Wyatt Long

Wyatt Long is a character on the science fiction series Roswell, New Mexico. After his sister, Kate Long, died because of Rosa Ortecho's accident, he has been terrorizing the Ortecho family. It was him who was responsible for shooting Liz when she came back to town.

Character

Wyatt is a racist from a seemingly well-connected family, as evidenced by his father's ability to constantly get him out of jail. His hobbies include getting drunk, shooting guns at racial minorities, and maintaining a youtube channel dedicated to racism. According to Rosa, he used to be nice. At the end of Hands, he was injected with Butyricol by Rosa, which caused some amount of memory loss which caused him to reevaluate his life since his last set of memories were before Kate died and befriended Rosa under her Rosalinda persona who told that despite all terrible things he had done to her family that she knew through Liz that he was once associated with Rosa and much nicer then. Deciding to reclaim that Wyatt moved to Colorado to get away from his family and the other bad influences he had in his life to start over again.

History

Ten years before the start of the series, Wyatt's sister Kate allegedly died in a car accident caused by Rosa Ortecho. Wyatt began terrorizing the Crashdown Cafe, which is owned by Rosa's father. His actions have included throwing bricks through the windows that say "go back to your own country" and shooting through the windows.

Plot

Season 1

On the anniversary of his sister's death, Wyatt shoots through the windows of the Crashdown Cafe. Unknown to him, he fatally shoots Liz Ortecho in the chest, and Max Evans heals her. Max chases after the shooter, but collapses from using his powers.^[1]

Wyatt's truck is visible on surveillance footage the night of the shooting, and Deputy Jenna Cameron recognizes the naked girl mudflaps. The next day, she and Max visit the Long farm, and Jenna out-shoots him in a competition, and then she shoots the mudflaps on his truck.^[2]

At the Wild Pony, Wyatt brags about the shooting, saying he must've blown out a transformer because the lights blew out. He later goes back to the Crashdown Cafe and beats up Arturo Ortecho. Max chases him down and begins beating him up until Michael Guerin and Isobel Evans-Bracken arrive, and Isobel tasers Wyatt. Since Max and Arturo both don't report the beating, since Arturo would risk deportation, Long isn't charged. He's taken into custody, although Jenna Cameron suspects that he'll spend the night in jail and be bailed out in the morning by his father.^[3]

When Grant Green tells Liz Ortecho about what he witnessed the night Rosa and Kate died, Wyatt shoots at them to silence Grant, shouting that all Grant had to do was not talk. He locks Liz in a crate and asks her who she's talked to before trying to burn her alive. He shoots Grant through the head, killing him. He shoots Max in the chest, and is also shot by Max. They both survive and Wyatt is arrested.^[4]

Season 2

Wyatt steps in gum and uses one of the flyers of Mimi DeLuca to scrape it off, and Michael gets into a fight with him over it. Rosa witnesses the fight, and ducks away when the sheriff arrives. ^[5]

As Michael and Alex are walking into the Long farm, Wyatt appears and points a crossbow at them, telling them they're trespassing. Michael uses his powers to release Wyatt's horses, and he leaves to chase after them, and Alex and Michael run off. ^[6]

Season 3

Wyatt is attends an art therapy session by court-order. He tries to get the therapist to sign his paper, but she insists that he stay for the entire four hour session before signing. At the end, he recognizes Rosa Ortecho and confronts her, but she tells him she's Rosa's cousin Rosalinda. Wyatt later goes to the Crashdown Cafe and confronts Rosa. As he attacks her, and Rosa grabs a syringe of the memory-wiping drug butyricol and injects him.^[7]