The Overseers

The signature emblem held by Carla Page.

**The Overseers** is a powerful secret society first discovered in Chapter 1 of Murder by Choice, influencing the world as they see fit through ruthless means.

## History

### Origin

The Overseers first organized during the 16th century. Originally starting out as a secret alliance between European rulers to grant further power and wealth to their countries, it grew to be a powerful, ruthless organization that controls the world, resorting to tactics like bribery, coercion, and murder. By tradition, most members have access to an old book opened with an Overseers emblem with records dating back to the Overseers' origin.

### Stories

As a result of the Overseers' long histories, stories have spread about their existence, although they were dismissed by many as just rumors or conspiracy theories. However, Ruben Navarro claims most of these stories have some truth to them.

According to Admiral Samuel Wilkinson's "Eyes of Alisha" story which he heard from other soldiers while starting out in the U.S. military, in the very early 1900s, the Overseers, wanting to gain influence, once offered a large amount of money to a royal German family for their "Eyes of Alisha" family jewels that was on display in an exhibition in Munich. Once the family rejected the Overseers' offer, the Overseers killed the family head, taking their eyes, and stealing the "Eyes of Alisha" to be replaced with the head's eyes and the Overseers' emblem. The only remaining proof of this story is an old sketch of the Overseers' emblem.

In the Admiral's "Barking Dogs" story which he heard from an Italian soldier sharing what his grandfather told him about his hometown, in the 1940s, the Overseers became interested in Naples, Italy, specifically wanting to acquire the Port of Naples for being one of the largest seaports in the Mediterranean Sea. The Overseers apparently physically showed up in the city, wearing black cloaks to avoid having their faces be seen. However, the city was being controlled by the Sisitian family, a crime syndicate. So, the Overseers eliminated each member of the Sisitian family one-by-one, starting from the soldiers to the capos to the don himself. While the deaths all looked suspicious, they were labeled as accidents except with the don's death, which appeared as a gunshot suicide that only appeared unusual with the Overseer's emblem on the bullet hole right on his forehead. The only remaining proof of this story is a local newspaper reporting the family's unusual deaths and its photo of the Overseers' emblem on the don's body.

### Working with Ruben

More than two decades before the events of Chapter 1, Ruben had started his start-up company that would become Navarro Industries and was dating Marianne Page in London while studying abroad there. There, Ruben got the attention of an Overseers member, one of the largest England bank owners, and had Ruben recruited as his apprentice. Once Ruben started to realize the Overseers' immorality a few months in, Ruben left, but received threats, got stalked, and got assaulted while Marianne herself got intimidated by the Overseers, resulting in Marianne leaving Ruben and London for the U.S. to stay safe. Unbeknownst to Ruben and, for some time, the Overseers, Marianne was pregnant with Carla Page and soon gave birth to her. Because Ruben continued to get harassed by the Overseers with his start-up company near ruined by them, he agreed to wire them 10% of his companies' yearly revenue disguised as donations to charities. That way, Ruben could focus on growing his company to genuinely improve the world more. Here, Ruben started to conduct an investigation in finding out all of the Overseers' members and listing them in his given Overseers book. By Chapter 1, Ruben managed to get most members' names except for the top members, hence why he couldn't give the list of members to the authorities yet out of fear of the top members regrowing the Overseers. Ruben kept his book and Overseers emblem down at Haven's secret vault on his private island, Isla Esperanza, for safekeeping.

### Working with Margot

At some point, Margot St. Germain also joined the Overseers decades ago to become more powerful and later became one of the organization's senior members, likely for her prestige in owning a massive media empire through Worldwide Media. However, because of Margot's access to a vast amount of knowledge through owning a media empire, other senior members began disliking her in potentially knowing too much even for them. Once the Overseers got knowledge of Ruben's Project Genetica serum likely through what the U.S. government already knew, they agreed for Margot to join Ruben's annual soirée on Isla Esperanza to steal the serum to extend the Overseers' lives. Margot was sent without backup, which Margot draws up to her poor relations to other senior members, but did get expensive tech equipment that would help her on her mission. It's implied Margot also deduced that Carla was Ruben's daughter similar to how Ruben deduced Carla was his daughter, hence why Margot takes a special interest in her as soon as they meet on the seaplane to Ruben's island.

### Terror on Isla Esperanza

Throughout Chapter 1, almost the entire course of events is perpetrated by Margot in order to get Ruben's Project Genetica files for the Overseers. Margot's main list of crimes while pursuing the Genetica files includes: blackmailing guest Freddie Wolf on killing Ruben's security chief Lukas Matonis to commit deeds like burning the Admiral's boat to prevent everyone from leaving, hacking the island's systems to prevent outside communication and try to access confidential info, knocking people like Ruben, Carla, the Admiral, housekeeper Georgiana Bird, and guest Janet Lim out to get out of Margot's way, and murdering Freddie and Ruben's secretary Portia Frost for knowing too much. Margot eventually steals all three Genetica files one-by-one; however, once Carla revealed to everyone else the existence of the Overseers and pieced together that only Margot could be the culprit, Margot saw no use hiding anymore and revealed herself by shooting Sam with Lukas' gun and forcing everyone else to go down to Haven to suffocate to death by hacking into its ventilation system. However, through an emergency override, everyone survived and, after Carla used the vents to go back upstairs and fix the elevator (where Margot was overheard by Carla arguing with the Overseers on how they need to wait the storm out before picking her up), went back to the mansion. Using the only working antique gun in Ruben's study and the Admiral's stun gun, Carla, Ruben, the Admiral, and either Jax or Q take down Margot relaxing in the club room one way or another. Once captured, Margot realizes that she'll be marked for dead by the Overseers for instantly being a liability, so given her poor relationship with other senior members, Margot agrees to testify against the Overseers with promised government protection. Everyone makes it out of the island okay and Margot is arrested for her crimes working for the Overseers.

### Going Defunct...?

The Overseers appear to finally meet their end once Margot does testify against them in court in the U.S., attracting international attention. All of the members, including the senior members, are arrested in various countries thanks to Ruben's book containing the list of members and further government investigation. The senior members, including Margot, are sentenced to life in prison. If Carla voted to not protect Margot after her trial to the Admiral, Margot ends up killed a few days in prison, likely for betraying the Overseers. If Carla did vote to protect Margot, Margot ends up living. Although the Overseers seem to no longer be a threat by the end of Chapter 1 as deemed by the U.S. government, it's possible there's still some loose ends, as not only are the Overseers capable of killing Margot in prison, but Carla claims that "the nightmare" was yet to be over for everyone...

## Trivia

* The Overseers is a parody of the conspiracy theory of the Illuminati in both being secret organizations that compose of powerful people that control the world covertly, down to having a signature eye emblem.

## Gallery

A representation of the Overseers behind Samuel Wilkinson.