SERGEANT ROBERT FRASER
ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE

• (Portrayed by Gordon Pinsent)
• AGE: Died at age 57 while on duty.
• DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Transparent (Usually, Benton is the only one who can see him). 5 foot 8 inches, graying hair.
• CLOTHES: Often seen (or not seen, as the case may be) wearing his Red Serge uniform. His stetson is occasionally seen with the back cut off (When he died, they had to cut it so he could lie flat, to Robert's displeasure, they - the living - don't realize how embarrassing these things can be in the afterlife).
• DEMEANOR: Very calm, not prone to fly by the seat of his pants. Logical in thinking. Helpful. Rather annoying to Benton once in awhile, but does help Benton to look at all the possibilities on the odd occasion. Can also be argumentative when he wants to be.
• MOTTOS/SAYINGS: "Your heart is where your duty lies son. Your head is just along for the driving." "Never follow a man over a cliff."
• EXPERIENCE AS AN OFFICER: 35 years.
• LIVES: In Benton's closet at the Canadian Consulate.
• MARITAL STATUS: Had a wife named Caroline who died when Benton was six. Never remarried.
• ENJOYS: Painting with his group of 6. Camping. Giving Benton his advice, even when Benton doesn't ask for it (Maybe ESPECIALLY when he doesn't ask for it).
• FRIENDS: Sargeant Buck Frobisher. Gerard - though he later realized that Gerard wasn't such a good friend after all... Gerard DID have him assassinated.
• DISLIKES: People who break the law. Victoria Metcalfe. The yank (Ray K.) moving in on Benton's chances with women. When Benton won't listen to him. When people burn down/shoot up his cabin.

SECRET SHAMES: He thinks that he wasn't that good a father to Benton (When Caroline died, he got Ben's Grandparents to take care of him, so he didn't see Ben as often as he'd have liked to). Had a daughter named Maggie Mackenzie with a woman named Ellen (I think that was her name) after Caroline died. Bob didn't find out until he met her years later. Benton met her when she came to Chicago tracking her husband's murderers. At first, Benton and Ray K. both sorta had a thing for her and Bob told Benton not to let the yank move in on her. Benton was a little curious when he discovered that Maggie could see and hear Bob just as easily as he could. When Benton discovered that Maggie's "father" died in early 1969, Maggie was born in mid 1970, and knowing that Bob and Maggie's mother had been close, Benton put it all together to discover
Bob + Ellen = Maggie. Benton realized that Maggie was his half sister while Bob realized that he had been a miserable father, twice. But, Maggie didn't seem like she was going to bear any grudges before going back to Canada.
 

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