Los Santos and Blaine County — Michael, Trevor, and Franklin's three-protagonist masterclass.
55 entries · Story and side missions
Michael's introduction to Franklin. After Franklin tries to repo Jimmy's truck through Michael's living room, the two team up and chase Jimmy's stolen yacht into a Vespucci Beach freeway pursuit.
Michael's wife Amanda is in Vinewood with her tennis coach. Michael grabs Franklin and tears down the coach's mansion onto the hill below — accidentally starting Madrazo's debt arc.
Michael's slacker son Jimmy gets stuck on a yacht with hostile bikers. Michael surfs out, swims to the boat, and brings the yacht — and Jimmy — back to shore in Pacific Bluffs.
GTA V's optional triathlon strand: three swim-bike-run races across San Andreas at Vespucci, Alamo Sea, and Mount Chiliad. Win all three for 100% completion credit.
Lester needs Michael to break into Lifeinvader HQ and plant a bomb on the CEO's desk while staff watch a presentation — viral assassination disguised as a marketing stunt.
Lester scopes the Vangelico jewel store with Michael. The two pose as customers, photograph the security and ventilation, and lay out the smart vs loud heist approach options.
Trevor's introduction. Trevor wakes up at the Sandy Shores trailer, ends his rivalry with Johnny Klebitz violently, and rolls in to wipe out the Lost MC clubhouse.
Trevor's optional off-road race strand. Five point-to-point dirt races across Blaine County: forest trails, desert washes, and Mount Chiliad descents. Win all for 100% credit.
An enhanced-edition exclusive: stock-car circuit races at Los Santos and Blaine County tracks for cash and 100% completion progress on the next-gen versions of GTA V.
Trevor's coke-running buddy Ron needs Trevor to disrupt a Mexican rival's plane drop. Trevor takes a duster crop-plane, tracks the smuggler, and downs his shipment over the Alamo Sea.
Trevor learns that Michael — his old heist partner — is alive and hiding in Los Santos under witness protection. Trevor jumps in his truck and drives south to confront him.
Tonya's first call: Franklin tows a stranded car from a Strawberry parking lot to the impound. The Strangers and Freaks job that opens the towing-side strand for Franklin.
Michael storms an in-game talent show set — one of GTA V's funniest mid-campaign moments.
Dave Norton has Michael fake his own death and infiltrate the Mount Zonah morgue to kill an Azteca informant before he wakes — chaos exit through hospital corridors.
Steve Haines' first FIB job for the trio. Michael, Trevor, and Franklin extract Mr. K from the FIB tower with a window-rappel raid and helicopter Trevor to the bridge for the drop.
GTA V's controversial torture mission. Spawned a thousand thinkpieces.
Trevor cases the Port of Los Santos for the Merryweather Heist setup. Climb the harbor crane, scope the cargo, and pick the gear-up approach for Floyd and the crew.
Michael's awkward yoga session with Fabien LaRouche turns into a peyote-fueled hallucination — Michael chimps out across Vinewood until the trip wears off back at home.
Lamar drags Franklin and Trevor into a Vagos drug deal in Strawberry. The deal goes bad — running gunfight from the alley back to Grove Street as the Vagos chase them out.
Optional speedboat race strand. Five buoy-marked sea circuits along the Pacific Ocean coast, Paleto Cove, and Alamo Sea. Win all for 100% completion progress.
Lester's first paid assassination for Franklin: kill the corrupt Vinewood hotel owner. Snipe him from the rooftop opposite or storm the suite — both options open up market plays.
A Blitz Play prep job: any protagonist drives across Los Santos to the costume shop in Vespucci to buy heist masks for the security-truck robbery setup.
One of the four Blitz Play prep missions: any protagonist boosts a set of generic boiler suits from a Cypress Flats laundry depot for the heist crew's disguises.
Blitz Play prep: any protagonist hijacks a city sanitation rig from its route through Los Santos. Drive it back without losing the cab to the LSPD pursuit response.
Blitz Play prep: any protagonist boosts a heavy tow truck from a Strawberry yard. Tow it back to Trevor's lockup as ammunition for ramming the security truck.
Devin Weston wants a Sea Sparrow chopper from the Cluckin' Bell test track. The trio has to swap a fast Beejay XL onto the moving track and outrun pursuit through Los Santos.
Devin Weston has Franklin and Trevor assassinate paparazzo Beverly's targets from a Maverick chopper above Vinewood. Trevor gunner, Franklin pilot.
