Curtains Down

Curtains Down
In-Game Information
Target(s):	Alvaro D'Alvade Richard Delahunt
Location:	Garnier Opera House, Paris, France
Mission Date:	March 17, 2004
Mission Order:
Preceded By:	A Vintage Year
Succeeded By:	Flatline (In-game) Hitman: Contracts (Chronologically)
Real-World Information:
Game:	Hitman: Blood Money
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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.

• Objectives
• Briefing
• Outro

Targets

	Kill Alvaro D'Alvade.
	Kill Richard Delahunt.

Objectives

N/A

Exfiltrate

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

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Description

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 U.S. 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.

Gallery

Alvaro D'Alvade being killed with the real pistol.

Another option is to align the shots.

Alvaro D'Alvade being sniped by 47 while incriminating the Executioner.

Weapons

Firearms

SLP .40
Carried by security guards. Found in weapon caches.

MP5
Carried by Delahunt's bodyguards. Found in weapon cache on the third floor.

Real WWI Pistol
Obtained from the guard at the coat check.

Prop WWI Pistol
Carried by executioner. Found in his dressing room between rehearsals.

Nailer
Carried by workers in the basement under the stage.

Melee

Hammer
Carried by workers throughout the theatre.

Screwdriver
Carried by worker near the Light Control Room keycard.

Disguises

Guard
Permitted everywhere except the stage and Delahunt's private box.

Can open carry SLP. 40 pistol without suspicion.

Green Construction Worker
Permitted everywhere except the stage and Delahunt's private box.

Can open carry Nailer and Hammer without suspicion.

White Construction Worker
Permitted everywhere except the stage and Delahunt's private box.

Can open carry Nailer and Hammer without suspicion.

Blue Construction Worker
Permitted everywhere except the stage and Delahunt's private box.

Can open carry Nailer and Hammer without suspicion.

Blue Construction Worker
Permitted everywhere except the stage and Delahunt's private box.

Can open carry Nailer and Hammer without suspicion.

Bodyguard
Permitted everywhere except the stage.

Can open carry MP5 without suspicion.

Actor
Permitted everywhere except Delahunt's private box. The rehearsal will not begin until you go onstage.

Carries Replica Mark III, which is not a real weapon and does not arouse suspicion.

Executioner
Permitted everywhere except Delahunt's private box. Can be used to shoot D'Alvade with the real WWI Pistol. The rehearsal will not begin until you go onstage.

Can open carry Real WWI Pistol and Prop WWI Pistol without suspicion.

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. The rehearsal can be interrupted by throwing an item on stage.
• If the executioner actor kills Alvaro 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.
• 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 execution has occurred with the real WW1 pistol
• 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 an assassin and beg for his life before running away.

Bugs & developer oversights

• It is possible to fire a gun yet not kill either Alvaro nor Richard, on normal difficulty, this does not necessarily deprive the player of a Silent Assassin rating.
• A door leading to a dead end on the third floor is erroneously marked as an exit

Video

Silent Assassin-0

Curtain Down - Professional / Silent Assasin

Alvaro D'Alvade singing

Trivia

• The title, Curtains Down, refers to the ending of a stage play, when the curtains close. Figuratively, it can also mean the end of something. It also aludes to the deaths of Alvaro and Delahunt
• The second part of this mission makes up the entirety of Hitman: Contracts's mission, Hunter and Hunted
• 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 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. Additionally, 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.
  • 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.
• The scene after the mission with an assumed officer cocking his handgun directly plays into the opening of Hitman: Contracts.
• 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.

References

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