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Instead, Six is presented as an anti-hero who is primarily driven by concerns for specific people in his life, not any personal doubts about the morality of his previous life as a government-backed assassin. Where Bourne's journey sees him getting back in touch with his humanity and reckoning with the morality of his previous actions, "The Gray Man" skirts around this (to its detriment). Yes, as much as Six is like Jason Bourne if he enjoyed cracking one-liners, he's also a lot like Dominic Toretto in that he's all about family. Six even saves Claire's life when her pacemaker briefly stops working, in the process becoming as much a surrogate father to her as Fitzroy is. The latter is outgoing, loves to listen to Mark Lindsay's 1970 single "Silver Bird," and tells off Six for chewing gum in the house, so of course it's not long before her charms start to win him over. In the past, Six was called upon to guard Claire while Fitzroy was away. Once again, the movie fills us in on Claire and Six's relationship through a flashback. He's the bad son to Six's good son, taking Fitzroy's niece Claire (Julia Butters) hostage in order to capture and torture Fitzroy for information on Six's location.

Lloyd is the embodiment of what Six might've become, had he absorbed his father's toxic life-lessons and allowed his brother to die. To hunt Six down, Carmichael hires Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a gleefully cruel, trash-stached former CIA agent turned mercenary who was somehow deemed too unscrupulous to work for the agency. When his mission in the present goes wrong, Six doesn't hesitate to contact a now-retired Fitzroy for help. He chose the former, an act that cemented his - you know what's coming - gray attitude to morality. At one point, Six was faced with the choice of either killing his father or allowing him to kill his sibling. As we later come to learn, though, Six's new stern-but-fair father-figure is a major upgrade from his biological father (Shea Whigham), an abusive man who tried to toughen up Six and his brother by making them burn themselves or holding their heads under-water in the bathtub, threatening to drown them. Six is quick to accept this deal, his attachment to Fitzroy a bit of a puzzle at first.