The Big Score - Planning #38

3.38. The Big Score - Planning

This is Surveying the Score, the first planning mission for The Big Score. It opens after you finish Hang Ten, and it starts in Trevor's office at the Vanilla Unicorn. Lester brings up a plan to rob the Union Depository, and the four of them split into pairs to look over the bank building and the cash trucks' route.

You do not pick the approach in this mission. You set it in the planning job that opens after you finish Meltdown.

  • Scoping the bank
  • As Michael, pick up Franklin, go to the Union Depository, and look over the front door and the garage entrance. Both look lightly guarded.
  • Following the trucks
  • Switch to Trevor, drive with Lester to Sandy Shores Airfield, and get in a Frogger. Fly to the sky over Murrieta Heights and find the two cash trucks.
  • While you follow the trucks through the city, Trevor suggests a few places to hit, but Lester turns all of them down. The trucks pass through a tunnel and enter the bank garage, and Lester picks that tunnel as the ambush point.
  • Checking the escape route
  • Lester wants to see whether a nearby subway construction site can be used as an escape route, so hover the helicopter over the site entrance.
  • When the look is done, Trevor returns to the airfield, and Michael drops Franklin at home. The mission ends when both of them have arrived.
  • When you drop Franklin off, do not get out of the car until the on-screen marker comes back. If you get out first, progress stops and you have to reload the game.
  • If you have also finished Deep Inside, Bury the Hatchet unlocks.
  • Gold medal
  • Follow the trucks without a distance warning
  • Keep plenty of altitude, and following in a third-person view looking down makes it easier.
  • Find the construction pit within 20 seconds
  • It is in the parking lot just east of the bank.
  • Fly under a bridge while following the trucks
  • The easiest way is to pass under the bridge on the drainage side, parallel to the road.
  • Fly into the tunnel while following the trucks
  • Fly a little ahead of the trucks and high, with the nose already lined up on the tunnel, and once you are inside you only have to mind the throttle and the altitude.
  • Finish within 11 minutes
  • Reasons for failure
  • A protagonist dies or is busted, you leave the job, Lester dies or is abandoned, or you leave Franklin behind
  • Michael's car, Trevor's truck, or the helicopter is destroyed
  • The alarm goes off at the bank or on a truck, you lose the trucks, or a truck arrives in the city

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