Raymond Goddard
Played by: Alex Morrison
First mentioned in: 404: Episode IV
First appeared in: 408: In the Same Room
Raymond Goddard is a young man of the Goddard family, which the watchmaker Jelty calls an old, very wealthy and influential Arkham family. He is the owner of the wristwatch engraved "RG" that the investigators take from the Pawn and Prawns in Radio Man. The group spends several episodes looking for him, and when they finally see him he is a frightened patient in the psychiatric ward of Arkham Hospital, raving about a shadow and the radios, and he is stabbed to death by invisible wounds in front of them. He is not the same man as Devon Black, who pretends to be Raymond in 405: Be Sensible.
Season 4: Radio Man
402: Criminal Energy
Dom finds a fine wristwatch with a black leather band engraved "RG" in a locked drawer at the Pawn and Prawns and keeps it. The table spends the episode guessing who the "RG" might be.
404: Episode IV
At Cortex Studios on West Armitage Street, the owner, Jelty, identifies the watch as belonging to Raymond Goddard of the Goddard family. He believes that Raymond's parents bought the watch for him, says that Raymond is an adult man, and hands over a piece of paper with Raymond's address, which is on the south side of town in another well-off area. When Dom and the Major ask whether he knows Raymond, the Major asks "Does everybody love Raymond?" and Jelty answers, "As far as I know, everybody loves Raymond."
405: Be Sensible
Dom and the Major go to Raymond's address, a fenced starter home with a badly overgrown lawn. The man who answers the door claims to be Raymond Goddard, but he turns out to be Devin Black. Devin admits that Raymond has been missing for about a week and that he is looking for him, says that he answers to Raymond and that Raymond answers to the rest of them, and says nothing when asked whether Raymond works for the mayor, though he looks very nervous. The Major tells him that his parents bought him a watch engraved with his initials.
406: Pain
While the group is in Raymond's house, the neighbor Bryce Gantt knocks and says that he has not seen Ray around and that he could have sworn he heard screaming from inside the house. Dom tells him that Mr. Goddard is back from his holiday and wants his new furnishings.
407: Coffee & Cigarettes
Asked about the Goddards, Sheamus O'Malley says that they think they are better than everyone but that the money is just as dirty, and that as far as he knows they are not tied up with the O'Malleys. Describing a younger man in his twenties with slicked-back black hair, fine clothes and a nice watch, he says that he is pretty sure the man described is Raymond Goddard. In the pockets of Harman Vance's jacket the group finds a folded note that reads "take out the trash," gives an address and is signed RG. The address is not the one Sheamus gave for Harman's apartment, and it is not Raymond's house on the south side of town.
408: In the Same Room
Billy and Dr. Simeon see Detective Crane at the hospital reception desk with a very finely dressed older gentleman, the elder Mr. Goddard, who is never named in the episode. Crane says that the night before, they picked the man up downtown fighting with a bunch of hobos and brought him to the hospital instead of the police station so that nothing would go on record. Billy finds Raymond's name and room number in the admittance papers, and Simeon walks into the room posing as the staff psychologist.
Raymond is a young man in his mid-twenties who was handsome but now looks disheveled, with messy black hair, sunken cheeks and bags under his eyes. He calls Mr. Goddard dad. He rants about the shadow thing and the radios, says that he needs a radio and that Harman knew all about it, was onto it and asked for a radio. He says that the shadow has been after him for days, that he cannot sleep, that he has been going from place to place and cannot go home, and that it finds him everywhere. He says that he is not crazy and does not need a shrink, and that a radio is how he knows when it is coming. When the radio in Billy's pocket bursts into static and a voice that sounds like it says Raymond, he goes silent and limp. Simeon sees the figure of a shadow above his head, and then blood appears on Raymond's shirt as invisible wounds stab into his chest, one after another. Billy casts Command and says "return," and the roll succeeds, but it has no effect. Raymond Goddard is stabbed to death by unseen wounds in front of everyone.
410: Just Watch the Fireworks
Simeon and Billy recall that the last thing they remember is Raymond Goddard being stabbed by an invisible attacker at the hospital. Dom names him as one of the victims so far, along with Elizabeth Bakersfield, John Johnson (the fake name Harman Vance used) and Dr. Doyle.