Max Payne: When the darkness fell, New York City became something else, any old Sinatra song notwithstanding. Bad things happened in the night, on the streets of that other city. Noir York City.
Max Payne: [narrating] 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 all over. The storm seemed to lose its frenzy. The ragged clouds gave way to the stars above.
NYPD Deputy Police Chief Jim Bravura: [over megaphone from helicopter] Max Payne, this is Deputy Chief Jim Bravura from the NYPD. We’ve got the building surrounded. Throw down your weapons and lie down with your hands behind your head!
Max Payne: [narrating] A bit closer to heaven.
Max Payne: Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far beyond the point of no return I couldn’t remember what it had looked like when I had passed it.
Max Payne: I don’t know about angels, but it’s fear that gives men wings.
Vladimir Lem: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Max Payne, New York’s finest with the biggest mobster body count ever, dearest guests prepare to die… Max I’d love to come and welcome you but I’m busy dodging bullets and hiding under a desk at the moment
Max Payne: [narrating] I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was alright.
Max Payne: There was something disturbingly familiar about the note on the desk. The handwriting was all pretty curves.
Michelle Payne: [the note reads] You’re in a computer game, Max.
Max Payne: The truth was like a green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics floating in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. the repetitious act of shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves. The paranoid feeling of someone controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.
Nicole Horne: What do you mean, “he’s unstoppable’? You are superior to him in every way that counts. You are better trained, better equipped, and you outnumber him at least twenty-to-one. Do. Your. Job.