James Seth Lynch was born on April 11, 1964. He formerly managed a warehouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before being arrested and convicted of the murder of his wife Annie and sentenced to death row. He stands 6"1", has green eyes, and receding long hair. He is a medicated schizophrenic and pyschopath. He had a girlfriend named Xiu, only to be murdered on the orders of Shangsi.
It's currently unknown whether or not he killed his wife, but what we can gather from dialouge strongly suggests that he did. An example of this is during the prison mission, when he uncertainly says that he is unsure what happened that night.
At the end of Dead Men, he is displeased with either choice you make, furthering his pessimist nature. Two years later, he now resides on Shanghai with his girlfriend Xiu, trying to make a new life with her. When he is contracted to a deal associated to guns traffic, he calls Kane for a last job on their criminal lifes, but the deal also fails, and then Kane and Lynch are been chased in all the city by gangsters, cops and militars.
Conception
The idea for Lynch may have come from the character 'Waingro' in the 1995 movie HEAT, played by [Gage].
Trivia:
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men:
- When breaking out fellow dead men from prison, interaction with npcs and other pointers hint towards Lynch possibly having spent time there and having made a name for himself as some characters state that they've 'Heard of him'.
- Lynch will complain when you trade his shotgun with your weapon in dead men co-op, possibly due to it being his 'signiture weapon'
- In Dead Men you can experience his psychotic episodes firsthand in co-op.
- Oddly, when first paired wiyh Lynch, he knows little about the techniques introduced in the game-Blind fire, cover shooting ect- but in the next mission he appears to be quite proficient in regard to them.
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days:
- Instead of controlling Kane, you now take lead of Lynch.
- When you are fighting and get shot enough, you can hear Lynch talking to himself, phrases like: "Arrgh... think Lynch, think Lynch..." or "Ok, ok, im gonna shoot out those bastards..."
- He also uses a dark glasses in all levels (except A Thousand Cuts to the end).