Stan Kelly

Sergeant **Stanley 'Stan' Oliver Kelly** is the main regular character of the series featured on the ABC channel, *The Commish.* He started as a uniformed officer of the Eastbridge Police Department and worked his way up to a Sergeant rank. He is a good friend of Ronnie Lopez and Carmela Pagan, as they frequently work together as partners or on tours together.

He is also a very good friend of commissioner Tony Scali as the two have a really good relationship. Tony always considered him as a younger brother he never had or even his own son, and Stan looks up to his boss like a father figure. When Stan is engaged to be married, he asks Tony to be his Best Man. Stan sometimes spending times with Tony's family for dinner and many activities, not even other cops are close with the commissioner's family.

Stan is also very loyal to Tony and always does whatever Tony tells him to do because he respects and trusts his boss. When everyone doubts the commissioner, he is the only officer who always believes him no matter what.

### The Rookie

At the beginning of the series, Stan is a rookie cop who gets emotional when his two friends officer Henning and officer Blatcher are murdered. When their bodies are found, Stan is on a verge of a panic attack, and every cop also feels angry. Tony doesn't want Stan to jeopardize the case because he isn't in the right mind, so instead, he gives him a baseball hat that belonged to David Scali, his son, and orders him to investigate the owner of the hat.

Determine to solve the case, Stan immediately does a little bit of sleuthing and investigates the fake evidence. It is proven that Stan is a good detective as he manages to find out the owner of the hat is none other than his boss and realizes that his boss is trying to help him to get his feet back on the ground and have a clear head to solve the murders case.

### Partner In Crime

Stan usually partnered up with Carmela during tours or undercovers. Carmela is usually frustrated with him because of his old-fashion way of thinking about women. Stan thinks women are delicate, can't fight, and needs to be saved all the time. Although his chivalrous attitude is sometimes nice, it affects his point of view on women.

Carmela and Tony then decide to play a prank on him by sending him to the most dangerous biker bar in Eastbridge and telling him a story about how a newbie should approach the biggest biker in the corner of the bar, and punch him to earn a respect. Carmela pretends to hit a biker, but instead of making Stan believe that women can do anything, he tries to punch the same biker with a disastrous result. A bar fight ensues, everyone gets hurt, and Tony chides Stan for being obtuse.

### Unlucky In Love

Tony thinks that Stan is similar to David; a little bit shy and awkward, but nice and kind. He usually has a hard time getting a date as women usually manipulate and use him for his police work, like taking care of parking tickets or speeding tickets. Stan admits that he is awkward whenever he's around women, so in order for women to like him, he will brag of being a cop and will take care of any problem in order the women to like him usually with bad results.

Stan usually is unlucky in love because his relationship burned quickly. One time he dated a woman named Lisa who turns out to be an assassin for a mob and only uses him so she can find an informant who is being protected by the Police Department.

There is also a possibility that Stan and Carmela are friends with benefits. Although it is never revealed in the show whether they are together, there are some moments where both of them flirt. Occasionally, Carmela kisses Stan without any prompt. During one of the cases, he and Carmela pretend to be engaged to lure some criminals. When they arrest a lot of crooks at their fake wedding, Stan tries to kiss her but she threatens to cut off his limb.

### Crime of Passion

Stan dates a pretty woman named Monica Lane for six months, and it seems their relationship is pretty serious. Rachel Scali hints at him that he should take the relationship to a next level. When they are having dinner together, Monice is being harassed by a man who is asking for her numbers. When Monica refuses, Stan is trying to protect her but gets punched instead by the man. Angrily, Monica punches the man instead and knocks him out cold, which embarrasses Stan because he thinks men should protect the women, not the other way around. His colleagues Ricky Caruso, Mike Rose, and Jonathan Papadakis tease him for being weak which angers him but Tony tells him to ignore the mocking. The incident put a strain on their relationship because Stan is insecure about it.

Monica and Tony then hatch a plan to restore Stan's confidence, by asking a burly guy named Big Bill to harass her in a restaurant while she and Stan are out for dinner, and Stan would defend her and be a hero. Unbeknownst to Monica, Big Bill is having a cold and has to cancel the plan. So when a man is harassing her, it's a real situation, in which Stan manages to defend her and gain his confidence back.

While they are planning their wedding, Monica bumps into an old friend named Neil Perry, who is very shady. When she goes missing and appears on camera surveillance robbing a jewelry store, Stan worries that she is being kidnapped and forced to rob the store. But after some investigation by John Hibbs Monica used to run with a criminal group led by her ex-boyfriend Neil, and everyone questions her innocence. Monica calls him at home and tells him that she's being held at a house, and she asks for help. Stan immediately goes to the house, but it's empty. Tony and many police officers follow Stan to the house because he put a trace and a bug on his phone, but when the commissioner reprimands his subordinate, Neil shoots both of them in front of the house from a neighbor's rooftop, fortunately, he misses the targets.

Gil Higgins helps the police department to capture Neil, but he escapes from the busy shopping mall. Stan points his gun at him, but Neil only laughs because he knows that the officer won't shoot him. He runs away with a getaway car, driven by Monica. Stan screams her name in frustration as he watches the love of his life drive away with the criminal. Stan believes that Neil is taking Monica a hostage, and probably threatened her family but Cyd Madison doesn't believe that theory.

Tony, Cyd, and Stan watch the surveillance tape and read the transcript, where they discover that Monica has been trying to give the police some hints about her whereabouts, which is an abandoned church. Inside the church, Neil shoots them from the second floor and takes Monica hostage. Neil tells Stan that Monica is his, and as he is about to shoot him, Monica pushes him over the railing, killing him instantly. Afterward, Monica tells her fiancée that Neil threatened her mother and her sister, so she didn't have a choice to rob the jewelry stores. She realizes what it looks like, and says that everything changes; she understands that many people wouldn't believe her story. But Stan says nothing changes, and he still wants to marry her.

At the church, Cyd discuss the possibility that Monica wasn't telling the truth about the whole ordeal, and the only reason why she killed Neil was to save her own life. Tony dismisses the idea and say that Monica saved Stan's life, and that is the most important thing. However, Rachel gives a letter written by Monica to Stan, including her engagement ring. Monica writes how much she loves Stan, but she knows deep down inside everything has changed, and she doesn't want any doubt in their marriage, and decides to cancel the wedding. Broken-hearted, Stan gives the letter to Tony and he leaves the church alone.