Murdok T. Orwell

Murdok "repping" the Saints

> Leave it to the Saints
>
> — Murdok T. Orwell

Murdok Truman Orwell was a notorious criminal and violent gangster who helped the Third Row Saints take over Detroit a second time with the help of his partner, Sarbajet Treamsam.

## Personal Life

### Personality

Orwell was known by his friends and family to be extremely thorough and well calculated, especially when involved in planning or preparation. Due to his former occupation as a surgeon, Murdok also displayed steady composure and would not crack under intense pressure. However, after receiving substantial brain damage from a prison riot, his behavior became more erratic and unpredictable, sometimes lashing out or causing excessive violence in a few cases.

### Early Life

Murdok T. Orwell was born to a middle-class working family who had recently immigrated from Germany in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan on November 16, 1950. Very little is known about his life growing up, but it is assumed that he did well in school and was likely well behaved too. After finishing high school, Murdok enrolled at the University of Michigan to study medicine and pursue his dream of becoming a surgeon. Orwell managed to land a job at a relatively small emergency care facility in the middle of downtown Detroit. Despite his efforts, he struggled to make ends meet on top of his large debt collected from school. Out of desperation, Murdok began to illegally extract organs from deceased patients and sell them in order to stay afloat. However, he was soon exposed and subsequently arrested by the Detroit Police Department. While inside prison and serving his time, Murdok was caught in the middle of a prison riot where he sustained multiple brain and bodily injuries, ultimately leaving him in a comatose state for many months.

## Saints Row Takeover

Upon awakening, Murdok broke out of prison with fellow inmates Carlos Mendoza and Sarbajet S. Treamsam. After Murdok learned of the Saints' dissolution, Carlos advised Murdok and Sarbajet to keep their head down. While visiting a clothing store, they learned of Johnny Gat's arrest and trial on the news, and rescued him from the courthouse. Deciding to resurrect the Saints, Gat helped to find a new hideout, and Murdok, as the new leader of the Saints, set to work recruiting new members, including Sarbajet, Carlos, Pierce, and Shaundi. The reborn Saints soon formed a plan to re-claim the city of Detroit from the new gangs that have taken over in their absence following the death of Arbor I. Samuels.

### The Ronin

Murdok, with Sarbajet, Johnny Gat and Pierce, attacked the Ronin by robbing a casino owned by the Ronin and the Ultor Corporation. Enraged by this, Kazuo Akuji, the father of the Ronin's leader Shogo Akuji, traveled to Detroit himself to take control of the situation. Shogo attempted to recover the stolen cash by having his second-in-command, Jyunichi, kidnap Gat's girlfriend Aisha; this ended with Aisha dead and Gat incapacitated after being stabbed by Jyunichi. Murdok subsequently killed Jyunichi in revenge. By the time Gat recovered, Kazuo Akuji had broken the Ronin's connections with Ultor; Abraham Linden, the CEO of Ultor, reacted by giving the Saints the location of the Ronin's headquarters, which Murdok, Sabajet, and Gat destroyed. Disgraced, Shogo attacked the Saints during Aisha's funeral, and Johnny avenged her death by killing all the Ronin present and burying Shogo alive. Kazuo continued to attack the Saints, including Mr. Wong, and was killed in a duel with Sarbajet during Detroit's Chinese Heritage Festival.

### Sons of Samedi

To eliminate the Sons of Samedi, a group of Haitian drugs dealers, Murdok and Sarbajet worked with Shaundi to take over the trade of their trademark designer drug Loa Dust, by killing the Samedi's dealers and destroying their drug-manufacturing infrastructure. Shaundi's ex-boyfriend, and now a Samedi enforcer, DJ Veteran Child, kidnaped her, but she was rescued by the duo after they shot their way through his nightclub and killed him. Afterwards, a limousine belonging to the Samedi leader The General pulled up and kidnaps Murdok. Drugged and forced into the vehicle, The General explained to Murdok how much he is displeased with The Saints taking over his business and territory. The General almost killed him but Murdok managed to escape from the limo just in time. After destroying an inbound shipment of Loa Dust, Murdok set out to kill the Samedi's leadership with the help of Sarbajet. First, they killed the gang's voodoo-using second-in-command, Mr. Sunshine, at his hideout. Then, after Shaundi hacked Detroit's CCTV system, they ambushed the convoy with The General, and killed him in a car chase inside the Twelve Oaks Mall.

