Talk:Ralph Cifaretto

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[edit] Ralph wanted Jackie gone

This article suggests Ralph's inspiring Jackie to hold up the poker game, and subsequently run away/get shot was an accident. But Ralph chose to tell Jackie this story on the night Ralph had a game going. Ralph would have known that Jackie's fate would be in his hands if Jackie robbed Ralph's game. Then after it went ahead, Ralph just opted to have Jackie leave and never come back. This suggests to me that Ralph just wanted Jackie out of his life; he wanted to fuck Jackie's mother in peace and not put up with Jackie's disrespect and demands for backup in his smalltime x dealing, or Ralph may have realised that Jackie was thinking about jumping ship and sending his taste to Chris, who offered to be Jackie's captain in the pizza parlour (I like this theory, because why else would this scene have been written in by Chase, knowing that Jackie would be dead before he could take up the offer?). Finally, I reckon Ralph wanted Jackie gone but - at first - not necessarily dead. That's why he just left Jackie in the projects, Ralph would have been happy with that situation continuing, but had him killed just because Tony told him he had to make a decision, and the only alternative was giving Jackie a pass.

I loved Ralphie because he's the craziest fucking bastard to grace the series, I loved him being a loose cannon with all his gladiator shit, and after he beat that girl to death his reply to everything was 'she was a HOOAH! a HOOAH!' just saying that word 'whore' in such a ridiculously funny way slightly out of step with the rest of his accent. --86.141.51.41 12:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)