Geoff arrived home, was arrested, tried, found guilty and executed for his fiancees' murder—a crime he did not commit. He awoke from a drug-induced coma to learn his execution had been faked and he now owed the Club the next ten years of his life. He accepted the Club's conditions and became a membe—there was no choice. The Founding Fathers having fled tyrannical monarchies of Europe established the Club as insurance against their greatest fea—a corrupt and ever expanding central government. The first name on the Club's founding documents can be found on the American Declaration of Independence.