Writes Keck, "I got an advance tour of the cool sets of the fictional Palm City, including a magic shop and subterranean carnival, from the show's creator, Tom Wheeler. 'Like the Batman universe, some strange villains will crop up,' says Wheeler, a lifetime fan of Marvel comics and Harry Houdini. 'My goal is to create a really cool rogues' gallery.' He's on his way. In the fifth episode we'll see Scales' origin story, which flashes back to his being auctioned as a baby to a freak-show proprietor who kept him caged. 'That has an impact on his pathology and leads to trouble,' says Wheeler. The exec is currently conceptualizing another freakish foe for a February sweeps two-parter. 'He's called The Lich and has a problem keeping his skin from rotting, so he has the appearance of a corpse.'"