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| “ | Niko: Does it stop your thinking? Derrick: It stops you caring, which is even better! |
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| ~ Derrick McCreary on why he uses drugs. |
Derrick McReary is a major character of the 2008 open world video-game Grand Theft Auto IV, and a minor antagonist in its 2009 midquels The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. He is also mentioned in the 2013 sequal Grand Theft Auto V.
He is the eldest member of the McReary Crime Family, which includes his brothers, Patrick and Gerald. Though just as villainous as his brothers, Derrick is shown to be the most honest and compassionate among the male siblings, even with his severe drug addiction.
He was voiced by George Feaster.
History[]
Past[]
Derrick McRearywas born is 1956 in Liberty City and he is the oldest son of Mark and Maureen McReary. He is the older brother of Francis McReary, Gerald McReary, Patrick McReary, and Kate McReary. At some point, he joined the terrorist group known was the IRA where he became close friends with Bucky Sligo.
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
52 years later in 2008, he returned from Ireland and is first snorting cocaine with Patrick, Gerald, and their mob buddy, Michael Keane. He robbed the Bank of Liberty alongside Niko Bellic, Packie, and St. Michael who was killed, though he and the others managed to escape the law. After Niko ran errands for Packie, Gerry, and Frankie, Packie asks Niko to help out Derrick to "complete the set" and help his entire family.
After meeting with Derrick in a public park where he's been spending his share of the money on heroin and he first asks Niko to track down a former friend Bucky who wants to kill Derrick and his family for leaving the IRA. Later, he asks Niko to protect a man named Kim Young-Guk while he brings counterfeit money into the United states. Finally, Derrick will ask Niko to break another former IRA member known as Aiden O'Malley out of a prison transport bus and bring him somewhere private to kill him before he gives the authority information about Derrick that would put him in prison.
Death[]
After Francis hears that Niko has been helping Derrick with various jobs without telling him and risks his career since Derrick would likely expose his corruption as a LCPD commissioner, so he orders Niko to kill him. In this mission, you are given the choice to kill either Derrick or Francis, though the canon option seems to be killing Francis.
Even if Francis is killed, Packie will confirm that Derrick is dead by 2013 if he was chosen to partake in the Paleto Score.
Trivia[]
- Even if the player chooses to kill Francis instead of Derrick, he will still die as he is confirmed dead by Packie in Grand Theft Auto V.
External Links[]
- Derrick McReary - Heroes Wiki
