"I shouldn't be enjoying myself right now. Believe me, I really wish I didn't have to be here, now. But I gotta tell you, right now, I'm feeling like a little kid in a toy store again. And boy, you better believe me when I say, when I was a kid, I wasn't very nice."

NATE is a drifter. A former soldier and interrogator, honorably discharged from Iraq, and good enough at his job to have been tapped for further governmental work. Has a younger sister. Speaks with a southern drawl.

Generally soft-spoken and well-mannered, until given reason not to be. Lacks any real scruples when it comes to collateral damage, though not utterly without principles.

(When someone he cares about goes missing, he methodically tracks down and kills the man responsible, as well as his accomplices. He tortures each of them for information as well as for what they've done, and confesses to enjoying the process despite the circumstances.)

That said, he is not incapable of forming connections with others, and is fiercely loyal and protective if/when it happens.