Peter is a high school dropout, misfit, and nomad, who hasn't kept a job longer than two months. He's been a wild land fireman, a floor sweeper at a meat packing plant in Tennessee, a cargo pilot, and briefly a college chemistry professor -- a position he gained by falsifying a degree from MIT. Despite this, he managed to have papers published before he was exposed as a fraud. He was setting-up a business deal in Baghdad, Iraq when he was recruited by Olivia Dunham to gain access to his father. He has been arrested seven times.