[classic swim]

... • 2008 Niko & Roman enjoy a game of darts at the Steinway Beer Garden. Niko wasn’t so lucky during this particular game, but he has room to improve possibly another time.

Roman: The Bellic cousins are here in the land of opportunity and we are making trouble for any fools who get in our way. Niko: Don't you miss home? Roman: I miss the good times we had as children, when our fathers were too drunk to beat us, when there was food and the sun was shining, but... Now - now I live here. And life is good.

... • 2008 Niko delivers a fleet of high powered vehicles to Brucie’s Executive Lifestyle Autos.

... • 2008 Johnny Klebitz does some street racing with Terry & Clay to help keep his mind off Jason being gone.

Brucie: You made it man. You got them mad Red Army driving skills. I'll sort you out with some big rims... spinning ones.

- Easy as Can Be. • 2008 Rivas had a decent car that could do with some boosting over at the chop shop.

“Hey. Do I look like I got funny balls to you?” - Brucie

Niko: Be careful, man. I heard that stuff does funny things to your balls.

“Man, women! Man. Women!” - Brucie

Brucie: You're all about the cabbage-- I mean, the lettuce, the lettuce! Ice cold, man. I love it.

- Search and Delete. • 2008 Niko poses as a police officer to eliminate Lyle Rivas - - small time chum who’s been dodging Brucie.

“Brucie likes pussy. Remember that, alright?”

Niko: That roid monkey? Roman: He is a good friend of mine, he’ll be a good friend of yours too if you let him.

- Rigged to Blow. • 2008 Mikhail Faustin sends Niko on a near suicide mission of sending a truck loaded with a bomb over to Petrovic’s garage property.

“After you walk into a village, and you see fifty children, all sitting neatly in a row against the church wall, each with their throats cut and their hands chopped off... you realize that the creature that could do this... doesn't have a soul.” - Niko Bellic

Ilyena: And you don’t worry about your soul?

“Life is complicated. When the war came, I did bad things. And after the war, I thought nothing of doing bad things. I killed people, smuggled people, sold people.” - Niko Bellic

... • 2008 Ilyena Faustin is abused by husband Mikhail on a regular basis. It’s a horrible life. The interior of their home says nothing but depression. She cries like a child everyday, her and her daughter senselessly bullied by a drug crazed shell of a man. Ilyena looks at Niko and sees someone capable of having a heart. Someone more capable of good than he thinks...