The soldiers began shooting the wounded, and one of them turned and shot and injured Cole in disgust. He does not enjoy talking about his campaign in Okinawa , since he doesn't feel like he deserved the medal, and when asked comments that he is not a war hero. Cole starts his career in the LAPD as a beat cop, determined to make a name for himself. Officer Phelps work on the case "Buyer Beware", where he solves the murder of a shoe store owner, earns Phelps the favour of Capt. Donnelly and he is quickly promoted to a detective working traffic.
Phelps rises quickly through the ranks and earns himself fame, and headlines. His work on a series of murders related to the Black Dahlia killer - and the eventual resolution, where Phelps kills the murderer in a shootout in the catacombs of the Christ Crown of Thorns church although this is swept under the rug by the department since the Dahlia killer is related to a high ranking L. Phelps work in vice brings him close to uncovering a web of corruption.
This gets him kicked out by his wife and separated from his two daughters. Within the department Phelps is a pariah and is demoted to the arson desk and partnered with Herschell Biggs who insists that he "doesn't do partners". Biggs' reason for this becomes clear during one of the arson cases. While working arson Phelps discovers suspicious circumstances surrounding winners of a trip to Catalina Island from the Suburban Redevelopment Fund's houses burning down.
He has stumbled into a major insurance scam involving the mayor, chief of police, property developer Leland Monroe , insurance executive Curtis Benson and psychiatrist Dr Harlan Fontaine.
Both Kelso and Phelps manage to uncover a great deal about the conspiracy, and trace the fires to Ira Hogeboom, who was being used by Dr Harlan Fontaine to cover up the Suburban Redevelopment Fund scam.
Hogeboom killed Fontaine and kidnapped Elsa taking her into the labyrinth of sewers beneath L. Phelps drowns saving Elsa and Kelso from the flooding sewer. Phelps will work with different partners at every new desk. Generally, these partners first treat Cole with some hostility, but grow more friendly as they work together.
The exception to this rule is Ralph Dunn, who seems friendly with Cole from the first moment in the game. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:.
Kelso wants to put the man out of his misery; Phelps wants him arrested. If they can get Ira to confess, they can close the whole case. But Phelps makes a crucial choice; he leaves Kelso to deal with Hogeboom.
Jack kills him out of pity. As the sewer floods and water rises, Phelps makes one more choice. He manages to find that tenuous and fickle spark of courage and saves his friend from the rising tide before a swell of water floods down the pipe and kills him. Phelps gets to be the hero, if only for a moment. In giving up on personal glory, he earns his medal.
Cole Phelps has to die; the tide is too strong and corruption too deep. The eulogy is given by Roy Earle, his partner from Vice Squad.
Earle was in on the conspiracy and gets away with it, as do the mayor and chief of police. Cole can find redemption and Kelso can crack a few skulls, but the wheel of corruption will always spin.
As a video game ending, this is bleak. You can bloody some noses and save a few lives but the grift will go on. The defining moment for me was during the WW2 flashback where he was interrogating the Japanese soldier. Yeah, sure, look how smart and right you are, but now is NOT the goddamned time.
Cole HAD to be the smartest man in the room. He had to be right because the system said so. Log In Sign Up. Keep me logged in on this device Forgot your username or password? Don't have an account? Sign up for free! What do you need help on? Cancel X. Topic Archived Page 1 of 2 Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts.
Boards L. Noire The truth about why Cole Phelps did that User Info: LancetJades. A beautiful loss is still a loss, and an ugly win is still a win. User Info: jk2l. User Info: cambosteve. Well done sir. I never saw it that way. Very well presented - I believe you have the right of it. I had myself gotten as far as their relationship had positive effects on both people giving up addiction, coping with War Guilt, but for some reason the kindred spirit thing never clicked in my head.
Perhaps because Elsa isn't really shown all that much until way later in the story to my memory anyway. Thank you though, that helped me process the story :. User Info: Atc4life. User Info: ARsignal Atc4life posted User Info: EvilEnvi.
At the very end with what happened to Cole I couldn't even feel sad about it. I felt like I didn't know who he was.
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