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| “ | You should have heard him beg for his life, like a pathetic, mangey dog. Of course, I shot him anyway. | „ |
| ~ Murphy taunting Ayanna Bell about murdering her partner |
Eamon Murphy is the main antagonist of the Murphy Mafia arc in season 3 of Law & Order: Organized Crime. He is an Irish mob boss who murdered NYPD Detective Darrell Jennings and forced an innocent man, Octavio Montanero, to plead guilty to the crime.
He was portrayed by Timothy V. Murphy, who also portrayed Ian Doyle in Criminal Minds.
Early life[]
Murphy was born and raised in Sligo, Ireland, and moved to New York City in the early 1980s. He worked for a cement workers union as cover for a numbers racket. He then joined the Westies street gang as an enforcer, and "shot, stabbed, and stolen his way up" to becoming a regional boss. He ran his syndicate through local bars, using them as fronts for drugs, illegal gambling, and murder.
He was assisted by his right-hand man, Seamus O'Meara, who ran his crew. In 2016, the DEA sent two undercover agents into Murphy's gang to try to bring it down, but Murphy found out who they really were and mutilated them to death. Murphy also managed to thwart investigations by the FBI and the NYPD for years, due in no small part to having high-powered officials in both agencies in his pocket.
In 2013, Murphy murdered NYPD Detective Darryl Jennings and forced a drug addict named Octavio Montanero to confess to the crime and go to prison for him by threatening his wife and child. Murphy promised to send Montanero's family money while he was in prison, but he eventually tired of the arrangement and stopped looking after them.
Appearances[]
"Partners in Crime"[]
Montanero comes up for parole after spending 10 years in prison. At his hearing, he tells Sergeant Ayanna Bell of the NYPD's Organized Crime Task Force, Jennings' former partner, that Murphy killed Jennings. Bell looks into the case and finds that the forensics examinations of Jennings' murder were inconclusive, leading her to believe that Montanero may be telling the truth.
Murphy goes to a church's confessional booth and threatens to kill the attending priest unless he stops stealing from the collections plate. After exiting the booth, he meets with O'Meara, who informs him of Mantanero's accusations against him and that Bell is reopening the investigation. Murphy remarks that they do not need that kind of attention while they are about to receive a new drug shipment.
Meanwhile, Bell's partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, informs her that Montanero has been murdered in prison, likely by one of Murphy's assassins. Needing new evidence, they devise an undercover operation in which they will infiltrate Murphy's gang and force one of his associates to help them put his boss in prison. They make a deal with gangster Teddy Silas to let them use his family's bar as the staking ground for their investigation in return for time off of his probation, while Detective Bobby Reyes solicits help from a relative, crime boss Isabel Guzman.
Murphy and O'Meara show up at Montanero's widow's house and threaten to kill her unless she keeps quiet about her late husband's "arrangement" with them. Later on, Murphy approaches O'Meara while he is making a date with a blackjack dealer from Silas' bar - who, unbeknownst to him, is Organized Crime Task Force technical analyst Jet Slootmaekers working undercover - and asks her to play cards with him and O'Meara while flashing her a sinister smile.
"Punch Drunk"[]
Murphy makes a deal with Stabler to provide protection in return for 25% of the bar's profits; he also menaces Stabler by showing him a severed human hand and feeding it to his dog, Jack.
That night, Murphy interrupts a date between O'Meara and Slootmaekers, and the latter notices that he is wearing Jennings' police academy ring. He meets with James Kennealy, a former boxer turned enforcer whom he plans to sponsor in a prize fight with a member of the rival Amato crime family in order to settle a dispute and sell $50,000 worth of product. Murphy then goes to the bar to make the deal, but the buyer, who is in fact a confidential informant for the police, backs out at the last minute, forcing Stabler to improvise and say that he threw the man out. Murphy, angry at being disobeyed, threatens Stabler and orders him to set up another buy.
Silas hosts the prize fight and agrees to buy the cocaine. In the midst of the fight, however, Michael Amato, one of the Amato family's soldiers, arrives and shoots at Murphy, but he misses, giving Murphy a chance to get away.
"All in the Game"[]
Murphy orders Stabler to subdue Amato and take him into the back room and kill him. Stabler manages to misdirect him, however, by blaming the night's misfortunes on O'Meara and offering to "take care of him"; Stabler in fact wants to find O'Meara before he harms Slootmaekers, whom he has taken hostage after finding out who she really is. Murphy tells him about a site in the nearby woods where he takes people who displease him to be killed. Ultimately, Stabler and Bell manage to save Slootmaekers and arrest O'Meara.
Meanwhile, Murphy tortures Amato into revealing that Stabler and Slootmaekers are police officers before turning Jack loose on him to maul him to death. He then takes Silas hostage and is about to kill him when Stabler bursts in and arrests everyone. Bell interrogates him and tells him she has enough evidence to prove that he killed Jennings, but he merely laughs at her. Moments later, however, several FBI agents take Murphy into custody and reveal that he has been informing on other mobsters for years in return for immunity from arrest or prosecution.
Moments later, Murphy calls Bell and taunts her, saying that he will take Jack to Jennings' grave to urinate on it. Enraged, Bell goes to Murphy's hideout and demands Jennings' ring. An amused Murphy says he will give it to her, but only if she begs for it. When she refuses, he gloats that Jennings had pleaded for his life "like a pathetic, mangey dog". Bell draws her weapon and threatens to kill him, but he defiantly presses the gun's barrel to his chest and dares her to do it. Just then, Stabler, who had followed Bell from the station house, walks in and talks her down. Murphy and Stabler stare each other down for a moment before the latter walks away. That night, two of Murphy's thugs kill O'Meara in a prison hospital.
The following day, Murphy takes Jack for a walk in Central Park, where Stabler confronts him; he tells the crime lord that, sooner or later, the FBI won't need him anymore, and then there will be nowhere for him to hide.
External links[]
- Eamon Murphy on the Law & Order Wiki
