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| “ | I'm a bad man who can do good things if he wants to. | „ |
| ~ O'Meara to Jet Slootmaekers |
Seamus O'Meara is a supporting antagonist in Law & Order: Organized Crime. He is the right-hand man of Irish crime boss Eamon Murphy.
He was portrayed by Michael Malarkey, who also portrayed Enzo St. John in The Vampire Diaries.
Overview[]
O'Meara is Irish drug lord Eamon Murphy's right-hand man and enforcer; his main job is to run the casinos and bars through which Murphy launders his drug money and report and "deal with" threats to his power from law enforcement and disloyal henchmen.
Unlike Murphy, however, O'Meara has a conscience, and he wants ultimately to get out of organized crime and lead a normal life.
Biography[]
"Partners in Crime"[]
O'Meara first appears in a church with Murphy, telling his boss that Octavio Montanaro, a drug addict whom he had framed 10 years earlier for the murder of NYPD Detective Daryl Jennings, has told Jennings' former partner, Sergeant Ayanna Bell of the NYPD's Organized Task Force, what Murphy did to him. Murphy arranges for O'Meara to infiltrate Montanero's cell and kill him, making it look like a suicide.
Bell and her partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, set up an undercover operation to arrest O'Meara and get him to inform on Murphy. To that end, they persuade gangster Teddy Silas to let them use his club in return for a reduction of his house arrest sentence for racketeering, and Stabler, posing as the owner, invites O'Meara to come in and gamble as a "guest of the house". Detective Jet Slootmaekers poses as a blackjack dealer and flirts with O'Meara, who asks her out; she accepts in order to manipulate him into revealing incriminating information about Murphy. He falls in love with Slootmakers, who eventually develops real feelings for him, as well, and tries to persuade a skeptical Stabler and Bell that he is not a bad person.
One night, Murphy orders O'Meara to meet with small-time drug dealer Gustavo Lopez to sell him ta large shipment of cocaine. Detectives Bobby Reyes and Jamie Whelan follow him and arrest Lopez, but O'Meara gets away. Later that night, he takes Slootmaekers out on a date, only for Murphy to show up unexpectedly and introduce himself, smiling menacingly at Slootmaekers
"Punch Drunk"[]
Murphy interrupts another date between O'Meara and Slootmaekers and orders him to kill Lopez to prevent him from testifying against him. O'Meara feels conflicted; falling in love with Slootmaekers has made him want to be a better man, but he knows that Murphy will kill him - and probably her, too - if he disobeys orders. He takes Lopez out to a remote area in the woods to kill him, but relent at the last minute, telling Lopez to leave New York and never come back. Later that night, he tells Slootmaekers that he wants out of Murphy's gang and buys them both one-way tickets to Santa Fe, Mexico, where he plans to start his life over with her.
O'Meara takes Slootmaekers to a prize fight at Silas' club. In the middle of the fight, however, Michael Amato, an assassin for the Amato crime family, bursts in and shoots at Murphy, although he misses. O'Meara uses the ensuing chaos to flee the club with Slootmaekers, intending to leave town. He accidentally knocks off the wig Slootmaekers has been wearing as part of her undercover persona. Slootmaekers identifies herself as a police officer and tries to arrest a heartbroken O'Meara, who nevertheless manages to overpower her and take her hostage.
"All in the Game"[]
O'Meara takes Slootmaekers to the same wooded area where he had taken Lopez and threatens to kill her while accusing her of using him. Slootmaekers tells O'Meara that he is a good man, and that he can prove it and atone for his crimes by testifying against Murphy. At that moment, Stabler, Reyes, and Whelan, who had been trailing O'Meara, hold him at gunpoint and order him to surrender. O'Meara hesitates for a moment, but finally decides he cannot bring himself to kill Slootmaekers, and then attempts suicide by cop by opening fire on at Stabler. The detectives return fire, but they only wound him, and they take him into custody.
Slootmaekers visits O'Meara in the prison hospital ward where he is being treated, apologizes for lying to him, and tells him that he can still put his life back together. O'Meara replies that she was only doing her job, and that his present circumstances are his own fault, not hers. They then bid each other a quietly emotional goodbye. That night, however, Murphy, who has made a deal with the FBI to escape punishment for his crimes in return for informing on other gangsters, sends three of his thugs to infiltrate the ward and stab O'Meara to death.
External links[]
- Seamus O'Meara on the Law & Order Wiki
