Protection (paid protection racket) | Walkthrough Mafia III Guide

On this page you will find walkthrough for the large story mission "Protection" in which you must take over the protection racket in Pointe Verdun and then give it to Burke. The final objective of this mission is to take down one of the lieutenants. The mission has many optional objectives and all possible ways of weakening the enemy racket are presented further in the guide.

• Meeting with Bear Donnelly
• Interrogating Sonny's informant
• Eliminating the thugs
• Damaging the shops
• Saving Ralph McNairy
• Murdering Sonny's enforcers
• Initiating a confrontation with Sonny

Meeting with Bear Donnelly

Meeting with Donnelly will unlock the option to weaken rackets managed by Sonny

Bear Donnelly can be found in one of the bars in Pointe Verdun. You can meet with him after you complete the first conversation with Nicki Burke. Donnelly can help Lincoln in removing the second lieutenant, Sonny Blue, from this district. The areas related to actions that help you in this plan will be marked on the map with yellow color.

Interrogating Sonny's informant

In this case, similarly as in other ones, you should start with reaching one of the informants and interrogating him. This will allow you to add new points related to weakening Sonny to the map. You can select any informant and the game won't let you interrogate another one.

Eliminating the thugs

You can kill all gangsters or only the ones that were marked for the elimination

Beat Down Crews will appear on the map (in large numbers) after you interrogate one of the informants. Once you reach a selected group, you can limit yourself to murdering only the targets marked by the game. If you don't want to waste time on eliminating all the gangsters, you can help yourself for example with a rifle and long range shots or explosives. Neutralizing a group will weaken Sonny's racket by 1000 dollars.

Damaging the shops

Kill the gangsters sitting in the car and then start destroying the shop

The shop icons will appear on the district map after you interrogate any informant. Before each shop you can find a parked car with gangsters focused on guarding it. You can use a grenade or a machine gun to kill the enemies before they leave the car. Then break into the shop (with a kick) and shoot all the displays. This will probably convince someone to call the police, so quickly leave the area once you're done.

Saving Ralph McNairy

The place where you can find Ralph

You will learn about Ralph by interrogating one of the informers. He is imprisoned in the meat facility. A few paths lead there and you must be prepared to face many enemies, so it is a good idea to sneak up and eliminate them silently (remember to avoid allowing the enemies to call for reinforcements).

You must reach the first floor of the building, you can do it by using the stairs in the northern part. You can shoot down the enemies stationed around Ralph or lure them away one after another with whistling and then eliminate them without causing an alarm. Once you eliminate all of them, walk towards Ralph and press the interaction button to free him. Saving Ralph will weaken Sonny's racket by 10 000 dollars.

Murdering Sonny's enforcers

You can easily kill Hats by destroying the barrels at the right time

Sonny has two enforcers as well. Tito Leone can be found in the park near the water. The enemy is standing in open space which makes him a perfect target for a sniper rifle. If you kill him with it, you won't have to eliminate his allies or risk getting close to him.

Fede "Hats" Iocc is in the southwestern part of Pointe Verdun, in an alley near the highway entrance. The entrance to the alley is guarded by a single gangster, but you can easily lure him away with whistling. As for the enemy enforcer, it is a good idea to throw a grenade or aim at the red barrels once he gets close to them.

Initiating a confrontation with Sonny

Once you weaken the racket enough (yellow points on the map), get back to Bear. After the conversation you must go once again to the meat facility which you could have visited before if you saved Ralph.

Sonny Blue is on one of the higher floors of the facility. On the way towards him you should try silently eliminating the sentries, because even without the reinforcements there are many enemies in the building. Once you get close to the destination, you can open fire or sneak up on Sonny from behind (as on the above picture) and capture him. As usual, you can kill or recruit the enemy lieutenant.