Rachel Scali

**Rachel Scali** (née Metzger) is the main regular character of the series featured on the ABC channel, *The Commish.* She is the wife of commissioner Tony Scali, the mother of David Scali and Sarah Scali, the teacher of special needs children at Eastbridge Elementary School, a housewife, a good friend of Paulie Pentangeli, a sister of Arnie Metzger, and a good friend of Cyd Madison.

When she married Tony, her husband converted to Judaism and moved to Eastbridge as he accepted the commissioner position at the Eastbridge Police Department. Rachel and Tony grew up in Brooklyn, New York City and they both attended high school together. She dated Tony for a long time, and eventually married him.

### The Commish Wife

Rachel is a devoted housewife and also a teacher for special needs children. Teaching is her passion, just like being a cop is Tony's passion. She loves her husband so much and she married him when Tony was still a detective in NYPD. After the death of their friend Vinnie Raposo, the two moved away from Brooklyn to Eastbridge and built a new life. Rachel becomes the wife of the youngest commissioner in New York state.

Being the commissioner's wife sometimes has its perks, and sometimes it grates her because of constant criticism. She has to deal with many news media and bureaucrats regarding her husband's job. Rachel always speaks her mind and defends Tony whenever other criticizes him, which sometimes worries her because she thinks she makes things worse. She understands the dangerous aspect of her husband's occupation, but it doesn't stop her to get upset and angry whenever the safety of their family is being jeopardized. Tony sometimes prioritizes the job first, and it infuriates her, although he always begs for her understanding. She only asks for a quiet evening together without being disturbed by a crime, but apparently, it's difficult.

### Jealous Wife

Rachel is a jealous woman, especially whenever there are women who are attracted to her husband or at least show some interest in the young commissioner. Although she knows that Tony will never stray, she always expresses her insecurity regarding women who are close to her husband. One time, she gets upset when she finds out that the new Chief of Detective Cyd Madison is a woman because she thought Cyd is a man, and Tony didn't even bother to correct her.

A woman named Michelle Carver shows an interest in Tony, and Rachel gets jealous plus questioned Tony's intention. Although Tony swears that he isn't even interested as he loves Rachel so much, she still very insecure because she knows that Tony only slept with one woman since high school, which is Rachel. She wonders whether Tony ever regrets sleeping with Rachel only, which he denies. Rachel even goes to see the woman and is shocked to see that the woman is being abused by her husband.

### Worried Wife

Rachel is having a nervous breakdown when someone is sending death threats to her husband and also sending threats to their home. She becomes paranoid when someone follows her and gets upset when she finds out that it's one of the police officers tailing her per her husband's order for protection. She also gets fired from her teaching position because the school board is afraid that something bad might happen. After all, she is married to the police commissioner.

When Tony gets hurt by an assassin, Rachel is by his side all the time. She is trying to encourage her husband and not give up on life and also understand that this is the life they have both chosen.

### Friends Forever

Rachel and Paulie had a brief relationship when they were teenagers in high school. Both of them never told Tony about it, especially they decided just to be friends and let the past be the past. When Vinnie Raposo died, Paulie moved to Los Angeles, California, and both Tony and Rachel moved to Eastbridge.

When Tony invites Cyd to dinner at their home, Rachel is shocked to find out that Cyd is a woman. At first, she behaves coldly toward Cyd in jealousy. After having a heart-to-heart conversation with Cyd, Rachel decides that it's best to be a friend with her because she knows that the detective doesn't have a romantic interest in Tony.

### Gone Family

At the beginning of the series, Rachel is taking care of her brother Arnie Metzger and welcoming him to her house. Arnie is a muncher, a fact that she denies as she claims that Arnie has always been sick all of his life, so as a good sister she needs to take care of him. Besides Arnie, she also has older sisters Carol Metzger and Nancy Metzger who lives in different towns. Rachel seems to be very forgiving about her brother's manipulative way, a trait that it seems their father share. She hates it whenever Arnie and Tony argue about money, and asks her husband to be more understanding with her brother. When Arnie meets Gloria, a sex-phone worker, Rachel gets upset especially when she finds out that they both eloped and planning to travel to China.

Arnie, Carol, and Nancy are written out by the end of season 2 as they retconned Rachel as the only child in the family.

The relationship between Rachel and her father, Ben Metzger, is a complicated one. Ben is a traveling salesman and hardly at home. Rachel sometimes suspects that her father probably has another family. Ben breaks promises all the time and always disappoints Rachel. Ben is a charlatan and a manipulative man all of his life, but it doesn't stop her from loving him.

### Trivia

Actress Theresa Saldana and actor Phil Peters (Desk Sergeant Bill Farley) were married in real life until her death.