Patty O'Connor

## Patricia O'Connor

**Patricia "Patty" Deirdre O'Connor** is a main character of the AMC dark comedy ***Kevin Can Fuck Himself***. She is portrayed by the actress Mary Hollis Inboden.

## Early life

Patty was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she has lived there her entire life. She is Irish American. She has one older brother named Neil. Though he is three years older than her, Patty been taking care of him for much of her life, even changing his diapers when they were children. Her and Neil's mother passed away when they were children, with Neil being the one who found her dead body. Their father was a trucker who was rarely home and Patty said it was better when he wasn't around.

Due to her rebellious tomboyish behavior and sardonic attitude, Patty was often something of an outcast growing up. She had a few friends, though Neil notes that they were not always healthy relationships. Though she attended the same high school as Allison and Sam, they never crossed paths with each other. Patty then went on to attend beauty school and became a hairdresser, opening and managing her own salon. At some point, she began hanging out with Neil's new best friend Kevin, despite not liking them much. She and Allison first met one another in 2005 at a bar, where Patty inadvertently introduced Kevin to Allison. She continued to hang out at the McRoberts' house over the next ten years after they married, barely interacting with Allison and regarding her with aloof disdain.

Four years prior to the events of the series, Patty had to get painkillers for Neil after he broke one of his legs when trying to hang a banner over the McRoberts' roof. She began buying and illegally reselling generic oxycodone to help out some of her salon clients who were having trouble affording their pain medication. She also began dating Kurt, a pharmacy tech working at the drugstore she got her pills from.

## Season 1

Patty is the token female member of Kevin's friend group, barely interacting with Allison despite having been a regular guest in her home for the last decade. Their first real conversation occurs on Kevin and Allison's tenth wedding anniversary when Patty, out of pity for Allison, tells her about how Kevin drained their savings (which Allison hoped to use to move to a nicer house and neighborhood) on a get-rich-quick scheme behind her back. This discovery turns out to be the last straw for the already deeply unhappy Allison, driving her to find a way to break free of her miserable marriage. Over time, they begin finding common ground over their shared disdain of Kevin, Neil, and Pete's idiotic behaviors and loneliness. Her relationship with Kurt is stable, but boring, with Patty barely able to stomach his attempts to make healthier dinners.

Allison, trying to procure opioid painkillers to poison and kill Kevin, finds out that Patty is a drug dealer. Despite knowing Allison is lying about being in pain, Patty agrees to sell her some pills once she replenishes her supply. However, a chain of events lead to Patty's supplier, Terrence, getting arrested, and in the chaos, Kurt impulsively proposes to her. With no other way to get the pills, Patty and Allison are forced to take a road trip up to Vermont to find another way to get the oxy. After a few mishaps, they wind up getting a gun from a dealer going by the alias Red Rooster and a bottle of pills from a trucker. When they're pulled over by the police after Kevin reported their car stolen because Allison wasn't answering his calls, it's there that Patty learns the full extent of how terrible a husband Kevin is to Allison, realizing to her horror that she had not only enabled and looked the other way on Kevin's abuse of Allison but actively contributed to it, driving her to apologize to Allison for the first time since they'd met. Allison subsequently reveals her plan to murder Kevin to Patty.

After returning to Worcester, Kevin kicks Patty out of his group because she didn't get him a Top Dog burger and also calls Kurt to tell him she's been cheating on him. Though Kurt knows Kevin's lying about it, he does realize that proposing to Patty was a mistake and breaks up with her. Patty also finds out from Nick Wyndorff that she's a much bigger deal in the oxycodone black market of Worcester than she'd originally thought - some of the generic oxy she was selling from Terrence was being resold by her clients, and he's been directly supplied by her through his aunt, a regular customer of Patty's. Patty is then questioned by Detective Tammy Ridgeway of the Worcester PD about the new drug dealer case. Realizing they're in deep trouble, Patty successfully persuades Allison to not use the oxy pills she'd gotten from the trucker in Vermont to poison Kevin, citing the simple fact that they have no way of knowing if the pills will be enough to kill Kevin considering he has a high tolerance for drugs and alcohol, and moreover, Allison would be named the first suspect in Kevin's mysterious death. They instead decide to use Patty's new close relationship with Tammy and the drug dealer case to their advantage and use that to dispose of Kevin. They enlist Nick's services to stage a break-in at the McRoberts' house and kill Kevin this way. After Nick runs into trouble, he accelerates the plan to kill Kevin before skipping out of town. Kevin is able to shoot Nick with the gun Allison and Patty acquired in Vermont, which they had buried in the backyard. Nick survives but is rendered comatose.

With the plan having gone off the rails, Allison is increasingly frustrated at how this incident just made Kevin a hero in the eyes of the community. Allison's paranoia leads her to force Patty to look through Tammy's notebook. Patty does so, but only with great reluctance, and feels guilty and hurt that Allison made her do this. The two have an angry argument in the living room and Allison storms off. Allison then encounters Neil, who had been hiding in the kitchen for four hours after Kevin sent him off on a fake game of "ultimate hide-and-seek". Neil reveals he overheard their plan to murder Kevin and tries to tell on them. When Allison tries to grab his phone, Neil violently throttles Allison, forcing Patty to hit him over the head with a beer bottle to get him to stop.