Last update: 16 April 2021
Key points of Hitman 3 – Mendoza – Important locations
Important locations
On this page of the Hitman 3 Tipps, you will learn how to unlock the Closing Statement Mission Story quest. We have also included a detailed walkthrough for it. You will learn how to obtain Grand Paladin wine, how to poison Don Yates, how to rescue Diana, and what to do during Yates‘ confrontation with Diana.
Different ways of assassinating the two main mission targets in Mendoza, Don Yates and Tamara Vidal, have been described in separate sections of this Tipps.
- Closing Statement mission story – how to unlock?
- Optional preparations – poisoning Don Yates
- Getting to the refrigerator and dressing up as a sommelier
- Meeting with the head of security
- Placing Grand Paladin wine on the table
- Saving Diana
Closing Statement mission story – how to unlock?
Closing Statement is a unique mission story. It is not visible in the list of story quests from the beginning of the game. This is because you have to make the appropriate efforts related to another mission story to unlock it.
Related to the described quest is the Tour mission story, which is about organizing a winery tour. If you choose to play The Tour, Agent 47 will disguise as the fixer“ Corvo Black. In the tour may also take part Tamara Vidal (one of the mission objectives), Diana Burnwood (a neutral person on the map that you need to protect), and Gabriel Vargas (the tour Tipps).
If you are playing The Tour story mission, you have to get all the tour participants to the room with barrels (point 29 on the map). You can’t end the tour prematurely by arranging Tamara’s fatal accident. Don Yates will also appear in the room, and he will meet the tour participants.
It is also possible to not participate in the tour. However, note that it will not start unless you follow certain steps. You have to:
The main difference here is that all the tour participants will be NPCs (Vargas, Black, Tamara, Diana). Vargas will Tipps them through more rooms, and they will also reach the barrel room (point 29 on the map), where they will meet Don Yates.
Regardless of whether you participated in the tour or just made it happen, stay in the room with barrels (point 29 on the map). Don Yates will inform the head of security of the scheduled meeting and request that Paladin Black wine is delivered there. The head of security will talk to the sommelier next door about taking a bottle of rare wine out of the „vault“.
Optional preparations – poisoning Don Yates
You can additionally prepare for the mission if you plan on using the encounter to poison Don Yates. You have to obtain the lethal poison first. We have described where to get it on the Poison – how to get it? page. For example, you can find it on one of the floors of Yates‘ villa (point 50 on the map).
You have to sneak to the villa basement with the poison (point 43 on the map). Use it on the glass marked in the attached picture. This will no longer be possible after the Closing Statement mission story begins, as Agent 47 would be exposed when attempting to add poison after the guests arrive in the basement.
If you want to complete a mission story in a way that doesn’t involve poisoning Yates, you can skip the above step.
Getting to the refrigerator and dressing up as a sommelier
This is the first „main“ objective of the described mission story. Do not attempt to use either of the two main entrances to the Wine Fridge – they are locked, and there are cameras above them.
Go to the adjacent Tech Room (point 27 on the map). If you’re wearing a Corvo Black or mercenary disguise, then you don’t need to sneak around here. Otherwise, sabotage the fuse box and use that to get rid of both people in the room. Throw their bodies in the ventilation tunnels so they won’t be discovered later.
From the tech room, you need to take the Tier 1 Access Dongle from the picture above – you will need it for hacking.
There is a hole in the corner of the room – jump into it to get to the ventilation tunnels (point 28 on the map). Follow them to the east. You will find two vents – you can open either of them, and you have to use the camera to do so. Agent 47 will use it to hack the vent’s security.
Note – hacking won’t work if you have not taken the flash drive from the tech room.
Carefully approach the wine fridge room (point 29 on the map) and climb in when it’s safe. First, go to the terminal, which will activate the curtains on the windows again (note – due to game bugs, it won’t always work correctly, and people in the main room could still be alerted).
Head then to the fuse box in the corner of the room. Sabotaging it will allow you to get rid of 2 NPCs from the fridge – the waiter and the sommelier. Hide their bodies in the ventilation tunnels and put on a sommelier disguise.
The Grand Paladin wine is in a sort of vault with lasers blocing access to. There is a simple puzzle to solve – interact with the panel on the wall and enter the code 1945. This is the date of production of the wine, which you could learn about in the final part of the tour. You can take the 1945 Grand Paladin wine now.
Meeting with the head of security
If you don’t want to be recorded by the cameras, don’t go to the barrel room by opening the refrigerator door, but by going through the ventilation tunnels. Talk to the head of security to follow him towards the location of the scheduled meeting of Providence members.
After you reach the secret tunnel (point 39 on the map), Agent 47 will undergo a mandatory frisking. Use the nearby trash can to dispose of your firearms and check your inventory for other „illegal“ items (e.g. sharp melee weapons). Reach the villa basement (point 43 on the map) where the meeting will take place.
Placing Grand Paladin wine on the table
Place the wine on the table – it will automatically be picked up by the head of security, who will start pouring it among the meeting attendees. Additionally, interact with the table to give a speech about the Grand Paladin wine.
During the rest of the meeting, you don’t need to perform any additional actions (unfortunately, it’s also too late to poison Yates). In the final part of the meeting, Don Yates will order to kill Tamara and capture Diana, who will be taken by mercenaries to the upper level of the villa.
Saving Diana
You have 10 minutes to reach the place where Diana is, and you can’t ignore the new mission objective because Diana’s death will mean failing the whole quest.
10 minutes is, fortunately, plenty of time, and if you want, you can stay longer in the basement to watch the final part of the meeting. If you poured lethal poison into Yates‘ glass beforehand, he will drink the wine and die in a moment. You will still have to rescue Diana, but for obvious reason, you won’t have to deal with Yates.
You have to sneak into the office on the first floor of the villa (point 50 on the map). Use the basement exit, which is also one of the shortcuts on the map. It will allow you to reach the area to the east of the building.
Head south following one of the mercenaries. Take the opportunity to climb up the gutter, which will bring you to the lower roof of the villa adjacent to the office.
Wait until everyone appears on the floor (point 50 on the map) – two guards will go to the balconies, and the third will stay in the room with Diana. You can eliminate them one by one by approaching them from behind and choking them. Start with the mercenary on the south balcony, then wait for the next mercenary to go to the toilet and finally deal with the one on the north balcony.
Make sure there are no bodies in the main room. Take the pistol with a silencer and put on the disguise of any of the mercenaries.
Talk to Diana. If Don Yates was poisoned and murdered, then you can complete the mission right away. Otherwise, you must prepare for his arrival. Sit in the chair where one of the guards was sitting earlier.
Restrain from any further actions. You have to wait until Diana unexpectedly stabs Yates. Quickly press the attack button (R2 / right trigger) to hit the chandelier support mechanism with the pistol. It will fall on one of the enemies, but you have to (quickly) shoot the other one yourself.
All that’s left now is for you to finish off the badly injured Yates. If you want to end the mission in the default location (i.e. on the dance floor dancing with Diana) then take the suit left in the office where the confrontation occurred.