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Rookie Police Officer Dyson encountered the Punisher after he had taken down a highly sought criminal. Castle convinced Dyson to let him go, in exchange for taking credit for stopping the felon. As a result of this bust, Dyson was soon promoted to detective, though he was assigned a desk job in the bowels of midtown south. The raise allowed him to buy his family a small house up in Riverdale. After a year, Dyson was assigned to the major crimes unit, and things went very well initially. After about six months, when he learned that his squad was taking payments to mobsters involved with the construction union. Uncertain of what to do, Dyson contacted the Punisher for advice. Castle convinced him to give him the goods on the mobsters and to inform Internal Affairs about the corruption. Castle took out the mobsters, and Dyson was promoted to homicide, though he was hated by every cop in the department for what they saw as a betrayal. However, Castle had underestimated the depths of the construction racket, and some of its highest members took revenge on Dyson, planting on his doorstep a pound of C-4 buried inside a keg of roofing nails. His family was killed, and Dyson was badly injured. He recovered, but was highly despondent and remained in a wheelchair and refused to participate in physical therapy. Castle called to offer his condolences, and to tell Dyson that he had taken out the scum who had killed his family. Rather than pleasing Dyson, this information infuriated him, reminding him that he would never have gotten into this mess if he'd never met or listened to Castle. Inspired by his anger at Castle and his desire for revenge, Dyson rehabilitated himself, taking on the identity of Payback.