
Phoenix attempts to kill him with one of his stolen handguns, but to his surprise is unable to. Raymond Cocteau who was the creator of the cryo-prison and founder of San Angeles. After a fierce fight between them, Phoenix flees and runs into Dr. While stealing weaponry from a museum (as all weapons were now banned and the last of them were displayed there), Phoenix is both surprised and annoyed that Spartan has come back, but immediately knows the reason why. Unable to deal with a violent psychopath like Phoenix, the SAPD decides to revive Spartan who was responsible for Phoenix's apprehension back in the 20th Century in hopes of capturing him again. During this time, he sees a programme on a computer screen, telling him he has a job to kill a man by the name of Edgar Friendly. He discovers this when he knows the password to release him from his cuffs, easily kills many workers at the cyro-prison, is familiar with futuristic technology and overpowers several SAPD officers. Phoenix was released from his confinement with a rehabilitation program that gave him astounding new skills and extra strength to help him adapt to the future. In 2032, 36 years later, society changed drastically, with San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles being merged in one large so-called utopia named San Angeles. But he framed Spartan for not caring about the hostages and as a result of Spartan too was wrongly accused of killing the civilians, and the two were frozen in a cryogenic prison, remaining there for years. Meanwhile, other cops have found the corpses of the hostages with Phoenix being found guilty of the murders and condemned. John Spartan interfered, he set alight tanks of C4 and after a brief fight with Spartan, he was captured and taken away before the building was blown to pieces.

In his last crime in 1996, he made over 30 bus passengers hostage for trespassing at his building, but when LAPD officer Sgt. He declared his own kingdom in South Central within Los Angeles, having all other street gangs, drug dealers and even some murderers under his control. Phoenix was a wanted criminal responsible for many crimes like theft, kidnapping, robbery, and murder.
