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| “ | Hi, Phelps. I'll be keeping an eye on you. I could use a little time basking in reflected glory. You would make a change from busting hookers and dope fiends. | „ |
| ~ Roy Earle meeting Cole Phelps. |
| “ | Cole Phelps: We're supposed to uphold the law. Roy Earle: Yeah, and we do. But we can't change people. The truth is, everyone wants the license to get a little dirty now and then. Our job is to keep it manageable. Cole Phelps: That's how you see it? Roy Earle: See it any other way, and you'd better forget about being a Vice cop. |
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Detective Roy Earle is the secondary antagonist in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire.
The chief detective of the LAPD's vice desk. Earle is a dirty cop who abuses his power with knowledge of the L.A.'s criminal underworld. He becomes Cole Phelps' fourth partner during his rise in the police department, but later causes his downfall when he exposes his affair with Elisa Lichtmann. Towards the end of the story, Earle becomes an antagonist due to his association with the Suburban Redevelopment Fund and attempting to stop Phelps and Herschel Bigg's investigation.
He was voiced and motion captured by Adam John Harrington.
Overview[]
Earle is introduced in Traffic case, "The Driver's Seat" where he is introduced to Cole Phelps and comments that he is gonna keep an eye on him. In the last Traffic case, "The Fallen Idol", he appears to give Cole and his partner, Stefan Bekowsky, a ride to a nightclub where he introduces the former to Elsa Litchmann and Harlen J. Fontaine.
When Cole is promoted to Vice, he is partnered with Earle in the cases, including tracking down the source of stolen morphine, bringing down a marijuana distribution ring, and investigating a prizefighting racket. However, Earle betrays Cole in the final case when he reveals to the press that Cole has cheated on his wife with Elsa.
During the Arson case, "A Walk in Elysian Fields", Earle sits at a table where Cole is to warn him to stop investigating Elysian Fields, but fails. This only makes Cole suspect that Earle is on their payroll. This is proven true when Jack Kelso finds his name on Leland Monroe's paper. As shown in a newspaper during the final case, Earle is trying to hijack the case Cole and Herschel Biggs are working on, claiming Courtney Sheldon's death is by morphine. Cole then pulls out a gun on Earle, threatening that he is gonna blow his head off should he say anything else ill about Courtney.
At Cole's funeral, Earle gives a eulogy as he denounces the accusations, which causes Elsa to leave angrily after accusing Earle of belittling Cole's memory.
Biography[]
Background[]
Not much is known about Roy Earle's past, but he was born in 1915 to unnamed parents and its hinted that possibly served in the United States military at one point. Joining the Los Angeles Police Department, Roy was partnered with Archie Colmyer until moving up to vice, where Archie later became the lieutenant as Earle became the desk's chief detective. During his service to the LAPD, Earle became a dirty cop with extensive knowledge of the criminal underworld, allowing to become acquainted with the likes of Mickey Cohen. At some point, Archie developed a hatred for Roy, presumably due to his corruption within the department, associating himself with criminals, or for his vile personality.
L.A. Noire[]
Once Cole Phelps is promoted to traffic from patrol, Roy expresses his interest in Phelps' work and wanting to bask in "reflected glory". He later encounters Cole during his investigation into Mark Bishop, stopping the detective from arresting Marlon Hopgood since he was a vice informant. After the shootout at the movie set, Earle congratulates Cole on solving the case and his promotion, and invites him and his partner Stefan Bekowsky to the Blue Room Club. At the club, Roy introduces Cole to the German singer Elsa Lichtmann, whom he also slaps when she calls him a fascist.
Seeing Cole's rising fame within the police department, Roy asks for Cole to become his partner in the vice department, managing to do so following the detective's success in stopping the Werewolf Killer. With Phelps as his new partner, Roy clashes with him frequently, attempting to corrupt him and make him see his worldview on how to work in the vice department. The two work together to stop criminals whom are selling stolen morphine, uncovering a plot orchestrated by Cohen's brother-in-law Lenny Finkelstein.
Personality[]
| “ | Roy is a movie star, and the whole of the Seedy Side of LA is his audience. | „ |
| ~ Stefan Bekowsky to Cole Phelps. |
Roy Earle was a narcissistic, obnoxious, bigoted, corrupt, traitorous scumbag who looked out for himself only and was willing to ruin the lives of anyone who got in his way. He used his power in the police force to cover up his criminal connections while trying to manipulate and intimidate anyone who wasn't as corrupt as him, such as Cole Phelps. Due to his unlikable nature, he was dispised by many in the department, most notabaly his superiror Archie Colmyer. Additionally, Roy was perceptive, evident by noticing Cole's attraction towards Elsa and taunting him about it, and believed that L.A.'s drug problem couldn't be resolved.
He was also incredibly bigoted, displaying a significant hatred for blacks, Hispanics and women, throwing abuse at any minority he came across. This is shown when he slaps Elsa when introducing Cole to her, or when speaking to any minority during cases. Roy also had a very high opinion of himself, buying expensive clothes and mocking Cole's outfit on occasions. Despite his dislike to Cole, he has shown moments to side with him during cases, deciding to help Phelps lie to Colmyer on Albert Hammond's location.
Despite being cruel to Cole Phelps, he choked up at the end of his (flippant) eulogy, remembering that despite Earle being cruel to him, Phelps was a good friend. However, Elsa's correctly deduces that Roy's speech was a front to belittle Cole's memory since he got away with his crimes or maintain the LAPD's reputation.
Quotes[]
| “ | They really picked a prize s-ithole for our first date. | „ |
| ~ Roy upon seeing Cornell Tyree and Tyrone Lamont's corpses. |
| “ | Everyone has their vices. Even you, Phelps. | „ |
| ~ Roy to Cole. |
| “ | I don't care if she was the Virgin Mary, sister. Who was she humping? You change the sheets. | „ |
| ~ Roy to Virginia Reynoldson. |
| “ | If they locked up all the doctors in this town, Vice would be able to work half-days. | „ |
| ~ Roy to Cole on doctors during "The Naked City" case. |
| “ | Oh I think that the orders regarding Brenda come down not up, Mayor... I have a human interest story... it involves a certain LAPD cop, a hero from the war, who has let his beautiful wife and kids down, who has betrayed America for a German junkie whore, who has abandoned his pledge to the LAPD, and his commitment to the public we all serve... it could be all over the papers by tomorrow, and you would be off the hook. | „ |
| ~ Roy to mayor Fletcher Bowron, police chief William Worrell, and district attorney Donald Sandler. |
| “ | I knew this creep was in on the morphine heist. A victim of his own product. | „ |
| ~ Roy upon seeing Courtney Sheldon's corpse. |
| “ | We are gathered here to honor Detective Cole Phelps. Cole Phelps was the best kind of man. A war hero who led his men with true valor, and through his personal bravery, achieved one of his country's highest honors. A cop wrongly accused, who never lost his faith in the LAPD and the system. A detective who fought to expose the evil corruption of the murderous Dr. Fontaine and the rapacious property tycoon Leland Monroe. A Reformer, who recognized the need to remove the odd bad apple, from a department made up of good men. A man who never gave up. Who continued to fight the good fight. The fight cost him his own life....a good husband....a good father. And may I say...a good friend. | „ |
| ~ Roy's eulogy at Cole's funeral. |
Trivia[]
- He appears ambidextrous, as he is shown to be shooting his handgun either with his left or right hand.
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