Gordon John Brandel

Gordon John Brandel was a man who was the ex-boyfriend of Roberta Deeks and the estranged father of LAPD Detective-turned-NCIS Investigator Marty Deeks. 
==Biography==
===Pre-Series===
At some point, he began dating Roberta Deeks and they had a son they named Martin Atticus Deeks in 1979. 
Brandel was an alcoholic who frequently abused his girlfriend and son, thus making Marty's childhood an unhappy one. 
One day, Brandel became so drunk that he started wielding a shotgun at Deeks and his mother. 
In response, an eleven-year-old Deeks shot Brandel non-fatally with Brandel later ending up in Folsom State Prison. He was paroled and released on February first, 1996 after serving five years of a seven-year sentence. Deeks did not maintain contact with his father after he went to prison. 
After Deeks was shot, Henrietta Lange inquired into his father's whereabouts in an attempt to track down his next of kin, only to find that Brandel had died in a car accident in 1998. 
===NCIS: Los Angeles Season 2===
===NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13===
=== Contradictions ===
In the season 2 premiere episode, Human Traffic Deeks tells Kensi that his father was alive six years prior as Brandel had told his son during Thanksgiving that he hated him, and even fired a shotgun at Deeks. This directly contradicts the events of the episode Personal, which occurred later in the same season, where it's discovered that Brandel was killed in a car accident in 1998 and thus couldn't have been alive in 2004. 
The episode Personal is itself contradicted in season 7's Citadel, where Deeks reveals that he is very close to his mother. Which has then obviously been retconned so they could include Roberta. 
==Goofs==
*In Personal, the file Hetty gives Nell shows that Brandel was born on March 16, 1969. This would have made him ten years old in 1979 when his son was born and is an obvious mistake. 
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