Eddie Pulaski

Background

Officer Eddie Pulaski is Frank Tenpenny's partner in C.R.A.S.H. and the muscle of the corrupt unit. Where Tenpenny talks, Pulaski threatens. He took part in the murder of Officer Ralph Pendelbury before the story begins, and he shares Tenpenny's grip on Carl Johnson.

Events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Pulaski is in the patrol car that picks up CJ at the start of the game in In the Beginning and helps throw him out in Ballas territory. He appears alongside Tenpenny in several C.R.A.S.H. cutscenes, mocking CJ and taking pleasure in pushing him around.

His last appearance is High Noon, set at the Las Brujas ghost town in Bone County. After CJ hands over the dossier from Misappropriation, Tenpenny knocks out Hernandez with a spade for talking to Internal Affairs and leaves Pulaski to watch CJ dig the grave, which is clearly meant for both of them. Hernandez comes round and lunges at Pulaski, who shoots him dead. Pulaski then flees in a Buffalo, CJ chases him across the desert, and when the car is wrecked CJ finishes him off. A later news report claims Pulaski is on the run, implying his body was never found.

Throughout the Los Santos chapter, Pulaski is a constant presence at C.R.A.S.H. meetings, often at the Jim's Sticky Ring doughnut shop in Market. He is with Tenpenny when they leave Big Smoke's house in Running Dog and Wrong Side of the Tracks, an early hint of the deal between C.R.A.S.H. and Smoke. In The Green Sabre it is Pulaski who backs the green Sabre out of a garage under the freeway, the car linked to the drive-by that killed Beverly Johnson. In San Fierro he joins Tenpenny at CJ's garage in Snail Trail, where the targets are a journalist investigating Pulaski himself and the contact he was meeting.

Personality

Pulaski is crude, racist and hot-tempered. He enjoys violence and humiliation, constantly insults those around him and is fiercely loyal to Tenpenny, whom he sees as the only person he answers to.

He is also less intelligent than Tenpenny and more impulsive. While digging in High Noon, CJ tries to convince him that Tenpenny is using him and will eventually throw him away, and Pulaski's furious reaction suggests the idea hits home. Even as he lies dying, he insults CJ's family, and CJ remarks that he was an asshole to the end.

Relationships

Tenpenny is his partner and boss. He despises Jimmy Hernandez, suspecting him of weakness long before the rookie actually turns against the unit. He treats CJ with open contempt.

Trivia

• Pulaski is voiced by Chris Penn.
• He dies in High Noon, before Tenpenny's downfall.
• In Riot, a news report says Pulaski is believed to be on the run, implying his body was never found.