Marjorie Dixon

As a member of the mafia, Marjorie's most important role was being an adviser to help consult the boss on decisions, mostly as a way to gain trust among New York's gamblers. Often called "Blue Eyes", Marjorie often used her attractive looks to get what she wanted out of people.

When Marjorie found out that her descendant, Chloe Dixon, who came back in time to 1924 to solve her grandparents' murders, Marjorie had to be careful with who she associated with and often had to cover her tracks to make Chloe, Jack, and James work harder to find her.

Since the pressure to avoid Chloe made it hard for Marjorie to come clean with committing murder, Marjorie became paranoid to the point where she blamed Chloe for the deaths of both her mother and her grandparents.

After her demise, Marjorie's spirit was finally laid to rest as Chloe had figured that it would be easier to end her life by killing her rather than settling with her initial death in 1929, which was suicide.

Early Life
Marjorie Claire Dixon was born to Allan Dixon and his wife, Cornelia Dixon, on April 7, 1903 in New York City. Unlike her older sister, Louise, Marjorie was not baptized as she was born shortly after the family had relocated to upstate New York. She was, however, the youngest daughter of Allan and Cornelia and was considered to be Allan's favorite daughter, even though she was quite difficult to deal with than her sister.

Ever since she was young, Marjorie constantly lived under the shadow of her older sister, who excelled at Bridgeton Preparatory School and went on to become a success story. Marjorie, however, never found the motivation to keep going as she was constantly compared to something she could never achieve in life. Even though Marjorie was close to her sister as a young child, she secretly vied for the attention from her father, who often found her troublesome and a pain to deal with.

However, these feelings towards her sister faded away when Louise volunteered herself to serve as a medic in the British Army during World War 1. They corresponded with each other up until she contracted Spanish influenza after the war ended in November 1918. Marjorie was devastated when Louise died as she felt she had truly lost her only friend in the entire world. Marjorie struggled to keep her relationship healthy with her widower father until she had no choice but to leave and move out on her own.

Once she was free from her father's grasp, she quickly made acquaintances with notable mobsters and even had a close friendship with Al Capone. Marjorie soon gained his trust and within a matter of months, she became his most trusted informant when Capone had to deal with business matters in New York.

The Girl Who Came Home
Marjorie makes her first appearance as a fourteen-year-old girl when Louise is the process of running away from home in December of 1912. Once her sister leaves, she struggles at Bridgeton Preparatory School only to drop out in 1914 at the age of sixteen. She soon began a life that was more exciting than the one she was living with her widower father when she met a young Al Capone, who later became her closest friend, giving her the socialization she craved and the experiences that she had been sheltered from all of her life. By the time Capone had formed the Chicago Outfit in 1919, he was constantly giving Marjorie advice on how to enforce rules to rival gangsters, specifically Bugs Moran, who was Capone's biggest rival. It wasn't until the day her boyfriend Tony Moretti was accidentally killed during a parade at the Four Queens Club in June of 1924 by a bullet accidentally firing out of a gun that was in James McKay's hands, that Marjorie swore not only to avenge his death, but to take away everything James McKay loved, starting with his wife Marie and his young daughter Chloe.

In 1999, Marjorie visited Walter and Emily at Dixon Mansion one warm May evening, and decided to make a deal with them where if they would make get rid of Chloe and James, then she would bring Marie back and they would live as a happy family.

Golden Girl
After the festivities of Chloe's birthday, Marjorie emerges from the grave and pays a late-night visit to Walter and Emily, where she intends on murdering them for going back on the deal they made sixteen years ago when Chloe was four years old. Rather than killing them right away like she initially planned, she persuaded them to trade Chloe's life in exchange for Marie's, which Walter and Emily promptly refused to do so. Disappointed, Marjorie killed both Walter and Emily in cold blood and made it look like a terrible accident before disappearing the scene of the crime. When Jack takes Chloe downstairs to the library to try and catch the would-be intruder, they are too late and find Chloe's grandparents dead. Filled with revenge, Chloe was determined to find justice for her grandparents and put the killer in jail. Chloe, Jack, and her father traveled back in time to Manhattan in the year 1924 and are intent on solving Walter and Emily's murders once they blend in with everyone else to conceal their identities. Jack and Chloe attend one party together, but he realizes that the atmosphere brings back bad memories and encourages Chloe to attend more on her own.

