Garcian Smith

The Professional
Garcian began life as Emir Parkreiner, a pawn of Japanese imperialism intended to become a powerful and indoctrinated assassin living in the United States and therefore capable of striking from behind enemy lines. The sexual advances of his own mother early on in his life left him with indelible psychological scars, leading him to kill her. He later entered Coburn Elementary School, an indoctrination and training camp where students were raised to be agents of Japanese imperialism within the United States, operating as assassins behind enemy lines. (This program continued even after the end of World War II.) However, he gradually became mentally unbalanced, and started killing off various of the institution's officials and employees. At the age of 13, Emir's madness culminated in a murderous rampage in which he killed every person on campus, including Holbert, a government detective dispatched to investigate the strange occurrences at the school, and its principal, one of the avatars of Harman Smith, whom he then locked up in the school's safe before absorbing into his being.

From here Emir gravitated towards the United States government as a backlash against his Japanese "creators" and became a professional assassin, eventually being hired to take on the increasingly dangerous "Killer7" group directed by another Harman avatar and lead by former police officer Dan Smith. Emir ambushed his fellow assassins at the Hotel Union in Philadelphia, killing each of them in turn before confronting that Harman on the top floor. Realizing the horror of all the deaths he'd caused, Emir retreated to the roof and tried to commit suicide to atone for what he'd done; this attempt failed and instead left him with dissociative personality disorder as well as amnesia. With his new identity as Garcian Smith, leader of the Killer7 assassination group, he instinctively returned to the government and worked as its loyal operative for many years, believing the government to be absolute and Harman Smith (whom he had actually absorbed into himself, and was subconsciously controlling) to be his one true master. A man named Travis Bell was the first target ever killed by the so-called Smith Syndicate; whether or not he was absorbed into the Killer7 is debatable, but he harbored no hard feelings as he proved to be a valuable source of information on all of the organization's assignments thereafter. He also acquired Iwazaru and Samantha Sitbon, both intended to be the aged and wheelchair-using Master Harman's servant and caretaker respectively, but both of whom tended to perform roles very far from these functions.

Garcian was assigned a government sponsor and controller, Christopher Mills, who routinely made contact with him by leaving a voicemail on his answering machine designed to sound like dull canvassing for the "Republic Party". The two would then rendezvous on an overpass in downtown Seattle, where Garcian made his home. The two meet many times in this fashion, often having lengthy political discussions and global observations before even talking about the mission. This may be a regular fixture or their interactions, or an effect of the increasing global militarism that has made the future of everyone person on earth very uncertain. Their interactions are all the more poignant because Garcian (and, to some extent, Mills) is directly affecting the path on which the world is going, as he is an active participant in the crisis enacted by Kun Lan and his Heaven Smile terrorist organization.

Season 3
When the events of the crisis culminate in Mills's assassination and subsequent replacement, Garcian, having learned too much about the conspiracy to let it go, goes rogue and begins his own investigation with his only lead being the Hotel Union, where the famous TFR event was being hosted.