MAX PAYNE - PART 1 THE AMERICAN DREAM - CHAPTER 3 - PLAYING IT BOGART The Pino ran his racket of sex, drugs, and contract killings from a sleazy hotel and a slumblock of tenements. [...2.1s] The NYPD was closing in.I could hear the sirens. Their whale was a crescendo. [...1.0s] Lupino thought he could get us by taking Alex out and leaving me to take the fall for it. All you've gotten was my attention. [...2.0s]I went for the hotel first. It was a sad old thing with flickering lamps and faded colors. Cheap mobster punks and tired eyed prostitutes. [...2.1s] I walk straight in, playing a Bogart like I've done 100 times before. The place was run by a couple of murdering mobsters with shark smiles.The Finito Brothers. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the pain in the butt painted a max. You're killing me to make that of yourselves. You get some wino downstairs to come up with it. [...1.6s] Don't answer that a rhetorical question.I got something for the boss Lupino around. That kind of depends on who's asking. A friend or a junk squad plan the, don't answer. It's where am I, how you put it up rhetorical questions? Lupino ain't here, but he said bye. Lupino wasn't in his cheap hotel. Instead, I ran into the Finito Brothers. [...1.9s]I covered them, blown the door slam shut behind me, and then I was dodging bullets like raindrops [...2.1s] pain in the butt. Haha, [...8.1s] shut up. [...4.8s] Ah, [...8.8s] a letter on the desk caught my eye. [...1.1s] Bosses, [...0.6s] everything alright, bosses, [...3.9s] all the others tell them to come quick. Okay, but we can't wait for them. [...1.1s] I had met Lupino only once.The gangster ran all his rackets through his right hand man, Vinnie Gagnidi. Gagnidi was a high strung whiner on the verge of breaking apart like an overamped Energizer bunny. [...1.1s] He had the brains to run the business, but he lacked the balls always falling shore, frustration out on underage addicts and call girls, [...1.3s] the V deal goes down at your hotel. Jack's exact words quote, Vinnie, you're in charge of this one unquote. Rico Muerte is coming to see you through.Anything goes wrong, and everybody's gonna get dead, goes double for you. Treat this guy real good, anything he wants you give him. Don't screw this up for your Fernito, Fernitos. [...1.1s]The V deal men added security, locked doors, lots of nervous thugs with itchy trigger fingers. I'd seen nothing coming in, but that didn't mean it hadn't been there.Rico Muerte was a regular Kaiser Soza, a spoof story told to keep the apes in line. 3:13, the finitos at scribbled Morte's room number on the notes margin gotta go in now. Bosses, we're coming in. [...1.1s] It's pain. [...3.5s] Ah ah ah ah ah ah, [...11.4s] getting out was not gonna be easy.Staircase was locked in, the elevator been busted for a decade or more. [...8.7s] In his press conference today, the mayor stated that Valkyr represents a clear danger to New York and called for drastic actions to eliminate the problem.On today's top story, the Valkyr crisis worsens with the murder of DEA Special Agent Alex Balder. Special Agent Balder been shot repeatedly from a Point Blank range. The gunman has been identified as Max Payne.The news is sure to tighten around this fugitive criminal as more NYPD units join the search to apprehend him.I just gotten my 15 minutes of fame. Yeah, something's wrong with the bosses. Thanks there, and they're not answering. Let's get it. Ah, hey, yeah, ah, [...10.8s] previously on Lords and Lords Lady of area, Lucky Valentine lost [...9.4s] there he is, I [...11.3s] saw.There is indeed my lady, there is indeed [...0.6s] from the very first moment we met upon [...3.5s] releasing piece of crap. What? Oh, ah, oh, I beg of you, I must know I would rather. [...13.2s] Wow, wow, the head junkies could go off without a warning. I had to be careful. Ah, [...10.5s] I saw, oh no, ah, ah, ah I found more to this world. Muerte received a letter. [...2.3s]Our investigation had turned up nothing to Langangelo Punjanello, the head of the Ponchanella family to Valkyr, all tracks had ended with Jack Lupino.The letter Muerte's room was signed by the don himself, was the first hint that the kingpin knew what was brewing inside his syndicate. The trouble you got into after the Chicago school, the Ponchinolo family bailed you out. You have been waiting for a chance to pay us back one of our trusted boys.As a monkey the size of King Kong on his back, we need your special skills for backup on a major deal.Collecting evidence have gotten old. A few hundred bullets back, I was already so far past the point of no return. I couldn't even remember what it looked like when I had passed it. [...13.2s] What was that ice? Oh, oh, [...9.1s] hold it, hold it, [...6.9s] ah ah, [...10.3s] ah oh the hooker left her diary on the table. [...9.0s]What the hell? Go get him. No, wait, you go get him you go and get him oh ah, ah, ah.