 Upon Victor's initiation of a background check on Brad, it was discovered in a retconned storyline after almost 20 years of being on the show that Brad was not who he had initially claimed to be.Brad's real name was George Kaplan, and he assumed the identity of a friend who died in an accident in order to hide from the people who had killed his family.A 2006 story arc involved Brad's past catching up with him, as his mother, Rebecca Kaplan, had to help find an artifact that was stolen from its rightful owners by the Nazis who had put Rebecca to work in a concentration camp cataloging stolen art.