Liberty City

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- 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.

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- 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.

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TBOGT Drug Wars #2 • 2008

A deal between Spanish Lords and the Yardies is struck over in Middle Park.

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- 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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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... • 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.

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... • 2008

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

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- 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.

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Niko: Which Albanian?

Gerry: This one.

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- 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. 

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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.

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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.

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 Alderney • 2008

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

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

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

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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.

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Packie: Francis - you know about Francis - he wanted to be a priest.

Niko: Really?

Packie: He got thrown out of the seminary, for cheating. He tried to cheat God. Can you believe it? So, he became a fucking cop.

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... • 2008

Niko finds Derrick, the oldest McReary brother strung out on his luck in the public park.

Derrick’s got a tough time facing his demons and confronting his posse from the past.

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- Smackdown. • 2008

Niko gets rid of Bucky Sligo for Derrick McReary.

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Ray: Why go through all this? Why stick your neck out? Why do all this work?

Niko: Because I need the money, because I can't do anything else. And, because I'm good at it.

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... • 2008

Niko Bellic receives a more formal introduction to Ray Boccino after those little scores with Packie McReary. Over at Ray’s restaurant Drusilla’s on Little Italy.

Niko starts working for Boccino and inquires help tracking down someone in case the government contact’s not helpful.

Spoiler

Boccino’s sex pest uncle Sergio used to host Double Clef FM ten years back. Popular station with the mob before JNR.

 

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“Seems this guy does not respect the waste management business.” - Ray Boccino

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- A Long Way to Fall. • 2008

Teddy Benavidez meets a sharp end at the Galveston Towers.

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Roman: Your mother is there, but for me there is nothing. The Old Country stopped being home for me when Mama was taken from me in the war. Here is my home now.

Niko: Things are alright back home now.

Roman: My mother would be here if she was still alive. She was such a strong woman.

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Derrick: Another immigrant, arriving in this city, trying to make something of himself.

Niko: Brings a tear to my eye.

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- Babysitting. • 2008

Niko Bellic & Derrick McReary help Kim Young-Guk from North Korea reach the shore with his boat full of counterfeit cash. Albanians attempting an attack.

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Bahama Mamas • 2008

Where evolution stops and the party starts! Algonquin’s premier club venue for relentless party tunes and fist-pumping steroid beats.

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... • 2008

Tony Prince and Luis Lopez become familiar with Ray Bulgarin.

Russian mob’s only expanding and Bulgarin buying out Maisonette 9 would hypothetically solve their problems.

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- Boulevard Baby. • 2008

Luis hits it off with Monique over at Bahama Mamas. Monique’s boyfriend Vic Manzano owns the club.

Vic was supposed to be in Las Venturas that night.

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Luis: Yo, I didn't even fuck her.