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For the ferret of the same name, see TBA.

He's intuitive, he's scattershot. He leaps.
 
Artie, "Pilot"

Peter "Pete" Lattimer, was an agent of the United States Secret Service, who was assigned to Warehouse 13 in Univille, South Dakota.

He is the professional and romantic partner of Myka Bering.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Pete

Pete was born November 5th[2], 1969[3] in North Canton, Ohio.[4] He is the son of late firefighter Daniel Lattimer and Warehouse Regent Jane Lattimer, and younger brother to Jeannie Lattimer, who is deaf and taught him how to read lips.[5] He frequently references the fact that as a child he was bullied by Ralph Brunsky, who said he smelled like tuna fish.[6] When Pete was young, he and his father would go camping and identify constellations[7][8] and create star maps and charts.[9] He took piano lessons and became surprisingly good, owing to his crush on his piano teacher.[10]

When he was eight, his father took him to the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City to watch Daniel's favorite musician Eric Marsden perform.[10] He was a Boy Scout for a time, but was kicked out when he was ten for allegedly starting a fire (which he claims he didn't start).[11]

TBA[12]

At the age of twelve, Pete experienced a vibe that told him that he would never see his father again. He said nothing to his father, because he was ashamed of the fear this feeling invoked. That night, Pete's father died while rescuing children from a fire, and since then Pete has sworn never to ignore his vibes again.[7] After his father died, he frequently tried to make his mother laugh to make her feel better,[12] and his sister gave him a collection of comic books, thinking they would serve as a distraction for him; he became an avid reader of them, and his favorite comic series and superhero is The Iron Shadow.[13]

When he was thirteen or fourteen (in 8th grade of middle school), he took a shop class.[14]

He claims to have been a player of Little League Baseball (which accepts players from ages 4-18),[15] and to have been nicknamed "Dr. K" for his strong arm and good aim[16] sometime by 1984 or later, when he would have been fifteen.[17]

While in high school, he claims he was called "Gene Simmons" for his skillful (or excessive) use of tongue when kissing.[18] He may have wrestled in high school before doing so in college.[19]

He once served as a Marine, a fact that is frequently referenced throughout the series.[20] He served the fifth battalion, seventh Marines, during "the quieter years" of Afghanistan.[21] At some point he took the "transmitter course" at "Rowley/Raleigh".[20] He also wrestled in college,[22] which he attended for six years,[23] and his frequently-worn "North Canton Wrestling" shirt is his favorite.[16]

Pete was married to Amanda Martin, a fellow Marine. They were married in a "Love Me Tender" chapel in Las Vegas. However, due to the differences between Miranda's mature and Pete's immature personalities, they realized their relationship was not working and eventually divorced. After their divorce, Pete kept Amanda's grandfather's ring one of them had worn while married.[11]

At some point, before or after marrying and divorcing Amanda, Pete dated an ex-nun named Sister Mary Geraldine, who he thought was "surprisingly hot".[24]

Starting at an unknown point in his life, Pete became an alcoholic. After being so for around twelve years,[25] he drove drunk with a friend named Dave and hit a tree; Pete walked away from the crash unharmed, but Dave was thrown through the windshield and broke both of his leg. After this, he turned sober, and would remain so for the rest of his life.[26]

Assignment to Warehouse 13[]

Bloodstone

The bloodstone.

Agent Lattimer designed the protocol used by Agent Myka Bering at the museum the night of the Blood Stone incident. It was during this presidential detail where he first encountered Artie after seeing the Bloodstone "bleeding." 'Feeling' that the Bloodstone needed to be removed, he grabbed the rock and carried it away from the party. Lattimer dropped the artifact, which Artie grabbed and neutralized, right before disappearing and leaving Lattimer with a near-impossible story to explain to his superiors. 

The night of the incident during his presidential detail, Lattimer was visited by Mrs. Frederic at his home. She handed him a set of orders—a new assignment. He was instructed to go to specific coordinates in South Dakota where he was reunited with Agent Myka Bering, and where they both met Artie officially, as well as being introduced to the Warehouse. Despite Myka's obvious skeptic attitude, Pete seemed to be rather excited by the entire event. Lattimer and Bering were given rooms at Leena's Bed and Breakfast.

