Blow Your Cover

This mission crosses over with Buyer's Market.

Type	MISSION
Blow Your Cover
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto IV
For	Elizabeta Torres
Location	South Bohan Projects, South Bohan, Bohan, Liberty City
Mission Objectives
Take Playboy to the contact's apartment. Follow Playboy to meet the contact on the 3rd floor. Lose your wanted level. Take Playboy back to his apartment.
Conditions of Mission Failure
Wasted Busted Playboy dies Johnny dies Playboy is abandoned
Rewards
Rewards	$2000 Access to Algonquin, Colony Island, and Happiness Island Combat Shotgun unlocked in Liberty City Gun Club Integrity 2.0 as a radio station Two new date options with Brucie Ability to purchase clothing from Perseus and Modo Ability to order taxis from Roman unlocked again Ability to date Kiki Jenkins and Alexandra Chilton
Unlock Requirements
Unlocks	Deconstruction for Beginners The Puerto Rican Connection
Unlocked by	Luck of the Irish
Technical Information
Time of day	In-game time

“Surround yourself with cocaine and the assholes soon follow...”

— Elizabeta Torres

Blow Your Cover is a mission in Grand Theft Auto IV given to protagonist Niko Bellic by Puerto Rican drug dealer Elizabeta Torres from her apartment at the South Bohan Projects in South Bohan, Bohan, Liberty City.

It is played from Johnny's point of view in Buyer's Market.

Description

During a party in her apartment, Elizabeta Torres presents Johnny Klebitz to Niko and says that Johnny is "sitting on a big pile of heroin" that he wants to sell. She found a buyer for him but doesn't fully trust the buyer, so she asks Niko to go oversee the deal. Niko also meets Playboy X at the party, who accompanies him to the deal.

Mission Objectives

In order to complete the mission, the player must:

• Take Playboy to the contact's apartment.
• Follow Playboy to meet the contact on the 3rd floor.
• Lose your wanted level.
• Take Playboy back to his apartment.

Walkthrough

The player must drive to the derelict apartment building on Cassidy Street in Schottler, Broker, with Playboy X.

A cutscene will follow. Johnny, Playboy X and Niko go into a room where two undercover LCPD officers are. One of them asks over and over again, "Are you carrying the stuff?" Then suddenly, as Johnny tries to call the deal off, the two undercover LCPD officers surround Niko and Playboy with guns, yelling, "Freeze, motherfuckers!" Johnny takes out the ambushing NOOSE TRU team, and he and Niko and Playboy X decide to split up, so he escapes to the door downstairs on the first floor while Niko and Playboy X head for the roof.

When they get to the roof, they gain cover and kill the remaining NOOSE TRU agents. Niko then follows Playboy down the fire escape and kills the remaining cops on the stairs. They use a nearby door to go down to street level.

When Niko and Playboy are down there, they lose the police and Niko drives Playboy to his penthouse in Northwood, Algonquin (Algonquin is unlocked once the player gets to street level with Playboy).

Video Walkthrough

GTA 4 - Mission 31 - Blow Your Cover (1080p)

Aftermath

• Roman will call Niko and tell him that the insurance money on the old cab depot has been paid to him and that he has put the money into another taxi depot, meaning Niko can use Roman's cab service again. The driver serving Niko will still be the same one. However, the taxi missions remain unavailable for the rest of the game.
• Playboy X will text Niko, telling him he's got work for Niko.
• During this mission, the terrorist threat separating both sides of the Humboldt River is lifted. Thus, Niko is now able to travel to Algonquin via the Broker Bridge, Algonquin Bridge, East Borough Bridge or the Northwood Heights Bridge. The terrorist threat separating Algonquin and Alderney remains in place however. After this mission, Integrity 2.0 is on the air and can be listened to on the radio.
• Also, Kiki Jenkins and Alex Chilton will be available to hook up in Love-meet.net and Craplist.net respectively. Additionally, two new friendship activities with Brucie will be unlocked: Heli Ride and Boating.
• Niko can now purchase clothes in Modo and Perseus, and the Combat Shotgun in the Underground Gun Shops.

Trivia

• It is impossible to follow Johnny, as Niko will fail the mission because he abandoned Playboy X.
• After killing the final NOOSE TRU member, if the player happens to fall off of the side of the building while Playboy X is still on the roof, getting into a car will spawn Playboy in it with him.
• If Playboy is killed while Johnny is in sight before the deal, the mission will fail, and Johnny will walk out of the building and become a random pedestrian.
• If Johnny is killed while Playboy is in sight before the deal, the mission will fail, and a cutscene will play with Niko and Playboy in front of Elizabeta's apartment building in a Stallion, with Playboy getting out of the car and walking away.
• Carmen Ortiz appears at Elizabeta's party.
• During the cutscene showing the deal, Charlie's partner is holding an AK-47. However, during the shootout in gameplay, he uses a regular pistol instead.
• While fighting on the rooftops, Playboy will mention more FIB coming at them, when in fact they are NOOSE TRU.
• Only in this mission and its crossover will the roof entrance be locked shut; the entrance will always be wide open outside the two missions.
• During Elizabeta's party, a man who resembles Jimmy Hopkins, the main protagonist of Bully, another game developed by Rockstar Games, can be seen dancing in the background, wearing a blue vest.
• Algonquin Bridge will be free from any traffic on the drive to Playboy X's Penthouse, should the player choose to cross it.
• If the player crosses the Algonquin Bridge while trying to lose the Wanted Level, they will attain a 6-star Wanted Level as they do when trying to cross the bridge during normal gameplay.
• If the player leaves Playboy X behind while trying to lose the cops, the mission will not fail. After the Wanted Level is lost, an in-game message will tell the player that they are too far away from Playboy X.
• If Playboy X dies after crossing the Algonquin Bridge on the way to his house, Niko will receive a six-star wanted level.
• During the party in the cutscene, one of the partygoers shouts "Yeah! I'm the best!". This voice-clip and line are both taken from Bo Jackson from Bully.
• The cutscene in which they meet the buyer shares similarities with a cutscene in GTA Online. In the final cutscene of the Series A Funding heist, Trevor is meeting a buyer that is an undercover DOA agent named Phil. Similar to Charlie, Phil is also wearing a colorful patented shirt and is awkward, making Trevor suspicious.