Frank Whalen is the second victim of the Chitauri helmet virus, found floating in his own barn, having suffered an electrical discharge almost identical to that which killed Adam Cross. Like Adam, he was a volunteer fire-fighter at the Wrigley, Pennsylvania firehouse and during one long, dull shift the men, along with their colleague Tony Diaz, decided to polish up the Chitauri helmet they had brought back from the rubble of the Battle of New York as a souvenir. All three men thereby contracted an alien virus, one which was later to infect Jemma Simmons due to her proximity to Adam's corpse.