Connor Walsh (character)
Walsh is portrayed by actor Jack Falahee, who auditioned for the role on How to Get Away with Murder during the television pilot season (January to February) in 2014.[2] By February, Falahee joined the series' creator and executive producer, Peter Nowalk, for screen tests in the role of Walsh;[2] the scene was for the pilot episode, whereby the character is at a bar trying to pick up Oliver.[3] Nowalk was full of awe in response to Falahee's audition, adamant that, "[f]rom the minute he opened his mouth, he sounded just like Connor should".[4] When being tested for HIV in "It's All My Fault", the clinic nurse asks him how many sexual partners he had during the past year, to which he estimates between 30 and 40.He meets Oliver at a bar, a computer technician, who he sleeps with in order to obtain the information he needs to gain the admiration of Professor Keating.[7] In "Let's Get to Scooping", Walsh has sex with Paxton Curtis, someone he suspects is behind insider trading at the brokerage firm of Keating's client, Marren Trudeau (Elizabeth Perkins).[10] Walsh and computer technician Oliver Hampton (Conrad Ricamora) have had an on-and-off relationship almost from the inception of the series.In the pilot episode, the two meet at a bar, wherein Walsh seduces Hampton into giving him illegal documents to bolster a case of Keating's.[7] Throughout the first few episodes of the series, the two continue to have a casual sexual relationship while Hampton assists Walsh in obtaining information.[8] Months later, Walsh shows up unannounced to Hampton's place, after burning Sam Keating's body, freaking out and telling him that he "screwed up".[10] In the penultimate episode of the first season, "The Night Lila Died", the two agree to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).[15] Even though Connor disapproves, in "Two Birds, One Millstone", Oliver helps Annalise and Keating 5 in the Caleb-Catherine Hapstall case by hacking and finding a prospect suspect lead, Phillip Jessup.Connor goes back to his usual sex escapades with guys from "Humpr" and doesn't make an effort to hide it.At a party sponsored by Annalise after the entire class cleared their midterms, Connor gets drunk and Oliver worries about him, reminding him about his drug problem.Connor, in his drunken state, confesses that he lied about being an addict and that he wasn't high that night (when Sam was murdered) but was traumatized.In the flash-forwards in the series finale, its shown that Connor and Oliver's relationship ultimately did survive and they didn't get divorced.Connor and Oliver are seen attending Annalise's funeral together years later, waving at Laurel, who identifies them as old friends to her now-adult son Christopher Castillo.After learning about Connor applying for Stanford, Michaela asks him to stay back saying "I can't survive here without you".In "We're Bad People", Connor revealed to Wes that he was going to therapy nowadays like he did when he was 17 and was struggling with coming-out issues, and jokes that except this time he talks about the murders.After Wes died, Connor did not have kind words for him, which was him channeling his grief in a bad way, which lead Asher and Laurel to dislike and suspect him.After the first season of Murder (2014–15), Connor Walsh was ranked by IndieWire thirteenth in a list of "best LGBT characters on television".