Liberty City

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- Blow Your Cover + Buyer’s Market. • 2008

Niko Bellic starts getting accustomed with Johnny Klebitz through the help of their mutual boss, Elizabeta Torres.

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Liz supposedly found Triads willing to buy the heroin the Lost MC had snatched.

Niko Bellic’s there as backup, alongside an eccentric leader in the drug game.

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“Wassup, money?” - Playboy X

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- Buyer’s Market. • 2008

Johnny’s gotta pick up the product from Brian in Cerveza Heights before he can meet Niko & Playboy at the old apartments on Cassidy Street in Schottler.

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- Blow Your Cover. • 2008

Niko & Playboy X follow slowly behind.

Playboy’s heard nothing but great things about Niko’s skills. He takes this as an opportunity to gain a new business partner.

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Brian: I don't know why Billy got you to handle this and not me. I mean, what's up with that? I guess you Semites are good at... sniffing out a deal, ain't that right Johnny?

Johnny: He didn't get you because Liz Torres, and any other two bit hustler on the street would take you for the little pussy that you are, and rob you blind. Now gimmie that shit. See you around, big guy...

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Playboy: Money talks. Money say jump, cat say how high.

Niko: Tell me about that biker. The one with the smack, Johnny.

Playboy: I ain't workin with that cat, but I heard about him. He doing all type of crazy shit. Blowing stuff up...

 

Niko: You scared of him?

Playboy: I ain't scared of nobody. All them bikers is racist as shit is all.

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Playboy: Buyer is some Asian dude called Charlie.

Niko: Like in Vietnam.

Playboy: Just like the movies, money.

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“Nothing like selling some dope to let you know you're alive.” - Johnny Klebitz

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... • 2008

A frantic, floral shirt wearing Triad (who sounds an awful lot like Wu Zi Mu) is a dead ringer for undercover cop.

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Johnny: You ain't right, friend. Come on... let’s get out of here.

Charlie: LCPD! FREEZE, MOTHERFUCKER! I SAID FREEZE!

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Blow Your Cover + Buyer’s Market (cont...) • 2008

Johnny, Niko & Playboy split up and pop their way out the shithole building being raided by law enforcement.

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Niko Bellic: Fuck you!

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Agent Jones: You tried to offload some smack to a colleague of mine called Charlie. Costly mistake.

Johnny: Fuck you, Fed. This conversation's over. If you got any evidence on me, get a warrant.

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Johnny: How's your fancy European friend working out?

Elizabeta: Okay, okay. Seems like maybe he's the only guy in this city not working for the state.

Johnny: Him and The Lost MC. Me and the brothers are tight.

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Playboy: Shit man. I'd a fucking died instead of being caught by them feds. You take a bid on a heroin beef you ain't seeing light for a long time.

Niko: Yeah?

Playboy: My man Dwayne Forge is inside on a crack beef. He showed me some shit back in the day, but shit... When he gets out, if he ever does, it won't be the same world.

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Niko: Elizabeta, things didn't go so good. The contact was-

Elizabeta: U.C. I know. Fucking feds is everywhere. I feel like they want me bad. We see what happens. I got some more deals to make.

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Roman: This is great news, Niko. I got the insurance money for the cab depot burning down. The stupid bastards thought it was an electrical fire, not arson.

Niko: Maybe it was an accident.

Roman: Hahaha yeah right! I’ve put the money into another cab depot. Bellic Enterprises is up and running again.

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Algonquin • 2008

Self-proclaimed center of everything. Formerly Staunton Island.

It is the heart of Liberty City. There is a lot of nightlife and clubs.

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Ashley: I just see you in my dreams, sugar.

Johnny: Come on, Ash. Give it up. You seriously got time to dream in between your three-day ice binges?

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... • 2008

Billy Grey knows a Liberty City congressman willing to play dirty and move the Lost up in the world. Thomas Stubbs III.

Johnny travels to Jousters social club in Middle Park.

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“Under this ravaged, drug-addled exterior, lies the heart of a reactionary prick...” - Johnny K

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... • 2008

Lazlow finally receives funding for his new radio program, a good while after the Chatterbox days.

Integrity 2.0 faces the streets of Liberty head-on, during the invention of the podcast.
 

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- Politics. • 2008

Congressman Thomas Stubbs earns a big payout from Klebitz eliminating his uncle Arthur at Francis International Airport.

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- Coming Down. • 2008

Johnny saves his old love Ashley from a group of junkies.

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Ashley: Teach me, baby. It's the only way I'll learn. Make me hurt.

Johnny: You're making yourself hurt already, you fuckin’ idiot.

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