Jon Dear

Jon Dear is a British financier who works in London. In 2012, shortly after his release from the hospital, a woman named Mary began following him, addressing him as William and sending him love letters. Jon attempted to evade her, but Mary became steadily more persistent, and may have murdered his cat. At one point Jon attempted to contact the police about her, but Sergeant Fox arrived and stole all the love letters Mary had sent.

At the same time, Jon's boss Stephen assigned him a project involving seemingly random transactions. When Jon printed out one of the spreadsheets, the numbers strongly resembled Mary's face. At some point circa August 13, Stephen lead Jon to Mary, then led them both to an abandoned apartment tower which hid an entrance to a facility where the God-Machine produced robot doubles. There, Sergeant Fox reappeared and de-activated Stephen and Mary before removing Mary's clockwork brain from her skull and gifting it to Jon.

Jon recounted all these events in letters to his girlfriend Gina, who was on business in Glasgow at the time. He did not, however, send the final letter, indicating he planned to burn it after writing it.