Gabe Sutherland

Gabe Sutherland is the main protagonist of the episode Itchy from Creeped Out.

Gabe is a shy boy who has never had much courage or bravery. His mother was in the military, and wanted Gabe, and her younger son Georgie to be like her. As such, when Gabe reached secondary school, his mum and dad sent him to military school. Gabe and his family were raised on an island called Kastle Rock. At military school, Gabe was constantly bullied for being meek and Gabe's main bully was Rocky but Gabe did have an ally, Frankie. Frankie was Gabe's best friend and was also a victim of bullying. Unlike Gabe though, Frankie found it easy to stick up for herself. It seems Gabe and Georgie are raised mostly by their father, who appears to be unemployed, as their mum is often abroad due to her work in the military. During a final military challenge of the term, Gabe nearly finished the challenge but at the final bit he couldn't do it, as he had a fear of enclosed spaces. As Gabe was the only kid to not complete the challenge, he was mocked by his bullies, who all filmed Gabe doing the challenge and put it up on social media and made cruel memes of him. Gabe hears strange voices, but ignores them. Later, Gabe's mother calls his father and says she won't be able to come home and go to Gabe's merit assembly. Gabe gives his dad a nits letter from school and his dad combs through Georgie's hair. But the comb gets stuck in his hair. Their dad manages to break Georgie free from the comb and confirms that Georgie has nits. Gabe, Georgie and their dad go to the corner shop where Frankie works, and ask for nit shampoo. But she reveals that many people have been trying to buy shampoo but someone made holes in the shampoo bottles. Gabe remarks that the holes look like teeth marks. Gabe later strokes a cat with Frankie, and Rocky makes fun of them. During the merits assembly, Gabe hears the mysterious voices again. Suddenly, all the parents and most of the school begin scratching intensely. Gabe, Frankie and Rocky run away from their classmates as everyone begins screaming and Gabe grabs Georgie and they leave with their teacher to a classroom. Frankie calls her grandma who is unable to attend the merit assembly. Her grandma doesn't pick up, presumably due to the head lice breaking out of the school and going all across the island. Rocky uses her mobile phone to call the police but when it is picked up, the person who answers suddenly begins screaming and hangs up. Suddenly, Georgie sees through his new app on his tablet the head lice which are crawling around on the floor. They run but the teacher goes back to get Rocky's phone as she thinks they'll need it, but the head lice crawl into her hair and get her. The kids run out through the corridor in fear and get into another classroom. Georgie picks up a hat. Suddenly, Frankie realises that the head lice jumped into her head when she was running away from the teacher. She tells Gabe and the others to run. Gabe gets the tablet to use Georgie's new app to see if he is near head lice. He then decides to crawl through an air vent but soon discovers that there are lice in the ventilation system. He crawls out into the cleaner's office and then sees the fire alarm system. He realises that the tank of water for the sprinkler system is full and squeezes loads of shampoo into it. He then hits the fire alarm and the all the parents and students infected by the head lice get covered by drops of shampoo which has been mixed with the water. The mixture kills all the head lice in everyone's hair. The teachers then take over. Later, the next day, Gabe, Frankie and Georgie look through the school gates and see an exterminator walk out of the school. Gabe and Frankie's teacher approaches them. She tells them the school hired exterminators to come in and check the whole school for head lice and lice eggs. Any survivors or eggs in the building still were killed. She then tells them to have a good weekend and leaves. Rocky then passes them on her bike and smiles at Gabe, them having become friends now. It is then hinted by their eye contact that they have developed a crush on one another. Just as Rocky turns the corner, Gabe hears the mysterious voices saying the word 'revenge'. Gabe uses the special app and sees that there are some lice survivors infecting the cat he and Frankie stroked.