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The next scene shows Smoke and childhood friend and high-ranking [[Grove Street Families]] member [[Ryder|Lance "Ryder" Wilson]] in a house, having a cryptic conversation about "destiny" and "choices". The scene that follows features Sweet, Smoke, aspiring rapper and part-time gang affiliate [[OG Loc|Jeffrey "OG Loc" Cross]], and some other Grove Street Families members shooting craps on the sidewalk. Smoke is warning Sweet that "standing by our principles" may be the reason they're "losing the streets". Loc explains that he's a "Gangsta Rapper", and asks them to stop calling him Jeffrey. Smoke and Sweet tell him he should avoid a life like theirs and go to college, "Make something of yourself". Smoke asks Sweet if he's heard from his brother Carl, and Sweet explains that they're not speaking.

The [[First Mission (GTA SA)|first mission]] of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas continues the storyline from this point on.

(''Walking out of a house towards the police car.'')

'''Frank Tenpenny''': I knew that fat fuck would see it our way.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': Yeah, always do, once they understand the choices we're offering. Say Frank, what the hell we gonna do about this Hernandez coming on board with us?

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Exactly the same thing as last time. He's either gonna play our way, or he's gonna have a problem like that oversized asshole back there. Look, I ain't worried about that, Pulaski, Pendelbury is more of a concern. If he does what he's threatening, then shit's about to get real interesting.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': Yeah. Hey Frank, how about passing me a Smoke?

(''Cuts to some Ballas smoking in a driveway.'')

(''Pulls out drugs.'')

(''Cut to inside Ryder's house. Ryder is ironing.'')

(''In an abandoned lot.'')

(''T-Bone Mendez is beating the crap out of some guy.'')  

'''T-Bone Mendez''': You gonna tell me right now, homie. Tell me! You better tell me what I want to know.

'''Mike Toreno''': Hey Mendez!  

(''T-Bone Mendez stops.'')

'''Mike Toreno''': Come on, enough.

'''T-Bone Mendez''': Punk ass. I think this vato's a fucking rat, ese. I can smell it on him.

'''Mike Toreno''': I think that's something else we can smell. He ain't going to talk now.

'''T-Bone Mendez''': So what do we do now, holmes?

'''Mike Toreno''': I think I got us a buyer down in Los Santos.

'''T-Bone Mendez''': Por cuanto, holmes? How much?

'''Mike Toreno''': Not sure, yet. But they're talking big. Up to a hundred K's a month, low risk.  

(''Mike Toreno's phone rings, he answers and T-bone goes back to work on the guy.'')

'''Mike Toreno''': Hello. Yeah. Yes. Yes, you read it correctly. Well, I'm sorry it seems that way to you. Yeah. No. Yes. It's unconventional, yes.

T-Bone Mendez: (Talking to half dead guy) Come on. Get off me, man.

'''Mike Toreno''': (Still on phone) Well, when did your methods ever get results? When? Hey, I know people who are dead because of you, so don't mess with me on this one, okay? It's vital that it goes ahead. History will understand. (Quietly) I've done a lot of work, they trust me now. Yeah. No, you can't play with shit and not get dirty. Everybody knows that. Even you, okay? Now look, I gotta go. I gotta go.  

(''Back to T-Bone Mendez who is still beating this guy.'')

'''Mike Toreno''': Mendez! Now listen. That was a buyer. We gotta step up production. We're not thinking big enough here, okay? My connections in Panama can get is all the product we need, untouched! But you've got to arrange the market. So why don't you stop dancing with your boyfriend here and get on it, alright? Huh?

'''T-Bone Mendez''': Man, fuck it, man.

(''Mike Toreno leaves.'')

'''T-Bone Mendez''': I'm gonna get this piece of shit outta here. (To the now dead guy) You weigh a lot for a fucking dead body, man.

(''Back in Los Santos.'')

(''Rolls dice.'')

(''Jeffrey walks right into the game.'')

'''Sweet''': (Laughing) No, man, go be a gangster someplace else, baby.

'''OG Loc''': (Walking away) Forget y'all!

'''Big Smoke''': (To Sweet) This ain't a playground craze, man. This is the biggest money-making opportunity that guys like us will ever see.

(''Red Light District. Carl Johnson is walking around to various cars trying to get into them, but they are locked.'')

(''A car stops at a red light right next to Carl. He heads over to the driver side door. Opens it quickly.'')

