Tommy Vercetti:
“You mentioned something about some legal problem on the phone?”
Steve Scott:
“Congressman Alex Shrub has jumped on the pre-election bandwagon and he's going after the puritan vote. Rumors are he's gonna support measures to restrict, shall we say, the more fleshy aspects of this nation's great entertainment industry.”
— Steve Scott informs Tommy Vercetti that Congressman Alex Shrub wants to win the next election by supporting restrictions on the porn film industry.
Martha's Mug Shot is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City given to protagonist Tommy Vercetti by porn film director Steve Scott from the InterGlobal Studios in Prawn Island, Vice City.
Mission[]
Congressman Alex Shrub wants to win the next election by supporting restrictions on the porn film industry. As this is bad for InterGlobal Films, Tommy wants to follow Candy Suxxx to Shrub. Tommy follows Candy to a penthouse in Vice Point. Candy enters the penthouse to meet with Shrub while Tommy enters the Vice Point Langer across the street.
With Shrub in his most embarrassing and politically damaging outfit, Tommy manages to take photos of him with a camera from a good vantage point in the hotel. Shrub's guards notice this and dispatch the FBI to take down Tommy and his camera. Tommy manages to return safely to the studio and plans to use the pictures for blackmailing.
Mission Objectives[]
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get in the chopper.
- Follow Candy's Stretch.
- You need three good blackmail photographs of Alex Shrub with Candy.
- The Vice Point Langer across from his balcony should provide an ideal photo-grabbing location.
- There is a side door that will allow access to the hotel.
- Get back to the Porn Studios with the film.
Reward[]
The reward for this mission is $4,000. The mission G-Spotlight is unlocked.
Walkthrough[]
Tommy stumbles onto the shoot and is told by Steve to keep his voice down to keep the mood going.
Tommy asks Steve what's going on, and Steve responds by retelling Tommy the events of the story leading up to the scene they're shooting.
Tommy loudly tells Steve that he's not interested in the story at all.
Candy and her co-performer briefly stop, but Tommy tells them to go on.
Tommy asks Steve about some legal troubles he mentioned.
Steve tells Tommy that Congressman Shrub has decided to support a campaign to ban pornographic material in Vice City with the intention of increasing his reputation.
Since Candy and Shrub seem to know each other, Tommy decides to ask Candy if they're having an affair.
Just as Tommy asks this, Candy reaches the climax and starts shouting 'yes', leaving Tommy and Steve shell-shocked.
Steve asks the cameraman if he got the amazing shot.
Steve tells Tommy that his best bet is to follow Candy after the shoot is done and see what she does.
Tommy asks Steve if he has a camera that Tommy could use and Steve asks one of the crew members to give him one.
After the shoot is done, Tommy has to follow Candy and see if she can lead Tommy to her and Shrub's safehouse.
Tommy getting into a Sparrow north of the film set.
After getting into the Sparrow, Tommy has to follow Candy's unique gold Stretch.
Tommy following Candy.
After a while, Candy's limo stops by a penthouse in Vice Point and Candy gets out.
Candy walks into the penthouse, where Shrub is waiting for her, naked, except for some underwear.
The two greet each other and Shrub asks her if she could call him Martha during this visit.
Tommy now has to take at least three photos of Shrub and Candy together to blackmail Shrub into leaving Tommy's businesses alone.
Tommy decides that the WK Chariot Hotel just across the street is a perfected spot to snap some pictures of the two.
Tommy entering the hotel.
Tommy climbing the stairs in the hotel.
Tommy spectating the meeting between Candy and Shrub.
Tommy taking photos of the two together.
Eventually Candy tells Shrub that Tommy is watching.
After taking three photos, Tommy has to take them back to the film studios.
Tommy fighting his way out of the hotel after Shrub sent some officers after him.
After escaping the hotel, Tommy runs back to the Sparrow to fly back to the studio.
Tommy flying back to the film studios.
Tommy going back to give the photos to Steve.
Mission passed.
Video Walkthroughs[]
Gallery[]
Alex Shrub's mug shot
Trivia[]
- This is the only mission in GTA Vice City where the player can use a camera (without modifications).
- It is possible to scare Candy's driver from the Stretch without failing the mission using the flamethrower. If this is done, the limo will drive on its own even if the player is inside.
- The Japanese and German "Green Pepper" versions render the Stretch bullet- and fireproof.
- During the cutscene, Steve states that "after his close encounter with the nympho-invaders", the hero of the movie is "unable to think of anything but this huge phallic mountain" and then mentions doing a scene with a vat of mashed potatoes. This is a reference to the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which has the main character, after encountering a UFO, become obsessed with the vaguely phallic Devils Tower National Monument, at one point making several sculptures of it with, among other materials, mashed potatoes.
- The penthouse that Congressmen Alex Shrub is at used to belong to Gonzalez.
- In the Japanese version of the game, during the intro cut scene, Candy's "OHHH, AHHH, YES, YEEESSS!!!" climax is omitted to comply with that country's stringent sex laws. This does not apply to the 10th Anniversary edition, though.
- Similar changes were also implemented for the Australian version of the game, presumably to avoid an RC classification from the Australian OFLC. Once again, this does not apply to the 10th Anniversary edition.
