief Heinemann and Captain Pilgrim to stay out of the investigation into the drug gangs, which was being taken over by Special Agent Peter Keyes of the DEA. Harrigan was also introduced to his cocky new partner, Jerry "The Lone Ranger" Lambert.
Harrigan's team later rushed to the scene when drug kingpin Ramon Vega was executed by several Jamaicans, who were themselves then killed inside Vega's apartment by the City Hunter. However, they were quickly removed from the crime scene by Keyes and his people. Harrigan formulated a plan to sneak back into the apartment later that night once Keyes' team had left, but Danny arrived first and became the City Hunter's next victim.
Now determined to find and kill Danny's murderer at any cost, Harrigan met with the leader of the Jamaican gang, King Willie, hoping to find information on the mysterious killer stalking the city. Moments after their unproductive meeting, King Willie also fell victim to the City Hunter. Harrigan next found himself being stalked by the Predator at the cemetery where Danny had been buried, the hunter leaving a piece of Danny's necklace hanging in a tree for Harrigan to find.
When evidence began to point to the killer being based in the city's slaughterhouse district, Harrigan asked colleagues Leona Cantrell and Jerry to meet him so that they could investigate; upon reaching the arranged meeting place, a Metro station, Harrigan discovered to his horror that the killer had struck again, slaughtering the occupants of a subway train. He found Leona had survived and was being tended to by the paramedics Lester and Jackson outside the station, who informed him that she was in fact pregnant before rushing her to hospital. Upon descending into the subway, Harrigan found that Jerry had not been so fortunate — after glimpsing the Predator mutilating Jerry's corpse, the Lieutenant took off in pursuit of the culprit, but was apprehended and captured by Keyes' men.
From Keyes, Harrigan finally learned what he was dealing with — an extraterrestrial that killed for sport and honor and possessed incredible technology. Far from being in the DEA, Keyes was actually the head of the OWLF, a secret government taskforce seeking to capture the creature for study, and had set a trap for it inside the slaughterhouse where it was known to feed. Despite Harrigan's warnings, Keyes's capture team was slaughtered, forcing Harrigan to escape from custody and face the Predator himself. While initially gaining the upper hand, the City Hunter soon rallied itself and almost killed Harrigan, before Keyes intervened, at the cost of his own life, giving the detective a chance to escape. The battle moved up to the building's roof, through Ruth Albright's adjacent apartment, and finally into the tunnels beneath the city, where Harrigan discovered the City Hunter's Mother Ship.
On board the vessel, Harrigan discovered a trophy cabinet containing the skulls of the myriad creatures the Predator had stalked and killed, including a Xenomorph Drone. Inside the ship, Harrigan and the City Hunter faced off in a final hand-to-hand duel, with Harrigan ultimately killing the City Hunter with its own Smart Disc. With the hunter defeated, Harrigan suddenly found himself surrounded by several more of the creatures. Exhausted, he resigned himself to his fate. However, the leader of the Predators, Greyback, honored Harrigan with an antique flintlock pistol from the year 1715. After gathering their fallen comrade's body, the Predators left aboard their ship as Harrigan fled from the exhaust.
After reaching the surface, Harrigan was confronted by Keyes' senior officer, Adam Garber, furious that the detective had killed the creature they sought to capture. Looking at the flintlock in his hand, Harrigan assured him he would get another chance.
