When the doors open, Mona draws her Desert Eagle out and shoots each man in the head. Max takes out the hitmen and heads for an elevator where three cleaners are waiting for it to arrive. Max tries to save her but they end up killing her. Max hears commotion in the room next door and sees Annie is about to be executed by two cleaners. Max is fighting off cleaners as he makes it upstairs to the gunshop, Max hears a message on the answering machine for the girl, Annie Finn by Vladimir. Seeking a trap is about to take place, Max the kills the man and two more men in cleaning outfits come out and shoot at Max. Max is at a locked door until a man in a 'Squeaky Cleaning' outfit arrives.Claiming that he has no idea whats going, Max takes the man and follows him upstairs to where the shots were fired. Max drives to the warehouse and more shots are fired and a woman is screaming for help as he gets out of the car. Max is patrolling the city until he gets a shots-fired call at a warehouse belonging to Vladimir Lem. The story kicks off in the early hours of the night. The scene then cuts back to Woden's Manor where the police are still waiting for their back-up as Max and Mona are still in the manor. Max emerges out from the wreckage and enters the morgue and finds the body of Detective Winterson. Another hitman appears and kills Bravura and then tries to gun down Max, While hiding in the elevator for cover, the hitman shoots a fuel tank and explodes in the elevator next door to Max, causing the elevator to the decend to the ground. Max gets into an elevator and runs into Deputy Chief Jim Bravura who is about to arrest him for the murder of Detective Winterson. Max encounters a hitman sent after him and kills him. Along the way, Max has hallucinations of Mona Sax as he is in pain. Before the story offically begins, Max has just been brought to the hospital with gunshot wounds and various cuts, While a hunt for Max is just begining, Max escapes from his room and encounters a body of a security guard, Grabbing his gun.

On a stormy rainy night, Max and Mona Sax are held up in Alfred Woden's manor as police get ready to storm the house.

With Alfred Woden's promise to help Max get out of jail, Max finds himself back on the N.Y.P.D, where another quest will change his life once again. Years have passed since Max Payne was arrested for the murder of his family's killers.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.

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