Ray Weir is a screenwriter and Maxine's husband. Ray is obsessed with Maxine and devastated when she leaves him for Ingraham. Ray becomes the number one suspect when Maxine is found dead on Ingraham's barge, especially when it turns out that Ray should have received half the insurance money but Maxine failed to give it to him. Hardy visits Ray one night and learns that the night of Maxine's murder, a friend waited outside his apartment for hours for Ray to return. Ray claims he was in the apartment the whole time and it later turns out he was with his friend's girlfriend.