In 1997, the Group Elder was sitting at a desk, shrouded in shadow in his darkened office, when he met with Peter Watts, a member of the Roosters, and informed him that the Millennium Group had noted he had been "engaged in an independent project", referring to Watts's search for the hand of Saint Sebastian. When Watts revealed that his search for the hand had started as a curiosity, the Group Elder answered that the search had since become much more and was now a distraction that had to be excised.