### The Brotherhood

Maero, the leader of The Brotherhood, initially offered to make a truce with the Saints, offering them a deal of 20–80. Murdok, offended by the offer, started a gang war. He and Sarbajet first kidnapped Donnie and forced him to blow up several of the Brotherhood's trucks and replaced Maero's tattoo ink with nuclear waste, disfiguring him. In retaliation, Carlos was kidnapped and dragged through the streets, tied to the back of a truck. By the time Murdok and Sarbajet rescued him, Carlos was gravely injured. Murdok was unable to free him from his chains and instead mercy killed him. The Saints then kidnapped Maero's girlfriend, Jessica, and put her in the trunk of a car in a monster truck arena. Maero, not knowing his girlfriend was in the car, crushed her in his truck. Murdok handed him the keys to the trunk and walked away after Maero exited his truck to confront him. Much of the Brotherhood was then arrested in an ensuing police crackdown. Maero threatened Abraham Linden, the Ultor executive handling the company's business in Detroit, to release his imprisoned allies, only for Murdok and Sarbajet to kill them before they reached Detroit's streets. Linden then attempted to seize the weapons shipment from the Brotherhood, only for the Saints to snatch it from both of them. Now heavily armed, the Saints destroyed the Brotherhood's dockside headquarters and killed Maero in a demolition derby.

### Ultor

As the Saints took over Detroit, they found themselves in an unexpected conflict with the Ultor Corporation, who sought to eradicate the gang in order to further their own goals for Detroit. Formerly a company which produced clothes and household brand products, Ultor had used its immense funds to drastically reshape both itself and the Saint's Row District within the last few years. In the process, Ultor became a powerful corporation with its own private army, the Masako, and they extended their power, reach, and influence into almost every aspect of Detroit, including the Detroit Police Department. Their biggest competitor was YF Industries, who produced and supplied much of the same goods as them, even possessing their own private military force. Due to their immense funding and close ties with YFI, as well as their growing power, Ultor sent the Masako after Murdok, Sarbajet, Shaundi, Pierce, and Gat. While Gat was able to take care of himself, Murdok and Sarbajet were forced to fight off a Masako team and rescue Pierce and Shaundi before they were killed. Angered, they destroyed The Pyramid, an underground research complex owned by Ultor. Under pressure from Ultor's board of directors as the company was targeted by the Saints, Linden leaked the location of the board to Murdok and Sarbajet: a party on a boat not far from the Saints Row district. Not caring where the information came from, they eliminated the board. Looking on at the destruction caused by the Saints, Linden congratulated himself by telling his assistant to move his things to his new office, knowing he was about to be promoted.

   Linden's victory was short lived, however. During his speech outside of the Saints Row Church, Gat trained a sniper rifle on Linden, with Murdok and Sarbajet nearby. A security guard caught Gat, however, and Murdok and Sarbajet were forced to chase after Linden, who escaped to the Ultor Executive Building. Using an AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter, they brought down the building's security, and entered Linden's office. Despite hearing Linden plea for his life, Murdok mercilessly killed him with a bullet to the head, which sent him falling from the top of the tower to the responding police below, leaving no one to challenge the Saints' control over Detroit.

## Later Life

Following the complete takeover of Detroit, Murdok and the Saints continued their activities, growing to become extremely influential and powerful in criminal world. With continued cooperation and funding from Yung Flame, the Saints were able to expand to legitimate industries, such as clothing, music, manufacturing, and other forms of branding. The Saints even managed to set up another base of operations in New York City.

## Death

On December 14, 2013, Murdok assisted the Saints in his final bank heist. With Akra I. Dent and Damon S. Oonton working as the muscle, he was the designated helicopter pilot who would lift the vault and crew out of the building for their escape. However, they were betrayed by Yung Flame, who anonymously tipped the police about their plans. As a result, there was an incredibly large police response, which the Saints were not expecting. While they were trying to lift the bank vault from the building, the helicopter was shot to pieces, falling to the ground and killing Murdok in the crash. Akra I. Dent and Damon S. Oonton managed to jump to safety but were arrested by the police.