Big Smoke: Difference between revisions

===Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas===

Smoke is the first to welcome Carl home, and brings him to the funeral to meet Sweet, Ryder and [[Kendl Johnson]]. While Smoke welcomes Carl back with open arms, Sweet and Ryder remain bitter about Brian's death. The funeral is attacked by Ballas in a purple [[Voodoo]], which the four of them escape on [[Bicycle|bicycles]]. Smoke's Perennial is destroyed in the process, which he promptly replaces with a teal [[Glendale]]. A week or two later, when the four of them are at a fast-food [[Drive Thru|drive-thru]], they are targeted by the same hitmen. Sweet, Carl and Ryder kill them with no help from Smoke, who instead continued eating his meal. The rest of the gang is angry at him, though he passes it off as a simple personal eccentricity and it's more or less forgotten.

Very soon after, the newly-united Families are on their way to seize Ballas territory under the [[Mulholland Intersection]]. [[Cesar Vialpando]], Kendl Johnson's boyfriend, summons Carl to [[Verdant Bluffs]] where he witnesses Smoke, Ryder, Tenpenny and Ballas conferring around the infamous [[Green Sabre]]. Carl rushes to save his brother, but ultimately fails - Sweet is shot and mended in a prison hospital, while Carl is abandoned in [[Whetstone]] by Tenpenny.

No longer weighed down by the Johnson's, Big Smoke becomes the most powerful drug lord in [[Los Santos]]. Former Ballas, Vagos and GSFs disregard their gang ties and unilaterally work for him. Former GSFs Ryder and [[B-Dup]] both become wealthy in his employ, though Smoke does not trust B-Dup enough to make him a "lieutenant", so to speak. Twice a week, Big Smoke takes in a backpack full of cocaine from the [[Loco Syndicate]], and sends back money in a [[Patriot]]. OG Loc has since become a successful rapper, and Smoke launders drug money by becoming his manager. Smoke takes on the public image of a benefactor to orphanages and anti-drug campaigns, further concealing his drug operation. Aside from his public charity appearances, he is extremely paranoid and rarely ventures out of a [[Big Smoke's Crack Palace|fortified apartment tower]] he owns in [[East Los Santos]]. He owns a white [[Feltzer]], license plate "IMY AK", but rarely gets to enjoy it because he is a shut-in.

Carl gets back on his feet in [[San Fierro]], destroys the Loco Syndicate and kills Ryder. Word of Ryder's death runs wild in Los Santos (according to Cesar in [[Yay Ka-Boom-Boom]]), though Smoke is undeterred and finds a new supplier of raw cocaine. Carl later finds his way back to Los Santos, and manages to have Sweet [[Home Coming|freed]] from a supposedly unsurmountable life sentence (ironically by [[Mike Toreno]], an undercover US government agent who organized the Loco Syndicate in the first place). Sweet and Carl build Grove Street Families from the ground up a third time, while [[Cut Throat Business|OG Loc]] and [[Beat Down on B Dup|B Dup]] are shaken down but left alive. As Tenpenny's acquittal for corruption hits national news, riots break out all over Los Santos. Carl and Sweet use this opportunity to gain even more turf, and Sweet eventually find a high-ranking Vagos member who spills Big Smoke's location to them.  

[[File:EndoftheLine-GTASA3.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Carl Johnson]] confronting Big Smoke in his [[Big Smoke's Crack Palace|drug manufacturing factory]], shortly before a shoot-out and Smoke's death, during [[End of the Line]].]]

Carl [[End of the Line|ventures]] into Smoke's apartment tower alone, in order to prove a point to himself and Sweet, and makes his way to Big Smoke's penthouse. Smoke is at first slow to respond to Carl, saying "I knew you was coming, and I don't give a shit". They then have a short argument, in which Smoke is somewhat jealous and resentful of Carl but relishes his own success, telling him "Look at you, you got the whole world! I ain't got no regrets, man!". After shooting him, Carl tries one last time to reason with Smoke as he dies. Smoke admits "I got caught up in the money, the power" and "I had no choice, I had to do it. I just see the opportunity". Smoke's last words are filled with vanity, however, and he proclaims "When I'm gone, everyone gonna remember my name - Big Smoke!". Carl somberly whispers to himself "Damn, man. What a waste." before he is confronted by Tenpenny. The apartment tower is burned down (by Tenpenny), which causes the media to rule Big Smoke's death as an accident. After an epic car chase throughout Los Santos, using Smoke's white Feltzer, Carl and Sweet kill Tenpenny in a supposed accident as well.