Steve Coyne

"So like the Bible says - an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth."

— Steve Coyne

Stephen "Steve" Coyne is a character in Mafia II.

History[]

Background[]

Steve is an enforcer for the Vinci family. He grew up in rural Birkland, moving to the city at the age of sixteen. While being arrested for battery, Steve badly beat an EBPD officer and was sentenced to ten years, of which he served five. It was in prison that he started working as muscle for fellow inmate Derek Pappalardo, a relationship that continues on the outside. Steve can never become a made man due to his Dutch-Irish heritage, but became the family's most trusted associate after he assassinated rival boss Tomaso Moretti with a car bomb to end the Vinci-Moretti War.^[1] This resulted in co-conspirator Carlo Falcone taking over the Moretti family as the don and renaming it the Falcone family, and the Vinci family gaining an unprecedented amount of power in Empire Bay's post prohibition criminal underworld in the 1930's.

Serving Derek[]

Steve serves as Derek's right hand man and most trusted associate. As such he is responsible for doing Derek's dirty work, like killing Vito Scaletta's father Antonio by drowning him in 1943. In April of 1951, he assists Vito Scaletta and Joe Barbaro in their assault on the greasers after they destroyed a truck load of cigarettes they were selling in Greaser territory. Steve gets involved because he wants payback for them trashing his cousin's car, robbing him, and knocking out three of his teeth.

Death[]

Several months later, Vito Scaletta was assisting Derek and Steve with a labor dispute at the docks. Over the course of the negotiations, Vito's name is mentioned and an Old Dockworker recognizes him as Antonio Scaletta's son, who asks why Vito is working for Derek after what he did to his old man. Steve immediately tells the man to shut his mouth but another worker speaks up, telling how Derek and Steve killed Vito's father. When pressed for answers, Steve finally admits to drowning him. After finding out the truth about his father's death, Vito goes after Derek and Steve, killing both of them and any other Vinci family muscle who got in his way.

Appearances[]

Mafia II[]

Trivia[]

A younger fully haired Steve can be seen in Prologue. He is the man that picks Antonio Scaletta for a job.
He can be seen reading Playboy magazines in multiple cutscenes.
There was a cut side mission where Steve gave Vito a job destroying some cars. This was later reworked as Going out of Business and added to Joe's Adventures.
Steve's voice actor, Mark Mintz, also voices Rocco in Joe's Adventures.