 The billionaire decides that he has to control Richards' life so he can access his life-saving blood.When Richards rejects all of Braddock's offers to remain with him, the billionaire has him imprisoned, but he ultimately escapes.Richards tells his fiancée Sylvia Cartwright that they can never marry because she would also be imprisoned by Braddock (in the episode "Sylvia" Richards puts himself in danger to visit Cartwright at her wedding to another man).