TV Underdogs: What can ‘Scorpion’ season 2 do with Robert Patrick’s Cabe?
Out in the field on “Scorpion,” maybe there aren’t too many occasions when you’d consider Cabe Gallo much of an underdog. He’s a guy who gets the job done, and he uses the people and the resources around him in order to do it. His relationship with Walter O’Brien and Team Scorpion has led to many victories, and countless lives said.
Yet, there’s an interesting dichotomy in between who Cabe is out on the job, and who we know Cabe to be the rest of the time. This is the mystery that intrigues us, and this is what makes him a perfect candidate to discuss in our TV Underdogs series.
Why he’s an underdog – Because he’s awesome? Okay, that’s not a good enough reason. The biggest reason to us is that you see some many people on television who seem to have everything that they want together, and we’re pretty sure that Cabe is not one of them. He’s still striving or fighting for something, even if it’s not clear all the time what that is. There’s still a longing. He may be lonely outside of work, and find some sort of extended family within the team. We find ourselves rooting for him almost more than anyone else on the show, just because we want to understand more of who he is and what makes him tick. He’s like that person at work you really want to go to know, but is still distant in a way where it seems like they just don’t know how to open up. There’s more to every person beyond their exterior, and with Cabe, we know that there’s a softer, more personal side.
Why we don’t see more of him – Sometimes, the role of Cabe is to introduce the mission to the team, and then work with them to accomplish it. That’s sometimes it. We don’t always see him in some of the sillier scenes, and he doesn’t have an individual scene partner who he can go to in a way that nobody else can. Therefore, you do go at least gaps of time in various episodes without him around.
Ways to use him more – We were reminded during that whole speed-dating of just how funny Robert Patrick can be, and we’d love to see him have a new love interest just to give him someone new to play off of. Meeting his ex-wife was a small treat, but how about seeing any other friends or family he could have outside of his work? Even just a small thing like getting to see his home could be a way to learn much more about him. Does he have John Wayne posters up on the walls? Does he have a guilty pleasure TV show? These are fun little things we want to find out. Thankfully “Scorpion” is not going anywhere in the near future, so there are so many different areas of Cabe’s life still ripe for exploration.
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