Colin McReary is the previously unseen patriarch of the McReary Clan, who's dead by the events of Grand Theft Auto IV.
In 1997, he's alive and... Alive. While everyone tells Gerry that he’s “mellowed out in his old age” and pathetic in comparison to the version of his father he left behind, he's still an explosive man by any normal person’s standards. He believes he's doing Gerry a massive favor by letting him move back into the house and do jobs for him, and that he owes him his life.