- "Too bad about Kinney, huh?"
- "Yeah, well that's life in the big city."
- - Johnson and Bob Morton, terribly upset and traumatised over Kinney's untimely death.
Character Overview
Kinney was a young executive within the Security Concepts division of OCP. He, along with the other execs from Security Concepts and the Old Man himself, were summoned to the unveiling of ED-209 by Dick Jones. It was Kinney who volunteered to be the "arrest subject", using a gun in a threatening manner in order to demonstrate ED-209's abilities to the board.
Unfortunately for Kinney, he demonstrated far more than the ED-209's capability for vocal threats. After obeying the droid's instructions, dropping his weapon and complying with his "arresting officer", something went wrong in ED-209's programming and the machine continued to treat him as an armed, dangerous suspect. Despite attempts to placate ED-209, its techinicians could not regain control over the machine. Kinney panicked as ED-209 coldly announced it was "authorised to use lethal force", and opened fire with its cannons, riddling Kinney from head to toe, peppering his body with so many rounds that bones were ripped from his skin. Even after the young executive was lying prostrate upon the model of Delta City ED-209 did not stop firing, pumping round after round into his convulsing, perforated husk. Only when the techies finally managed to "pull the plug" did ED-209 finally fall silent.
His fellow execs thoughtfully called a paramedic whilst examining his obliterated remains.