- "Decent thing would be to let a man get in a prayer 'fore you kill him."
- — Ritchie Doucet
Ritchie Doucet is a minor antagonist in Mafia III.
History[]
Background[]
Ritchie Doucet is the boss of the Dixie Mafia, a criminal organization allied with the Marcano family, operating out of Bayou Fantom and later Delray Hollow.
Running the Hollow[]
After the Federal Reserve heist, Ritchie arrives at Sammy's Bar along with Sal and Giorgi Marcano to help collect Sal's cut of the money. When Sal turns on the Robinsons, Ritchie assists them by stabbing Ellis Robinson multiple times in the stomach with a knife, killing him.
With Sammy Robinson dead and the Black Mob eliminated, Giorgi Marcano places Ritchie and the Dixie Mafia in charge of the Hollow. Ritchie quickly turns Perla's Nightclub into a brothel, renaming it Doucet's and putting Merle "Trigger" Jackson in charge of its day-to-day operations. He also sets up a drugs racket inside the First Baptist Church, with "Four-Finger" Charlie Kincaid overseeing the operations there.
Downfall and Death[]
After Lincoln Clay recovers from the injuries he suffered at the hands of Giorgi, he returns to Delray Hollow and recruits Cassandra and her Haitian Mob soldiers to fight back against the Dixie Mafia. They first go after Doucet's, killing Jackson, freeing the women he held prisoner as sex slaves, and restoring the club to its former glory. They then take over Ritchie's drugs racket, killing his enforcers, disposing of Kincaid, and destroying most of his valuable heroin supply.
With no means of kicking up to the Marcanos, Ritchie fears Giorgi will come after him, so he goes into hiding along with his remaining men at Baron Saturday's, an abandoned amusement park on the southern edge of the district. After Cassandra captures one of Ritchie's men, she and Lincoln learn where Ritchie is hiding, so Lincoln goes there to take him down.
When he finally comes face-to-face with Lincoln, Ritchie opens fire in a blind panic, believing that Giorgi sent him to steal the heroin. When Lincoln tells him he's not there for the drugs, but to make him pay for what he did to Sammy and Ellis, Ritchie tries to claim he had nothing to do with it. When Lincoln doesn't buy it (as he personally witnessed Ellis being stabbed), Richie claims that Giorgi and Sal masterminded the betrayal, and he was only there because he was ordered to help them.
Lincoln ignores his excuses and ties one end of a rope around Ritchie's neck and the other end to a passenger compartment on the park's old Ferris wheel. Ritchie realizes there's no hope of getting out of this, so he begs Lincoln to let him say a prayer before killing him. To that, Lincoln replies that he can "pray on the way up". He then powers up the Ferris wheel and leaves the park, leaving Ritchie to hang until he strangles and dies.
Appearances[]
Mafia III[]
- The Home Fires Burn
- Thicker Than Blood (Flashback)
- Pray on the Way Up (Killed)
Notable Murders[]
- Ellis Robinson (Black Mob)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Doucet's hanging corpse was seen by FBI Special Agent Jonathan Maguire, who decades later recounted how he immediately picked up on the fact that Ritchie had been killed to "send a message", in keeping with Lincoln's training in psychological warfare.[1]
- When Lincoln hanged him from the Ferris wheel, Ritchie defecated in fear, and seagulls later pecked out his eyes after his death.[2]
- As an individual, he is not included in John Donovan's profile of Lincoln's kill list. However, there is a profile on the Dixie Mafia and Ritchie is mentioned in that.
- Cassandra will reveal to Lincoln when they first meet that she has a longstanding desire to kill Ritchie due to his favorite habit being the abduction of black youths so he and his friends can hunt them "like the old days". She claims that this is how her sister was murdered. However, when she later confesses that her sister was not the one to be killed, it might have been likely she fabricated that story about Doucet.
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