The final season of On My Block has dropped on Netflix, and many of the fans’ questions have been answered. One burning question that has been bothering us (as well as the core four) for the past three seasons is who Lil Ricky is. In On My Block season 4, Lil Ricky’s identity is revealed.
Lil Ricky is first mentioned when Jamal begins his journey to find the RollerWorld money in season 1, but he is presumed dead. However, he becomes the main storyline in season 3, when it’s revealed that Lil Ricky is actually alive by Cuchillos. The core four are then tasked with bringing Lil Ricky to Cuchillos (against their will) but never actually do.
They can’t seem to find where and who Lil Ricky is by the end of season 3, so that leaves On My Block season 4 to provide these answers. And season 4 shows where he is and so much more!
Spoilers for On My Block season 4 ahead.
Who is Lil Ricky?
His real name is Ricardo Galindo, and he’s the founder of the Santos Gang. He was one of the three members of the Santos (Benito, Frankie and Lil Ricky) who pulled off the 1981 RollerWorld Heist. After the heist, they hid the money, but Benito and Frankie were arrested and later died in jail. Lil Ricky wasn’t arrested but was later presumed dead.
We find out in season 1 that he’s Chivo’s cousin. In season 3, we find out he’s not dead but in hiding. And in season 4, we find out exactly who he is and where he is.
Where is Ricky Galindo in On My Block season 4?
This is the question that has been on everyone’s minds since the start of the series. In the past three seasons, the core four have been on a seemingly wild goose chase to find the Santos founder with no such luck. Now in On My Block season 4, his identity has been revealed.
Lil Ricky is the owner of The Farm. The Farm is a rehabilitation facility located in Bakersfield. If you recall, Ray (Oscar and Cesar’s dad) left Freeridge to go to Bakersfield because a mysterious man offered him a job in season 3. Ray works for Lil Ricky at The Farm.
We’re first introduced to the Santos founder in episode 6 of season 4 when he comes into Ray’s office to ask Ray for his signature on his department’s time cards. His identity isn’t revealed at the time, but we had an inkling that he may be Lil Ricky.
It’s not until the end of episode 6 when that same man helps Cesar get his car back running. At the end of their conversation, he introduces himself as the owner of The Farm and says his name is Ricky Galindo.
As the two are shaking hands, Cesar looks dumbfounded (just like many of us) by what was just revealed. It definitely was an aha moment for many of us watching. Later in the season, we get to see Jamal, Monse, Ruby, Cesar and Chivo sit down with Lil Ricky and have a conversation at Chivo’s house. We’ve got to tell you, that scene was hilarious!
On My Block season 4 ended with a good series conclusion. The core four were back on good terms and about to embark on one last adventure before they all go their separate ways for college or whatever they decided to do after high school.
We’re going to miss this teen series, but we can’t wait to see what’s in store for the On My Block spinoff Freeridge! Be sure to watch the final season of On My Block streaming now on Netflix.
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Who had Cuchillos money?
After Cuchillos is killed by another gang called 19th Street after negotiations with Oscar, Oscar is one of the last people seen with the money. What happens to the money after this point is unclear until season 4.
Who did the Cuchillos find?
Fans eager for answers about who kidnapped the kids on On My Block didn’t have to wait long, because the season 3 trailer revealed that it was Cuchillos, the leader of the Santos gang. Her throne is made of wicker, her minions mean business, she has a new mission for the Freeridge teens: find Lil Ricky.
Who is the villain in On My Block?
Latrelle is a recurring character and the main antagonist in the first and second seasons of On My Block. He is a member of the Prophet$, and currently incarcerated. He is portrayed by Jahking Guillory.
Did spooky leave the Santos?
After years of thinking he was stuck in the Santos and protecting Cesar the only way he knew how, in Season 4 it’s revealed that Spooky finally got out.
Who is the leader of the Santos On My Block?
It was founded by Ricardo “Lil’ Ricky” Galindo , and is currently led by Cesar Diaz, also known as Lil Spooky . Santos was formerly led by Oscar “Spooky“ Diaz, with Cuchillos being the head of them.
What did latrelle do to Ruby?
After suffering from PTSD, after Latrelle shot Ruby and killed Olivia back in season 1, Ruby decides to stop living in fear. Ruby is given a letter by Abuelita, which informs Ruby that Latrelle will be transferred out of juvie when he turns 18.
Who stole the RollerWorld money from Jamal?
Cesar says he doesn’t have it, and that’s when Jamal, Ruby, and Cesar officially stop being friends. Then in another flashback, Cesar accuses Oscar of stealing the RollerWorld Money, but Oscar says he didn’t. Based on the map that Abuelita made for the core four, she had the money all along, and she hid it.
