Gabriel Reyes

**Gabriel Reyes** was a character on FOX's *9-1-1: Lone Star*. He is the father of Carlos Reyes. He debuted in the fourth episode of the second season and is portrayed by guest star Benito Martinez.

## History

### Early Life

Gabriel and Andrea raised their son and two daughters in their family ranch, taking care of animals. Carlos came out to them when he was seventeen. They were shocked but still hugged him, told him they loved him and that's it. The next morning, they talked about the Astros bullpen, the new calf in their ranch but not about his coming out.

### Learning about Carlos and TK's Relationship

In "Friends With Benefits", she meets Carlos and TK when her and Gabriel are at the farmer market. They say hello to each other and Carlos introduces TK to them as his friend. They talk for a bit and Andrea leaves, accidentally calling TK "TJ".

Later, in "Bad Call", we learn that Gabriel and Andrea knew Carlos and TK were dating when they saw them at the farmer market.

In "Slow Burn", Andrea and Gabriel come by to Carlos and TK's place for dinner along with Owen. Andrea hugs TK when she sees him and waves TK's apology about running behind. She tells him that they're here early because Gabriel insisted on leaving early. Andrea apologizes to TK about calling him "TJ" at the farmer market and TK tells her that it was nothing and that it's an easy mistake. Gabriel tells him that it's a mistake Carlos should've corrected, and TK tells him that they had a talk about it. Carlos offers them drink and Andrea asks for a margarita before following TK to their seats, Carlos realizes that he forgot the limes and TK is quick to reassure him by calling Owen, so he can pick some. When he tells them the problem is solved, Carlos winks at him and Andrea and Gabriel are smiling at him. In "The Big Heat", Owen finally arrives two hours late, telling them that everywhere was stuck and that he couldn't find limes anywhere. He says hello to Andrea by kissing her cheek when she tells him that "they kiss in this family" and then he shakes Gabriel's hand. Once they're sitting, Owen tells Andrea and Gabriel that they have raised a wonderful son and Gabriel replies that they're very proud of him. Andrea tells him that TK is just as wonderful and that her and Gabriel couldn't be happier about TK and Carlos being together.

### Bank Robbers Case

In "Bad Call", Carlos lets go of a suspect who had just robbed a bank and who told Carlos and Mitchell that he had been forced to do it and that if they put him in the back of their patrol car, the actual robbers would explode the bomb stuck to him. Later that morning, Carlos is anxiously waiting in the interrogation room for the investigator when Gabriel comes in. Carlos first assumes that his Captain called Gabriel but Gabriel told him that it's actually the opposite. They sat down and Carlos asks him if the man is okay and that nobody got hurt. Carlos told him that the precinct think he got played but he assures his dad that the man looked terrified, Gabriel retorts that the man had just robbed a bank and was held at gunpoint, so of course he would look terrified. Carlos realizes that Gabriel agrees with the precinct and Gabriel answers that what he just told him he's a story he can work with and Carlos realizes that Gabriel is actually the investigator. Gabriel tells him that the incident involved an armed robbery, explosives and mayhem, which all fall under the Texas Rangers' juridiction. Gabriel offers Carlos to call for his union rep or a lawyer but Carlos refuses. Then, Gabriel starts to go over Carlos' statements. At the end of it, Gabriel starts to leave and tells Carlos that he shouldn't leave town until the investigation is over. Carlos stands up and tells him that he did what Gabriel was what always taught him and trusted his instincts, Gabriel answers that sometimes he needs to have the right instincts.

Later in the day, Gabriel called Carlos back to his station where the suspect of the robbery is sitting in the interrogation room. Gabriel tells Carlos that he walked into the APD on Guadalupe a few hours ago and picked two men from a line up of pictures as the men who forced him to rob the bank and put the bomb on him along with a description of a brown panel van they've been operating out of and who blew up their own apartment, one of them possibly being injured in the blast. Carlos asks him if that's all and when Gabriel is confused about what else there could be. Carlos told him that "how about he was right? and that his instincts were good", Gabriel replies that he can't comment on an ongoing investigation and Carlos realizes that he means the investigation "onto him" and that's all Carlos is to Gabriel, an ongoing investigation. Carlos tells him to let him know what his captain tells Gabriel to think of him.

After Carlos and Owen team up to find TK, Tommy and Nancy who have been kidnapped by the robbers, Carlos found out that they're most likely detained at the Sun & Salt - Charles' restaurant - and Owen tells Carlos that he has to call his father and call it in. Carlos do it and when Gabriel told him to stay put and that they'll come back with a team before hanging up. Carlos disobeys his orders and go saves the paramedics with Owen's help. After TK is loaded up in the ambulance, Gabriel joins Carlos who watches TK and tells him that he's proud of Carlos for trusting his gut and following his instincts. Then, he asks if Carlos is going into the ambulance with his boyfriend. Carlos is confused about how Gabriel knows about that and Gabriel tells him that he and Andrea knew about it since they saw them at the farmer market. Carlos tells Gabriel that he'll really like TK and Gabriel that he's sure he will because "his son got great instincts with people".