Solomon Richards introduces Michael to studio politics. The two race onto a Backlot City film set and Michael runs an action sequence to scare a problem star straight.
Madrazo orders Michael and Trevor to shoot down a charter plane over the Vinewood hills. Michael snipes the engines, Trevor takes a chopper to recover the cartel target alive.
Devin Weston sends Franklin to Richards Majestic to repo two cars from a movie set. Franklin sneaks past the security guards, drives the targets out, and delivers them to Devin.
Trevor parachutes onto a moving cargo plane mid-flight, fights through guards in the cabin, and pilots the hijacked plane back to Sandy Shores before fuel runs out.
Trevor pilots a stealth chopper while Michael snipes from the cabin to clear a Merryweather strike team chasing the trio's coke shipment up Mount Chiliad's hillside.
Trevor drives a four-by-four onto the moving Liberty City freight train rolling through Bolingbroke, breaks open a boxcar with charges, and lifts the cargo before it derails.
Steve Haines orders the trio to attack a Merryweather research lab. Michael drives a sub, Trevor scuba-dives onto the offshore platform, and Franklin runs surface support.
Trevor's run-in with the O'Neil brothers' meth-cooking cousin lures him to a remote farmhouse, where he chases the cousin off a dirt-bike on the Stab City flats.
The trio scopes the Union Depository in Pillbox Hill from a rooftop opposite. Michael, Trevor, and Franklin photograph approaches and weak points to plan the Big Score.
Michael and Trevor finally bury the past at Ludendorff Cemetery in North Yankton — only to be ambushed by Triads and have to fight their way back through the snow.
Devin Weston has Franklin and Trevor chase a sealed shipping container across the Vinewood Hills. Trevor hijacks the convoy truck and Franklin defends from his motorcycle.
Michael is held by Triads at the Vapid factory. Franklin races there with Trevor, fights through the meat-packing floor, and rescues Michael from execution at the last second.
First half of the Bureau Raid. Michael and Trevor swap out a fire engine, stage a high-rise fire emergency, and infiltrate the FIB tower disguised as firefighters.
First Bureau Raid prep mission. Michael infiltrates an architect's office in West Vinewood and lifts plans for the FIB tower — sneaking past staff or making a loud exit.
Michael chases his runaway son Jimmy through Vespucci, fights drug dealers who drugged him, and wraps up an awkward family-therapy session that puts the De Santas back together.
Dave Norton sets up a meeting with Steve Haines that turns into an FIB-IAA shootout on the Kortz Center cliffs. Michael and Trevor escape with both groups gunning for them.
Stretch sets Lamar up for a Ballas execution at the Cypress Flats foundry. Franklin, Michael, and Trevor storm the plant, fight through Ballas waves, and pull Lamar out alive.
GTA V's Ending A. Franklin sides with Devin Weston and ends Trevor's life — the trio is broken, Trevor dies in a fuel-tanker chase across the Alamo Sea oil fields.
Michael's premiere of Meltdown at the Oriental Theater turns into a Devin Weston ambush. Michael chases Stretch and Devin's hitmen across Vinewood after the credits roll.
Lester sits the trio down to plan the Union Depository job. Michael picks the subtle or obvious approach, picks the crew, and locks in the final heist's variables.
GTA V's final heist — the Union Depository job that pays out the entire campaign in one mission.
GTA V's Ending B. Franklin sides with Steve Haines and ends Michael — a chase up to the Palmer-Taylor power station overlook for the final cliffhanger fight.
GTA V's canonical Ending C. Franklin teams Michael and Trevor against every enemy at once — Stretch, Wei Cheng, Steve Haines, Devin Weston — and the trio survives together.
Lester's stock-market assassination strand. Five hits on corporate executives across Los Santos that Franklin pulls off and Lester uses to manipulate share prices for the trio.
Lester targets four lawyers boarding a chopper at the Del Perro Pier helipad. Franklin sets up a sniper roost and drops all four targets before they board the helicopter.
Lester puts Franklin on Brett Lowrey, a Bilkington VP. Franklin tracks Lowrey to a Vespucci high-class brothel, sets a fire to flush him out, and snipes him in the chaos.
Lester targets venture capitalist Isaac Penny. Franklin tails the city bus Penny rides, ambushes it from a parked vehicle on the Vinewood route, and finishes the deal.
Lester's final hit: Enzo Bonelli, a corrupt construction tycoon. Franklin climbs the unfinished Mile High Club tower and finishes Bonelli at the construction site's overlook.
