[classic swim]

- 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.

- Dust Off. • 2008 U.L. Paper knows of one last Russian figure funding Terrorist activity in Liberty City. Eduard Borodin. Niko Bellic must obtain a maverick, as Borodin can only be reached whilst airborne.

- Bang Bang. • 2008 To further assist Rocco Pelosi with his union blues, Luis Lopez bombs a few Liberty City Transport targets (including the big crane on Frankfort Ave) and has the city declare terrorism.

Morning showers are the most you can feel refreshed even doing all-nighters. I just wish I didn’t have to scrub my dick like a drill sergeant December-April because hot water always shitting the bed.

- Club Management. • 2008 Luis does security some nights for Maisonette 9. Gay Tony has the occasional celebrity friends pop in the franchise clubs. Clay “PG” Jackson, Kerry McIntosh, Poppy Mitchell, Al Di Napoli, etc...

TBOGT Drug Wars #1 • 2008 Armando has asked Luis to go along with him and Henrique on a series of drug deals throughout Liberty City. Luis helps the two steal product from rival gangs, with the payout always increasing on infinite amount of jobs.

- Stubbs’ Dirty Laundry. • 2008 Thomas Stubbs has a lucrative string of jobs to pay Klebitz for. Killing/framing fellow congressmen, freeing a CEO from FIB officials, as well as planting a bug on the car of Deputy Mayor, Bryce Dawkins.