Robert "Bobby" Brackenreid
Played by : Gage Munroe, Jayden Greig, Aiden Bushley, Daniel Fleming, Christopher Jones
Robert “Bobby” Brackenreid (born c. 1890) is the youngest son of Thomas and Margaret Brackenreid, and the younger brother of John Brackenreid and younger half-brother of Nomi Johnston. As of Season 19, he is currently serving time in the Don Jail for the (most likely first degree) manslaughter of Gerard Lacroix.
BIOGRAPHY
Bobby was born to Thomas and Margaret Brackenreid circa 1890. His father was a policeman and his mother stayed at home to look after him and his brother John, who was older than him by three years.
Bobby as a child was imaginative and adventure-loving. While fishing on the Don River with his father and brother in "Murdoch and Temple of Death" [], he fished up a dead body. In "Tour de Murdoch" [], he watched a bike race, cheering on Detective Murdoch.His childhood was not uneventful. In "Rich Boy, Poor Boy" [03x04], Bobby was kidnapped while playing pirates in the park with his friend Robert Stanton. His father himself, along with the rest of Station House No. 4, was on the case to find him, eventually learning out that his kidnappers, Molly and Pete Morgan, did not mean to take him at all; they instead wanted his playmate Robert, who was Molly's biological son whom she gave up when going to prison. Eventually, Bobby was safely returned home. When he was a little older ("The Devil Wears Whalebone" [08x]), he got into a fight with another boy, Simon Brooks, over a penny they found on the ground. Constable George Crabtree and Inspector Brackenreid later had a boxing ring constructed to have them fight again, but Bobby and Simon ended up making up and becoming friends before they could.
Inspector Brackenreid took lots of pride in how Bobby was "rough and tumble", as a contrast to his other son John.BRACKENREID : It's all my fault. I allowed Margaret to make [John] soft.
OGDEN : Is your other son soft?
BRACKENREID : Bobby? No. He's rough and tumble, just like his old man.
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07x08 "Republic of Murdoch"
When Bobby was around 16, his father learned that he had a daughter with another woman before he had met their mother. Sarah Johnston had discovered that she was pregnant and did not want Thomas to be "held back" by a Black child. Margaret learned of this illegitimate daughter and , she took Bobby to live with her he was sent to Wickford Academy, an all-boys boarding school in Hamilton for behavioural issues. John's brought their parents back together, but Bobby remained in Hamilton.
It was at Wickford Academy that Bobby met his friends Leo Rawlins and Stitch. While at school, he built a reputation as a bully and a threat, even to his own friends, but he was specifically antagonistic towards the local boys who did not go to their school. He and one local, Gerard Lacroix, especially despised each other. sword and sheath tavern. Gerard saw Bobby as spoiled and
if bobby didn't like you
It all came to a head when Bobby killed Gerard in a fight in the alleyway behind the Swotd and Sheath. According to Bobby, he had not expected to kill him, but his head had struck a rock. Years later, in "Clean Hands" [], Bobby confessed to have wanted to kill Gerard in the moment. Gerard's death was witnessed by Stitch, as well as Pascal Sefert, another local boy who had attended the school for a time. Bobby threatened them if they were to tell anyone, then ran away.
News of his crime and escape quickly reached Inspector Brackenreid, who set off to investigate what happened and find his son. He didn't need to look for long - soon enough, Bobby arrived at home, receiving a warm welcome from his mother Margaret. Here, he learned about and met his half-sister Nomi for the first time. His father found him at the Don River where they used to fish and convinced him to turn himself in.
attacked by another inmate, Christopher Appleby, whom he kills in self defense. He runs off again.
In "Clean Hands" [16x06], Bobby revealed to his parents that in prison, he converted to Catholicism, a development accepted by his mother but not his father, who was Protestant and did not want his son to be Catholic. Thomas As of "Diamonds in the Sand" [19x02], he is nearing the end of his sentence and awaiting release.
IMMUTABLE TRAITS
- the other, overlooked Brackenreid son
- rough and tumble. father is happy about this, until he isn't
- a subsequent deep emotional separation from his parents
MAIN QUESTIONS
Consequences - Does it matter whether or not he was at fault for everything he did, and if he can eventually move on, when still there are people who are no longer living because of him? Moving on doesn’t erase the real harm he has done. Is it even “moral” for him to move on at all?