Gary De'Snake

Season 1

S01E16 "The Words"

Gary joins a structured apology session by video link, facilitated by Dr. Fuzzby, in which Pawbert addresses each of his victims in turn. Pawbert names him first, because the harm done to Gary began months before anyone else's. When Gary answers, he refuses the account Pawbert has brought with him. Told the friendship was only ever a pretense, Gary insists it was real and that fear, not calculation, is what turned Pawbert. He is also precise about where the injury landed: not the cold, but the knowing, the fact that Pawbert weighed him against his family and chose them. He forgives him anyway, because holding onto it would cost him more than letting it go, and because he never stopped believing Pawbert could be better than what he did. He closes by asking "Permission to hug?" through the screen.

S01E19 "Green Candle"

Gary calls Site Two on Pawbert's twenty-fifth birthday, with Nibbles Maplestick crowding the frame behind him. Once he reclaims the camera he tells Pawbert he is proud of him: the testimony has been hard, but Pawbert is still here and still trying, and that counts. Pawbert answers that he does not feel brave. Gary tells him brave mammals never do. They just keep going.

S01E23 "The Trial"

Gary appears twice over the course of the proceedings. He takes the stand as a prosecution witness in the Lynxley RICO trial, testifying to the weather wall connection, the original patent, and Agnes's legacy; by the time he coils down from the platform, the defense has stopped taking notes. Afterward, at Pawbert's separate sentencing hearing, he delivers the first of the victim impact statements. Courtrooms make him nervous and the gallery makes it worse, but he steadies once he finds Pawbert's face. He describes being left to freeze because someone he trusted chose his family's lies over his life, then restates the forgiveness he had already given, grounded now in having watched Pawbert testify against the mammals who taught him that cruelty was love. He asks the court to hope prison helps, and ends with "I'm proud of you, Pawbert. I really am."

Season 2

S02E21 "Found Family"

Gary's first in-person meeting with Pawbert since the trial occurs on Pawbert's birthday. Invited by Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps as a surprise, Gary arrives at the safehouse and thanks Pawbert for refusing to activate the weather wall override during the Clawrence crisis — protecting Agnes's legacy. His words cut to the heart of their shared history: "You tried to burn her patent... And you said no." Pawbert and Gary exchange the phrase that defines their bond: "Found family." Gary asks "Permission to hug?" — his signature gesture of respectful affection.

Season 3

S03E06 "Dead or Alive"

When Leodore Lionheart broadcasts his citywide manifesto from Dead End Station — attacking Mayor Winddancer and turning xenophobic against the returned reptile community — Gary watches it with his family in Reptile Ravine. His mother, who lived through the exile once, coils tighter around his younger siblings and says only his name; Gary answers her with "It's lies. They know it's lies." His voice is hollow when he says it, because he knows what lies do once they are repeated loudly enough. He tells his younger brother the lion is simply wrong, that their family never hurt anyone. Then his younger sister asks "Are we going to have to leave?" — and Gary has no answer for her. The scene underscores the fragility of the reptile community's reintegration into Zootopia.

Season 4

S04E24 "Loud and Determined"

Gary attends Pawbert's 28th birthday celebration, his first in-person appearance in two years. He arrives vibrating with barely contained joy, asking "Permission to hug?" before enveloping Pawbert in coils. Gary thanks Pawbert for fighting for reptiles during the Lionheart crisis — for standing up when it could have made things worse for him. He acknowledges knowing what Pawbert did before and what he was part of, but also says he knows who Pawbert is now: a mammal worth celebrating. He gifts Pawbert a childhood drawing of the two of them, drawn after they first met and kept all this time. Gary's characteristic phrase finds its fulfillment: "We shall succeed, Pawbert. You already have." The visit underscores how far both of them have come from their fractured relationship in Zootopia 2.

