Wesley Cote

Backstory

Once a kind man, Cote began a downward spiral when he started receiving phone calls giving ominous warnings to him about a "blue room". When his wife was wheeled in for surgery after a miscarriage, Cote noticed the blue color of the surgery room and fought viciously to keep her out of it, to no avail. Wife dead, Cote's life turned into a shambles.

The man began to lose time, experiencing déjà vu. When he came back to himself, he was covered in blood. Now knowing the barebones of what was happening, Cote started to maintain awareness in his lost time; aware enough to notice that he was voyaging through time. Unfortunately, he is unable to control himself; instead, he is subsumed by an instinctual understanding that he has a mission to complete. Once he completes the mission (inevitably a murder), he returns to his own time.

When he can, he calls past Wesley Cote to warn him not to let his wife die.

The Truth

Wesley Cote is the Key, a piece of mobile Infrastructure that eliminates the God-Machine's targets. His murders are split between orders given by an Angel known as Grief and murders committed on his own whim.

Cote's end would not make much of a dent in the God-Machine's plans. It could simply create a new Key or use a Cote that existed before his death or incarceration.