Earl Wilson is a character in Mafia III.
- "You need to wipe the shit out of your eyes son, take a look around. There's a goddamn war goin' on!"
- — Chief Wilson
History[]
Background[]
Earl Wilson is the Chief of Police for the New Bordeaux Police Department. Extremely conservative and virulently racist, he believes that the biggest security problem in New Bordeaux is the black population of Delray Hollow. He is believed to be a sympathizer or even a secret member of the Southern Union, as well as suspected of collaboration with Sal Marcano. However, neither belief has been verified and so remain rumors.
Mob War[]
Remy Duvall interviews Wilson on his radio show Native Son for the chief's take on the rising wave of murder and crime in New Bordeaux resulting from Lincoln Clay's war against the Marcano family. Wilson is extremely dismissive of Duvall's implication that the police aren't doing enough to stop the carnage, arguing that any reports of violence or criminality are merely "isolated incidents" caused by "heat" and hot weather.
After Duvall's murder, Chief Wilson is interviewed by a news reporter while securing the crime scene and makes an angry declaration that black people are responsible for the killing and that "every last one of 'em needs to be rounded up and shot." When the reporter questions whether he's serious, Wilson turns on him and states that he needs to start getting "the shit out of his eyes" about what's going on in New Bordeaux.
Chief Wilson is last heard on WBYU, making an appearance on a previously scheduled Native Son program that the station announces will not be aired in full out of respect for Duvall's death. Wilson claims that he volunteered to appear on the show in lieu of Duvall's longtime companion Olivia Marcano, as she is still in mourning. Wilson tries to give a eulogy for Duvall, but quickly loses his temper and starts ranting that whoever killed him will "be hunted down" and lynched before the station cuts him off.
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Wilson's comments on television are accurate for the time period; many Southern officeholders and politicians held racist views throughout the 1960s. Some were not shy about openly expressing them in public.
- It is never outright stated that Chief Wilson is taking bribes or otherwise aiding the Marcano family and the Southern Union, but John Donovan notes that virtually every officer in the New Bordeaux Police Department is on the Marcano payroll.
- Father James admits one of his failed crusades was trying to convince Chief Wilson to start recruiting black policemen to the NBPD. The Monsignor admits to Lincoln Clay that it failed on account of intimidation by the Southern Union.
- If Thomas Burke's earning power is sufficiently increased, he can arrange for his contact in the police force, dispatcher Fiona Davidson, to be promoted so she has direct access to Chief Wilson and the higher ups, thus gaining a greater ability to divert heat away from Lincoln Clay.
- Chief Wilson's voice actor, Glenn Taranto, is also the voice of Don Salieri in Mafia: Definitive Edition.