Olivia Marcano is a main character and the tertiary antagonist of Mafia III.
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Background[]
Olivia Marcano (née Grady) is Sal Marcano's sister-in-law and a capo in the Marcano Crime Family.
History[]
A Southern socialite, Olivia had sought to rebel against her upbringing from an early age by committing a couple of acts of juvenile delinquency, however those charges were minor and later dismissed.[1] As an adult she met Lucio Marcano, whom at the time was apprenticed to his brother Louis in learning the drug trade and having a cadetship in pimping. Despite her parents' disdain for Lucio being a drug dealer and pimp, Olivia married him in 1949. Olivia was taken with Lucio's flamboyant and wild ways, and she saw him as a way to escape her fated idle life as a Southern belle. Lucio was eventually awarded control of the lucrative neighborhood of Frisco Fields. Olivia's marriage lasted until she was widowed in 1962. Though Olivia was suspected of having her husband assassinated, the official story was that Lucio had had his throat slit by one of his disgruntled prostitutes. Upon Lucio's death, she took over his position in the Marcano Crime Family as well as inheriting control of Frisco Fields, which she ran alongside Remy Duvall, with whom she had known for decades and shared a close friendship.
When Lincoln Clay began attacking Frisco Fields and dismantling the rackets, Remy attempted to rally the Southern Union to attack Delray Hollow. This was a concern to Olivia, who had been clandestinely ordered by Sal Marcano to keep Remy safe and laying low, as Remy was the sole business partner of Sal Marcano without a criminal record, as well as the owner of a plot of land on North Lake that Sal and Remy were going to build a casino on. Despite Olivia's assurance that Sal's men would handle the matter, Remy rebuffed Olivia and went ahead with his attack, resulting in his death at the hands of Lincoln Clay.
When Remy Duvall died, Sal is enraged that he lost the land because Remy bequeathed his entire estate to his nephew, Stephen DeGarmo. Olivia says that six months ago Remy revised his will and that as a business partner of his in multiple ventures she has right to legally contest it, however Sal says he does not have the time nor money to fight it in the courts. Olivia decided to rectify this by either convincing DeGarmo he could have a partnership in the casino, or torturing DeGarmo into signing the property over to her under the cover of Duvall's funeral wake at the Frisco Fields yacht club. However, Lincoln Clay infiltrated the wake and got past most of her bodyguards and guests by spiking the wine with psychedelic drugs provided by John Donovan and guns Olivia and her sober bodyguards down in a private meeting room. Olivia is knocked to the ground, but does not die. Lincoln leaves, saying it is not worth the effort to kill Olivia. She privately admits she thought it was romantic how Lucio was in the Mafia. Lincoln rebukes her, saying there "ain't nothing romantic" about violence, fraud, or robbery. She agrees, but says that "it certainly was exciting" for her to be involved in organized crime.
Although Lincoln had actually spared her in line with his personal code of ethics, she is soon gruesomely killed in the hospital by Giorgi Marcano, on orders from his father. A nurse is making her rounds and visits Olivia's ward, then screams in horror when she finds Olivia with a slashed throat.
At the sitdown discussing the takeover of Frisco Fields, Lincoln admits that while he subdued Olivia Marcano in self-defense, he did not kill her. However, he does not expect that she will live beyond her hospital stay.
Appearances[]
Mafia III[]
- The Home Fires Burn
- There's a War Goin' On
- Certainly Was Exciting (Killed off-screen/Corpse)
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Trivia[]
- In her dossier, John Donovan speculates that Olivia had her husband killed to gain control of Frisco Fields.
- Olivia and Lucio Marcano died in the same manner; homicide by having their throats slit.
- Giorgi Marcano telling his father “I did it myself. Ear to ear, just like you wanted” in a cutscene after Frisco Fields is taken over makes it clear Sal knew Olivia had most likely arranged his brother Lucio’s murder, so Sal had his son slash her throat in a similar way to carry out a revenge killing of an asset who was no longer useful to the Marcano crime family.
- Early in the game, Olivia can be heard on the radio as a guest on the Native Son program. During one of her guest appearances on Remy Duvall's show, it is heavily implied that Olivia and Remy may have had a sexual relationship in the past. It may have also been possible Olivia resumed her sexual relationship with Remy upon Lucio's death. Olivia is audibly flustered and giggles as Remy continuously flirts with her on the air, and he claims to have seen the cotillion graduation photos of Olivia where she made her debutante debut, that he describes as being “glorious”.
References
- ↑ John Donovan's dossier
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