Walter Steele

"Oliver. It's damn good to see you."

- Walter to Oliver Queen

Walter Steele is the CEO of Queen Consolidated, The best friend of the late Robert Queen, the husband of Moira Queen, and the step-father of Oliver Queen, and Thea Queen.

Earlier life
In 2007, Walter came to his boss and friend, Robert Queen, to ask for him to sign some papers. Walter offered to talk, and Robert thanked him. It's assumed this was the last they saw of each other before Robert's death.

Life with the Queens
When his apparently dead step-son, Oliver, returned from a five year-long shipwreck, Walter greeted him with open arms. Initially, there was some distrust between the two, but eventually they began to grow on one another. Walter became suspicious of Moira after she fabricated a story about investing in a friend's business to explain away an account discrepancy that Walter was trying to reconcile for Queen Industries. He asked Felicity Smoak to look into the matter. She discovered the money was used to buy a warehouse in Starling City. Walter went to the warehouse, determined the password to the lock (Robert) and discovered the wreckage of the Queen's Gambit there.

Walter told his chief of security to discreetly transfer the contents of the warehouse, but the chief was killed before he could carry out the action. Walter and Moira speak about the matter. He knew that she was connected to something dangerous and Moira was scared for both of them. Walter felt he couldn't trust anything Moira says. Walter then told everyone he's going to Australia to handle some business issues there.

Walter returned from Australia when Moira is wounded. At first, he didn't pursue what he learned about Moira, but when Felicity told him what she'd found, he couldn't let it go. He searched the house and found a book just like Oliver's list of names, and asked Felicity to look into it. He warned her that the last person he asked to look into this matter was killed, but she agreed to help anyway.

Malcolm Merlyn was aware of Walter's investigation and ultimately kidnapped him. Moira was shown a picture as "proof of life" at Thea's birthday party.

Moira, after learning from Oliver that Walter was apparently dead, approached Malcolm in anger. He promptly provided a live video feed to Walter being held in a cell. Following this, Oliver, after some research, discovered the location where Walter was being kept. Oliver, in his guise as arrow, then rescued Walter. Walter, though not visibly injured, ended up at the hospital. His family greeted him warmly, and Felicity Smoak brought him a bouquet of flowers.

Personality
Walter is described as "a commanding, upper-crust man". He is also very loyal. This is proven when he learns about Robert's fate and tries everything he can to solve his best friend's murder.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #1

Trivia

 * In the comic books, Walter Steele is Caucasian.
 * In "An Innocent Man", Walter discovers that Moira had the Queen's Gambit salvaged, and stored at a secret Warehouse.
 * In "Vendetta" he discovers a book that is seemingly identical to "the List". It is unknown whether it is simply another copy or an entirely different book altogether. It was revealed that he gave the book to Felicity so she could run some tests and find it's origin and purpose. Felicity later gave it to Oliver, and when he showed it to his mother, she said that it's not safe for him and burned it.