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| “ | You see, your friend here would rather get crème bruleéd before he dies. Hopefully you ain't so stupid. | „ |
| ~ Ray Boccino. |
| “ | First off, I don't trust this guinea for a second. Oh, yeah. Ray Boccino's a slimy motherf-cker. The one thing you can rely on him for is greed. | „ |
| ~ Patrick McReary to Niko Bellic during "Harboring a Grudge". |
Ray Boccino is a major character in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV, one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Brian Jeremy) of its 2009 midquel The Lost and Damned, an one of the three overarching antagonists (alongside Dimitri Rascalov and Gerald McReary) of The Ballad of Gay Tony.
He is an ambitious mobster and a high-ranking member of the Pegorino Crime Family who acts as the caporegime to his crime boss Jimmy Pegorino. As such, Ray also acts as a mission giver to both Johnny Klebitz and Niko Bellic - before the latter subsequently kills him under Pegorino's order in the mission Pest Control.
He was voiced by Joe Barbara.
Personality[]
Personality-wise, Ray is a very arrogant and greedy man - trying to find deals and jobs that are worth a lot of money for personal gain. He works with many thugs and mobsters, like the Irish Mob, in order to be favored by Jimmy Pegorino, trying to please him with every way he knows. He is, however, distrusted by most of his associates (and by Jimmy Pegorino himself) due to his said greed.
He is also known to have an extremely short temper; at one point, a man stole money from him. Ray answered by throwing the man and his waste management business into a trash compactor, after nearly beating the man to death.
Despite this, he is above betraying his close associates to further himself. In fact, although his associates speak of him warily, Ray finds himself betrayed by his own cohorts several times. Luca Silvestri and his crew kept the diamonds they stole for themselves and Johnny Klebitz steals his profit during the diamond fiasco.
Ray's greed, arrogance, selfishness and corruption would eventually lead to his death. In the opening cutscene of Get Lost, the final story mission for TLAD (The Lost and Damned), Thomas "Tom" Stubbs III tells Johnny not to worry about Ray, due to the fact that he will more than likely die, or at least end up in jail within a month. This is proven true, as Pegorino eventually orders Niko to kill Ray on suspicion alone in the mission Pest Control.
Appearance[]
Ray Boccino is a tall young caucasian male. He usually wears stylish and expensive tenues.
Biography[]
Background[]
Little is known about Boccino prior to the events of 2008, except that he was born in Westdyke in Alderney in 1976. In 1990, he was arrested for possession of stolen property.
Later, in 1991, he was arrested for grand larceny. Later, he was arrested in 1995 for hijacking, and in 1999 for burglary. At some point, he joined or got into the Pegorino Family and worked his way up the ladder to the position of Capo.
He has developed a rivalry to Phil Bell (possibly jealous at the latter's better reputation), and even accuses him of being a rat.
When it comes to Jimmy Pegorino, he has a negative opinion on Ray due to his inability to complete his operations (including the Diamonds issue) and states in Pegorino's Pride that he doubts he will ever make it to the level he wants to reach due to his greed (possibly trying to become the Underboss or Boss of the Pegorino Crime Family). Ray is often brought up in conversations with Phil and Pegorino, and Niko Bellic even mentions he blames Ray for the Diamond issue because of his poor planning and the amount of people he would get involved. Patrick McReary has a negative opinion on Ray as well, claiming that greed is primarily the only thing you can count on him for.
Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned[]
Boccino is first introduced chronologically while speaking to Billy Grey in The Lost MC Clubhouse after selling firearms to the biker gang. He becomes acquainted with Johnny Klebitz before leaving.
Pegorino regularly orders Ray to host operations in Algonquin. Ray often comes up with schemes to steal businesses from the Ancelotti crime family and the Liberty City Triads in order to spread more Pegorino Family influence through Liberty City. He hires the McRearys and Niko Bellic to do several jobs for the Pegorinos, such as stealing cloned medication from the triads, stealing an Ancelotti pay-off, crippiling the Ancelotti's alliance with the Albanian mob, and killing Ancelotti capo Frankie Garone.
Later on, during the Lost MC's civil war, Brian Jeremy contacted Ray regarding Johnny Klebitz. Brian conspires against Johnny, and wants Ray to help him annihilate Johnny's faction of the motorcycle club. Ray favors Johnny however, considering him as a much better businessman than Brian (due to the latter's irrational devotion to the imprisoned Billy Grey). Ray reveals Brian's whereabouts to Johnny so that business between him and The Lost can resume as usual.
