
After the deaths of Michelle and Rose, Max takes up Alex on his offer of a transfer to the DEA and, after the events of the first game, he goes back to the NYPD, this time as a homicide detective.
Adaptational Job Change: In the original games, he is implied to be working in narcotics at the NYPD, due to his liaising with Alex on several cases. Abusive Parents: His father was a war veteran who suffered from PTSD and alcoholism, physically abused and cheated on Max's mother, and was almost never around to spent time with Max. As with most of his career moves, it ends only in blood and tears. The third game takes place a decade later, with Max having left the NYPD to pursue a life in private security in São Paulo, Brazil. In the second game, he returns to the NYPD and crosses paths with Mona Sax, an assassin that he falls in love with. This causes him to go undercover hunting for the source of the drug, 'Valkyr'. A former NYPD detective and DEA Agent, his wife and daughter were murdered by junkies three years prior to the events of the first game. Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you." But who was I to talk, a brooding underdog avenger alone against an empire of evil, out to right a grave injustice. "After Y2K, the End of the World had become a cliche.