Mike Flynn (TV character)
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| Name: | Michael 'Mike' Flynn |
| Also known as: | CO, Sir, Boss |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 39 |
| Date of Birth: | c.1969 |
| Rank: | Lieutenant-Commander |
| Position: | Commanding Officer |
| Family: | Mother, father |
| Spouse(s): | Kate McGregor (girlfriend, 2002) Ursula Morrell (girlfriend, 2007) |
| Children: | n/a |
| First Episode: | Welcome Aboard Ep. 1.01 (Pilot), aired 5/7/2007 |
| Final Episode: | n/a |
| Episode Count: | 19 Episodes (as of May 2008) |
| Reason for exit: | n/a |
| Portrayed by: | Ian Stenlake |
Lieutenant-Commander Michael "Mike" Flynn is a fictional TV character on the show Sea Patrol, and is portrayed by Ian Stenlake.
[edit] History
Mike, also known as "CO" or "Sir", is the Commanding Officer of the HMAS Hammersley. He is thirty-eight years old and joined the Royal Australian Navy when he was seventeen and has worked his way up through the ranks over the years.
He exudes a vigorous physicality combined with an air of quiet confidence, leavened by a laconic sense of humour. He is a man who by turns can be a laidback larrikin or dangerous when crossed. He has a drive to win at all costs and this can lead him into conflict with his colleagues and superiors when in pursuit of boats illegally intruding on Australian waters. As a result of this, he's gained a reputation as a 'wild man'.
Mike was posted to the Freemantle-class HMAS Hammersley as a young sailor, and as other promotions and transfers came and went, he never imagined would he step foot on the old girl again. But he did, for the girl's last journies as the commanding officer, before being decommissioned after twenty-five years of honourable service.
Now in the aftermath of the decommissioning, he is to command once again on the new Armidale-class HMAS Hammersley, with the majority of his crew joining him once again.
[edit] Personal life
When he was thirty-three, he had a brief but passionate affair with a young lieutenant by the name of Kate McGregor. It wasn't right, and after it's brief passion, they parted, never expecting to see each other again.
Which is why it was a surprise when she was posted to be his new Executive Officer in the Hammersley's last six months. While they appear to have moved on from their history, it is quite obvious that what they had meant so much to each of them, yet as working together, nothing can be done about it.
In the first season, Mike had a short-lived relationship with a marine biologist, Dr. Ursula Morrell (portrayed by Sibylla Budd. While their presence and relationship quite-obviously annoyed and irritated Kate, it became more of an annoyance when she went missing and Mike started obsessing that something not-right was going on with the Bright Island mystery. She is however, found in the captivity of Kate's current flame Rick Gallagher (portrayed by Martin Lynes), who unknowingly helped him by extracting the toxin from a toxic breed of crabs so he could sell the toxins on the black market. Because of all this, Ursula has to go on witness protection in the end, thus her and Mike's relationship ending.
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