Marcus Diamond[1] was a recurring antagonist and loyal employee of Walter Sykes.
Biography[]
Marcus Diamond was a police[2] detective of Baltimore, Maryland. He was shot three times in the chest in the line of duty. Afterwards, Walter Sykes arranged[3][4] for him to revived by an unknown person via Johann Maelzel's Metronome. The bullets that killed him remained in his heart.[5]
Feeling indebted to him for his resurrection,[4] he became employed by Walter Sykes to assist in his revenge against Warehouse 13 and its Regents. While under his employ, he would come to work with Sally Stukowski.
After Tyler Struhl inadvertently infected and killed several people with Judah Loew ben Belazel's Amulet, he was intended to be arrested, but was instead taken by Diamond and Stukowski pretending to be legitimate officers to be recruited by Sykes to hack into the Warehouse's database.[2]
He observed Sally giving Artie Nielsen and Steve Jinks the real Stormy Night painting after having hidden Struhl's nanites in it so as to hack the Warehouse.[6]
He witnessed Sally's capture by the Warehouse's agents from his car. Pete Lattimer stared at his car and felt something was not right. Afterwards, he met with Sykes to inform him of Stukowski's capture. After she escaped and informed Sykes of what happened, he had Marcus kill her via lethal injection. He apologized to her as he did so, saying it was "just business".[7] He presumably was the one who planted her body in her own apartment for her to be found later.[8]
Marcus later informed Sykes that they were unable to destroy the Remati Shackle. Sykes showed him the corpse of Regent Lok Archer, saying he had gotten all the information he needed from him, then ordered Marcus to recruit the recently-fired and secretly undercover Steve.[9]
He met up with Steve at a bar and pays for his tab. Steve recognizes him as a partner of Stukowski, and Marcus reveals he knows that the Regents have fired and punished him. He tells Steve that his team wants him on their side, citingself-defense with regards to killing the Regents. When Steve asks why he should work with them, he tells him that he should work with people who recognize his talents. Steve ultimately agrees to talk to Marcus about recruitment.[1]
Marcus and Steve go to Wyoming to kidnap Emily Lake, the false identity of Helena Wells created by the Regents via the Janus Coin, with the intention of getting her help to infiltrate the Warehouse. During a fight with Pete in Emily's apartment, he is shoved over a balcony and falls to the ground five stories below, getting severely injured and possibly briefly dying. Shortly after, thanks to the Metronome's power, he heals completely and walks away. He and Steve later succeed in capturing Emily and bringing her to Sykes. Marcus aggressively tried to interrogate her for Helena's knowledge, which she lacks, prompting him to send him and Steve after the Janus Coin (in the protection of Pete, Claudia Donovan, and Myka Bering), with the use of Cecil B. DeMille's Riding Crop. After Steve convinces Claudia to give him the Coin, they return to Sykes and succeed in reuniting Helena's memories within it with her body. Sykes then orders Marcus to kill Steve via lethal injection, leaving his body in the office of an abandoned air hangar.[10][11]
While Sykes and Struhl fly to China to unlock the Ancient Regent Sanctum of Warehouse 7, Marcus instead travels to Univille. He goes to Leena's Bed and Breakfast and restrains Leena after she alerts the Warehouse, then uses Black Bart's Cannon to launch a cannonball at the Warehouse to trigger its shield triggered by the Remati Shackle to trap the agents inside. He then attempts to kill Leena via lethal injection, but is stopped when Mrs. Frederic arrives and explains the method of his immortality. Claudia then arrives, having somehow obtained Maelzel's Metronome, and stops its pendulum, killing Marcus for good.[5]
Nick Powell later used Franz Mesmer's Magnets to infiltrate the Warehouse disguised as Steve with Claudia. He implanted the subconscious idea of Marcus attacking Steve (suggesting he somehow gained knowledge of his history with the Warehouse and Claudia killing him), causing her to hallucinate him (presumably Nick disguised as him) when she went to investigate. "Marcus" chased Claudia through the shelves until she distracted him with New Year's Eve Noise Makers and ran away, before she neutralized the Magnets and ended her hallucination.[12]
Immortality[]
It is unknown how exactly Johann Maelzel's Metronome was used to bring Marcus back to life. The Metronome's downside inflicts all the pain the revived person experiences onto the one who revived them, to the extent that fatal injuries would kill them. It is highly unlikely, but unconfirmed, that Sykes would use himself to revive Marcus if he knew of this.
Additionally, Marcus indeed sustains a fatal injury (falling from a significant height),[10] but healed shortly after and walked away. It is thus unclear if the Metronome would continue functioning if the resurrector dies.
In either scenario, it is possible that Sykes, who possessed a collection of artifacts,[10][5][13] may have used one to either nullify the pain and injury he would receive (assuming he was indeed the one who brought Marcus back to life), or he arranged for someone else to be the one to resurrect Marcus. In the latter's case, the Metronome either continues to function even if the resurrector dies, or an artifact was used to keep them alive through all the injuries they would sustain so that Marcus would remain alive.
Trivia[]
- When paying for Steve's drinks after the Regents cut off his credit card, Marcus states that he's "been there, trust me", suggesting that he's been broke before.[1]
- His surname likely refers to diamond's famous hardness and difficulty to be scratched, being the hardest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale.
Appearances[]
| Season 3 | ||||||||||||
| Opening Credits: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "The New Guy": | Absent | 7. "Past Imperfect": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "Trials": | Absent | 8. "The 40th Floor": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "Love Sick": | Debut | 9. "Shadows": | Appears | |||||||||
| 4. "Queen For A Day": | Absent | 10. "Insatiable": | Appears | |||||||||
| 5. "3... 2... 1": | Absent | 11. "Emily Lake": | Appears | |||||||||
| 6. "Don't Hate The Player": | Appears | 12. "Stand": | Appears | |||||||||
| 13. "The Greatest Gift": | Absent | |||||||||||
| Season 4 | ||||||||||||
| Opening Credits: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "A New Hope": | Absent | 11. "The Living and the Dead": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "An Evil Within": | Mentioned | 12. "Parks and Rehabilitation": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "Personal Effects": | Absent | 13. "The Big Snag": | Absent | |||||||||
| 4. "There's Always a Downside": | Absent | 14. "The Sky's the Limit": | Absent | |||||||||
| 5. "No Pain, No Gain": | Absent | 15. "Instinct": | Absent | |||||||||
| 6. "Fractures": | Absent | 16. "Runaway": | Absent | |||||||||
| 7. "Endless Wonder": | Absent | 17. "What Matters Most": | Absent | |||||||||
| 8. "Second Chance": | Absent | 18. "Lost & Found": | Appears | |||||||||
| 9. "The Ones You Love": | Absent | 19. "All the Time in the World": | Absent | |||||||||
| 10. "We All Fall Down": | Absent | 20. "The Truth Hurts": | Absent | |||||||||
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Insatiable
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Love Sick
- ↑ Claudia: "This is Johann Maelzel's Metronome. Mrs. Frederic: "Sykes uses it to keep Marcus alive." (Stand)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 In a deleted scene for "Emily Lake", Marcus tells Steve that he's working for Sykes because he owes him, confirming that Sykes is responsible for his resurrection.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Stand
- ↑ Don't Hate the Player
- ↑ The 40th Floor
- ↑ Emily Lake (see this image)
- ↑ Shadows
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Emily Lake
- ↑ An Evil Within
- ↑ Lost & Found
- ↑ Personal Effects
