Albert Rackham was a corrupt security guard at Seagate Prison who used his position to force prisoners to fight and streamed the content online for his profit. When Rackham recruited Carl Lucas into this scheme, he eventually decided Lucas might expose him so he hired another inmate named Shades to kill him. When Rackham discovered that Doctor Noah Burstein was experimenting on Lucas however, he tried to sabotage to experiment, causing an explosion which killed him and left Lucas with superpowers.