List of Rescue Me Characters - Other Characters - Minor Characters

Minor Characters

  • Asshole - Tommy's dog in Season 1. He chews up hockey jerseys and constantly pesters Tommy. Tommy eventually grows to like the dog; in episode 1-11, Uncle Teddy reveals that he accidentally let it go and it was killed by a car. Tommy, distraught, walks into his backyard, picks up one of the dog's bones, and begins to weep over the loss of both his mother and dog.
  • Charlie - Tommy's dog introduced in Season 4. He is first encountered outside of Tommy's new apartment, where he "chases" Tommy. Charlie is present during the "Gavin family AA meetings". Tommy takes him to a park, and tries to teach him how to fetch, but he is unsuccessful. When Tommy secretly spends his nights in the firehouse, Charlie spends them with him.
  • Todd Collins Todd Carroll - Collins is a member of the NYPD who often argues, fights, and plays hockey with Tommy. In Season 3, Tommy went into the locker room after he started crying during a hockey game. Collins saw this and was surprisingly sympathetic. It turns out that he too suffered from random bouts of crying after his partner was killed (survivor's guilt). He advises Tommy to drink heavily, since that is the only thing that stops it. In season 7, Collins (now a detective) reluctanly helps Tommy with information that gets Tommy's suspension lifted.
  • Luis Perez (Manny Perez) - An NYPD detective and John Gavin's former colleague. Luis is openly a homosexual. Was with Johnny on the stakeout that Johnny was shot at. After this, he helps out Tommy with getting a face to face with Johnny's killer, and finding Colleen in season 4. Luis eventually transfers to Seattle, Washington.
  • Jesus Christ (Bernardo De Paula) - Jesus Christ, along with Mary Magdalene, is a part of Tommy's recurring visions in Season 2 with Jesus constantly trying to guide Tommy to do the right thing and Mary putting a more realistic and workable spin on Jesus' guidance.
  • Larry Bird (Birdy) (Chris Bowers) - Owner of Birdy's, an Irish pub with a heavy Celtics theme. To meet his wife's health care bills, Chief Reilly takes a second job there during Season 3, on the assumption that he will be tending bar, but Birdy allows Jerry to work only as a bar-back. Further, Birdy does not pay Jerry his wages. When Tommy and Franco learn of the abuse, they confront Birdy, who promptly fires the Chief. In response, Tommy arranges for Birdy's car to be suspended by a construction crane. After this, Birdy pays Jerry what he owed him.
  • Donna (Kristina Klebe) - Mickey's girlfriend, who is most likely to be one of the reasons he left the church.
  • Derek (Anthony Perullo) - An alcoholic, who becomes sponsored by a reluctant Tommy after Tommy gets his 12-month chip from AA. Becoming an annoyance with frequent phone calls whenever he feels the urge to drink, Derek eventually gets a job at the fire crew's bar.
  • Snezyana "Mrs. Needles" Nelson (Madison McKinley) - Chief Nelson's mail-order bride from Russia. Dubbed "Mrs. Needles" by the crew. In her first appearance, Damien had informed the crew that he had seen her getting out of the car and noticed she didn't have any panties on under her skirt. Thus, the crew went out of their way to see for themselves. Seen in only a few episodes, no one truly knows about the full extent of Snezyana and her relationship with her "husband" Needles. In the season 5 episode "Lesbos", a severely drunk Snezyana makes out with two lesbians and gives oral sex to Derek. She was also about to give oral to Black Shawn had Needles not intruded, which hints that she may have no love for Needles at all. But despite all of this Needles shows that he cares for Snezyana very much and takes her back to his office to clean her up. Needles later divorces her for personal reasons, one is implied Tommy knew she was a illegal immigrant and was holding it over Needles' head after he would continue to hold Tommy's in-house misfortunes over his head.
  • Pam Keppler - A news reporter in season 7. Pam did the story on Jimmy Keefe's memorial. But when she got too close into the story asking Tommy cheap shot questions, Tommy cursed her out on camera, causing his suspension. After this, Pam digs deeper on the members of 62 truck. But Tommy and Needles finds out that Keppler had been arrested for DUI and blackmailed the arresting officer by giving him fellatio, which was caught on film. In return, Sheila takes the oral sex film and blackmails Keppler into dropping the rest of the story about Jimmy, Tommy, and the rest of 62 truck.

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