Sonny Forelli · Introduction
The opening cinematic. Sonny Forelli sets up the story by sending Tommy Vercetti to Vice City as a Liberty City exile to handle a high-stakes drug deal for the family.
In The Beginning... is the introduction sequence in , which introduces the main characters and establishes the storyline.
Forelli Crime Family Don, Sonny Forelli, his right hand man, and another unknown Forelli member, discuss Tommy Vercetti's release from prison, after he was arrested and jailed for killing eleven men during a botched hit; serving fifteen years behind bars. The mobsters decide to send Tommy to Vice City to man their drug operations there for a few months.
After flying out to Vice City, Tommy, Ken Rosenberg (a lawyer who serves as the Forelli contact in Vice City), and mobsters, Harry and Lee, are driven in Ken's Admiral to a drug deal with the Vance Crime Family in Viceport. The Vances arrive by helicopter and begin the deal.
However, the deal is ambushed, and Harry, Lee and one of the dealers are killed, while Tommy, Ken, and another dealer escape.
Tommy and Ken drive to Ken's office, where Tommy tells Ken to get some sleep and that he will visit him in the morning to begin evaluating the situation. Ken goes into his office, and Tommy drives to the Ocean View Hotel to telephone Sonny and inform him of what happened.
After the cut-scene ends and before Tommy goes to the hotel, the player is considered in free-roam instead of a mission, thus they can do whatever they please.
