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... • 2008 Niko Bellic has unwittingly encountered the serial killer that the LCPD’s failed at identifying for well over a month. Eddie Low’s made nights of attacking unsuspecting joggers.

Niko: I'd really like to get back on planet earth, so maybe I'll see you later.

“Wait! Wait! Wait, mister! Do you ever wonder? Do you ever wonder if animals... if they masturbate?” - Eddie Low

Alderney • 2008 ...A place where people from Algonquin go to dump their trash.

Kate: An Irish family manages to make it the eighteenth century when or whenever they are. The men in my family are just highwaymen and moralists, usually both in equal measure. Niko: I don't know if I'd agree that Packie’s a moralist. He seems like a highwayman through and through.

Gerry: Nice work. Real nice. I'll let Jimmy P know about that. I'll cut you in on anything he throws my way. Don't know how long I'm gonna be outside, I though. I feel like the ops might knock Ma's door down at any moment. Take me to the pen. Niko: Good luck with that, Gerry. Gerry: Yeah, thanks. Please, look after my family if I go inside.

- I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, And Your Motorcycle. • 2008 Niko takes on the disguise of an Albanian gangster and performs the hit on Frankie Garone.

Niko: Which Albanian? Gerry: This one.

- Actions Speak Louder Than Words. • 2008 Niko plants a bomb onto Tony Black’s car. The Ancelotti capo had his meeting set to a fiery blaze.

... • 2008 Jimmy Pegorino needed to stir some bad blood between the Ancelottis and their Albanian associates.

... • 2008 The Liberty bank heist and the subsequent praise from Packie changed Gerald McReary’s perspective on Niko entirely. The Irish Mob leader trusted Niko with some of the more calculated jobs for the Italians.

Niko: We shot down that chopper for you. U.L. Paper: You think I don't know that? You think I've been sitting around scratching my balls with my head up my ass? Niko: I'd be impressed if you had been.

Niko: Shit, Jacob! You really gotta smoke that thing now? I'm paranoid enough with US government on my ass. Whatever actually, just smoke it!

Niko: I have the feeling he don't want to be responsible for a helicopter crash in Middle Park. Little Jacob: True dat. Yo, dis be some crazy shit ya know Niko. Yo, we inna the Star Junction in a helicopter. Dis some real spy shit I and I is doing ya know. Niko: Shows you the people who need spy shit done get other people to do their dirty work.

- Paper Trail. • 2008 U.L. Paper calls to say the time to act is now. Niko accompanies his friend Little Jacob to smoke Eduard Borodin out of the sky.

TBOGT Drug Wars #2 • 2008 A deal between Spanish Lords and the Yardies is struck over in Middle Park.