up Martinez decided to law low from the city for a while but eventually came back to mess with Vic s woman Louise Since the failed deal the Vance brothers were forced to do business with the Mendez brothers This was around the time the Vances built their own organization in power taking over businesses from rival gangs Victor did help with a transgender get things straight and met Phil Collins and his manager At first it was believed that the Mendez Cartel wanted to establish a business relationship but their real plan was to have the Vances give their businesses to the Mendez s and leave Vice City or the Vance brothers and Louise would die When they refused the Cartel kidnapped them and took them near the Escobar International Airport The brothers blew the death row and stopped Mendez s men from taking over their businesses Their plans were foiled They kidnapped Louise and threatened to kill her if the brothers didn t leave the city Not long before the Vances storm into their mansion in Prawn Island Lance was held hostage while Victor proceeded through the gangsters and killed Armando Mendez Louise was left on the floor dying next to Lance A vengeful Victor formed an alliance with Ricardo Diaz a crime lord to bring down the Mendez s operations once and for all Victor invaded into the military base stole their army helicopter and returned it to Diaz s mansion in Starfish Island Once back in the chopper Victor said he would owe Ricardo nothing and was doing this for him After that he flew to the Mendez penthouse and killed all the Mendez henchmen at the building in downtown Jerry Martinez arrived in the scene and was prepared to kill Victor Finally at the rooftop in the final confrontation Jerry Martinez cornered Vic believing he was too easy to trick Diego Mendez came and the final shootout between the 3 men led to the deaths of Diego and finally Jerry Lance came into the scene and but it was already over The Vance men decided to lay low with the drug money they made to take care of their sick brother outside the country Vice City became the major spot for the drugs trade it attracted several criminal organizations to be interested including the Mafia Liberty City s Mafia linked Forelli family sent Tommy Vercetti who was recently released from prison after a 15 year stay down South to get started with their expansion with Vercetti as a Forelli representative just to keep him out of Liberty City Upon arrival to Vice Tommy and 2 other men later learned to be Harry and Lee met Ken Rosenberg a bent lawyer with Forelli connections at the airport They soon met with the Vance family leaders at the docks to make the deal However 3 masked men killed everyone but Tommy Ken and Lance who managed to escape without the money and drugs Tommy informed Sonny Forelli about the incident An angered Forelli demanded that Tom found his money and drugs immediately and get those responsible for the incident Rosenberg feared to suffer consequences from the mob and refused to stick his head of his office Sonny called periodically to check up on Vercetti A man for information was Kent Paul who gave info about a chef Tommy killed Leo Teal who failed to squeal about the ambush With nowhere to go Colonel Juan Garcia Cortez who also set up the deal was his way in to find the money He was at his most expensive yacht Cortez had a feeling that his right hand man Gonzales squealed about the deal and was to be killed and met Lance Vance Vercetti met Avery Carrington a Southern gent who was into prime real estate Tommy met Ricardo Diaz now a powerful coke baron After watching a deal Diaz offered Vercetti work since he liked his style Soon after working for him Lance and Tom discovered that Ricardo was responsible for their busted deal Lance attempted earlier to avenge his brother but failed only to be captured and taken to the city s junkyard before Tommy came to the rescue Before they could their revenge Tommy escorted Colonel Cortez out of the city after a corrupt French government was after Cortez for assigning Tommy to steal their merchandise earlier The men finally stormed in the Diaz s mansion grounds and killed the drug master Diaz trusted and was going to have him made but he was made by the 2 men Tommy took over all his local businesses The Forellis sent Vercetti some support later forming his own organization in the progress while gaining power Tommy decided to go solo and form alliances with Cuban now in feud with a Haitian gang and biker gangs including Love Fist He owned a protection racket several assets including the Malibu a Pole Position strip club a porn studio Kaufman Cabs Company a car dealership shop a boatyard down the docks and a printing company and in progress making acquaintances with other powerful people of the criminal underworld Through those progresses he performed robbery on a bank produced porn films