History Recap / MafiaII

With Leo's connections, Vito Scaletta is eventually transferred to [[VideoGame/MafiaIII work for Don Sal Marcano, who runs the Marcano crime family out of New Bordeaux, Louisiana.]] He keeps in touch with Galante through coded postcards to an address in Empire Bay, updating him on any news of Marcano's pursuits from time to time.

Joe Barbaro is never seen again, but his disappearance has been the subject of rumours aplenty. Some say that he escaped his captors and is currently out in hiding; others posit that he was murdered for his role in destabilising the Empire Bay underworld. The only certainty seems to be that Joe will never reunite with his best friend, and Vito will never be the same again.

Jimmy faces the crooked judge at his opulent mansion in Greenfield. Though Hillwood's bodyguards and closest associates put up a good fight, Jimmy doesn't flinch and mows them down with ease until he confronts Hillwood himself. The crooked judge tries his damndest to fight off Jimmy with a Thompson, but Jimmy puts a bullet in him just as easily as his cronies. As Hillwood tries to desperately crawl away, Jimmy takes a can of gasoline and spreads it around the mansion, lighting it up with his cigarette to burn the place to ashes. His revenge complete, Jimmy finishes off Judge Hillwood with a bullet to his head.

Jimmy faces the crooked judge at his opulent mansion in Greenfield. Though Hillwood's bodyguards put up a good fight, Jimmy doesn't flinch and mows them and three of Hillwood's closest associates down with ease until he confronts Hillwood himself. The crooked judge tries his damndest to fight off Jimmy with a Thompson, but Jimmy puts a bullet in him just as easily as his cronies. As Hillwood tries to desperately crawl away, Jimmy takes a can of gasoline and spreads it around the mansion, lighting it up with his cigarette to burn the place to ashes, though not before finishing Judge Hillwood with a bullet to his head.

Jimmy faces the crooked judge at his opulent mansion in Greenfield. Though Hillwood's bodyguards put up a good fight, Jimmy doesn't flinch and mows them down with ease until he confronts Hillwood himself.

As Vito goes to leave, Bruno asks his name out of curiosity, and the mention of Scaletta leads him to remember someone else by that name, who visited him some years ago. He remarks that, unlike his father, Vito is punctual about paying his debts. Vito is dismayed to realise that Bruno was the loan shark who loaned Antonio the $2,000 that got his family into so much trouble. Bruno just reminds Vito that he did not force him nor his father to take out the loans that they did, and he is always welcome if Vito needs to borrow money. Not wanting anything more to do with Bruno anyway, a disgusted Vito walks out and goes straight home.

Working their way down into the deeper sections of the restaurant, Vito and Joe soon find themselves in Wong's office, and demand to know why the Tongs have murdered their friend. Wong tells a shocking story of Henry working as an informant to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who informed the Bureau about the heroin deal between them. When the Tongs learned of this connection through a mole within the Bureau, the took it upon themselves to end him. Vito and Joe refuse to believe such a thing and assume Wong to be a liar. Wong keeps to his story, even denying that the Tongs had anything to do with the group of men who ambushed the trio after the heroin deal.

Potenza is-- er, ''was'' an agent of the FBI who infiltrated Empire Bay's underground through the Falcone family, until Eddie caught wind of his dealings and killed him. He has been meaning to dispose of the body and planned to do so after Vito's welcome home, but now is far too drunk to handle the task. He directs Vito to drive to a spot in the woods by an abandoned observatory, where a hole to work as Frankie Potts' grave has already been dug. With little other choice in the matter, Vito makes the drive. Upon arrival, Vito, being the most sober of the group, is left with the task of removing Potts' body from the trunk, an already unpleasant job made far worse by the fact that the corpse has been there for two days. After dropping the body in, Vito is also forced to be the one to refill the hole.

Once Potts is finally buried, Vito suffers through quite possibly the worst part of the night: Joe and Eddie drunkenly caterwauling through [[Music/DeanMartin Dean Martin's]] "Return to Me". He drops them off at Joe's apartment, where they apologize for ruining his evening and promise to make it up with him sometime later. After that nonsense is over, Vito drives home to his new apartment and has a fitful sleep.

Joe has been hard at work with the jobs Rocco has offered to him, but has been consistently ambushed at the last few. As such, Joe is starting to suspect that Rocco has an ulterior motive at play.

As they drive, Joe elaborates more on their target. The man is another mobster who testified against his crime family in 1938, resulting in the whole of the organization being taken down. The family, based outside of Empire Bay, has been looking for the man ever since, and he has finally come onto their radar. They are worried that if the hit is not done today, he will flee, so they have turned to the Falcone family to kill him. Vito worries that the target may still be under federal protection, but Joe says they can't afford to not take the risk, as the money is too good. With the details known, Vito and Joe pull up to the target's house as he is watering his lawn. They step out of the car, where Vito addresses the target:

The target, an old man named Tommy Angelo, turns to see the men on his lawn. The mention of his true name signals to him that his former family has finally found him, and his time has come. He calmly confirms that he is who they are looking for in a simple "yes", and with that, Vito recites a message to the ex-mobster, one that Tommy knows all too well.

