Ronnie...a cop or not???
Valerie
understand the part where Ronnie was meeting w/ Franco...from what it
sounded like Ronnie is impersonating a Police Officer? Or was what they
were talking about was that Ronnie started out impersonating a Police
Officer and then became one? That whole scene left me totally confused!
Valerie
PJ
I'm not totally sure about that scene either but it left me with the
feeling that Ronnie is a cop on the take. It sounded like the two of
them maybe grew up together? That Ronnie had gotten Franco out of the
trouble that Dante arrested him for all those years ago? That Ronnie
"knows" Franco is a killer but is still helping him? It came so out of
left field and was so poorly written that I'm not at all sure. Ronnie
is a cop working undercover as a mob guy but is really a mole for the
mob. Something like that.
PJ
Alane
I'm not sure either. I think that maybe Ronnie and Franco were buddies,
and Ronnie committed a crime - but Franco took the rap for it. Then,
Ronnie became a cop, and Franco went on to do worse things. But Ronnie
never turned him in because Franco knew his secret.
I've also been wondering about Franco's motivation in going after Jason.
Up until the time we found out Dante had arrested Franco, I thought he
would turn out to be the son of the cop Jason killed for Sonny back
in the old neighborhood. But wouldn't Dante know he was the cop's son?
Dante was supposed to be very close to the family.
Alane
Janie
poorly written. When he first came on it seemed as if he and Dante were
equals, then some time later he began acting as if he were Dante's
boss. I suppose they never knew what to do with him. I'm looking
forward to seeing him go out in a hail of bullets. But maybe they'll
keep him around after Franco goes so that Dante can figure out he's
dirty. That would be good too.
Alane
Wasn't that Ronnie who was brought in on a stretcher to GH at the
end of Friday's episode? I thought the implication there was was Franco
mowed him down and then went on to the Christmas tree lot.
Alane
Laura R
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Yes, that was what I thought as well. Franco is a serious nutcase.
Valerie
I also thought the same thing. I'm just wondering now if he's going to
do something to Carly since she wants the same Christmas Tree that he
does and the fact that he knows her son killed Claudia. But it would
have been nice if those scenes w/ Franco and Ronnie and then Ronnie
being brought in on a stretcher had been made clearer. It didn't even
really dawn on me that it was Ronnie until Franco was in the Christmas
Tree lot!
Valerie
Valerie
Laura M. Young
I've been trying to figure out who Ronnie is through this whole thread. I
guess he must be Dante's contact to whatever law enforcement agency Dante
works for. The idiot who left Dante's badge in the hospital room for Lulu
to find.
Have they ever explained who Dante is working for? Is he supposed to be an
FBI agent or something? If he isn't federal and he doesn't work for the
PCPD why would he have any jurisdiction to be working in PC at all?
PJ
He's NYPD and I've been wondering about the jurisdiction angle too.
They've never explained. Maybe there's crossover because the Corinthos
and the Zaccara organizations work in NYC as well. If they're each
(now together) such huge syndicates, as we're supposed to believe,
their illegal activities would encompass equally huge areas. I didn't
pay close attention when Dante was arrested a number of weeks ago and
Mac let him off . . . was Mac already aware that Dante was working
undercover in PC? GH is not very good at clarifying things when doing
so would only require a sentence or two of explanation!
PJ
Janie
It didn't dawn on me at all!
Yvonne Bowers
He's been called "Detective" Falconeri and is part of the NYPD. I also
think if someone was undercover for the "mob" it would be the FBI or
something like that, not a regular NYPD detective. I don't know if he's
homicide or not but I don't see Lennie Briscoe going undercover to flush
out a mob kingpin in another city/county but what do I know?
PJ, you're being hopeful. GH isn't going to provide a clarification OR
a sentence of explanation because there isn't one. The writers play
fast and loose with plot lines and logic anyway. They made Dante a NYPD
cop because that's where Olivia and Sonny are from and sent him to PC
because that's where Olivia and Sonny are now. It all boils down to
stupid Sonny anyway.
I do have a *real* question, though. I've watched all Law & Orders
forever and watch them in reruns but I don't know this. Is Dante a NYC
(Manhattan) cop? Do they also cover the five boroughs (Bensonhurst is
in Brooklyn) or do the boroughs have their own police forces?
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YvonneinSonoma
PJ
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I'm with you on watching all the L&Os! Love that show. But I don't
know the answer either. Seems like the cops on the show are all over
the place but they do refer to the cops in the other boroughs so I
suppose it's an umbrella thing. I don't know. I went to NYC once,
hated it, left 2 days early and have no desire to go back!
PJ
Valerie
. I didn't
> pay close attention when Dante was arrested a number of weeks ago and
> Mac let him off . . . was Mac already aware that Dante was working
> undercover in PC? GH is not very good at clarifying things when doing
> so would only require a sentence or two of explanation!
>
> PJ
From how I understood that scene, Mac and/or the new DA did some
investigating and discovered Dante was working undercover in PC, Mac did
not know at first.
Valerie
JimR
Answering the question about the New York Police Department. Cops
there in every one of the five (?) boroughs are all considered NY
cops. Brooklyn cops often cross over into Queens or Manhattan or
Staten Island to follow up on leads. The neighborhood precincts are
identified by number such as in the South Bronx, the infamous Fort
Apache is the 41st Precinct.
Laura M. Young
> He's NYPD and I've been wondering about the jurisdiction angle too.
> They've never explained. Maybe there's crossover because the Corinthos
> and the Zaccara organizations work in NYC as well. If they're each
> (now together) such huge syndicates, as we're supposed to believe,
> their illegal activities would encompass equally huge areas. I didn't
> pay close attention when Dante was arrested a number of weeks ago and
> Mac let him off . . . was Mac already aware that Dante was working
> undercover in PC? GH is not very good at clarifying things when doing
> so would only require a sentence or two of explanation!
>
> PJ
Answering my own question to tack on here...I just remembered some years
ago, when I opened the front door on my house in Scottsdale, AZ at 11:30PM
(to turn off a faucet), and found three men standing on the porch. My first
thought was that they were friends of my son, even though he no longer lived
at home, but before I could panic, I noticed they were all wearing shirts
that said "Police" with badges hanging around their neck! They identified
themselves as Mesa, AZ police. When I asked why Mesa police were in
Scottsdale, they said something about being part of a joint task force
investigating my neighbors to the west. I closed the door and called 911,
and asked that they verify whether or not there was any reason for Mesa
police to be standing on my Scottsdale porch.
The dispatcher eventually confirmed that they were legitimate, and I left
the cops to their business. That was the end of it until the next morning
when I left for work just as two more policemen, one with a high powered
assault rifle showed up and concealed themselves behind my garage pointing
the gun at the neighbor's house! I figured that was a GOOD time to get the
heck out of there! I half expected to come home and find my garage and
house riddled with bullet holes, but all was quiet when I returned. The
neighbors appeared to have disappeared, and a truck showed up a few weeks
later apparently to move out whatever was in the house. I never did find
out what happened over there!
However, obviously in my case the Scottsdale police WERE aware of the Mesa
PD working in the area, which did not seem to be the case with the PCPD when
Dante first showed up. I think NOW Mac knows what he is doing and is behind
him cheering at the prospect of someone bringing Sonny down after Mac has
failed to do so after all these years, but he didn't initially.