Ray Gillette

Ray Gillette is a major protagonist in the comedy action TV show Archer. He is an openly gay ISIS agent. In Season 4, he receives bionic legs.
==Childhood==
Ray grew up in the small town of Ferlin in the backwoods of West Virginia. He has one brother, Randy, a marijuana farmer. His father was extremely conservative and as a consequence Ray was forced to hide his homosexuality from everyone around him. He kept a number of diaries where he described his homosexual thoughts and feelings, specifically in a Miss Piggy diary that was later destroyed by his father. As a young boy, his father took him on a hunting trip where Ray killed a bear with a bow. His father then forced him to take a bite out of the bear's heart and slapped Ray repeatedly until he complied.
==Personality==
Ray is one of the more optimistic and genuinely good-natured agents at ISIS, though he has a history of acerbic and sarcastic behavior as well. He's particularly friendly toward Lana and regularly goes out of his way to help his friends. He takes offense when the other agents don't consider their friends' feelings before taking action. Unlike Sterling, he is not nearly as selfish, such as voluntarily going to rescue Pam after her kidnapping, as well as picking up the jobs of others when they're unable to. Like most of ISIS, he finds Sterling annoying, takes pleasure in tormenting him, such as the time he found Malory's vibrator hidden in her desk[1] and doesn't value Archer's life nearly as much as anyone else's, like when he never bothered to tell Archer how to disarm the explosives on Malory's desk. He has no problem with lying to his friends and coworkers, such as when he lied to them for months about being paralyzed and felt no guilt when found out.
After being paralyzed by Sterling for real however, Ray has shown genuine anger and hostility towards him, going so far as to prevent backup being sent when Sterling was nearly gunned down by KGB agents. He grew far more cynical and depressed, and was often seen drinking heavily even at work. His inability to go on missions angered him and hurt his pride.
After being paralyzed by Archer more than once, he grew depressed, hostile, and more negative. He especially despised Archer for his cavalier attitude and refusal to take responsibilty for injuring him. When Krieger gave him bionic legs, he initially opposed it on a moral level, believing that it was something only God should do. However, after the operation he was much more positive and happy for being able to walk again. His constant tendency to get paralyzed is a continual theme and has damaged his emotional stability heavily. He has developed a fear of eventually becoming a complete cyborg as his legs, feet, and right hand are now bionic.
Ray is not without his vices, casually spending ISIS funding renting a Malaysian slave boy. He is also prone to dishing out frequent snide remarks towards his co-workers.
==Career at ISIS==
Ray has an antagonistic relationship with Malory since she is biased against homosexuals, always referring to Ray as "she" or "Ms". Ray claims that he could write a book about the secrets he knows about ISIS. He has skills in electrical engineering and communications. He is often contacted by field agents to walk them through bomb defusals.[1][4] When called to the ISIS control room Ray often wears his crisis vest, similar to the ones worn by NASA scientists.
He assisted the ISIS field agents on their trip to Switzerland to help protect Anka Schlotz.
He assisted Archer in his plan to prevent ODIN from purchasing ISIS. When they were laying out a plan to do so with dolls and a map of the building, he was the "little pink sailor".
When Pam was kidnapped, he assisted in the control room with tracking the phone call. When it was apparent that nobody would rescue her, he volunteered, which spurred Archer and Lana to volunteer. Malory decided to send Ray and Archer on the mission.
On a mission to Monaco, the ISIS team was tasked with obtaining a data disc that was valuable to Malory. Ray accompanied and assisted in the mission. When things went bad, he disguised himself as Malory to expedite the mission, wearing a wig and one of her Chanel suits. He ended up driving a Formula 1 car in pursuit of Benoit. When a helicopter started firing on the ISIS drivers, Ray's car "mysteriously" lost engine power (Claiming the car was "Running out of carburettor"), which kept him out of harm's way.
Malory sent Ray on a mission that brought him near the Russian border, despite Archer's volunteering to go on the mission. He was about to parachute off the C-130 when Archer knocked him unconscious so he could take the mission. Ray remained unconscious for an hour and sustained a heavy injury to his eye. After Archer returned with Katya Kazanova, he accompanied Malory, Lana and Doctor Krieger on their mission to eliminate Archer and Katya because they appeared to have double-crossed the agency.
