The Lincoln Clay Documentary tells the story of Lincoln Clay and is shown throughout the entirety of Mafia III.
Overview[]
The story of Mafia III is told through a documentary produced in 2016. It opens with archive footage from the New Bordeaux Department of Commerce featuring Lou Marcano. The documentary includes interviews with key figures in Lincoln Clay's life, as well as the FBI investigation and archive footage of a 1971 U.S. Senate hearing into the case.
Senate Hearings[]
The documentary includes previously classified archive footage from a Senate Hearing that took place August 25, 1971, where John Donovan testified about the actions that Lincoln Clay and himself took against the Marcano Crime Family in 1968. The hearing was chaired by Senator Blake of Louisiana.
John Donovan's Testimony[]
John Donovan was summoned to testify in front of the senate specifically Senator Blake about his involvement in the murders of the Marcono family. Donovan starts the hearing by explaining how he met Lincoln Clay where he says he met Lincoln in Vietnam during the war. Donovan then goes on to explain how Lincoln got Vito,Burke, and Cassandra to assist with the killings. Donovan then goes on and recounts the various ways Lincoln took down Marcono's lieutenants and capos. There is a post credits scene which shows Donovan asking Senator Blake about his whereabouts on the day of the John F Kennedy assassination. Blake says he was at home and thats when Donovan reveals after Sal Marconos death he had gone through his files and found evidence that Senator Blake had helped Marcono kill JFK followed by Donovan pulling a gun and shooting the senator before leaving. In the Stones Unturned DLC there is a extra scene of Donovan's testimony where Blake asks him if him and Lincoln ran into a man named Conner Aldridge in the summer of 1968. Donovan lies and said Aldridge died in Vietnam.
Interviews[]
The documentary also features interviews conducted in 2016 with Father James Ballard, close friend and mentor to Lincoln Clay, as well as Jonathan Maguire, a retired agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who investigated the crimes of Lincoln Clay. It also includes an excerpt from Nicki Burke, the only surviving member of the Burke family and friend of Lincoln Clay.
Interview with Father James[]
Information coming soon. (Keep it to a brief summation of events.)
Interview with Jonathan Maguire[]
Information coming soon. (Keep it to a brief summation of events.)
Interview with Nicki Burke[]
Nicki states that her father was a lot of things, few of them good. Because he started out smuggling moonshine, he knew about the canals underneath the city and that one of them went right under the Federal Reserve. It was his idea to use a boat to move the drill into position for the heist. She conclude by saying "He was a real son-of-a-bitch, my father. More than anyone else, I blame him for what happened. You want to stick your own neck out, fine. But leave your son out of it. It's his fault Danny died."
Trivia[]
- If the player fails a mission, sometimes a short cutscene will appear with Maguire looking at his notes and saying "surely, that's not how it happened".
- The scene where Father James says that Sammy's Bar was torn down because no one wanted to live there still plays regardless of whether or not Sammy's Renovation has been completed.