Sommers was the father of Chloe Harper, a girl whose ex-boyfriend found information on her through her profile on Lifetrace. Sommers requested that Chloe's information be taken down, but due to Lifetrace's incompetence, Chloe's boyfriend found her and killed her. Blaming Lifetrace CEO Wayne Kruger for her death, Sommers decided to find a way to exact revenge on Kruger. He was anonymously delivered a package containing information on a plan to kill Kruger, the sender of which, unknown to him at the time, was Peter Collier.