Skates once lived in a small, beat-up apartment block with his mother and step-dad Murphy. At some point in his childhood, Skates was sent to prison for an unknown length of time after making threats and was kept there for a further 30 days for bad behaviour. On his release, he returned to discover that his policeman stepdad had been murdered and his mother assaulted, all for the pursuit of a disk containing names of corrupt officers.