Architectural Espionage

Location
The Four Dragons Casino, The Strip, Las Venturas
Reward
Respect

Woozie wants to rob Caligula’s Palace and needs its floor plan. CJ grabs a camera, sneaks into the city planning department, sets off a fire alarm to clear the guards, photographs the blueprints and returns the film.

Before you start

Put your weapons away before you go in, as guards will throw you out if they see a gun

Take a bike or fast car, since the film has to be dropped off straight afterwards

Objectives

  1. You need a camera to get a copy of those casino blueprints. Grab one from some tourists on the Strip.
  2. Now head to the planning department building.
  3. Climb up to the location of the blueprints.
  4. Cause a distraction.
  5. Photograph the casino blueprints.
  6. Get out of the building before you’re caught.
  7. Take the camera film to the back entrance of the Four Dragons Casino.

Architectural Espionage walkthrough

Planning in the dark

Go into the Four Dragons Casino and find Woozie in a dark storage room with the lights off. He had no idea the lights were out. CJ says it is a great place to plan a robbery of Caligula’s main vault, and Woozie asks if he has the layout of the casino. CJ has not, so he turns the lights back on for Woozie and goes to get it.

CJ talking to Woozie in the dark storage room
Woozie telling CJ that is just how it is done
Woozie and CJ finishing the meeting in the storeroom

Get a camera

Ride out onto the Strip and look for tourists with cameras near the casinos. Step up to one and take the camera by force or by picking it up as it falls. The game confirms when you have it. Afterwards, ride to the planning department building, which is marked on the radar a short way along the road.

Riding along the Strip with the game telling CJ to get a camera
CJ picking up the camera from a tourist
Riding to the planning department with the game warning not to start trouble

Into the planning department

Leave the bike at the front and walk in unarmed. A sign reads that no visible guns are allowed. Go to the receptionist and ask for the architectural plans of Caligula’s. She says they are on the top floor. Take the stairs near the back to the top, where the blueprints are in a far room with a guard in front.

CJ walking up to the planning department entrance past a parked bike
CJ asking the receptionist for the plans to Caligula's Casino
A door on the stairwell, now open to the upper floors

Cause a distraction

You cannot photograph the plans while the guard is there. Go back downstairs to the document depository and find the old air conditioning units. Destroy them with a punch, a kick or a weapon. The fire alarm goes off and the guards rush to the evacuation, leaving the blueprint room free. Watch for guards, as you must not fire a gun inside the building.

CJ in a dim corridor heading to the document depository
Running through the lobby after the fire alarm sounds
CJ running past the reception desk as the guards leave

Photograph the plans

Go upstairs again and head to the far room on the top floor. Walk up to the blueprints pinned to the wall and use the camera on them. When you have the shot, get out of the building before you are caught.

The casino blueprint filling the screen as CJ takes the photo
The message telling CJ to get out of the building

Out and back to Woozie

Run down through the smoke to the lobby. The police cannot shut the bottom doors because of the fire, so use your weapons if you need to. Take your bike and ride to the back entrance of the Four Dragons Casino, where Woozie’s assistant is waiting, and hand over the film.

CJ running through smoke in the planning department
CJ with a weapon in the smoke-filled building
Riding to the back entrance of the Four Dragons with the film
A car parked at the back of the casino as CJ hands over the film

What fails this mission

Besides dying or being arrested, the mission ends if any of these happen:

  • You photograph the blueprints before causing the distraction
  • You refuse to put your weapons away when a guard spots you
  • You attack a security guard
  • You fire a gun inside the building

After the mission

Woozie’s assistant takes the film, and you earn Respect. Key to Her Heart now opens.

The mission passed screen with Respect outside the Four Dragons