Afterwards, Ray hires Niko to kill Teddy Benavidez, as Benavidez owes Ray money which he has not repaid.
Ray eventually becomes aware that very valuable diamonds are going to be sold to nightclub empresario Tony Prince in East Hook. Ray believes he could make a lot of money from selling the diamonds, and plots to steal them. Through his contact with Ashley Butler (with whom he was presumably having an affair), Ray hires Johnny and The Lost to steal the diamonds.
Johnny successfully steals the diamonds, and Ray orders him to stash the them in two separate sets of trash bags in located in different areas to one-another in Algonquin. Immediately after the diamonds are stashed, Ray orders Niko to assist members of his crew (Joseph DiLeo, Johnny Barbosa, and Luca Silvestri) to collect them. It is later discovered that DiLeo, Barbosa and Silvestri planned to take the diamonds for themselves and flee to Las Venturas; Ray sends Niko to retrieve them. Niko kills Luca and his crew before meeting Ray in Middle Park, where he gives him the diamonds.
Later, Ray sends Niko and Johnny to the Libertonian to sell the diamonds to Jewish Mob associates Issac Roth and Mori Green, however they are attacked by Tony Prince's bodyguard Luis Lopez, whom steals the diamonds.
In the confusion of the ambush, Johnny takes all of the money in a panic, and Niko is left with nothing. Niko contacts Ray to inform him of the ambush, and that Johnny has stolen the money but isn't sure where the diamonds are. Johnny had given the money to fellow Lost MC member Jim Fitzgerald for safe keeping. Ray immediately questions Johnny about the money, and Johnny denies that he took it.
A short time later, Ray believes that Johnny took the money; he has Fitzgerald kidnapped and tortured for information in the basement of Drusilla's. Ray uses Jim's cellphone to text Johnny and lure him to Drusilla's.
After a brief argument between Ray and Johnny over the situation, Jim executes Ray's henchman and escapes alongside Johnny.
Ray is quick to react - he hires Niko to find and eliminate Jim, and sends his own men to hunt for Johnny (Johnny survives the attack, and kills all of Ray's hitmen but Niko succeeds in killing Jim).
Ashley later tells Johnny that Ray has managed to kill Jim (unbeknownst to Johnny, Niko is the one who killed him). Johnny wants to get revenge, but is told not to by Congressman Thomas Stubbs because the whole Pegorino syndicate are under surveillance and that half of the organization would be "either dead or arrested within a month".
Later, Isaac Roth begins to blame the ambushed diamond deal on Boccino and threatens to have him killed. In retaliation, Boccino again orders Niko to murder Roth (as well as his two henchmen) at Roth's penthouse at the Majestic Hotel. Afterwards, Boccino arranges an apartment in Alderney City for Niko so he can can "keep a closer eye on him". Niko refuses to do anymore work for Boccino from this point on. Before or after this mission, Ray will give Niko Bellic what he promised him in Museum Piece; the location of Florian Cravic (though Niko ends up sparing him as he realizes that he is not the target).
Ray makes a brief cameo in the opening cut scenes of Phil Bell's & Jimmy Pegorino's first missions. He also tells Niko that he made the introduction (though Niko will once again say that he is not connected to Ray). He is often brought up in conversations with Pegorino and Phil - in fact, in Pegorino's first mission, Niko will comment that Ray's poor planning and the amount of people (Johnny, Luca's crew and Isaac) he trusted are to blame for his failure to get the diamonds. Ray can also be called after Payback, I'll Take Her & Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend (provided that he hasn't been murdered yet). Interestingly, Ray will later call Niko telling him he knows that Gay Tony has the diamonds and asks him to steal them. Niko, wanting to avoid what would have been a very huge plot twist in both TBoGT and IV, refuses to do so.
Later in the game as the Pegorino family's affairs fall further into turmoil, Jimmy Pegorino decides to send a message to any possible informants in the organization and orders Niko to kill Boccino, believing that he has snitched on the family. After leaving a sit-down in East Holland, he and his bodyguards head to an auto shop in BOABO. Seeing the opportunity, Pegorino tells the convoy to stop for gas on the way so Niko can ambush them (however, it is ultimately up to the player how they wish to proceed with the hit). Regardless, Boccino and his men are killed on the way to the auto shop.
