Nick Kang

Nicholas "Nick" Kang Wilson is the main protagonist of the 2003 video game, True Crime: Streets of LA, and is Marcus Reed's predecessor.
He was voiced by .
==Biography==
===Background===
Nicholas Wilson was born and raised in Los Angeles, California by Henry Wilson and an unnamed mother, who died while Nick was young. When Nick was a teenager, his father had disappeared after being involved in a drug scandal. Nick and his brother, Cary were sent to live with their mother's relatives in Hong Kong.
Because Nick and Cary were half-Chinese, they were harassed a lot. Nick then changed his surname from Wilson to Kang. After reaching adulthood, Nick and Cary returned to Los Angeles. Nick wanted to become a cop like his father, while Cary wanted to open a dojo. Nick worked as a homicide detective for the LAPD, but was later suspended due to incidents involving brutality, property damage, and refusal to follow orders.
===True Crime===
In 2003, Nick was taken off suspension and placed in the LAPD's Elite Operations Division (EOD). His first case was to investigate Triad bombings in LA. He is also partnered up with Rosie Velasco, even though he prefers to work alone. While chatting with Rosie at a Chinese bistro, Nick witnesses the owner getting harassed by a Triad member. After fighting him in the bistro and wounding him outside, Nick arrested the Triad gangster. Nick later tracked down the thug's accomplice, who told him that he was hired by Jimmy Fu. After sneaking into Fu's warehouse, Nick managed to corner Fu before they were interrupted by a sniper. However, Nick manages to kill the assailant before arresting Fu.
After interrogation, Fu reveals that he was hired by Big Chong, enforcer of Triad leader Ancient Wu. After Nick had enough information, he followed Chong's limo to Cyprus Holdings, a bank with connections to the Russian Mafia. However, he was then discovered and chased down by Russian mobsters. After escaping, Nick contacted Rosie who tells him that Big Chong's limo was at the Krym Spa in Hollywood. After sneaking through the spa and fighting more mobsters, he discovers Chong speaking to someone named Rocky. After revealing himself, a shootout ensues where Nick kills more Russian mobsters along with Chong.
===Good Path===
Upon returning to the precinct, Kang meets FBI Agent Masterson, who criticises Nick for ruining the FBI's surveillance at the spa. Nick then drives to an auto shop to interrogate an arms dealer named Francis who was working for the Russian Mob. Upon arrival, Nick fights off Francis' goons before catching the arms dealer in a car chase and arresting him. After taking him back to the precinct, Francis tells Nick to check out the Gulag club in Hollywood. Upon arriving at the club, Nick sees a policeman working for the Russian Mob and sneaks in through the back. After engaging in a shootout with Rocky's goons, Nick confronts Rocky himself in his office. The Russian Mob boss shows Nick a perfect counterfeit dollar bill, but Nick soon learns that Cary was in trouble. Upon arriving at his brother's dojo, Nick fights a group of vandals who reveal that Cary was kidnapped by the Triads.
Nick sees the cop from the Gulag and decides to follow him until he arrives at a house on Holt Ave. After entering the house and getting into a fight with some bums, Nick goes back outside and to find the cop's car gone before finding a note to meet at Wally's Diner. Nick meets the cop, who reveals himself to be Don Rafferty, a former partner of Nick's father, who tells Nick that Wu's Triad are holding Cary at the Peking Duck in Chinatown. Upon arrival, Nick fights and shoots his way through many triads and rescues Cary before both brothers get chased by more triads.
After escaping from the triads with Cary, Nick returns to the precinct to be chastised by Masterson for Rocky's escape. Nick then drives at the Pagoda Restaurant before sneaking his way into the kitchen and getting into a fight with some cooks and a demon. After shooting his way through more demons in the underground tunnels, Nick confronts Ancient Wu in his domain. After being forced to shoot more of the triad leader's demons and fight his female concubines, Ancient Wu reveals that the KGB sent one of their agents to Los Angeles before allowing Nick to shoot a dragon.
After escaping, Nick learns from Rosie that Rocky's real name is Rasputin Kuznetsov, a former KGB agent who went AWOL. The call is then interrupted by Masterson, who fires Nick from the case. Nick, still adamant about stepping down, confronts Rafferty at a bar, but gets into a fight with the bartender. Nick then follows Rafferty to Wiltshire Blvd, where he is picked up by a woman. But Nick is then forced to flee the FBI when they try to bring him in. A little later, Nick follows Rafferty and the woman to a warehouse. Nick then sneaks his way through the warehouse until he finds Rocky speaking with Rafferty regarding Nick. Nick, angered over the truth about his father, blows his cover, resulting in a shootout with Rocky's goons.
