Raymond

Overview

On screen The Extended Look opens with Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos asking for Raymond: they have come to pick up for Boobie Ike (01:08 and 02:22). Inside they find him beside a smoky kitchen lab where workers are cooking, and he tells them to wait: his partner has gone quiet, and nothing moves until he knows why. The partner calls to warn that the task force is coming, and the police raid the building minutes later.

Key facts

• On screen Names: Raymond, or Ray to his crew.
• On screen Partner: Ernesto, off the grid until he calls (02:55 to 03:26).
• On screen Business: a drug lab in the apartment, gloved workers cooking at a long table (02:40 to 03:10).
• On screen On Boobie (03:06): Boobie only worries about himself.
• On screen Look: shirtless, tattooed, dreadlocks, gold chains with an SS pendant.
• Reported Gang: San4San, according to GTA Wiki.

In the Extended Look

On screen Raymond is not pleased to see them. He asks whether Boobie really sent them now, and why Boobie did not come to collect himself. His partner is off the grid, so until he finds out where and why, they are in a holding pattern (02:40 to 03:02). Asked whether Boobie knows all this, he says Boobie knows, and the problem is that Boobie only worries about himself (03:03 to 03:06).

On screen Then the phone rings. On speaker, Ernesto warns that their friends on the task force are on their way and tells Raymond to let them take whatever they want (03:26 to 03:35). Raymond reminds him that he has someone outside his mother’s house, and moments later a lookout shouts that the police are here and armed (03:39 to 03:50). Raymond tells Ernesto he was always there for him, and Ernesto answers “It is what it is, my friend” (04:01 to 04:10).

On screen During the raid, led by Méndez, Raymond pulls Jason and Lucia into a neighbor’s apartment ahead of more police coming up from downstairs (05:25). The neighbor, Aunt Tee, is furious, and they climb out of her window past her air conditioner (05:29 to 05:54).

Our read

Our read Ernesto goes quiet, calls only to tell Raymond to let the task force take what it wants, and shrugs when the police arrive. It reads like a partner who has made his own arrangement, and it may explain why Boobie sent Jason and Lucia instead of coming himself.

Questions

Who is Raymond in GTA 6?

On screen The man running the drug lab where Jason and Lucia collect for Boobie Ike at the start of the Extended Look.

Who is Ernesto?

On screen Raymond’s partner, who calls to warn that the task force is coming and then tells him it is what it is.

Does Raymond get away?

On screen He leads Jason and Lucia into Aunt Tee’s apartment, and they climb out of her window. Reported According to GTA Wiki, all three escape.