Diamonds

The Cook inspecting one of the diamonds to have been sold during the opening cinematic of Grand Theft Auto IV. The diamonds are being mixed into a cake batter, presumably to be smuggled into the country after being stolen from Ray Bulgarin.

The Diamonds are featured in Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony wherein they are involved in many scenarios also involving the protagonists, Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Fernando Lopez as well as many others. Detailed below are the many different scenarios that take place involving the diamonds and the different people that gain possession of them each time. The diamonds are the main purpose which led to the Impossible Trinity in GTA IV and Diamonds Forever in TBOGT achievements.

Below explains how the diamonds went around Liberty City, who was involved with them and why.

Fate/Consequences

Nobody who struggled for the diamonds ever owned them permanently Apparently, all of the protagonists in GTA IV and both episodes never accomplished in permanently owning the diamonds in their storylines, apart from stealing them. Most everyone aside from the GTA player characters that had physically touched the diamonds are killed between the three games, either in a directly related way, or in some unrelated mission.

In addition, the original owner of the diamonds was Ray Bulgarin, though he was the owner, was killed by Luis. Below are the consequences of the people that stole and owned them. The consequences are been based on the storyline chronologically.

Description

The diamonds arrived in Liberty City on the Platypus, the ship that also brought Niko Bellic to the city. They are believed to have been stolen from original owner Ray Bulgarin, who is a previous employer of Niko's. The cook on the ship hid them inside a cake in order to smuggle them.

Luis Lopez acompanied Tony Prince when he went to buy the diamonds off the cook who brought them. Johnny Klebitz and the Lost MC crashed the meet under orders from Ray Boccino however, with many Lost members chasing Luis and Tony, and Johnny chasing Evan Moss; Tony's boyfriend who was holding the diamonds. Luis and Tony managed to hold off the bikers using sticky bombs, and made it safely back to Maisonette 9.

Johnny had meanwhile caught up with Evan and killed him, stealing the diamonds, then hid them in the trash as instructed by Ray, who sent Niko Bellic and Luca Silvestri out to collect them while disguised as binmen. Unfortunately, Luca and his crew conspired to flee to La Venturas with the diamonds, but Niko caught up with them and killed them, retrieving the diamonds. He returned the diamonds to Ray.

Ray soon found a buyer for the diamonds in the form of Isaac Roth and the Jewish mob. Ray gave Niko the diamonds, who met Johnny at the Libertonian museum to help sell the diamonds to Isaac. Tony Prince, who had dscovered this sent Luis to interupt the deal and take back the diamonds he and Tony bought originally. Luis shot Mori Green as he inspected the diamonds, sparking chaos in the museum. Isaac took the diamonds but Luis caught him and knocked him out, reclaimed the diamonds and returned them to Tony. Johnny stole all the cash and gave it to Jim Fitzrerald to hold on to, while Niko escaped with nothing.

As Ray was without the money or the diamonds, he captured Jim and and tortured him, Johnny arrived and the two escaped, so Ray sent Niko after Jim and numerous hitmen after Johnny. Niko succeeded and killed Jim, but Johnny survived Ray's hitmen.

The McReary family, like Ray were also working for the Pegorino's, and they had Niko, who was a friend of the McReary's kidknap Gracie Ancelotti, friend of Tony and Luis in order to force them to exchange the diamonds for Gracie herself. Packie and Niko met with Luis and Tony on Charge Island. Bulgarin however, showed up to capture his diamonds and ordered his men to attack Niko and Packie. Luis and Tony fled with Gracie, but Niko and Packie took down Bulgarin's men and chased the goon holding the diamonds. When Niko and Packie caught up with him, he selfishly dropped them into a waste truck to ensure nobody could have them. Niko and Packie left empty-handed.

Jerry Kapowitz; a homeless man would later find the diamonds in a trash bin, and was subsequently allowed to keep them.

Mission appearances

Note the following missions are been sorted in chronological order of the timeline.

• Opening cutscene of GTA IV.
• Diamonds in the Rough (TLAD) and Frosting on the Cake (TBOGT)
• Taking in the Trash (GTA IV)
• Meltdown (GTA IV)
• Museum Piece (GTA IV), Collector's Item (TLAD) and Not So Fast (TBOGT)
• Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (GTA IV) and Ladies Half Price (TBOGT)
• Departure Time (TBOGT)
• Mentioned on Weazel News (radio).

Trivia

• Everybody who touched or held the diamonds besides Niko, Johnny, Luis, and Tony have been killed. Ironically, Jerry Kapowitz was not involved in any way, and never even knew of their existence, but was eventually the one to have them for himself.
• Where the diamonds ended up is not chronologically correct. On the Liberty Tree website the diamonds were supposedly heading to the dump (after which one of Bulgarin's men threw them onto the back of a truck). However Jerry Kapowitz finds them in the trash at the Monoglobe in Meadows Park, either they were somehow transported to the bin, or it is a minor retcon.

The Lost and Damned

The Ballad of Gay Tony