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Planning the Big Score

Mission 74 of 83Heist setupThe Big Score

01/04

Briefing

The crew and Lester settle the Union Depository job at the strip club: which approach, which crew, and what each of them costs.

The mission has no Gold Medal criteria, which is appropriate — nothing in it is executed. It is the decision that determines which four setups get played and which version of the finale follows.

02/04

Objectives

  1. Plan the score
  2. Select two gunmen for the crew
  3. Select two drivers for the crew
  4. Choose a hacker (Subtle approach only)
03/04

Walkthrough

  1. The approach

    Subtle takes the gold out in armoured cars and needs a hacker on the crew; Obvious goes in behind a drill and does not. The choice also decides which four setup missions follow.

  2. The crew

    Two gunmen and two drivers are chosen here, and a cheap crew member can cost more than their cut — dropped gold bars and crashed helicopters are among the penalties.

  3. The hacker

    Only the subtle approach uses one, and the difference between hackers is measured in seconds of lag at the traffic lights during the finale.

04/04

Unlocks

  • Karl Abolaji as a crew member

Where this mission leads

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

  • Playable

    Michael De Santa, as they appear in GTA V.

    A retired bank robber living in Rockford Hills under a name a federal deal gave him after a job in North Yankton went wrong. Nine years of a pool, a therapist and a family who cannot stand him end the moment an old life finds him again.

    61 of 83 missions · 7 as giver

  • Playable

    Franklin Clinton, as they appear in GTA V.

    A repossession man for a Vinewood car dealership with more ability than his street has use for. Michael gives him the way out of Strawberry and, eventually, the reasons to regret taking it.

    47 of 83 missions · 3 as giver

  • Playable

    Trevor Philips, as they appear in GTA V.

    A former bush pilot running guns, meth and grievances out of Sandy Shores. Violently unpredictable, oddly loyal, and the only one of the three who never pretended he had retired from anything.

    45 of 83 missions · 12 as giver

  • Gives the job

    Lester Crest, as they appear in GTA V.

    Lester Crest

    Heist planner

    The planner behind the crew's largest scores. Physically frail and technically formidable, he is the reason a job that should be impossible turns out to have a route through it.

    29 of 83 missions · 24 as giver

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