Pablo Schreiber talks about his character Ray Merrimen in Den of Thieves:
Ray Merriman has just gotten out of jail after six years. He went to jail for robbing banks which he got into after he came back from military deployment and could not find the same kind of excitement in his life which he had overseas and could find a good job. Thus he ended up going into the life of crime. He had a couple of successfully robberies and then one of the jobs went bad so he ended up in jail for six year. He's reassembling his guys and he's going after a big fish. He's been preparing for the moment when he would be released.