Firing a gun is a binary choice. You either pull the trigger or you don't.—Max Payne, monologue his dilemma with Mona Sax and Valerie Winterson
A Binary Choice is the second part of Max Payne 2. It is the continuation of part I, The Darkness Inside.
Chapters[]
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Things That I Want
- Chapter 2: In the Middle of Something
- Chapter 3: Blowing Up
- Chapter 4: Routing Her Synapses
- Chapter 5: Out of the Window
- Chapter 6: The Genius of the Hole
Plot[]
After killing Kaufman and getting caught by the police, Max Payne gets scolded by Jim Bravura at the police station. He goes to see Mona Sax, who is in the lock-up, and gets an advice: visit Alfred Woden. After that, the building trembles, as the Cleaners attack the station. After killing the Cleaners, Payne goes after the escaped Sax. They meet at her Coney Island safe house, but are split apart by more Cleaner attackers who have traced them there. Max then infiltrates their base at an abandoned construction site and Mona follows. They both investigate the area.
Once there they make their way through their respective buildings. Max then finds the guns from Annie Finn's workshop and begins to notice that the cleaners have shed their disguises. As he reaches the top he finds a room full of the bodies that the cleaners have killed. Realizing this evidence was too important to ignore, he instructs Mona to call the cops, which she refuses due to her status as a fugitive. On the way, Max is ambushed by cleaners who's gunshots set off explosives and Max is forced to flee the building and though he gets out, he falls off the scaffolding he used to save himself and is trapped under a board.
Mona finds him and guns down the cleaners before they can kill Max. As Mona defends Max the cops are heard coming, much to Mona's chagrin. After successfully making their way through the site, the commandos decide to flee as they mention "the situation will be handled differently". Max and Mone reunite, but the latter is held at gunpoint by Valerie Winterson who Mona realizes is "one of them", but Valerie retorts that Mona is a fugitive. The two women prepare to fire, but a shot rings out and Winterson collapses, the shot being Max who had shot Winterson to protect Mona. Other cops head in their direction and Max tells Mona to flee, ready to turn himself in, but Winterson shoots Max twice before succumbing to her wound. This causes Max to fall off the scaffolding and into a pit and hit his head, injuring him severely.