A Dame, A Dork, and A Drunk

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"But hey, who needs a Trojan horse when the alarm is down and your standing army is a dame, a dork and a... drunk?"

―Max Payne

A Dame, a Dork, and a Drunk is sixth chapter in Max Payne 3.

Plot

This chapter starts with Raul Passos coming in to Max's apartment. Max is sleeping on a chair, around which the usual evidence of heavy substance abuse is present. Passos wakes him up and tells him that their boss, Rodrigo Branco, wants to see them. Upon the arrival, they meet a new face in Branco's office, Armando Becker, who is promising that he will rescue Fabiana and safely return her to Rodrigo. Da Silva attempts (via Rodrigo's secretary) to warn Rodrigo that the UFE is possibly involved in the conspiracy, only to then be impatiently dismissed as another "bent cop". Later on, Max receives news that some "paramilitaries" are surrounding and invading the building. Max has no choice but to face the trained militia head on, leaving Rodrigo in his office so he can be ready to activate it's lockdown sequence. Max is assisted by the IT Guy to get the systems back online in the headquarters, which the inactivation of has prevented Rodrigo securing his office and remainder of Branco Headquarters. After the building is locked down, Max returns to the office, where he finds Rodrigo dead on his computer desk, having been executed with shot to the rear skull. Max, after recovering a bottle and thumbling with a glass cased photo of Fabiana,dropping it on the ground next the desk, discovers that there is a remote explosive wired under the table. Max then tries to leap off the balcony of which Rodrigo had just been shouting to him from, but the bomb explodes and catches him, throwing him below and injuring him in the process. Through the detonation of other (speculated) explosives, the building starts to collapse from severe structual damage and an inferno.

After the bomb explodes.

Max tries to leave the building while encountering a few remaining and still hostile Crachá Preto members, of which one appears to have killed the IT guy. At the end of the level, Max finds a nearly dead paramilitary soldier, who is severely injured and because of this, unable to attack Max and likely rendered him unwilling. Max who then interrogates the dying soldier asks why they came to kill Rodrigo Branco, but the soldier replies that they came to kill Max, because he's apparently killed a significant number of them and therefore deserving of retribution by the militia. Max proceeds to question the soldier the precise whereabouts of which Fabiana is being held and the soldier desperately replies, exclaiming that Fabiana is being held by Comando Sombra up the hill, which is later confirmed in the next chapter (and second disc of the Xbox 360 edition of the game) by Da Silva, who purposely goes to encounter Max in A Hangover Sent Direct from Mother Nature.

Appearances

• Max Payne
• Raul Passos
• Rodrigo Branco (Killed)
• Marcelo Branco
• Wilson Da Silva (Mentioned only)
• IT Guy (First appearance) (Killed)
• Victor Branco
• Armando Becker

Enemies

• Crachá Preto

Video Walkthrough

Collectibles

Obtainable Achievements

Amidst The Wreckage

Destroy All The Models in The Boardroom

5 Gamerscore or a Bronze trophy

Trivia

• The name of the chapter most likely references the characters within it - the dame being the secretary, the dork being the IT guy, and the drunk being Max.
• Max repeatedly references a security guard that helped clear the enemies from the building, and tells the secretary to find him for help, suggesting that Max was supposed to have an ally in the mission, but he was cut at the last minute.
  • In an early cutscene of the next chapter, Max mentions fighting off the Crachá Preto with a security guard when talking to Victor.
  • In Chapter 12 at checkpoint 4, Max can discover a large assembly of photographs and plans crudely attached to a wall of the Imperial Palace Hotel; included in the portfolio is a photograph of a man wearing glasses and a black suit entering the reception of the Fabricas Branco offices. It is highly possible this man is the security guard that Max references in Chapter 6 and 7.
• This, along when Max is shot in Just Another Day at the Office, is the only time where Max will not have full health when reloading a checkpoint.
• After the office explosion, Max cannot dual wield his weapons or perform a Shootdodge for the remainder of the chapter.
• For the Xbox 360 version of the game, this is the final chapter on the first disc.
• If Max goes through Victor's office Max will notice emails and a folder containing information about Fabiana's personal schedule which foreshadows his involvement in the kidnapping.
• This is the only chapter to feature both the Auto 9mm and the Micro 9mm, and so will be the first and only time Max can dual wield the two armaments simultaneously.