Marco Álvares

**Marco Álvares** was a candidate in the 104th Process. He came from a family legacy, with all of his known family having passed the Process before him.

## Personality

Marco is congenial, charming to everyone around him. He is shown to be a leader and a thinker, passing the early tests in the Process with ease. However, he is also arrogant due to his family's legacy and the reputation surrounding the Álvares name. Marco believes he is better than the 97% and that he deserves to move to the Offshore. His arrogance leads to a violent, dark side, where he will do or say anything to pass the Process, and even cause severe harm to other candidates.

His failure to pass the Process, along with the loss of his legs, left Marco a bitter and broken person, unable to face his lover and son, watching from a distance. His disposition led him to be manipulated by his mother, Marcela Álvares, who made it clear to him that she regarded him as a failure unworthy of her attention though she had given him a chance to prove himself to her, only for things to go wrong and wind up being dismissed by her yet again.

After his lover passed the Process, Marco finally met his son, Mauricio, and fatherhood changed him greatly. He joined with Michele Santana after she founded the Shell in order to provide his son with better care. When things at the Shell started taking a bad turn and Michele was forced to turn people away through a Selection not so different from the Process, Marco chose to leave the Shell with his son, but the hardship of raising a child in the Inland drove him to join with the people Michele had turned away to take the Shell over for Marcela's aid.

Though, once evidence was presented to him that his mother was ultimately responsible for the Shell's problems, along with Marcela deciding to change his son's name from Mauricio to Leonardo (after her father and Marco's grandfather) Marco finally chose his side as he helped make sure the people learned of Marcela's duplicity and turned against her fully. He called her bluff when she threatened the life of Mauricio, knowing she would never harm the last Alvarez, and bitterly told her to give her grandchild one last look because he (Mauricio) would never go to the Offshore, which Marco now regarded as corrupt and exploitative.

## Background

Marco comes from the Álvares family, a family well known for the great majority of its members becoming a part of the 3%, all but Marco. Growing up, Marco knew he was worthy, as his predecessors were, and was confident he would succeed. Every day, he would eat facing the wall of his ancestors, who had all passed the Process. He was taken care of by a maid and lived in a reasonably well-kept home in comparison to the other Inlanders.

Before the Process, Marco impregnated his girlfriend, thus ensuring the Álvares line would continue. He had his picture taken and put on family wall, and wrote a letter to his son telling him that he would lead an exceptional life.

## Season One

### "Chapter 01: Cubes"

Marco was shown during the entrance to the Process to be confident and friendly, offering Fernando Carvalho assistance with his wheelchair on the way to the first interview. During the interview he cracked jokes with the proctor, Alvaro, and charmed his way to success. He told Alvaro that his family had extremely good luck in the Process and that he had many family members on the Offshore. Alvaro asked him if he thought his family's reputation guaranteed him a spot on the Offshore, to which Marco said no. Ultimately, he passed the first test and moved on to the second round.

Marco passed the and appeared in the cafeteria with the rest of the victors. The other candidates were impressed after he revealed he was an Álvares, his family being known for having great success in the Process. When asked what their secret was, he said it was congeniality.

Later, in the lunch room, when Rafael was being beaten, Marco stopped the fight, showing himself to be a leader.

### "Chapter 02: Coins"

Marco was assigned the same group as Michele, Fernando, and the others for the inductive reasoning test. He helped investigate the death of the woman, and eventually agreed with Rafael's answer. Thus, he was able to move on to the next round.

When Rafael took the coin in the coin assessment, Marco wrestled it out of him, allowing the group to decide how the coins would be distributed. Since they couldn't come to a clear conclusion, Marco asked Agata for her headscarf and tore it into seven pieces. He proposed that they leave it up to chance - the person with the shortest scarf length would be the loser. Marco drew a long enough piece and was able to get a coin.

### "Chapter 03: Corridor"

Marco was introduced to the next challenge by Denise who told them that their goal was to get to the end of the tunnel in five minutes. Unbeknownst to the group, the tunnel was filled with an odorless gas that produced hallucinations. Marco hallucinated the others telling him that he was an embarrassment to his family and no a real Álvares. However, with the help of Joana, Marco was able to make it to the end of the tunnel in time, passing the test.

### "Chapter 04: Gateway"

After waking up and realizing the candidates were locked into the dormitory area, Marco was the first to figure out the next puzzle. There was a board with binary numbers on it that corresponded to levers in each of the rooms. The candidates had to memorize the combinations and pull the corresponding levers. Marco organized the candidates into runners and pullers. In the end, they received food rations. Marco said he should get the first ones since he figured out the puzzle, but the group decided that they should give them out alphabetically to be fair.

When the food stopped coming, Marco believed the newest challenge was a survival of the fittest test. He decided to take food from the others, and gathered up a group of powerful candidates to forcefully rob the other candidates of their food. In the process, he took a hostage, to ensure compliance. His actions resulted in a candidate being killed. In the end, Michele, Fernando, Rafael, and other candidates created a barricade against Marco and his gang. While Marco tried to fight against the barricade group, Joana returned with a group of candidates who ambushed Marco and beat down his group, killing several of his allies and nearly killing him.

Marco, still alive, began to crawl to the exit. With the door closing quickly, Marco nearly made it. However, based on the crunching noise and Ezequiel's reaction to wincing at the camera footage, it was believed that he had been crushed by the door.

## Season Two

### "Chapter 07: Fog"

At the end of the episode, Joana manages to escape her cell and attempts to escape the house she is being held in. As she heads down a hallway, she is unexpectedly confronted by Marco (who she believed to be dead). She remarks, "This really is hell.” Marco responds, "This is so much worse then hell.”