(''Throws the driver to the street.'')

(''Gets in the car and peels out.'')  

(''Now driving towards St. Marks area talking on a cell phone.'')  

(''Hangs up.'')

(''Cut to Salvatore Leone's office in his house in St. Marks.'')

'''Salvatore Leone''': So, Johnny, you want five million dollars of my money?

'''Johnny Sindacco''': I want to help you make a fortune, Mr. Leone. My father wants to unite our organizations.

'''Salvatore Leone''': The Sindaccos and the Leones? That's impossible. That's been impossible since your associates whacked my cousin. Hey, you know me. Business is business. The personal stuff is nonsense. I'd like to see a way past this bullshit. Now where were we?

'''Johnny Sindacco''': Uh, you was... Seeing a way past this?

'''Salvatore Leone''': No, I was saying I'd like to, and you were asking me for five million dollars. So, let me understand it. I go in on your casino, take a third stake alone with your organization, and the Forelli's, then I let you guys manage my investment for me?

'''Johnny Sindacco''': Bingo!

'''Salvatore Leone''': Yeah. Yeah. You must really think my mother, God rest her soul, fucked an idiot instead of my father. Are you calling my mother an idiot who goes with morons?  

(''One of Salvatore's bodyguards stands up and gets close to Johnny Sindacco. Johnny gets up.'')

'''Johnny Sindacco''': No, of course not, Mr. Leone. I'm only making an offer. Clearly, I misinterpreted your intentions here. Look, I humbly apologize. Forgive me.

'''Salvatore Leone''': Sit down or I'll slit your throat myself!  

(''Johnny Sindacco sits.'')  

'''Salvatore Leone''': You little cocksucker. Ever since Sonny Forelli got himself pasted all over Florida, you think you run things in this town. You show me no respect. You insult my family. Your father? He ain't fit to wipe my ass. I'd fuck an elephant before I'd fuck your mother. How does that feel?

'''Johnny Sindacco''': Mr. Leone, I think you're just misunderstanding...

'''Salvatore Leone''': Hey, you're a good kid. Me, I'm just an old fool. What do I know? Nothing, really. Actually, less than nothing. You can have the money.

'''Johnny Sindacco''': We can?

'''Salvatore Leone''': If you give me control of the books.

'''Johnny Sindacco''': Yeah, you see, we can't do that, Mister Leone.

'''Salvatore Leone''': Then, I meant it. Your mother's a fucking transvestite. I got an idea. What about a third party? An independent guy. He runs the place, and together we run him.

'''Johnny Sindacco''': We can't do that, Mr. Leone. We got our guy in there already.

'''Salvatore Leone''': Get rid of him. Show me exactly how much you want my organization's involvement.

(''Outside of the Fort Carson Medical Center.'')

(''Ken Rosenberg walks out of the building, talking to himself.'')

'''Ken Rosenberg''': I don't need a bump. I don't need a bump. I don't need a bump. Coke is for the weak. Coke is for the weak. I am strong. I am strong! Winners win and losers hit the rails and nail hookers. I am in control of my own destiny! (sighs) I need a job. I've been disbarred from the law. But I'm in control. I've done it. I'm clean! I'm cleaner than a new toilet seat. I don't need a bump! Ha! Ha! Ha... (starts to hitchhike) I could use a ride. Ah, this sucks.

(''Frank Tenpenny is on a cell phone outside a donut shop leaning on their police car.'')

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Listen to me, son. I don't give a fuck about you, I don't give a fuck about your principles, I don't give a fuck about your friends. People who get in my way get fucked with. Now, you got paid. You took the money.  

(''Eddie Pulaski comes toward the car from the donut place.'')

'''Frank Tenpenny''': I'm trying to set you up for life here, boy, and you're inadequate. You're no use to me at all, boy. Maybe I should kill you instead? (To Eddie) Eddie, organize a hit squad.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': Not a problem.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': (Back into the phone) You hear that? You feelin' me here? You about to wake up with your head fifty feet away from your body, son. Do what we agreed.  Oh, you think you can put one over on me? Do you? I don't think so. So do it! This week!

(''Hangs up the phone.'')

'''Eddie Pulaski''': All good, pal?

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Pal? I'm your superior officer and don't you forget that shit! But yeah, all good.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': So is he gonna do it?

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Didn't I say it's all good?  

'''Eddie Pulaski''': So we gonna go get the kid?

