The Illuminati, or the Freemasons, Jews, more recently things like the Bilderberg Group, the Skull and Bones Society, and various other secret societies.
As Hector and the Quagmires drift away, the Quagmires drop their notebooks that contain notes on Count Olaf and the secrets of a secret society called the VFD.
And I think if people think of that secret society as a cop-out, which I would have even a year ago, I mean, in drama, in fiction, you need to particularize and localize what you're fighting against.
A band of showily dressed girls and dapper young men wearing badges of secret societies, with new straw hats tilted far back on their square-clipped hair, had invaded the balcony and were loudly clamouring for a table.
And we could spend hours, if not weeks, discussing all the different sects and cults and secret societies and the Illuminati and the Masons and the Jesuits and the Vatican and you name it, right?
Well, I think it was, it's a, I think a lot of it was this strange commentary on, I don't know, it was some secret club, secret society you could be part of.