Over time, Chloe follows Marjorie's every move and jots down any important details she has gathered and soon enough, they begin to find out that Marjorie was actually the one who murdered both Chloe's mother as well as her grandparents. With enough evidence to get her to confess, Chloe intends on confronting Marjorie at the Four Queens Club, but an argument with Capone's footmen prompts them to beat her up in the back alley and Marjorie even joins in on severely injuring Chloe, who sustains multiple injuries and is brought straight to the hospital and rushed into emergency surgery. Having recovered from the fistfight with Marjorie, she plans on talking to Marjorie one last time to negotiate that they will settle the score with a good old fashioned duel on the roof of Dixon Mansion and the first one to get there will fire the first shot. With time on their side, Marjorie and Chloe race through time to get to Dixon Mansion in the twenty-first century, where they meet at the roof as promised. Unfortunately, Chloe and the others are forced to hold up on giving Ms. King a proper explanation as to their attire or the current situation. When they do get to the roof, Chloe's father explains that he will handle the situation and he needs her and Jack to hide.

However, after when Marjorie strikes her father, Chloe bravely shows herself and confronts Marjorie directly. It isn't until that point that Marjorie blames Chloe for her grandparents' deaths. Almost believing it, Chloe tries to escape while Marjorie has a gun pointed at her chest. Without realizing it, Chloe tumbles backward and is left dangling on the edge of the roof. When confronted with the image of Chloe in a vulnerable state, she not only confesses to the murders of Walter and Emily, but she also comes clean with killing her mother, Marie Dixon. When Chloe puts the pieces together, she becomes enraged and leaps up to throw herself on top of Marjorie until she confesses to all three crimes. A battle then quickly ensues when Marjorie calls in foot soldiers and James and Jack are forced to defend themselves.

In the midst of the fight, Marjorie blames her rash actions on the mafia and rats out several people as a result. When Marjorie is tossed a gun in her direction, she thinks the only solution is to kill Chloe once and for all and reaches for the gun. However, Chloe reacts faster and reaches for it and shoots Marjorie multiple time in the chest and stumble backwards. Marjorie falls to her death, landing on the driveway just as a fork of lightning flashes and reveals her decrepit skeleton.

After Marjorie's remains are disposed of properly, Chloe and the others go back to the main house and explain what happened to Ms. King. After several minutes, she realizes that Chloe was right in solving the murders with the help of two people who kept her safe the whole time and admits that nobody from the past is ever permitted on the grounds in the future.

Physical Appearance
Marjorie is described as having a fair complexion with dark brown hair that's extremely curly. She possessed the same forehead as her older sister, Louise Seymour; but her jaw is slightly wider. Marjorie has blue eyes just like Chloe does, although hers are a lighter shade. Like Louise, Marjorie's eyes are framed by a full set of lashes that resemble feather dusters. She has a thin nose that forms into a sharp tip and shares the same prominent cheekbones as her sister.

Marjorie's eyebrows are the same shade as her hair and have a steeper arch to them, unlike Louise, whose eyebrows have a softer arch to them.

Her clothing style is strictly modest in The Girl Who Came Home, but she adopts a risque look in the 1920s that complements her slightly androgenous fighure.

Personality and Traits
Marjorie was best described as calculating; however, she was frequently seen as bloodthirsty, whether it was dying to kill James McKay before the events of Haunted or she was stalking Chloe for revenge in Golden Girl. She is also marked as one of the most ruthless characters in the entire series.

Like most of the women in the Dixon family, Marjorie was one of the only people that were charming, but cold-hearted and bitter. As of Golden Girl, she was a master manipulator and was willing to use others to achieve her own selfish goals and desires. Marjorie even manipulated Jack by telling him that Chloe never loved him in order to make him have a moment of infidelity towards Chloe by sleeping with the famed actress Clara Bow.

Despite all of this, she was also paranoid and easily intimidated, especially when Chloe overpowered her at the end of Golden Girl, which led to her ultimate demise.

Skills and abilities
Even at a young age, Marjorie displayed a talent for the manipulation of others, being able to manipulate her own father into having Louise stay with them during Christmas in 1915 and gained the trust of all the servants in Dixon Mansion, apart from Pearl Adams, who was the head housekeeper at the time. She also surrounded herself with a group of friends who would later become mob bosses, gamblers, and even bootleggers, though Marjorie felt no affection for any of them. James McKay noted that Marjorie also used blackmail to get people to do her bidding. Even when her physical was severely weakened with time, Marjorie was able to possess an anonymous female driver and plow the woman's car into Marie's Lexus, which fatally killed her.