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Yeah. Let's initiate the little bastard onto the force.

(''Cuts to a slow shot following a green Sabre out of a garage.'')

(''Then cuts back to Ken Rosenberg at a payphone in Las Venturas.'')

'''Ken''': Ah, yes. Tommy Vercetti, please. Tell him Ken Rosenberg called. Ken Rosenberg. You haven't heard of me? Who are you? Ken Rosenberg. Ro-sen-berg! Oh! Oh really? You told him I called? Look, I made that ingrate, and now he won't take my calls? Just put him on the phone right now! Hello? Hello? Damn it!  

(''Hangs up.'')

(''Cuts to Kent Paul hanging up a phone, they are in a recording studio.'')

'''Paul''': I got the signature! I am now the proud and legal manager of The Gurning Chimps. (To Maccer) You're mine, Maccer, son. You're mine. Fifty grand it cost me to buy you out of your contract. You're like a race horse or a great little sloshpot. Guaranteed banker. This time, my son, this time!

Paul: Come here!

'''Maccer''': I love you, lad. I love you. (Still hugging) I've never felt like this before.

Paul: Fantastic, son. A bit of emotion never hurt no one. (Still hugging) Err, great.  

'''Paul''': (Quietly) Fifty grand for this northern prick.

(''Carl walking down an alley in the red light district. A man walks by him going the other direction. CJ quickly turns around, pulls out a pistol and shoves the man against the wall.'')

(''Gives Carl his wallet.'')

(''Scene cuts to the desert of San Andreas. Two men are digging.'')

(''The digging stops, Man 1 walks over to a body on the ground.'')

(''Getting out of the hole.'')

(''Goes to get the shovel.'')

(''Man 2 starts to cover up the body with dirt.'')

(''Cut to Salvatore's office in St. Marks.'')

(''Johnny Sindacco walks in.'')  

'''Johnny Sindacco''': So, we got a vacancy. We kept our end of the bargain.

'''Salvatore Leone''': Then I guess we're on. You want something to drink?

'''Johnny Sindacco''': No, no, I'm good, thank you. So who's gonna run this casino for us?

'''Salvatore Leone''': Hey, we're gonna need a real idiot. A guy we can all push around. There's this lawyer, used to work for the Forelli's down in Florida. I heard he's sniffing around for a job. Just got out of rehab or something.

'''Johnny Sindacco''': Yeah, that'll work.

'''Salvatore Leone''': I'll make a call.

'''Johnny Sindacco''': Great.

'''Salvatore Leone''': Hey...  

'''Salvatore Leone''': Don't fuck this up, kid.

(''Cuts to another slow shot of the green Sabre driving through an alley.'')

(''Goes to Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski in their police car parked outside the Los Santos PD.'')

(''Officer Hernandez walks up to the car.'')

'''Eddie Pulaski''': So you're the new kid, huh?

'''Officer Hernandez''': Yeah, been working on the streets three years though, and I realize there is only one kind of crime in Los Santos... Gang crime. That's why I joined CRASH.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': Get in the car, kid.

(''Officer Hernandez gets in the back, they start to drive.'')

'''Officer Hernandez''': I was called in on this domestic dispute case once. You got this young kid, okay? Can't be more than twenty years old, beating up his wife. So I figure, easy, right? No man hits a woman. Well, it turns out this woman spends all day freebasing and nearly let their kid starve to death. All right, so what do I do? I could take this guy in, and leave a little kid with a drug-addict mother, or I let a guy off with beating up his wife. I mean, it's difficult out there.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Domestic violence?

'''Officer Hernandez''': Yeah, yeah. Serious stuff, man.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Yeah, I'm sure. Eddie, pull over.  

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Well, I deal with drug dealers, gang bangers and psychotics, all of them chasing after a lot of money, none of them scared to kill me, you, or all our families, if they think it will help them. Now this is a bit more serious than a domestic dispute, pal.

'''Officer Hernandez''': I didn't mean anything by it. I was just---

'''Frank Tenpenny''': I'm not really interested in what you meant to say. See, what you said was you found a woman on drugs a difficult situation. Now how the hell am I supposed to trust you if you're so easily confused?

'''Officer Hernandez''': Look, I'm a good cop.  

'''Frank Tenpenny''': This ain't about being a good cop, Pepe.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': It's about taking control of the streets from the fucking savages who've got it now!

'''Officer Hernandez''': I know!

