

When Michael refuses, he is held in Cell 25 and is tortured for almost a month. As a test of his loyalty, Hatch forces him to kill Wade or else he'll electrocute his mother. With no other choice, Michael feigns loyalty.
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Hatch gives Michael a few days for him to decide if he should serve him, with the promise that he would free his mother and his friends. When Michael, Austin, Jack, and Wade arrive at Elgen Academy to rescue Taylor and Mrs. When she refused to use her powers to harm an innocent civilian, he imprisons her with Ian, McKenna, and Abigail, who have also rebelled against Hatch. Despite kidnapping Taylor, he almost convinces her that he's a good person by reuniting her with her long-lost twin sister and bribing her with expensive gifts. He gets Nichelle and Zeus to kidnap Taylor and Michael's mother but failed to get Michael. He has learned that the last two Glows, Michael, and Taylor, live in Meridian, Idaho, after his internet spiders scan the Pasadena General Hospital birth records. He continuously promises to find the "last two".

Hatch is first seen on the phone to the Elgen chairman (Schema). He saw their potential for world domination, and proposed to the board that they should build power plants using their newly bioengineered rats. When he was ordered to gather the children that survived, he learned that they developed electricity-based powers. He was the CEO of the Elgen company until the MEI experiment malfunctioned and killed several newborn babies, causing him to be demoted. He was once friends and colleagues with Carl Vey, Michael's father. In Fall of Hades, it is revealed that Hatch had graduated from MIT and was hired by the Elgen Corporation around when Briton Hill, the CEO at the time, passed away. Little is known about Hatch's early life. He is also paranoid, as he has his guards and Glows tracked with RFIDS (radio-frequency identification), is usually surrounded by bodyguards, and it is implied that he became the person that he is now because of his paranoia of the Glows. In the final book, his cowardliness is shown when Michael returns while Hatch is in the Starxource plant, he runs into a different room, ordering his guards to take care of Michael, and when finally grounded and cornered, he begs Michael for mercy. Hatch is, at heart, shown to be a coward, disregarding the well-being of others and concentrating on saving his own life.

His favorite method of execution is sending them to the Bowl, which involves getting devoured by electric lab rats.

When threats and bribery don't work, he either tortures Glows or kill them. He also has an intolerance of failure and insubordination that reaches violent levels. He then forced Michael to electrocute his friend Wade to death in exchange for seeing his mother again. One of his Glows, Tanner, was forced into using his powers to take down airborne planes after Hatch held his brother captive. When manipulation does not work, he threatens a Glow's loved ones. This is demonstrated in the first book when he forced Taylor to use her powers disorient a motocross rider while he's doing a dangerous stunt. He then guilt trips them into giving in to his demands, regardless of how ethical they are or not. He buys a Glow's loyalty by bribing them with expensive gifts. Hatch is shown to be a very manipulative man.
