Lieutenant Frank Moran was an NYPD dective, who suspected that Russell Nash, aka Connor MacLeod, was behind the beheading at Madison Square Garden, and the series of other mysterious decapitations in the city, but he was unable to find proof enough to hold him. When a surviving witness, Kirk Mantunas, told him that the man who beheaded another in front of him, and then stabbed him, was not Nash, but another, and then went on to try and describe the Quickening, Moran was more than a little confused. He was unaware of the immortals and the Game.