According to the suspicious Warlock in his command-center basement, the former NSA cyber-criminal Thomas Gabriel demonstrated his expert hacking power to the Joint Chiefs of Staff four years earlier by shutting down NORAD with a laptop computer, but since then, "he just fell off the grid" after being fired and smeared.[The shot of the changing window, seen both at night and the next morning, was deliberately filmed to avoid the obvious - and the censors." Shreck then convinced Cobblepot to run for Mayor (while threatening to recall the current mayor) and promised to fulfill the half-human""s destiny that was carelessly discarded by his parents.Nora""s late husband George (and James"" son) had died under McCloud""s WWII command during the battle of San Pietro in Italy.