Professor Walsh's Original Plan?

[Violette]

I think they were trying to build an army of super soldiers and monster/human/robot hybrids to either:
1) For the country's national defence
2) To take over the world? (the evil theory)
3) To control the underworld and control demons, vampires, creatures of the dark
4) To make it a safer place for humans -- maybe they aimed to make the ubersoldiers protective of the human civilization, or so that they're under control & won't harm human beings (like with Spike's chip)
5) Simply just to experiment with science and see how far it can go

Perhaps a combination of some of the above?

 

[Skanky Vamp]

The Initiative and its purpose was discussed (however briefly) in the Angel episode Why We Fight

 

[Airam]

So you think Adam was a human soldier who died while being experimented on or serving the Initiative and that's why he considers Riley a "brother"? I never picked up on that.

Wait a second... Adam was actually Maggie's real son before he died and she started mixing him with demon parts and such right? Thats one of the reasons I always hated Maggie so hardcore, that she could actually defile her own son that way. I didn't make this up right.... it always seemed that way to me. Were we never given a clear background between Maggie and Adam? I'm not the hugest S4 fan so maybe its just what seemed logical to me? Oh god, someone help me ou here I'm getting a headache from the second guessing....