He also has a Patriot parked inside a hangar next to his home. A Kaufman Cabs calendar can also be seen in his mobile home. When his bedroom is entered, his bed consists of a camouflaged mattress, an American Flag-styled pillow, and a few girl posters on the walls. Gun Racks displaying several handguns, submachine guns and rifles are on the wall. In Vice City, Phil's mobile home is accessible. Tommy and Phil start an arms business, with Phil supplying Tommy expensive heavy weapons not available in local Ammu-Nations throughout the rest of the game. Tommy drives Phil to an ex-army surgeon to be patched up. Now standing just a meter away from the powerful explosive, in inebriated carelessness, he presses the remote's trigger, detonating the bomb and blowing his right arm off. The remote doesn't work the first time, so Phil changes its batteries for fresh ones sitting beside the bomb. After Tommy kills Phil's rival gun dealer, a drunken Phil invites Tommy over to check out a Boomshine bomb he had set up, wired to a remote detonator. After the robbery, Phil invites Tommy to work for him in order to get fixed with firepower. Phil is the one who suggests Tommy should employ Hilary King as a getaway driver.
In his next appearance, Tommy Vercetti hires Phil to pull off a bank robbery in the mission " The Shootist". Between 19, he has shaved it off permanently. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Phil is sporting a handlebar moustache. Phil, wanting revenge with the Mendez Brothers, gets drunk and blows up the entrance of Fort Baxter Air Base, so that Vic can steal a Hunter helicopter to attack the Mendez compound. After being saved by Vic, Phil promises to stay sober from now on however, he begins to drink again when Armando Mendez kills Louise. Through Phil, Vic meets Phil's younger sister Louise and her husband Marty.Īfter completing some jobs for Marty and eventually killing him because he tried to pimp Louise, Vic returns with Phil and saves him from Jerry's goons who want to finish him for betraying Jerry. Jerry sends Vic to help Phil get rid of some Cholos that are giving him trouble. He is introduced to Victor Vance through Sergeant Jerry Martinez. In Phil's first chronological appearance in Vice City Stories, he appears in a MeTV patriotism report where he complained that the government wasn't properly looking after their veterans, which ended with him having an emotional breakdown and crying, and being ridiculed by reporter Jenny Mitchell. In GTA III, Phil was said to have legitimately served in Nicaragua, where he lost his arm this was later changed to make Phil a gun enthusiast who allegedly never served in the army and lost his arm in a boomshine explosion.Īccording to his interview on MeTV, he was part of the Army Catering Corps and received a dishonourable discharge. Phil's backstory was retconned between GTA III and GTA Vice City. His subsequent appearances also depict him with only one arm. He lost his left arm in 1986 after he was caught in the blast radius of a boomshine bomb, during the events of GTA Vice City. Phil's most notable feature is his one arm. During a phone conversation with Tommy Vercetti, he explains that, due to his heavy boomshine consumption, he is blind in his left eye. He distils " boomshine", a highly explosive mixture that can get a man drunk off its fumes, which he started distilling and selling in Vice City around 1984. Phil has been featured as a heavy drinker. However, Cam Jones claims that Phil was never in the army, and Phil's records show that he was repeatedly refused for service due to "drunkenness and unsuitable temperament for combat". Phil presents himself as a military veteran and regularly discusses his experiences, including claims of having "flashbacks" to the Vietnam War. In all of his appearances, Phil is featured as a manic heavy artillery arms dealer, selling the protagonist military-grade weaponry such as Grenades, Rocket Launchers, Miniguns, etc.
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