A cold snowy night across New York City splashes down hard. The ocean and lakes frozen in place, roads covered in piles of ice and lights broken. In the air, sirens are heard, helicopters hovering across the water heading towards a tall building in the centre of NYC.
NEW YORK CITY, PRESENT DAY, TWO HOURS AGO
DISPATCHER: Stand by, 10-10, investigate a reported disturbance at Aesir Plaza.
COP #1: 10-4 Dispatcher, verify address...
DISPATCHER: That's Aesir Plaza, repeat, Aesir Plaza.
COP #2: Shots fired on the rooftop. An assault in progress at Aesir
COP #3: It's a warzone down there. 10-85 dispatcher, need additional units now!! Officer in danger, officer in danger.
DISPATCHER: 10-5 please repeat, 10-5, all units, all units emergency, officer in danger, Aesir Plaza.
On the roof of Aesir Plaza, a man stands at the edge of the roof holding a shotgun.
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger and then it was over. To make any sense of it, I need to go back three years. Back to the night the pain started.
THREE YEARS BEFORE
Max and Alex, one of Max's best friends leave the NYPD Headquarters based in the midtown north pricinct, Manhattan. They had just finished there normal busy shifts. Nothing unusual happening throughout the day. They stop for a convosation.
ALEX: So, when you coming to work for me, Detective Payne?
MAX: You'd make me work undercover in some hellhole. Sorry Alex, Michelle and the baby come first. See? My last smoke, it's bad for the baby.
ALEX: That's you, Max, a regular boy scout.
MAX: See you later Alex
ALEX: Still on for Poker Thursday, right?
MAX: Like taking candy from a baby.
Max says his goodbye and hopes inside his car. The sun was starting to fall, he'd have to hurry home to catch dinner with Michelle and the baby. "Life was good. The sun setting on a sweet summers day, the smell of freshly mowed lawns, the sounds of children playing. A house across the river on the jersey side. A beautiful wife and a baby girl, the american dream come true" Max hopes out of his car and to his front lawn. He checks the mailbox for any newspaper and heads inside.
MAX: Honey I'm home
"But dreams have a nasty habit of going bad when you're not looking. The sun had gone down like bravado, twilight crawled the sky, I didn't like the way the show started. But they had given me the best seat in the house. Front row Center" Max closes the door and hangs up his jacket. The house was surprisingly quiet then it usually is, maybe Michelle was surprising Max. He decides to find Michele, reaching the hallway, a sign of graffiti had been put on the wall.
MAX: What the hell!!
"Something ugly had been tattooed on the wall, a map of things to come. It was a poison syringe, a magic tag full of diabolical meanings" After observing the graffiti, suddenly the phone begins to ring. Max rushes to the phone to call for help.
MAX: Hello, listen, someone's broken into my house, call 911.
????: Is this the Payne residence?
MAX: Yes, someone's broken into my house, they're still here, you have to..
????: Good, I'm afraid I cannot help.
MAX: Wait, who is this?
Before Max could finish his sentence, the person on the otherside of the line had already hung up. Max slams the phone and rushes towards the staircase. Upstairs sounds can be heard, like objects being thrown across the room. Max rushes up the stairs and can hear arguing and a baby's crying. Three gunshots are heard being shot throughout the next room. The fastest way to the bedroom was through the bathroom. He rushes to the bathroom door and tries to open the door. Something and blocked the door from opening.
MICHELLE: Please... Max Help!!!!
MAX: Honey I'm coming..
Three more gunshots are heard, silence was the only thing left in the house. As Max rushes to the babies room, someone bashes the door open.
PUNK: I'm gonna hurt you! I'm gonna hurt you! It's coming. Death is coming. You're gonna die!
MAX: Freeze NYPD!
The man rushes towards Max with a knife but he shoots him in the chest. He drops to the floor, Max walks into the babies room. The room had been trashed but the most horrifying thing had happened. In the corner laid the cradle, the baby covered in with a blanket with blood splatted on the cradle.
MAX: Oh god.. Please god no... No!!
Max rushes to his bedroom to rescue Michelle, another man rushes through the door. Without hesitation Max shoots and knocks him out. On the bed, Michelle lay died, Max was too late, he failed. He picks up Michelle and places her in his arms and screams out in horror.
MAX: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
"That was three years ago. Everything ripped apart in a New York Minute. The killer junkies had been high on a previously unknown designer drug. Valkyr V. After the funeral, I told Alex I would be transferring to the DEA. It took us three long years to get a break in the Valkyr case. Then finally two months ago,a dime dropper tipped us off that Jack Lupino, a mob boss in the Punchinello Crime Family was trafficking. I went undercover, infiltrated the worst mafia family in New York.
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Max Payne
Mystery / ThrillerMax Payne, a cop with nothing to lose in a violent and cold night. Framed for murder and on the run from the cops and the mob. A battle to clear his name, Prepare the pain. ALL RIGHTS GO TO REMEDY AND THE COMPANY WHO MADE THIS GAME. ONLY SOME OF THI...