Did Ruby and Jasmine sleep together?
They ended up having a huge fight, ultimately ending with them calling it quits on their relationship. Well, sort of, as shortly after their break up, Ruby and Jasmine continue to sleep together but sadly choose not to reignite their romance.
Who is the leader of 19th street On My Block?
19th street is a Gang in the Netflix series On My Block. Their leader is Cuete.
Where is Lil Ricky from On My Block?
Lil Ricky is the owner of The Farm. The Farm is a rehabilitation facility located in Bakersfield. If you recall, Ray (Oscar and Cesar’s dad) left Freeridge to go to Bakersfield because a mysterious man offered him a job in season 3.
How old is Ruby from On My Block?
Jason Genao (Ruben “Ruby” Martinez) is also 25.
Jason was a few months shy of his 22nd birthday when Season 1 of On My Block was released.
Is Monse pregnant On My Block?
Jessica Marie Garcia is pregnant!!! The On My Block and Diary of a Future President actress announced the exciting news that she and husband Adam Celorier are expecting their first child.
Do Ruby and Olivia survive?
Despite Ruby’s efforts, they are both hit. Ruby is hit in the upper chest and Olivia is hit right in the middle of her chest. Though we hear her call out to Ruby and she is responsive at first, she obviously dies from her wounds while Ruby survives.
Does Spooky get killed?
The most shocking and devastating moment in season five, was when Spooky was shot and killed. This came moments after he vowed to his girlfriend Isabel (played by Andrea Cortes) that he is going to change his life around.
What does Caesar’s tattoo mean On My Block?
When Cesar turns around in those last seconds, he’s got a broken heart tattoo that hints at a devastating end for Monsar. HollywoodLife talked EXCLUSIVELY with Diego Tinoco about how things ended for Cesar. He admitted he was “heartbroken” by that dramatic turn for his character and had a “hard time” filming it.
Where did Spookys tattoos go?
He has multiple tattoos, including a teardrop under one eye, the Santos cross on his neck and two sets of initials under an R.I.P Tattoo on his right shoulder.
Did Oscar get jumped out for Cesar?
It’s quintessential Oscar that when he got jumped out of the Santos, he struck a deal to take Cesar’s beating, too. He knew Cesar wasn’t meant for the lifestyle, and as it got progressively worse, he hoped the day would come when Cesar would leave.
The On My Block crew is back for more adventures in season 3 -- and there's plenty of drama!
The trailer for the fan-favorite Netflix comedy shows that the new season -- which dropped on March 11 -- picks up right where season 2 left off, with the crew meeting their kidnapper, who turns out to be the infamous-yet-shady leader of the Santos gang, "Cuchillos" (Ada Luz Pla).
The menacing matriarch first thanks Cesar (Diego Tinoco), Monse (Sierra Capri), Ruby (Jason Genao), and Jamal (Brett Gray) for their part in taking down the Santos' rival gang, the Prophets. But then, she tasks them with an important job.
"Little Ricky is alive," Cuchillos declares of the original Santos founder, who had a hand in pulling off the RollerWorld heist that led to the friends' major payday at the end of season 1. But it seems that the discovery -- and last season's mission to wash and protect the cash -- has led them to an even more difficult task. "You're gonna find him."
"Season 3 is about the pursuit for Little Ricky. Trying to solve the Little Ricky mystery of it all," On My Block creator and executive producer Eddie Gonzalez teased on set of season 3 last year, also noting that the show is taking back a "lighter" tone than season 2 -- when the friends were struggling to recover from the tragic shooting death of their friend, Olivia.
"This show has a baked-in mythology that started with RollerWorld," showrunner and EP Lauren Iungerich added. "And now that they've found this money, it becomes a driving force of, who are these kids that took down the Prophets?"
Iungerich also hinted that the series' "mythology" becomes more of a driving force in the season 3 storyline. "Normally, the real-world story is the B-story, it becomes the A-story this season."
So, what does that mean for the Core Four, as well as their friends and family? Read on for more on what's in store for each character in season 3 -- from the stars and creators themselves.
CESAR (Diego Tinoco)
After a tense season 2 spent on the lam, Cesar is back with his pals -- and his brother, Santos honcho Oscar, aka "Spooky" (Julio Macias) -- in season 3, but it seems the danger is far from over.
"I think that season 3 is by far one of the best seasons yet -- the stakes are definitely higher than they have ever been before. And you will see that clearly, right off the bat, the Core Four and more, we go on a summer adventure, not by choice, but rather by force," Tinoco explained. "If we don't come through and find Little Ricky, our heads are on the line."
