Heist crew

Patrick McReary

Voiced by Ryan Johnston

4 missions

Patrick McReary turns up in 4 of the 77 story missions, first in The Jewel Store Job and last in The Big Score.

Hired for a heist. Who you take changes the cut and how cleanly the job goes.

Role: Heist crew
Voice actor: Ryan Johnston
Status: Not stated
Occupation: Robber, Drug dealer, Freelance gunman
Affiliations: McReary Crime Family, Pegorino Family, Niko Bellic, Elizabeta Torres, Gordon Sargent, Michael Keane

Player notes

Patrick "Packie" McReary, voiced by Ryan Johnston, is a Liberty City robber, drug dealer and freelance gunman from the McReary Crime Family. After leaving the city where he worked with Niko Bellic and other criminal associates, he is living in Los Santos by 2013. He enters the story during the Getaway Driver random event, robbing a drug store in Strawberry with an unnamed partner.

Packie asks the passing protagonist to find them a getaway vehicle. If they are taken from Strawberry and lose the police, he repays the help by joining Lester Crest's pool of heist gunmen. His experience makes him one of the crew's more capable shooters, although he takes a larger share than many of the available gunmen.

When Michael, Franklin and Trevor hire him for The Jewel Store Job, Packie helps clear the display cases in either approach. He can then accompany the crew from Sandy Shores to Paleto Bay for The Paleto Score, where he recalls the Bank of Liberty robbery, his late brother Derrick and the loss of contact with Niko. He fights alongside the crew during the escape from the bank.

Packie is also available for The Bureau Raid. In the covert plan, he survives the explosion during the getaway, while he handles his work in the roof entry plan. He can remain with the crew for either version of The Big Score, bringing his gunman skills to the final robbery in Los Santos.

Trivia

◆Not counting radio characters and celebrities with their different reality versions (e.g. Lazlow Jones), Patrick McReary and Johnny Klebitz are the two characters with the most physical appearances in the series, appearing in five total games.
◆According to Gerald, Packie has a tattoo of his own name on one of his arms, though it is never seen in any game.
◆In GTA IV, Packie's favorite radio station is Liberty Rock Radio and he will respond positively if the player switches to this station whilst in a vehicle, claiming he wants it to play at his funeral. In GTA V, Packie's favorite radio station is Los Santos Rock Radio.
◆He will sometimes refer to Niko as "boyo", which traditionally refers to someone younger than oneself, despite Niko being one year older than Packie. He also calls Franklin, Michael, Trevor and the "kid", though only Franklin and optionally the GTA Online protagonist are younger than him.
◆If playing as Trevor, the player can take Packie and his friend to the Altruist Cult. If taken to the Altruist Cult, Packie will mention how he used to hate going bowling and playing darts in Liberty City, but admits he misses it after spending so much time in Los Santos. As they get closer to the Altruist Camp, he will begin to talk about his friendship with Niko Bellic.
◆Packie seems to have an affinity for reality TV, which he mentions during mission dialogue in GTA IV and in dialogues during the random event encounter while driving up to the Altruist Cult as Trevor in GTA V.
◆If assisted in his random encounter in GTA V, Packie states that his fellow accomplice is the only person that he knows in Los Santos. However, if chosen for The Jewel Store Job (his next possible appearance), he will somewhat contradict this by saying that he has met many people since moving there, speaking of their generally self-centred nature. However, he maybe just doesn't like many people in Los Santos, or has been comparing their attitudes to people from Liberty City.
◆His reappearance in 2019 (in GTA Online) clearly confirms all his possible deaths in GTA V to be non-canon.
◆Additionally, all his voice lines in GTA Online seem to be reused from GTA V, probably due to Ryan Johnston being inactive during the production of The Diamond Casino Heist update.