Scott reveals more of his motivations after the player gains access to the Director's Office, after which point Scott tasks John with surviving until 3AM. Scott begins by waking John up and then cutting the power. Scott leads John around the building in an attempt to force him to remember and confront the actions that resulted in Scott's family's demise. This was done while John was sleeping in his office due to him being overworked. Scott created the four animatronics encountered in game, The Wolf, The Cat, The Owl and The Bear, and traps John inside the police department with him in a murder attempt. After recovering he refused to work with Aurora Police Department or the company who manufactured the animatronics, instead he sought revenge against John as he blames him for the death of his family. Scott himself spent two months in a coma, during which time John repeatedly attempted to contact Scott by breaking into the hospital in which Scott was being held. The gunman managed to escape, leaving John will psychological wounds that resulted in him developing amnesia and forgetting all events around the attack. John Bishop was sent to deal with the situation as his first call, however Scott's wife Emma and their child were killed in the confrontation and Scott himself was injured.
On a currently unknown date a serial killer broke into Scott's house and threatened him, Emma and their child. Scott was also approached by other companies looking to use his technology, however he could not agree to this due to the contract he had with the restaurant.
Scott approached the owner of the new restaurant and signed a deal which would allow Scott's technology to be used in the new animatronics so that they could be fully mobile. In December Scott attempted to revisit the family restaurant with Emma only to find that the restaurant had been closed due to an incident presumed to be a springlock failure, and also because an unnamed competitor had driven it out of business. In October 1985, during a Halloween competition, Scott drew up the first sketches of what would eventually become his own original animatronics, based off the design of the animatronics at the family diner. Scott attended university from 1981-1985 in which he met his spouse Emma and they bonded over their love of the animatronics at the family restaurant. This spurred Scott's interest in engineering and prompted his original design of a fully mobile animatronic. The animatronics were stationary on their stage and children were not permitted to approach the robots. He frequented an unknown pizza restaurant as a child in 1977 which used animatronics as performers, which he remembers fondly. Most of Scott's backstory is revealed through the collectible Notes found throughout Aurora Police Department. The newspaper clipping found in the Director's Office Story It can therefore be inferred that he is very intelligent and capable as an engineer. He worked for an unnamed company which specialized in robotics and animatronics until an accident which resulted in the death of his wife and child. Scott is never seen on screen, however it can be determined from the in-game phone calls that he is a middle-aged male with an American accent.