Playing It Bogart

I walked straight in, playing it Bogart, like I'd done a hundred times before.

—Max Payne, describing his infiltration in Lupino's hotel

Playing It Bogart
Game	Max Payne
Chapter Information
Part	1
Chapter	3
Location	Lupino's Hotel
Enemies	Punchinellos
Number of Enemies	31 + 4 (Optional)
Game Progression
Previous	Live from the Crime Scene
Next	The Blood Veins of New York

Playing It Bogart is the third chapter of Part I in Max Payne.

Plot

Lupino runs his business through his Hotel and the tenements. Max heads for the Hotel, and encounters the Finito brothers, Joey and Virgilio, who say that Lupino isn't there and that he isn't welcome there; they pull out their guns and shoot at Max. After a brief gunfight, Max kills them. Upon investigating the room, he sees a letter on the desk written by Vinnie Gognitti addressed to the Finito brothers, in which he instructs them about a deal on Valkyr, the "V-deal", and announcing Rico Muerte's arrival to the Hotel. Muerte's room number was written on the note's margin: 313. Being that the staircase doors were locked and the elevator was out of order, Max had to search for an alternate route out of the Hotel. On his way out, Max finds Muerte's room and enters it, dodging pellets from a Pump-Action Shotgun attached to a contraption tied to the room door. He finds a letter written by Don Punchinello, addressed to Rico Muerte, mentioning needing Rico Muerte's assistance on a major deal. To Max, this was a break in the case; this letter directly links Don Punchinello to Valkyr. After leaving Muerte's room, Max tries to take the stairs and the elevator, none of which are operational. After that, Max encounters two mobsters exiting a boiler room and kills them. Having no other way to go, Max shoots the boiler, making it fall through the floor onto the floor below. Max makes a jump down, kills a few mobsters and finds a room belonging to a hooker named Candy Dawn. In it, on the desk, he finds her diary and finds an entry mentioning "a mystery hag" and selling her latest "one-eyed Alfred tape" to her and that she intends to keep selling her more of those tapes. Then, Max stumbles upon a hidden studio after opening the closet. It is revealed that Candy Dawn secretly films her clients "in action" and sells the tapes for additional profit. Max then leaves the room through a secret door leading to another corridor where he encounters three mobsters by an old service elevator and kills them after a gunfight. The chapter concludes with Max entering the old service elevator and using it to further descend the Hotel.

Characters

• Max Payne
• Alex Balder (mentioned)
• Jack Lupino (mentioned)
• Vinnie Gognitti (mentioned, voice only)
• Finito Brothers (killed by Max Payne)
• Rico Muerte (mentioned)
• Candy Dawn (voice only)
• Alfred Woden (mentioned)
• Nicole Horne (mentioned)
• Kyra Silver (TV)

Weapons

• Beretta
• Desert Eagle
• Pump-Action Shotgun
• Sawed-Off Shotgun
• Molotov Cocktail

Transcript

Main article: Playing It Bogart/Transcript

PS2/Xbox

On the PS2/Xbox version, this chapter is divided into three sub-chapters: Playing It Bogart, Without Warning and A Few Hundred Bullets Back.

Obtainable Accomplishments

Playing It Bogart

Complete 'Part I Chapter 3: Playing It Bogart' on any difficulty

10 POINTS

Gallery

The door near Rico Muerte's room can be broken down to get to the ledge outside

Accessing the room with the bloodied and staked corpse

Trivia

• The title is an homage to actor Humphrey Bogart, star of many 1940s noir films, from which Max Payne takes many of its stylistic cues. Payne's explanation that he is "playing it Bogart" means he is conducting his investigation with extreme self-confidence and acting "as though he was supposed to be there," which describes the methodology of many of Bogart's characters.
• Max refers to Rico Muerte as "a regular Keyser Soze," which is a reference to the Keyser Söze character from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects. This is the first of two references to the film in the game; the second reference can be overheard in the chapter In the Land of the Blind when two Mercenaries are debating about best movie endings.
• Past Rico Muerte's room is a cracked wooden door which can be shot through. Once inside climb out onto the ledge and walk across to the next room. Inside the room is a dead man holding a gun while lying on the floor with a stake driven into him, surrounded by syringes of Valkyr. Some molotovs and painkillers can also be found in the room. The man wrote "Buff" in his own blood before dying, which is most likely a reference to the American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• Coincidentally, "the mystery hag" mentioned in Candy Dawn's diary is later revealed as Nicole Horne, who used Candy to blackmail Alfred Woden.