(This FAQ is a work in progress; no claims are made as to its absolute veracity, although every effort has been made to ensure that it is as accurate as possible. It is F/Kcentric – this is, after all, an F/K list. Please send corrections and additions to faq@aukestrel.com.)

Fraser FAQ

Personal:
  1. ·Fraser graduated at the top of his class. (AtQH)
  2. ·Fraser says that he usually only drinks to the Queen. (the Pilot)
  3. ·Fraser plays the guitar and sings. (AtQH, MotB, MStB)
  4. ·Fraser is a master whittler. (GftS)
  5. ·Fraser may have a horse. (AtQH, LG?)
  6. ·Canonically Fraser does tan. (MotB, M&S, DGR, PS)
  7. ·Canonically Fraser was a Scout. The other two members of his troop were Innussiq (or Innusiq) and Innussiq's sister June. Fraser earned his cooking badge although June never did learn to boil water. (ICHBaD)
  8. ·Fraser has at least two leather jackets.
  9. ·Fraser was conceived in an igloo (BDtH) and born in a barn.
  10. ·By the time Fraser captures Holloway Muldoon, it's been thirty years since his mother died.
  11. ·One of the co-stars in “North” is Fraser's ass.
  12. ·Canonically Fraser speaks Mandarin, Inuktitut, and English.
  13. ·Canonically Fraser says he can take dictation in two official languages. Because he is Canadian those languages are probably English and French. He also can at least read Russian. (SvS)
  14. ·Fraser knows how to throw a knife (BitH, SiB) and shoot a gun (TWB, MoTB). He has two expert marksman patches on his uniform (rifles and pistols).
  15. ·Fraser has both one-piece long johns and regular long johns. (TD)
  16. ·In the Pilot, Fraser says he has been in the RCMP for 13 years. This is borne out by the stars on his shoulder: one star for every five years. By the beginning of the third season (or some time during the second), a third star has been added to the shoulder of his uniform.
  17. ·Canonically Fraser swears. (Pilot, BitH, BdtH)
  18. ·Fraser spent time in public school (CotW) as well as being homeschooled (SvS).
  19. ·Fraser drinks milk out of the carton. (TBL and SiB)
  20. ·Fraser appears to enjoy listening to Stan Rogers (MotB, CotW)
  21. ·The bullet with which Ray Vecchio shot Fraser (VSII) was left in his back, being deemed to dangerous to remove. (This may explain his apparent back problems in Odds.)
  22. ·Canonically Fraser wears very tight jeans. (North, TD, Witness)
  23. ·Fraser has cross-dressed for an undercover role. (SLiR)
  24. ·Canonically Fraser does swear, rarely, but beginning with “son of a bitch” in the Pilot.
  25. ·Fraser introduces himself as “Benton.” His father and other family friends and enemies call him Benton or Ben (Quinn, Eric, Buck Frobisher, Gerrard, Buck Frobisher's daughter, Victoria, Mark Smithbauer). The only person to call him “Benny” is Ray Vecchio. Ray Kowalski calls him “Fraser,” and, very occasionally, “Frase” or possibly “Red.” Other policemen at the 27th, including Lieutenant Welsh, refer to him as “Red” or “Big Red,” although Welsh prefers to address him as “Constable.” Thatcher also calls him Ben once (in WATE) when she's trying to imply an intimate relationship between them for the benefit of Henri Cloutier who is harassing her. Beth Haddrell refers to him as “Oh my God! He's so hot!”
  26. ·Fraser once memorized Milton's “Paradise Lost.” (Odds)
  27. ·Fraser gets himself admitted to a psychiatric hospital by telling the truth about himself. (HaaH)
  28. ·Fraser was hit by a frozen otter, an incident that left a scar, when he was 13. (LG)
  29. ·Fraser ran away from home when he was 12 to kill a caribou. He was joined by Quinn. (EM)
  30. ·Fraser was responsible for an incident involving a goldmine, a boomerang, and some gasoline that resulted in his running away from home when he was 16. (CH)
  31. ·Fraser sees his father's ghost beginning in the episode “Gift of the Wheelman.” This haunting continues until the end of the show. Diefenbaker, Maggie McKenzie, Gerrard, and Buck Frobisher also see Bob Fraser; during CotW, Ray Kowalski hears Bob Fraser's voice.
  32. ·Fraser has a half-sister approximately eight years younger than he is, Maggie McKenzie, whom he meets when she arrives in Chicago on the trail of her husband's killers. Her existence is a shock to both Fraser and his father. (HS)
  33. ·Fraser does know how to cook some things. He's making pancakes in One Good Man (for dinner), he also makes Thatcher an omelette in WATE, and he cooks spaghetti for Ray (outdoors!) in ALS.
Fraser-- Living space:
  1. ·In the first two seasons, Fraser lived in a small efficiency apartment in a bad neighborhood and shared bathroom facilities with his neighbors.
  2. ·Fraser eats off a mess kit and has one small table and two chairs in that apartment, as well as a braided rug, a footlocker, and a twin-sized bed. He often uses a kerosene lantern. Oddly that apartment contains a walk-in closet.
  3. ·In third season, his apartment building was burned down by a performance arsonist (BdtH) and he took up residence in his office in the Consulate. He is shown looking for an apartment on at least one occasion. (SvS)
  4. ·Canonically Fraser never locked his apartment door.
  5. ·Fraser keeps several Hudson blankets in the closet in his office.
  6. ·Fraser sleeps on a cot
  7. ·Fraser's office/quarters appear to be filled with storage boxes.
  8. ·Fraser's father's cabin (The Pilot) was apparently burned down by Victoria Metcalf (VS1/2).
  9. ·Fraser can cook at least some things (He appears to be making pancakes in ?)

