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| “ | Look, man... even if I knew a name, you couldn't get me talking. These guys. I heard stories, man. They're like nothing you've ever seen before. You gotta walk away from this man... Please, Please! | „ |
| ~ Maurice pleading Aiden to spare him. |
| “ | And then those bastards called me again. They said I screwed up the Pearce job. No more chances. I begged him not to kill her. I begged him to kill me instead. And the sonofab*tch says he was feeling generous. He wasn't gonna kill her. He's gonna send her to an auction instead. The f#####g auctions... How do I get her out of that? They got tracking sh*t on the girls. Get them so f###ed up on smack they don't even remember their names. Oh Christ, Abbie... And the sick f### who called me -- he said the debt was clean. I was free to live my life... WHAT F###ING LIFE HAVE I GOT?! | „ |
| ~ Maurice revealing his wife's kidnapping on his final recording. |
Maurice Vega is a supporting antagonist in the Watch Dogs video game franchise, serving as a major antagonist in the 2014 video game Watch Dogs, and a background character in the Watch Dogs Legion DLC expansion, Bloodline.
He was a hitman hired by Dermot "Lucky" Quinn to scare off Aiden Pearce after the incident at the Merlaut job, but instead caused the death of Aiden's niece Lena, setting off the events of the game. He is detained by Aiden and Jordi Chin during a baseball game, and Aiden later has the choice to either kill him or spare him.
He was voiced by Christopher Jacot, who also voiced Dušan Nemec in Watch Dogs 2 and portrayed Ben Meyers in Smallville.
Biography[]
Background[]
Not much is known about Maurice Vega's past, but he grew up in foster care, and later married a woman named Abigail. At some point in his adulthood, Vega became a hitman for the Chicago South Club, but wanted to leave his former life following his marriage.
However, the club refused and started to blackmail Maurice, threatening to kill his wife if he ever attempted to leave again. After botching a job, Vega agreed to whatever the club asked him to do, assigning him to deal with the hacker Aiden Pearce.
When preparing to eliminate the target, Maurice noticed a little girl in the car, and instead of killing Aiden, shot the front tire to cause it to crash. Maurice would later learn that the girl died during the crash, causing him to feel great guilt over the incident.
When learning of Vega's failure to eliminate Pearce, the club kidnapped his wife for Quinn's human trafficking ring. Instead of killing Maurice, they allowed him live, believing that his debt was clean. However, Vega became broken from the incident, no longer seeing the point in living. At some point, Maurice left burner phones across Chicago where he explained the events leading up to the Merlaut incident.
Watch Dogs[]
| “ | Hit the family? (That a problem?) Nope. I'll scare them good. You'll never hear from him again. |
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| ~ A recording of Maurice agreeing to attack Aiden Pearce and his family. |
A year after the botched assassination attempt, Maurice became aware that Pearce was hunting him down, and was able to get the Black Viceroys to protect him. At the May Stadium, Vega is confronted and interrogated by Aiden, but refuses to give any information on who ordered the hit.
He then attempts to attack Pearce, but is knocked unconscious and taken to holding facilities by the fixer Jordi Chin. Maurice doesn't appear for the rest of the story, only being mentioned by Jordi, speaking to Aiden when the latter contacts Chin, or the player finding his burner phones across the city. After stopping the club and Damien Brenks, Aiden is contacted by Chin, who gives him the location of Maurice to finish him off.
When encountering the vigilante, Maurice is broken, seeing Lena's face due to his guilt and muttering number sequences to himself and not caring what happens to him. If the player spares him, Pearce notes that Vega is in his own "personal hell", and that the both of them can have a second chance at life. If the player kills him, the screen will cut to black before the credits resume.
Personality[]
Maurice is best described as a broken and fearful man whose bad choices and luck led him to a horrible point. While a hitman who had no qualm in attacking Aiden Pearce and his family, he instead chose to crash their car rather than killing Aiden after seeing his niece.
Unfortunately, this action backfired on him terribly, as Lena was killed and Aiden began hunting him looking for answers. Maurice is clearly traumatized by both Aiden pursuing him, being imprisoned by Jordi, and accidentally causing the death of an innocent little girl. Maurice did show remorse upon remembering her face and sobbed uncontrollably upon doing so.
Despite being a criminal, Maurice did also have genuine love for his wife Abigail, and wanted to protect her from his previous life. After the club chooses to target Abbie however, Maurice complies in fear for her safety, and later begs them to kill him instead of her when he fails.
Upon hearing that his wife had been sent to a human trafficking auction where she would be most likely sold into sexual slavery, Maurice broke down in knowing that he failed to protect his wife.
At the end, Maurice seemed ready to die when Aiden shows up to decide his fate. He is shown counting to himself and repeating his words in a manner that suggests how damaged his mind is. Although whether he manages to recover or find his wife even, if spared, is completely unknown.
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Trivia[]
- He is one of the few characters in the game whose age isn't identified in the profiler.
- He is the only villain in the Watch Dogs series to have a determined fate, as the player lets you either shoot him or spare him at the end.
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