GTA: San AndreasLos Santos
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Mission 4 of 105Story mission
Lance Wilson — Ryder to everybody — is surprised to see Carl and immediately has a job for him. A pizza place has been painting over Grove Street tags, and Ryder wants it taught a lesson. First, though, he takes one look at Carl's hair and drives him to Old Reece's barber shop, because turning up to anything in Los Santos looking like that is not happening.
The haircut, the pizza and the drive home between them are the game's introduction to three of its systems at once: barbers, food and the way a mission in this title will happily spend five minutes on something that is not violence.
Any cut satisfies the objective and each has a price, so the cheapest is as valid as the most expensive here. Hairstyle carries a small standing effect in this game, which is why the mission spends time on it rather than skipping to the job.
Buying food is the objective, and the marker inside the shop is what advances it. Carl's appetite is a real statistic in San Andreas — eating too much of this too often shows up on him — but nothing in the mission punishes one meal.
The last leg is a plain delivery back to Ganton. The car is Ryder's and there is no timer, so the only thing that can go wrong is wrecking it.
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Playable
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
Gives the job
A Grove Street member permanently on the edge of an argument, who takes the same deal Smoke does and is far worse at hiding it.
14 of 105 missions · 4 as giver