Ray K FAQ

Personal:
  1. ·It's spelled Kowalski.
  2. ·“I go by Ray.” (Eclipse) (His father also calls him Raymond, as does Sam Franklin (TLM), who has known him for more than eight years; so does Stella, who has known Ray since he was thirteen.) Canonically no one calls him “Stan.” Vecchio calls him “Stanley” once (CotW); his mother calls him “Stanley” (EM); Fraser refers to him as “Stanley Raymond Kowalski,” in CotW but in the line immediately following that, calls him “Ray” again.
  3. ·Ray was named for Tennessee Williams' character Stanley Kowalski from “A Streetcar Named Desire.” His father 'had a thing for Brando,' hence Ray's interesting nomenclature.
  4. ·Ray's father is Damian (with two “a's”, according to the official site) and his mother is Barbara.
  5. ·Ray had a falling out with his father over joining the police force. This seems to have been put aside later. (EM)
  6. ·Ray's brother is referred to on the official due South web site but never appeared on the show.
  7. ·His mother appeared once on the show. (EM)
  8. ·His father appeared twice on the show. (EM and MR)
  9. ·In season 4 (the second half of the American season 3) Ray drives a black 1967 GTO which his parents bring to him from Arizona. (EM)
  10. ·Ray helped his father restore the GTO before they had their falling out.
  11. ·Ray lets Fraser drive the GTO. (MR) He also lets Fraser drive his Chevy Cavalier. (DGR)
  12. ·Ray had a "61 (or 62) average" in high school. (SvS)
  13. ·Ray drinks whiskey occasionally(LM)
  14. ·Ray does swear in canon.
  15. ·Ray does not smoke, but he chews gum, and toothpicks, and suckers, which some people take as evidence that he is a former smoker.
  16. ·Ray has a pair of red and white striped underwear. (Eclipse)
  17. ·Ray puts Smarties in his instant coffee made from hot water from the tap. (Eclipse)
  18. ·Ray knows how to drive a motorcycle. (EM)
  19. ·Ray has three citations for bravery, the first one dated Dec 1998, in which he went into a warehouse 'even though his cover was blown,' which implies that he was acting in a plainclothes capacity at that point although he may not have been a detective. (Eclipse) This certainly implies, if seasons 3 and 4 took place in 1997 or 1998, that Ray was certainly on the police force longer than the figure of eight years that is given in TLM. His second citation was 1990; his third, 1995.
  20. ·Ray was born circa 1961 – in Eclipse, he says he was 13 in 1974.
  21. ·Ray is an excellent shot when he puts on his glasses. (Eclipse)
  22. ·Ray was a uniformed policeman 8 years ago. (TLM)
  23. ·Ray did attend college but dropped out to go to the Academy. (EM, SvS)
  24. ·(more timeline inferences: Ray is approximately 36 in seasons 3 and 4; if he went to college until he was, say, 21, and then dropped out – having, thus, enough credit hours to enter the Academy – he would seem to have been on the force for 13 – 14 years at the time seasons 3 and 4 take place.
  25. ·Ray was married to Stella, an assistant state's attorney. (SB)
  26. ·Ray says that one of the reasons his marriage to Stella broke up was because he wanted children and Stella didn't. (SiB)
  27. ·Stella is described as a 'Gold Coast girl,' implying that she comes from an upper-class background.
  28. ·Ray has at least three different leather jackets, one of which goes down with the Henry Allen.
  29. ·Ray has a cashmere overcoat and a blue suit, as well as a tweed jacket.
  30. ·Canonically, Ray does not wear tight-fitting trousers. Sometimes his t-shirts are fairly tight, and often untucked.
  31. ·Ray has at least two different shoulder holsters.
  32. ·Ray carries a Glock 9 mm.
  33. ·There is no canonical evidence to support Ray's extreme consumption of pizza and other junk food. On the other hand, one of his regular informants is a pizza delivery man, Sandor, seen in Asylum and referred to in MR? Also note that in Asylum, Jack Huey and Tom Dewey are having a discussion in a car parked outside of the Canadian Consulate, wherein Huey mentions that Kowalski eats a lot of pizza. The two wonder aloud how he keeps his figure.
  34. ·Ray wears a silver ball-bearing chain bracelet on his right wrist and, on his left wrist, sometimes a watch and sometimes a flat rectangular linked silver bracelet. And, in two episodes, handcuffs (MotB, Asylum).
  35. ·Canonically Ray likes painting, but not sculpture. (Odds)
  36. ·Ray is familiar with 'old Dutch paintings' and the artist Hieronymous Bosch. (SiB, M&S) He has a book on Canadian Impressionism in his desk in which he keeps important personal files. (Asylum)
RayK-- Living space:
  1. ·Ray has china patterned like the hide of a Holstein cow & seems to have a well-equipped kitchen.
  2. ·Canonically there is a shamrock on the wall of Ray's bedroom. This is a Chicago gas station symbol (and the poster actually says “Get Lucky Green Stamps here,” so is not necessarily indicative of Ray's maternal heritage.
  3. ·Yes, those are chili pepper lights around the kitchen pass-through. (Eclipse)
  4. ·Ray has a love seat, not a couch. (TLM)
  5. ·Ray has a red wing-chair (ICHBaD)
  6. ·There is a photo of Ray and Stella on the roll top desk in Ray's apartment. (Eclipse)
  7. ·There is underwear (the red striped ones) draped over Ray's lamp by his bed. (SvS)
  8. ·Ray DOES make his bed. (Eclipse)
  9. ·Ray has a turtle. The turtle does not have a name in canon. It is,
  10. ·however, according to Ray, a 'natural enemy' of wolves. (SvS)
Misc FAQ

