Turner

Turner is a mercenary. He finds himself stuck in a loop. He has no home and no family, having separated himself from his mother and brother long ago. Instead, he lives a transient lifestyle, going from job to job around the globe and living only at hotels. Turner has no permanency in his life and no real peace. He lives a violent life where death is an everyday occurrence, and he has no compunction against killing. However, he does feel guilt for the deaths that he causes, and he feels human sympathy for others. He wants to save Angie Mitchell, although he has no real reason to help her.

Turner compares himself to the squirrels that he used to hunt when he was a boy. The trick to hunting squirrels was to lie still on the ground so that the squirrels would forget there was danger. Then they...