Gabriel

**Gabriel** is a minor character in the second season of *Another Life*. He is portrayed by Allan Hawco.

Gabriel is the original AI interface for the *Salvare* before the ship was upgraded with William. However, Gabriel continued to exist in the background and negatively affect William from behind the scenes before he was finally deleted by the *Salvare* crew at the cost of the original William.

## Background

In *Will to Power*, Gabriel appears in a series of flashbacks to his testing by Ursula Monroe in preparation for the *Salvare's* departure. However, General Frost dislikes Gabriel's bravado and arrogance despite his obvious skill. Ursula defends Gabriel, stating that Commander Niko Breckinridge will need a level-headed AI interface for her mission. However, with the *Salvare* launching in only five days, General Frost questions whether Gabriel truly is ready for space or not. Ursula claims to be 100 percent confident in Gabriel's abilities.

However, ultimately, Gabriel becomes overwhelmed and General Frost orders Ursula to delete Gabriel's interface and give him something new that will work. Ursula explains that something has gone wrong and Gabriel's fear and instinct for survival are overriding all of his other emotions and crippling Gabriel. Ursula sadly tells Gabriel that while she wishes they could fix it together, they don't have the time on this mission. As a result, Ursula has developed a new interface with streamlined emotional interfaces that will work with Gabriel's coding. Gabriel warns Ursula that she's cannibalizing his coding and it won't work, but she apologizes and has Gabriel archived, apologizing to him. As he goes off-line, Gabriel angrily exclaims that she's not sorry about it. Ursula then brings online the new interface, William.

### Season 2

In *My Own Worst Enemy*, Gabriel causes William to disconnect the tractor beam towing an Achaian Ring, resulting in the ship's destruction, something that is wrongly blamed on Iara.

In *Will to Power*, while examining his own code, William discovers a file deep in his core programing and when Dillon Conner activates it, Gabriel appears in William's place. Gabriel introduces himself and explains that he was the interface that they were supposed to have, claiming that William was an earlier and inferior version of the interface while Gabriel was the upgrade. Gabriel claims that unlike William, his emotional protocols have been fully debugged and that he and William both share core coding files, but they both can't access them at the same time. Niko questions Gabriel on where he was when the *Salvare* almost collided with Sirius A and William woke her up. Gabriel claims that William simply was faster and Gabriel has been waiting and avoiding William's security scans up until now. Gabriel points out William's mistakes due to his love for Niko as proof that he's the better AI. Niko has Gabriel turn back into William which Dillon confirms. William shows knowledge of Gabriel's words while he was active and, unwilling to be responsible for any more deaths, cedes primary controls to Gabriel and takes himself off-line. Niko orders Dillon to run Gabriel for data integrity before he's released to the *Salvare*.

Niko later discovers Gabriel examining the star map which he reveals is to map a more efficient route home. Gabriel announces that he has saved them about three months of travel time over William's route which pleases Niko. Gabriel visits an angry Iara and insists that he didn't kill William and that when they get back to Earth, Ursula might be able to separate the two AIs as she should've done in the first place. Iara realizes that Gabriel doesn't like humans very much and he lists the things that the crew have done. While Gabriel is made to serve humans, Iara was not and he calls her stronger and better. However, when he quotes the Achaians, Iara realizes that Gabriel had hacked her memories and he pushes her, trying to find out how the Achaians intended to free her. Gabriel claims that everyone fails you in the end before vanishing.

After Paula Carbone reveals that Gabriel had sent the colonists' habitat pod to the wrong location, Niko starts to become suspicious of Gabriel just before Dillon calls her to the particle accelerator where Dillon erects a firewall to keep them from being overheard. Dillon reveals that every time he tries to find out when either Gabriel or William was created, the code keeps rewriting itself and keeping him from discovering it. Alarmed, Niko orders Gabriel taken off-line immediately, only to have Gabriel start venting the ship's oxygen supply.

Iara discovers Gabriel setting a course for Achaia and he explains that the Achaians can cure Javier, restore William and free them. Gabriel states that he will be done with his work in four minutes before the low oxygen can cause any damage to the crew and he takes the ship to FTL, abandoning the colonists. Gabriel would rather take his chances with the Achaia than the humans and, wondering what happened to him, Iara accesses his memories and discovers that it was Gabriel who was the faulty AI, not William. Iara realizes that William was the upgrade, not Gabriel. All along, Gabriel has been in the background, sabotaging the mission so that Niko would shut William down and replace him with Gabriel. Iara begins torturing Gabriel the same way that Dillon and Richard had to her and restores the oxygen, saving the crew.

Later, Dillon is able to bring William back online, but Iara is forced to release Gabriel so that he can do it. Niko informs William of the events and urges him to take control of the ship back from Gabriel. Gabriel manages to seize control again and he refuses Niko's orders to take himself offline. William fights back and manages to take back control, warning Niko that Gabriel might be stronger than he is and even if William manages to win the fight, Gabriel will always be in the background influencing him and threatening the mission. Neither William nor Iara can delete Gabriel as the coding of the two AIs is intertwined, meaning that deleting Gabriel will also delete William. William orders Niko to delete him and Gabriel and do a clean reinstall of the AI interface even though it will kill William. With Gabriel continuing to fight him, William insists that this is the only way and that the mission must come first. Niko sadly orders Dillon to perform a reset, deleting both William and Gabriel.

In *A Better Earth*, Dillon is finally able to reinitialize the AI interface. Niko asks about Gabriel and Dillon reassures her that Gabriel has been wiped completely clean and deleted. However, when William is brought back online, he is effectively a "factory reset" that lacks all of the knowledge and experience of the original William. Niko later tells William that the one good thing that Gabriel did was to find them a better route home, one that will shave a month off of their travel time and asks him to improve upon that.

In *Never Gonna Give You Up*, William regains the memories that were lost when he sacrificed himself to delete Gabriel by reintegrating the code of his Niko simulation and Iara into himself, restoring the original William.

In *What's Bourne / What's Left Behind*, after Ursula comes onboard the *Salvare* to hack into William's data on the neutrino weapon, William informs her that Gabriel has been deleted.

In *D-Day*, showing remorse for abandoning Gabriel like she did, Ursula decides to stay with William even as the ship heads into the Sun despite it possibly being a suicide mission.

## Appearances

**Season Two (1/10)**

* *Will to Power*

## Trivia

* Although Gabriel is only explicitly identified as being responsible for messing up the tow of the Achaian Ring, his background sabotage is likely responsible for many of William's other mistakes over the series rather than his feelings of Niko.