Search and Delete
Introduction
This is Brucie Kibbutz's first mission for you. Lyle Rivas has been ignoring and aggravating Brucie, now Brucie wants you to take him out.
Towards the end of the cutscene, Brucie tells you that you need to hack a LCPD police car to find Lyle Rivas and dispose of him.
Walkthrough
Your first task is to find a police car. There's several ways to go about this, and the easiest is to head on up to Mohawk Street (of the Comrades Bar, Russian clothes shop, and Broker Safehouse fame). Two blocks north from the Russian clothes shop sits the Hove Beach Police Station, and in front of that is a police car. Bust it open like any parked car, hotwire it, and drive off. You may also get a LCPD police cruiser by calling 911 to request police to your area.
Once you get your cruiser, Brucie will call you explaining how to use the police computer to look up Rivas and track him down. This acts as a tutorial for looking up Most Wanted criminals and such.
As you input "Lyle Rivas" you discover he's hiding in northern Broker, and it gives you the option to add his location as a waypoint. This is recommended for easier travel.
What happens next is up to you. There will be a long, irritating car chase to follow, and you have several options. If you want, you can pursue him in the cop car, and the car's ability to clear a path on the road with its siren is immensely useful. This, however, will likely mean the destruction of the cop car, and if you don't want to have to go get another one all over again later it may be wise to park this somewhere (say, your Residential Parking in Broker) and find a faster car for the chase.
Follow the waypoint to the townhouse complex. Walk on in and Lyle will bail out the window. Head back outside to get inside your vehicle to start the chase.
You'll have to cause enough damage to Lyle's Banshee to force him to abandon it (I.E., enough damage to set it on fire), and this is easier said than done. For one, auto-targeting doesn't work in cars, so you'll have to manually aim at him. For another, he takes a long and annoying path to try and evade you- across Broker, into Dukes, around Francis International, and north across the bridge into Bohan, where he begins a long circle of that borough. During this chase he'll cause three scripted hazards to come sailing at you in addition to the unscripted traffic- the first, a van veering to block the highway as you approach the airport, the second, knocking open a barrel transport truck as you leave the airport, and the third, knocking a lumber truck on the bridge to Bohan. All three are avoidable, if highly annoying, but if you get too far from Lyle the mission fails, and if you crash more than once, this is likely to happen.
Keep on his tail until Bohan, focussing on surviving the drive, and then start ramming or shooting at his vehicle. Eventually, he'll bail out. If you haven't killed him yet, start shooting Lyle until he dies. The mission ends with Niko calling Brucie to report that Lyle has been eliminated and Brucie tells you that a lot of people will be grateful.