As Derek gripes about his workers to Vito, the older worker recognizes him as Antonio's son, and wonders why Vito would work for Derek after what he did to his father. Steve orders the man to quiet down, but Vinnie elaborates that Derek and Steve conspired to murder Antonio all those years ago. He recalls that Steve took Antonio aside and led him away from the workers, and only the former returned, soaking wet at that. A thoroughly enraged Vito confronts the two over the story, with Steve callously confirming that he held Antonio underwater and drowned him. Derek tries to reason with Vito over his oath to the Commission, but Vito is now infuriated and wants nothing more than Derek's fat head.

Derek and his gunmen flee the warehouse, leaving Vinnie to pass out guns to his co-workers and go out with them to settle the score. Vito joins in, killing Steve and Pappalardo's footsoldiers, before gunning down Fat Derek himself in the main warehouse. Vito not only avenges his father's murder, but he also finds a large stash of money in Derek's office, which merits a considerable contribution to his half of Bruno's money. The dockworkers swear to leave Vito's name out of it when the cops eventually investigate, and Vito leaves the docks behind.

With Eddie being a bust, Vito thinks that perhaps Giuseppe knows what happened to Joe. Arriving at his hop, Vito asks the dealer if he has seen Joe, which he confirms. Joe was asking him about any potential work, but as he was doing so, a group of men came in and ordered Joe to go with them. Giuseppe adds that the men said "Mr. Vinci" wanted to see Joe, so Vito heads to the Mona Lisa bar run by the Vinci family. When he walks in the door, the men inside immediately train their guns on him and force him to drop his. They explain that they did in fact take Joe, as Don Vinci urgently wanted to speak with him and Vito. With Vito now having come to them, they decide to deliver him to the Don themselves, knocking him out cold.

When Vito comes to, he finds himself chained up at a construction site right next to Joe. Don Vinci arrives soon after, demanding the two explain to him just how this mess with the Tongs got started. Vito and Joe still deny their involvement, with Vinci not believing them for a second and leaving them to be beaten up by one of his men. When the thug decides to take a short break, Vito and Joe work together to break the pipes holding them and their binds, freeing themselves and getting the drop on the thug. The two discretely steal the guns of nearby guards after throwing them to their deaths, letting them shoot their way free as they descend the site. The duo eventually make it to street level, where Joe admits he is badly hurt. Vito decides to drive his friend over to El Greco's before delivering the money they owe to Bruno.

As Vito goes to leave, Bruno asks his name out of curiosity, and the mention of Scaletta leads him to remark that, unlike his father Antonio, at least Vito is punctual about paying his debts. Vito is dismayed to find out that Bruno was the loan shark who loaned Antonio the $2,000 that got his family into so much trouble. Bruno just reminds Vito that he did not force him nor his father to take out the loans that they did, and he is always welcome if he needs to borrow money. Not wanting anything more to do with Bruno anyway, a disgusted Vito walks out and goes straight home.

The date is 24 September 1951. Vito and Joe are at the latter's apartment, spending the day with a couple of working girls. As the group has their fun, the phone rings. Vito answers it to find the caller is Henry, who has troubling news. Don Falcone found out about their heroin dealing and is demanding a cut of the profits. The Don has taken a cut of $60,000, which not only means they are effectively earning nothing for the heroin, they also don't have enough money to pay back Bruno. Henry requests Joe and Vito meet him in Lincoln Park again to figure out their next move.

After a grueling fight with both Carlo and the last of his men, Vito has the Don lying on the ground. As he puts bullets into Carlo's body, he reminisces about all the people he has killed and all the people he's killed for, informing the Don that this murder is all for himself. With that, Vito finishes off Don Falcone by putting a final round into his skull. As he and Joe walk to the planetarium entrance Vito asks Joe what his apparent "betrayal" was all about. Joe explains that Falcone offered him the position of ''capo'' if he put Vito down, where he would effectively earn all he's ever wanted in life. He ultimately decided he couldn't turn on his friend no matter what, though he jokes it's over a debt of $5.

The next day, however, Joe receives a call from Henry Tomasino. Henry has received word that Joe's outburst towards Luca has led the mobster to order his death. Henry has called to give him an advanced warning so that he can skip town before Luca's hitmen arrive. While Joe initially wants to stand his ground and fight, Henry reminds Joe that such a thing isn't truly viable. Joe finally agrees, fleeing to the Southern United States to wait for the heat to die down.

As Joe reintegrates into Empire Bay's criminal underworld, he finds himself doing various jobs for his criminal cohorts. After enough jobs, Joe gets noticed by the Falcone crime family, who see a great potential in him. As part of that, Derek Pappalardo informs Tony of a gang of crooks who are planning to move military grade weapons through the docks without cutting him in on the profits. The criminals have their products loaded on a train, and the job is to steal it. Tony arranges for Joe to assist him on the job, figuring it will get Joe into the Falcone's good graces.

