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| '''Mike Toreno''' is an undercover agent from a "government agency" (most likely the NSA, since his later dialogue rules out the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]) who disguises himself as a drug supplier for the [[Loco Syndicate]]. He appears in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], and is voiced by [[James Woods]], who bears some physical resemblance to the character. | | '''Mike Toreno''' is an undercover agent from a "government agency" (most likely the NSA, since his later dialogue rules out the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]) who disguises himself as a drug supplier for the [[Loco Syndicate]]. He appears in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], and is voiced by [[James Woods]], who bears some physical resemblance to the character. |
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| ==Events of GTA San Andreas== | | ==== |
| [[Carl Johnson]] first sees mike when he and [[Cesar Vialpando|Cesar]] do some [[Photo Opportunity|snooping]] with a [[Ballas]] drug van apparently headed for [[Angel Pine]]. As Carl goes to the town, he sees four people going inside a [[Cluckin' Bell]], apparently doing some sort of meeting. These people compose the notorious [[Loco Syndicate]], a drug-dealing business based in [[San Fierro]]. Later on, [[Guppy]] and [[Wu Zi Mu]] [[Jizzy (mission)|explain]] who were the people seen in Angel Pine; Guppy describes Toreno as the shot-caller, making the decisions for the group.
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| The first time Carl personally meets Toreno is after the agent is mistakenly abducted by a gang of [[Da Nang Boys]] who are stealing one of the syndicate's drug vans with Toreno inside. CJ and [[T-Bone Mendez]], another member of the Loco Syndicate, [[Mike Toreno (mission)|locate the vehicle]] at the [[Easter Bay International Airport]], and free Toreno; the agent is immediately suspicious of CJ, but Mendez convinces Toreno not to shoot him. All three then destroy the van, with the cocaine still inside.
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| Following the [[Ice Cold Killa|death]] of [[Jizzy B.]], CJ and his associates plan to [[Pier 69 (mission)|ambush]] the Syndicate's drug purchase at [[Pier 69]]. CJ assists them with a [[Sniper Rifle|sniper rifle]], but Toreno, arriving by helicopter, notices CJ's victims on top of the pier buildings, and aborts his landing. CJ later tracks the chopper to another location, and [[Toreno's Last Flight|shoots it out of the sky]]; Toreno is presumed dead.
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| Toreno, however, was never on the helicopter, having anticipated another attack like the one at Pier 69, and sent a decoy. After the Loco Syndicate plant is [[Yay Ka-Boom-Boom|destroyed]] in San Fierro, Toreno goes into hiding and, using a digitally-distorted voice, calls CJ to invite him to a secluded [[Mike Toreno's Ranch|ranch]] in [[Tierra Robada]]. Carl is shocked by Toreno's survival, and curses him as a mere drug dealer; Toreno reveals that he is in fact a government agent, and explains that he was distributing the cocaine to raise funds for overseas dictators and "useful" drug suppliers.
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| Toreno makes Carl an offer: if Carl works for him, taking down enemy agents and sabotaging rival agencies, no harm will come to Carl's brother, [[Sean Johnson|Sweet]], who is now in prison; Toreno promises that, if CJ does enough work, Sweet will be released early.
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| Toreno's assignments, which include [[Highjack|commandeering a rival agency's truck]] and [[Interdiction|shooting down FBI choppers]] from a [[Arco del Oeste|plateau]], strike CJ as almost impossible.
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| Later, Toreno sends Carl to [[Verdant Meadows (mission)|purchase]] the [[Verdant Meadows|Verdant Meadows Aircraft Graveyard]], a defunct landing strip in [[Bone County]], and use the facility to have CJ [[Pilot School|trained as a pilot]]. After, he immediately assigns Carl with jobs involving what he had learned from training. One time, he tasks CJ to [[N.O.E.|drop off]] a package halfway across [[State of San Andreas|the state]] using a [[Rustler|plane]]. At one point, a container jet lands without warning at the airstrip, and men in black suits and sunglasses empty out of it. Toreno instructs CJ to sneak onboard, [[Stowaway|bomb the plane]] and [[parachute]] back onto earth safely.
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| While Toreno initially dismisses CJ as street trash, and uses Sweet as a bargaining chip to ensure CJ's obedience, his attitude changes as CJ proves his ability to get seemingly impossible jobs done, and he begins to display a sense of camaraderie with CJ, despite still thinking nothing of sending him on dangerous errands. After a lengthy hiatus, Toreno eventually returns and gives CJ one last job; he personally drives CJ to [[Easter Basin]], and sends him to infiltrate an aircraft carrier and [[Vertical Bird|steal]] a [[Hydra|V/STOL fighter jet]]. CJ successfully takes the jet, shoots down enemy planes and takes out several boats at the [[Sherman Reservoir]]; Carl is then exasperated with the danger he has been exposed to, and his rage only increases when Toreno leaves him to deal with the burden of the stolen jet.
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| Toreno shows up unannounced yet again in [[Home Coming]], and tells Carl that he has one more mission. CJ snaps and holds a gun to Toreno's head, but Toreno is unperturbed; he tells CJ that the "mission" is simply to pick up Sweet — Toreno has seen to his early release from prison. CJ goes to pick up his brother, and Toreno makes no further appearances in the game.
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| ===Description===
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| Philosophically, Toreno is a highly cynical American imperialist. He primarily uses CJ as a courier, saboteur, and assassin. Though he knows of [[Frank Tenpenny|Tenpenny]] and [[Eddie Pulaski|Pulaski's]] dirty dealings, as well as their hold over CJ, Toreno does not use his power to stop them — he tells CJ in one mission, "we have to make decisions, kid. You know, I try to set bad people on other bad people. And sometimes, I let good guys die." Toreno, like Tenpenny, seems to have gravitated toward committing heinous acts in the name of a greater good. He equates maintenance of the American socioeconomic system with the continued survival of the free world.
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| ==Mission appearances== | | ==Mission appearances== |