### Arson case

At dinner in "The Big Heat", TK remarks that Owen smells like campfire and Owen tells him that it's from when he saved the man, earlier in the week, because his organic shampoo didn't manage to get rid of all the smell. Gabriel said that he took Owen reporting the fire as an arson very seriously and that the Rangers have been looking into multiples suspicious fires during the year and that they unofficially think that it's a serial arsonist. Gabriel tells Owen and TK that he believes the arsonist is a firefighter because it would take someone with incredible skills to fly under the radar and that a serial arsonist is usually triggered by some sort of traumatic life event, someone who's been laid off, divorced or had a major illness around the new year. Owen asks him if he knows anyone who fit the profile, Gabriel says no but tells Owen to call if he ever has someone in mind.

Owen is arrested by Gabriel the next day after the police searched his house, for criminal trespass, reckless destruction of property, aggravated assault and arson. Owen is interrogated by Gabriel who tells him that his alibi sucked because he was two hours late for dinner. Gabriel tells him that there wasn't any footage of Owen going to buy limes in that store but there were footages of him buying accelerants, wire cutters, crimping tools and a bunch of others suspicious objects at a hardware store, a week ago and that they found a little arsonist workshop at his house with counterfeit circuit breakers that were used in the original warehouse arson. Owen asks him if the informant who gave him these evidence wouldn't happen to be Billy and then says that the reason, he had all of these at this house was because he was trying to figure out how the arsonist did it and that since the only person he told was Billy, he's telling everyone that Owen is the arsonist because he knows Owen will soon found out that he's guilty. Owen asks Gabriel how he can be the arsonist when he's the one who reported the arson in the first place and Gabriel answers that most arsonist tends to suffer from illusions of grandeur and that they don't like being ignored. Finally, Gabriel tells Owen that there was a victim, a migrant called Jorge Cortez who died during the first fire at the warehouse and that now, Owen isn't just an arsonist, he's also a murderer.

Later, Investigator Raymond comes in the interrogation room, disconnects the camera and micro to make sure that this conversation stays between them. Owen tells Raymond that he was framed and that they should look into Billy Tyson. Raymond tells him that the only thing that matters is that Owen has to prove that Billy is guilty, he asks him if there's anything that Owen haven't tell Gabriel about the arsonist, like if there's any fires that Owen believes Billy has set but still haven't been revealed. Owen asks him why he should say anything when it could just be Raymond working with Gabriel on how to add more charges on Owen. Raymond tells him that he's not working with Gabriel and that he's Owen's only hope. Owen starts talking about more incidents that he wanted to look into, but Gabriel entered the room and stopped them before he could say anything else. Gabriel re-enters the room and tells Owen about a witness that saw him during the warehouse fire and who was injured during the fire. He was badly injured, and they didn't know whether or not he would pull through the surgery, but he did, and Gabriel tells him that when he wakes up, he will identify Owen as the arsonist. Owen then asks Gabriel if he shared that news about the witness with Billy since they're working closely on the case together.

It is revealed later that the arsonist was actually Investigator Raymond when he went to the hospital to try to kill the witness (who didn't exist and was replaced by a doll) and was arrested by Gabriel and the rest of the Texas Rangers. Gabriel starts interrogating Raymond but he wants to talk to Owen as well. Once Owen is in the room, he asks him how he managed to figure out that he was the arsonist and Owen answers that he was just lucky. Raymond tells him to tell the actual truth and Owen says that he figured it out because it's how he would've done it. Raymond asks him to answer the question he asked Owen earlier about how many fires have been set by him. Owen answers with eleven, which is correct. But Raymond tells him that he's so close to the truth, because yes, there was eleven fires that were discovered but the question was: how many did he set? and the answer to that is a few more. Raymond tells them that since they took what was the most important to him, he's going to repay the favor. Then, he sets himself on fire.

### Stalker Case

In "Negative Space", Gabriel is the ranger who has been assigned Owen's case. Gabriel asks Owen if he has any ideas who could be behind this and Owen replies that he can't considering he doesn't have any enemies, Catherine and Mateo both jump in saying that he did punch the guy at the bar and Sergeant O'Brien recently before mentioning deputy Griffin who was in jail until he was freed.