Joe and Tony arrive at the docks from the waterfront, storming into the trainyard and shooting everyone in sight as they make their way to the warehouse the train is stopped in. Once the crooks are dead, Tony hops inside the train and instructs Joe to prepare it to leave. After Joe removes the blocks keeping the train's wheels in place, he takes to the upper floors of the warehouse to open the gates. As Joe gets the doors open, cars full of the gangsters arrive to keep their gear of of the duo's hands. Joe guns his way through them and eventually makes it to the train, climbing aboard and getting it far away.

As a celebration, Tony takes Joe to the Garden of Eden brothel. Here, Joe is introduced to Falcone underboss Edoardo Scarpa, or Eddie as he prefers to be called. Eddie has been thoroughly impressed with Joe handling himself on this job. As such, he tells Joe that if he keeps performing as well as he has on whatever work the Falcones give him, he will do what he can to ensure Joe will be given a pass what will lift the price from his head.

As Joe does more work for the Falcone family and his own various criminal contacts, Eddie approaches him and Tony with a rather high paying one. He has received word that a Maxwell's Supermarket is about to have a large cash transfer, one that the two are to acquire for themselves. The two are happy to take the job, figuring a mere grocery store robbery will leave them little resistance.

However, the two arrive to be met by security guards that are more than well armed, leaving Joe and Tony to get into a shootout with the guards as the customers flee in terror. Once the guards have been dealt with, Tony beats down the store's owner in order to get the key to the safe out of him. Soon after, the Empire Bay Police Department surround the store and bring cops inside to bring the two down. As Tony continues to interrogate the owner, the EBPD sends in SWAT officers to deal with the two. The fight isn't so hard as to prevent Joe from keeping to cops at bay long enough for the owner to relent and give up the key, but the numbers do force them to run and gun their way through the store and be forced to make their escape in a promotional car inside the store.

After some hectic driving away from the army of policemen on their heels, Joe and Tony head to an empty building, where Don Falcone is overseeing his underboss Rocco interrogating a man while Eddie tries to keep his composure. As Eddie greets the two gangsters, Rocco storms over to Eddie complaining about the insufficient torturing tools at his disposal. Upon being introduced to Joe, Rocco tells him that he has some jobs of his own Joe could work, and finishing them could be Joe's ticket to having the contract on him called off.

Now back in Empire Bay, Jimmy focuses his efforts on destroying various assets and killing various key members of the Gravina crime family and the Irish mob. He kills Sal Gravina at the docks with the last of his loyal mobsters, and he kills Tam Brodie at the forge with the remnants of his gang. After both his ex-clients and their lackeys are all vanquished, Jimmy sets his sights on Judge Hillwood, the man who handed down his sentence and who also has an enormous stake in the criminal underworld of Empire Bay.

Jimmy faces the crooked judge at his opulent mansion in Greenfield.

Now back in Empire Bay, Jimmy focuses his efforts on destroying various assets and killing various key members of the Gravina crime family and the Irish mob. He kills Sal Gravina at the docks with the last of his loyal mobsters, and he kills Tam Brodie at the forge with the remnants of his gang. After both his ex-clients and their lackeys are all vanquished, Jimmy sets his sights on Judge Hillwood, the man who handed down his sentence who also has an enormous stake in the criminal underworld of Empire Bay.

Now back in Empire Bay, Jimmy focuses his efforts on destroying various assets and killing various key members of the Gravina crime family and the Irish mob. He kills Sal Gravina at the docks with the last of his loyal mobsters, and he kills Tam Brodie at the forge with the remnants of his gang. After both his ex-clients and their lackeys are all vanquished, Jimmy sets his sights on the man who put him in prison: Judge Hillwood, who is not only the judge that handed down his sentence, but also has an enormous stake in the criminal underworld of Empire Bay.

However, the two arrive to be met by security guards that are more than well armed. Joe and Tony get into a shootout with the guards as the customers flee in terror. Once the guards have been dealt with, Tony beats down the store's owner in order to get the key to the safe out of him. Soon after, the Empire Bay Police Department surround the store and bring cops inside to bring the two down.

!!'''The End of Rocco''' %%Cathouse mission, death of Rocco

%%With all the heat his last few jobs have gotten him, Joe is starting to suspect something is wrong.

Now back in Empire Bay, Jimmy focuses his efforts on destroying various assets and killing various key members of the Gravina crime family and the Irish mob. He kills Sal Gravina at the docks with the last of his loyal mobsters, and he kills Tam Brodie at the forge with the remnants of his gang. After both his ex-clients and their lackeys are all vanquished, Jimmy sets his sights on the man who put him in prison: Judge Hillwood, who has an enormous stake in the criminal underworld of Empire Bay.

!!'''The New Boss''' %%Supermarket mission, meeting Rocco

As Joe reintegrates into Empire Bay's criminal underworld, he finds himself doing various jobs for his criminal cohorts. After enough jobs, Joe gets noticed by the Falcone crime family, who see a great potential in him.

!!'''The Connection''' %%Balsamo train yard mission, meeting Eddie Scarpa

%%Don't bother with counting the arcade-style "Shoot these bad guys" missions, the ones that don't have any dialogue or cutscenes.

The year is 1950. Joe Barbaro steps off the train and returns to Empire Bay, disguised with sunglasses and a false moustache.