Lattimer's first case with Agent Bering was to look into a case involving unexpected violence in Seever City, Iowa. Lattimer began to open up about his past to Bering, and put his intuition to great use, saving Myka from a flying steel table that a 'whammied' suspect indirectly threw at them. Throughout the assignments they were sent on, Myka and Pete had become close friends and greatly depended on one another.

In Season 2, after Pete's theory of the Elephant Walking Stick being behind a series of robberies in the Chicago area, he came in contact with a Telegraph from Telegraph Island, Oman. He then suffered from mass hysteria and visions caused by this artifact, which had caused Pete to almost kill Regent Benedict Valda. He recovered from the telegraph after neurally being reset by Artie using a Tesla gun in conjunction with a car front window. Much to Pete's annoyance, he was told to take some time off from artifact hunting, during which he helped hook Artie and Dr. Vanessa together. 

In Season 3, episode 8 (The 40th Floor), Pete learned that his mother, Jane Lattimer, is actually one of the Regents. He had gone to great lengths to study Walter Sykes, in the Pete Cave, to locate him and to protect his mother and his friends from Sykes and his associates.

In the second half of Season 4, in the aftermath of Leena's death, Pete is, perhaps atypically, the member of the team who questions out loud whether he, and the others, can forgive Artie for what has happened.

Throughout Season 5, he discovers how much he really loves Myka, with the help of Steve Jinks.

Relationships[]

Myka Bering[]

Pete & Myka didn't originally get along when they first met during the incident with the Aztec Blood Stone. Myka even named the ferret she got from Howard Carter's Coffee Pot after him because of some similarities between the two. Though Pete continued to annoy her, they both proved to be very valuable to one another. Even when they solved & avenged Sam's murder. The two of them were even terrified when they thought they'd slept together after waking up in bed naked next to each other. But over time, they developed a mutual love for one another.

Artie Nielsen[]

Claudia Donovan[]

Pete acts like a big brother to Claudia. Even telling her that he, Myka & Artie were her family in the alternate timeline caused by him getting whammied by Philip Van Doren Stern's Upholstery Brush.

Irene Frederic[]

Irene creeps & scares the hell out of Pete. But he greatly respects her.

Steve Jinks[]

Steve was assigned to be Pete's partner after Myka left. Despite a rough start, the two men become friendly with one another, trusting that they each had the others back. When Pete was having trouble determining if his feelings for Myka were true, he asked Steve. Steve, the human lie detector, informed his friends feelings were true.

Leena[]

Pete and Leena were very good friends. In the first few episodes of the series Pete appeared to have a crush on her. Over the course of the series, Pete trusted Leena's aura reading abilities when it came to cases and placing artifacts in the Warehouse. When Leena died, Pete was the only one that could see her ghost. Whether this was because of his close friendship to her or his rare aura along with his vibes was never made clear.

Skills[]

  • Lip Reading: Pete's older deaf sister taught him to read lips. It's come in handy in situations like when he & Myka tried to figure out who kidnapped Artie.
  • Vibes: Ever since he was a kid, Pete gets vibes when something bad is about to happen. After ignoring the one about never seeing his dad alive again, he decided to never ignore them again.

Personality[]

Pete lattimer profile

Profile

Pete loves cookies[27] and is frequently seen eating them. He apparently loves cookies so much that at one point he had set his ringtone to "C is for Cookie" from Sesame Street. He is also a recovering alcoholic of eight years (in season one).[28] Leena, proprietor of the bed and breakfast where he stays while in South Dakota, claims that Pete's aura is "in-tune," a rare thing.[27] Pete's penmanship is atrocious as far as Myka is concerned.[27] Pete loves comic books, stating that his sister introduced them to him after his father's death to help him deal with it.[13]This comic book knowledge occasionally fills in a key gap in the picture constructed by Myka's more highbrow literary tastes. He is an almost literal omnivore, with a tendency to consume any food left unattended, although he also appears to possess the metabolism of an eight year-old, since he never seemingly puts on weight.

Having discovered the Tesla, he considers his standard Secret Service Sig Sauer P229 "boring" and prefers using the Tesla.[29] He will sometimes play with items he is not supposed to and ends up causing trouble for the whole team.

Pete is a jokester and tries to get everyone to laugh with his various jokes, but they rarely make anybody laugh who is in the show.

Presumably for narrative reasons, Pete's vibes vary hugely in specificity and occurrence. In early episodes, they functioned almost as a 'spidey-sense', for example with him telling Myka (in 'Resonance') to put her earplugs back in before the sound-using bad guys attacked again. As of season four, Pete seems to function more often on a generalized instinct, rather than a clearly-labeled 'vibe'.

