Lee DeMarco was the owner of the Tropicana, a casino in Las Vegas, and a former second-rate magician. When Lorne came to Las Vegas to try and make it as a singer, DeMarco took him on as an act- apparently with most of his staff assuming that Lorne's demonic appearance was due to him wearing a costume- only to force Lorne to identify those members of his audiences who had prominent futures- such as a young woman who would go on to own a successful chain of restaurants- so that he could use a mystical device of some sort to 'steal' their destinies and sell them to others, their bodies subsequently becoming virtually lifeless 'zombies' capable of doing nothing more than endlessly playing rigged slot machines. Lorne had refused him many times before doing so, only for Lee to shoot an innocent