Season 5: The Icener Crisis

Gary's role expands significantly during the Icener crisis:

• S05E18 ("The Godfather"): Pawbert visits Reptile Ravine and works with Gary to search Agnes's journals and documents for a failsafe clue. Together they discover the cryptic note: "The failsafe lives within our mission."
• S05E19 ("Tundratown Requiem"): When Icener's forces attack Reptile Ravine searching for Agnes's documentation, Gary watches his rebuilt community be torn apart — the gecko family, the old tortoise, the pit vipers who mount a venomous defense, all destroyed. As Roskova's forces breach the De'Snake home, Gary orders his family to coil around Pawbert for escape, and Pawbert smashes through a back window carrying all five snakes. Gary navigates through Agnes's maintenance tunnels from Pawbert's arm while other survivors follow. He and Pawbert take down a snow leopard operative together — Gary binding her legs, Pawbert striking her. After surfacing outside the perimeter, Gary watches the Ravine burn in devastated silence. His survivor's guilt is devastating: he led the restoration, invited the families back, and now they are dying for it. Pawbert counsels him by drawing on his own experience with loss, and their exchange — "We shall succeed?" / "We shall succeed." — begins the process of rebuilding hope. The escape directly inverts the betrayal from Zootopia 2: Pawbert once threw Gary into the freezing cold, and now carries the entire De'Snake family to safety.
• S05E23 ("Golden Again"): Three months on, Gary moves down the Ravine's first finished street in the evening light, scale-patterned rooftops restored and rebuilt to Agnes's century-old designs, the blocks behind it still scaffolds and tarps with years of patient work queued behind them. Geckos tend window boxes, an iguana family walks the road, and an old tortoise waves from a porch — not the one killed in the attack but his nephew, who moved in afterward to carry on. Gary pauses at the central roundabout, where he can see back up the road to Agnes's bronze statue standing at the west entrance, untouched by the violence that swept through the place, and tells her "We succeeded, great-grandma. We're still here." Then Dominga Perón calls to him across the square and he is off, vibrating, to tell three generations of tegus about the new transit signs.
• S05E24 ("Always"): Gary attends the double wedding of Luther and Pawbert alongside Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps. His final exchange with Pawbert captures their entire journey: "We shall succeed, Pawbert Lynxley." / "We already have."

W-Series

Gary keeps in regular contact with Pawbert through this period. Every few days he sends a sunrise photograph from the Reptile Ravine observation deck, a short caption and a run of sun emojis standing in for a forecast; one arrives on the mansion counter in "Open Door". Pawbert answers all of them.

In "The Call" he is at dinner with the Reptile Ravine chief engineer when Pawbert calls from inside the Crisis Coordination Center, and relays the question: is everything all right at the weather wall station. The engineer reads Agnes's original instruments off his own line into the plant, and Gary reports it sitting at rest all evening, same as at lunch, which is the answer that stops two ZSI agents turning brass keys. He is at the station afterward, coiled near the entrance, when the night operator arrives with popcorn.

What If

The What-If episodes are alternate timelines and do not affect the main continuity.

In "What If... the Weakest Lynx Chose Differently?", Gary is still on the fire escape grating when Pawbert stops. Pawbert comes back through the door, carries him inside, and warms him on the control room floor between himself and Judy. Gary's tail curls around the lynx's forearm, and the first thing he manages to say is "We shall... succeed. Pawbert Lynxley." That evening he opens the De'Snake residence in Reptile Ravine for the first time and finds Agnes's music box on her desk with the original patent folded inside, then sets the patent down to deal with the lynx behind him. The forgiveness he offers in his great-grandmother's house arrives the same day rather than months later in a mediated session, and runs on the same reasoning: the cold was not the injury, the knowing was; holding on would cost him more than letting go; frightened mammals do frightening things, and the answer is to be kind anyway. He asks "Permission to hug?" and coils around Pawbert. By the end of the night he is drowsy under a frost-stiff blanket, repeating the phrase as a statement rather than a question.