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LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME: Rick Gonzalez on How Jet’s Absence is Impacting Reyes, Plus the ‘Dark’ Arrival of Jason Patric’s Detective McKenna

May 14, 2025 by  

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LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME — “PROMESSE INFRANTE” Episode 504 — Pictured: Rick Gonzalez as Det. Bobby Reyes — (Photo by: David Holloway/PEACOCK)

When LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME season 4 debuted in January 2024, viewers were thrown a curveball: OCCB teammates Reyes (Rick Gonzalez) and Jet (Ainsley Seiger) had started a romantic relationship in the aftermath of Whelan’s (Brent Antonello) brutal death. (Reyes and Whelan were close friends, while Jet told Whelan she loved him right before he died.)

Cut to early season 5, where Reyes revealed that Jet had recently broken things off with him—right before Jet left OCCB, too. 

And while OCCB has had to contend with being down a team member, its personal and professional impact on Reyes hasn’t been as blatantly obvious. So, how is the detective holding up?

“Not in a good place, I don’t think,” Gonzalez tells Give Me My Remote in the video below. “I think what we’ve seen from Reyes is a lot of loss. He lost Whelan. We saw his foster brothers come back into his life and betray him. And he’s divorced, as well. And then I feel as though this relationship with Jet was sort of a safety net, sort of something to keep him, to find some comfortability in this situationship. And now that that’s gone, it’s more of a loss, right? It’s loss all over again.”

“He doesn’t have anything,” he continues. “He doesn’t have a wife. And, yeah, Bobby has to see his kids when he needs to, so he could be a good dad. But there’s no connection there for him. So I think there’s a lot of, like, emptiness, probably, that he’s dealing with.”



The isolation for Reyes also parallels another OCCB team member who has utilized work as an escape in the past. “It allows him, very similar to [Christopher Meloni’s] Stabler, to just dive into the work,” Gonzalez says. “I think that’s how they’re sort of similar. It forces them to be better cops, to be able to compartmentalize their emotions about it. But I think Reyes is used to doing that, as a foster kid, and sort of finding this other notch level for him to, like, work harder, but not [be] dealing with those emotions.”

Trying to compartmentalize will be useful for the detective on the Thursday, May 15 episode, “Red, White, Black & Blue,” as a cartel kingpin takes out a number of detectives and OCCB has to team up with Stabler’s old friend, Detective Tim McKenna (Jason Patric), to try and get justice for their fallen colleagues.

“There’s something dark about Detective McKenna that doesn’t sit right with Reyes,” Gonzalez previews. “And I think maybe Reyes sees Stabler a little bit different—like, that’s your friend? Or maybe Reyes wants to know why [McKenna] made those decisions when he was in Mexico, working with cartels.” 

“Initially, what we’ll see is Reyes just struggle with being comfortable and accepting someone like this in the task force,” he continues. “I think what McKenna sort of signifies to Reyes is an energy that, ‘Yeah, we’re cops, and maybe we break the rules sometimes, but there’s certain things we don’t do.’ I think he represents that. And so I think Reyes is sort of trying to figure it out: Who is this guy? Because he doesn’t smell good.”



Plus, watch a midseason trailer for LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME season 5…

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