  1. ·It's spelled Vecchio.
  2. ·Ray Vecchio's mother's name is never mentioned on the show. She calls her son “Raimundo,” or some variant thereof.
  3. ·Ray Vecchio is divorced. His ex-wife's name is “Ange.”
  4. ·Ray Vecchio drives either a 1971 or a 1972 green Buick Riviera.
  5. ·Fraser and Ray can both waltz. (ItR, SB)
  6. ·Ray and Fraser both box, Ray coached a young boxer, Levon Parks. (M&S)
  7. ·Both Rays and Fraser have both been shot, although only Fraser was shot due to the bad aim of his partner.
  8. ·Both Rays wear the Mountie uniform: (ItR, Asylum)
  9. ·The meeting of each of the Rays with Diefenbaker are mirrored in the Pilot and BDtH. The introduction of Fraser is mirrored in the Pilot and BDtH.
  10. ·Diefenbaker became deaf when he rescued Fraser from Prince Rupert Sound and his eardrums were damaged by the cold. (?)
  11. ·If Diefenbaker reads lips, he is entirely self-taught. (Pilot)
  12. ·Diefenbaker lip-reads in English, and Inuktitut. (Asylum)
  13. ·Canonically Vecchio puts Dief on a leash. (?)
  14. ·Canonically Vecchio puts the phone down on his tape recorder when Fraser calls to tell him that he is being held hostage on a train by terrorists whose M.O. involves impromptu thermonuclear devices. (AtQH)
  15. ·Canonically Vecchio would rather wear raw meat than share body heat with Fraser.
  16. ·The tension between Fraser and Vecchio in CotW has no canonical basis but may stem from real life tensions between David Marciano and Paul Gross.
  17. ·Canonically none of the Vecchios seem able to pronounce Fraser's last name correctly.
  18. ·Canonically Vecchio scoffs at Fraser's love knowledge. (YMRT)
  19. ·Canonically Vecchio falls asleep when Fraser tries to tell him about his love knowledge. (YMRT)
  20. ·Red Green has a cameo in the episode “North.”
  21. ·In "North," while suffering from a head injury, Fraser calls Vecchio "Steve."
  22. ·There is no canonical explanation for Ray's tattoo. Callum Keith Rennie has a tattoo of the Champion Spark Plug logo in homage to the painter Stuart Davis.
  23. ·Paul Gross has a very respectable German accent. (DMDTR)
  24. ·Due South had 3 American seasons and 4 Canadian seasons. It was produced in conjunction with CBS for the first two seasons, which starred Paul Gross and David Marciano. When it was decided to take the show into independent production after CBS dropped it, David Marciano bowed out (reportedly he was unhappy with Toronto and with his role) and was replaced with Callum Keith Rennie for the independent production seasons. These were made in accordance with Canadian standards, 13 episodes per season, so in Canada due South was produced as a 3rd and 4th season, 26 hours in all. MotB marked the end of the 3rd season; CotW, the end of the 4th. This is why fans talk about seasons 3/4 as opposed to season 3 or season 4.
  25. ·The show's explanation for the replacement of Ray Vecchio with Ray Kowalski was that Ray Vecchio was sent deep undercover because of his amazing resemblance to “The Bookman,” Armando Langoustini, a Mob hit man. Ray Kowalski was brought in to answer to the name of “Ray Vecchio” to make it appear that there was still a Ray Vecchio at the 27th. He was never intended to 'replace' Ray Vecchio; he was intended to provide a cover to ensure Ray Vecchio's safety while undercover with the Mob.
  26. ·Vecchio and Fraser spend a lot of time in a supply closet at the 27th in seasons 1 and 2.
  27. ·Ray K and Fraser never go into the closet in the 27th in seasons 3/4 . Welsh and Fraser go into the closet in Eclipse and Frannie goes into the closet with Fraser in Asylum.