DrBakerFan
Well-Known Member
Pity poor Raines. The writers have turned him into a classic Salem dumb criminal in the same league with such dunces as Arnold "Fake Rafe" Finnegar and the hapless Sy who tried to put the squeeze on the DiMeras for more cash. How dumb have the writers made Raines, let me count the ways.I'm not sure why I'm supposed to dislike Raines. Hope murdered a man, and tried to murder Bo. But she's on the force. Aside from a little embezzlement and trying to murder the almost-always-in-peril-anyway wonder twins Gabi and Abby, what has Raines done but be a tough cop?
- 1) He involved himself in a criminal conspiracy with Dario, another one of Salem's denser criminals who oozed sleaze from every pore.
- 2) He thought he could get rich through a counterfeiting scheme in a town where nobody seems to use cash or pay for anything, and whose life styles are supported by the Salem money tree.
- 3) He then involved himself with arch-wimp Myron who is afraid of his own shadow and will fess up to anyone who looks at him cross-eyed.
- 4) He actually ominously said to Gabi that it was too bad she'd heard the Dario recording, which essentially is a confession of guilt. Instead, he should have quickly relieved her of the device, said something like this is the evidence he's been waiting for, and then vanished out of TBD's back door. If Gabi ever made any claims about what she heard, Raines could write them off as the ravings of an unstable, convicted murderer, a claim that would surely be supported by Julie who has no use for the woman who cruelly killed her darling Nicky.
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