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Curtains Down is the third mission of Hitman: Blood Money. Agent 47 is sent to Paris and assigned to kill the eminent opera actor, Alvaro D'Alvade, and an American ambassador, Richard Delahunt. D'Alvade is in the middle of rehearsals of a production of Tosca at the Paris Opera House, and Delahunt is also present observing his rehearsals.


Targets[]

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Kill Alvaro D'Alvade.
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Kill Richard Delahunt.


Objectives[]

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N/A


Exfiltrate[]

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Escape the Opera

Curtains Down[]

Hello 47. We've got some business at the Paris Opera.
There are two targets: The famous tenor, and Richard Delahunt, the American Ambassador to the Vatican. Our client claims they're behind a prostitution ring trafficking in boys and girls from Eastern Europe. Tosca is still in rehearsal, so there's plenty of activity at the opera-house and you shouldn't be too conspicuous. Ambassador Delahunt watches most rehearsals from his box. He travels with an armed escort, but there shouldn't be any other security to speak of. You'll get some cover from the construction crew renovating the theater for the new season. We've also left you a pick-up at the cloak room. In the third act of Tosca, the tenor faces a firing squad. That scene may provide a useful opportunity. It's a straightforward assignment, 47, but the Agency's been having some problems in Paris. Use extreme caution.''
― Mission Briefing


Description[]

Hitman Curtains Down 01

Agent 47 observes Alvaro on stage.

Agent 47 goes to a library to receive a dead drop package contained inside a book, a flash drive. He loads it into his laptop and receives the ICA briefing and mission details. He must eliminate Alvaro D'Alvade, a famous opera tenor, and Richard Delahunt, the American Ambassador to the Vatican. The mission takes place in the Garnier Opera House in Paris, where a rehearsal for the play Tosca is taking place.

Outcome[]

Agent 47 successfully assassinates both of his targets, Richard Delahunt and Alvaro D'Alvade. However, when he leaves the opera house, 47 is followed - and later shot - by a police officer. This event is elaborated on in Hitman: Contracts, in which 47 experiences near-death hallucinations and recovers in time to evade capture by the GIGN led by Inspector Albert Fournier, the Chief of Police. His briefing is expanded to include Inspector Fournier as a third target and reveals him to be an accomplice of D'Alvade and Delahunt. 47 evades the GIGN, kills Fournier, and steals a police car to get to the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Diana and 47 both escape from Paris on a commercial plane to the USA. During the flight, Diana shares information about the organization who is undermining the ICA. 47 demands payment for his continued services, prompting Diana to reveal that the money for his fee is already under his seat.

Objectives[]

  1. Kill Alvaro D'Alvade.
  2. Kill Richard Delahunt.
  3. Escape the opera.

Intel[]

  1. The contents of the toolboxes will not be searched when you are frisked.
  2. There is a lift shaft from the backstage area to the stage. It is closely observed and only actors are permitted.
  3. Lead actors go to their private rooms to rehearse during breaks.
  4. The large chandelier is attached with bolts to the floor of the attic.
  5. Only actors are allowed on stage.}}
  6. The light technicians have keycards to the light control room.
  7. There is a light rack above the stage that might prove useful.
  8. The prop gun used for the execution in the opera is an exact replica of a real-World War I pistol.

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Disguises[]

Notes[]

  • On the small, isolated section of the third floor is a door that requires a keycard to open. The only way to obtain the keycard is go into a room in the basement filled with garbage bags and containing 3 rats. Kill some of the rats and an item called RatClub keycard will appear on the table. Inside the locked room is a cage containing rats boxing and playing poker.
  • Firing an un-suppressed weapon during the execution scene will go unheard by the people inside the theatre; this is because the musical crescendo is obscuring the firing sound.
  • The rehearsal will repeat until one of the targets is killed, or the area is on full alert. There is about 10 minutes between each rehearsal, and the execution scene is performed twice each rehearsal.
    • The rehearsal will not begin if Alvaro or the executioner is not ready to perform for any reason.
  • If the Prop WWI Pistol is stolen and the executioner cannot find it, he will immediately report it to the police officer at the wardrobe.
  • If the Real WWI Pistol has not already been acquired and the area is on full alert or the police officer at the wardrobe is dead, it can no longer be obtained.
  • The two other actors carry Replica Mark III props, which are not real weapons despite their appearance and will not alert others when carried by 47.
  • Should you gain access to Richard Delahunt's viewing box, he will immediately recognize 47 as a clone assassin and beg for his life before running away.

Trivia[]

  • The second part of this mission makes up the entirety of Hitman: Contracts's Hunter and Hunted
  • This mission takes place on Saint Patrick's Day.
  • This is the only mission in Blood Money that takes place in Europe; it is also one of only two to take place outside the USA, the other being A Vintage Year.
  • Radios found on this level can be heard reporting in French that the Vice-President of the United States, Spaulding Burke, has been assassinated. This event foreshadows a later mission in the game.
  • This level was supposed to feature a working version of the Replica Mark III rifle prop used by the actors onstage, but the real version goes unused in the game.
  • The title, Curtains Down, refers to the ending of a stage play, where the curtains close. Figuratively, it can also mean the end of something.
  • The rats playing poker in the "Ratclub" all have the same cards: a nine of hearts, a Jack of clovers, and a four of spades.
  • The post mission cutscene shows 47 walking past "Le Gilded Truffle". This is a Simpsons reference to the Gilded Truffle.
  • The falling chandelier is a reference to a famous scene from the novel The Phantom of the Opera, which takes place in the same opera house.
    • The Phantom's signature half-mask can be seen in the theater's basement.
  • The opportunity to assassinate Alvaro D'Alvade during the execution scene in Tosca could be inspired by the Soviet-Polish movie Déjà Vu. The protagonist of the film assassinates the lead actor with a sniper rifle just as a firing squad takes their shot.[1]
    • It is also based on the Tosca play itself. Both Tosca and Cavaradossi believe a fake execution is happening, with Tosca declaring "What an actor" when her lover is executed.
  • If the executioner actor kills D'Alvade with rigged WWI gun and he saw you entering or leaving his room earlier from a distance, he will somehow know what you did and tell the police on you.
  • The scene after the mission with an assumed officer cocking his handgun directly plays into the opening of Hitman: Contracts. This is of interest as Contracts was released two years before Blood Money.
  • The Parisian Police also work as a wardrobe clerk and as a tourist guide.

  • Albert Fournier is not listed as a target nor even mentioned at all in the Curtains Down mission in Hitman: Blood Money.
    • This could be since Hitman: Blood Money is narrated by Alexander Leland Cayne and told from his view, it's possible Curtains Down is the setup assassination for Fournier to capture 47, and Hunter and Hunted is 47's memory of what happened after said mission.
    • The retcon could be due to Alexander Leland Cayne narrating Blood Money from his view, and could have given false information as part of the setup for Fournier to capture 47.

See also[]

Video[]

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Curtain Down - Professional / Silent Assasin

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Alvaro D'Alvade singing

References[]

  1. Assassination scene in the movie (from 10:12 to 11:46)
Missions in Hitman: Blood Money
Training Hideout - Death of a Showman
Chile A Vintage Year
France Curtains Down
California Flatline - A New Life
Louisiana The Murder of Crows
Colorado You Better Watch Out...
Mississippi Death on the Mississippi - Till Death Do Us Part
Nevada A House of Cards - A Dance with the Devil
Epilogue Amendment XXV - Requiem
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