Part 52

Explore the television shows featured in the dream levels of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, including 'A Binary Choice', 'Dearest of All My Friends', and 'One-Armed Bandit'.

This section details various television shows that appear within the dream levels of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. These shows often reflect or comment on the events of the game, occurring within Max Payne's subconscious mind.

Part 52: Television Shows in the Dream Levels

You will encounter various television shows featuring the main characters during the dream levels. These shows can be related to the events leading up to this point. Some of the TV shows in these levels, though not definitively confirmed, are suggested to have actually happened in the course of the story. However, all the shows occur within Max Payne's dream, his subconscious mind.

1) A Binary Choice

Location: 2nd Dream Level, Part 3 Prologue

This show can be seen in Part 3: Prologue, after you are transported to the Police Station Lock-up Cells. It is a rehash of the Ending Graphic Novel of the previous level, Part 2: Chapter 6.

Fun Facts:

• The name of the show is taken from the name of Part 2, which is also "A Binary Choice".

2) Dearest of All My Friends

Location: 3rd Dream Level, Part 3 Chapter 6

This is a quiz show featuring Vladimir Lem and Vinnie Gognitti. Vinnie Gognitti is trapped inside the Captain Baseball-bat Boy Costume, which is rigged with a bomb, and Vladimir Lem holds the remote. Vladimir Lem promises to free Vinnie Gognitti if he can answer two questions based on the Captain Baseball-bat Boy Comics/Show correctly. However, Vladimir Lem's second question is a trick question: "Who is the original creator of Maxwell's Demon???" Vinnie Gognitti's first answer is the fictional creator, "Doctor Entropy". He quickly changes his answer to the show's creator, "Sammy Waters". The real answer turns out to be James Clerk Maxwell, a nineteenth-century British Physicist who created a Maxwell's Demon thought experiment. Thus, Vinnie Gognitti loses the quiz round and is blown up as Vladimir Lem detonates the bomb.

Fun Facts:

• The title of the show is based on Vladimir Lem's catchphrase, "Dearest of All My Friends".
• The second question Vladimir Lem asks Vinnie Gognitti is "Who is the original creator of Maxwell's Demon???" Vinnie Gognitti answers "The show's writer Sammy Waters." This could be a reference and tribute to the game's writer and the model for the first Max Payne, Sam Lake.
• The Captain Baseball-bat Boy Toy Model next to the TV also blows up when Vladimir Lem detonates the bomb in the TV. Just as Vladimir Lem presses the bomb remote button in the TV show, the toy's head is blown away.

3) One-Armed Bandit

Location: 3rd Dream Level, Part 3 Chapter 6

In this show, Vladimir Lem and Mona Sax are engaged in a conversation. Vladimir Lem proposes that Mona Sax join him to rule the NY Underworld together. Mona Sax refuses the offer and shoots him in the left arm. Vladimir Lem then orders his men to "Get her! Get the bitch!"

Fun Facts:

• The title of the show is based on one of the lines said by Mona Sax in Part 2, Prologue. While in the interrogation room, Mona Sax is asked to repeat the line: "You are nothing but a one-armed bandit."

Other Television Mentions:

Zombie Demons from Outer Space

This show features Zombie Demons from Outer Space and does not have a definitive end like other shows. It is based on the Captain Baseball-bat Boy Newspaper Comic Strip from the first Max Payne game. Movie posters of "Zombie from Outer Space" from the first game have appeared in this show.

Max Heat 7

An advertisement for Max Heat 7, an adult late-night movie, appears at the beginning of the game. You will eventually see this movie in Part 3, Chapter 3. "Max Heat" was the second name given to Max Payne 1 during early development, and Max Heat magazines can be found in the first Max Payne game.

NYCNN News

Kyra Silver, the newsreader for NYCNN News Channel, provides valuable information and has a surprise at the end of the game. TV news appears on various occasions, generally informing the public and police about the unfolding events. At the end of the last level, in Alfred Woden's office, a TV shows that Jim Bravura survives the hospital assault and is in stable condition.