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Watchers
[[Image:|200px]] First Appearance Last Appearance Exploring The Motel Who Watches The Watcher?
Character information
Age	Varies
Portrayed by	Various Actors
Videos with Watchers

The Watchers are a 20-member team comprising members of the Hymn of One with the job to protect girls like Bree (who are trait positive), who are preparing for the Ceremony. They know nothing about the Order of Denderah. It has been suggested that they are in fact working against the Order. Gemma was the intial source of all information about Watchers. But since Gemma was revealed to be working for the Order, it's unclear if anything she said was true. Since then, Alex has shed more light on what The Watchers do and do not know.

Introduction

A close up of the Watcher's hand

Drawing of symbol that Gemma identifies on the Watcher's hand

From left to right, a Watcher (Miles Beckett), Lucy, a second Watcher (Frank Beckett), Bree, and a third Watcher (Mesh Flinders).

The Watcher was first seen in the video Exploring The Motel and subsequently in Breakfast In Bed and is referred to as "the man in the suit" until Gemma identifies him as a Watcher. The picture at right shows the part of his hand where Gemma claims to have detected the tell-tale symbol. To most viewers it looks like a smudge, but apparently Gemma has super-vision. Gemma also provided a drawing of the symbol that she used to identify him. She warns Bree and Daniel of this discovery in the video A Watcher.

Description

Watchers make up a 20-member team whose only mission is to protect girls like Bree, preparing for the ceremony. They have no knowledge whatsoever of the Ceremony. They're members of the Hymn of One and they don't know anything about the Order. Watchers will absolutely use violence if violence is used first.

According to Gemma, Watchers operate like an order of knights. She believes that a modern version of the Watchers are part of Order. Gemma's explanation indicates that several (if not many) Watchers must exist, but it is unknown how many are following Bree and Daniel. This uncertainty arises because the videos never show more than one Watcher at a time and they are never seen in enough detail to be distinguishable from one another. The Watcher has been seen at the motel and at the grocery store, which is one indication that there might be more than one assigned to follow Bree and Daniel.

Role

The role of the Watcher is to protect girls preparing for the ceremony. They know nothing about the ceremony as they are members of The Hymn of One and not the Order. Gemma links the Watcher with the Order because the symbol is similar, which leads Bree and Daniel to run away in Fleeing The Watcher.

After Gemma was exposed as an OpAphid agent<ref>Tachyon videos Gemma? [Part I], [Part II], and [Part III]</ref>, all information and advice that had come from her became suspect. The idea that a Watcher was following Bree and Daniel was largely Gemma's, so it remains to be seen whether there was anyone following them at all.

Another possibility is that the Watcher is working for another organization with conflicting interests to OpAphid. The Watcher might have been protecting Bree and Daniel and merely keeping an eye on them, so Gemma purposefully scared them into running away where they could not be found by the Watcher. If the Watcher indeed was a member of a rival organization to OpAphid, he might be part of Tachyon's team. This has since been disproven, as Alex told us that Watchers comprise a 20-member team of the Order whose only mission is to protect trait positive girls like Bree and Emma.

Appearances

A Watcher is first seen for a brief instant in Exploring The Motel, but his features were indistinguishable. The first time a Watcher was seen and confirmed was in Breakfast In Bed, in which Daniel inadvertently panned his camera across a Watcher, getting a glimpse of the Watcher symbol on his hand. Fleeing The Watcher was the last time any Watcher was seen for months, either because Bree and Daniel's escape was successful, or because he was never a Watcher (see Role section).

In The Human Ransom three men and Lucy are in an elevator. The men are wearing suits and dark sunglasses, which seems to indicate that they are also Watchers, although it was not explicitly said in the video. Two of these Watchers were cameo appearances of creators Miles Beckett and Mesh Flinders; the third Watcher, to the right side of Lucy, was played by Miles Beckett's father, Frank Beckett.

In the Nikki Bower Reports video Following the Drugs!! - NBR Investigates it is revealed through the kidnapper's Blackberry that perhaps the Watchers "will do anything to protect the girl." From this it may be assumed that a Watcher rescued Bree in the desert in Communication Terminated.

In some videos, fans have claimed that random people that appear in videos are Watchers. These claims are usually in jest, though not always. For example, speculation of two different Watchers was raised about the episode Warwalking.

References

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