After the gunfight, Nick interrogates a surviving mobster who leads him to Jill, Rocky's supposedly abused girlfriend and the woman that was driving Rafferty around earlier. Nick locates Jill and follows her to Wally's Diner before the woman tells Nick that Rocky is returning at the Gulag. Nick then leaves and drives over to the Gulag to deal with Rocky. However, this turns out to be a trap as Rocky's goons ambush Nick and try to kill him. After fighting all of them, one of the survivors tells Nick that Rocky is at Santa Monica Airport. However, as soon as he arrives, Nick is tranquilized by Jill before being taken into Hanger 6 and tied to a chair. Rocky then tells Nick the story of his father's demise and attempts to execute him, but Rafferty takes the bullet for Nick while he freed by Ancient Wu, allowing Nick to knock Rocky out with the chair. However, he soon comes under attack by a squad of East Asian commandos, but Nick shoots his way through them and escapes the hanger. He then chases Rocky, who was escaping in a jet plane and destroys it, killing the Russian Mob boss for good. As Nick revels in his victory, he is approached by North Korean General Han Yu Kim, who was the leader of the commandos Nick killed in the Hangar. After hearing Kim's story behind Rocky's operation, Nick and Kim engage in a final fight before Nick reigns victorious.
===Average Path===
Cary is killed during the chase and a vengeful Nick drives back to the Gulag to deal with Rocky, only to find the mob boss escaping in his limo. After chasing the limo through town, corners Rocky, but Rocky's bodyguard Misha covers his boss' escape and Nick is forced to fight him. After beating Misha, the bodyguard tells Nick that Rocky has gone to see Ancient Wu at Pagoda Restaurant before Nick snaps Misha's neck. Upon arriving at the restaurant and shooting his way through more of Wu's triad, Nick confronts Wu's spirit, who tells him to find Rocky at the airport. Nick arrives to find Rocky's goons and Rafferty loading counterfeit money into an armored truck before Nick steals it and takes Rafferty hostage before escaping the Russians.
After holding Rafferty in the same abandoned house, Rocky calls Nick on Rafferty's phone demanding the stolen truck. Nick tells Rafferty to return the truck while he sneaks into Rocky's mansion. After fighting a group of S&M performers, Rocky reveals that he has captured Rosie and tells Nick to bring the truck or he'll kill her. Nick gets the truck, but is forced to flee from Masterson and the FBI before delivering the truck to Chinatown. However, Nick gets engaged in a three-way fight between the Russian Mob and a group of East Asian commandos while Rocky hides in the truck. As Nick sees a strange figure on a rooftop, Rocky comes out of the truck before he and Nick engage in a final fight. Nick demands Rocky to tell him what happened to his father, but Rocky tries to stab the detective before being shot by Rosie. Nick and Rosie then leave the scene before the FBI arrive.
===Bad Path===
Upon returning to the precinct, Kang meets FBI Agent Masterson, who criticizes Kang's reputation. Kang also learns of a series of bank heists targeting Cyprus deposit boxes done by two women. Nick's first lead is a stripper named Gypsy at a strip club. When he asks about the job, he is forced to fight her along with her friends and the DJ. Nick learns from Gypsy that she was working as a driver for Lola Gees, who was a Hollywood TV star who was responsible for the heists. Nick meets Lola at The Spot, claiming that he's her new driver. While driving her, Lola reveals that her client goes by "The General". After escaping from the police, Nick explains to Rosie that the Russian Mafia were laundering money for this general, who hired Lola to get the money back. However, Lola discovers Nick's true identity and the two fight before Nick overpowers Lola and tries to arrest her. Lola is then shot dead by a sniper, forcing Nick to take him out.
Nick is then ordered by Parks to investigate the airport. Upon arrival, he finds Rocky and his goons dead in a hangar before chasing after a truck and killing the masked assassins. Nick is then ordered to report to a hostage situation at the First Equity bank in Downtown L.A.. Nick arrives at the scene and shoots his way through more commandos before making his way into the building. Finally, Nick arrives on the top floor and confronts General Kim. After a final fight on the helipad, General Kim falls off the building to his death before Masterson arrives, demanding to know where the general was. Nick simply replies that there was more to this before walking away.
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