911 Lone Star Recap: Season 4 Finale — Tarlos Wedding, [Spoiler] Dies

RANGER DOWN

OK, let’s get the unhappy half out of the way in which first. The entrance half of the finale included the brutal homicide of Carlos’ father Gabriel Reyes. It got here as fairly a shock to the viewers, however much less so to Silva, who apparently predicted the tragic twist forward of time.

“I was watching something one night, I turned off the TV, and I just had this thought: What’s going to happen with Carlos later this season?” Silva tells TVLine. “The only thing that could top being held hostage is if he loses somebody. Gabriel immediately came to mind, but I thought nothing of it. Then I was in the gym the next day and got a text from our showrunner [Tim Minear]. He was like, ‘Hey, I want to pitch you something.’ So we started talking, and he brought up how something might happen with Carlos. I was like, ‘Is something going to happen to Gabriel?’ He said, ‘Who told you?’ And I was like, ‘Nobody! I just have my antennae on, I guess.’”

When Minear confirmed Silva’s worst concern, the actor recollects, “I felt my heart drop a little bit. As Rafael, I knew what that meant for me as an actor, to lose [Benito Martinez] as a companion to act with — a friend, truly. But I also felt for Carlos. I immediately felt protective of him, knowing what this would mean. I knew it was going to completely destroy him.”

And destroy him it did. Upon discovering that his father had been investigating corruption inside Texas regulation enforcement and was making ready to testify towards some highly effective folks, Carlos was consumed by the investigation to the purpose of insanity.

CARLOS’ NEXT CHAPTER

“He’s never going to be the same,” Silva acknowledges. “Carlos has been forever changed. He now lives in a world in which his father has been murdered. Murdered. It wasn’t an accident, there was no attainable explanation, there’s nothing.”

That stated, this horrific occasion may probably propel Carlos in an thrilling new route, giving him the push he’s been needing to turn into a detective.

“Detective work is something we’ve touched on, with Detective Washington saying that he has a talent,” Silva says of Carlos. “If I’m digesting it correctly, I think we’re going down the path of asking what it looks like for Carlos to do more investigative work. Does that work? Does that not work? I’m curious to find out.”

THE VOWS

OK, now for the (principally) completely satisfied half — the marriage! With Paul as their officiant, Carlos and T.Ok. swapped vows in a chic, wooded ceremony surrounded by their closes family and friends members.

“With that kind of situation, there’s not much acting involved,” Rubinstein says of the large day. “You’re really living in it. From the environment that was built around us to having everybody there, it was literally like having the whole gang back together. You should have seen that call sheet, it was gigantic.”

As for the large second, “the words of the actual vows did all the work that I needed them to do,” Rubinstein says. “Sometimes you’re just blessed with that kind of writing. #Tarlos boys have been blessed with that a lot. We’ve had some really incredible storylines.”

Adds Silva: “The words did them justice. I think we both understand where those two characters are coming from. They both understand loss in a very specific and similar way, but also the desire to have the presence of that one person they lost in that moment and not being able to. I think these characters earned that moment. I think everyone has earned that moment.”

SPECIAL GHOST STAR

Did anybody else begin reducing onions on the mere sound of Lisa Edelstein’s voice? Though she couldn’t bodily be there, Gwen was current in spirit for a quick, unforgettable second on the #TarlosWedding.

“I love her so much, and the bond that we created through Gwen and T.K. is really something that I hold very near and dear to my heart,” Rubinstein says of Edelstein. “Having her there, and the words she said to Owen … when I was reading the sides, that was a massive gut punch. It sort of brings everything into perspective when she says, ‘We both saved our boy so he can finally live.’ Obviously she said it much more eloquently. But that little experience was really special, to hug her one more time and thank her for everything — for what she’s brought to the show, to me as a character and to me as a person. I’m going to hold that relationship very closely.”

TOMMY’S TUNE

Just after we thought the tears had lastly stopped flowing, alongside got here Tommy with a efficiency of “Being Alive” from the Stephen Sondehim musical Company.

“I had to walk away a couple of times in between takes,” Rubinstein admits. “[Gina Torres’] voice, first of all, is unbelievable. I think it blew all of us away. And the story behind what Tommy is doing — it’s sort of this one last passing from Gwen of like, ‘I love you boys. Congratulations.’ For me, it was that sensitive trigger. All I needed to hear was when she said, ‘This was Gwen’s favorite song.’ It was just like a sword through the heart. So I was uncontrollable, I think, from the rehearsal. There wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd. Crew members were crying, cast members, it was a beautiful moment.”

Adds Silva: “Tommy singing that song carries a different weight because of the loss that she’s also experienced with her husband. It’s a special bond between the three. And also because it’s Gina. She’s not just a magnificent storyteller. She’s a captivating person. She knows how to tell so much without saying anything at all.”

And the beautiful solo was almost a bunch effort, a lot to Torres’ annoyance.

“She had a bunch of background singers at a certain point — a bunch of the frogs started to make noise,” Silva recollects with amusing. “She would just turn around [and give them a look].”

WHAT DIDN’T WE SEE?

This was simply Lone Star‘s most jam-packed finale yet, so it’s protected to imagine that the quarter-hour of marriage ceremony footage we noticed was solely the tip of the iceberg

Rubinstein says there have been some “after-hours shenanigans” the viewers gained’t get to see. “I won’t go into detail on that one … but there may have been real champagne flowing at the very end of the night,” he says. “It was definitely well-deserved.”

For the document, Silva was “not there for that portion” of the night time, to which Rubinstein admits, “I led the charge on that one.”

Still, Silva insists that “what was selected to make the cut … was the cream of the crop. It was truth in every single moment, and what you got to experience were real moments that we lived and that we experienced.”

OK, time to speak: What did you consider the finale? Grade it under, then drop a remark along with your ideas on the #TarlosWedding under.

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