Reuniting the Families

Mission Start

The mission starts out with Sweet arranging a meeting of the different "sets" of the Grove Street Families. The different sets have "fallen out" and fight amongst themselves. This has allowed the Ballas to take over Los Santos. Sweet wants to reunite the sets and reassert the Grove Street Families as Los Santos's biggest gang. Sweet asks Carl to drive him, Ryder and Big Smoke from Grove Street to the meet at Jefferson Hotel in East Los Santos. When they arrive at the hotel, Sweet goes in alone, leaving Carl, Ryder, and Big Smoke waiting in Sweet's Greenwood. Big Smoke seems nervous, saying "Hey, I'm feelin a little bit exposed, but I'm good".

Police Interference

Soon after dropping off Sweet, the Los Santos police department arives en masse to break up the meeting. Carl gets out of the Greenwood and runs into the hotel to try and find Sweet. Ryder and Big Smoke emphatically decline Carl's invitation to follow him, and flee, driving off as more police arrive. "Man, it's every mutha fucka for himself." Carl has to battle his way through three wings of the hotel filled with police SWAT units equipped with SMG's. Along the way, wounded Grove Street Families members are encountered, as well as prostitutes, who may kiss Carl and restore his health. The player may also purchase Sprunk from a vending machine near the entrance of the hotel to restore health. After Carl finally findsSweet, they both climb onto the roof, only to find a Police Maverick hovering immediatly overhead. Carl shoots the helicoptor down, and follows Sweet down the hotel's fire escape to the back of the hotel.

Getaway

Just as Sweet and Carl reach the street, Ryder and Big Smoke drive up in Sweet's Greenwood, telling Sweet and Carl to jump in the backseat. As Big Smoke drives the Greenwood away, Ryder hands Carl an old AK-47 he got from Emmet, and Carl uses it to shoot through the back window at the police, who are pursuing them. Big Smoke drives the car all around East Los Santos in an attempt to lose the police, but has no luck. Meanwhile, Carl shoots at the following Police Cars, HPV-1000's, and Maverick. After a lengthy drive, running through several roadblocks, and other similar obstacles,even a car wash Smoke drives through('I like things clean!') the AK-47 jamms. At the same time, a policeman jumps off his HPV-1000 and onto the Greenwood! Panicking, Big Smoke drives the Greenwood down a dead end alley. At the other end of the alley, a low flying Maverick is headed towards the Greenwood. Carl begs Big Smoke to back the car out of the alley, but Big Smoke insists, "I'm going through". The Maverick passes just inches overhead, its blades chopping the policeman to bits. However, the Greenwood is going too fast to break before crashing through a billboard at the end of the alley, and plunging several stories to the freeway below. The Greenwood hits a fuel Tanker, and a massive explosion ensues. The police call off their pursuit, thinking Carl, Ryder, Sweet, and Big Smoke are dead.

Conclusion

However, the Grove Street OG's are not dead. They bailed out of the Greenwood moments before the crash, and stand just behind the billboard, overlooking the freeway and the aftermath of the explosion. In the words of Big Smoke,"That's gonna be one hell of a story to tell when we're passing the blunt." Sweet suggests they all immediatly disperse, and Carl, Sweet, Ryder, and Big Smoke split up, and the mission ends.

Reuniting the Families

• Prerequisites: All missions prior to this one must have been completed
• Rewards: Respect
• Unlockables: None

Sweet has set up a meeting of the splintered family factions. He wants the families united once and for all to push the other gangs out and reestablish the Grove Street families. Of course, this doesn't go as planned. Another favorite of mine due to the chase sequence.

1. The meeting is scheduled to occur at the Jefferson Motel. So CJ drives Sweet, Big Smoke, and Ryder to the meeting place. When you arrive, Sweet instructs everyone to stay outside.
2. Of course, the police decide to raid this little meetings by throwing every- thing into the mix. Police cars, helicopters, and SWAT teams swarm over the area to put a stop to the meeting.
3. Big Smoke and Ryder immediately bug out while CJ maintains his loyalty to his brother. This loyalty translates into him going into the hotel to rescue his brother.
4. Avoid a protracted gun battle in the parking lot and immediately run to the door to enter the hotel. You will have to clear the staircase, hallway, and room to make it to Sweet. Constantly move around and keep under cover to avoid unnecessary damage from the SWAT team.
5. Keep alert to SWAT team members dropping in from above; mainly the skylight and ductwork. When you reach Sweet in the room, he leads you both to the roof.
6. Unfortunately, a police helicopter is hovering over the roof and shooting at CJ and Sweet. A health bar for SWEET appears. Take your AK-47 and shoot down the police helicopter. Use the air conditioning units for cover and be quick about it since the helicopter's guns can do some major damage.
7. After taking down the helicopter, Sweet leads CJ down the outside stairs and to the road. Big Smoke and Ryder pull up and CJ and Sweet hop into the car. CJ is handed a rifle and told to hold off the police. A CAR health bar now appears. As you did last time you rode shotgun, pick off your pursuers and be especially wary of the motorcycle cops who get onto the car.
8. This chase ends in grand style as you all ride the flaming car through a billboard onto the freeway below to end the mission. If you look closely, you will notice that the sign that once said 'A taste of things to come' now says 'A taste of come'.