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“The good thing about Richard is he’s a great dad. He loves his children, he cares for them. He overcompensates because he never had that with his own father, which I think is where there is such a deep-seated resentment,” the “American Horror Story” alum says. “And his father is obviously a racist as well, so it just doesn’t go well. And obviously Richard is a sociopath, in many ways, not that I would tell him that. He just, there is something about him. Like it talks about in the promos, he’s a new criminal. It’s not your father’s mafia guy. There’s something about Richard that is the next-level generation of criminal. And that’s a great thing to play because it’s so intricate and multi-dimensional. So I think you’re going to see Richard do a lot of crazy things. But at the core of him is a man who really loves his family.”
By Stacy Lambe NBC
As Richard Wheatley, the head of a digital drug cartel, Dylan McDermott is unlike any criminal audiences have seen on the
Law & Order franchise. And no, it’s not just his penchant for turtlenecks or his big money energy. It’s the fact that he s the most formidable foe Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) has ever faced.
And given how
Organized Crime is already bending of the rules of the franchise the premiere introduced a more serialized narrative and there were no signature “dun duns” Richard is not going anywhere anytime soon, making him the big bad of the spinoff centered around Elliot’s return to the long-running TV universe.