After he is arrested for punching Griffin, Owen is joined by Gabriel in an interrogation room. Gabriel tells Owen that they've been ordered to get rid of all the surveillance on Griffin because of Owen punching him and that Griffin has now a restraining order, so Owen can't get within 100 yards of him. Before leaving, Gabriel tells him to keep himself in check. After Sadie is injured in a fire, Gabriel goes to look for her in the hospital and talks to Owen. telling him that while the Texas Rangers can't watch Griffin, Owen can before Gabriel gives him the address. Later, while he's on the phone with Owen, Gabriel gets a call from a coworker, and they realize that Griffin isn't the one who set the art gallery on fire so he can't be his stalker. After Sadie was knocked out by Marjan, Owen brought Gabriel in, who arrests Sadie.

### Working with TK

TK goes to the Reyes' house to see if Carlos is there - which he isn't - and receives a hug from Andrea before telling her and Gabriel that Carlos hasn't been at the hospital when he said he was and he wasn't able to join him. Gabriel asks him if he was driving his car and decides to put a BOLO on him and the Camaro before they're interrupted by a call from Grace who tells him TK was his last call and he did it from the house where they rescued Iris. TK and Gabriel go investigate to the house and meet detective Grier who still doesn't believe Iris' story, TK gets upset and tells her that he treated Iris and she wasn't lying, and that Carlos wouldn't disappear without any valid reasons. Gabriel tells him to leave the room and when TK is pacing in the other room, he found ID papers that someone tried to burn and shows them to the detective who finally decides to make forensic come to the house and inspect it. She tells him they'll start canvassing the neighborhood, but TK doesn't want to wait for that and leaves the house, going straight to the house next door, not knowing Carlos is in there.

At the police station, TK asks them why they're searching for the missing women instead of Carlos and Gabriel tells him that it's the best way to find him. TK asks if they're looking for a serial killer and Gabriel agrees before TK worries about the fact that they most likely won't find Carlos alive. He asks Gabriel how he can be so calm during all this and Gabriel replies that if they have to cry, they'll do it when there's a good reason. Later, TK finds out that the link between the missing women is that they have the same pharmacist and when TK and Gabriel go to the pharmacy they found out about Darryl. When they reach his house, Gabriel kicks the door open to find Carlos barely conscious and Darryl with the face bloody. TK goes to Carlos and has to start CPR and mouth-to-mouth because he doesn't have a pulse, he keeps doing that until back-up arrives with the Narcan and once he has it, TK injects it in his thigh, waking up Carlos immediately. He starts fighting until he realizes TK and Gabriel are the ones touching him.

### Black Widow's case

In "Open", Gabriel is investigating on the death of Brett, Kendra's husband, and he calls Owen to let him know that they found toxin in his blood during the autopsy which makes Kendra the main suspect, while Owen is alone, at home, with her. In "Tongues Out", Owen believes in Kendra's innocence despite Gabriel's warnings and engages Paul to help them solve the case. After investigating, they realize Brett accidentally poisoned himself with pesticides but after Kendra comes to visit Owen to celebrate her birthday, Paul realizes that he was wrong and calls Owen telling him not to drink the alcohol Kendra brought. Kendra already drank it, and she starts losing motor and breathing functions due to the poison that Brett also puts in the bottle after trying to kill her by cutting the breaks wires on her car. At the hospital, Kendra and Owen are about to kiss when TK, Paul and Carlos interrupt them.

### Death

While Gabriel was trying on his suit for his son's wedding, he answers the door where he is shot point blank. He dies due to the wound and his funeral is shown in "In Sickness and In Health". While searching for his life insurance policy, Carlos discovers some documents and a VHS tape, where it was revealed Gabriel was investigating a mole within the Texas Rangers. Undercover agent, Pablo Martinez, had called him on a burner phone to warn him that he was in danger, days before Gabriel's death.

## Relationships

### Carlos Reyes

Gabriel and Carlos have a complicated relationship. Gabriel hugged Carlos and told him he loved him when Carlos came out but they never spoke about it after that. When Carlos decided to join Austin PD, Gabriel took it badly and claimed that Carlos was "too soft" for the job. Though, Gabriel praised Carlos for trusting his instincts in "Bad Call" and told him that he was proud of him. Their lack of relationship during Carlos' life up until two years ago (season 2) makes him believe he would not be a good father and wouldn't measure up to TK who had a great bond with Owen all his life.

### Andrea Reyes

Gabriel and Andrea seem to have a long and stable marriage. They love each other and Andrea teases him sometimes. According to Gabriel, Andrea wears "the pants in the family".

### TK Strand

Gabriel really likes TK as it's shown when he tells Carlos that he'll like TK because "his son has great instincts when it comes to people" and that he's excited to meet him for real. They also work together to find Carlos when he's abducted and once they do, Gabriel tells TK that Carlos is really lucky to have him.

## Trivia

* He had hypertension. ("Friends With Benefits")
* Before his death, he had been in this job field for at least 40 years. ("The Big Heat")

## Appearances

 "Everyone and Their Brother"

 "The ATX-Files"
 "Prince Albert in a Can"

 "This Is Not A Drill"
 "Double Trouble"