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Then you'll do what it takes?

'''Officer Hernandez''': Yeah, whatever it takes!

'''Frank Tenpenny''': 'Cause this is a game of percentages, 24/7, 365. We're just trying to screw as many bad guys as we can.

'''Officer Hernandez''': Yeah, I know.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': That means letting some bad guys get away with things.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': And sometimes it means doing shit that you ain't proud of, because you're strong enough and smart enough to understand the bigger picture.

'''Officer Hernandez''': Look, I know.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': You don't know shit. Get the fuck out of the car, ese.

(''Officer Hernandez gets out.'')

(''Cuts to another shot of the green Sabre driving down the street in Ganton.''

(''Cuts to Las Venturas, inside the Caligula's Palace casino office.'')

(''Ken Rosenberg is sitting at the desk. Suddenly, Salvatore Leone walks in with a bodyguard, angry.'')

'''Salvatore Leone''': Are you enjoying yourself, huh?

(''Ken is getting up.'')  

'''Ken Rosenberg''': N-no! I just-- you know, just getting a feel for the place.

'''Salvatore Leone''': So this is the way it is. You're sitting here already, having a good time. Me, five million in the hole to the Sindacco's, and you not doing a thing about it? Huh?

'''Ken Rosenberg''': No, not at all. I spoke with Johnny. He explained everything.

'''Salvatore Leone''': Oh, you spoke with Johnny?

'''Ken Rosenberg''': Yeah, he came by--

Salvatore Leone''': You spoke with him, huh?

'''Ken Rosenberg''': Yeah!

'''Salvatore Leone''': Did you suck him off as well, you little fucking weasel? You're my man, not his! I got a good mind to end this here and now, you Judas, you rat!

'''Ken Rosenberg''': Come on, sir! I thought that was the job.

'''Salvatore Leone''': Oh, you thought that was the job? Mike, (to bodyguard) get the door.

(''Salvatore pulls a gun on Ken and grabs him.'')

'''Salvatore Leone''': I'm the job! Me and my money. And I want it back, and I want it back fast. Johnny fucking Sindacco even so much as blinks at you, I want to hear about it. You find a way to get me my money and fast. Understood?

'''Ken Rosenberg''': Yes! Yes! Understood! Understood.

(''Salvatore puts the gun away, Ken sits down.)

'''Salvatore Leone''': And cheer up. Have some fun around here. This is supposed to be a casino, not a monastery. Christ, I've had more fun taking a crap than I've had here. Come on, go get me a drink.  

(''Ken gets up.'')

'''Salvatore Leone''': Smile, schmuck!

(''Cuts to Los Santos, Eddie Pulaski is kicking a downed police officer, Frank Tenpenny and Officer Hernandez are standing and watching.'')

'''Eddie Pulaski''': (Yelling) Who you gonna tell now?

'''Frank Tenpenny''': (Stopping Eddie Pulaski) Eddie, chill out, man.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': The prick's still breathing.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': That's good. Officer Hernandez... Finish him off.  

(''Offers Officer Hernandez a gun.'')

'''Officer Hernandez''': Come on. Please. Don't make me do this!

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Say what?

'''Officer Hernandez''': I can't.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Hey, I thought you understood.

'''Officer Hernandez''': He's a fucking cop, you maniac.

'''Eddie Pulaski''': Not no more he ain't.

'''Frank Tenpenny''': We went over this. It's about percentages.

'''Officer Hernandez''': I know!

'''Frank Tenpenny''': So who's side you on, his or mine?

'''Officer Hernandez''': Yours, Frank! Yours!

'''Frank Tenpenny''': Then be a fucking man. You cap him, or I cap you.

''(Officer Hernandez takes the gun but is reluctant to shoot.)''

'''Eddie Pulaski:''' Come on, do it! Pull the trigger!

(''Officer Hernandez shoots the cop.'')

(''Cuts to another shot of the green Sabre driving down the street Sweet's house is on. There are two Balla's in the car. They circle around to Carl's and Sweet's mother [[Beverly Johnson]]'s house and open fire with a big drive-by. As they flee, a GSF member fires at the car but doesn't get anyone.'')

(''Cuts to Kendl sitting on the front porch. Sweet is standing above her talking on a phone.'')

'''CJ''': (On the phone) Okay. What you want?

(''Cuts to Carl looking sad in a car, shaking his head.'')  

(''The end.'')