### "Chapter 08: Frogs"

Marco is revealed to be a part of the militia under Gerson's command. A flashback of him after failing the process and being crushed by the door at his pelvic area, results in him losing his two legs and receiving two prosthetic legs and a cane. He releases Joana and is confronted by Gerson, who he kills and becomes the new militia leader and leads the new militia to the Alvarez house to make their new base. Later it is revealed that Marcela is Marco's mother, and they come to an agreement where if the militia helps the process, then he will gain the chance to join Process 105.

### "Chapter 10: Blood"

After he fails to stop Joana and the cause from stealing the data which identifies individuals eligible for the Process. Marcela cruelly mocks Marco for failing once again, kicks him out of the Process building, and states he is unworthy to ever live in the Offshore.

## Season 3

### "Chapter 01: Sand"

Marco ended up in the Shell with his son, Mauricio. When there was a storm, things became tense in the previously peaceful Shell, especially after the food store was wiped out. This forced Michele to start a Selection to decide who could stay and who would have to leave. Due to his disability, Elisa offered him the chance to bypass the Selection and stay, but he said he didn't want charity and refused. The first test was to cut out their implants, which he did and also cut out his son's.

### "Chapter 02: Scalpel"

Marco was grouped with Joana and Rafael for an early test, which forced them to work together to escape a room.

### "Chapter 03: Medicine"

Another test required each of two teams of three to create a criterium to eliminate a member of the other team. Joana, Glória, and Artur created the criterium of being a murderer, aiming to eliminate Marco. Marco, Rafael, and Natália created the criterium of being the youngest, targeting Artur. However, Michele revealed that they would be eliminated based on their own team's criterium, eliminating Joana and Natália instead. Marco exited the test and told Glória he passed.

### "Chapter 04: Duck"

With 100 residents left, Michele announced that half would have to leave in order for the others to survive. Each test would be a head-to-head test, with one candidate staying and the other leaving. Marco and Rafael went first. The test was for each of them to create a test. Of the two proposed tests, Michele would choose the fairest and that test would be applied to them to eliminate someone. Marco suggested listing all the candidates' contributions to the Shell while Rafael proposed flipping a coin and leaving it up to chance. Michele chose the coin flip, which Marco lost, upsetting him. Marco took Mauricio and returned to the Inland.

### "Chapter 05: Lever"

Marco rationed what little food he had left for his son, giving him a small amount at a time. When the last of his food went missing, he realized it had been stolen and he had nothing to feed his son. Desperate, he used Mauricio to create a distraction while he stole some food.

Realizing he didn't have a way to feed his son, he returned Mauricio to the care of Larissa, who had taken care of him before he entered the Process as well. He left a letter for her to give Mauricio when he was older. He joined Glória's group storming the Shell as revenge for Michele rejecting the Offshore's offer to help after the storm. They managed to force their way inside, even after Michele activated the security system, which shocked Marco and threw him back. As they entered, Michele fled out the back. Marco and Glória then announced the Shell was theirs and in 24 hours, the Division would arrive with supplies and would take over the Shell.

### "Chapter 06: Trapdoor"

With Michele and Rafael gone, Marco and Glória knew that Marcela won't honor her deal. Marco went to Elisa and questioned her, believing she knew something about Rafael. She claimed not to know anything, but Artur said Rafael had to be still in the Shell as he wouldn't leave without Elisa. Marco offered the remaining food to the person who captured Michele and Rafael.

Natália was brought to Marco after she tried to sneak in and she was locked up in the supply room. Marco then tried to convince Elisa to turn Rafael in so she could return to the Offshore, but she didn't.

### "Chapter 07: Gardrone"

Marco had his son brought to the Shell. Marco was a suspect when they learned the Shell had been sabotaged, but he was being treated during the time the rope was cut, so it wouldn't have been him.

### "Chapter 08: Wave"

Rafael and Joana turned themselves in and shared the recording with Marco that proved that the Offshore used Rafael to sabotage the Shell. Marco took the recording and ordered them locked up with Michele and Natália. He told Glória he destroyed the recording, but he secretly gave it to Joana before telling her to flee. He then helped them capture his mother as a prisoner. Marco then met with Michele, Joana, Natália, Glória, Xavier, Rafael, and Elisa to make a plan to take down the Offshore forever.

## Season 4

### "Chapter 01: Moon"

Marco was a part of a group from the Shell that went to the Offshore on a diplomatic meeting. Before they left, the made a plan to take and send what they needed to shut down all the technology in the Offshore, just as they'd done to the Inland. While in the Offshore, they were allowed to stay in Marcela's house, as it was empty.

While Joana, Elisa, and Natália freed some trapped prisoners in the RTC, Rafael and Marco met with Denise. They started negotiations really slowly, giving the others time.

### "Chapter 02: Shock"

The Council needed the Shell group's help and offered to negotiate the end of the Process to get their help to overthrow André.

### "Chapter 03: Fire"

The Shell group decided to help the Council and they freed all the prisoners from the RTC.

### "Chapter 04: Submarine"

After escaping into the woods, the group found the hatch, which Michele had told them about. They used Marco's cane to break into it and were left with two options. They could use the submarine to escape or they could use it to create the pulse. When they learned the Shell was burning and the Offshore had destroyed it, they decided to use the pulse. They activated it and send the submarine to the Offshore, where the pulse shut down all their technology as the guards arrested Marco and the others.

### "Chapter 05: Painting"

As they were led through the woods, Marco threw himself to the ground. He convinced the guards to unhook him and then he rans off through the woods. He then went to find his grandfather, Leonardo, and they cooked and ate a meal together. Marcela came to the house and found them. She tried to get them both to leave with her, saying the Offshore was dangerous, but they both refused. Marco went out to the beach on his own, where he started coughing up blood and then died.