Talk:York

New York
York says that he hadn't been called "York" in a really long time. This doesn't necessarily mean it's his real name (as someone suggested). It is just as possible (and more so) that since he was doing odd jobs to scrape together a living that no one has referred to him by his Freelancer codename in years.

Tex already established in a previous season that there are 49 Freelancers, one named after the then-remaining United States of America. When Tex briefs Church on the failed mission with the alien, she says she and York went after Wyoming. At that point Church says, "York, your old Freelancer buddy? Was Carolina with him?" This establishes that York was a member of said Freelancer division with Tex. Since there is no state called simply 'York', it is apparent that his state name was New York, and is called York for shorthand, a la North and South (who also are never referred to as North or South Dakota on screen).