Besides her formidable skills and extensive ways to take advantage of people, Marjorie proved to be a consummate actor, being able to hide her true nature from everyone at Dixon Mansion except her sister, who was the only person she was truly afraid of. He was able to convince virtually all of the household staff and her instructors at Bridgeton that her facade of being a model student that rivaled her sister was her true personality and she was able to avoid detection of killing Walter and Emily in their home without tripping the alarm system.

Marjorie was not only a formidable enemy, but she also possessed an incredible intellect, as she was considered to be the most brilliant student ever to attend Bridgeton. Her intellect is evidenced by her strategic cunning attempt at using time travel to orchestrate a duel that was well-thought out and highly destructive.

Possessions

 * Silver cigarette case: When Marjorie made her grand entrance into the library, she took a moment to pull out a single Pall Mall cigarette. The case had a peacock feather that was delicately etched into the body of the case and it had a slight tarnish to it.
 * Pearl Tassel Necklace: Marjorie was given this necklace by Louise for her seventeenth birthday. She wore it constantly and never took it off.
 * M1917 revolver: She used this gun to kill Walter and Emily on the night of Chloe's eighteenth birthday, during which she wore evening gloves that went up to her elbow. The gun was tucked in the garter under her dress skirt. was tucked in her garter under her dress skirt.

Relationships
Marjorie had very few lasting relationships in her life after her sister died, partially because people either took advantage of her or they ended up blaming her for things that weren't even Marjorie's fault. After she was inducted into the world of the mafia, she steadily gained more relationships as she had built many connections with not only other mobsters, but also gamblers as well. However, despite all of this, she still admitted that the only person she had a strong relationship with was her sister, Louise.

Appearances

 * The Girl Who Came Home  (Mentioned only)
 * Golden Girl  (First appearance)
 * The Timekeeper Saga Official Companion Guide  (Mentioned only)

Etymology

 * Marjorie is a name with Scottish origins and means "pearl". It is also a diminutive of the name Margaret and is a variant of the name Margery.
 * Claire is the French form of Clara, which itself is the feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous".
 * Dixon: is a Northern English surname. It is a patronymic from the name Dick, which is a pet form of the name Richard.

Trivia

 * Although Marjorie and Louise are five months apart, they are five years older than each other. Christine Lange has said this was to show the difference in maturity between the two sisters as Louise is portrayed as the older and wiser sister whereas Marjorie is younger, foolish, and naive.
 * In her family portrait, Marjorie is the only one to wear her hair down before she decided to cut it off. She also chose to sit on a settee couch, which makes her picture in the family album very unique.
 * As a child, Marjorie would get herself dirty playing outside. Whenever she did, she would track so much dirt into the house that her parents had to make her travel through the back entrance just to go inside.
 * Her name shares the same meaning as the name Margaret, though the origins of both names are vastly different.
 * In Golden Girl, Marjorie is listed as the novel's only main antagonist.
 * She was the second Dixon family heiress to attend Bridgeton Preparatory School whereas her older sister, Louise, was the first.
 * Marjorie's easily-provoked temper is later revealed to be her tragic flaw that ultimately leads to her demise.
 * In the Timekeeper Saga Official Companion Guide, Christine Lange reveals that Marjorie's character inspirations came from Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter, President Alma Coin from Mockingjay, and Lorena Krasiki from the HBO Series True Blood.
 * Marjorie eats all kinds of dishes over the course of Golden Girl; but her favorite dish to eat is a plate of filet mignon with a side of buttered asparagus and a crystal goblet of Moët.
 * She frequents the Four Queens at least three times a week, always coming after eight o'clock at night.
 * Though she never gave any clues for Chloe, Jack, or James to help them with their investigation, she almost always had someone following them individually or when they traveled together as a group over the course of their investigation.
 * She was very fashionable when she attended Bridgeton Preparatory School, often wearing puffy berets that were accessorized with a large silk flower.
 * Although Marjorie does not necessarily have a favorite color, Christine Lange thinks it's probably a deep emerald green as that is the color that Marjorie wears the most with a second being plum purple.
 * Marjorie is right handed like Chloe.