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Revision as of 08:28, 8 August 2007 by Defart (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Rafael "Rafi" Alvarez is a fictional character played by actor Alex Fernandez on the CBS television crime drama Without a Trace. He is the older brother of Danny Taylor, FBI agent and a member of the FBI missing persons case squad in New York City played by actor Enrique Murciano. Rafi and Danny come from a troubled background; Their father was an alcoholic, and Rafi spent much of their childhood protecting Danny from their father's abuse. However, after their parents were killed in a car accident, Danny and his brother were put in foster care. Rafi became a drug addict and small-time criminal, and got sentenced to prison. Eventually Danny, who had straightened out his life, wanted to distance himself from Rafi and his past, so he changed his surname fom Alvarez to Taylor. Danny didn't want anything to do with Rafi, until Sylvia Marquez, Rafi's girlfriend and mother of his son Nicky, came looking for him and Danny finally agreed to testify in his behalf in his parole hearing . Rafi was paroled and started working in Sylvia's brother's garage, but ran into trouble again when he tried to start a garage of his own. Sylvia called Danny when he disappeared, and he discovered Rafi had gotten addicted to drugs again. Danny was able to find him, and finally reconcile totally with him .