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| “ | What are you thinking, Vito? You think you can f*cking do something like this and walk away?! YOU'RE F*CKED! | „ |
| ~ Derek Pappalardo |
Federico "Fat Derek" Pappalardo, or simply referred to as Derek, is one of the three overarching antagonists (alongside Ennio Salieri and Bruno Levine) of the 2010 video game Mafia II.
He appears as the head of the local chapter of the Longshoreman's Union and a capo in the Vinci crime family. He is introduced to the player in the third chapter "Enemy of the State" in which the protagonist Vito Scaletta approaches him for a job, as Vito's now-dead father previously worked for Derek.
The character reappears later in the story in the penultimate mission of the game in which it is revealed he was responsible for the death of Vito's father.
He was voiced by Robert Costanzo, who also played the supporting protagonist Joe Barbaro in the same game.
Biography[]
Background[]
Derek Pappalardo is the head of the Longshoreman's Union. He was the first seen in the introductory cutscene for Mafia II when a young Vito Scaletta arrived in Empire Bay with his family from Sicily. Vito's father ended up working for Derek at the docks, but Derek had his right-hand Stephen Coyne kill him. It was never specified why Derek wanted him dead. However, Antonio Scaletta had earned a reputation as a heavy drinker. When the cause of death was found to be drowning, the Scaletta family had chalked up the death of their patriarch as due to the fact he must have been drunk and walked off the dock without being aware of his surroundings.
Mafia II[]
In 1945, Antonio's son Vito had returned home from war. Antonio's widow Maria begged Vito to find honest work and see her husband's boss, Mr. Pappalardo. Derek said he was hired. Stephen took Vito away and ordered him to load a pile of crates onto a truck for 10 dollars. After some time Vito walks off the job, retorting that he said he was looking for a career, not slavery. Steve tells Vito to get the hell out of here, to which Vito obliges, saying he can make more money working for Barbaro Incorporated. When Steve realizes that it meant Joe Barbaro, he takes him back to Derek's office. Derek phones Joe to back up Vito's claims, however while brandishing a pistol, suggesting it is curtains for Vito if he was lying about Joe. Derek slyly remarks "He might not be home and that is no good". Fortunately for Vito, Joe answers the phone and confirms that they are lifetime friends. Instead of the cheap labor he hires Vito to extort money out of the workers in order to pay their "barber's fee" (in actuality union extortion). A bald African-American man says he has had it with the union harassment, on top of that he has no need to see a barber. This culminates into a fistfight. Vito subdues the man then returns to Derek with $150. Derek is pleased with this and gives Vito $50 as commission. He then says he saw the fight and says even Steve got his ass kicked by that man before. Impressed, Derek gives Vito another $50 as a reward.
Six years later, Derek is seen present as a witness when Vito is inducted into the Falcone crime family along with Joe and becomes a made man.
Betrayal[]
| “ | That bastard killed your father, Vito! | „ |
| ~ Vinnie to Vito. |
A few months following this, Vito and Joe end up in money troubles with a loan shark called Bruno. Vito heads to the docks to see if Derek needs work, and Derek asks Vito to help him along with some of his crew to stop a strike occurring after Derek fired one of his staff. During the confrontation with the workers, one of them recognizes Vito and reveals to him that Derek had his father killed. Vito then turns on Derek, who protests they are lying but realising that Vito knows the truth runs off back to his office and warehouse.
Death[]
Vito enters the warehouse after killing Steve, and gets into a gunfight with Derek and his men. Vito manages to kill Derek, finally bringing the death of his father to a close. He has the option of taking money from Derek's safe to help towards paying back the loan shark.
Mission appearances[]
Mafia II[]
- Chapter 1: The Old Country (Introduction cutscene only).
- Chapter 3: Enemy of the State.
- Chapter 9: Balls and Beans (cutscene only).
- Chapter 14: Stairway to Heaven.
- Note: Derek can be visited at any time in his office between chapter 3 and chapter 11.
Trivia[]
- Originally the player was to carry out side missions for Derek, but this ended up being cut from the final game (with some making into downloadable mission packs such as Joe's Adventures. When the player heads to Derek's office at any time prior to "Stairway to Heaven" Derek will tell the player that they have no work for them, but to come back another time. Regardless of this though he never has any jobs for the player to do.
- However, you can still sell sports cars to Derek at the port by driving them onto a loading platform.
- If the player manages to save up enough money to pay back the loan shark Bruno, they don't have to visit Derek, which means Vito doesn't find out he was involved in the death of his father along with Derek's right-hand Stephen Coyne. However later on Derek and Steve's deaths are reported on the radio regardless, meaning it is canon to the game for Vito to find out the truth.
- In a lot of his scenes Derek is shown eating. A younger Derek in the introduction of the game is seen with a sandwich and on the two occasions Vito meets him in his office during the story Derek is seen eating a plateful of food.
- Despite knowing Joe well, Derek never properly interacts with him on-screen apart from a phone call and being present during Joe and Vito's induction into the mob. Derek was originally going to appear alongside Joe in a cutscene for "The Wild Ones", but this was cut.
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