Lt. Gabriel "Gabe" Cash a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, and one of the two titular characters of the 1989 movie, Tango & Cash. He is portrayed by Kurt Russell, who also played Snake Plissken.
Tango and Cash[]
Gabriel Cash is an LAPD narcotics officer in downtown Los Angeles, lives in a condo in a rundown neighborhood, drives a classic Corvette, wears tattered clothing and cowboy boots.
Cash also has had a fierce rivalry with a fellow hero cop, Ray Tango, a cop from the Beverly Hills district, and makes more money than Cash.
The two meet for the first time after Yves Perret arranges for the both of them to be framed for murder. They are found with the body of an executed FBI agent and are arrested. During the trial with the incriminating evidence against them, Tango's lawyer was able to get them a plea deal with a reduced sentence in a minimum penatentary if him and Cash plea to manslaughter.
They are instead then sent to a maximum security prison where they meet all the crooks they locked away in prison. How ever before they can kill the two former cops, Matt Sokowski, the assistant warden and Cash's former commanding officer, rescues them. Sokowski recommends that they escape and provides them with a plan, but Tango opts out. When Cash tries to escape, he finds Sokowski murdered and is pursued by the guards. Tango rescues him and they head to the roof; Cash ziplines outside the prison walls, but Tango is attacked by the inmate "Face" before he can follow. Tango manages to electrocute Face by knocking him into a transformer before escaping. To clear their names, they separate; Tango tells Cash that if he needs to contact him, he can go to the Cleopatra Club and ask for "Katherine".
Before parting ways, Gabe thanks Ray and promises that he "owes him one".
Cash heads back to Los Angeles and meets his friend, Owen, an amateur inventor who works as a weapons expert for the LAPD. Excited for Gabe's return, Owen loans him a change of clothes and some firearms and Gabe sets out to find sound engineer, Skinner. Cash discovers that Skinner was black mailed by Perret to make the incriminating tape himself; he starts destroying Skinner's expensive equipment until he agrees to help exonerate them.
Cash finds Katherine, Tango's sister, but is quickly surrounded by cops; she helps Cash escape the night club by dressing him as a female. Later that night, Tango reunites with Cash and the duo are met at Katherine's house by Schroeder, Tango's commanding officer. Later that night, Tango reunites with Cash and the duo are met at Katherine's house by Schroeder, Tango's commanding officer. Cash gives Schroeder the tape that will clearr their names, and he gives them Requin's address and tells them they have 24 hours to find out who he works for.
Tango and Cash apprehend Requin and trick him into telling them Perret's name. They go and meet Owen, who lets them borrow a high-tech assault vehicle and the duo storm into Perret's headquarters to confront the crime lord. However, Perret has kidnapped Katherine and starts a timer that will trigger the building's automatic self-destruct procedure. After killing Perret's core security personnel and fellow crime lords, Requin appears, holding Katherine at knifepoint. He throws her aside to fight the detectives hand-to-hand and Cash kills him. Perret appears in a hall of mirrors holding a gun to Katherine's head; both detectives pick out the correct Perret and shoot him in the forehead. They gather Katherine and barely escape as the building explodes. They joke half-seriously about Cash's desire to date Katherine as a newspaper headline announces they've been completely vindicated and return to the LAPD as heroes.
Personality[]
Gabriel is a wild and reckless cop with a snarky wise cracking attitude. He does drastic and extreme tactics to get the job done, even borrowing and wrecking a random car to catch the bad guy. He has very little regard for subtlety.
Gabe is also very arrogant and vain, and jokingly criticizes Tango's "sloppy work". He loves to joke around with anyone.
Weapons and Equipment[]
- Ruger GP100: Gabe's duty sidearm is a He carries a large .357 Magnum revolver with an experimental laser sight.
- Browning Hi-Power Pistol: He acquires this after meeting Owen.
- Remington 870: Gabe takes a shotgun when interrogating Skinner.
- Shotgun cowboy boots: Owen fitted Gabe's boots with a mechanism that fires shotgun shells.
External Links[]
- Cash on the Shonen Rivals Wiki