That drags out a series of mumbles under his breath, unable to actually voice any complaints because there are little nuggets of truth to it. It's not like someone made up the identity and the mask for him. The name came after the outfit, before the mask, and he just kinda went with it for a variety of reasons.

"A lot of room to work."

Gabriel isn't the type to put all his eggs into one basket. Not anymore. Whatever Jack speculated was going on while he was in command of Blackwatch, it might've been then when he started to realize that putting all of your effort and faith into one organization was just being ill-prepared. For all anyone knows, he could just be using Talon to further his agenda.

"Not that any of that matters right now, anyway."

Talon isn't here, and he isn't doing any of Talon's work here. He can't even continue his own missions, so what's the point in bringing it up? It'll just give Jack too much insight into his motives and plans, something he could use against him once all this Legionnaire bullshit is over.