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Deputy Brent Frye is one of the highest ranking officers in the Kingston Falls Sheriff office and is present at the station in the company of his superior, Sheriff Frank Reilly when Billy Peltzer shows up along with Gizmo and tries to tell the two about the invading gremlins. Brent seem to be rather laid back, a tad lazy and is also bossed around a bit by Frank.

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He sits by his desk and plays with a toy dart gun, slightly drunk when Billy enters the station and listens to Billy's explanation about the ongoing gremlin attack, but neither of the two policemen see the severity of the problem and don’t take Billy seriously. After a call about a snow plow accident at the Futtermans, Frank heads out along with Brent in their police car, Frank drives the cruiser because Brent was drunk, they witness the death of Ruby Deagle and sees how a man dressed as Santa is attacked by the gremlins. Brent then starts feeling rather scared and asks Frank if they could drive to the station. On the drive back, Brent, fully hammered begins to go into hysterics shouting that this is Supposed to be Christmas, wanting to know what’s going on,, but they don't get far when a Ford F-150, driven by a gremlin pulls out in front of them and they end up crashing and flipping over since a gremlin has destroyed the brakes of the police cruiser.

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  • His surname is Frye. In addition to this being visible on his nametag on his uniform, when they see Mrs. Deagle get killed, Frank says, "My God, Frye!" In George Gipe's novelization however he is simply "Deputy Brent."
  • He was played by actor Jonathan Banks, who later also plays Mike Ehrmantraut “who also happened to be a police officer” on AMC series Breaking Bad and its spin-off series Better Call Saul.
  • In the original script, Brent is portrayed as a much older deputy with an itchy trigger finger who constantly drinks on the job.
  • The original script had Brent getting massacred by the gremlins at the YMCA when he went to investigate it alone.

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