Solomon was an accountant involved in a housing development project with John Kramer and Art Blank before the events that would turn John into Jigsaw. He was later responsible for using his accountancy role to hide the illegal money made by the drug cartel consisting of Henry Jacobs, Joseph Poltzer, Carla Song and Sarah Blalok, thus bringing him to Jigsaw's attention. When Michael Tapp meets him, Solomon is trapped in a mobile cage on a track filled with broken glass. Solomon and Michael must push their cages to the end of their tracks to free themselves. Solomon takes a head start and beats Michael, though the winner was supposed to push their cage to the end second, as Jigsaw quotes the tortoise and the hare, meaning that Solomon actually failed. Solomon is later found chained to a suspe