Pete has an extremely open and liberal approach to sex and sexuality, not only pursuing many women himself, but seeming entirely comfortable with Steve's homosexuality. Without actively initiating anything, Pete remarks frequently that he is Steve's type, and when he first hears of Steve's preference strips off his shirt (joyously) since there is now someone around who will truly appreciate his great body. Pete's level of comfort with himself, along with his frequently demonstrated feminine side, is presumably at least partially responsible for his success in getting women into bed. He also shows zero prejudice concerning H.G.'s apparent range of lovers of both sexes, and his love for Myka comes across in words as well as deeds, although this is frequently leavened by boob jokes.


Trivia[]

  • The name "Peter", of Old Greek origin, means "rock; stone." This could be seen as a nod to his strength and toughness, both physically and emotionally.
  • The name "Lattimer", a variation of "Latimer" whose roots can be traced to Anglo-Norman-French origins, is an occupational name that means "a clerk or keeper of records in Latin", or "interpreter." This could be seen as a reference to Pete's job as a Warehouse agent to "collect the past".
  • In the script for the original version of "Pilot", Pete's name was Peter Strong.[30]
  • He has a tattoo of a great white shark on his right forearm.[31][32]
  • Pete is apparently a huge fan, bordering on obsessive, of Breaking Amish. [33]
  • Pete's password for the Secret Service database is "PETERULZ23".[23]
    • When he made that password, he thought it was weird 1-22 were already taken.
  • He claims he was called "Gene Simmons" in high school for his skillful (or excessive) use of tongue when kissing.[18]
  • He claims to have been a player of Little League Baseball (which accepts players from ages 4-18),[15] and to have been nicknamed "Dr. K" for his strong arm and good aim[16] sometime by 1984 or later, when he would have been fifteen.[17]
  • Pete claims to have "always loved piggy banks".[34]
  • Coincidentally, Pete's ex-wife (Amanda Martin) and Myka's ex-lover (Sam Martino) share nearly-identical surnames.

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2004133/?ref_=ttep_ep9
  2. See this image
  3. Although his DoS badge states he was born in 1981 and a Season 2 behind the scenes video claims Pete was in his late 20s, "Shadows" places the date of his father's death 30 years prior (as of 2011, this would be 1981). In "Pilot", Pete says his father died when he was 12 years old, placing his birthday in 1969. This is additionally supported by the show's tendency to retcon character ages to closer match that of their actors' in later seasons.
  4. Secret Santa
  5. Claudia
  6. Breakdown
  7. 7.0 7.1 Pilot
  8. Buried
  9. 3... 2... 1
  10. 10.0 10.1 Resonance
  11. 11.0 11.1 Queen For A Day
  12. 12.0 12.1 Shadows
  13. 13.0 13.1 Mild Mannered
  14. There's Always a Downside
  15. 15.0 15.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_Baseball
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 Grand Designs
  17. 17.0 17.1 His nickname, "Dr. K", is a reference to the same nickname given to baseball player Dwight Gooden. Dwight was only referred to by this nickname after 1984.
  18. 18.0 18.1 Around The Bend
  19. Pete is shown to wear multiple different "North Canton Wrestling" shirts, which is a reference to his actor Eddie McClintock's own wrestling career in both high school and college. While Pete only explicitly says he wrestled in college, his actor attended North Canton High School and a differently-named college in a different city, thus leaving it unclear if these shirts indeed reference North Canton High School, or a fictional college including North Canton in its name.
  20. 20.0 20.1 Beyond Our Control
  21. Second Chance
  22. For The Team
  23. 23.0 23.1 Parks and Rehabilitation
  24. Season One DVD, Magnetism deleted scene
  25. Man: "After the tequila fountain at the pool, it's all kind of fuzzy." Pete: "I remember that feeling. I was fuzzy for about twelve years." The Sky's the Limit
  26. What Matters Most
  27. 27.0 27.1 27.2 Pilot
  28. Magnetism
  29. Duped
  30. https://web.archive.org/web/20230203015312/https://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Warehouse_13_1x01_-_Pilot.pdf
  31. A Faire to Remember
  32. Cangku Shisi
  33. Savage Seduction
  34. Emily Lake
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