Mixing and Mingling/Transcript

*[The mission starts inside of Chris's House, the following dusk. Weather is pouring rain with thunder and occasional lightning. As soon as the player walks inside the house as Chris, the mission starts. As soon as Chris walks inside the house, Mark will be sitting on the couch, watching TV.]*

**CHRIS**: Hey, Mark, how you been? It’s been a while, bro.

**MARK**: I know, man, but look, I’m here.

**CHRIS**: Shit, y’know, we’ve both been on the run for three years now, especially you. But recently, now that the superhero’s in town, man, the G Gang’s upped their game. If me and you don’t leave the city now, we’re done.

**MARK**: Look, man, you need to chill out. Now come with me.

*[Mark stands up and walks past Chris, towards the front door.]*

**CHRIS**: Where you goin’?

**MARK**: Shit, I gotta get my car repaired, at the customs shop. Kinda got it a little scratched up after an “incident”. Come with me.

**CHRIS**: *[sigh]* Alright, I’ll come, but this better not be no setup.

**MARK**: It’s not, man.

*[Chris must get in the Buzzy car, wait for Mark, and drive to the customs shop in northern Perez. On the way, Chris and Mark will speak.]*

**CHRIS**: I just don’t want to come out of the customs shop and the G Gang’ll be waiting to put two between our eyes, or blow us up, or worse.

**MARK**: Relax, man! You so uptight! That ain’t gonna happen!

**CHRIS**: Shit, I shouldn’t have even came with you to do this. I have this bad feeling that they gonna be waiting there when we come out.

**MARK**: Whatever you say, C, but you always live life on the edge. It’s not good.

*[When the player arrives at the customs shop, an on-screen message is displayed, saying: “You can now bring civilian vehicles to the customs shop to be modded. All kinds of upgrades and fixes are available, but they cost Tin, so always check back at the customs shop for more options. As well, you must own at least one garage to mod a car, because once you mod a car, it’s yours, and you must store it somewhere. Customs shops are now labeled on the map.”]*

*[The player must choose the “Repair Car” option for Mark’s car, and once that’s done, Chris and Mark will leave the customs shop with the car repaired. Now, the player must drive back home.]*

**MARK**: See, man? Ain’t no G Gang mans waiting for us here.

**CHRIS**: I guess you was right. I’m just really paranoid, I guess.

**MARK**: You guess? Man you right!

*[However, as the player is driving back home, a cutscene will initiate which shows Chris and Mark, driving, turn the corner and crash into a giant blockade that the G Gang set up. As soon as the car crashes, it spins out and all the G Gang thugs guarding the blockade open fire on the car, killing Mark. Chris speeds away fast, surviving.]*

**CHRIS**: MARK! NO!!! I WAS RIGHT! THEY GOT HIM!!

*[Chris speeds away, and the scene cuts back to the damaged blockade, where the G Gang thugs are. One of the thugs is speaking in a radio, to Joseph G.]*

**G-GANG THUG**: Boss! Mark Thanon is dead! Repeat: Mark Thanon is dead! We got him! The man who killed our old leader is dead.

**JOSEPH (OVER RADIO)**: Good. What about Chris McGlone, his accomplice?

**G-GANG THUG**: Chris was the one driving the car that we opened fire on! Mark was the passenger, who we killed. Chris sped away, however.

**JOSEPH (OVER RADIO)**: Don’t let him get away! Mark may have killed my father but Chris was his accomplice! KILL HIM! NOW!

**G-GANG THUG**: Right away, boss! [Turns off radio] EVERYONE AFTER THAT CAR! NOW!

*[All the G Gang thugs get in their black cars and speed away, towards Chris. There are four cars. All of a sudden, the camera pans up and shows James Derettas, standing heroically on a building rooftop a few stories up. He witnessed the whole thing.]*

*[Now, the player takes control of James and must follow the thugs in their cars, without losing them, and take all 4 cars out. Once all the thugs are defeated, the player must switch to Chris, who is a few blocks away from James, still frantically speeding away.]*

**CHRIS**: Shit! I think I lost them! But I can’t be too sure! I should just drive around the area a bit more, so I really lose them. SHIT!

*[Chris is terrified at this point, and the player switches back to James, who is standing two blocks from Chris’s location.]*

**JAMES**: I need to find the guy who they were after, who they were chasing. He’s around here somewhere, I can feel it. It could be Mark.

*[The player, as James, must now find Chris, who is still frantically driving around, trying to lose the thugs who James already took out. Once the player finds Chris, a cutscene plays which shows Chris driving in the car, when all of a sudden, he turns a corner and drives into James’s aura energy field that James put up.]*

*[The car bounces off the energy field and into a building, severely damaging it and injuring Chris. James, furious, rips the door off the car, grabs Chris, and throws him. This is still outside, on the street, in the middle of the night, pouring rain and thunder.]*

**JAMES**: Where’s Mark Thanon?! Why were those guys after you?!

**CHRIS**: Shit! James Derettas, the superhero! Mark was my homie, bro, but, they got him.

**JAMES**: Mark? The guy in the car with you when those thugs shot it up was Mark?

**CHRIS**: Yeah! I was drivin’, Mark by my side. But they got us. Those pricks who were after us for three years finally got what they wanted.

**JAMES**: They killed Mark. The only man with answers.

**CHRIS**: What?

**JAMES**: Answers. Connections. He had connections to Joseph Gray, leader of the G Gang. I need to find the man with powers.

**CHRIS**: Shit, well I don't know what you’re talkin’ about, because Mark and I had no connections to the G Gang.

*[James scans Chris’s brain using the Mind Scan power.]*

**CHRIS**: What’re you doin’?

**JAMES**: You’re telling the truth. But you do know something about Joseph’s whereabouts. What is it?

**CHRIS**: This guy, Moe Derekson, he told us that Joseph was working out of a big old building in East City. An abandoned factory by the water.

**JAMES**: That’s it. It’s got to be the old Prantis Company Building.

**CHRIS**: Yeah, I think that’s it. Big building, big glass windows.

**JAMES**: It’ll be tough, but we’ll have to infiltrate it.

**CHRIS**: “We”?

**JAMES**: Yes, “we”. I’ve seen what you can do. You’ve taken on waves of thugs with a single 9mm pistol, and haven’t even been injured. This is also the perfect opportunity for you to get your revenge on the G Gang, for killing your best friend.

**CHRIS**: Shit, that would be sweet. If I got to put the final bullet between his eyes, for everything he’s done... shit. You’d help me?

**JAMES**: Look… what’s your name?

**CHRIS**: Chris. Chris McGlone.

**JAMES**: Ok, Chris, look: I need this guy, Joseph. Something tells me that he knows something about the man with powers. If he does, I need to find out what that something is.

**CHRIS**: And if he doesn’t?

**JAMES**: Well, then I’m back to square one, and your work is done.

**CHRIS**: Alright, man, I’m in. I’ll help you with this. But it won’t be easy.

**JAMES**: No shit it won’t be easy. We’ll have to meet up, come up with a plan of action, and execute it. We’ll be in touch, alright?

**CHRIS**: Alright, homie.

**JAMES**: And Chris? Sorry about Mark. It’s tough to lose a close friend. Believe me, I know.

*[James and Chris both walk away from each other and the screen slowly fades out to black. The mission ends.]*