Vulcan Simmons was a criminal who ran the drug trade in Washington Heights at least twelve years prior to "Knockdown". Simmons had multiple charges on his record, but he had regularly managed to get off them, having spent the last few years without any convictions after becoming smart enough to avoid attracting attention to himself. In "In the Belly of the Beast", Vulcan Simmons returns as the head of a powerful new drug cartel that is funneling money into Future Forward, a superPAC connected to Senator Bracken.