He is the grandson of Inverset founder Kenneth St. Pierre, and met Helen Magnus when he was a teenager. Trying to create a balistics protection suit using telepathic bacteria, he created the abnormal living suit later found by Walter. St. Pierre had already sold the suit to the Russion mafia, which was why he was desperate to get the suit back or at least destroy it with a self-designed extreme UV energy weapon. After stealing it from the Old City Sanctuary, he lost it when it connected itself with Kate Freelander and then Walter again. Virgil then mocked Walter as a "spineless insurance adjuster", causing Walter to beat him and his thugs up and take their weapons. Magnus then informed Virgil that she had contacted the head of the Russian mob gang he sold the suit to, and he allowed her to