David Marciano: Detective Ray Vecchio

Quotes 

• [Fraser has almost blown Ray's cover] 

  Ray Vecchio : For a full year, I am deep undercover! Never waiting in line, always getting the best tables at the best restaurants. I live in a nine-thousand-square-foot adobe house at the edge of the desert, with a butler named Nero who brings me buttermilk night and day! And everywhere I go, I sit in the back of a black limo with my elbow on the gangster lean. And all this, all this, you wipe out with one word?

  Constable Benton Fraser : [grinning]  It's good to see you, Ray.

  Ray Vecchio : [chortling]  Yeah, it's good to see you, too, Benny.

• Ray Vecchio : So you're me.

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : And you're not you.

  Ray Vecchio : That's a good one. Unlike the clothes.

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : Something wrong with 'em?

  Ray Vecchio : Well, nothing... if you're a bag lady. You see, I had a rep. I was a slick dresser.

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : Oh, like a style pig, you mean.

  Ray Vecchio : [laughing]  You kill me, funny guy! I can see it's gonna take a lot of work to get my reputation back in place.

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : What place is that?

  Ray Vecchio : Well, you see, these three goons are gonna get one call each. They're gonna call Vegas. And when they do, Armando Langoustini's gonna go up like flash paper. Time to get my old life back.

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : That's my life.

  Ray Vecchio : I'm afraid it is.

  [to Fraser] 

  Ray Vecchio : What are you grinning about?

  Constable Benton Fraser : I knew you two would hit it off.

• Lt. Harding Welsh : Oh, Ray...

  Ray Vecchio , Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : Yeah?

  Lt. Harding Welsh : No, I mean, um... oh, I see this is gonna be confusing. Okay, look, you be Ray Vecchio 'cause you were Ray Vecchio to start with.

  Ray Vecchio : Right.

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : So, uh, who am I?

  Lt. Harding Welsh : Good question. Well, you can be Stanley Kowalski.

  Ray Vecchio : Stanley Kowalski?

  Lt. Harding Welsh : Yeah, his father had a big thing for Marlon Brando.

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : So I just, um, I just...

  [Welsh nods] 

  Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski : Yeah. Okay.

  Ray Vecchio : [smirking]  Later, Stanley.