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| “ | I can't believe this. She told me she loved me. | „ |
| ~ Roy reacting to Jenna Kealey's betrayal. |
Roy Pack, Jr. is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Renunciation". He is a teenager who has a sexual relationship with his teacher, who manipulates him into murdering her husband.
He was portrayed by David Seaman.
Early life[]
Roy was raised by his father, Roy Sr., after his parents divorced. His cold, unloving mother, Constance, had little to no contact with her son, considering him "the biggest regret of her life" and telling him she was "through with him" when he was only eight years old.
His father sent him to an expensive private school, where math teacher Jenna Kealey tutored him for the SATs when he was 16. He was immediately smitten with her, and she seduced him, her relationship with her husband, Larry, having soured because of his gambling addiction.
Eventually, Larry caught Jenna in bed with Roy and sued her for divorce, which would have left her with nothing but his gambling debts. She decided to use Roy to kill her husband so she could collect on his life insurance policy, getting the boy primed to kill by lying to him that Larry was abusive.
Jenna paid Larry's bookie, David Kaufer, to pretend to be a hitman and take the money Larry owed him - which Roy supplied by cashing in his college fund - and agree to kill Larry in front of them, only to "back out of the deal" at the last minute. As intended, this made Roy so angry that he agreed to kill Larry himself.
"Renunciation"[]
One night, Roy takes his mother's car without her knowledge and parks outside of the Kealeys' apartment building. When Larry takes their dog out for a walk, Roy runs him down with his car, killing him instantly.
NYPD Homicide Sergeant Phil Cerreta and Detective Mike Logan investigate Larry's murder and come to suspect Jenna after she uses his life insurance money to buy their apartment the day after his death. They question her fellow teachers, who tell them about an incident in which Larry stormed into her office accusing her of cheating on him "with that Pack kid".
Cerreta and Logan question Roy, who denies having a relationship with Jenna. When they find out that his mother drives the same kind of car that killed Larry, however, they inspect it and find that it has a broken headlight, and that Roy had been seen driving it on the night of the murder. This gives them enough circumstantial evidence to arrest him for Larry's murder.
Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone and Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette charge Roy as an adult with second-degree murder. Roy confesses to killing Larry, but he says he did it because Jenna told him Larry was hurting her and promised him that they would be together after he was dead. Stone and Robinette agree to send Roy to a juvenile facility for manslaughter, rather than prison for murder, if he testifies against Jenna. Jenna claims that the relationship was a fling that she ended, and that Roy became obsessed after she rejected him.
Roy tells Stone and Robinette about paying Kaufer to kill Larry, but Jenna claims that she cancelled the hit and broke off the relationship. She directs them to Kaufer, who backs up her story; this provokes Stone and Robinette to cancel their deal with Roy.
During the trial, Kaufer testifies that Roy threatened to kill Larry himself, while Jenna says that he blamed Larry for her rejection. Roy testifies in his own defense that Jenna said that he was her last hope after Kaufer refused to kill Larry.
Stone and Robinette discover that Kaufer lied about Larry owing him money for the NFL and MLB playoffs, which happened while Kaufer was in jail. They threaten him with prison unless he tells the truth, so he admits that Jenna hired him to pretend to be a hitman as part of a plan to provoke Roy into killing Larry. Jenna goes to prison for life for Larry's murder, while Roy is sentenced to a juvenile facility for manslaughter, per his original deal with the prosecution.
External links[]
- Roy Pack, Jr. on the Law & Order Wiki
