I always want to just go "VECCHIO!" when I talk about him

[schmerica]

Watched a couple episodes of due South with the baby sister yesterday -- Dead Man Running, Spy vs. Spy, a little bit of Asylum. I've seen them all many many times, obviously, so I was reading The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants at the same time, but I was still paying a decent amount of attention.

For some reason, what really stuck out for me this time was this dialogue from Spy vs Spy:

Pike: Three years ago the Bureau O.C. Division started tracking a Mob lieutenant in Las Vegas known as Armando 'the Bookman' Langoustini. Turns out Ray Vecchio is a dead ringer for Langoustini. So what do they do? They start grooming him. And then, what do you know? What do you know happens? Car crash. Car crash, the Bookman's killed. Was it an accident? You be the judge. Anyway, this opens up a window of opportunity, so the Feds slide in Ray Vecchio as the Bookman. But this is a fragile cover, so they need to cover the cover. They need a new Ray Vecchio to slide in there at Division 27, Chicago P.D. They pick you.

Because, um, hey! How did I never once notice the implications there before? It's ambiguous, but there's definitely room for the implication that the Feds have been "grooming" Ray Vecchio for a long time, close to that three years. Which would mean it was going on pretty much the entire time of the first two seasons and his entire friendship with Fraser.

Seriously, has anyone written fic dealing with this? Or even made any attempt to have that theory make any sort of sense at all?

(Hmm. Why is this the only Vecchio icon I have?)

Comments

[moosesal.livejournal.com]

I've definitely read a fic (or two maybe) where when Vecchio returns he admits that he was preparing for the job for a few years before he left. I can't think of them right now, but if I find them, I'll link you.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about something that actually goes into it indepth like, like in the period it's going on. Hmmm.

[moosesal.livejournal.com]

Haven't read any of those, but I haven't reach much Vecchio fic. The story I'm thinking of he talks about it pretty extensively after, but it's probably not as indepth as you're wanting.