Due South (1994–1999)

Callum Keith Rennie: Detective Stanley Raymond Kowalski

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• Ray Kowalski : You don't have a gun?

  Benton Fraser : Well, obviously you weren't fully briefed. I'm not licensed to carry a firearm.

  Ray Kowalski : And you didn't bother telling me before?

  Benton Fraser : Well, it didn't seem germane at the time.

  Ray Kowalski : What the hell kinda word is that?

• Ray Kowalski : Look, we're hundreds of miles from nowhere in a frozen wasteland and you're grinning like an idiot.

  Benton Fraser : I'm home.

• Ray Kowalski : You know, Fraser, when they offered me this assignment, they made it sound kind of normal. They say, "Hey, Ray, here's a chance to start over, ditch the past." "What's the catch?" I say. "Oh, your partner's Canadian." Canadian? I got nothing against Canadians, except for the time when they won the World Series.

  Benton Fraser : Two times.

  Ray Kowalski : Which I'm willing to overlook.

  Benton Fraser : Thank you.

  Ray Kowalski : But at no time did they say, "you'll be working with a Mountie who's got a wolf that's a florist".

• Torrance : What is a Mountie doing here, anyway?

  Ray Kowalski : His name is Constable Benton Fraser. He first came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father, and for reasons that do not need explaining at this juncture, he has remained a lesion...

  Benton Fraser : Uh, liaison, Ray. Attached as liaison with the Canadian consulate.

• Benton Fraser : You know, Ray, my father once told me that the sky isn't just above you, that if you look at the horizon you'll see that it actually touches the ground. So if you think about it, wherever you go, you are actually walking in the sky.

  Ray Kowalski : You're a freak.

  Benton Fraser : Understood.

• Benton Fraser : Sir, I wonder if I might ask a question.

  Kevin Spender : Sure, if you can tell me how a Mountie fits into this.

  Benton Fraser : My name is Constable Benton Fraser...

  Lt. Welsh : He originally came to Chicago on the trail of his father's killer...

  Ray Kowalski : And for a whole bunch of reasons he's decided to stick around...

  Benton Fraser : Attached as liaison with the Canadian Consulate.

• Ray Vecchio : So you're me.

  Ray Kowalski : And you're not you.

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

  Ray Kowalski : Something wrong with them?

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

  Ray Kowalski : Oh yeah, like a style pig, you mean.

• Ray Kowalski : Can you get out? I need the room.

  Constable Turnbull : No, no, Ray. In Canada if we wish someone to leave the room we say "Could you please leave the room?"

  Ray Kowalski : Could you please leave the room...before I punch you in the head?

• Ray Kowalski : What is the name, Frannie?

  Francesca : It's on the pop sheet there.

  Ray Kowalski : You mean rap sheet.

  Francesca : Okay, rap, pop, country, classical...

• Ray Kowalski : D'you find me attractive?

  Benton Fraser : In what sense?

  Ray Kowalski : In the sense of... you know, being a woman.

  Benton Fraser : Do I think you're an attractive woman?

• Ray Kowalski : Oh, great, what, we got the alderman on attempted suicide?

  Benton Fraser : Inducement to suicide is still a crime in the state of Illinois.

  Ray Kowalski : Got the death penalty for that?

  Benton Fraser : Well I don't imagine the death penalty would be an effective deterrent for potential suicides.

  Ray Kowalski : Right. Got a point there.

• Benton Fraser : Ray, you know, you really should try to keep your things a little more organized.

  Ray Kowalski : Look, Fraser, this is the wrong time for advice on neatness.

  Benton Fraser : It may be the wrong time for advice, Ray, but it's never the wrong time for neatness.

• [Fraser and Ray are being questioned by a gang of criminals.] 

  Muldoon : Perhaps he should talk. Don't I know you?

  Benton Fraser : Not directly, no. I first came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of my -

  Ray Kowalski : Fraser, not now.

• Ray Kowalski : You and I both know I'm not Ray Vecchio.

  Benton Fraser : You're not?

  Ray Kowalski : I don't even look like him.

  Benton Fraser : Well, you could have had plastic surgery.

  Ray Kowalski : You are unhinged.

• Benton Fraser : Hello, this is Detective Vecchio's cellular telephone. Er, Constable Benton Fraser answering?

  Ray Kowalski : "Hello" is enough, Fraser.