Al Stone

Vigorous Bull: Al Stone is a bull and a highly-skilled boxer who has an upcoming match against Bobby Yale. He's in a relationship with Helen Moore, and she makes a sexual innuendo in front of both Stone and Weekly for an interview. This makes Al laugh nervously due to her forwardness. She also reiterates that she's not just physically attracted to him, she admires his "smarts, manliness, and integrity" and thinks these traits are "boxing-proof." Weekly: Are you ever jealous of sharing your sweetheart with America? Stone: Uhm... yeah, I... Moore: Nonsense! America has my smile, my figure, and my patriotic love.\ Everything else - and I mean EVERYTHING - belongs to Al. Right, baby? Stone: He, he... Yeah, that's right.

The dialogue with Al Stone is a critical, multi-stage interrogation where John Blacksad confronts the champion in his dressing room about the fight manipulation plot. The dialogue tree revolves around breaking down Stone's defensive facade by presenting evidence of the blackmail involving Helen Moore.

🥋 Confronting Al Stone: Key Choices & Clues

1. The Opening Approach

When you first enter the dressing room, Al Stone is defensive and heavily guarded by his trainer. You must choose how to open the conversation: • "Be polite": Blacksad plays it cool to build slight rapport. • "Be aggressive": Blacksad demands answers immediately, raising Stone's guard.

2. Delivering the Evidence (The Crucial Clues)

To force Stone into telling the truth, you must link specific clues from your Deduction Board. You must confront him with the reality that you know about his secret meetings and the leverage being used against him. • The Key Proof: Presenting the information regarding Helen Moore's career threats. • The Break: Once you present the undeniable connection between Desmond O'Leary's blackmail and Helen's future, Stone's tough "Champion" exterior shatters. He will dismiss his trainer from the room to speak with Blacksad privately.

3. The Private Confession Dialogue

Once the room is cleared, Stone opens up completely, delivering his most defining lines of dialogue in the game: • The Truth: He confesses that he does not want to take a dive, but he loves Helen too much to let her career and life be destroyed by the mob. • The Core Choice: You must decide how to advise him for the upcoming match. Your dialogue choices here heavily impact his morale and the ultimate resolution of the championship bout against Bobby Yale. Are you looking for the exact dialogue options to pick to get a specific ending/achievement with Al Stone, or do you need the deduction pairings required to unlock his confession?