GTA: San AndreasLos Santos
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Mission 1 of 105Story mission
Carl Johnson flies home to Los Santos for his mother's funeral and does not get out of the airport before Frank Tenpenny, Eddie Pulaski and Jimmy Hernandez pick him up. The three officers put him in the back of their car, tie him to a killing he had nothing to do with, and drop him alone in Jefferson in the middle of Ballas territory.
What is left of the mission is a bicycle and a long ride south to Grove Street. It is the game's introduction to riding and to the map, and it is also the debt the rest of the story runs on: Carl arrives home owing C.R.A.S.H. a favour he never agreed to.
The opening is not a fight and there is nothing to be gained by treating it as one. Carl is put down a long way from home with no weapon and no money, and the only thing the mission asks is that he gets to Grove Street.
The bike is the point. Pedalling is held rather than tapped once, and the route runs through territory that is not yet hostile to a man on his own — the gang war this ride crosses has not started for Carl. Follow the marker and arrive.
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Playable · Gives the job
Home in Los Santos after five years in Liberty City for his mother's funeral, and stopped by the same two police officers who drove him out. Rebuilding the family's standing turns into rebuilding most of the state's.
All 105 missions · 7 as giver
