Blackwatch

Blackwatch was the covert ops division of Overwatch. Blackwatch was created sometime during Overwatch's "Golden Age." The branch was given additional funding, staff, and facilities by Strike Commander Jack Morrison, and Gabriel Reyes was made Blackwatch's commander. Blackwatch's existence was kept a secret from the public, but there were always rumors of Overwatch carrying out black ops missions by paid mercenaries and assassins. Eight years before the Overwatch recall, Gérard Lacroix had just newly established a Blackwatch facility in Rome as part of an operation to bring down Antonio Bartalotti, a high-level Talon affiliate based in Venice. However, an undercover Talon agent infiltrated the building and planted a bomb in an attempt to assassinate Lacroix; though Lacroix survived the attack, 14 Blackwatch agents and personnel were killed (or at least the ones that their remains could be recovered).