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| “ | How do you like the neighborhood? | „ |
| ~ Tunney's signature line uttered before killing someone. |
Arthur Tunney is the main antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Profile". He is a white supremacist serial killer who shoots and kills non-white people.
He was portrayed by William Carden.
Personality[]
Tunney is a white supremacist who blames non-whites for the death of his mother, who was mugged and killed by Black teenagers. Her death sent him over the edge, and he began killing non-whites living in his neighborhood.
His M.O. is to stalk his intended victim, say "How do you like the neighborhood?", and shoot them dead with his late father's shotgun.
He also collects white supremacist literature and shares his racist vitriol with his equally prejudiced sister, Mary, who also blames Black people for their mother's death.
Biography[]
After Tunney kills an Indian-American woman and a Hispanic teenager, NYPD Homicide Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Mike Logan begin looking for a racist serial killer. Forensic psychiatrist Elizabeth Olivet profiles the killer as a paranoid, middle-aged white man who lives in the area, has a grudge against non-white people, collects racist literature, and kills with a gun left to him by a relative. The investigation eventually leads to Tunney, whose voice is identified by his sole surviving victim.
Tunney fires his lawyer and hires Horace McCoy, despite the fact that McCoy is Black; while he hates McCoy, he believes that having a Black lawyer will give him a better chance of being acquitted. While he is in jail awaiting trial, he is stabbed by a Black prisoner, further fueling his racism.
After someone commits a copycat murder, McCoy convinces the trial judge that there is enough reasonable doubt of Tunney's guilt for her to grant him bail. Tunney is released, and "celebrates" his freedom by attacking a Black woman - who shoots and kills him in self-defense.
External links[]
- Arthur Tunney on the Law & Order Wiki