And while Cesar and his brother worked together to get out of a deadly situation in last season's finale, there will be a new wrinkle in their relationship in season 3 -- with the surprise reappearance of their father, Ray (Ian Casselberry).
"Dad is back," Tinoco teased. "He is coming out of prison after 12 years, and we're going to get to explore that relationship between Ray and Cesar."
Ray's return will affect each brother differently, Tinoco and Macias explained, as Oscar was older when their dad got locked up and he was forced to step into the parental role for his little brother.
"Cesar has looked upon Oscar as a father figure for many years -- since he can remember. So we're going to explore how that interacts with their dad actually coming into play now," Tinoco explained.
Cesar's other tumultuous relationship -- his romance with Monse -- is also facing new challenges in season 3, though Tinoco admits he's sentimental when it comes to the on-again, off-again couple.
"I definitely ship them," he laughed. "I think I would love to see them together forever, happily ever after, Notebook style."
MONSE (Sierra Capri)
Before the kidnapping cliffhanger at the end of season 2, Monse was ready to make her break from the group -- and Freeridge, in general -- announcing her plans to attend a private boarding school on the East Coast. However, a dangerous summer following Cuchillos' marching orders may throw that into chaos.
"I felt like [this season is] her evolving and growing up, growing into a young woman," Capri explained. "She's experienced a lot at a very young age, so she's always been mature. But now this is a new chapter that-- we'll see if she actually goes or not. I'm excited."
"It's not a fluid line of just getting out [of the community]," Iungerich explained of the difficult choices facing the Core Four's sole female member. "For her, it's complicated. She didn't want to leave...She wanted to dig into her community as she and her father fought in season 2, and I really believe in the power of community."
"Her father is saying, 'You have this opportunity,' and he's worried about leaving his daughter, who is now becoming more and more vulnerable as he feels that the neighborhood has changed...We still are playing with that this season. What does that look like? What does this opportunity look like, and what does that mean to leave, and how does she feel about that?"
For Monse, the split between her worlds came into sharper focus in season 2 when she reconnected with her estranged mother, who abandoned her and her dad years ago for a new life -- complete with new kids and a fancy house in Brentwood.
"They still have a relationship in season 3 and it's still a rocky one," Capri warned of the mother-daughter connection after Monse's rejection of her mom in season 2. "We'll see what happens with that."
As for one of her character's strongest ties to Freeridge, her romantic relationship with Cesar, the actress has the same faith as Tinoco that the pair could be happy together in the future -- though she wonders if the trials and tribulations of their chaotic teenage life might get in the way.
"I'd love when they get older to see them married with kids, and both going down good paths," she noted. "Right now, I don't know. They're going through a lot right now, but I think that'll happen. You never forget your first love… They just want each other to be safe."
RUBY (Jason Genao)
No character went through it more in season 2 than Ruby, who was dealing with the aftermath of Olivia's death and the PTSD from his own near-fatal gunshot wound as the external drama was unfolding around the Core Four. However, in season 3, it seems the wisecracking short king will be getting back to feeling like himself and handling things in a healthier way.
"Season 3 is like bringing season 1 Ruby back, the old Ruby back," Genao teased. "He's now seeing the light [at the end of the tunnel] as to what the trauma can bring. Not just the depression, but he's like, 'Oh, life is short, so now I'm going to start taking advantage of the good stuff of life.'"
"What I love so much about Ruby was the way I got to be snarky and a little bit of a funny a**hole in the show," the actor added. "In season 2, he was kind of just an a**hole. So I feel that in season 3 he gets to be the old Ruby again. He gets to be funny, but mean, which is my favorite part of Ruby."
Feeling better for Ruby, it seems, also means having his eyes opened to Jasmine, whose long-standing crush took on another level in season 2 when she was able to help him through his panic attacks and prove herself as a loyal and caring friend.
"In season 1, it was like, Ruby hated Jasmine," Genao joked. "And then in season 2, she became this crutch where it's like, 'Is there anyone that knows what I'm going through?' And clearly not, within my own Core Four."
"In season 3, we get to explore more of how Jasmine understands Ruby," he continued, noting that Jasmine's expertise and law enforcement connections make her invaluable to the friends in their search for Little Ricky. "Jasmine is here and you don't hate it. Ruby doesn't hate it. He's like, 'Damn, I kind of need her. Like, what is Jasmine doing? I need her to help me with this'... Everyone needs a Jasmine."
