- Decides to leave his home in a suburb of San Francisco, which the LA Times describes as "the wealthy Marin County enclave of San Anselmo, in a neighborhood that features a mix of 60-year-old cottages and houses such as the new 3,000-square-foot trilevel where he and his family lived;"
- Converts from Catholicism to Islam;
- Goes to Pakistan to join the Tablighi Jamaat, whose most famous member is Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the artist Cat Stevens;
- Changes his name from John Walker to Abdul Hamid;
- Moves from Pakistan to Afghanistan joining the Taliban;
- Gets himself a real nice AK-47 which, we assume, he fires at American allies if not at American soldiers;
- Finds himself arrested in the roundup of Taliban by the Northern Alliance;
- Gets caught in the middle of the prison uprising;
- Catches a round in the leg;
- Becomes the subject of a bunch of legal experts arguing over what to do with him.

- Bring him back to the US and sentence him to community service.

At the NYFD Ladder #3 firehouse in Southern Manhattan. Firefighter Mike Moran's company.