Throughout the to start with two seasons, Jake is revealed to have a minor obsession with her, hung up from losing her to Eddie Fung at his bar mitzvah. He is a retired cop and is proven to be overly arranged and competitive like his daughter. In "Game of Boyles", it is revealed that Charles is not his biological son as his spouse experienced an affair with a rival florist, but nonetheless chose to elevate him like a legitimate Boyle.