Sean McKinney

Sean McKinney is the main protagonist of the 1990 film Maniac Cop 2 and the 1993 sequel Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence. He is a lieutenant in the NYPD.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Not much is known about Sean McKinney's early life except that he had a wife and began to suffer marriage problems with her. He agreed to let her have sessions with a psychiatrist and later on, his wife divorced him, making McKinney blame her psychiatrist for making this happen and began to dislike them. At some point, McKinney had a partner in the NYPD who was suffering problems of his own and McKinney urged his partner to not check in with a psychiatrist due to McKinney having issues with those sorts of people. As a result, his partner killed himself. McKinney became acquainted with patrolman Jack W. Forrest and got promoted to lieutenant after Frank Mcrae died and was assigned to McCrae's partner Detective Lovejoy. 
=== Maniac Cop 2 (1990) ===
Sean McKinney was called to have a session with psychologist Susan Riley but left after a few minutes since he felt Susan was trying to get inside her head despite McKinney being attracted to her. After the death of patrolman Jack W. Forrest Jr, Lieutenant McKinney became determined to apprehend the killer as Jack was his subordinate, but Commissioner Edward Doyle insisted that McKinney focus on other cases and ensure that Jack's partner Theresa Mallory didn't go public with this information. 
McKinney was unaware of this, but Jack's killer was Matt Cordell, a former NYPD officer. In 1986, Commissioner Pike, Captain Ripley, and Mayor Jerry Killium was taking payoffs from mobsters. Cordell, a selfless officer, discovered his superiors were corrupt and intended to bring them down. Pike then worked with Killium and Ripley to frame Cordell for a 'people rights violations' charge. Deputy Commissioner Doyle was also involved in framing Cordell as well. Claypool then sentenced Cordell to the Sing Sing correctional facility. While there, Matt was ambushed and killed by three inmates (so many of which Matt had helped incarcerate) in the shower room. The coroner, Dr. Gruber, who did the autopsy on Matt found that Matt showed very faint signs of life but was braindead. After Sally, Matt's girlfriend and the fellow officer found out about Matt she attempted suicide by jumping from a window. She failed and only ended up with a broken leg. Sally later found out Matt was 'alive' and Gruber released Matt released into her custody. Gruber was sympathetic to Cordell since Gruber knew that Pike framed Cordell. To protect the memory of Commissioner Pike, the corrupt official who framed Cordell, Deputy Commissioner Doyle refused to inform the public after Forrest's death as Doyle knew it was Cordell. 
McKinney decided to disobey Doyle and went to interrogate Theresa Mallory at her house since McKinney suspected that Theresa knew more about Jack's murder than she said. After Theresa is killed by Cordell when she is on her way to a talk show to inform the people of New York City about Cordell. Susan is almost killed when Cordell handcuffs her to the steering wheel of the car with Cordell moves the car into the busy streets. Susan survives and McKinney finds her. Now knowing that Theresa was right about Matt Cordell being alive, Susan Riley appears on the talk show in Theresa's place to inform the public about this. However, Deputy Commissioner Doyle is outraged that Susan is dishonoring Pike and suspends her. 
Despite the fact that Doyle suspended Susan, McKinney permitted Susan to help him search for Steven Turkell, a serial killer preying on exotic dancers. Turkell befriends Cordell. Turkell is eventually arrested by McKinney, Susan, and Detective Lovejoy when Cheryl, one of the strippers that Turkell almost assassinated, identifies him. McKinney leaves Turkell in a holding cell and goes to Turkell's hideout to search for Cordell after learning that Turkell is friends with Cordell. McKinney heads to Turkell's hideout. Although McKinney doesn't find Cordell, he finds out to his shock that Turkell killed other exotic dancers before targeting Cheryl. 
While McKinney is at Turkell's, Cordell attacks the NYPD where he frees Turkell and several unnamed convicts. They take Susan as a hostage and head to Sing Sing Prison after hijacking a prison bus. Turkell believes that Cordell wishes to free the prisoners to create an army. McKinney and Doyle follow with McKinney expressing disgust at Doyle for framing Cordell. Because Doyle is corrupt, McKinney decides to not take orders from him anymore. Doyle shows regret for helping Pike and agrees to McKinney's terms. McKinney wants Doyle to sign a confession, have a judge reverse Cordell's conviction, and rebury Cordell alongside his fellow officers. 
After Cordell dies, Deputy Commissioner Doyle keeps his promise to McKinney and has Cordell buried with full honors. The public then learns the truth that Commissioner Pike sent Cordell to prison not for a human rights violation, but for being a hero who fought against corruption in the NYPD. After McKinney tosses Cordell's badge into Cordell's grave, he leaves with Susan, who is attending the funeral. McKinney notes to Susan that justice and pressure show the difference between a cop and a "Maniac Cop". Unknown to McKinney, Cordell is brought back from the dead by a voodoo priest named Houngan. 
=== Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence ===
Because of Sean McKinney, Matt Cordell's name is now cleared and the NYPD decides to launch an inquiry into Cordell's framing. In the meantime, McKinney has to deal with Hank Cooney, a corrupt city official, who is calling out Officer Katie Sullivan, whom McKinney considers to be like a sister, for her brutality. Meanwhile, two ambitious cameramen come across a convenience store robbery, where Sullivan intervenes in a hostage situation. Sullivan wounds the armed robber Frank Jessup and is forced to wound the clerk after discovering that the clerk is an accomplice when the clerk tries to kill her. Katie is wounded by the clerk and shoots the clerk to protect herself. The cameramen withhold some footage and lie to the public that Sullivan shot the clerk without due cause. Frank Jessup, although he knows what really happened, tries to use his lie as an excuse to be set free without being concerned about the clerk. 
Hank Cooney wants to have Sullivan removed from life support and tries to bargain with Jessup to make more money. Cordell kills all of the medical staff in the hospital that Sullivan is at who intend to remove her from life support which leads to McKinney investigating. While investigating the murders in the hospital, McKinney encounters Houngan after finding out that Susan saw Cordell entering some tunnels under the hospital. Houngan admits to having revived Cordell and explains how Cordell is interested in Kate. McKinney and Dr. Susan Fowler became smitten with one another at the hospital. Cordell kills the four reporters who lied about Sullivan and hands the footage they withheld which shows Sullivan shooting the clerk when the clerk tried to kill her. McKinney presumably uses this footage to clear Sullivan's name. 
Cordell uncuffs Jessup in the hospital and hands him a firearm. Jessup and two other criminals that Cordell also freed cause a shootout in the hospital, killing Cooney, Jessup's unethical lawyer, and an innocent security guard. McKinney is forced to kill Jessup and the two criminals in a gun battle to protect everyone in the hospital. McKinney reluctantly takes Susan with him after she stitches him up to confront Cordell. Cordell forces Houngan at gunpoint to revive Sullivan, but Sullivan's spirit refuses to return from the dead to be with Cordell. Cordell is upset by this and kills Houngan. However, Cordell accidentally sets himself and Sullivan's bodies on fire. Cordell tries to kill McKinney and Susan only for Susan to faint from the stress, forcing McKinney to do his duty as an NYPD officer and carry Susan out. 
McKinney and Susan decide to go to another hospital so a doctor can check up on Susan. They flirt while in the ambulance only to be chased by a fiery Cordell, who is upset that McKinney and Susan disrupted the resurrection. Susan drives the ambulance while McKinney throws an oxygen tank into the burning police car that Cordell is driving, blowing up Cordell's vehicle. Susan smiles as McKinney tosses Cordell's severed arm back into the flames and smokes a cigarette. McKinney then takes Susan by the arm and they both walk to an unknown location together.
Later, Kattie's immolated corpse is next to the burned remains of Cordell. While the coroner is busy with his computer, Cordell, who is still alive, uses to hand to hold Katie. 
== Personality ==
Sean McKinney is the opposite of Commissioner Pike as he has a strong moral compass to do the right thing despite having violent behavior toward criminals. Unlike his predecessor Frank McCrae, McKinney did care that Pike framed Cordell while McCrae only wanted to bring down Cordell. Because McKinney was concerned about Cordell's feelings unlike McCrae, he cleared Cordell's name by getting Doyle to confess to helping Pike with his crimes. This shows that, unlike McCrae, Jack W. Forrest, and Susan Riley, McKinney is a fair-minded individual. Unlike McCrae, McKinney is proactive as he agreed with his superiors not to inform the public of a serial killer terrorizing New York City in a police uniform due to repercussions that innocent officers would take while McCrae leaked the information to protect civilians without considering the consequences for innocent NYPD members. 
McKinney had issues with psychologists and psychiatrists which led his first wife to divorce him when they had marriage problems. Unlike his friend Jack W. Forrest Jr, who cheated on his wife with Theresa Mallory when they had marriage problems, McKinney never cheated on his wife. McKinney was more moral than Jack and Theresa. But eventually, he warmed up to Susan Riley. Despite being a loyal NYPD officer, McKinney was willing to disobey his superiors if they were corrupt as he brought Susan Riley to be with him on a case despite Doyle suspending her since Doyle was corrupt and because Susan was trying to expose Pike's crimes against Cordell and New York City. 
Sean McKinney also has a sense of humor as well as he joked with Cheryl that he should start taking dance lessons to become an exotic dancer while working with her to apprehend Steven Turkell. 
== Trivia ==
* While Frank McCrae was originally thought to be the protagonist of the Maniac Cop series, it was incorrect as Jack W. Forrest Jr. was the actual hero of the first movie. While Jack W. Forrest Jr. was originally thought to be the protagonist of the Maniac Cop series, it turned out to be Sean McKinney as he appeared in the second and final film surviving his battles with Cordell.
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