[No, they're not the same. And Nathan hopes so much that they never will be. Just as he hope that . . . none of them from that life become the same, really. Did a single good person exist there?]

I recognized what you look like from Echoes. [Just a brief acknowledgment of why he is so sure.] The place you are talking about with Lazarus . . . my Other grew up there as well, at the same time yours did.

[It's sparse information, but there is so much Nathan wishes not to get into, especially on a first meeting. Rivals competing for the same thing, yours thought mine was the favourite, hated him so much he nearly killed him . . .]