After Katya's death, Malory sent Ray and Lana on a mission to retrieve Archer from Pangu Island. In order to ensure they could complete the important mission, she lent them the ISIS Black Titanium Credit Card. With an unlimited budget, Ray took advantage of the situation, buying extravagant items, such as travel by private jet, purchasing a yacht and even "renting" a teenage servant boy.
While Lana piloted the yacht, she got annoyed by Ray and jarred the yacht, causing a make-up applicator to get lodged in his eye. Although this was the second injury to the same eye, he was not blinded, unlike Rip Riley, who did suffer partial blindness on this mission.
After injuring his eye, Ray is shot in the abdomen by "Bucky" (the now-arrested pirate mutineer) and is also seen in the end of the episode in an electric wheelchair being called a cripple by Cheryl.
In the episode Bloody Ferlin, it is revealed that Ray had faked being handicapped for six months, telling Lana and Archer "I never said I was paralyzed, you just assumed I was!". This was foreshadowed in The Limited when he said "Yeah, but yeah, other than that, fine." and in "Drift Problem", where he said "Ow... I think." after Archer dropped him in the surprise of seeing his birthday car.
During the season three finale, Ray accompanies Archer and company to a space shuttle to help thwart an apparent mutiny. After they are double-crossed by their employer on the mission and escape, Archer causes the space shuttle to crash land on earth, injuring everyone but himself. In the final scene, Ray leaves the room using his wheelchair, revealing he was genuinely paralyzed by the crash. Archer is confused by Ray's anger, insisting that he "already had the chair".
In the opening of Season 4, Ray follows the rest of the group to a resort in hopes of restoring Archer's suppressed memories, while at the same time expressing heavy disdain over his paralyzed state. Later in the episode, he receives radio contact requesting aid to backup Archer after he and Lana are ambushed by KGB agents attempting to hunt down Archer. Ray spitefully hides the request from Malory and the others, denying to send Archer any backup.
In Legs, after hitting the breaking point of frustration with Sterling and some coercion by Krieger, Ray decides to undergo an operation to restore his ability to walk by having his lower body replaced with bionic prosthetics. Despite Pam's "sub-par" assistance in the operation and Sterling's many failed attempts to stop the process out of his fear of cyborgs, the operation is a success, allowing Ray to walk once more. However in the fourth season finale Sea Tunt: Part II the CPU controlling his legs gets fried by a defibrillator thanks to Archer, and he is once again wheelchair bound.
Ray's paralysis causes him to go through depression for the first few episodes of season five. He is shown drinking heavily, crying, and sitting in soiled underwear in the episodes, a shell of his former self. However, in House Call, a typically oblivious Krieger tells Cyril "Remind me to reboot the CPU in Ray's legs", revealing that his legs could have been fixed at any time. In Southbound and Down, when Krieger repairs Ray's bionic legs, Ray exclaims "About damn time!", which causes Krieger to push a button which disables Ray's legs once more, forcing Ray to begrudgingly thank him and have his legs turned back on.
Following the re-establishment of the ISIS agency under contract of the CIA, Ray is once again a field agent, although his analysis job appears to have been eliminated due to lack of necessity. In Pocket Listing, during a botched mission at the Tuntmore Mansion, Ray comes face to face with an enormous and aggressive carnivorous plant. Though he survives the encounter, Ray's right arm below his elbow is devoured, just before Ray manages to furiously stab the creature to death. Back at headquarters, he is ridiculed for his lack of an arm by the other staff members.
In Achub Y Morfilod, he is given a new cybernetic arm by his co-workers (except Lana and Archer). At the end of the episode it is revealed that he was given a black arm by his colleagues who, in the midst of surgery, accidentally place a discolored arm on him while they're chatting about an old movie. His new arm causes him to be subjected to more ridicule in Drastic Voyage: Part I and more jokes about his hand's resemblance to the one lost by Conway Stern are made by Archer and Cyril. Ray and Cyril are chosen as the pilots of the miniature submarine and quickly stop Archer from trying to pilot the vessel and possibly ruin the mission. In Drastic Voyage: Part II, he is once again crippled, but caused it to himself when attempting to talk to Lana just as the ship was about to go really fast.
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