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Mission 98 of 105Story mission

01/04

Briefing

Toreno's last favour is not a favour. There are spy ships off the coast and a Hydra sitting on a military ship, and Carl is to take the second and destroy the first — which is the price of Sweet's release.

Getting aboard is a silenced pistol, a knife and a swim; getting out is a jet with three more on its tail. It pays $50,000 and it ends with the Hydra parked permanently in the hangar at Verdant Meadows.

02/04

Objectives

  1. There's a silenced pistol and a knife in the speedboat
  2. Head for the ship
  3. Get inside the ship before the rear door closes — swimming helps avoid the guards
  4. Find the control room and switch off the SAM sites
  5. Steal one of the military jets
  6. Try not to alert the guards
  7. Destroy the three military jets on your tail
  8. Destroy the four spy ships
  9. Take the jet to the desert airfield and land on the strip
  10. Guide the plane into the hangar
03/04

Walkthrough

  1. Onto the ship

    The rear door closes on a timer and swimming the last stretch keeps Carl out of the guards' view. The weapons are in the speedboat rather than in his inventory, which is the mission saying that this half is meant to be quiet.

  2. The SAM sites first

    The control room is the objective before the jet, and skipping it means taking off into anti-aircraft fire. It is the one part of the mission that can be done out of order and should not be.

  3. Flying a Hydra

    The jet hovers and it flies, and the two are different control modes. The three interceptors are handled with the heat-seekers rather than the cannon; the four spy ships do not manoeuvre and can be taken at leisure once the air is clear.

  4. Into the hangar

    The mission ends with the Hydra put away rather than landed, and the aircraft is permanently available at Verdant Meadows afterwards. It is the best reward in the game and it is the last objective, so the landing is worth taking slowly.

04/04

Unlocks

  • The Hydra, permanently, at Verdant Meadows
  • Weapons at Mike Toreno's ranch
  • The minigun, flamethrower, rocket launcher and heat-seeking rocket launcher

Where this mission leads

Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.

  • Playable

    Carl Johnson, as they appear in GTA: San Andreas.

    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

    Mike Toreno, as they appear in GTA: San Andreas.

    A government operative who conscripts Carl into work nobody will ever admit happened, and is the only person in the state able to get Sweet out of prison.

    14 of 105 missions · 9 as giver