[classic swim]

Niko: I'm sorry for your loss. Kate: I'm not. I'm sorry for Ma.

Kate: To be honest, I thought this would have happened earlier. Then again, I expect to get a call from the coroner about any one of my brothers every day.

Packie: There's one less cop on the streets of Liberty City. Niko: What do you mean, Packie? Packie: I mean that my cop brother Francis McReary is no longer with us. Niko: You and Gerry must be very upset. Packie: Hardly - couldn't stand the bastard myself.

Derrick: Shit, you did it. A bolt of lightning from outta the fuckin’ blue. I really got the feeling it was him or me back there. Niko: You don't know the half.

- Blood Brothers (cont...) • 2008 Niko kills Francis anyway. Turns out 20K wasn’t enough from a bent cop who’s only threatened and blackmailed Bellic this entire time, and maybe doesn’t deserve too much power. No. Instead, Niko made the call just to see Francis squirm one last time. - - - - Derrick McReary was no threat to Niko or Packie, and would destroy himself on his own.

Niko: I'm not so sure about it. Francis: What's going to make you sure? You want me to give you a raise? Niko: That might help. Francis: Alright then, call it a bonus. Make this happen.

- Blood Brothers. • 2008 The time has come to choose between the lives of an aspiring Police Commissioner (corrupt and nasty to the core, but pays well), and a crook who ratted on his friends in Ireland to support his heroin habit... One McReary brother hits the ground.

Francis: Get in position and put Derrick out of his misery. Shit, I better get ready to act surprised. Don't miss, Niko! You might hit me. Niko: I'll hit who I'm aiming at, don't worry.

Niko: Fuck you. Francis: No, fuck you, pal. I'm going to meet him in the courtyard park off Bismark in Lancet. Deal with him. Make him a tragedy, not a disaster. Do it, or I will put you away.

Francis: Whatever he stood for, he betrayed. He only left here in the first place because he was caught stealing... from the Mafia!

Derrick: That's the end of a chapter. I can close the book on a whole lot of my past now, Niko. Thanks. Maybe a clean break is in order. A fresh beginning.

Aiden: Derrick? But he ratted me out. He's the reason I ended up in that place to start with.

Packie: We're doing this on behalf of an old acquaintance of yours. Aiden: I knew I wasn't forgotten about. I knew that no matter how long I rotted in there, people on the outside world still remember me. Packie: People remember you, alright. You're at the front of certain people's minds.

Packie: Derrick was a grass. In England. He was involved in that business, and he grasses on some people to avoid doing some serious time. And then went into hiding, for years. Niko: I did not know that. Packie: No. He spun it different, but that was the truth. A grass, to avoid doing time.

- Tunnel of Death. • 2008 Niko & Packie clear a cop convoy and take off with Derrick’s old friend Aiden O’Malley. Under the condition that O’Malley must be killed discreetly for Derrick in Alderney.

Packie: O'Malley is in government custody. He's got more police protection than the mayor.

Derrick: ...Aiden O'Malley. Niko: What about Aiden O'Malley?