Patrick Cavendish

Patrick CavendishBioShock: Rapture, Chapter 13 was a member of the Rapture police force who arrived in Rapture as early as 1949.BioShock: Rapture, Chapter 7 He was a large, half-Irish, half-Suffolk man with blue eyes and a leering smile. Sullivan disliked Cavendish, noting that he liked to beat up prisoners but that he was a good man in a fight. Cavendish became Head Constable after Constable Harker was killed by a ricocheting bullet during a fight with a Houdini Splicer in 1956. Cavendish lost part of his left ear during the same fight. Cavendish had a negative reputation for being corrupt and was not above taking bribes, best exemplified when he handed three citizens accused of committing minor crimes over to Sander Cohen in exchange for money; all three of them were tortured to death by Cohen and Martin Finnegan.
Cavendish was part of a raid on Frank Fontaine's smuggling operations in Neptune's Bounty in 1956 during which several constables were drowned by a submerging fishing vessel; a trap set by Fontaine.BioShock: Rapture, Chapter 14 Later in 1958, Cavendish led a large assault on Fontaine's smugglers on the wharf in Neptune's Bounty. During the ensuing battle with Fontaine's Splicers, Cavendish killed Reggie, who had undergone surgery to look like Fontaine. The constables were forced to retreat under heavy fire from Fontaine's forces, giving them no chance to check the body.BioShock: Rapture, Chapter 16
After the 1958 New Year's Eve Riots, Cavendish was responsible for executing at least six constables who had acted as traitors during the fighting.BioShock: Rapture, Chapter 17 As Andrew Ryan began cracking down harder on dissenters, he authorized Cavendish to conduct torture sessions on prisoners. Ryan also gave Cavendish orders to acquire more young girls to be made into Little Sisters after Tenenbaum took many of them into hiding with her.BioShock: Rapture, Chapter 18 Subsequently, while Masha Lutz was playing with Sophie McDonagh in Arcadia, Masha was lured into a tea room and abducted by someone described as a large man. When Bill McDonagh questioned Cavendish about Masha's disappearance, Cavendish callously told him to mind his own business.
In 1959, Cavendish was with Redgrave and Ivan Karlosky in the Lighthouse when they were sent to stop Bill, Elaine, Sophie, and Roland Wallace from escaping Rapture. Redgrave and Karlosky were reluctant to bring Bill's family into custody, while Cavendish remained apathetic and ordered Karlosky to detain them. Cavendish pointed his gun at Redgrave and insulted him for showing mercy to Bill's family and, in response, was shot in the head and killed by Karlosky.BioShock: Rapture, Chapter 20
==Behind the Scenes==
*In BioShock, Sullivan's constable who electrocutes Timmy H. to death is named Patrick,Sullivan's Audio Diary: Timmy H. Interrogation but it is unknown if author John Shirley intended for Cavendish to be the same constable.
==References==
Category:BioShock: Rapture Characters