Wilson Da Silva

Wilson Da Silva is the tritagonist of the 2012 video game . He is a detective working with the São Paulo Police Department who is looking into a conspiracy surrounding the Branco family, other police operatives, the Crachá Preto militia, and Max Payne.
He was voiced by Stephen Girasuolo.
==Biography==
===Background===
Not much is known about Da Silva's life prior to 2012. At some point, he became a detective in the city of São Paulo, and would meet Armando Becker, developing negative views of him and the Unidade de Forças Especiais because of their brutal and harsh methods of fighting crime. He would also marry and have children, as well as becoming acquianted with the Branco family, attending many of their parties.
===Kidnapping of Fabiana Branco===
In 2012, the Comando Sombra favela gang attacked one of the Brancos' parties and attempted to kidnap Rodrigo Branco, and his wife Fabiana. After the kidnapping attempt was thwarted by Max Payne, who was working as a bodyguard for the family at the time, Becker and the UFE arrived at the parking lot where Max and local police were engaging in a firefight against the gang, executing the remaining CS members. Da Silva arrived just in time to witness the executions, vocally criticizing Becker for violating proper police procedures, who in turn replied with mocking insults. As the UFE left, Da Silva managed to keep one severely wounded CS member stabilized until paramedics could arrive on the scene. 
A few days later, Da Silva called Rodrigo's secretary at the Fábricas Branco headquarters and asked for a private conversation with Rodrigo, possibly in an attempt to warn him that the UFE were possibly involved in a conspiracy surrounding Fabiana's kidnapping by Comando Sombra leader Serrano. However, he was dismissed by Rodrigo as just "another bent cop." Shortly after this, the Crachá Preto militia attacked the building to kill Max. During the siege, Bachmeyer, Becker's second-in-command, snuck into Rodrigo's office and assassinated him, and planting a bomb, leaving Max as the only known survivor of the attack.
===Meeting and aiding Max Payne===
After both the incident at the party and the attack on Fábricas Branco, Da Silva took an interest in Max. He found out that Serrano had taken Fabiana to the Nova Esperança favela, and traveled there. By sheer coincidence, Max had also come to the favela to search for Fabiana, based on information given to him from a mortally wounded Crachá Preto member.
Da Silva stayed at a local strip club, and when Max entered it to find a telephone, he approached him and asked if he wanted a drink, leaving Max to wonder who he was, as the two had not been properly introduced to each other. During their conversation, Da Silva told Max that he had been set up at Fábricas Branco, revealing connections between the Crachá Preto and Rodrigo's middle brother, Victor, a local politcian who had previously hired the militia to forcefully clear out villages on private land. He told Max that Victor, the Crachá Preto, and Comando Sombra were all connected somehow, but that if he went in himself, he would be killed instantly. Before leaving, he gave Max a pistol, as well as telling him that Fabiana was being kept in Serrano's "fortress."
The next day, after Max rescued Fabiana's sister, Giovanna Taveres, and was left behind by Raul Passos, his supposed friend and partner in arms, Da Silva arrived and drove Max to a nearby parking lot where the two discussed the events that unfolded weeks ago in Panama, where Max was ostensibly working a protection job. He mentioned that Passos had secretly been receiving payment from Victor, including a plane ticket to New York City for him to meet and hire Max at Walton's Bar in Hoboken, New Jersey, and that Marcelo and Passos were laundering money for Victor in Panama under the cover of a pirate attack. Max, reluctantly and with great frustration, began viewing Passos as an accomplice of Victor's, and a potential traitor, with Da Silva explaining that Passos was probably merely forced into co-operating with Victor.
===Bringing Down Victor Branco===
After the conversation, Da Silva drove Max to the abandoned Imperial Palace Hotel to check out a massive lead; a bus drove captives off from an earlier raid in Nova Esperança, but were not booked anywhere. Max revealed to him that he witnessed the UFE and Crachá Preto making a deal during the raid, and Da Silva told him that many people would go inside in large groups under armed guard despite the hotel not being a police station, and that those same people would never come out.
It was at the hotel where Max would learn that the Crachá Preto and UFE were running an organ harvesting operation. After demolishing the hotel and, with the unexpected help of a returning Passos, bringing down the Crachá Preto and their leader, Álvaro Neves, he would give this information to Da Silva, and the two would starting draft plans to bring down Victor and the UFE once and for all. After Max said his goodbyes to Passos and Giovanna, Da Silva drove him to the UFE headquarters to take down Becker, an act that would deal a severe blow to Victor's plans. Before driving off, Max asked why Da Silva couldn't bring Becker down himself, and Da Silva responded that if he did, him and his family would made an example of, with Victor and the UFE getting away scot-free. While Max was able to kill many UFE members during the assault, including Bachmeyer, he was unable to prevent Victor and Becker from escaping the station.
Da Silva and Max learned that Victor and Becker had planned to escape from São Paulo via plane, and the former drove him to the airport, where he would engage in an enlongated shoot-out against the UFE that resulted in a confrontation with Becker in a hangar. After killing Becker, Da Silva drove to the hanger, told Max to get in, and the two chased after Victor's plane. Da Silva drove while Max used Becker's grenade launcher to bring down the remaining UFE down the runway, and eventually blew up Victor's plane. The latter survived the explosion relatively unharmed, and Max stepped out of Da Silva's car, running towards Victor with the intent to kill him. Da Silva chased after him, wanting Victor to be tried and thrown in prison for his crimes. He told Max to "let [Victor] suffer," and the latter put his gun away, causing Victor to respond with a mocking laugh, smugly expressing that he would "walk" and beat the charges. This caused Max to break Victor's shin bone and proclaim that the latter would "walk... with a limp," with Da Silva presumably arresting Victor shortly afterwards.
What happened to Da Silva afterwards remains unknown, though it is possible his efforts in uncovering, and bringing down, an elaborate criminal conspiracy caused him to be promoted to a higher position amongst São Paulo's police force.
==Gallery==
BeckerandDaSilvaArguing.webp|Da Silva arguing with Becker at the parking lot.
DaSilvaandMax.png|Da Silva and Max in Nova Esperança.
DaSilvaSmoking.webp|Da Silva smoking a cigarette.
DaSilvaMaxandVictor.png|Da Silva attempting to stop Max from killing Victor.
DaSilvaLetHimSuffer.png|Da Silva telling Max to let Victor live and "suffer."
DaSilvaandMaxCrashedPlane.png|Da Silva and Max standing over Victor as he screams in pain.
== Trivia ==
* While Max initially thinks of Da Silva as a coward, his profile in one of the UFE's computers paints him as taking a larger risk than anyone else on this investigation, and that he had never taken a bribe.
* Da Silva is always seen wearing a rosary, a sign of Christian faith, in addition to hanging one in from the dashboard mirror of his car. The depth of his commitment to his supposed beliefs is unknown, however, as he is also shown to often use profanities and is a heavy smoker.
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