Black Market (black market goods racket) | Walkthrough Mafia III Guide

This is one of the rackets in Southdowns and you can try andweaken it after you have completed the storyline mission "Kill Frank Pagani: Takedown", i.e. after you have killed Frank Pagani in Tickfaw Harbor district. The main objective of this mission is, of course, to remove the enemy lieutenant from his position - Artie Higgings. There are many ways, in which you can try to weaken the racket and they have been described below.

Note - before you take to weakening the racket, it is a good idea to bug all of the fuse boxes in Southdowns. While doing that, take all precautions, because some of the boxes are in forbidden zones. In the case of districts that are being guarded by gangsters, all you have to do is eliminate them, sneak past them or distract them. It is much more difficult to bug the box shown in the above screenshot, because it is at the police precinct and Lincoln could be attacked at the first attempt to come close. The easiest way around the problem is contacting the Police Dispatcher, but to ensure yourself with "immunity" for the duration of 2 minutes, you will have to sacrifice one marker. Alternatively, you can eliminate the 3-4 nearby police officers and, in order to avoid being spotted and avoid the arrival of reinforcements, you will have to use a suppressed weapon.

• Meet with Grant Purdue
• Interrogate Artie's informants
• Destroy the hot electronic equipment
• Kill Freddie and steal Grant's truck
• Steal the truck
• Kill Artie's soldiers
• Confront Artie

Meet with Grant Purdue

Grant is inside one of the buildings in Southdowns. Talk to him about the possible ways of weakening Artie's racket.

Interrogate Artie's informants

The map is marked for locations of two informants, but you have to interrogate only one of them (any one). After you get to the informer, just like in the previous missions, decide whether you want to get him from behind, or chase him down. After you catch him, interrogate him or kill.

Destroy the hot electronic equipment

Firearms are perfect for the job of destroying equipment. You can also use, e.g. grenades.

Crates with stolen TVs have been marked on the district map and each one is being guarded by several gangsters. It is a good idea to destroy the goods by firing your firearms at them, thanks to which you will save up some grenades and other valuable items in your inventory. Each crate you destroy weakens the racket by 3000 dollars.

Note - You can also find crates with stolen TVs in other locations connected with the mission. Also in this case, destroying a crate weakens the racket.

Kill Freddie and steal Grant's truck

You can complete both of the objectives in one location and you will learn about it after you have interrogated one of the informants. The location in question is bakery. After you get there, you should murder Freddie. You can infiltrate the building with Freddie in, or attack at a distance. In the latter case, it is a good idea to climb the stairs shown in screenshot 1, over which you get to the vantage point. You can either use your own sniper rifle, or find one on the roof and use it to kill Freddie (screenshot 2).

Ram through the gate

The second objective is about stealing the truck. Before you do that, however, you should kill all of the enemies in the yard and on the balconies. Even if, so far, you have been trying to be stealthy, getting into the truck would alarm all of the mobsters and you would be killed before you even had the opportunity to escape.

If you are being chased, fire at the gangster cars or, (which is more risky) push them off the road

Ram through the gate and head towards the Southern part of the district. If you have killed silently all of the enemies, you will not be bothered. Otherwise, several gangster car may follow you in a chase. Either shoot at the enemy cars, or push them off the road, depending on the situation, but make sure that you do not damage or flip the truck at the same time. After you get to your destination, park the truck in the red circle and get out.

Completing both of the missions will weaken the black market racket by 20 thousand dollars (10000 for assassinating Freddie and 10000 for retrieving the truck).

Steal the truck

One of the two metal boxes with cash

Money coming from the black market racket is being collected in the warehouse of a forwarding company located in the Southern part of the district. Regardless of whether you plan on overt or covert actions, watch out for the enemies on the balconies above and eliminate them in the first place (there are several different staircases there). As for the cash, it is being kept in two metal boxes and the lock of each one has broken (hold down the interaction button). Taking the money from both of the boxes will weaken the racket by 10000 dollars, but you can also collect the money lying around, e.g. on tables and desks.

Kill Artie's soldiers

You can either shoot the soldiers or eliminate them with grenades

You can try to eliminate two soldiers, where each one of the kills weakens the black market racket by 5000 dollars. Alfredo "Fred" Pace is at the back of one of the houses and he is being accompanied by a numerous group of gangsters. It is best to sneak up on the enforcer along the wall and either throw a grenade his way, or shoot him from behind the fence.

Santo Clemente is standing in the yard, close to the green building. The pattern of operation here is very similar - since there are many opponents, it is a good idea to use explosives, or shoot from a distance, after you take a good position.

Confront Artie

It is a good idea to wait for Artie to shoot his man and sneak up afterwards

After you have sufficiently weakened the black market racket (actions connected with Artie - blue markers on the map), return to Grant. After a conversation with him, head to Mama Righetti's Bakery, where you have earlier killed Freddie (and stolen the truck). Artie is in the room at the upper floor of the bakery and this time, I recommend against sniping him down from the vantage point, because you would have to go to him to take him out close-up, even if you manage to deal damage to him. You can access the bakery from on the side of the shop (the small door by the main road), but it is much better to sneak up to the backyard and find the entrance that is not that well protected. Then, climb upstairs. After you approach Artie, it is best to wait for him to shoot one of his men and then attack him by surprise. You can either kill him or recruit him.

Note - At the end of the mission, you have to decide who you want to assume control of the racket - Cassandra, Burke or Vito. Each one of the characters provides you with a different bonus to the racket. You should also realize that you can change your mind, if necessary, because after you have seized control of Southdowns, you will still have to decide which one of the bosses should take control of the district (and all its rackets).