JAMAL (Brett Gray)
Always marching to the beat of his own drum, Jamal's journey in season 2 was about the aftermath of finding the RollerWorld money -- but even his carefully crafted plans couldn't have predicted the can of worms that discovery opened.
"I think Jamal is finally coming to terms with the fact that he's had a huge part in all of this. Probably the biggest part in all of this," Gray said of his character's season 3 journey. "I think that he's almost taking it in a negative way."
"He's becoming a little bit more, I would say almost on the spectrum of narcissism, than just confidence and cockiness," he added. "It's starting to tip that teeter the opposite way, where he's like, 'OK, everybody doesn't appreciate me, so eff it, I'm going to do whatever I want to do.' And it's funny because it starts affecting the whole group, in this way that he needs to be in control and he wants everything to be perfect, and he wants to be the one that's right."
The neurotic doomsday prepper also has another new focus this year: a love interest! (Though he initially mistakes her for a stalker.)
"It's so funny because she's sort of the opposite of Jamal," Gray teased of his character's mysterious paramour. "She's super shy and really creepy, and really quiet and weird. So, like, it brings him down. You get a little bit more of who Jamal is as a romantic, but it's also the most ridiculous relationship ever."
OSCAR, aka "SPOOKY" (Julio Macias)
The aptly nicknamed gang leader has served as a stern reminder of the dangerous Freeridge underworld in the show's first two seasons, but the new episodes will dive deeper into the sensitivity behind the scowl. As Gonzalez hinted, "There's a reason why people become what they become. And sometimes it's not by choice. Sometimes it's by necessity."
The empathetic side of the Santos general comes through as tensions with Cuchillos reach a breaking point -- leading Oscar to question his position and motivations when it comes to gang life.
"He almost seems like he doesn't even enjoy doing what he's doing," Macias said of his character's struggles in season 3. "He's kind of doing it begrudgingly, but he does it to the best of his ability because that's going to be the best opportunity that he and his brother are going to have. Or at least, that's what he has constructed in his mind to believe is true."
"He's not just banging for banging sake. Like, he has aspirations or at least, [the show] alludes to the idea that he might have aspirations," the actor continued. "I think that he dreams a lot about it, he comes close to having thoughts of what it could be to get out. But again, he's preached to his brother so often, 'You're not going to get out. So get used to it. This is the best life you can live.'"
The return of Oscar and Cesar's father only brings about more questions when it comes to his character's steadfast life's code, Macias noted.
"Spooky, for the longest time, was Cesar's father. He really assumed that mantle, and he did it the best way he could," he explained. "He really does care about him. And there's a couple of scenes where you see them kind of butt heads, because Ray turns out to be different from what Oscar remembers... I think I know what's right, and I tell him that."
"So you'll see a deeper, I guess, appreciation for [Oscar and Cesar's] relationship as father and son, which was kind of alluded to the last two seasons. This one, it's like, oh no, Spooky really loves Oscar. He's his dad, really."
JASMINE (Jessica Marie Garcia)
"If you don't know a Jasmine, it's because you are the Jasmine," Garcia joked of her hilarious character ahead of season 3. "She very much lives inside of me, and I feel she kind of represents a lot of kids who feel like they need to be the class clown, or they need to say the joke before they are the joke, in order to fit in."
While the brash, bold (and also, asthmatic) character has served as comic relief over the show's first two seasons, the glimpses into her difficult home life and her empathetic friendship with Ruby have hinted at the "much more well-rounded person" Garcia said fans will get to see in season 3.
"I think you get to see her relationships with other people in the Core Four really blossom, and you explore a lot of different relationships, and how they connect on different levels," the actress explained. "I think you get to see her use the relationships, or the hardships she's had at home, to relate to the other kids... Especially, you get to see Monse and Jasmine's character evolve together."
And of course, there's her evolving dynamic with Ruby. Garcia explained that, while her character has never been shy about her major crush, she's cautious about taking steps forward while Ruby is still managing his own trauma.
"At least on Jasmine's side, she has these hopeful romantic feelings," she noted. "But I feel she's allowing Ruby to get better. He's dealing with a lot, and she sees through that, and she wants to be there for him on a deeper level than just necessarily, I want to be your girlfriend."
"I know when I shot that scene in the gym [in season 2], I wanted to go to the dance with Ruby. You know what I mean? I feel so many of our fans were pulling for that. But I feel she gave him his space, to come to that own conclusion. So I think, be ready for any kind of evolution with Ruby and Jasmine, whether it be friendship or romantic."
On My Blockseason 3 debuts on Netflix on March 11.
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